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Nakao T, Takasu R, Tsuchida H, Saito M, Majima T. Delayed fragmentation of isolated nucleobases induced by MeV ions. J Chem Phys 2024; 161:054302. [PMID: 39087542 DOI: 10.1063/5.0215222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2024] [Accepted: 07/17/2024] [Indexed: 08/02/2024] Open
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We evaluated the dissociation of isolated gas-phase nucleobase molecules induced by mega electron volt (MeV)-energy ions to gain fundamental insights into the reactions of nucleobases upon fast ion irradiation. We studied five nucleobase molecules-adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil-as gas-phase targets. We compared the fragmentation patterns obtained from carbon ion impacts with those obtained from proton impacts to clarify the effect of heavy ion irradiation. We also compared the results with electron impact and photoionization results. In addition, we identified several delayed fragmentation pathways by analyzing the correlation between fragment pairs generated from singly and doubly charged intermediate ions. To determine the lifetimes of delayed fragmentation from singly charged intermediate ions, we evaluated the detection efficiencies of the microchannel plate detector for the neutral fragment HCN as a function of kinetic energy using a new methodology. As the first demonstration of this method, we estimated the lifetimes of C5H5N5+ generated by 1.2-MeV C+ and 0.5-MeV H+ collisions to be 0.87 ± 0.43 and 0.67 ± 0.09 µs, respectively. These lifetimes were approximately one order of magnitude longer than those of the doubly charged intermediate ion C5H5N52+.
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- T Nakao
- Department of Nuclear Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto 615-8540, Japan
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- Department of Nuclear Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto 615-8540, Japan
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- Department of Nuclear Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto 615-8540, Japan
- Quantum Science and Engineering Center, Kyoto University, Uji 611-0011, Japan
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- Department of Nuclear Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto 615-8540, Japan
- Quantum Science and Engineering Center, Kyoto University, Uji 611-0011, Japan
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- Department of Nuclear Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto 615-8540, Japan
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Guo J, Koopmeiners JS, Walmsley SJ, Villalta PW, Yao L, Murugan P, Tejpaul R, Weight CJ, Turesky RJ. The Cooked Meat Carcinogen 2-Amino-1-methyl-6-phenylimidazo[4,5- b]pyridine Hair Dosimeter, DNA Adductomics Discovery, and Associations with Prostate Cancer Pathology Biomarkers. Chem Res Toxicol 2022; 35:703-730. [PMID: 35446561 PMCID: PMC9148444 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrestox.2c00012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Well-done cooked red meat consumption is linked to aggressive prostate cancer (PC) risk. Identifying mutation-inducing DNA adducts in the prostate genome can advance our understanding of chemicals in meat that may contribute to PC. 2-Amino-1-methyl-6-phenylimidazo[4,5-b]pyridine (PhIP), a heterocyclic aromatic amine (HAA) formed in cooked meat, is a potential human prostate carcinogen. PhIP was measured in the hair of PC patients undergoing prostatectomy, bladder cancer patients under treatment for cystoprostatectomy, and patients treated for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). PhIP hair levels were above the quantification limit in 123 of 205 subjects. When dichotomizing prostate pathology biomarkers, the geometric mean PhIP hair levels were higher in patients with intermediate and elevated-risk prostate-specific antigen values than lower-risk values <4 ng/mL (p = 0.03). PhIP hair levels were also higher in patients with intermediate and high-risk Gleason scores ≥7 compared to lower-risk Gleason score 6 and BPH patients (p = 0.02). PC patients undergoing prostatectomy had higher PhIP hair levels than cystoprostatectomy or BPH patients (p = 0.02). PhIP-DNA adducts were detected in 9.4% of the patients assayed; however, DNA adducts of other carcinogenic HAAs, and benzo[a]pyrene formed in cooked meat, were not detected. Prostate specimens were also screened for 10 oxidative stress-associated lipid peroxidation (LPO) DNA adducts. Acrolein 1,N2-propano-2'-deoxyguanosine adducts were detected in 54.5% of the patients; other LPO adducts were infrequently detected. Acrolein adducts were not associated with prostate pathology biomarkers, although DNA adductomic profiles differed between PC patients with low and high-grade Gleason scores. Many DNA adducts are of unknown origin; however, dG adducts of formaldehyde and a series of purported 4-hydroxy-2-alkenals were detected at higher abundance in a subset of patients with elevated Gleason scores. The PhIP hair biomarker and DNA adductomics data support the paradigm of well-done cooked meat and oxidative stress in aggressive PC risk.
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- Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, United States
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Li W, Kavatsyuk O, Douma W, Wang X, Hoekstra R, Mayer D, Robinson MS, Gühr M, Lalande M, Abdelmouleh M, Ryszka M, Poully JC, Schlathölter T. Multiple valence electron detachment following Auger decay of inner-shell vacancies in gas-phase DNA. Chem Sci 2021; 12:13177-13186. [PMID: 34745549 PMCID: PMC8513815 DOI: 10.1039/d1sc02885e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2021] [Accepted: 09/10/2021] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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We have studied soft X-ray photoabsorption in the doubly deprotonated gas-phase oligonucleotide [dTGGGGT–2H]2−. The dominating decay mechanism of the X-ray induced inner shell vacancy was found to be Auger decay with detachment of at least three electrons, leading to charge reversal of the anionic precursor and the formation of positively charged photofragment ions. The same process is observed in heavy ion (12 MeV C4+) collisions with [dTGGGGT–2H]2− where inner shell vacancies are generated as well, but with smaller probability. Auger decay of a single K-vacancy in DNA, followed by detachment of three or more low energy electrons instead of a single high energy electron has profound implications for DNA damage and damage modelling. The production of three low kinetic energy electrons with short mean free path instead of one high kinetic energy electron with long mean free path implies that electron-induced DNA damage will be much more localized around the initial K-shell vacancy. The fragmentation channels, triggered by triple electron detachment Auger decay are predominantly related to protonated guanine base loss and even loss of protonated guanine dimers is tentatively observed. The fragmentation is not a consequence of the initial K-shell vacancy but purely due to multiple detachment of valence electrons, as a very similar positive ion fragmentation pattern is observed in femtosecond laser-induced dissociation experiments. A K-shell vacancy in DNA that is induced by a (therapeutically relevant) soft X-ray of MeV carbon ion, decays by Auger processes accompanied by emission of at least 3 low energy electrons.![]()
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- Wen Li
- University of Groningen, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials Nijenborgh 4 9747AG Groningen Netherlands
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- University College Groningen Hoendiep 23/24 9718BG Groningen Netherlands
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- University of Groningen, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials Nijenborgh 4 9747AG Groningen Netherlands
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- University of Groningen, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials Nijenborgh 4 9747AG Groningen Netherlands
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- University of Groningen, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials Nijenborgh 4 9747AG Groningen Netherlands
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- Universität Potsdam, Institut für Physik und Astronomie 14476 Potsdam Germany
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- Universität Potsdam, Institut für Physik und Astronomie 14476 Potsdam Germany.,Centre for Free Electron Lasers (CFEL), DESY Notkestraße 85 22607 Hamburg Germany
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- Universität Potsdam, Institut für Physik und Astronomie 14476 Potsdam Germany
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- CIMAP UMR 6252 (CEA/CNRS/ENSICAEN/Université de Caen Normandie) Boulevard Becquerel 14070 Caen Cedex 5 France
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- CIMAP UMR 6252 (CEA/CNRS/ENSICAEN/Université de Caen Normandie) Boulevard Becquerel 14070 Caen Cedex 5 France
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- CIMAP UMR 6252 (CEA/CNRS/ENSICAEN/Université de Caen Normandie) Boulevard Becquerel 14070 Caen Cedex 5 France
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- CIMAP UMR 6252 (CEA/CNRS/ENSICAEN/Université de Caen Normandie) Boulevard Becquerel 14070 Caen Cedex 5 France
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- University of Groningen, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials Nijenborgh 4 9747AG Groningen Netherlands
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Walmsley SJ, Guo J, Murugan P, Weight CJ, Wang J, Villalta PW, Turesky RJ. Comprehensive Analysis of DNA Adducts Using Data-Independent wSIM/MS 2 Acquisition and wSIM-City. Anal Chem 2021; 93:6491-6500. [PMID: 33844920 PMCID: PMC8675643 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.1c00362] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A novel software has been created to comprehensively characterize covalent modifications of DNA through mass spectral analysis of enzymatically hydrolyzed DNA using the neutral loss of 2'-deoxyribose, a nearly universal MS2 fragmentation process of protonated 2'-deoxyribonucleosides. These covalent modifications termed DNA adducts form through xenobiotic exposures or by reaction with endogenous electrophiles and can induce mutations during cell division and initiate carcinogenesis. DNA adducts are typically present at trace levels in the human genome, requiring a very sensitive and comprehensive data acquisition and analysis method. Our software, wSIM-City, was created to process mass spectral data acquired by a wide selected ion monitoring (wSIM) with gas-phase fractionation and coupled to wide MS2 fragmentation. This untargeted approach can detect DNA adducts at trace levels as low as 1.5 adducts per 109 nucleotides. This level of sensitivity is sufficient for comprehensive analysis and characterization of DNA modifications in human specimens.
