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Angelé-Martínez C, Murray J, Stewart PA, Haines J, Gaertner AAE, Brumaghim JL. Cobalt-mediated oxidative DNA damage and its prevention by polyphenol antioxidants. J Inorg Biochem 2023; 238:112024. [PMID: 36272187 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2022.112024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2022] [Revised: 10/05/2022] [Accepted: 10/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Although cobalt is a required nutrient, it is toxic due to its ability to generate reactive oxygen species (ROS) and damage DNA. ROS generation by Co2+ often has been compared to that of Fe2+ or Cu+, disregarding the reduction potential differences among these metal ions. In plasmid DNA damage studies, a maximum of 15% DNA damage is observed with Co2+/H2O2 treatment (up to 50 μM and 400 μM, respectively) significantly lower than the 90% damage observed for Fe2+/H2O2 or Cu+/H2O2 treatment. However, when ascorbate is added to the Co2+/H2O2 system, a synergistic effect results in 90% DNA damage. DNA damage by Fe2+/H2O2 can be prevented by polyphenol antioxidants, but polyphenols both prevent and promote DNA damage by Cu+/H2O2. When tested for cobalt-mediated DNA damage affects, eight of ten polyphenols (epicatechin gallate, epigallocatechin gallate, propyl gallate, gallic acid, methyl-3,4,5-trihydroxybenzoate, methyl-4,5-dihydroxybenzoate, protocatechuic acid, and epicatechin) prevent cobalt-mediated DNA damage with IC50 values of 1.3 to 27 μM and two (epigallocatechin and vanillic acid) prevent little to no DNA damage. EPR studies demonstrate cobalt-mediated formation of •OH, O2•-, and •OOH, but not 1O2 in the presence of H2O2 and ascorbate. Epigallocatechin gallate and methyl-4,5-dihydroxybenzoate significantly reduce ROS generated by Co2+/H2O2/ascorbate, consistent with their prevention of cobalt-mediated DNA damage. Thus, while cobalt, iron, and copper are all d-block metal ions, cobalt ROS generation and its prevention is significantly different from that of iron and copper.
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- Department of Chemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-0973, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-0973, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-0973, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-0973, USA.
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Alimova AA, Sitnikov VV, Pogorelov DI, Boyko ON, Vitkalova IY, Gureev AP, Popov VN. High Doses of Pesticides Induce mtDNA Damage in Intact Mitochondria of Potato In Vitro and Do Not Impact on mtDNA Integrity of Mitochondria of Shoots and Tubers under In Vivo Exposure. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms23062970. [PMID: 35328391 PMCID: PMC8955856 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23062970] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2022] [Revised: 03/02/2022] [Accepted: 03/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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It is well known that pesticides are toxic for mitochondria of animals. The effect of pesticides on plant mitochondria has not been widely studied. The goal of this research is to study the impact of metribuzin and imidacloprid on the amount of damage in the mtDNA of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) in various conditions. We developed a set of primers to estimate mtDNA damage for the fragments in three chromosomes of potato mitogenome. We showed that both metribuzin and imidacloprid considerably damage mtDNA in vitro. Imidacloprid reduces the rate of seed germination, but does not impact the rate of the growth and number of mtDNA damage in the potato shoots. Field experiments show that pesticide exposure does not induce change in aconitate hydratase activity, and can cause a decrease in the rate of H2O2 production. We can assume that the mechanism of pesticide-induced mtDNA damage in vitro is not associated with H2O2 production, and pesticides as electrophilic substances directly interact with mtDNA. The effect of pesticides on the integrity of mtDNA in green parts of plants and in crop tubers is insignificant. In general, plant mtDNA is resistant to pesticide exposure in vivo, probably due to the presence of non-coupled respiratory systems in plant mitochondria.
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- Alina A. Alimova
- Department of Genetics, Cytology and Bioengineering, Voronezh State University, 394018 Voronezh, Russia; (A.A.A.); (V.V.S.); (D.I.P.); (O.N.B.); (I.Y.V.); (V.N.P.)
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- Department of Genetics, Cytology and Bioengineering, Voronezh State University, 394018 Voronezh, Russia; (A.A.A.); (V.V.S.); (D.I.P.); (O.N.B.); (I.Y.V.); (V.N.P.)
- Laboratory of Metagenomics and Food Biotechnology, Voronezh State University of Engineering Technologies, 394036 Voronezh, Russia
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- Department of Genetics, Cytology and Bioengineering, Voronezh State University, 394018 Voronezh, Russia; (A.A.A.); (V.V.S.); (D.I.P.); (O.N.B.); (I.Y.V.); (V.N.P.)
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- Department of Genetics, Cytology and Bioengineering, Voronezh State University, 394018 Voronezh, Russia; (A.A.A.); (V.V.S.); (D.I.P.); (O.N.B.); (I.Y.V.); (V.N.P.)
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- Department of Genetics, Cytology and Bioengineering, Voronezh State University, 394018 Voronezh, Russia; (A.A.A.); (V.V.S.); (D.I.P.); (O.N.B.); (I.Y.V.); (V.N.P.)
- Laboratory of Metagenomics and Food Biotechnology, Voronezh State University of Engineering Technologies, 394036 Voronezh, Russia
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- Department of Genetics, Cytology and Bioengineering, Voronezh State University, 394018 Voronezh, Russia; (A.A.A.); (V.V.S.); (D.I.P.); (O.N.B.); (I.Y.V.); (V.N.P.)
- Laboratory of Metagenomics and Food Biotechnology, Voronezh State University of Engineering Technologies, 394036 Voronezh, Russia
- Correspondence:
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- Department of Genetics, Cytology and Bioengineering, Voronezh State University, 394018 Voronezh, Russia; (A.A.A.); (V.V.S.); (D.I.P.); (O.N.B.); (I.Y.V.); (V.N.P.)
- Laboratory of Metagenomics and Food Biotechnology, Voronezh State University of Engineering Technologies, 394036 Voronezh, Russia
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Chen HY, Lin YF. DFT mechanistic study on the formation of 8-oxoguanine and spiroiminodihydantoin mediated by iron Fenton reactions. Dalton Trans 2021; 50:9842-9850. [PMID: 34190261 DOI: 10.1039/d1dt01508g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Fenton reactions unavoidably take place in the human body and have been demonstrated to cause oxidative DNA damage. However, the molecular-level understanding of DNA damage mediated by Fenton reactions is limited. Herein, density functional theory (DFT) calculations were made to investigate the counterion effects on aqueous Fenton reactions and the detailed mechanisms of chemical modifications to guanine induced by Fenton reactions. Our calculations show that the activation energy of the Fenton reaction catalyzed by a pure aquo complex [FeII(H2O)6]2+ is too high to agree with experiments, whereas complexation with counteranions reduces the activation energy to a reasonable range. This result suggests that FeII-counteranion complexes are the real catalyst for fast aqueous Fenton reactions. In addition, we found that the Fenton oxidation mediated by FeII bonded to the N7 atom of guanine can result in the formation of 8-oxoguanine and spiroiminodihydantoin through multiple reaction pathways, including the electrophilic addition of ˙OH, H-abstraction by ˙OH, and oxygen atom transfer of oxoiron(iv) species. The activation of hydrogen peroxide by ferrous iron is the rate-determining step. The guanine N7-bound iron ion and the coordinated counteranion were found to play an important role in the Fenton oxidation of guanine.
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- Hsing-Yin Chen
- Department of Medicinal and Applied Chemistry, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 80708, Taiwan.
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- Department of Medicinal and Applied Chemistry, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 80708, Taiwan.
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Fasnacht M, Polacek N. Oxidative Stress in Bacteria and the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology. Front Mol Biosci 2021; 8:671037. [PMID: 34041267 PMCID: PMC8141631 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2021.671037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2021] [Accepted: 04/26/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Ever since the "great oxidation event," Earth's cellular life forms had to cope with the danger of reactive oxygen species (ROS) affecting the integrity of biomolecules and hampering cellular metabolism circuits. Consequently, increasing ROS levels in the biosphere represented growing stress levels and thus shaped the evolution of species. Whether the ROS were produced endogenously or exogenously, different systems evolved to remove the ROS and repair the damage they inflicted. If ROS outweigh the cell's capacity to remove the threat, we speak of oxidative stress. The injuries through oxidative stress in cells are diverse. This article reviews the damage oxidative stress imposes on the different steps of the central dogma of molecular biology in bacteria, focusing in particular on the RNA machines involved in transcription and translation.
