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Jia J, Deng Y, Yi M, Zhu Y. 4mCPred-GSIMP: Predicting DNA N4-methylcytosine sites in the mouse genome with multi-Scale adaptive features extraction and fusion. MATHEMATICAL BIOSCIENCES AND ENGINEERING : MBE 2024; 21:253-271. [PMID: 38303422 DOI: 10.3934/mbe.2024012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2024]
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The epigenetic modification of DNA N4-methylcytosine (4mC) is vital for controlling DNA replication and expression. It is crucial to pinpoint 4mC's location to comprehend its role in physiological and pathological processes. However, accurate 4mC detection is difficult to achieve due to technical constraints. In this paper, we propose a deep learning-based approach 4mCPred-GSIMP for predicting 4mC sites in the mouse genome. The approach encodes DNA sequences using four feature encoding methods and combines multi-scale convolution and improved selective kernel convolution to adaptively extract and fuse features from different scales, thereby improving feature representation and optimization effect. In addition, we also use convolutional residual connections, global response normalization and pointwise convolution techniques to optimize the model. On the independent test dataset, 4mCPred-GSIMP shows high sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, Matthews correlation coefficient and area under the curve, which are 0.7812, 0.9312, 0.8562, 0.7207 and 0.9233, respectively. Various experiments demonstrate that 4mCPred-GSIMP outperforms existing prediction tools.
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- Jianhua Jia
- School of Information Engineering, Jingdezhen Ceramic University, Jingdezhen 333403, China
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- School of Information Engineering, Jingdezhen Ceramic University, Jingdezhen 333403, China
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- School of Information Engineering, Jingdezhen Ceramic University, Jingdezhen 333403, China
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- School of Information Engineering, Jingdezhen Ceramic University, Jingdezhen 333403, China
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Crisalli AM, Chen YT, Cai A, Li D, Cho BP. Conformation-dependent lesion bypass of bulky arylamine-dG adducts generated from 2-nitrofluorene in epigenetic sequence contexts. Nucleic Acids Res 2023; 51:12043-12053. [PMID: 37953358 PMCID: PMC10711442 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkad1038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2023] [Revised: 09/27/2023] [Accepted: 10/24/2023] [Indexed: 11/14/2023] Open
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Sequence context influences structural characteristics and repair of DNA adducts, but there is limited information on how epigenetic modulation affects conformational heterogeneity and bypass of DNA lesions. Lesions derived from the environmental pollutant 2-nitrofluorene have been extensively studied as chemical carcinogenesis models; they adopt a sequence-dependent mix of two significant conformers: major groove binding (B) and base-displaced stacked (S). We report a conformation-dependent bypass of the N-(2'-deoxyguanosin-8-yl)-7-fluoro-2-aminofluorene (dG-FAF) lesion in epigenetic sequence contexts (d[5'-CTTCTC#G*NCCTCATTC-3'], where C# is C or 5-methylcytosine (5mC), G* is G or G-FAF, and N is A, T, C or G). FAF-modified sequences with a 3' flanking pyrimidine were better bypassed when the 5' base was 5mC, whereas sequences with a 3' purine exhibited the opposite effect. The conformational basis behind these variations differed; for -CG*C- and -CG*T-, bypass appeared to be inversely correlated with population of the duplex-destabilizing S conformer. On the other hand, the connection between conformation and a decrease in bypass for flanking purines in the 5mC sequences relative to C was more complex. It could be related to the emergence of a disruptive non-S/B conformation. The present work provides novel conformational insight into how 5mC influences the bypass efficiency of bulky DNA damage.
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- Alicia M Crisalli
- Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA
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- Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA
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- Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA
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- Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA
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- Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA
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Desaulniers D, Cummings-Lorbetskie C, Leingartner K, Meier MJ, Pickles JC, Yauk CL. DNA methylation changes from primary cultures through senescence-bypass in Syrian hamster fetal cells initially exposed to benzo[a]pyrene. Toxicology 2023; 487:153451. [PMID: 36754249 DOI: 10.1016/j.tox.2023.153451] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2022] [Revised: 01/27/2023] [Accepted: 02/03/2023] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
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Current chemical testing strategies are limited in their ability to detect non-genotoxic carcinogens (NGTxC). Epigenetic anomalies develop during carcinogenesis regardless of whether the molecular initiating event is associated with genotoxic (GTxC) or NGTxC events; therefore, epigenetic markers may be harnessed to develop new approach methodologies that improve the detection of both types of carcinogens. This study used Syrian hamster fetal cells to establish the chronology of carcinogen-induced DNA methylation changes from primary cells until senescence-bypass as an essential carcinogenic step. Cells exposed to solvent control for 7 days were compared to naïve primary cultures, to cells exposed for 7 days to benzo[a]pyrene, and to cells at the subsequent transformation stages: normal colonies, morphologically transformed colonies, senescence, senescence-bypass, and sustained proliferation in vitro. DNA methylation changes identified by reduced representation bisulphite sequencing were minimal at day-7. Profound DNA methylation changes arose during cellular senescence and some of these early differentially methylated regions (DMRs) were preserved through the final sustained proliferation stage. A set of these DMRs (e.g., Pou4f1, Aifm3, B3galnt2, Bhlhe22, Gja8, Klf17, and L1l) were validated by pyrosequencing and their reproducibility was confirmed across multiple clones obtained from a different laboratory. These DNA methylation changes could serve as biomarkers to enhance objectivity and mechanistic understanding of cell transformation and could be used to predict senescence-bypass and chemical carcinogenicity.
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- Daniel Desaulniers
- Environmental Health Science and Research Bureau, Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0K9, Canada.
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- Environmental Health Science and Research Bureau, Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0K9, Canada.
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- Environmental Health Science and Research Bureau, Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0K9, Canada.
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- Environmental Health Science and Research Bureau, Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0K9, Canada.
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Dutta K, Shityakov S, Zhu W, Khalifa I. High-risk meat and fish cooking methods of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons formation and its avoidance strategies. Food Control 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2022.109253] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Bienstock RJ, Perera L, Pasquinelli MA. Molecular Modeling Study of the Genotoxicity of the Sudan I and Sudan II Azo Dyes and Their Metabolites. Front Chem 2022; 10:880782. [PMID: 35815205 PMCID: PMC9261194 DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2022.880782] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2022] [Accepted: 05/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Azo dyes are defined by the presence of a characteristic N=N group. Sudan I and Sudan II are synthetic azo dyes that have been used as coloring agents. Although animal toxicity studies suggest that Sudan dyes are mutagenic, their molecular mechanism of action is unknown, thus making it challenging to establish thresholds for tolerable daily intake or to understand how these molecules could be modified to ameliorate toxicity. In addition, dye metabolites, such as azobiphenyl and 4-aminobiphenyl, have been correlated with epigenetic alterations. We shed some light on the mechanisms of Sudan dye genotoxicity through a molecular modeling study of Sudan I and Sudan II dyes and two common metabolites interacting with DNA as adducts. The results suggest that all four adducts cause significant perturbations to the DNA helical conformation and structure; thus, it can be inferred that DNA repair and replication processes would be significantly impacted.
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- Rachelle J. Bienstock
- Fiber and Polymer Science Program, Wilson College of Textiles, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, Durham, NC, United States
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- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, Durham, NC, United States
- *Correspondence: Lalith Perera, ; Melissa A. Pasquinelli,
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- Fiber and Polymer Science Program, Wilson College of Textiles, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States
- Forest Biomaterials, College of Natural Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States
- *Correspondence: Lalith Perera, ; Melissa A. Pasquinelli,
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Kung RW, Takyi NA, Wetmore SD. Effects of a Second Local DNA Damage Event on the Toxicity of the Human Carcinogen 4-Aminobiphenyl: A Molecular Dynamics Study of a Damaged DNA Structure. Chem Res Toxicol 2022; 35:499-511. [PMID: 35147430 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrestox.1c00405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Exposure of humans to carcinogenic aromatic amines (AAs) occurs daily. AAs are bioactivated in cells into products that attack DNA, primarily leading to N-linked C8-dG adducts. Previous work on DNA containing a single AA-derived adduct (monoadducted DNA) has shown a structure-function relationship between the damaged DNA conformation and cellular outcomes. However, relatively little is known about the conformation and biological outcomes of DNA containing two bulky adducts (diadducted DNA) in close proximity. To fill this current void in the literature, the present work uses quintuplet 0.5 μs MD simulations to understand the structural impact of DNA exposure to the potent bladder carcinogen 4-aminobiphenyl (ABP), which is found in cigarette smoke and select dyes, and results in the widely studied N-linked ABPdG adduct. Specifically, 18 unique DNA duplexes were investigated that contain one or two ABPdG adducts in the anti and/or syn glycosidic orientation(s) in all combinations of three G positions in the NarI mutation hotspot for AAs (5'-G1G2CG3CC). Monoadducted DNA displays sequence-dependent conformational heterogeneity, with the G1 site having the greatest anti preference, and highlights the range of helical structures associated with the syn lesion orientation [i.e., stacked (S), intercalated (I), and wedge (W) conformations]. Diadducted DNA results in interesting lesion separation effects on the conformational heterogeneity, including a greater anti preference for neighboring adducts (G1G2) and a greater syn preference for next-nearest neighbor damaged sites (G2G3) compared to monoadducted DNA. As a result, an increase in the number of ABPdG adducts changes the conformational heterogeneity of ABP-exposed DNA depending on the relative positions of the lesions and thereby could result in increased or decreased toxicity upon human exposure to elevated levels of ABP.