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- Scott J Walmsley
- Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, Minnesota, United States
- Institute of Health Informatics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, Minnesota, United States
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- Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, Minnesota, United States
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, Minnesota, United States
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, Minnesota, United States
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- Glickman Urologic and Kidney Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland 44125, Ohio, United States
- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland 44106, Ohio, United States
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- Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, Minnesota, United States
- Institute of Health Informatics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, Minnesota, United States
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- Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, Minnesota, United States
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, Minnesota, United States
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- Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, Minnesota, United States
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, Minnesota, United States
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Identification of New Markers of Alcohol-Derived DNA Damage in Humans. Biomolecules 2021; 11:biom11030366. [PMID: 33673538 PMCID: PMC7997542 DOI: 10.3390/biom11030366] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2021] [Revised: 02/16/2021] [Accepted: 02/21/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Alcohol consumption is a risk factor for the development of several cancers, including those of the head and neck and the esophagus. The underlying mechanisms of alcohol-induced carcinogenesis remain unclear; however, at these sites, alcohol-derived acetaldehyde seems to play a major role. By reacting with DNA, acetaldehyde generates covalent modifications (adducts) that can lead to mutations. Previous studies have shown a dose dependence between levels of a major acetaldehyde-derived DNA adduct and alcohol exposure in oral-cell DNA. The goal of this study was to optimize a mass spectrometry (MS)-based DNA adductomic approach to screen for all acetaldehyde-derived DNA adducts to more comprehensively characterize the genotoxic effects of acetaldehyde in humans. A high-resolution/-accurate-mass data-dependent constant-neutral-loss-MS3 methodology was developed to profile acetaldehyde-DNA adducts in purified DNA. This resulted in the identification of 22 DNA adducts. In addition to the expected N2-ethyldeoxyguanosine (after NaBH3CN reduction), two previously unreported adducts showed prominent signals in the mass spectra. MSn fragmentation spectra and accurate mass were used to hypothesize the structure of the two new adducts, which were then identified as N6-ethyldeoxyadenosine and N4-ethyldeoxycytidine by comparison with synthesized standards. These adducts were quantified in DNA isolated from oral cells collected from volunteers exposed to alcohol, revealing a significant increase after the exposure. In addition, 17 of the adducts identified in vitro were detected in these samples confirming our ability to more comprehensively characterize the DNA damage deriving from alcohol exposures.
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Matsui T, Yamada N, Kuno H, Kanaly RA. Characterization of N-(2,6-dimethylphenyl)hydroxylamine adducts of 2'-deoxyguanosine under weakly basic conditions. CHEMOSPHERE 2020; 252:126530. [PMID: 32224358 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.126530] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2019] [Revised: 03/14/2020] [Accepted: 03/16/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Aromatic amines are a class of chemical carcinogens that are activated by cytochrome P450 enzymes to form arylhydroxylamines that are conjugated to form N-acetoxyarylamines or N-sulfonyloxyarylamines. These conjugates undergo N-O bond cleavage to become reactive nitrenium ions that may form DNA adducts. Numerous studies in the past using N-acetoxyarylamines to investigate DNA adduct formation were conducted, however, less is known in regard to DNA adduct formation directly from arylhydroxylamines - especially under conditions that mimic the physiological conditions of cells such as weakly basic conditions. In this study, 2'-deoxyguanosine (dG) was exposed to N-(2,6-dimethylphenyl)hydroxylamine (2,6-DMPHA) and N-phenylhydroxylamine (PHA) at pH 7.4 without enzymes and analyzed by liquid chromatography high resolution mass spectrometry (LC-HRMS). 2,6-DMPHA exposure resulted in the production of relatively low amounts of adducts however the identities of at least six different adducts that were formed through reactions with carbon, nitrogen and oxygen of 2'-deoxyguanosine were proposed based upon different analytical approaches including HRMS CID fragmentation and NMR analyses. Contrastively, PHA exposure under identical conditions resulted in one adduct at the C8 position. It was concluded from these results and results of theoretical calculations that nitrenium ions produced from 2,6-DMPHA were relatively more stable resulting in longer nitrenium ion lifetimes which ultimately led to greater potential for 2,6-DMPHA nitrenium ions to react with multiple sites on dG.
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- Takuya Matsui
- Department of Life and Environmental System Science, Graduate School of Nanobiosciences, Yokohama City University, 22-2 Seto, Kanazawa, Kanagawa, Yokohama, 236-0027, Japan; Toxicology Research Laboratories, Central Pharmaceutical Research Institute Japan Tobacco Inc., 1-13-2 Fukuura, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama-city, Kanagawa, 236-0004, Japan
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- Toxicology Research Laboratories, Central Pharmaceutical Research Institute Japan Tobacco Inc., 1-13-2 Fukuura, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama-city, Kanagawa, 236-0004, Japan
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- Toxicology Research Laboratories, Central Pharmaceutical Research Institute Japan Tobacco Inc., 1-13-2 Fukuura, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama-city, Kanagawa, 236-0004, Japan
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- Department of Life and Environmental System Science, Graduate School of Nanobiosciences, Yokohama City University, 22-2 Seto, Kanazawa, Kanagawa, Yokohama, 236-0027, Japan.
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Prasanthkumar KP, Rayaroth MP, Alvarez-Idaboy JR. Insights into the Mechanism of Hydroxyl Radical Mediated Oxidations of 2-Aminopurine: A Computational and Sonochemical Product Analysis Study. J Phys Chem B 2020; 124:6245-6256. [PMID: 32600047 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c03974] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Mechanistic details of hydroxyl radical (•OH) mediated oxidations of 2-aminopurine (2AP) in the aqueous phase have been established in this study via a combination of DFT calculations (at the M05-2X/6-311+G(d,p) level with SMD solvation) and sonochemical end product analyses by the LC-Q-TOF-MS/MS method. Rate constants and branching ratios for single electron transfer (SET), two H-abstractions (HA), and seven radical adduct formation (RAF) reactions of •OH with 2AP were evaluated using transition state theory (TST). The RAF at the C8-position of 2AP is noted as the dominant process, which constitutes almost 46.1% of overall reaction routes. The SET mechanism accounts for the second major pathway (39.6%) followed by RAF at the C6-position (14.3%). Formations of 14 transformation products (TPs, i.e., the nonradical end products) in the sonochemical reactions of •OH with 2AP have been identified by means of the LC-Q-TOF-MS/MS technique. Among the 14 TPs (designated as TP1 to TP14), the lowest and highest mass to charge ratio (m/z) were respectively observed at 129 and 269 in ESI-MS positive ionization mode. The identities of all TPs have been proposed on the basis of elemental composition of [M + H]+ ions and their respective MS-MS fragmentation pattern. Four TPs (including guanine) are considered as obtained directly from primary transients by radical elimination, radical-radical combination/disproportionation reactions. The remaining 10 TPs are postulated as a result of successive self- and/or cross-reactions of primary transients/four first generation TPs with reagents such as •OH, O2, and solvent H2O molecules.