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- Michel Fasnacht
- Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.,Graduate School for Cellular and Biomedical Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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Zhou L, Zhang L, Wang S, Zhao B, Lv H, Shang P. Labile iron affects pharmacological ascorbate-induced toxicity in osteosarcoma cell lines. Free Radic Res 2020; 54:385-396. [PMID: 32183598 DOI: 10.1080/10715762.2020.1744577] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Vitamin C and iron are both important nutrients for humans and involved in several physiological processes. The biological activities of vitamin C and iron are based on their abilities to accept or donate electrons. Although vitamin C is well known as an excellent electron donor in physiological conditions, it also has pro-oxidant properties, especially with catalytic metal iron. Cancer cells have a higher iron requirement than normal cells, which allows pharmacological ascorbate to kill cancer cells selectively. In this study, we demonstrated that the levels of H2O2 in cells were significantly raised after treated with pharmacological ascorbate, and intracellular labile iron could increase pharmacological ascorbate-mediated oxidative stress by Fenton reaction. Catalytic metal iron plays opposite roles in and outside cells. Intracellular excess labile iron improved ascorbate-induced toxicity, while the excess labile iron in the medium abolished ascorbate-induced toxicity. Fe3+ and Fe2+ have the same effect on ascorbate-induced toxicity, but Fe3+ chelator deferoxamine (DFO) has a profound inhibition effect than Fe2+ chelator 2,2'-bipyridyl (BIP) on ascorbate-induced toxicity. The influence of intracellular labile iron and ascorbate on the ferritin expression may cause selective sensitivity in osteosarcoma cell lines on pharmacological ascorbate. High iron requirement of many cancer cells facilitates pharmacological ascorbate on cancer treatment. In addition, increasing iron content in tumour tissue may be effective strategies to improve the effects of pharmacological ascorbate.
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- Liangfu Zhou
- School of Life Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China.,Research and Development Institute, Northwestern Polytechnical University in Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China.,Key Laboratory for Space Bioscience and Biotechnology, Institute of Special Environment Biophysics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China
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- Research and Development Institute, Northwestern Polytechnical University in Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China.,Key Laboratory for Space Bioscience and Biotechnology, Institute of Special Environment Biophysics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China
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Reactive oxygen species (ROS) play important roles in aging, inflammation, and cancer. Mitochondria are an important source of ROS; however, the spatiotemporal ROS events underlying oxidative cellular damage from dysfunctional mitochondria remain unresolved. To this end, we have developed and validated a chemoptogenetic approach that uses a mitochondrially targeted fluorogen-activating peptide (Mito-FAP) to deliver a photosensitizer MG-2I dye exclusively to this organelle. Light-mediated activation (660 nm) of the Mito-FAP-MG-2I complex led to a rapid loss of mitochondrial respiration, decreased electron transport chain complex activity, and mitochondrial fragmentation. Importantly, one round of singlet oxygen produced a persistent secondary wave of mitochondrial superoxide and hydrogen peroxide lasting for over 48 h after the initial insult. By following ROS intermediates, we were able to detect hydrogen peroxide in the nucleus through ratiometric analysis of the oxidation of nuclear cysteine residues. Despite mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) damage and nuclear oxidative stress induced by dysfunctional mitochondria, there was a lack of gross nuclear DNA strand breaks and apoptosis. Targeted telomere analysis revealed fragile telomeres and telomere loss as well as 53BP1-positive telomere dysfunction-induced foci (TIFs), indicating that DNA double-strand breaks occurred exclusively in telomeres as a direct consequence of mitochondrial dysfunction. These telomere defects activated ataxia-telangiectasia mutated (ATM)-mediated DNA damage repair signaling. Furthermore, ATM inhibition exacerbated the Mito-FAP-induced mitochondrial dysfunction and sensitized cells to apoptotic cell death. This profound sensitivity of telomeres through hydrogen peroxide induced by dysregulated mitochondria reveals a crucial mechanism of telomere-mitochondria communication underlying the pathophysiological role of mitochondrial ROS in human diseases.
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DFT modeling of the prevention of Fe(II)-mediated redox damage by imidazole-based thiones and selones. J Inorg Biochem 2019; 193:9-14. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2018.12.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2018] [Revised: 12/24/2018] [Accepted: 12/25/2018] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The chemistry of DNA and its repair selectivity control the influence of genomic oxidative stress on the development of serious disorders such as cancer and heart diseases. DNA is oxidized by endogenous reactive oxygen species (ROS) in vivo or in vitro as a result of high energy radiation, non-radiative metabolic processes, and other consequences of oxidative stress. Some oxidations of DNA and tumor suppressor gene p53 are thought to be mutagenic when not repaired. For example, site-specific oxidations of p53 tumor suppressor gene may lead to cancer-related mutations at the oxidation site codon. This review summarizes the research on the primary products of the most easily oxidized nucleobase guanine (G) when different oxidation methods are used. Guanine is by far the most oxidized DNA base. The primary initial oxidation product of guanine for most, but not all, pathways is 8-oxoguanine (8-oxoG). With an oxidation potential much lower than G, 8-oxoG is readily susceptible to further oxidation, and the products often depend on the oxidants. Specific products may control the types of subsequent mutations, but mediated by gene repair success. Site-specific oxidations of p53 tumor suppressor gene have been reported at known mutation hot spots, and the codon sites also depend on the type of oxidants. Modern methodologies using LC-MS/MS for codon specific detection and identification of oxidation sites are summarized. Future work aimed at understanding DNA oxidation in nucleosomes and interactions between DNA damage and repair is needed to provide a better picture of how cancer-related mutations arise.
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- Di Jiang
- Department of ChemistryUniversity of ConnecticutStorrsCT 06269United States
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- Department of ChemistryUniversity of ConnecticutStorrsCT 06269United States
- Department of SurgeryNeag Cancer Center, UConn HealthFarmingtonCT 06032United States
- Institute of Material ScienceUniversity of ConnecticutStorrsCT 06269United States
- School of ChemistryNational University of Ireland at GalwayIreland
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do Carmo MAV, Pressete CG, Marques MJ, Granato D, Azevedo L. Polyphenols as potential antiproliferative agents: scientific trends. Curr Opin Food Sci 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cofs.2018.10.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Redanz S, Cheng X, Giacaman RA, Pfeifer CS, Merritt J, Kreth J. Live and let die: Hydrogen peroxide production by the commensal flora and its role in maintaining a symbiotic microbiome. Mol Oral Microbiol 2018; 33:337-352. [PMID: 29897662 DOI: 10.1111/omi.12231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/11/2018] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The majority of commensal oral streptococci are able to generate hydrogen peroxide (H2 O2 ) during aerobic growth, which can diffuse through the cell membrane and inhibit competing species in close proximity. Competing H2 O2 production is mainly dependent upon the pyruvate oxidase SpxB, and to a lesser extent the lactate oxidase LctO, both of which are important for energy generation in aerobic environments. Several studies point to a broad impact of H2 O2 production in the oral environment, including a potential role in biofilm homeostasis, signaling, and interspecies interactions. Here, we summarize the current research regarding oral streptococcal H2 O2 generation, resistance mechanisms, and the ecological impact of H2 O2 production. We also discuss the potential therapeutic utility of H2 O2 for the prevention/treatment of dysbiotic diseases as well as its potential role as a biomarker of oral health.