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- Ryan W Kung
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive West, Lethbridge, Alberta T1K 3M4, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive West, Lethbridge, Alberta T1K 3M4, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive West, Lethbridge, Alberta T1K 3M4, Canada
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Menzies GE, Prior IA, Brancale A, Reed SH, Lewis PD. Carcinogen-induced DNA structural distortion differences in the RAS gene isoforms; the importance of local sequence. BMC Chem 2021; 15:51. [PMID: 34521464 PMCID: PMC8439098 DOI: 10.1186/s13065-021-00777-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2021] [Accepted: 08/17/2021] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Local sequence context is known to have an impact on the mutational pattern seen in cancer. The RAS genes and a smoking carcinogen, Benzo[a]pyrene diol epoxide (BPDE), have been utilised to explore these context effects. BPDE is known to form an adduct at the guanines in a number of RAS gene sites, KRAS codons 12, 13 and 14, NRAS codon 12, and HRAS codons 12 and 14. RESULTS Molecular modelling techniques, along with multivariate analysis, have been utilised to determine the sequence influenced differences between BPDE-adducted RAS gene sequences as well as the local distortion caused by the adducts. CONCLUSIONS We conclude that G:C > T:A mutations at KRAS codon 12 in the tumours of lung cancer patients (who smoke), proposed to be predominantly caused by BPDE, are due to the effect of the interaction methyl group at the C5 position of the thymine base in the KRAS sequence with the BPDE carcinogen investigated causing increased distortion. We further suggest methylated cytosine would have a similar effect, showing the importance of methylation in cancer development.
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- Georgina E Menzies
- School of Biosciences and Dementia Research Institute at Cardiff, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF10 3NX, UK.
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK
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- School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF10 3NB, UK
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- Division of Cancer and Genetics, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF14 4XN, UK
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- School of Management, Swansea University Bay Campus, Swansea, SA1 8EN, UK
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Kung RW, Deak TK, Griffith-Salik CA, Takyi NA, Wetmore SD. Impact of DNA Adduct Size, Number, and Relative Position on the Toxicity of Aromatic Amines: A Molecular Dynamics Case Study of ANdG- and APdG-Containing DNA Duplexes. J Chem Inf Model 2021; 61:2313-2327. [PMID: 33977716 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.1c00202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Human exposure to aromatic amines (AAs) can result in carcinogenic DNA adducts. To complement previous work geared toward understanding the mutagenicity of AA-derived adducts, which has almost exclusively studied (monoadducted) DNA containing a single lesion, the present work provides the first in-depth comparison of the structure of monoadducted and diadducted DNA duplexes. Specifically, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were initially performed on DNA containing the nonmutagenic single-ringed N-(deoxyguanosin-8-yl)-aniline (ANdG) or the mutagenic four-ringed N-(deoxyguanosin-8-yl)-1-aminopyrene (APdG) lesion at G1, G2, or G3 in the AA deletion hotspot (5'-G1G2CG3CC) in the anti or syn glycosidic orientation (B/S duplex conformation). Subsequently, diadducted strands were assessed that span each combination of damaged sites (G1G2 (nearest neighbors), G2G3 (next-nearest neighbors), and G1G3 (two intervening nucleotides)) and anti/syn lesion glycosidic orientations. Despite other N-linked C8-dG adducts exhibiting sequence dependence conformational heterogeneity, a single ANdG or APdG lesion induces helical conformational homogeneity that is exclusively controlled by aryl moiety size. However, the preferred damaged DNA conformation can change upon the addition of a second adduct depending on lesion separation, with neighboring lesions stabilizing a nonmutagenic conformation and next-nearest damaged sites stabilizing a promutagenic conformation regardless of adduct size. As a result, diadducted DNA is found to adopt conformations that are unfavored for the corresponding monoadducted system, pointing to differential replication and repair outcomes for diadducted DNA compared to those for monoadducted DNA. Thus, although the toxicity of monoadducted DNA is most significantly dictated by lesion size, the toxicity can increase or decrease upon a second damaging event depending on lesion size and relative position. Overall, our work adds the number of lesions and their spatial separation to the growing list of factors that determine the structure and biological outcomes of adducted DNA.
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- Ryan W Kung
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive West, Lethbridge, AB T1K 3M4, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive West, Lethbridge, AB T1K 3M4, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive West, Lethbridge, AB T1K 3M4, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive West, Lethbridge, AB T1K 3M4, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive West, Lethbridge, AB T1K 3M4, Canada
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Keshavarz F. Molecular level insights into the direct health impacts of some organic aerosol components. NEW J CHEM 2021. [DOI: 10.1039/d1nj00231g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Quantum chemistry and biomodeling indicate that the studied organic aerosol components cannot directly cause oxidative stress or mutagenicity/carcinogenicity.
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- Fatemeh Keshavarz
- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research
- Faculty of Science
- University of Helsinki
- FI-00014 Helsinki
- Finland
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Lee J, Kalia V, Perera F, Herbstman J, Li T, Nie J, Qu LR, Yu J, Tang D. Prenatal airborne polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon exposure, LINE1 methylation and child development in a Chinese cohort. ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL 2017; 99:315-320. [PMID: 28027800 PMCID: PMC5810919 DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2016.12.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2016] [Revised: 11/15/2016] [Accepted: 12/11/2016] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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BACKGROUND Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) are carcinogenic, neurotoxic environmental pollutants generated during incomplete combustion of fossil fuel and other organic material. PAH exposure has been associated with adverse fetal development and epigenetic alterations in cord blood. Several molecular epidemiology studies have established PAH-DNA adducts as biomarkers of PAH exposure. OBJECTIVES We investigated the relationship between LINE1 DNA methylation and PAH-DNA adduct levels in cord blood, and with neurodevelopmental outcomes. METHODS In Tongliang County, China, the current study enrolled two population-based cohorts of nonsmoking pregnant women before (2002) and after (2005) the closure of a local coal-fired power plant in May 2004. We analyzed cord blood samples collected from mothers in the two cohorts (n=110 from 2002 cohort and n=107 from 2005 cohort) for PAH-DNA adducts and genomic LINE1 DNA methylation. Neurodevelopmental data on children were collected using the Gesell Developmental Scales (GDS) at age 2 and using the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) at age 5. RESULTS A significant inverse relationship was observed between PAH-DNA adducts and LINE1 DNA methylation (β=-0.010, p<0.038). A significant, positive association between LINE1 methylation and scores on WISC full scale and verbal (β=85.31, p<0.005; β=94.36, p<0.003) but not on the GDS. Mediation analysis did not find LINE1 to be a direct mediator between PAH-DNA adducts and IQ score. CONCLUSION LINE1 methylation in cord blood DNA was a positive predictor of IQ at age 5 and was decreased at higher levels of prenatal PAH exposure measured by PAH-DNA adducts in cord blood. However, the adverse effects of prenatal exposure to PAH on IQ scores did not appear to be directly mediated by altered LINE1 methylation.
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- Joan Lee
- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
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- Chirdren's Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States.