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- Kavanal P Prasanthkumar
- Post Graduate and Research Department of Chemistry, Maharaja's College, Ernakulam, Kerala 682011, India
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- School of Environmental Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala 686560, India
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- Departamento de Física y Química Teórica, Facultad de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México D. F., 04510, México
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Li Y, Zhou J, Yuan G. Discrimination of common isomerides of methyl nucleosides by collision-induced dissociation tandem mass spectrometry. JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY : JMS 2020; 56:e4594. [PMID: 32639684 DOI: 10.1002/jms.4594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2020] [Revised: 06/05/2020] [Accepted: 06/14/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The methyl-modified nucleosides (methyladenosine, methylguanosine, methylcytidine, and methyluridine) occur widely in nucleic acids and serve as biomarkers for a variety of types of diseases. Their isomers have the same parent ions in MS spectra and need further discrimination. Here, electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) coupled with collision induced dissociation (CID) was used to distinguish the common isomerides of methyl-nucleosides. The various fragmentation patterns had been discussed in comparison of the different methyl modified nucleosides and were studied as a function of normalized collision energy. Then, structurally relevant fragments were obtained to efficiently identify characterization of methyl-nucleoside isomerides by collision induced dissociation. Therefore, this study provides a promising method using CID-MS for the discrimination of the isomeric methyl nucleosides, which could be useful to quantitative study of methyl nucleosides and detect of unknown methyl nucleosides.
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- Yanru Li
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Analytical Instrumentation Center, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
- School of Environment Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Analytical Instrumentation Center, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Analytical Instrumentation Center, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
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Reim A, Ackermann R, Font-Mateu J, Kammel R, Beato M, Nolte S, Mann M, Russmann C, Wierer M. Atomic-resolution mapping of transcription factor-DNA interactions by femtosecond laser crosslinking and mass spectrometry. Nat Commun 2020; 11:3019. [PMID: 32541649 PMCID: PMC7295792 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16837-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2019] [Accepted: 05/27/2020] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Transcription factors (TFs) regulate target genes by specific interactions with DNA sequences. Detecting and understanding these interactions at the molecular level is of fundamental importance in biological and clinical contexts. Crosslinking mass spectrometry is a powerful tool to assist the structure prediction of protein complexes but has been limited to the study of protein-protein and protein-RNA interactions. Here, we present a femtosecond laser-induced crosslinking mass spectrometry (fliX-MS) workflow, which allows the mapping of protein-DNA contacts at single nucleotide and up to single amino acid resolution. Applied to recombinant histone octamers, NF1, and TBP in complex with DNA, our method is highly specific for the mapping of DNA binding domains. Identified crosslinks are in close agreement with previous biochemical data on DNA binding and mostly fit known complex structures. Applying fliX-MS to cells identifies several bona fide crosslinks on DNA binding domains, paving the way for future large scale ex vivo experiments.
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- Alexander Reim
- Department of Proteomics and Signal Transduction, Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Am Klopferspitz 18, 82152, Martinsried, Germany
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- Institute of Applied Physics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Albert-Einstein-Straße 15, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute of Applied Physics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Albert-Einstein-Straße 15, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003, Barcelona, Spain
- University Pompeu Fabra (UPF), 08002, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute of Applied Physics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Albert-Einstein-Straße 15, 07745, Jena, Germany
- Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Engineering (IOF), Albert-Einstein-Straße 7, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Proteomics and Signal Transduction, Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Am Klopferspitz 18, 82152, Martinsried, Germany
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- University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hildesheim/Holzminden/Goettingen (HAWK), Von-Ossietzky-Straße 99, 37085, Göttingen, Germany.
- Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
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- Department of Proteomics and Signal Transduction, Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Am Klopferspitz 18, 82152, Martinsried, Germany.
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Cui Y, Yuan J, Wang P, Wu J, Yu Y, Wang Y. Collision-Induced Dissociation Studies of Protonated Ions of Alkylated Thymidine and 2'-Deoxyguanosine. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2020; 31:927-937. [PMID: 32134268 PMCID: PMC7362892 DOI: 10.1021/jasms.9b00147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Mass spectrometry and tandem MS (MS/MS) have been widely employed for the identification and quantification of damaged nucleosides in DNA, including those induced by alkylating agents. Upon collisional activation, protonated ions of alkylated nucleosides frequently undergo facile neutral loss of a 2-deoxyribose in MS/MS, and further cleavage of the resulting protonated nucleobases in MS3 can sometimes be employed for differentiating regioisomeric alkylated DNA lesions. Herein, we investigated systematically the collision-induced dissociation (CID) of the protonated ions of O4-alkylthymidine (O4-alkyldT), O2-alkyldT, O6-alkyl-2'-deoxyguanosine (O6-alkyldG), and N2-alkyldG through MS3 analysis. The MS3 of O2- and O4-MedT exhibit different fragmentation patterns from each other and from other O2- and O4-alkyldT adducts carrying larger alkyl groups. Meanwhile, elimination of alkene via a six-membered ring transition state is the dominant fragmentation pathway for O2-alkyldT, O4-alkyldT, and O6-alkyldG adducts carrying larger alkyl groups, whereas O6-MedG mainly undergoes elimination of ammonia. The breakdown of N2-alkyldG is substantially influenced by the structure of the alkyl group, where the relative ease in eliminating ammonia and alkene is modulated by the chain length and branching of the alkyl groups. We also rationalize our observations with density functional theory (DFT) calculations.
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Triple quadrupole mass spectrometry comparative DNA adductomics of Hep G2 cells following exposure to safrole. Toxicol Lett 2019; 300:92-104. [DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2018.10.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2018] [Revised: 10/12/2018] [Accepted: 10/22/2018] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Lu Z, Wang Q, Wang M, Fu S, Zhang Q, Zhang Z, Zhao H, Liu Y, Huang Z, Xie Z, Yu H, Gao X. Using UHPLC Q-Trap/MS as a complementary technique to in-depth mine UPLC Q-TOF/MS data for identifying modified nucleosides in urine. J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci 2017; 1051:108-117. [PMID: 28340480 DOI: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2017.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2017] [Revised: 02/27/2017] [Accepted: 03/01/2017] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Modified nucleosides, metabolites of RNA, are potential biomarkers of cancer before the appearance of morphological abnormalities. It is of great significance to comprehensively detect and identify nucleosides in human urine for discovery of cancer biomarkers. However, the lower abundance, the greater polarity and the matrix effects make it difficult to detect urinary nucleosides. In this paper, an integrated method consisted of sample preparation followed by ultraperformance liquid chromatography quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry (UPLC Q-TOF/MS) detection and primary identification, then ultra-high performance liquid chromatography coupled with hybrid triple quadrupole linear ion trap mass spectrometer (UHPLC Q-Trap/MS) further identification and validation were introduced. Firstly, to enrich the nucleosides and eliminate the urine matrix effects, different sorbent materials of solid phase extraction (SPE) and the elution conditions were screened. Secondly, UPLC Q-TOF/MS was used to acquire mass data in MSE mode. The structural formulas of nucleosides in urine sample were primarily identified according to retention time, accurate mass precursor ions and fragment ions from in-house database and online database. Thirdly, the preliminary identified nucleoside structures lacking of characteristic fragment ions were verified by UHPLC Q-Trap/MS in multiple reaction monitoring trigger enhanced product ion scan (MRM-EPI) and neutral loss scan (NL). At last, phenylboronic acid (PBA)-based SPE was utilized due to its higher MS signal and weaker matrix effects under optimized extraction conditions. Fifty-five nucleosides were primarily identified by UPLC Q-TOF/MS, among which 50 nucleosides were confirmed by UHPLC Q-Trap/MS. Five nucleosides, namely 4',5'-didehydro-5'-deoxyadenosine, 4',5'-didehydro-5'-deoxyinosine, isonicotinamide riboside, peroxywybutosine and hydroxywybutosine, were found from urine for the first time. The results will expand the Human Metabolome Database (HMDB).