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- Sylvio Redanz
- Department of Restorative Dentistry, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon
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- The State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases & National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.,The Department of Cariology and Endodontics, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Cariology Unit, Department of Oral Rehabilitation and Interdisciplinary Excellence Research Program on Healthy Aging (PIEI-ES), University of Talca, Talca, Chile
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- Department of Restorative Dentistry, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon
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- Department of Restorative Dentistry, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon
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- Department of Restorative Dentistry, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon
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Jiang D, Malla S, Fu YJ, Choudhary D, Rusling JF. Direct LC-MS/MS Detection of Guanine Oxidations in Exon 7 of the p53 Tumor Suppressor Gene. Anal Chem 2017; 89:12872-12879. [PMID: 29116749 PMCID: PMC5777150 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.7b03487] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Oxidation of DNA by reactive oxygen species (ROS) yields 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanosine (8-oxodG) as primary oxidation product, which can lead to downstream G to T transversion mutations. DNA mutations are nonrandom, and mutations at specific codons are associated with specific cancers, as widely documented for the p53 tumor suppressor gene. Here, we present the first direct LC-MS/MS study (without isotopic labeling or hydrolysis) of primary oxidation sites of p53 exon 7. We oxidized a 32 base pair (bp) double-stranded (ds) oligonucleotide representing exon 7 of the p53 gene. Oxidized oligonucleotides were cut by a restriction endonuclease to provide small strands and enable positions and amounts of 8-oxodG to be determined directly by LC-MS/MS. Oxidation sites on the oligonucleotide generated by two oxidants, catechol/Cu2+/NADPH and Fenton's reagent, were located and compared. Guanines in codons 243, 244, 245, and 248 were most frequently oxidized by catechol/Cu2+/NADPH with relative oxidation of 5.6, 7.2, 2.6, and 10.7%, respectively. Fenton's reagent oxidations were more specific for guanines in codons 243 (20.3%) and 248 (10.4%). Modeling of docking of oxidizing species on the ds-oligonucleotide were consistent with the experimental codon oxidation sites. Significantly, codons 244 and 248 are mutational "hotspots" in nonsmall cell and small cell lung cancers, supporting a possible role of oxidation in p53 mutations leading to lung cancer.
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- Di Jiang
- Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, United States
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- Department of Surgery and Neag Cancer Center, UConn Health, Farmington, Connecticut 06032, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, United States
- Department of Surgery and Neag Cancer Center, UConn Health, Farmington, Connecticut 06032, United States
- Institute of Material Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, United States
- School of Chemistry, National University of Ireland at Galway, Galway H91 TK33, Ireland
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The interaction of iron and the genome: For better and for worse. MUTATION RESEARCH-REVIEWS IN MUTATION RESEARCH 2017; 774:25-32. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mrrev.2017.09.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2017] [Revised: 07/28/2017] [Accepted: 09/12/2017] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Bjørklund G, Christophersen OA, Chirumbolo S, Selinus O, Aaseth J. Recent aspects of uranium toxicology in medical geology. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2017; 156:526-533. [PMID: 28431380 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2017.04.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2017] [Revised: 04/07/2017] [Accepted: 04/08/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Uranium (U) is a chemo-toxic, radiotoxic and even a carcinogenic element. Due to its radioactivity, the effects of U on humans health have been extensively investigated. Prolonged U exposure may cause kidney disease and cancer. The geological distribution of U radionuclides is still a great concern for human health. Uranium in groundwater, frequently used as drinking water, and general environmental pollution with U raise concerns about the potential public health problem in several areas of Asia. The particular paleo-geological hallmark of India and other Southern Asiatic regions enhances the risk of U pollution in rural and urban communities. This paper highlights different health and environmental aspects of U as well as uptake and intake. It discusses levels of U in soil and water and the related health issues. Also described are different issues of U pollution, such as U and fertilizers, occupational exposure in miners, use and hazards of U in weapons (depleted U), U and plutonium as catalysts in the reaction between DNA and H2O2, and recycling of U from groundwater to surface soils in irrigation. For use in medical geology and U research, large databases and data warehouses are currently available in Europe and the United States.
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- Geir Bjørklund
- Council for Nutritional and Environmental Medicine, Mo i Rana, Norway.
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- Department of Neurological and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
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- Department of Biology and Environmental Science, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
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- Innlandet Hospital Trust and Hedmark University of Applied Sciences, Elverum, Norway
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Gureev AP, Shaforostova EA, Starkov AA, Popov VN. Simplified qPCR method for detecting excessive mtDNA damage induced by exogenous factors. Toxicology 2017; 382:67-74. [PMID: 28286206 DOI: 10.1016/j.tox.2017.03.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2016] [Revised: 03/06/2017] [Accepted: 03/07/2017] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Damage to mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is a meaningful biomarker for evaluating genotoxicity of drugs and environmental toxins. Existing PCR methods utilize long mtDNA fragments (∼8-10kb), which complicates detecting exact sites of mtDNA damage. To identify the mtDNA regions most susceptible to damage, we have developed and validated a set of primers to amplify ∼2kb long fragments, while covering over 95% of mouse mtDNA. We have modified the detection method by greatly increasing the enrichment of mtDNA, which allows us solving the problem of non-specific primer annealing to nuclear DNA. To validate our approach, we have determined the most damage-susceptible mtDNA regions in mice treated in vivo and in vitro with rotenone and H2O2. The GTGR-sequence-enriched mtDNA segments located in the D-loop region were found to be especially susceptible to damage. Further, we demonstrate that H2O2-induced mtDNA damage facilitates the relaxation of mtDNA supercoiled conformation, making the sequences with minimal damage more accessible to DNA polymerase, which, in turn, results in a decrease in threshold cycle value. Overall, our modified PCR method is simpler and more selective to the specific sites of damage in mtDNA.
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- Artem P Gureev
- Department of Genetics, Cytology and Bioengineering, Voronezh State University, Voronezh, Russia
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- Department of Genetics, Cytology and Bioengineering, Voronezh State University, Voronezh, Russia
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- Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA.
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- Department of Genetics, Cytology and Bioengineering, Voronezh State University, Voronezh, Russia
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Oxidative Stress Induced by Polymyxin E Is Involved in Rapid Killing of Paenibacillus polymyxa. BIOMED RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2017; 2017:5437139. [PMID: 28321410 PMCID: PMC5340943 DOI: 10.1155/2017/5437139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2016] [Accepted: 01/19/2017] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Historically, the colistin has been thought to kill bacteria through membrane lysis. Here, we present an alternative mechanism that colistin induces rapid Paenibacillus polymyxa death through reactive oxygen species production. This significantly augments our understanding of the mechanism of colistin action, which is critical knowledge toward the yield development of colistin in the future.
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Poyton MF, Sendecki AM, Cong X, Cremer PS. Cu2+ Binds to Phosphatidylethanolamine and Increases Oxidation in Lipid Membranes. J Am Chem Soc 2016; 138:1584-90. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b11561] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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- Matthew F. Poyton
- Department
of Chemistry, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16801, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16801, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16801, United States
- Department
of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16801, United States
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Lee J, Kim Y, Lim S, Jo K. Single-molecule visualization of ROS-induced DNA damage in large DNA molecules. Analyst 2015; 141:847-52. [PMID: 26661446 DOI: 10.1039/c5an01875g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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We present a single molecule visualization approach for the quantitative analysis of reactive oxygen species (ROS) induced DNA damage, such as base oxidation and single stranded breaks in large DNA molecules. We utilized the Fenton reaction to generate DNA damage with subsequent enzymatic treatment using a mixture of three types of glycosylases to remove oxidized bases, and then fluorescent labeling on damaged lesions via nick translation. This single molecule analytical platform provided the capability to count one or two damaged sites per λ DNA molecule (48.5 kb), which were reliably dependent on the concentrations of hydrogen peroxide and ferrous ion at the micromolar level. More importantly, the labeled damaged sites that were visualized under a microscope provided positional information, which offered the capability of comparing DNA damaged sites with the in silico genomic map to reveal sequence specificity that GTGR is more sensitive to oxidative damage. Consequently, single DNA molecule analysis provides a sensitive analytical platform for ROS-induced DNA damage and suggests an interesting biochemical insight that the genome primarily active during the lysogenic cycle may have less probability for oxidative DNA damage.
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- Jinyong Lee
- Department of Chemistry and Interdisciplinary Program of Integrated Biotechnology, Sogang University, Seoul, 121-742, Korea.