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Trumbo-White CM, Hvastkovs EG. Electrochemical Assessment of Sequence Selective DNA Damage from Myoglogin and Cytochrome P450 Bioactivated Benzo[ a]pyrene at TP53 Oligomers. ELECTROANAL 2016. [DOI: 10.1002/elan.201600109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Department of Chemistry; East Carolina University; Greenville, NC
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Bin L, Leung DYM. Genetic and epigenetic studies of atopic dermatitis. ALLERGY, ASTHMA, AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY : OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE CANADIAN SOCIETY OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY 2016; 12:52. [PMID: 27777593 PMCID: PMC5069938 DOI: 10.1186/s13223-016-0158-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 155] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2016] [Accepted: 10/04/2016] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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BACKGROUND Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic inflammatory disease caused by the complex interaction of genetic, immune and environmental factors. There have many recent discoveries involving the genetic and epigenetic studies of AD. METHODS A retrospective PubMed search was carried out from June 2009 to June 2016 using the terms "atopic dermatitis", "association", "eczema", "gene", "polymorphism", "mutation", "variant", "genome wide association study", "microarray" "gene profiling", "RNA sequencing", "epigenetics" and "microRNA". A total of 132 publications in English were identified. RESULTS To elucidate the genetic factors for AD pathogenesis, candidate gene association studies, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and transcriptomic profiling assays have been performed in this period. Epigenetic mechanisms for AD development, including genomic DNA modification and microRNA posttranscriptional regulation, have been explored. To date, candidate gene association studies indicate that filaggrin (FLG) null gene mutations are the most significant known risk factor for AD, and genes in the type 2 T helper lymphocyte (Th2) signaling pathways are the second replicated genetic risk factor for AD. GWAS studies identified 34 risk loci for AD, these loci also suggest that genes in immune responses and epidermal skin barrier functions are associated with AD. Additionally, gene profiling assays demonstrated AD is associated with decreased gene expression of epidermal differentiation complex genes and elevated Th2 and Th17 genes. Hypomethylation of TSLP and FCER1G in AD were reported; and miR-155, which target the immune suppressor CTLA-4, was found to be significantly over-expressed in infiltrating T cells in AD skin lesions. CONCLUSIONS The results suggest that two major biologic pathways are responsible for AD etiology: skin epithelial function and innate/adaptive immune responses. The dysfunctional epidermal barrier and immune responses reciprocally affect each other, and thereby drive development of AD.
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- Lianghua Bin
- The Department of Dermatology, the First Affiliated Hospital, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
- Biomedical Translational Research Institute, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
- Department of Pediatrics, National Jewish Health, 1400 Jackson Street, Room K926i, Denver, CO 80206 USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, National Jewish Health, 1400 Jackson Street, Room K926i, Denver, CO 80206 USA
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Allergy & Clinical Immunology, The State Key Clinical Specialty in Allergy, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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CpG methylation increases the DNA binding of 9-aminoacridine carboxamide Pt analogues. Bioorg Med Chem 2016; 24:4701-4710. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2016.08.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2016] [Revised: 08/03/2016] [Accepted: 08/06/2016] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Xia B, Yang LQ, Huang HY, Pang L, Yang XF, Yi YJ, Ren XH, Li J, Zhuang ZX, Liu JJ. Repression of Biotin-Related Proteins by Benzo[a]Pyrene-Induced Epigenetic Modifications in Human Bronchial Epithelial Cells. Int J Toxicol 2016; 35:336-43. [PMID: 26960346 DOI: 10.1177/1091581816637071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]P) exposure has been associated with the alteration in epigenetic marks that are involved in cancer development. Biotinidase (BTD) and holocarboxylase synthetase (HCS) are 2 major enzymes involved in maintaining the homeostasis of biotinylation, and the deregulation of this pathway has been associated with a number of cancers. However, the link between B[a]P exposure and the dysregulation of BTD/HCS in B[a]P-associated tumorigenesis is unknown. Here we showed that the expression of both BTD and HCS was significantly decreased upon B[a]P treatment in human bronchial epithelial (16HBE) cells. Benzo[a]pyrene exposure led to the global loss of DNA methylation by immunofluorescence, which coincided with the reduction in acetylation levels on histones H3 and H4 in 16HBE cells. Consistent with decreased histone acetylation, histone deacetylases (HDACs) HDAC2 and HDAC3 were significantly upregulated in a dosage-dependent manner. When DNA methylation or HDAC activity was inhibited, we found that the reduction in BTD and HCS was separately regulated through distinct epigenetic mechanisms. Together, our results suggested the potential link between B[a]P toxicity and deregulation of biotin homeostasis pathway in B[a]P-associated cancer development.
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- Bo Xia
- Key Laboratory of Modern Toxicology, Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shenzhen, China College of Food Science and Technology, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Modern Toxicology, Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shenzhen, China
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- Key Laboratory of Modern Toxicology, Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shenzhen, China
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- College of Horticulture and Gardening, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Modern Toxicology, Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shenzhen, China
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- College of Food Science and Technology, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Modern Toxicology, Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shenzhen, China
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- Key Laboratory of Modern Toxicology, Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shenzhen, China
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- Key Laboratory of Modern Toxicology, Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shenzhen, China
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- Key Laboratory of Modern Toxicology, Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shenzhen, China
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Toxicology of DNA Adducts Formed Upon Human Exposure to Carcinogens. ADVANCES IN MOLECULAR TOXICOLOGY 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-804700-2.00007-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Biotin-mediated epigenetic modifications: Potential defense against the carcinogenicity of benzo[a]pyrene. Toxicol Lett 2016; 241:216-24. [DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2015.11.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2015] [Revised: 11/03/2015] [Accepted: 11/08/2015] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Menzies GE, Reed SH, Brancale A, Lewis PD. Base damage, local sequence context and TP53 mutation hotspots: a molecular dynamics study of benzo[a]pyrene induced DNA distortion and mutability. Nucleic Acids Res 2015; 43:9133-46. [PMID: 26400171 PMCID: PMC4627081 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv910] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2015] [Accepted: 08/26/2015] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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The mutational pattern for the TP53 tumour suppressor gene in lung tumours differs to other cancer types by having a higher frequency of G:C>T:A transversions. The aetiology of this differing mutation pattern is still unknown. Benzo[a]pyrene,diol epoxide (BPDE) is a potent cigarette smoke carcinogen that forms guanine adducts at TP53 CpG mutation hotspot sites including codons 157, 158, 245, 248 and 273. We performed molecular modelling of BPDE-adducted TP53 duplex sequences to determine the degree of local distortion caused by adducts which could influence the ability of nucleotide excision repair. We show that BPDE adducted codon 157 has greater structural distortion than other TP53 G:C>T:A hotspot sites and that sequence context more distal to adjacent bases must influence local distortion. Using TP53 trinucleotide mutation signatures for lung cancer in smokers and non-smokers we further show that codons 157 and 273 have the highest mutation probability in smokers. Combining this information with adduct structural data we predict that G:C>T:A mutations at codon 157 in lung tumours of smokers are predominantly caused by BPDE. Our results provide insight into how different DNA sequence contexts show variability in DNA distortion at mutagen adduct sites that could compromise DNA repair at well characterized cancer related mutation hotspots.
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- Georgina E Menzies
- Institute of Life Science, Swansea University School of Medicine, Swansea University, SA2 8PP, UK
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- Institute of Cancer & Genetics, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, CF14 4XN, UK
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- School of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Cardiff University, CF10 3NB, UK
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- Institute of Life Science, Swansea University School of Medicine, Swansea University, SA2 8PP, UK
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Johannsen MW, Gerrard SR, Melvin T, Brown T. Triplex-mediated analysis of cytosine methylation at CpA sites in DNA. Chem Commun (Camb) 2013; 50:551-3. [PMID: 24276836 DOI: 10.1039/c3cc45917a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Modified triplex-forming oligonucleotides distinguish 5-methyl cytosine from unmethylated cytosine in DNA duplexes by differences in triplex melting temperatures. The discrimination is sequence-specific; dramatic differences in stabilisation are seen for CpA methylation, whereas CpG methylation is not detected. This direct detection of DNA methylation constitutes a new approach for epigenetic analysis.
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- Marie W Johannsen
- School of Chemistry, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK.