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- Zhiwei Lu
- School of Chinese Pharmacy, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, South of Wangjing Middle Ring Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100102, PR China.
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- School of Chinese Pharmacy, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, South of Wangjing Middle Ring Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100102, PR China.
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- School of Chinese Pharmacy, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, South of Wangjing Middle Ring Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100102, PR China.
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- School of Chinese Pharmacy, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, South of Wangjing Middle Ring Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100102, PR China.
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- School of Chinese Pharmacy, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, South of Wangjing Middle Ring Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100102, PR China.
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- School of Chinese Pharmacy, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, South of Wangjing Middle Ring Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100102, PR China.
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- School of Chinese Pharmacy, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, South of Wangjing Middle Ring Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100102, PR China.
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- School of Chinese Pharmacy, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, South of Wangjing Middle Ring Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100102, PR China.
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- School of Chinese Pharmacy, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, South of Wangjing Middle Ring Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100102, PR China.
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- School of Chinese Pharmacy, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, South of Wangjing Middle Ring Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100102, PR China.
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- School of Chinese Pharmacy, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, South of Wangjing Middle Ring Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100102, PR China.
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- School of Chinese Pharmacy, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, South of Wangjing Middle Ring Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100102, PR China.
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Wu RR, Chen Y, Rodgers MT. Mechanisms and energetics for N-glycosidic bond cleavage of protonated 2'-deoxyguanosine and guanosine. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:2968-80. [PMID: 26740232 DOI: 10.1039/c5cp05738h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Experimental and theoretical investigations suggest that hydrolysis of N-glycosidic bonds generally involves a concerted SN2 or a stepwise SN1 mechanism. While theoretical investigations have provided estimates for the intrinsic activation energies associated with N-glycosidic bond cleavage reactions, experimental measurements to validate the theoretical studies remain elusive. Here we report experimental investigations for N-glycosidic bond cleavage of the protonated guanine nucleosides, [dGuo+H](+) and [Guo+H](+), using threshold collision-induced dissociation (TCID) techniques. Two major dissociation pathways involving N-glycosidic bond cleavage, resulting in production of protonated guanine or the elimination of neutral guanine are observed in competition for both [dGuo+H](+) and [Guo+H](+). The detailed mechanistic pathways for the N-glycosidic bond cleavage reactions observed are mapped via electronic structure calculations. Excellent agreement between the measured and B3LYP calculated activation energies and reaction enthalpies for N-glycosidic bond cleavage of [dGuo+H](+) and [Guo+H](+) in the gas phase is found indicating that these dissociation pathways involve stepwise E1 mechanisms in analogy to the SN1 mechanisms that occur in the condensed phase. In contrast, MP2 is found to significantly overestimate the activation energies and slightly overestimate the reaction enthalpies. The 2'-hydroxyl substituent is found to stabilize the N-glycosidic bond such that [Guo+H](+) requires ∼25 kJ mol(-1) more than [dGuo+H](+) to activate the glycosidic bond.
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- R R Wu
- Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48202, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48202, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48202, USA.
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Hemeryck LY, Moore SA, Vanhaecke L. Mass Spectrometric Mapping of the DNA Adductome as a Means to Study Genotoxin Exposure, Metabolism, and Effect. Anal Chem 2016; 88:7436-46. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.6b00863] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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- Lieselot Y. Hemeryck
- Laboratory of Chemical Analysis, Department
of Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety, Faculty of Veterinary
Medicine, Ghent University, Salisburylaan 133, Merelbeke, B-9820, Belgium
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- School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, Faculty
of Science, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, L3 3AF, United Kingdom
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- Laboratory of Chemical Analysis, Department
of Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety, Faculty of Veterinary
Medicine, Ghent University, Salisburylaan 133, Merelbeke, B-9820, Belgium
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Lu W, Liu J. Capturing Transient Endoperoxide in the Singlet Oxygen Oxidation of Guanine. Chemistry 2016; 22:3127-38. [PMID: 26813583 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201504140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2015] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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The chemistry of singlet O2 toward the guanine base of DNA is highly relevant to DNA lesion, mutation, cell death, and pathological conditions. This oxidative damage is initiated by the formation of a transient endoperoxide through the Diels-Alder cycloaddition of singlet O2 to the guanine imidazole ring. However, no endoperoxide formation was directly detected in native guanine or guanosine, even at -100 °C. Herein, gas-phase ion-molecule scattering mass spectrometry was utilized to capture unstable endoperoxides in the collisions of hydrated guanine ions (protonated or deprotonated) with singlet O2 at ambient temperature. Corroborated by results from potential energy surface exploration, kinetic modeling, and dynamics simulations, various aspects of endoperoxide formation and transformation (including its dependence on guanine ionization and hydration states, as well as on collision energy) were determined. This work has pieced together reaction mechanisms, kinetics, and dynamics data concerning the early stage of singlet O2 induced guanine oxidation, which is missing from conventional condensed-phase studies.
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- Wenchao Lu
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Queens College and the Graduate Center, of the City University of New York, 65-30 Kissena Blvd, Queens, NY, 11367, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Queens College and the Graduate Center, of the City University of New York, 65-30 Kissena Blvd, Queens, NY, 11367, USA.
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Lyczko J, Beach D, Gabryelski W. Detection, Identification, and Occurrence of Thiotetronic Acids in Drinking Water from Underground Sources by Electrospray Ionization-High Field Asymmetric Waveform Ion Mobility Spectrometry-Quadrupole Time-of-Flight-Mass Spectrometry. Anal Chem 2015; 87:9884-91. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.5b02372] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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- Jadwiga Lyczko
- Department of Chemistry, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada
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Cole CA, Wang ZC, Snow TP, Bierbaum VM. Deprotonated Purine Dissociation: Experiments, Computations, and Astrobiological Implications. J Phys Chem A 2015; 119:334-43. [DOI: 10.1021/jp509012s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Callie A. Cole
- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, 215 UCB, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, 215 UCB, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
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- Department
of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado, 391 UCB, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
- Center
for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy, University of Colorado, 389 UCB, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, 215 UCB, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
- Center
for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy, University of Colorado, 389 UCB, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
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Dudley E, Bond L. Mass spectrometry analysis of nucleosides and nucleotides. MASS SPECTROMETRY REVIEWS 2014; 33:302-31. [PMID: 24285362 DOI: 10.1002/mas.21388] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2013] [Revised: 05/03/2013] [Accepted: 05/03/2013] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Mass spectrometry has been widely utilised in the study of nucleobases, nucleosides and nucleotides as components of nucleic acids and as bioactive metabolites in their own right. In this review, the application of mass spectrometry to such analysis is overviewed in relation to various aspects regarding the analytical mass spectrometric and chromatographic techniques applied and also the various applications of such analysis.