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The ancestors of Escherichia coli and Salmonella ultimately evolved to thrive in air-saturated liquids, in which oxygen levels reach 210 μM at 37°C. However, in 1976 Brown and colleagues reported that some sensitivity persists: growth defects still become apparent when hyperoxia is imposed on cultures of E. coli. This residual vulnerability was important in that it raised the prospect that normal levels of oxygen might also injure bacteria, albeit at reduced rates that are not overtly toxic. The intent of this article is both to describe the threat that molecular oxygen poses for bacteria and to detail what we currently understand about the strategies by which E. coli and Salmonella defend themselves against it. E. coli mutants that lack either superoxide dismutases or catalases and peroxidases exhibit a variety of growth defects. These phenotypes constitute the best evidence that aerobic cells continually generate intracellular superoxide and hydrogen peroxide at potentially lethal doses. Superoxide has reduction potentials that allow it to serve in vitro as either a weak univalent reductant or a stronger univalent oxidant. The addition of micromolar hydrogen peroxide to lab media will immediately block the growth of most cells, and protracted exposure will result in the loss of viability. The need for inducible antioxidant systems seems especially obvious for enteric bacteria, which move quickly from the anaerobic gut to fully aerobic surface waters or even to ROS-perfused phagolysosomes. E. coli and Salmonella have provided two paradigmatic models of oxidative-stress responses: the SoxRS and OxyR systems.
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Bacteria live in a toxic world in which their competitors excrete hydrogen peroxide or superoxide-generating redox-cycling compounds. They protect themselves by activating regulons controlled by the OxyR, PerR, and SoxR transcription factors. OxyR and PerR sense peroxide when it oxidizes key thiolate or iron moieties, respectively; they then induce overlapping sets of proteins that defend their vulnerable metalloenzymes. An additional role for OxyR in detecting electrophilic compounds is possible. In some nonenteric bacteria, SoxR appears to control the synthesis and export of redox-cycling compounds, whereas in the enteric bacteria it defends the cell against the same agents. When these compounds oxidize its iron-sulfur cluster, SoxR induces proteins that exclude, excrete, or modify them. It also induces enzymes that defend the cell against the superoxide that such compounds make. Recent work has brought new insight into the biochemistry and physiology of these responses, and comparative studies have clarified their evolutionary histories.
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- James A Imlay
- Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801;
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Linn S. Radicals in Berkeley? J Biol Chem 2015; 290:8748-57. [PMID: 25713083 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.x115.644989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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In a previous autobiographical sketch for DNA Repair (Linn, S. (2012) Life in the serendipitous lane: excitement and gratification in studying DNA repair. DNA Repair 11, 595-605), I wrote about my involvement in research on mechanisms of DNA repair. In this Reflections, I look back at how I became interested in free radical chemistry and biology and outline some of our bizarre (at the time) observations. Of course, these studies could never have succeeded without the exceptional aid of my mentors: my teachers; the undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and senior lab visitors in my laboratory; and my faculty and staff colleagues here at Berkeley. I am so indebted to each and every one of these individuals for their efforts to overcome my ignorance and set me on the straight and narrow path to success in research. I regret that I cannot mention and thank each of these mentors individually.
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- Stuart Linn
- From the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-3202
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Mancini S, Imlay JA. The induction of two biosynthetic enzymes helps Escherichia coli sustain heme synthesis and activate catalase during hydrogen peroxide stress. Mol Microbiol 2015; 96:744-63. [PMID: 25664592 DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12967] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 02/08/2015] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Hydrogen peroxide pervades many natural environments, including the phagosomes that mediate cell-based immunity. Transcriptomic analysis showed that during protracted low-grade H(2)O(2) stress, Escherichia coli responds by activating both the OxyR defensive regulon and the Fur iron-starvation response. OxyR induced synthesis of two members of the nine-step heme biosynthetic pathway: ferrochelatase (HemH) and an isozyme of coproporphyrinogen III oxidase (HemF). Mutations that blocked either adaptation caused the accumulation of porphyrin intermediates, inadequate activation of heme enzymes, low catalase activity, defective clearance of H(2)O(2) and a failure to grow. Genetic analysis indicated that HemH induction is needed to compensate for iron sequestration by the mini-ferritin Dps. Dps activity protects DNA and proteins by limiting Fenton chemistry, but it interferes with the ability of HemH to acquire the iron that it needs to complete heme synthesis. HemF is a manganoprotein that displaces HemN, an iron-sulfur enzyme whose synthesis and/or stability is apparently problematic during H(2)O(2) stress. Thus, the primary responses to H(2)O(2), including the sequestration of iron, require compensatory adjustments in the mechanisms of iron-cofactor synthesis. The results support the growing evidence that oxidative stress is primarily an iron pathology.
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- Stefano Mancini
- Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
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Henningham A, Döhrmann S, Nizet V, Cole JN. Mechanisms of group A Streptococcus resistance to reactive oxygen species. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2015; 39:488-508. [PMID: 25670736 PMCID: PMC4487405 DOI: 10.1093/femsre/fuu009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2014] [Accepted: 12/19/2014] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Streptococcus pyogenes, also known as group A Streptococcus (GAS), is an exclusively human Gram-positive bacterial pathogen ranked among the ‘top 10’ causes of infection-related deaths worldwide. GAS commonly causes benign and self-limiting epithelial infections (pharyngitis and impetigo), and less frequent severe invasive diseases (bacteremia, toxic shock syndrome and necrotizing fasciitis). Annually, GAS causes 700 million infections, including 1.8 million invasive infections with a mortality rate of 25%. In order to establish an infection, GAS must counteract the oxidative stress conditions generated by the release of reactive oxygen species (ROS) at the infection site by host immune cells such as neutrophils and monocytes. ROS are the highly reactive and toxic byproducts of oxygen metabolism, including hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), superoxide anion (O2•−), hydroxyl radicals (OH•) and singlet oxygen (O2*), which can damage bacterial nucleic acids, proteins and cell membranes. This review summarizes the enzymatic and regulatory mechanisms utilized by GAS to thwart ROS and survive under conditions of oxidative stress. This review discusses the mechanisms utilized by the bacterial pathogen group A Streptococcus to detoxify reactive oxygen species and survive in the human host under conditions of oxidative stress.
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- Anna Henningham
- Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA The School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia The Australian Infectious Diseases Research Centre, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego, CA 92123, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA The School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia The Australian Infectious Diseases Research Centre, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia
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Zimmerman MT, Bayse CA, Ramoutar RR, Brumaghim JL. Sulfur and selenium antioxidants: challenging radical scavenging mechanisms and developing structure-activity relationships based on metal binding. J Inorg Biochem 2014; 145:30-40. [PMID: 25600984 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2014.12.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2014] [Revised: 12/17/2014] [Accepted: 12/19/2014] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Because sulfur and selenium antioxidants can prevent oxidative damage, numerous animal and clinical trials have investigated the ability of these compounds to prevent the oxidative stress that is an underlying cause of cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer's disease, and cancer, among others. One of the most common sources of oxidative damage is metal-generated hydroxyl radical; however, very little research has focused on determining the metal-binding abilities and structural attributes that affect oxidative damage prevention by sulfur and selenium compounds. In this review, we describe our ongoing investigations into sulfur and selenium antioxidant prevention of iron- and copper-mediated oxidative DNA damage. We determined that many sulfur and selenium compounds inhibit Cu(I)-mediated DNA damage and that DNA damage prevention varies dramatically when Fe(II) is used in place of Cu(I) to generate hydroxyl radical. Oxidation potentials of the sulfur or selenium compounds do not correlate with their ability to prevent DNA damage, highlighting the importance of metal coordination rather than reactive oxygen species scavenging as an antioxidant mechanism. Additional gel electrophoresis, mass spectrometry, and UV-visible studies confirmed sulfur and selenium antioxidant binding to Cu(I) and Fe(II). Ultimately, our studies established that both the hydroxyl-radical-generating metal ion and the chemical environment of the sulfur or selenium significantly affect DNA damage prevention and that metal coordination is an essential mechanism for these antioxidants.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Old Dominion University, Hampton Boulevard, Norfolk, VA 23529, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-0973, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-0973, USA.
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Mononuclear iron enzymes can tightly bind non-activating metals. How do cells avoid mismetallation? The model bacterium Escherichia coli may control its metal pools so that thermodynamics favor the correct metallation of each enzyme. This system is disrupted, however, by superoxide and hydrogen peroxide. These species oxidize ferrous iron and thereby displace it from many iron-dependent mononuclear enzymes. Ultimately, zinc binds in its place, confers little activity, and imposes metabolic bottlenecks. Data suggest that E. coli compensates by using thiols to extract the zinc and by importing manganese to replace the catalytic iron atom. Manganese resists oxidants and provides substantial activity.