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Kirouac KN, Basu AK, Ling H. Structural mechanism of replication stalling on a bulky amino-polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon DNA adduct by a y family DNA polymerase. J Mol Biol 2013; 425:4167-76. [PMID: 23876706 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2013.07.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2013] [Revised: 07/10/2013] [Accepted: 07/13/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and their nitro derivatives are culprits of the detrimental health effects of environmental pollution. These hydrophobic compounds metabolize to reactive species and attach to DNA producing bulky lesions, such as N-[deoxyguanosine-8-yl]-1-aminopyrene (APG), in genomic DNA. The bulky adducts block DNA replication by high-fidelity polymerases and compromise replication fidelities and efficiencies by specialized lesion bypass polymerases. Here we present three crystal structures of the DNA polymerase Dpo4, a model translesion DNA polymerase of the Y family, in complex with APG-lesion-containing DNA in pre-insertion and extension stages. APG is captured in two conformations in the pre-insertion complex; one is highly exposed to the solvent, whereas the other is harbored in a shallow cleft between the finger and unique Y family little finger domain. In contrast, APG is in a single conformation at the extension stage, in which the pyrene ring is sandwiched between the little finger domain and a base from the turning back single-stranded template strand. Strikingly, a nucleotide intercalates the DNA helix to form a quaternary complex with Dpo4, DNA, and an incoming nucleotide, which stabilizes the distorted DNA structure at the extension stage. The unique APG DNA conformations in Dpo4 inhibit DNA translocation through the polymerase active site for APG bypass. We also modeled an insertion complex that illustrates a solvent-exposed pyrene ring contributing to an unstable insertion state. The structural work combined with our lesion replication assays provides a novel structural mechanism on bypass of DNA adducts containing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon moieties.
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- Kevin N Kirouac
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5C1
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Gardner N, Magers D, Hill G. Theoretical study of tautomeric and ionizing effects of guanine, cytosine, and their methyl derivatives. Struct Chem 2013. [DOI: 10.1007/s11224-013-0301-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Šrut M, Štambuk A, Klobučar GI. What is Comet assay not telling us: AFLP reveals wider aspects of genotoxicity. Toxicol In Vitro 2013; 27:1226-32. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tiv.2013.02.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2012] [Revised: 02/07/2013] [Accepted: 02/12/2013] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Satterwhite JE, Trumbo CM, Danell AS, Hvastkovs EG. Electrochemical study on the effects of epigenetic cytosine methylation on anti-benzo[a]pyrene diol epoxide damage at TP53 oligomers. Anal Chem 2013; 85:1183-91. [PMID: 23244159 DOI: 10.1021/ac303077h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Anti-benzo[a]pyrene-r-7,t-8-dihydrodiol-t-9,10-epoxide (anti-BPDE) is a known carcinogen that damages DNA, and this damage is influenced by the DNA sequence and epigenetic factors. The influence of epigenetic cytosine methylation on the reaction with anti-BPDE at a known hotspot DNA damage site was studied electrochemically. Gold electrodes were modified with thiolated DNA oligomers spanning codons 270-276 of the TP53 gene. The oligomers exhibited 5-carbon cytosine methylation at the codon 273 location on the bound probe, the acquired complementary target, or both. Redox active diviologen compounds of the form C(12)H(25)V(2+)C(6)H(12)V(2+)C(12)H(25) (V(2+) = 4,4'-bipyridyl or viologen, C12-Viologen) were employed to detect anti-BPDE damage to DNA. DNA was exposed to racemic (±)- or enantiomerically pure (+)-anti-BPDE solutions followed by electrochemical interrogation in the presence of C12-Viologen. Background subtracted square wave voltammograms (SWV) showed the appearance of two peaks at approximately -0.38 V and -0.55 V vs Ag/AgCl upon anti-BPDE exposure. The acquired voltammetry is consistent with singly reduced C12-Viologen dimers bound at two different DNA environments, which arise from BPDE damage and are influenced by cytosine methylation and BPDE stereochemical considerations. UV spectroscopic and mass spectrometric methods employed to validate the electrochemical responses showed that (+)-anti-BPDE primarily adopts a minor groove bound orientation within the oligomers while selectively targeting the nontranscribed ssDNA sequence within the duplexes.
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- Jennifer E Satterwhite
- East Carolina University, Department of Chemistry, 300 Science and Technology Building, Greenville, North Carolina 27858, USA
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The Intersection of Genetics and Epigenetics: Reactivation of Mammalian LINE-1 Retrotransposons by Environmental Injury. ENVIRONMENTAL EPIGENOMICS IN HEALTH AND DISEASE 2013. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23380-7_6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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The methylation of C/EBP β gene promoter and regulated by GATA-2 protein. Mol Biol Rep 2012; 40:797-801. [PMID: 23065276 DOI: 10.1007/s11033-012-2117-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2012] [Accepted: 10/03/2012] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Mammalian genomes are punctuated by DNA sequences containing an atypically high frequency of CpG sites (CpG islands; CGIs) that are associated with the majority of annotated gene promoters. Methylated C bases of CpG sites inhibit the expression of downstream genes. During the differentiation of 3T3-L1 preadipocytes, the CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein (C/EBP) β gene plays an important role. We studied the CpG island methylation status of the C/EBP β promoter and its relationship with the GATA-2 protein. We used computer analysis to determine that the C/EBP β promoter sequence is rich in CGIs, and observed that two of seven methylated C bases were demethylated during the preadipocyte differentiation using bisulfite sequencing PCR (BSP). This corresponded with the onset of notable C/EBP β gene expression. Immunofluorescence and molecular docking showed that the GATA-2 protein binds the C/EBP β promoter in front of the first demethylated CpG site. We also found that expression of GATA-2 and C/EBP β proteins is negatively correlated. These results indicate that the methylated C bases in the C/EBP β promoter relate to expression of the C/EBP β gene, and that its demethylation is linked with GATA-2 protein association.
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Pacheco KA. Epigenetics mediate environment : gene effects on occupational sensitization. Curr Opin Allergy Clin Immunol 2012; 12:111-8. [PMID: 22306555 DOI: 10.1097/aci.0b013e328351518f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW Epigenetics is the study of stable modifications of fixed genomes that direct which genes are expressed and which are silenced. Epigenetic changes are modulated by environmental exposures, making epigenetics the interface between genes and environment. This has particular relevance in understanding the effect of occupational exposures on the expression of allergic disease. The goal of this review is to describe how epigenetic changes affect transcription potential, and to examine more closely the effect of specific environmental and occupational exposures on epigenetic variations that alter allergy gene transcripts and the inflammatory milieu. RECENT FINDINGS Gene transcription is activated when specific CpG sites are demethylated and histones are acetylated, and, conversely, silenced when sites are methylated and histones deacetylated. The development of Th1 and Th2 phenotypes, and expression of Treg cells, are now known to be modulated by epigenetic mechanisms. Workplace exposures such as tobacco smoke, particulates, diesel exhaust, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, ozone, and endotoxin, among others, suppress Treg development, and enhance expression of inflammatory cytokines and allergic phenotypes by epigenetic means. SUMMARY Epigenetic manipulation to open and close transcription sites provides flexibility of gene expression in response to changing environmental cues. It may also be the window whereby allergic disease in the workplace can be reduced by targeted environmental interventions.
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- Karin A Pacheco
- Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Department of Medicine, National Jewish Health, Denver and Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, Colorado, USA.
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Herbstman JB, Tang D, Zhu D, Qu L, Sjödin A, Li Z, Camann D, Perera FP. Prenatal exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, benzo[a]pyrene-DNA adducts, and genomic DNA methylation in cord blood. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES 2012; 120:733-8. [PMID: 22256332 PMCID: PMC3346775 DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1104056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 178] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2011] [Accepted: 01/17/2012] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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BACKGROUND Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are carcinogenic environmental pollutants generated during incomplete combustion. After exposure and during metabolism, PAHs can form reactive epoxides that can covalently bind to DNA. These PAH-DNA adducts are established markers of cancer risk. PAH exposure has been associated with epigenetic alterations, including genomic cytosine methylation. Both global hypomethylation and hypermethylation of specific genes have been associated with cancer and other diseases in humans. Experimental evidence suggests that PAH-DNA adduct formation may preferentially target methylated genomic regions. Early embryonic development may be a particularly susceptible period for PAH exposure, resulting in both increased PAH-DNA adducts and altered DNA methylation. OBJECTIVE We explored whether prenatal exposure to PAHs is associated with genomic DNA methylation in cord blood and whether methylation levels are associated with the presence of detectable PAH-DNA adducts. METHODS In a longitudinal cohort study of nonsmoking women in New York City, we measured PAH exposure during pregnancy using personal air monitors, assessed PAH internal dose using prenatal urinary metabolites (in a subset), and quantified benzo[a]pyrene-DNA adducts and genomic DNA methylation in cord blood DNA among 164 participants. RESULTS Prenatal PAH exposure was associated with lower global methylation in umbilical cord white blood cells (p = 0.05), but global methylation levels were positively associated with the presence of detectable adducts in cord blood (p = 0.01). CONCLUSIONS These observations suggest that PAH exposure was adequate to alter global methylation in our study population. Additional epidemiologic studies that can measure site-specific cytosine methylation and adduct formation will improve our ability to understand this complex molecular pathway in vivo.