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- Ed Dudley
- Institute of Mass Spectrometry, College of Medicine, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea, SA2 8PP, UK
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Uvaydov Y, Geacintov NE, Shafirovich V. Generation of guanine-amino acid cross-links by a free radical combination mechanism. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2014; 16:11729-36. [PMID: 24810398 DOI: 10.1039/c4cp00675e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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A direct method has been developed for the in vitro synthesis of stable DNA-protein cross-links (DPC's) between guanine and amino acids (lysine and arginine). This method employs the combination of guanine neutral radicals, G(-H)˙, and side-chain C-centered amino acid radicals. The latter were generated indirectly after first causing the selective photoionization of 2-aminopurine (2AP) embedded in the oligonucleotide, 5'-d(CC[2AP]TCGCTACC), by intense nanosecond 308 nm excimer laser pulses. The 2AP radical cation deprotonates rapidly to form the 2AP(-H)˙ neutral radical which, in turn, oxidizes the nearby guanine to form the neutral guanine G(-H)˙ radical, as described previously (Shafirovich et al., J. Phys. Chem. B, 2001, 105, 8431). In parallel, the hydrated electrons, generated by the photoionization of 2AP, are scavenged by nitrous oxide to generate hydroxyl radicals. In the presence of a large excess of the amino acids, the hydroxyl radicals oxidize the latter to produce C-centered amino acid radicals that combine with the G(-H)˙ radicals to form the guanine-amino acid cross-linked oligonucleotide product. Analogous products were generated by photoionizing the free nucleoside, 2',3',5'-tri-O-acetylguanosine, (tri-O-Ac-Guo), using intense nanosecond 266 nm Nd:YAG laser pulse irradiation. The guanine-amino acid cross-links thus produced site-specifically positioned either in oligonucleotides, or in the free nucleoside tri-O-Ac-Guo were isolated by HPLC methods and identified by high resolution LC-TOF/MS and LC-MS/MS methods. The possibility that analogous guanine-amino acid cross-linked products could be formed in vivo using single hit radical generation mechanisms during oxidative stress is discussed.
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- Yuriy Uvaydov
- Chemistry Department, New York University, 31 Washington Place, New York, NY 10003-5180, USA.
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- Natalia Tretyakova
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
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Song M, Zeng L, Hong X, Meng Z, Yin J, Wang H, Liang Y, Jiang G. Polyvinyl pyrrolidone promotes DNA cleavage by a ROS-independent and depurination mechanism. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2013; 47:2886-2891. [PMID: 23425130 DOI: 10.1021/es3046229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Polyvinyl pyrrolidone polymer (PVP) has been widely applied in biological and medical fields. A few in vitro studies indicated that PVP might cause toxicity. However, the underlying mechanism is poorly understood. In this work, we found that PVP directly induced strand breakages of various DNA molecules, implicating a cleavage activity. Moreover, reactive oxygen species (ROS) scavenging analysis shows that DNA cleavage activity of PVP is not related to ROS-induced oxidation. As revealed by gel electrophoresis and liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry analysis, the major cleavage products of DNA were identified as two purine bases, guanine and adenine, suggesting that PVPs have a novel depurination activity. The selective depurination and DNA cleavage activity of PVPs were further confirmed by studying the interaction of PVP with four nucleosides and four well-designed oligodeoxynucleotides probes containing specific nucleotides. This study may provide insights into PVP-DNA interactions and resultant genotoxicity and may also open a new way for DNA study.
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- Maoyong Song
- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
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Beach DG, Gabryelski W. Revisiting the reactivity of uracil during collision induced dissociation: tautomerism and charge-directed processes. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2012; 23:858-868. [PMID: 22351291 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-012-0343-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2011] [Revised: 01/13/2012] [Accepted: 01/17/2012] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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In our recent work towards the nontarget identification of products of nucleic acid (NA) damage in urine, we have found previous work describing the dissociation of NA bases not adequate to fully explain their observed reactivity. Here we revisit the gas-phase chemistry of protonated uracil (U) during collision induced dissociation (CID) using two modern tandem mass spectrometry techniques; quadrupole ion trap (QIT) and quadrupole time of flight (Q-TOF). We present detailed mechanistic proposals that account for all observed products of our experiments and from previous isotope labeling data, and that are supported by previous ion spectroscopy results and theoretical work. The diverse product-ions of U cannot be explained adequately by only considering the lowest energy form of protonated U as a precursor. The tautomers adopted by U during collisional excitation make it possible to relate the complex reactivity observed to reasonable mechanistic proposals and feasible product-ion structures for this small highly conjugated heterocycle. These reactions proceed from four different stable tautomers, which are excited to a specific activated precursor from which dissociation can occur via a charge-directed process through a favorable transition state to give a stabilized product. Understanding the chemistry of uracil at this level will facilitate the identification of new modified uracil derivatives in biological samples based solely on their reactivity during CID. Our integrated approach to describing ion dissociation is widely applicable to other NA bases and similar classes of biomolecules.
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- Daniel G Beach
- Department of Chemistry, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1, Canada
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Giessing AMB, Kirpekar F. Mass spectrometry in the biology of RNA and its modifications. J Proteomics 2012; 75:3434-49. [PMID: 22348820 DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2012.01.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2011] [Revised: 01/20/2012] [Accepted: 01/26/2012] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Many powerful analytical techniques for investigation of nucleic acids exist in the average modern molecular biology lab. The current review will focus on questions in RNA biology that have been answered by the use of mass spectrometry, which means that new biological information is the purpose and outcome of most of the studies we refer to. The review begins with a brief account of the subject "MS in the biology of RNA" and an overview of the prevalent RNA modifications identified to date. Fundamental considerations about mass spectrometric analysis of RNA are presented with the aim of detailing the analytical possibilities and challenges relating to the unique chemical nature of nucleic acids. The main biological topics covered are RNA modifications and the enzymes that perform the modifications. Modifications of RNA are essential in biology, and it is a field where mass spectrometry clearly adds knowledge of biological importance compared to traditional methods used in nucleic acid research. The biological applications are divided into analyses exclusively performed at the building block (mainly nucleoside) level and investigations involving mass spectrometry at the oligonucleotide level. We conclude the review discussing aspects of RNA identification and quantifications, which are upcoming fields for MS in RNA research. This article is part of a Special Section entitled: Understanding genome regulation and genetic diversity by mass spectrometry.
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- Anders M B Giessing
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, 5230 Odense M, Denmark
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Beach DG, Gabryelski W. Nontarget Analysis of Urine by Electrospray Ionization-High Field Asymmetric Waveform Ion Mobility-Tandem Mass Spectrometry. Anal Chem 2011; 83:9107-13. [DOI: 10.1021/ac202044h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Daniel G. Beach
- Department of Chemistry, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1, Canada
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Menezes S, Gaston KW, Krivos KL, Apolinario EE, Reich NO, Sowers KR, Limbach PA, Perona JJ. Formation of m2G6 in Methanocaldococcus jannaschii tRNA catalyzed by the novel methyltransferase Trm14. Nucleic Acids Res 2011; 39:7641-55. [PMID: 21693558 PMCID: PMC3177210 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr475] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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The modified nucleosides N2-methylguanosine and N22-dimethylguanosine in transfer RNA occur at five positions in the D and anticodon arms, and at positions G6 and G7 in the acceptor stem. Trm1 and Trm11 enzymes are known to be responsible for several of the D/anticodon arm modifications, but methylases catalyzing post-transcriptional m2G synthesis in the acceptor stem are uncharacterized. Here, we report that the MJ0438 gene from Methanocaldococcus jannaschii encodes a novel S-adenosylmethionine-dependent methyltransferase, now identified as Trm14, which generates m2G at position 6 in tRNACys. The 381 amino acid Trm14 protein possesses a canonical RNA recognition THUMP domain at the amino terminus, followed by a γ-class Rossmann fold amino-methyltransferase catalytic domain featuring the signature NPPY active site motif. Trm14 is associated with cluster of orthologous groups (COG) 0116, and most closely resembles the m2G10 tRNA methylase Trm11. Phylogenetic analysis reveals a canonical archaeal/bacterial evolutionary separation with 20–30% sequence identities between the two branches, but it is likely that the detailed functions of COG 0116 enzymes differ between the archaeal and bacterial domains. In the archaeal branch, the protein is found exclusively in thermophiles. More distantly related Trm14 homologs were also identified in eukaryotes known to possess the m2G6 tRNA modification.