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- James A Imlay
- From the Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801
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Nakamura J, Mutlu E, Sharma V, Collins L, Bodnar W, Yu R, Lai Y, Moeller B, Lu K, Swenberg J. The endogenous exposome. DNA Repair (Amst) 2014; 19:3-13. [PMID: 24767943 PMCID: PMC4097170 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2014.03.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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The concept of the Exposome is a compilation of diseases and one's lifetime exposure to chemicals, whether the exposure comes from environmental, dietary, or occupational exposures; or endogenous chemicals that are formed from normal metabolism, inflammation, oxidative stress, lipid peroxidation, infections, and other natural metabolic processes such as alteration of the gut microbiome. In this review, we have focused on the endogenous exposome, the DNA damage that arises from the production of endogenous electrophilic molecules in our cells. It provides quantitative data on endogenous DNA damage and its relationship to mutagenesis, with emphasis on when exogenous chemical exposures that produce identical DNA adducts to those arising from normal metabolism cause significant increases in total identical DNA adducts. We have utilized stable isotope labeled chemical exposures of animals and cells, so that accurate relationships between endogenous and exogenous exposures can be determined. Advances in mass spectrometry have vastly increased both the sensitivity and accuracy of such studies. Furthermore, we have clear evidence of which sources of exposure drive low dose biology that results in mutations and disease. These data provide much needed information to impact quantitative risk assessments, in the hope of moving towards the use of science, rather than default assumptions.
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- Jun Nakamura
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
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- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
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- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
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- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
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- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
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- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
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- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
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- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States; Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, NM, United States
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- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
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- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States.
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Baharoglu Z, Mazel D. SOS, the formidable strategy of bacteria against aggressions. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2014; 38:1126-45. [PMID: 24923554 DOI: 10.1111/1574-6976.12077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 247] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2013] [Revised: 05/01/2014] [Accepted: 05/07/2014] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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The presence of an abnormal amount of single-stranded DNA in the bacterial cell constitutes a genotoxic alarm signal that induces the SOS response, a broad regulatory network found in most bacterial species to address DNA damage. The aim of this review was to point out that beyond being a repair process, SOS induction leads to a very strong but transient response to genotoxic stress, during which bacteria can rearrange and mutate their genome, induce several phenotypic changes through differential regulation of genes, and sometimes acquire characteristics that potentiate bacterial survival and adaptation to changing environments. We review here the causes and consequences of SOS induction, but also how this response can be modulated under various circumstances and how it is connected to the network of other important stress responses. In the first section, we review articles describing the induction of the SOS response at the molecular level. The second section discusses consequences of this induction in terms of DNA repair, changes in the genome and gene expression, and sharing of genomic information, with their effects on the bacteria's life and evolution. The third section is about the fine tuning of this response to fit with the bacteria's 'needs'. Finally, we discuss recent findings linking the SOS response to other stress responses. Under these perspectives, SOS can be perceived as a powerful bacterial strategy against aggressions.
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- Zeynep Baharoglu
- Institut Pasteur, Département Génomes et Génétique, Unité Plasticité du Génome Bactérien, Paris, France; CNRS, UMR3525, Paris, France
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Intracellular hydrogen peroxide and superoxide poison 3-deoxy-D-arabinoheptulosonate 7-phosphate synthase, the first committed enzyme in the aromatic biosynthetic pathway of Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol 2014; 196:1980-91. [PMID: 24659765 DOI: 10.1128/jb.01573-14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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In Escherichia coli, aromatic compound biosynthesis is the process that has shown the greatest sensitivity to hydrogen peroxide stress. This pathway has long been recognized to be sensitive to superoxide as well, but the molecular target was unknown. Feeding experiments indicated that the bottleneck lies early in the pathway, and the suppressive effects of fur mutations and manganese supplementation suggested the involvement of a metalloprotein. The 3-deoxy-D-arabinoheptulosonate 7-phosphate synthase (DAHP synthase) activity catalyzes the first step in the pathway, and it is provided by three isozymes known to rely upon a divalent metal. This activity progressively declined when cells were stressed with either oxidant. The purified enzyme was activated more strongly by ferrous iron than by other metals, and only this metalloform could be inactivated by hydrogen peroxide or superoxide. We infer that iron is the prosthetic metal in vivo. Both oxidants displace the iron atom from the enzyme. In peroxide-stressed cells, the enzyme accumulated as an apoprotein, potentially with an oxidized cysteine residue. In superoxide-stressed cells, the enzyme acquired a nonactivating zinc ion in its active site, an apparent consequence of the repeated ejection of iron. Manganese supplementation protected the activity in both cases, which matches the ability of manganese to metallate the enzyme and to provide substantial oxidant-resistant activity. DAHP synthase thus belongs to a family of mononuclear iron-containing enzymes that are disabled by oxidative stress. To date, all the intracellular injuries caused by physiological doses of these reactive oxygen species have arisen from the oxidation of reduced iron centers.
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Angelé-Martínez C, Goodman C, Brumaghim J. Metal-mediated DNA damage and cell death: mechanisms, detection methods, and cellular consequences. Metallomics 2014; 6:1358-81. [DOI: 10.1039/c4mt00057a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Metal ions cause various types of DNA damage by multiple mechanisms, and this damage is a primary cause of cell death and disease.
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- Department of Chemistry
- Clemson University
- Clemson, USA
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Monounsaturated fatty acids are substrates for aldehyde generation in tellurite-exposed Escherichia coli. BIOMED RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2013; 2013:563756. [PMID: 23991420 PMCID: PMC3749545 DOI: 10.1155/2013/563756] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2013] [Accepted: 07/09/2013] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Reactive oxygen species (ROS) damage macromolecules and cellular components in nearly all kinds of cells and often generate toxic intracellular byproducts. In this work, aldehyde generation derived from the Escherichia coli membrane oxidation as well as membrane fatty acid profiles, protein oxidation, and bacterial resistance to oxidative stress elicitors was evaluated. Studies included wild-type cells as well as cells exhibiting a modulated monounsaturated fatty acid (MUFA) ratio. The hydroxyaldehyde 4-hydroxy 2-nonenal was found to be most likely produced by E. coli, whose levels are dependent upon exposure to oxidative stress elicitors. Aldehyde amounts and markers of oxidative damage decreased upon exposure to E. coli containing low MUFA ratios, which was paralleled by a concomitant increase in resistance to ROS-generating compounds. MUFAs ratio, lipid peroxidation, and aldehyde generation were found to be directly related; that is, the lower the MUFAs ratio, the lower the peroxide and aldehyde generation levels. These results provide additional evidence about MUFAs being targets for membrane lipid oxidation and their relevance in aldehyde generation.
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Hart WE, Marczak SP, Kneller AR, French RA, Morris DL. The abilities of selenium dioxide and selenite ion to coordinate DNA-bound metal ions and decrease oxidative DNA damage. J Inorg Biochem 2013; 125:1-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2013.03.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2012] [Revised: 03/01/2013] [Accepted: 03/18/2013] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Anjana Vaman VS, Tinu SK, Geetha CS, Lissy KK, Mohanan PV. Effect of fibrin glue on antioxidant defense mechanism, oxidative DNA damage and chromosomal aberrations. Toxicol Mech Methods 2013; 23:500-8. [DOI: 10.3109/15376516.2013.785625] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Xiong C, Xiao Z, Zhang M, Ling L. Sensitive detection of H2O2 and H2O2-related reactant with Ru(bipy)(2)(7,8-dimethyl-dipyridophenazine)2+ and oligodeoxyribonucleotide. Analyst 2013; 137:4428-34. [PMID: 22893889 DOI: 10.1039/c2an35519a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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A sensor for H(2)O(2) and H(2)O(2)-related reactant was constructed with oligonucleotides and Ru(bipy)(2)dppx(2+) (bipy = 2,2'-bipyridine, dppx = 7,8-dimethyl-dipyridophenazine), which was performed by converting the H(2)O(2)-induced DNA cleavage into the change of luminescence. The 'DNA light switch' Ru(bipy)(2)dppx(2+) could emit strong luminescence in the presence of dsDNA. DNA cleavage occurred upon addition of H(2)O(2) due to the Fenton reaction, which resulted in the decrease of the luminescence of Ru(bipy)(2)dppx(2+). Therefore, the luminescence intensity depended on the concentration of H(2)O(2) and H(2)O(2)-related reactants, and the detection limits for H(2)O(2), uric acid and cholesterol were 0.20 μM, 0.46 μM and 1.25 μM, respectively. The recovery varied between 94.0% and 105.0% when the assay was applied to the determination of uric acid and cholesterol in biological samples, which demonstrated the good practicability of the assay.