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- Julie B Herbstman
- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York 10032, USA
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Liang Y, Wang P, Zhao M, Liang G, Yin H, Zhang G, Wen H, Lu Q. Demethylation of the FCER1G promoter leads to FcεRI overexpression on monocytes of patients with atopic dermatitis. Allergy 2012; 67:424-30. [PMID: 22150093 DOI: 10.1111/j.1398-9995.2011.02760.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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BACKGROUND Overexpression of the high-affinity receptor for immunoglobulin E on atopic monocytes and dendritic cells is known to contribute to the pathogenesis of atopic dermatitis (AD). However, it remains unclear what is the underlying mechanism of FcεRI deregulation. It has been speculated that epigenetic deregulation may play a role. METHODS Global DNA methylation levels of monocytes from 10 AD patients and 10 healthy controls were measured using a global DNA methylation kit. Bisulfite sequencing was performed to determine the methylation status of the FCER1G promoter region. FcεRIγ mRNA and FcεRI protein levels were detected by real-time RT-PCR, Western blotting, and flow cytometry, respectively. Patch methylation and the demethylating agent, 5-azacytidine, were used to determine the functional significance of methylation changes on FcεRI expression. RESULTS Monocytes from AD patients show a global hypomethylation, as well as a locus-specific hypomethylation at FCER1G promoter, as compared to healthy controls. Furthermore, this hypomethylation of FCER1G is inversely correlated with its expression. Patch methylation in combination with luciferase reporter assay confirmed the direct relationship between methylation and expression. Moreover, treating healthy monocytes with 5-azacytidine caused a reduction in methylation levels and an induction in FcεRIγ transcription and surface expression of FcεRI. CONCLUSION Demethylation of specific regulatory elements within the FCER1G locus contributes to FcεRI overexpression on monocytes from patients with AD.
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- Y Liang
- Hunan Key Laboratory of Medical Epigenomics, Department of Dermatology, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
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Guza R, Kotandeniya D, Murphy K, Dissanayake T, Lin C, Giambasu GM, Lad RR, Wojciechowski F, Amin S, Sturla SJ, Hudson RH, York DM, Jankowiak R, Jones R, Tretyakova NY. Influence of C-5 substituted cytosine and related nucleoside analogs on the formation of benzo[a]pyrene diol epoxide-dG adducts at CG base pairs of DNA. Nucleic Acids Res 2011; 39:3988-4006. [PMID: 21245046 PMCID: PMC3089471 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq1341] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2010] [Revised: 12/17/2010] [Accepted: 12/20/2010] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Endogenous 5-methylcytosine ((Me)C) residues are found at all CG dinucleotides of the p53 tumor suppressor gene, including the mutational 'hotspots' for smoking induced lung cancer. (Me)C enhances the reactivity of its base paired guanine towards carcinogenic diolepoxide metabolites of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) present in cigarette smoke. In the present study, the structural basis for these effects was investigated using a series of unnatural nucleoside analogs and a representative PAH diolepoxide, benzo[a]pyrene diolepoxide (BPDE). Synthetic DNA duplexes derived from a frequently mutated region of the p53 gene (5'-CCCGGCACCC GC[(15)N(3),(13)C(1)-G]TCCGCG-3', + strand) were prepared containing [(15)N(3), (13)C(1)]-guanine opposite unsubstituted cytosine, (Me)C, abasic site, or unnatural nucleobase analogs. Following BPDE treatment and hydrolysis of the modified DNA to 2'-deoxynucleosides, N(2)-BPDE-dG adducts formed at the [(15)N(3), (13)C(1)]-labeled guanine and elsewhere in the sequence were quantified by mass spectrometry. We found that C-5 alkylcytosines and related structural analogs specifically enhance the reactivity of the base paired guanine towards BPDE and modify the diastereomeric composition of N(2)-BPDE-dG adducts. Fluorescence and molecular docking studies revealed that 5-alkylcytosines and unnatural nucleobase analogs with extended aromatic systems facilitate the formation of intercalative BPDE-DNA complexes, placing BPDE in a favorable orientation for nucleophilic attack by the N(2) position of guanine.
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MESH Headings
- 7,8-Dihydro-7,8-dihydroxybenzo(a)pyrene 9,10-oxide/analogs & derivatives
- 7,8-Dihydro-7,8-dihydroxybenzo(a)pyrene 9,10-oxide/chemistry
- Base Pairing
- Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
- Cytosine/analogs & derivatives
- DNA Adducts/chemistry
- Deoxyguanosine/analogs & derivatives
- Deoxyguanosine/chemistry
- Genes, p53
- Guanine/chemistry
- Isotope Labeling
- Models, Molecular
- Oligodeoxyribonucleotides/chemical synthesis
- Oligodeoxyribonucleotides/chemistry
- Spectrometry, Fluorescence
- Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization
- Tandem Mass Spectrometry
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- Rebecca Guza
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and the Masonic Cancer Center, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, Department of Chemistry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66505, USA, Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Chemistry, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and the Masonic Cancer Center, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, Department of Chemistry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66505, USA, Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Chemistry, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and the Masonic Cancer Center, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, Department of Chemistry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66505, USA, Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Chemistry, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and the Masonic Cancer Center, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, Department of Chemistry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66505, USA, Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Chemistry, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and the Masonic Cancer Center, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, Department of Chemistry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66505, USA, Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Chemistry, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and the Masonic Cancer Center, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, Department of Chemistry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66505, USA, Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Chemistry, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and the Masonic Cancer Center, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, Department of Chemistry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66505, USA, Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Chemistry, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and the Masonic Cancer Center, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, Department of Chemistry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66505, USA, Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Chemistry, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and the Masonic Cancer Center, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, Department of Chemistry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66505, USA, Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Chemistry, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and the Masonic Cancer Center, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, Department of Chemistry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66505, USA, Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Chemistry, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and the Masonic Cancer Center, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, Department of Chemistry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66505, USA, Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Chemistry, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and the Masonic Cancer Center, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, Department of Chemistry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66505, USA, Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Chemistry, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and the Masonic Cancer Center, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, Department of Chemistry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66505, USA, Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Chemistry, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and the Masonic Cancer Center, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, Department of Chemistry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66505, USA, Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Chemistry, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and the Masonic Cancer Center, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, Department of Chemistry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66505, USA, Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Chemistry, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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Teneng I, Montoya-Durango DE, Quertermous JL, Lacy ME, Ramos KS. Reactivation of L1 retrotransposon by benzo(a)pyrene involves complex genetic and epigenetic regulation. Epigenetics 2011; 6:355-67. [PMID: 21150308 DOI: 10.4161/epi.6.3.14282] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Benzo(a)pyrene (BaP), is an environmental pollutant present in tobacco smoke and a byproduct of fossil fuel combustion which likely contributes to the tumorigenic processes in human cancers including lung and esophageal. Long Interspersed Nuclear Element-1 (LINE-1) or L1 is a mobile element within the mammalian genome that propagates via a "copy-and-paste" mechanism using reverse transcriptase and RNA intermediates. L1 is strongly expressed during early embryogenesis and then silenced as cells initiate differentiation programming. Although the complex transcriptional control mechanisms of L1 are not well understood, L1 reactivation has been described in several human cancers and following exposure of mouse or human cells to BaP. In this study we investigated the molecular mechanisms and epigenetic events that regulate L1 reactivation following BaP exposure. We show that challenge of HeLa cells with BaP induces early enrichment of the transcriptionally-active chromatin markers histone H3 trimethylated at lysine 4 (H3K4Me3) and histone H3 acetylated at lysine 9 (H3K9Ac), and reduces association of DNA methyltransferase-1 (DNMT1) with the L1 promoter. These changes are followed by proteasome-dependent decreases in cellular DNMT1 expression and sustained reduction of cytosine methylation within the L1 promoter CpG island. Pharmacological inhibition of the proteasome signaling pathway with the inhibitor MG132 blocks degradation of DNMT1 and alters BaP-mediated histone epigenetic modifications. We conclude that genetic reactivation of L1 by BaP involves an ordered cascade of epigenetic events that begin with nucleosomal histone modifications and is completed with alterations in DNMT1 recruitment to the L1 promoter and reduced DNA methylation of CpG islands.