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- Sheena Menezes
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9510, USA
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Sagoo S, Beach DG, Manderville RA, Gabryelski W. Tautomerization in gas-phase ion chemistry of isomeric C-8 deoxyguanosine adducts from phenol-induced DNA damage. JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY : JMS 2011; 46:41-9. [PMID: 21184435 DOI: 10.1002/jms.1869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Collision-induced dissociation (CID) of 8-(4''-hydroxyphenyl)-2'-deoxyguanosine and 8-(2''-hydroxyphenyl)-2'-deoxyguanosine was investigated using sequential tandem mass spectrometry. These adducts represent biomarkers of DNA damage linked to phenolic radicals and were investigated to gain insight into the effects of chemical structure of a C-8 modification on fragmentation pathways of modified 2'-deoxyguanosine (dG). CID in MS(2) of the deprotonated molecules of both the isomers generated the same product ion having the same m/z values. CID in MS(3) of the product ion at m/z 242 and CID in MS(4) experiments carried out on the selected product ions at m/z 225 and m/z 218 afford distinct fragmentation patterns. The conformational properties of isomeric product ions from CID showed that the ortho-isomers possess the unique ability to tautomerize through an intramolecular proton transfer between the phenolic OH group and the imine nitrogen (N7). Tautomerization of ortho-isomers to their keto-tautomers led to differences in their system of conjugated double bonds compared with either their enol-tautomer or the para-isomer. The charge redistribution through the N-7 site on the imidazole ring is a critical step in guanosine adduct fragmentation which is disrupted by the formation of the keto-tautomer. For this reason, different reaction pathways are observed for 8-(4''-hydroxyphenyl)-2'-deoxyguanosine and 8-(2''-hydroxyphenyl)-2'-deoxyguanosine. We present herein the dissociation and the gas-phase ion-molecule reactions for highly conjugated ions involved in the CID ion chemistry of the investigated adducts. These will be useful for those using tandem mass spectrometry for structural elucidation of C-8 modified dG adducts. This study demonstrates that the modification at the C-8 site of dG has the potential to significantly alter the reactivity of adducts. We also show the ability of tandem mass spectrometry to completely differentiate between the isomeric dG adducts investigated.
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- Sandeep Sagoo
- Department of Chemistry, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1
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Krzeminski J, Kropachev K, Kolbanovskiy M, Reeves D, Kolbanovskiy A, Yun BH, Geacintov NE, Amin S, El-Bayoumy K. Inefficient nucleotide excision repair in human cell extracts of the N-(deoxyguanosin-8-yl)-6-aminochrysene and 5-(deoxyguanosin-N(2)-yl)-6-aminochrysene adducts derived from 6-nitrochrysene. Chem Res Toxicol 2010; 24:65-72. [PMID: 21114286 DOI: 10.1021/tx100284h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Ubiquitous environmental agents [e.g., polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and their nitrated derivatives (NO(2)-PAHs)] that are known to induce mammary cancer in rodents are regarded as potential human risk factors for inducing analogous human cancers. Although 6-nitrochrysene (6-NC) is less abundant than other NO(2)-PAHs in the environment, it is the most potent mammary carcinogen in the rat; its carcinogenic potency is not only higher than that of the carcinogenic PAH, benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]P), but also of the well-known carcinogenic heterocylic aromatic amine, 2-amino-1-methyl-6-phenylimidazo[4,5- b]pyridine (PhIP). Studies in rats and in vitro assays have indicated that 6-NC can be activated by simple nitroreduction leading to the formation of 6-hydroxylaminochrysene (N-OH-6-AC); this metabolite yielded N-(deoxyguanosin-8-yl)-6-aminochrysene (N-[dG-8-yl]-6-AC) and 5-(deoxyguanosin-N(2)-yl)-6-aminochrysene (5-[dG-N(2)-yl]-6-AC. These lesions are likely to cause mutations if they are not removed by cellular defense mechanisms before DNA replication occurs. However, nothing is known about the susceptibility of these adducts to nucleotide excision repair (NER), the major cellular repair system that removes bulky adducts. In order to address this issue, we synthesized the N-(dG-8-yl)-6-AC and 5-(dG- N(2)-yl)-6-AC lesions and site-specifically inserted these lesions into 135-mer DNA duplexes. These constructs were incubated with NER-competent nuclear extracts from human HeLa cells. The efficiency of repair of these lesions was ∼ 8 times less efficient than that in the case of the well-known and excellent substrate of NER, the intrastrand cross-linked cis-diaminodichloroplatinum II adduct in double-stranded DNA (cis-Pt), but similar to N(2)-dG adducts derived from the (+)-bay region diol epoxide of B[a]P [(+)-trans-B[a]P-N(2)-dG]. The results support the hypothesis that the N-(dG-8-yl)-6-AC and 5-(dG-N(2)-yl)-6-AC lesions may be slowly repaired and thus persistent in mammalian tissue which could, in part, account for the potent tumorigenic activity of 6-NC in the rat mammary gland.
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- Jacek Krzeminski
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, Pennsylvania 17033, USA
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Yun BH, Dedon PC, Geacintov NE, Shafirovich V. One-electron oxidation of a pyrenyl photosensitizer covalently attached to DNA and competition between its further oxidation and DNA hole injection. Photochem Photobiol 2010; 86:563-70. [PMID: 20408978 DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.2010.00719.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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The photosensitized hole injection and guanine base damage phenomena have been investigated in the DNA sequence, 5'-d(CATG(1)(Py)CG(2)TCCTAC) with a site-specifically positioned pyrene-like (Py) benzo[a]pyrene 7,8-diol 9,10-epoxide-derived N(2)-guanine adduct (G(1)(Py)). Generation of the Py radical cation and subsequent hole injection into the DNA strand by a 355 nm nanosecond laser pulses (approximately 4 mJ cm(-2)) results in the transformation of G(1)(Py) to the imidazolone derivative Iz(1)(Py) and a novel G(1)(Py*) photoproduct that has a mass larger by 16 Da (M+16) than the mass (M) of G(1)(Py). In addition, hole transfer and the irreversible oxidation of G(2), followed by the formation of Iz(2) was observed (Yun et al. [2007], J. Am. Chem. Soc., 129, 9321). Oxygen-18 and deuterium isotope labeling methods, in combination with an extensive analysis of the MS/MS fragmentation patterns of the individual dG(Py*) nucleoside adduct and other data show that dG(Py*) has an unusual structure with a ruptured cyclohexenyl ring with a carbonyl group at the rupture site and intact guanine and pyrenyl residues. The formation of this product competes with hole injection and thus diminishes the efficiency of oxidation of guanines within the oligonucleotide strand by at least 15% in comparison with that in the dG(Py) nucleoside adduct.