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- Cen Xiong
- School of chemistry and chemical Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, PR China
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Life in the serendipitous lane: excitement and gratification in studying DNA repair. DNA Repair (Amst) 2012; 11:595-605. [PMID: 22870513 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2011.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Sobota JM, Imlay JA. Iron enzyme ribulose-5-phosphate 3-epimerase in Escherichia coli is rapidly damaged by hydrogen peroxide but can be protected by manganese. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2011; 108:5402-7. [PMID: 21402925 PMCID: PMC3069151 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1100410108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 175] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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H(2)O(2) is commonly generated in biological habitats by environmental chemistry and by cellular immune responses. H(2)O(2) penetrates cells, disrupts metabolism, and blocks growth; it therefore is of interest to identify the major cellular molecules that H(2)O(2) damages and the strategies by which cells protect themselves from it. We used a strain of Escherichia coli that lacks catalases and peroxidases to impose protracted low-grade H(2)O(2) stress. Physiological analysis indicated that the pentose-phosphate pathway, in particular, was poisoned by submicromolar intracellular H(2)O(2). Assays determined that ribulose-5-phosphate 3-epimerase (Rpe) was specifically inactivated. In vitro studies demonstrated that Rpe employs a ferrous iron atom as a solvent-exposed cofactor and that H(2)O(2) rapidly oxidizes this metal in a Fenton reaction. The oxidized iron is released immediately, causing a loss of activity. Most Rpe proteins could be reactivated by remetallation; however, a small fraction of proteins were irreversibly damaged by each oxidation cycle, and so repeated cycles of oxidation and remetallation progressively led to permanent inactivation of the entire Rpe pool. Manganese import and iron sequestration are key elements of the H(2)O(2) stress response, and we found that manganese can activate Rpe in vitro in place of iron, converting the enzyme to a form that is unaffected by H(2)O(2). Indeed, the provision of manganese to H(2)O(2)-stressed cells protected Rpe and enabled the pentose-phosphate pathway to retain function. These data indicate that mononuclear iron enzymes can be primary targets of H(2)O(2) stress and that cells adapt by shifting from iron- to manganese-centered metabolism.
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- Jason M Sobota
- Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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Bertoncini CRA, Meneghini R, Tolentino H. Nearest-neighbor nitrogen and oxygen distances in the iron(II)-DNA complex studied by extended X-ray absorption fine structure. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2010; 77:908-910. [PMID: 20728402 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2010.07.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2008] [Revised: 07/09/2010] [Accepted: 07/12/2010] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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In mammalian cells, DNA-bound Fe(II) reacts with H₂O₂ producing the highly reactive hydroxyl radical (OH) in situ. Since ·OH attacks nearby DNA residue generating oxidative DNA damage, many questions have arisen regarding iron-DNA complex formations and their implication in pre-malignant mutations and aging. In this work, a solid sample of Fe(II)-DNA complex containing one Fe(II) per 10 nucleotides was analyzed from extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) spectra collected in a synchrotron radiation light source. Best fitting parameters of the EXAFS signal for the first two shells provide evidence of five oxygen atoms at 1.99 ± 0.02 Å and one nitrogen atom at 2.20 ± 0.02 Å in the inner coordination sphere of the Fe(II)-DNA complex. Considering that both purine base moieties bearing nitrogen atoms are prone to chelate iron, these results are consistent with the previously observed lower levels of DNA damage in cytosine nucleotides relative to adenine and guanine sites in cells under more physiological conditions of Fe(II) Fenton reaction.
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Gillespie MN, Pastukh VM, Ruchko MV. Controlled DNA "damage" and repair in hypoxic signaling. Respir Physiol Neurobiol 2010; 174:244-51. [PMID: 20831905 DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2010.08.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2010] [Accepted: 08/31/2010] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Hypoxia, a fundamental stimulus in biology and medicine, uses reactive oxygen species (ROS) as second messengers. A surprising target of hypoxia-generated ROS is specific bases within hypoxic response elements (HREs) of the VEGF and other hypoxia-inducible genes. Oxidative modifications coincide with the onset of mRNA accumulation and are localized to transcriptionally active mono-nucleosomes. The oxidative base modifications are removed by the base excision DNA repair pathway for which one of its components, the bifunctional transcriptional co-activator and DNA endonuclease Ref-1/Ape1, is critical for transcription complex assembly. Mimicking the effect of hypoxia by introducing an abasic site in an oligonucleotide model of the VEGF HRE, altered transcription factor binding, enhanced sequence flexibility, and engendered more robust reporter gene expression. These observations suggest that controlled DNA "damage" and repair, mediated by ROS used as second messengers and critically involving the base excision pathway of DNA repair, respectively, are important for hypoxia-induced transcriptional activation.
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- Mark N Gillespie
- Department of Pharmacology and Center for Lung Biology, College of Medicine, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL 36688-0002, United States.
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Rai P. Oxidation in the nucleotide pool, the DNA damage response and cellular senescence: Defective bricks build a defective house. Mutat Res 2010; 703:71-81. [PMID: 20673809 DOI: 10.1016/j.mrgentox.2010.07.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2010] [Accepted: 07/19/2010] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Activation of persistent DNA damage response (DDR) signaling is associated with the induction of a permanent proliferative arrest known as cellular senescence, a phenomenon intrinsically linked to both tissue aging as well as tumor suppression. The DNA damage observed in senescent cells has been attributed to elevated levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS), failing DNA damage repair processes, and/or oncogenic activation. It is not clear how labile molecules such as ROS are able to damage chromatin-bound DNA to a sufficient extent to invoke persistent DNA damage and DDR signaling. Recent evidence suggests that the nucleotide pool is a significant target for oxidants and that oxidized nucleotides, once incorporated into genomic DNA, can lead to the induction of a DNA strand break-associated DDR that triggers senescence in normal cells and in cells sustaining oncogene activation. Evasion of this DDR and resulting senescence is a key step in tumor progression. This review will explore the role of oxidation in the nucleotide pool as a major effector of oxidative stress-induced genotoxic damage and DDR in the context of cellular senescence and tumorigenic transformation.
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- Priyamvada Rai
- Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, Rosenstiel Medical Sciences Building, Rm#7094/Locator Code: D-503, 1600 NW 10th Ave, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, United States.
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Clore GM, Iwahara J. Theory, practice, and applications of paramagnetic relaxation enhancement for the characterization of transient low-population states of biological macromolecules and their complexes. Chem Rev 2009; 109:4108-39. [PMID: 19522502 DOI: 10.1021/cr900033p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 588] [Impact Index Per Article: 39.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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- G Marius Clore
- Laboratory of Chemical Physics, Building 5, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-0520, USA.