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- Ivo Teneng
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Center for Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Louisville, KY, USA
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Environmental epigenetics of asthma: an update. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2010; 126:453-65. [PMID: 20816181 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2010.07.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 152] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2010] [Revised: 07/27/2010] [Accepted: 07/29/2010] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Asthma, a chronic inflammatory disorder of the airway, is influenced by interplay between genetic and environmental factors now known to be mediated by epigenetics. Aberrant DNA methylation, altered histone modifications, specific microRNA expression, and other chromatin alterations orchestrate a complex early-life reprogramming of immune T-cell response, dendritic cell function, macrophage activation, and a breach of airway epithelial barrier that dictates asthma risk and severity in later life. Adult-onset asthma is under analogous regulation. The sharp increase in asthma prevalence over the past 2 or 3 decades and the large variations among populations of similar racial/ethnic background but different environmental exposures favors a strong contribution of environmental factors. This review addresses the fundamental question of whether environmental influences on asthma risk, severity, and steroid resistance are partly due to differential epigenetic modulations. Current knowledge on the epigenetic effects of tobacco smoke, microbial allergens, oxidants, airborne particulate matter, diesel exhaust particles, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, dietary methyl donors and other nutritional factors, and dust mites is discussed. Exciting findings have been generated by rapid technological advances and well-designed experimental and population studies. The discovery and validation of epigenetic biomarkers linked to exposure, asthma, or both might lead to better epigenotyping of risk, prognosis, treatment prediction, and development of novel therapies.
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Lenglet G, David-Cordonnier MH. DNA-Destabilizing Agents as an Alternative Approach for Targeting DNA: Mechanisms of Action and Cellular Consequences. J Nucleic Acids 2010; 2010. [PMID: 20725618 PMCID: PMC2915751 DOI: 10.4061/2010/290935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2010] [Revised: 05/27/2010] [Accepted: 06/03/2010] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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DNA targeting drugs represent a large proportion of the actual anticancer drug pharmacopeia, both in terms of drug brands and prescription volumes. Small DNA-interacting molecules share the ability of certain proteins to change the DNA helix's overall organization and geometrical orientation via tilt, roll, twist, slip, and flip effects. In this ocean of DNA-interacting compounds, most stabilize both DNA strands and very few display helix-destabilizing properties. These types of DNA-destabilizing effect are observed with certain mono- or bis-intercalators and DNA alkylating agents (some of which have been or are being developed as cancer drugs). The formation of locally destabilized DNA portions could interfere with protein/DNA recognition and potentially affect several crucial cellular processes, such as DNA repair, replication, and transcription. The present paper describes the molecular basis of DNA destabilization, the cellular impact on protein recognition, and DNA repair processes and the latter's relationships with antitumour efficacy.
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- Gaëlle Lenglet
- INSERM U-837, Jean-Pierre Aubert Research Center (JPARC), Team 4 Molecular and Cellular Targeting for Cancer Treatment, Institute for Research on Cancer of Lille (IRCL), Lille F-59045, France
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Seng HL, Von ST, Tan KW, Maah MJ, Ng SW, Rahman RNZRA, Caracelli I, Ng CH. Crystal structure, DNA binding studies, nucleolytic property and topoisomerase I inhibition of zinc complex with 1,10-phenanthroline and 3-methyl-picolinic acid. Biometals 2009; 23:99-118. [DOI: 10.1007/s10534-009-9271-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2009] [Accepted: 09/11/2009] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Spencer WA, Singh J, Orren DK. Formation and differential repair of covalent DNA adducts generated by treatment of human cells with (+/-)-anti-dibenzo[a,l]pyrene-11,12-diol-13,14-epoxide. Chem Res Toxicol 2009; 22:81-9. [PMID: 19053321 DOI: 10.1021/tx8001675] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Dibenzo[a,l]pyrene (DBP) is the most potent tumor initiating polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon tested to date in rodent tumor models. To investigate how DBP adduct formation and removal might influence carcinogenesis, we have examined the effects of treatment of several nucleotide excision repair (NER)-proficient (NER(+)) and -deficient (NER(-)) cell lines with the carcinogenic metabolite (+/-)-anti-DBP-11,12-diol-13,14-epoxide (DBPDE). The treatment of NER(-) cells with (+/-)-anti-DBPDE for 0.5, 1, or 2 h yielded similar total adduct levels, indicating that adduct formation was essentially complete during a 2 h treatment period with no additional adducts produced after replacement of media. In all cell lines, treatment with (+/-)-anti-DBPDE generated five major and at least two minor adducts that were chromatographically identical to those formed by direct treatment of 3'-GMP and 3'-AMP with (+/-)-anti-DBPDE. When adduct levels were assessed in NER(-) cells, the number of adducts/10(9) nucleotides decreased over time, suggesting that DNA replication was ongoing, so we incorporated a normalization strategy based on DNA synthesis. This strategy indicated that DBPDE-DNA adduct levels in NER(-) cells are stable over time. After normalization for DNA synthesis in the NER(+) cells, our data indicated that three adducts showed biphasic repair kinetics. A faster rate of removal was observed during the first 6 h following DBPDE removal followed by a slower rate for up to 34 h. Importantly, two of the major guanine adducts were particularly refractory to removal in the NER(+) cells. Our results suggest that the extreme carcinogenicity of DBPDE may result from the ability of a substantial percentage of two structurally distinct DBPDE-DNA adducts to escape repair.
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- Wendy A Spencer
- Graduate Center for Toxicology, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky 40536, USA
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Printz M, Richert C. Pyrenylmethyldeoxyadenosine: A 3′-Cap for Universal DNA Hybridization Probes. Chemistry 2009; 15:3390-402. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.200801587] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Moser A, Guza R, Tretyakova N, York DM. Density Functional Study of the Influence of C5 Cytosine Substitution in Base Pairs with Guanine. Theor Chem Acc 2009; 122:179-188. [PMID: 19890472 PMCID: PMC2771868 DOI: 10.1007/s00214-008-0497-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The present study employs density-functional electronic structure methods to investigate the effect of chemical modification at the C5 position of cytosine. A series of experimentally motivated chemical modifications are considered, including alkyl, halogen, aromatic, fused ring, and strong σ and π withdrawing functional groups. The effect of these modifications on cytosine geometry, electronic structure, proton affinities, gas phase basicities, cytosine-guanine base-pair hydrogen bond network and corresponding nucleophilicity at guanine are examined. Ultimately, these results play a part in dissecting the effect of endogenous cytosine methylation on the reactivity of neighboring guanine toward carcinogens and DNA alkylating agents.
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- Adam Moser
- Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant St. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455–0431, USA
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and the Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and the Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant St. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455–0431, USA. E-mail:
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Ogino M, Taya Y, Fujimoto K. Highly selective detection of 5-methylcytosine using photochemical ligation. Chem Commun (Camb) 2008:5996-8. [PMID: 19030564 DOI: 10.1039/b813677g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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We report the nonenzymatic detection of 5-methylcytosine by using template-directed photoligation through 5-cyanovinyl-2'-deoxyuridine ((C)U) with high selectivity and present a new methylation detection method using a photoligation-based DNA chip assay.
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- Masayuki Ogino
- Japan Science and Technology Agency, Ishikawa, 923-1211, Japan
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Minoshima M, Bando T, Sasaki S, Fujimoto J, Sugiyama H. Pyrrole-imidazole hairpin polyamides with high affinity at 5'-CGCG-3' DNA sequence; influence of cytosine methylation on binding. Nucleic Acids Res 2008; 36:2889-94. [PMID: 18385159 PMCID: PMC2396430 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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To investigate the binding of 5′–CpG–3′ sequences by small molecules, two pyrrole (Py)–imidazole (Im) hairpin polyamides, PyImPyIm–γ–PyImPyIm–β–Dp (1) and PyIm–β–Im–γ–PyIm–β–Im–β–Dp (2), which recognize the sequence 5′–CGCG–3′, were synthesized. The binding affinities of the 5′–CGCG–3′ sequence to the Py–Im hairpin polyamides were measured by surface plasmon resonance (SPR) analysis. SPR data revealed that dissociation equilibrium constants (Kd) of polyamides 1 and 2 were 1.1 (± 0.3) × 10–6 M and 1.7 (± 0.4) × 10–8 M, respectively. Polyamide 2 possesses great binding affinity for this sequence, 65-fold higher than polyamide 1. Moreover, when all cytosines in 5′–CpGpCpG–3′ were replaced with 5-methylcytosines (mCs), the Kd value of polyamide 2 increased to 5.8 (± 0.7) × 10–9 (M), which indicated about 3-fold higher binding than the unmethylated 5′–CGCG–3′ sequence. These results suggest that polyamide 2 would be suitable to target CpG-rich sequences in the genome.