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- Byeong Hwa Yun
- Chemistry Department and Radiation and Solid State Laboratory, New York University, New York City, NY, USA
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Cheng P, Li Y, Li S, Zhang M, Zhou Z. Collision-induced dissociation (CID) of guanine radical cation in the gas phase: an experimental and computational study. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2010; 12:4667-77. [DOI: 10.1039/b919513k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Li HY, Wang SM, Liu HM, Bu SS, Li J, Han D, Zhang MZ, Wu GY. Separation and identification of purine nucleosides in the urine of patients with malignant cancer by reverse phase liquid chromatography/electrospray tandem mass spectrometry. JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY : JMS 2009; 44:641-51. [PMID: 19142897 DOI: 10.1002/jms.1539] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Urinary-modified nucleosides have a potential role as cancer biomarkers for a number of malignant diseases. High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) was combined with full-scan mass spectrometry, MS/MS analysis and accurate mass measurements in order to identify purine nucleosides purified from urine. Potential purine nucleosides were assessed by their evident UV absorbance in the HPLC chromatogram and then further examined by the mass spectrometric techniques. In this manner, numerous modified purine nucleosides were identified in the urine samples from cancer patients including xanthine, adenosine, N1-methyladenosine, 5'-deoxy-5'-methylthioadenosine, 2-methyladenosine, N6-threonylcarbamoyladenosine, inosine, N1-methylinosine, guanosine, N1-methylguanosine, N7-methylguanine, N2-methylguanosine, N2,N2-dimethyguanosine, N2,N2,N7-trimethylguanosine. Furthermore, a number of novel purine nucleosides were tentatively identified via critical interpretation of the combined mass spectrometric data including N3-methyladenosine, N7-methyladenine, 5'-dehydro-2'-deoxyinosine, N3-methylguanine, O6-methylguanosine, N1,N2,N7-trimethylguanosine, N1-methyl-N2-ethylguanosine and N7-methyl-N1-ethylguanosine.
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- Hua-Yu Li
- Department of Chemistry, Zhengzhou University, 100 Science Road, 450001 Zhengzhou, China
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Cao H, Wang Y. Fragmentation of isomeric intrastrand crosslink lesions of DNA in an ion-trap mass spectrometer. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2009; 20:611-617. [PMID: 19103496 PMCID: PMC2691995 DOI: 10.1016/j.jasms.2008.11.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2006] [Revised: 11/24/2008] [Accepted: 11/25/2008] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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The collision-induced dissociation pathways of isomeric cytosine-guanine and cytosine-adenine intrastrand crosslink-containing dinucleoside monophosphates were investigated with the stable isotope-labeled compounds to gain insights into the effects of chemical structure on the fragmentation pathways of these DNA modifications. A Dimroth-like rearrangement, which was reported for protonated 2'-deoxycytidine and involved the switching of the exocyclic N4 with the ring N3 nitrogen atom, was also observed for the cytosine component in the protonated ions of C[5-8]G, C[5-2]A, and C[5-8]A, but not C[5-N(2)]G or C[5-N(6)]A. In these two sets of crosslinks, the C5 of cytosine is covalently bonded with its neighboring purine base via a carbon atom on the aromatic ring and an exocyclic nitrogen atom, respectively. On the contrary, the rearrangement could occur for the deprotonated ions of C[5-N(2)]G, C[5-N(6)]A, and unmodified cytosine, but not C[5-8]G, C[5-2]A, or C[5-8]A. In addition, ammonia could be lost more readily from C[5-N(2)]G and C[5-N(6)]A than from C[5-8]G, C[5-2]A, and C[5-8]A. The results from the present study afforded important guidance for the application of mass spectrometry for the structure elucidation of other intrastrand/interstrand crosslink lesions.
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- To whom correspondence should be addressed: Telephone: (951) 827-2700. Fax: (951) 827-4713. E-mail:
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Qian M, Yang S, Wu H, Majumdar P, Leigh N, Glaser R. Ammonia elimination from protonated nucleobases and related synthetic substrates. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2007; 18:2040-57. [PMID: 17920289 PMCID: PMC2080854 DOI: 10.1016/j.jasms.2007.08.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2007] [Revised: 08/28/2007] [Accepted: 08/28/2007] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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The results are reported of mass-spectrometric studies of the nucleobases adenine 1h (1, R = H), guanine 2h, and cytosine 3h. The protonated nucleobases are generated by electrospray ionization of adenosine 1r (1, R = ribose), guanosine 2r, and deoxycytidine 3d (3, R = deoxyribose) and their fragmentations were studied with tandem mass spectrometry. In contrast to previous EI-MS studies of the nucleobases, NH(3) elimination does present a major path for the fragmentations of the ions [1h + H](+), [2h + H](+), and [3h + H](+). The ion [2h + H - NH(3)](+) also was generated from the acyclic precursor 5-cyanoamino-4-oxomethylene-dihydroimidazole 13h and from the thioether derivative 14h of 2h (NH(2) replaced by MeS). The analyses of the modes of initial fragmentation is supported by density functional theoretical studies. Conjugate acids 15-55 were studied to determine site preferences for the protonations of 1h, 2h, 3h, 13h, and 14h. The proton affinity of the amino group hardly ever is the substrate's best protonation site, and possible mechanisms for NH(3) elimination are discussed in which the amino group serves as the dissociative protonation site. The results provide semi-direct experimental evidence for the existence of the pyrimidine ring-opened cations that we had proposed on the basis of theoretical studies as intermediates in nitrosative nucleobase deamination.
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- Ming Qian
- Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA
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Jensen SS, Ariza X, Nielsen P, Vilarrasa J, Kirpekar F. Collision-induced dissociation of cytidine and its derivatives. JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY : JMS 2007; 42:49-57. [PMID: 17149798 DOI: 10.1002/jms.1136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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The collision-induced dissociation of adenosine, uridine and guanosine, and their corresponding nucleobases has been published previously.1-3 Here we report the collision-induced dissociation of cytidine and the elucidation of its fragmentation pathways using stable isotope-labeled cytidines, through a quadrupole ion trap for tandem mass spectrometry up to MS(4). Furthermore, we investigated the collision-induced dissociation of five cytidine derivatives: 3-methylcytidine, N(4)-methyl-2'-deoxycytidine, 5-methylcytidine, 2-thiocytidine and N(4)-acetylcytidine. The primary fragmentation pathway was the neutral loss of ribose. MS(3) on the retained nucleobase generally resulted in an intense signal from the elimination of ammonia, but also in fragment ions characteristic of the different cytosine derivatives. On the basis of the MS(n) data, fragmentation pathways and plausible mechanisms are suggested.
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- Søren S Jensen
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
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Cao H, Wang Y. Collisionally activated dissociation of protonated 2'-deoxycytidine, 2'-deoxyuridine, and their oxidatively damaged derivatives. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2006; 17:1335-1341. [PMID: 16872831 DOI: 10.1016/j.jasms.2006.05.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2006] [Revised: 05/26/2006] [Accepted: 05/30/2006] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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We examined the collisionally activated dissociation (CAD) pathways of protonated 2'-deoxycytidine (dC), 5-formyl-2'-deoxycytidine (5-FmdC), 5-hydroxy-2'-deoxycytidine (5-OHdC), 5-hydroxymethyl-2'-deoxycytidine (5-HmdC), and their corresponding stable isotope-labeled compounds to gain insights into the effects of modifications on the fragmentation pathways of the pyrimidine bases. Multi-stage MS (MSn) results showed that protonated cytosine, its 5-hydroxyl- and 5-hydroxymethyl-substituted derivatives, but not its 5-formyl-substituted analog, could undergo Dimroth-like rearrangement in the gas-phase. The elimination of HNCO was one of the major fragmentation pathways observed for the protonated ions of all dC derivatives except for 5-hydroxymethylcytosine, which underwent this loss only after a H2O molecule had been eliminated. In addition, the protonated cytosine and 5-hydroxycytosine can undergo a facile elimination of NH3 molecule. This loss, however, was not observed for protonated 5-hydroxymethylcytosine, 5-formylcytosine, and their uracil analogs. Taken together, our study demonstrated that modifications could alter markedly the CAD patterns of the protonated pyrimidine bases. The results from this study provided a basis for the identifications of other modified pyrimidine bases/nucleosides by tandem mass spectrometry.
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- Huachuan Cao
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, 92521-0403, Riverside, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, 92521-0403, Riverside, CA, USA.