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Valavanidis A, Vlahoyianni T, Fiotakis K. Comparative study of the formation of oxidative damage marker 8-hydroxy-2′-deoxyguanosine (8-OHdG) adduct from the nucleoside 2′-deoxyguanosine by transition metals and suspensions of particulate matter in relation to metal content and redox reactivity. Free Radic Res 2009; 39:1071-81. [PMID: 16298732 DOI: 10.1080/10715760500188671] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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An association between exposure to ambient particulate matter (PM) and increased incidence of mortality and morbidity due to lung cancer and cardiovascular diseases has been demonstrated by recent epidemiological studies. Reactive oxygen species (ROS), especially hydroxyl radicals, generated by PM, have been suggested by many studies as an important factor in the oxidative damage of DNA by PM. The purpose of this study was to characterize quantitatively hydroxyl radical generation by various transition metals in the presence of H2O2 in aqueous buffer solution (pH 7.4) and hydroxylation of 2'-deoxyguanosine (dG) to 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-OHdG) under similar conditions. The order of metals' redox reactivity and hydroxyl radical production was Fe(II), V(IV), Cu(I), Cr(III), Ni(II), Co(II), Pb(II), Cd(II). Then, we investigated the generation of hydroxyl radicals in the presence of H2O2 by various airborne PM samples, such as total suspended particulate (TSP), PM10, PM2.5 (PM with aerodynamic diameter 10 and 2.5 microm), diesel exhaust particles (DEP), gasoline exhaust particles (GEP) and woodsmoke soot under the same conditions. When suspensions of PMs were incubated with H2O2 and dG at pH 7.4, all particles induced hydroxylation of dG and formation of 8-OHdG in a dose-dependent increase. Our findings demonstrated that PM's hydroxyl radical (HO radical) generating ability and subsequent dG hydroxylation is associated with the concentration of water-soluble metals, especially Fe and V and other redox or ionizable transition metals and not their total metal content, or insoluble metal oxides, via a Fenton-driven reaction of H2O2 with metals. Additionally, we observed, by Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR), that PM suspensions in the presence of H2O2 generated radical species with dG, which were spin-trapped by 2-methyl-2-nitroso-propane (MNP).
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- Athanasios Valavanidis
- University of Athens, Department of Chemistry, University Campus Zografou, 15784, Athens, Greece.
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Anjem A, Varghese S, Imlay JA. Manganese import is a key element of the OxyR response to hydrogen peroxide in Escherichia coli. Mol Microbiol 2009; 72:844-58. [PMID: 19400769 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.06699.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 242] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Very little manganese is imported into Escherichia coli under routine growth conditions: the import system is weakly expressed, the manganese content is low, and a manganese-dependent enzyme is not correctly metallated. Mutants that lack MntH, the importer, grow at wild-type rates, indicating that manganese plays no critical role. However, MntH supports the growth of iron-deficient cells, suggesting that manganese can substitute for iron in activating at least some metalloenzymes. MntH is also strongly induced when cells are stressed by hydrogen peroxide. This adaptation is essential, as E. coli cannot tolerate peroxide stress if mntH is deleted. Other workers have observed that manganese improves the ability of a variety of microbes to tolerate oxidative stress, and the prevailing hypothesis is that manganese does so by chemically scavenging hydrogen peroxide and/or superoxide. We found that manganese does not protect peroxide-stressed cells by scavenging peroxide. Instead, the beneficial effects of manganese correlate with its ability to metallate mononuclear enzymes. Because iron-loaded enzymes are vulnerable to the Fenton reaction, the substitution of manganese may prevent protein damage. Accordingly, during H2O2 stress, mutants that cannot import manganese and/or are unable to sequester iron suffer high rates of protein oxidation.
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- Adil Anjem
- Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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A Review of the Antioxidant Mechanisms of Polyphenol Compounds Related to Iron Binding. Cell Biochem Biophys 2009; 53:75-100. [DOI: 10.1007/s12013-009-9043-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 633] [Impact Index Per Article: 42.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Wolf C, Hochgräfe F, Kusch H, Albrecht D, Hecker M, Engelmann S. Proteomic analysis of antioxidant strategies of Staphylococcus aureus: diverse responses to different oxidants. Proteomics 2008; 8:3139-53. [PMID: 18604844 DOI: 10.1002/pmic.200701062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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The high resolution 2-D protein gel electrophoresis technique combined with MALDI-TOF MS and a recently developed fluorescence-based thiol modification assay were used to investigate the cellular response of Staphylococcus aureus to oxidative stress. Addition of hydrogen peroxide, diamide, and the superoxide generating agent paraquat to exponentially growing cells revealed complex changes in the protein expression pattern. In particular, proteins involved in detoxification, repair systems, and intermediary metabolism were found to be up-regulated. Interestingly, there is only a small overlap of proteins induced by all these stressors. Exposure to hydrogen peroxide mediated a significant increase of DNA repair enzymes, whereas treatment with diamide affected proteins involved in protein repair and degradation. The activity of proteins under oxidative stress conditions can be modulated by oxidation of thiol groups. In growing cells, protein thiols were found to be mainly present in the reduced state. Diamide mediated a strong increase of reversibly oxidized thiols in a variety of metabolic enzymes. By contrast, hydrogen peroxide resulted in the reversible oxidation especially of proteins with active site cysteines. Moreover, high levels of hydrogen peroxide influenced the pI of three proteins containing cysteines within their active sites (GapA1, AhpC, and HchA) indicating the generation of sulfinic or sulfonic acid by irreversible oxidation of thiols.
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- Carmen Wolf
- Institut für Mikrobiologie, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität, Greifswald, Germany
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Pastukh V, Ruchko M, Gorodnya O, Wilson GL, Gillespie MN. Sequence-specific oxidative base modifications in hypoxia-inducible genes. Free Radic Biol Med 2007; 43:1616-26. [PMID: 18037127 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2007.08.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2007] [Revised: 08/23/2007] [Accepted: 08/24/2007] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Reactive oxygen species associated with hypoxic signaling in pulmonary arterial endothelial cells (PAECs) oxidatively modify specific nucleotides in the hypoxic response element (HRE) of the VEGF gene (FASEB J.19:387-394; 2005). In this study, we determined in PAECs if hypoxia caused genome-wide oxidative modifications or if they were restricted to the promoters of genes differentially regulated by hypoxia. Comet assays indicated that there were no differences between normoxic and hypoxic PAECs in terms of global DNA damage. However, a simple PCR-based method involving DNA amplification before and after treatment with formamidopyrimidine DNA glycosylase (Fpg), a bacterial DNA repair enzyme that cleaves at sites of purine base oxidation, revealed that hypoxia caused modifications in the HREs of the hypoxia-inducible VEGF, HO-1, and ET-1 genes which coincided with accumulation of their respective mRNA transcripts. Promoter sequences not involved with hypoxic induction and coding regions of these genes failed to display Fpg-sensitive sites. Oxidative modifications also were not detected in sequences of the hypoxia down-regulated ornithine decarboxylase and TFAM genes or the constitutively expressed beta-actin gene. These findings show that hypoxia-mediated oxidative DNA modifications cluster in functionally relevant promoter sequences in hypoxia-inducible genes and suggest that such oxidative modifications may be biologically significant.
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- Viktor Pastukh
- Department of Pharmacology and Center for Lung Biology, University of South Alabama College of Medicine, Mobile, AL 36688, USA
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Dwyer DJ, Kohanski MA, Hayete B, Collins JJ. Gyrase inhibitors induce an oxidative damage cellular death pathway in Escherichia coli. Mol Syst Biol 2007; 3:91. [PMID: 17353933 PMCID: PMC1847949 DOI: 10.1038/msb4100135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 340] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2006] [Accepted: 01/26/2007] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Modulation of bacterial chromosomal supercoiling is a function of DNA gyrase-catalyzed strand breakage and rejoining. This reaction is exploited by both antibiotic and proteic gyrase inhibitors, which trap the gyrase molecule at the DNA cleavage stage. Owing to this interaction, double-stranded DNA breaks are introduced and replication machinery is arrested at blocked replication forks. This immediately results in bacteriostasis and ultimately induces cell death. Here we demonstrate, through a series of phenotypic and gene expression analyses, that superoxide and hydroxyl radical oxidative species are generated following gyrase poisoning and play an important role in cell killing by gyrase inhibitors. We show that superoxide-mediated oxidation of iron–sulfur clusters promotes a breakdown of iron regulatory dynamics; in turn, iron misregulation drives the generation of highly destructive hydroxyl radicals via the Fenton reaction. Importantly, our data reveal that blockage of hydroxyl radical formation increases the survival of gyrase-poisoned cells. Together, this series of biochemical reactions appears to compose a maladaptive response, that serves to amplify the primary effect of gyrase inhibition by oxidatively damaging DNA, proteins and lipids.