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- Masafumi Minoshima
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-oiwakecho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan
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Sadikovic B, Andrews J, Carter D, Robinson J, Rodenhiser DI. Genome-wide H3K9 histone acetylation profiles are altered in benzopyrene-treated MCF7 breast cancer cells. J Biol Chem 2007; 283:4051-60. [PMID: 18065415 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m707506200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Current toxicogenomic approaches generate transcriptional profiles that can identify functional gene expression signatures of environmental toxicants. However, the intricate processes governing transcription are overlaid with a complex set of molecular instructions involving epigenetic modifications. These commands regulate both gene expression and chromatin organization through coordinated sets of histone modifications and heritable DNA methylation patterns. Although the effects of specific environmental toxicants on gene expression are the subject of much study, the epigenetic effects of such compounds are poorly understood. Here we have used human promoter tiling arrays along with chromatin immunoprecipitation to identify changes in histone acetylation profiles because of chemical exposure. Chromatin from cells exposed to the polyaromatic hydrocarbon benzo(a)pyrene was immunoprecipitated with antibodies against acetylated histones. Affymetrix promoter tiling microarrays were probed to generate epigenomic profiles of hypo- and hyperacetylated chromatin localized to gene promoter regions. Statistical analyses, data mining, and expression studies revealed that treated cells possessed differentially acetylated gene promoter regions and gene-specific expression changes. This chromatin immunoprecipitation-on-chip approach permits genome-wide profiling of histone acetylation patterns that can identify chromatin-related signatures of environmental toxicants and potentially determine the molecular pathways these changes target. This approach also has potential applications for profiling histone modifications and DNA methylation changes during embryonic development, in cancer biology, and in the development and assessment of cancer therapeutics.
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- Bekim Sadikovic
- London Regional Cancer Program, London Health Sciences Centre, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
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Bauer J, Xing G, Yagi H, Sayer JM, Jerina DM, Ling H. A structural gap in Dpo4 supports mutagenic bypass of a major benzo[a]pyrene dG adduct in DNA through template misalignment. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2007; 104:14905-10. [PMID: 17848527 PMCID: PMC1986586 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0700717104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Erroneous replication of lesions in DNA by DNA polymerases leads to elevated mutagenesis. To understand the molecular basis of DNA damage-induced mutagenesis, we have determined the x-ray structures of the Y-family polymerase, Dpo4, in complex with a DNA substrate containing a bulky DNA lesion and incoming nucleotides. The DNA lesion is derived from an environmentally widespread carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, benzo[a]pyrene (BP). The potent carcinogen BP is metabolized to diol epoxides that form covalent adducts with cellular DNA. In the present study, the major BP diol epoxide adduct in DNA, BP-N(2)-deoxyguanosine (BP-dG), was placed at a template-primer junction. Three ternary complexes reveal replication blockage, extension past a mismatched lesion, and a -1 frameshift mutation. In the productive structures, the bulky adduct is flipped/looped out of the DNA helix into a structural gap between the little finger and core domains. Sequestering of the hydrophobic BP adduct in this new substrate-binding site permits the DNA to exhibit normal geometry for primer extension. Extrusion of the lesion by template misalignment allows the base 5' to the adduct to serve as the template, resulting in a -1 frameshift. Subsequent strand realignment produces a mismatched base opposite the lesion. These structural observations, in combination with replication and mutagenesis data, suggest a model in which the additional substrate-binding site stabilizes the extrahelical nucleotide for lesion bypass and generation of base substitutions and -1 frameshift mutations.
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- Jacob Bauer
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada N6A 5C1; and
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada N6A 5C1; and
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- Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD 20892
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- Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD 20892
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- Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD 20892
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada N6A 5C1; and
- To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail:
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Zhang N, Lin Y, Xiao Z, Jones GB, Goldberg IH. Solution structure of a designed spirocyclic helical ligand binding at a two-base bulge site in DNA. Biochemistry 2007; 46:4793-803. [PMID: 17388570 PMCID: PMC2569200 DOI: 10.1021/bi602599d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The solution structure of the complex formed between an oligodeoxynucleotide containing a two-base bulge (5'-CCATCGTCTACCTTTGGTAGGATGG) and SCA-alpha2, a designed spirocyclic helical molecule, has been elucidated. SCA-alpha2, a close mimic of the metabolite, NCSi-gb, of the DNA bulge-specific enediyne antibiotic neocarzinostatin, differs in possessing a more stable spirocyclic ring system and in lacking certain bulky groupings that compromise bulged DNA binding. This study provides a detailed comparison of the binding modes of the two complexes and provides new insights into the importance of shape and space, as opposed to simple nucleotide sequence, in complex formation at the bulge site. The two rigidly held aromatic rings of SCA-alpha2 form a right-handed helical molecular wedge that specifically penetrates the bulge-binding pocket and immobilizes the two bulge residues (GT), which point toward the minor groove, rather than the major groove as in the NCSi-gb.bulged DNA complex. The ligand aromatic ring systems stack on the DNA bulge-flanking base pairs that define the long sides of the triangular prism binding pocket. Like NCSi-gb, SCA-alpha2 possesses the natural N-methylfuranose moiety, alpha-linked to the benzindanol (BI) moiety. The amino sugar anchors in the major groove of the DNA and points toward the 3'-bulge-flanking base pair. Lacking the bulky cyclocarbonate of NCSi-gb, the SCA-alpha2.bulged DNA complex has a much less twisted and buckled 3'-bulge-flanking base pair (dG20.dC8), and the G20 residue stacks directly above the BI ring platform. Also, the absence of the methyl group and the free rotation of the methoxy group on the dihydronaphthanone (NA) moiety of SCA-alpha2 allow better stacking geometry of the NA ring above the 5'-bulge-flanking dG21.dC5 base pair. These and other considerations help to explain why NCSi-gb binds very poorly to bulged RNA and are consistent with the recent observation of good binding with SCA-alpha2. Thus, although the two complexes resemble each other closely, they differ in important local environmental details. SCA-alpha2 has a better hand-in-glove fit at the bulge site, making it an ideal platform for the placement of moieties that can react covalently with the DNA and for generating congeners specific for bulges in RNA.
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- Na Zhang
- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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- Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Laboratories, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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- Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Laboratories, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
- To whom correspondence should be addressed: Irving H. Goldberg, Telephone: (617) 432−1787; Fax: (617) 432−0471, E-mail:
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Rodríguez FA, Cai Y, Lin C, Tang Y, Kolbanovskiy A, Amin S, Patel DJ, Broyde S, Geacintov NE. Exocyclic amino groups of flanking guanines govern sequence-dependent adduct conformations and local structural distortions for minor groove-aligned benzo[a]pyrenyl-guanine lesions in a GG mutation hotspot context. Nucleic Acids Res 2007; 35:1555-68. [PMID: 17287290 PMCID: PMC1865068 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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The environmental carcinogen benzo[a]pyrene (BP) is metabolized to reactive diol epoxides that bind to cellular DNA by predominantly forming N2-guanine adducts (G*). Mutation hotspots for these adducts are frequently found in 5′- ··· GG ··· dinucleotide sequences, but their origins are poorly understood. Here we used high resolution NMR and molecular dynamics simulations to investigate differences in G* adduct conformations in 5′- ··· CG*GC ··· and 5′- ··· CGG* C··· sequence contexts in otherwise identical 12-mer duplexes. The BP rings are positioned 5′ along the modified strand in the minor groove in both cases. However, subtle orientational differences cause strong distinctions in structural distortions of the DNA duplexes, because the exocyclic amino groups of flanking guanines on both strands compete for space with the BP rings in the minor groove, acting as guideposts for placement of the BP. In the 5′- ··· CGG* C ··· case, the 5′-flanking G · C base pair is severely untwisted, concomitant with a bend deduced from electrophoretic mobility. In the 5′- ··· CG*GC ··· context, there is no untwisting, but there is significant destabilization of the 5′-flanking Watson–Crick base pair. The minor groove width opens near the lesion in both cases, but more for 5′- ··· CGG*C···. Differential sequence-dependent removal rates of this lesion result and may contribute to the mutation hotspot phenomenon.