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- Daniel J Dwyer
- Program in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
- Center for BioDynamics and Center for Advanced Biotechnology, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for BioDynamics and Center for Advanced Biotechnology, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
- Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for BioDynamics and Center for Advanced Biotechnology, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
- Bioinformatics Program, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Program in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
- Center for BioDynamics and Center for Advanced Biotechnology, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
- Bioinformatics Program, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
- Center for BioDynamics and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, 44 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA. Tel.: +617 353 0390; Fax: +617 353 5462;
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Macomber L, Rensing C, Imlay JA. Intracellular copper does not catalyze the formation of oxidative DNA damage in Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol 2006; 189:1616-26. [PMID: 17189367 PMCID: PMC1855699 DOI: 10.1128/jb.01357-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 272] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Because copper catalyzes the conversion of H(2)O(2) to hydroxyl radicals in vitro, it has been proposed that oxidative DNA damage may be an important component of copper toxicity. Elimination of the copper export genes, copA, cueO, and cusCFBA, rendered Escherichia coli sensitive to growth inhibition by copper and provided forcing circumstances in which this hypothesis could be tested. When the cells were grown in medium supplemented with copper, the intracellular copper content increased 20-fold. However, the copper-loaded mutants were actually less sensitive to killing by H(2)O(2) than cells grown without copper supplementation. The kinetics of cell death showed that excessive intracellular copper eliminated iron-mediated oxidative killing without contributing a copper-mediated component. Measurements of mutagenesis and quantitative PCR analysis confirmed that copper decreased the rate at which H(2)O(2) damaged DNA. Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spin trapping showed that the copper-dependent H(2)O(2) resistance was not caused by inhibition of the Fenton reaction, for copper-supplemented cells exhibited substantial hydroxyl radical formation. However, copper EPR spectroscopy suggested that the majority of H(2)O(2)-oxidizable copper is located in the periplasm; therefore, most of the copper-mediated hydroxyl radical formation occurs in this compartment and away from the DNA. Indeed, while E. coli responds to H(2)O(2) stress by inducing iron sequestration proteins, H(2)O(2)-stressed cells do not induce proteins that control copper levels. These observations do not explain how copper suppresses iron-mediated damage. However, it is clear that copper does not catalyze significant oxidative DNA damage in vivo; therefore, copper toxicity must occur by a different mechanism.
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- Lee Macomber
- Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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How radiation kills cells: Survival ofDeinococcus radioduransandShewanella oneidensisunder oxidative stress. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2005. [DOI: 10.1016/j.fmrre.2004.12.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Ziel KA, Grishko V, Campbell CC, Breit JF, Wilson GL, Gillespie MN. Oxidants in signal transduction: impact on DNA integrity and gene expression. FASEB J 2005; 19:387-94. [PMID: 15746182 DOI: 10.1096/fj.04-2805com] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Physiological stimuli using reactive oxygen species (ROS) as second messengers caused nucleotide-specific base modifications in the hypoxic response element of the VEGF gene in lung vascular cells, with the 3' guanine of the HIF-1 DNA recognition sequence uniformly targeted. Modeling this effect by replacing the targeted guanine with an abasic site increased incorporation of HIF-1 and the bi-functional DNA repair enzyme and transcriptional coactivator, Ref-1/Ape1, into the transcriptional complex and engendered more robust reporter gene expression. Oxidants generated in the context of physiological signaling thus affect nuclear DNA integrity and may facilitate gene expression by optimizing DNA-protein interactions.
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- Kathryn A Ziel
- University of South Alabama College of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology and Center for Lung Biology, Mobile, AL 36688, USA
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Rai P, Wemmer DE, Linn S. Preferential binding and structural distortion by Fe2+ at RGGG-containing DNA sequences correlates with enhanced oxidative cleavage at such sequences. Nucleic Acids Res 2005; 33:497-510. [PMID: 15659581 PMCID: PMC548341 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Certain DNA sequences are known to be unusually sensitive to nicking via the Fe2+-mediated Fenton reaction. Most notable are a purine nucleotide followed by three or more G residues, RGGG, and purine nucleotides flanking a TG combination, RTGR. Our laboratory previously demonstrated that nicking in the RGGG sequences occurs preferentially 5' to a G residue with the nicking probability decreasing from the 5' to 3'end of these sequences. Using 1H NMR to characterize Fe2+ binding within the duplex CGAGTTAGGGTAGC/GCTACCCTAACTCG and 7-deazaguanine-containing (Z) variants of it, we show that Fe2+ binds preferentially at the GGG sequence, most strongly towards its 5' end. Substitutions of individual guanines with Z indicate that the high affinity Fe2+ binding at AGGG involves two adjacent guanine N7 moieties. Binding is accompanied by large changes in specific imino, aromatic and methyl proton chemical shifts, indicating that a locally distorted structure forms at the binding site that affects the conformation of the two base pairs 3' to the GGG sequence. The binding of Fe2+ to RGGG contrasts with that previously observed for the RTGR sequence, which binds Fe2+ with negligible structural rearrangements.
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- Priyamvada Rai
- Biophysics Graduate Group, University of California BerkeleyUSA
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- Biophysics Graduate Group, University of California BerkeleyUSA
- Department of Chemistry, University of California BerkeleyUSA
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- Department of Molecular and Cell BiologyBarker HallUniversity of California BerkeleyCA 94720-3202, USA
- Biophysics Graduate Group, University of California BerkeleyUSA
- To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +1 510 642 7583; Fax: +1 510 643 3388;
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White B, Tarun MC, Gathergood N, Rusling JF, Smyth MR. Oxidised guanidinohydantoin (Ghox) and spiroiminodihydantoin (Sp) are major products of iron- and copper-mediated 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine and 8-oxo-7,8-dihydro-2′-deoxyguanosine oxidation. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005; 1:373-81. [PMID: 16881006 DOI: 10.1039/b511756a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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8-Oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine (8-oxoGua), an important biomarker of DNA damage in oxidatively generated stress, is highly reactive towards further oxidation. Much work has been carried out to investigate the oxidation products of 8-oxoGua by one-electron oxidants, singlet oxygen, and peroxynitrite. This report details for the first time, the iron- and copper-mediated Fenton oxidation of 8-oxoGua and 8-oxo-7,8-dihydro-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-oxodGuo). Oxidised guanidinohydantoin (Gh(ox)) was detected as the major product of oxidation of 8-oxoGua with iron or copper and hydrogen peroxide, both at pH 7 and pH 11. Oxaluric acid was identified as a final product of 8-oxoGua oxidation. 8-oxodGuo was subjected to oxidation under the same conditions as 8-oxoGua. However, dGh(ox) was not generated. Instead, spiroiminodihydantoin (Sp) was detected as the major product for both iron and copper mediated oxidation at pH 7. It was proposed that the oxidation of 8-oxoGua was initiated by its one-electron oxidation by the metal species, which leads to the reactive intermediate 8-oxoGua (+), which readily undergoes further oxidation. The product of 8-oxoGua and 8-oxodGuo oxidation was determined by the 2'-deoxyribose moiety of the 8-oxodGuo, not whether copper or iron was the metal involved in the oxidation.
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- Blánaid White
- National Centre for Sensor Research (NCSR), School of Chemical Sciences, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland
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Nedelcu AM, Michod RE. Sex as a response to oxidative stress: the effect of antioxidants on sexual induction in a facultatively sexual lineage. Proc Biol Sci 2004; 270 Suppl 2:S136-9. [PMID: 14667362 PMCID: PMC1809951 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2003.0062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The evolution of sex is one of the long-standing unsolved problems in biology. Although in many lineages sex is an obligatory part of the life cycle and is associated with reproduction, in prokaryotes and many lower eukaryotes, sex is facultative, occurs in response to stress and often involves the formation of a stress-resistant dormant form. The proximate and ultimate causes of the connection between stress and sex in facultatively sexual lineages are unclear. Because most forms of stress result in the overproduction of cellular reactive oxygen species (ROS), we address the hypothesis that this connection involves ROS and possibly reflects the ancestral role of sex as an adaptive response to the damaging effects of stress-induced ROS (i.e. oxidative stress). Here, we report that two antioxidants inhibit sexual induction in a facultatively sexual species - the multicellular green alga, Volvox carteri. Furthermore, the nature of the sex response and the effect of an iron chelator on sexual induction are consistent with sex being a response to the DNA-damaging effects of ROS. In addition, we present preliminary data to suggest that sex, cell-cycle arrest and apoptosis are alternative responses to increased levels of oxidative stress.
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- Aurora M Nedelcu
- Department of Biology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 6E1, Canada.
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