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- Fabián A. Rodríguez
- Department of Chemistry and Biology, New York University, New York, NY, USA, Department of Pharmacology, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA and Structural Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biology, New York University, New York, NY, USA, Department of Pharmacology, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA and Structural Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biology, New York University, New York, NY, USA, Department of Pharmacology, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA and Structural Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biology, New York University, New York, NY, USA, Department of Pharmacology, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA and Structural Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biology, New York University, New York, NY, USA, Department of Pharmacology, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA and Structural Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biology, New York University, New York, NY, USA, Department of Pharmacology, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA and Structural Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biology, New York University, New York, NY, USA, Department of Pharmacology, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA and Structural Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biology, New York University, New York, NY, USA, Department of Pharmacology, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA and Structural Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biology, New York University, New York, NY, USA, Department of Pharmacology, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA and Structural Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
- *To whom correspondence should be addressed. +1 212 998 8407+1 212 998 8421
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Subach OM, Baskunov VB, Darii MV, Maltseva DV, Alexandrov DA, Kirsanova OV, Kolbanovskiy A, Kolbanovskiy M, Johnson F, Bonala R, Geacintov NE, Gromova ES. Impact of benzo[a]pyrene-2'-deoxyguanosine lesions on methylation of DNA by SssI and HhaI DNA methyltransferases. Biochemistry 2006; 45:6142-59. [PMID: 16681387 DOI: 10.1021/bi0511639] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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DNA damage caused by the binding of the tumorigen 7R,8S-diol 9S,10R-epoxide (B[a]PDE), a metabolite of bezo[a]pyrene, to guanine in CpG dinucleotide sequences could affect DNA methylation and, thus, represent a potential epigenetic mechanism of chemical carcinogenesis. In this work, we investigated the impact of stereoisomeric (+)- and (-)-trans-anti-B[a]P-N(2)-dG adducts (B(+) and B(-)) on DNA methylation by prokaryotic DNA methyltransferases M.SssI and M.HhaI. These two methyltransferases recognize CpG and GCGC sequences, respectively, and transfer a methyl group to the C5 atom of cytosine (C). A series of 18-mer unmethylated or hemimethylated oligodeoxynucleotide duplexes containing trans-anti-B[a]P-N(2)-dG adducts was generated. The B(+) or B(-) residues were introduced either 5' or 3' adjacent or opposite to the target 2'-deoxycytidines. The B[a]PDE lesions practically produced no effect on M.SssI binding to DNA but reduced M.HhaI binding by 1-2 orders of magnitude. In most cases, the benzo[a]pyrenyl residues decreased the methylation efficiency of hemimethylated and unmethylated DNA by M.SssI and M.HhaI. An absence of the methylation of hemimethylated duplexes was observed when either the (+)- or the (-)-trans-anti-B[a]P-N(2)-dG adduct was positioned 5' to the target dC. The effects observed may be related to the minor groove conformation of the bulky benzo[a]pyrenyl residue and to a perturbation of the normal contacts of the methyltransferase catalytic loop with the B[a]PDE-modified DNA. Our results indicate that a trans-anti-B[a]P-N(2)-dG lesion flanking a target dC in the CpG dinucleotide sequence on its 5'-side has a greater adverse impact on methylation than the same lesion when it is 3' adjacent or opposite to the target dC.
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- Oksana M Subach
- Chemistry Department, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119992, Russia
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Ding J, Zhang R, Li J, Xue C, Huang C. Involvement of nuclear factor of activated T cells 3 (NFAT3) in cyclin D1 induction by B[a]PDE or B[a]PDE and ionizing radiation in mouse epidermal Cl 41 cells. Mol Cell Biochem 2006; 287:117-25. [PMID: 16645724 DOI: 10.1007/s11010-005-9087-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2005] [Accepted: 11/22/2005] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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The results from animal studies have shown that mouse skin is highly susceptible to both ionizing radiation and benzo[a]pyrene-7,8-diol-9,10-epoxide (B[a]PDE). Previous studies have also indicated that cyclin D1 plays a crucial role in controlling cell proliferation and tumorigenesis. We, therefore, investigated here the effect of ionizing radiation and B[a]PDE on cyclin D1 transcription and potential involvement of NFAT3 in regulation of cyclin D1 transcription in mouse epidermal Cl 41 cells. We found that B[a]PDE exposure induced a high level of NFAT activation and cyclin D1 transcription in mouse epidermal Cl 41 cells. Ionizing radiation exhibited an enhancement for NFAT activation and cyclin D1 induction by B[a]PDE, even though ionizing radiation by itself had only a marginal effect. By stably knockdown of NFAT3 protein expression using specific NFAT3 small interfering RNA (siRNA), we found that cyclin D1 induction by B[a]PDE or B[a]PDE plus ionizing radiation was dramatically impaired. These results indicate that ionizing radiation is able to enhance cyclin D1 transcription induced by B[a]PDE, and NFAT3 is involved in the regulation of cyclin D1 transcription by B[a]PDE or B[a]PDE plus ionizing radiation.
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- Jin Ding
- Department of Etiology, Fourth Military Medical University, 17 Chunglexi Road, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 770032, China
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- Department of Pharmacological Sciences, State University of New York at Stony Brook, School of Medicine, 11794-8651, USA
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Karpinets TV, Foy BD. Tumorigenesis: the adaptation of mammalian cells to sustained stress environment by epigenetic alterations and succeeding matched mutations. Carcinogenesis 2005; 26:1323-34. [PMID: 15802302 DOI: 10.1093/carcin/bgi079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Recent studies indicate that during tumorigenic transformations, cells may generate mutations by themselves as a result of error-prone cell division with participation of error-prone polymerases and aberrant mitosis. These mechanisms may be activated in cells by continuing proliferative and survival signaling in a sustained stress environment (SSE). The paper hypothesizes that long-term exposure to this signaling epigenetically reprograms the genome of some cells and, in addition, leads to their senescence. The epigenetic reprogramming results in: (i) hypermethylation of tumor-suppressor genes involved in the onset of cell-cycle arrest, apoptosis and DNA repair; (ii) hypomethylation of proto-oncogenes associated with persistent proliferative activity; and (iii) the global demethylation of the genome and activation of DNA repeats. These epigenetic changes in the proliferating cells associate with their replicative senescence and allow the reprogrammed senescent cells to overcome the cell-cycle arrest and to activate error-prone replications. It is hypothesized that the generation of mutations in the error-prone replications of the epigenetically reprogrammed cells is not random. The mutations match epigenetic alterations in the cellular genome, namely gain of function mutations in the case of hypomethylation and loss of functions in the case of hypermethylation. In addition, continuing proliferation of the cells imposed by signaling in SSE speeds up the natural selection of the mutant cells favoring the survival of the cells with mutations that are beneficial in the environment. In this way, a stress-induced replication of the cells epigenetically reprograms their genome for quick adaptation to stressful environments providing an increased rate of mutations, epigenetic tags to beneficial mutations and quick selection process. In combination, these processes drive the origin of the transformed mammalian cells, cancer development and progression. Support from genomic, biochemical and medical studies for the proposed hypothesis, and its implementations are discussed.
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- Tatiana V Karpinets
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Tennessee, 2431 Center Drive Knoxville, TN 37996-4500, USA.
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Ma H, Zhang W, Song R, Chen H, Sheng G, Zhou Z, Fu J. Characterization of methylated and unmethlyated CpG-ODNs by electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY (CHICHESTER, ENGLAND) 2005; 11:581-9. [PMID: 16322665 DOI: 10.1255/ejms.774] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Methylated and unmethylated CpG-ODNs at A-rich, C-rich, G-rich and T-rich conditions were characterized by electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry (ESI-MS/MS). The methylted site could be confirmed by comparison of the MS/MS spectra of methylated and unmethylated CpG-ODNs. The fragmentation patterns of the CpG-ODNs were not influenced by the presence of the methyl group but significant effects were observed for nucleobase identities and parent ion charges. The cleavage at guanine was the most facile while that at thymine was the least facile. With the increase of the parent ions charge states, the major dissociation behaviors changed from the middle to the 3' and 5' termini of the sequence.
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- Huimin Ma
- State Key Laboratory of Organic Geochemistry, Guangzhou Research Center of Mass Spectrometry, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China
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