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Tuytten R, Lemière F, Esmans EL, Herrebout WA, van der Veken BJ, Dudley E, Newton RP, Witters E. In-source CID of guanosine: gas phase ion-molecule reactions. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2006; 17:1050-1062. [PMID: 16750381 DOI: 10.1016/j.jasms.2006.03.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2005] [Revised: 03/24/2006] [Accepted: 03/24/2006] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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In-source collision induced dissociation was applied to access second generation ions of protonated guanosine. The in-source gas-phase behavior of [BH2]+-NH3 (m/z 135, C5H3N4O+) was investigated. Adduct formation and reactions with available solvent molecules (H2O and CH3OH) were demonstrated. Several addition/elimination sequences were observed for this particular ion and solvent molecules. Dissociation pathways for the newly formed ions were developed using a QqTOF mass spectrometer, permitting the assignment of elemental compositions of all product ions produced. Reaction schemes were suggested arising from the ring-opened intermediate of the protonated base moiety [BH2]+, obtained from fragmentation of guanosine. The mass spectral data revealed that the in-source CH3OH-reaction product underwent more complex fragmentations than the comparable ion following reaction with H2O. A rearrangement and a parallel radical dissociation pathway were discerned. Apart from the mass spectrometric evidence, the fragmentation schemes are supported by density functional theory calculations, in which the reaction of the ring-opened protonated guanine intermediate with CH3OH and a number of subsequent fragmentations were elaborated. Additionally, an in-source transition from the ring-opened intermediate of protonated guanine to the ring-opened intermediate of protonated xanthine was suggested. For comparison, a low-energy collision induced dissociation study of xanthosine was performed. Its dissociation pathways agreed with our assumption.
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- Robin Tuytten
- Department of Chemistry, Nucleoside Research and Mass Spectrometry Unit and Center for Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry, University of Antwerp, Groenenborgelaan 171, B-2020, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Department of Chemistry, Nucleoside Research and Mass Spectrometry Unit and Center for Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry, University of Antwerp, Groenenborgelaan 171, B-2020, Antwerp, Belgium.
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- Department of Chemistry, Nucleoside Research and Mass Spectrometry Unit and Center for Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry, University of Antwerp, Groenenborgelaan 171, B-2020, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Department of Chemistry, Cryospectroscopy, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Biochemistry Group, School of Biological Sciences and Biomolecular Analysis Mass Spectrometry Facility, University of Wales, Swansea, UK
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- Biochemistry Group, School of Biological Sciences and Biomolecular Analysis Mass Spectrometry Facility, University of Wales, Swansea, UK
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- Department of Biology, Laboratory for Plant Biochemistry and Center for Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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Bond A, Dudley E, Lemière F, Tuytten R, El-Sharkawi S, Brenton AG, Esmans EL, Newton RP. Analysis of urinary nucleosides. V. Identification of urinary pyrimidine nucleosides by liquid chromatography/electrospray mass spectrometry. RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY : RCM 2006; 20:137-50. [PMID: 16331740 DOI: 10.1002/rcm.2266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Modified urinary nucleosides are potentially invaluable in cancer diagnosis, as they reflect altered RNA turnovers. High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) was combined with full-scan mass spectrometry, tandem mass spectrometry, MS(n) analysis and accurate mass measurements in order to identify pyrimidine nucleosides purified from urine. Potential nucleosides were assessed by their evident UV absorbance in the HPLC chromatogram and then further examined by the various mass spectrometric techniques. In this manner numerous pyrimidine nucleosides were identified in the urine samples from cancer patients including pseudouridine, cytidine, two methylcytidines and an acetylcytidine. Furthermore, a number of novel modified pyrimidine nucleosides were tentatively identified via critical interpretation of the combined mass spectrometric data.
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- Alison Bond
- Biomolecular Analysis Mass Spectrometry (BAMS) Facility, Grove Building, University of Wales Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK
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Yao C, Cuadrado-Peinado ML, Polásek M, Turecek F. Gas-phase tautomers of protonated 1-methylcytosine. Preparation, energetics, and dissociation mechanisms. JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY : JMS 2005; 40:1417-28. [PMID: 16258896 DOI: 10.1002/jms.923] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Tautomers of 1-methylcytosine that are protonated at N-3 (1+) and C-5 (2+) have been specifically synthesized in the gas phase and characterized by tandem mass spectrometry and quantum chemical calculations. Ion 1+ is the most stable tautomer in aqueous and methanol solution and is likely to be formed by electrospray ionization of 1-methylcytosine and transferred in the gas phase. Gas-phase protonation of 1-methylcytosine produces a mixture of 1+ and the O-2-protonated tautomer (3+), which are nearly isoenergetic. Dissociative ionization of 6-ethyl-5,6-dihydro-1-methylcytosine selectively forms isomer 2+. Upon collisional activation, ions 1+ and 3+ dissociate by loss of ammonia and [C,H,N,O], whose mechanisms have been established by deuterium labeling and ab initio calculations. The main dissociations of 2+ following collisional activation are losses of CH2=C=NH and HN=C=O. The mechanisms of these dissociations have been elucidated by deuterium labeling and theoretical calculations.
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- Chunxiang Yao
- Department of Chemistry, Bagley Hall, Box 3517090, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-1700, USA
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Tuytten R, Lemière F, Van Dongen W, Esmans EL, Witters E, Herrebout W, Van Der Veken B, Dudley E, Newton RP. Intriguing mass spectrometric behavior of guanosine under low energy collision-induced dissociation: H2O adduct formation and gas-phase reactions in the collision cell. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2005; 16:1291-304. [PMID: 15979336 DOI: 10.1016/j.jasms.2005.03.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2004] [Revised: 03/18/2005] [Accepted: 03/24/2005] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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An in-depth study of the fragmentation pathway of guanosine was conducted by using an in-source collision-induced dissociation high-mass accuracy tandem mass spectrometry experiment. The equivalent of MS4 data, a level of information normally achieved on ion trap instruments, was obtained on a Q-TOF mass spectrometer. The combination of the features of high-resolution, accuracy, and in-source CID permitted the unambiguous elucidation of the different fragmentation pathways. Furthermore the elemental compositions of the product ions generated were assigned and their mutual genealogical relationships established. Formerly proposed dissociation pathways of guanosine were revisited and elaborated on more deeply. Furthermore, the presence of H2O in the collision cell of several tandem MS instruments was demonstrated and its effect on the product ion spectra investigated. The neutral gain of H2O by particular fragments of guanosine was experimentally proven by using argon, saturated with H2(18)O, as the collision gas. Data indicating the occurrence of more complex reactions in the collision cell as a result of the presence of H2O were produced, specifically relating to neutral gain/neutral loss sequences. In silico calculations supported the experimental observation of neutral gain by guanosine fragments and predicted a similar behavior for adenosine. The latter was subsequently experimentally confirmed.
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- Robin Tuytten
- Department of Chemistry, Nucleoside Research Unit [corrected] University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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Ferenc G, Kele Z, Kovács L. Determination of N9/N7-isomer ratio of alkyl (guaninyl)acetates by electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry. RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY : RCM 2005; 19:236-240. [PMID: 15609374 DOI: 10.1002/rcm.1774] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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N9- and N7-substituted (guaninyl)acetic esters were studied by electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry (ESI-MS/MS) in order to determine their ratio in alkylation reactions. The loss of ammonia is significantly different for the N9- and N7-alkylated guanine regioisomer pairs. More importantly, the abundance of the [MH-17]+ ion is in linear correlation with the N9-isomer content. Therefore, the ratio of regioisomers can be determined in a mixture containing these compounds.
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- Györgyi Ferenc
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Szeged, Dóm tér 8, H-6720 Szeged, Hungary
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Dudley E, Tuytten R, Bond A, Lemière F, Brenton AG, Esmans EL, Newton RP. Study of the mass spectrometric fragmentation of pseudouridine: comparison of fragmentation data obtained by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionisation post-source decay, electrospray ion trap multistage mass spectrometry, and by a method utilising electrospray quadrupole time-of-flight tandem mass spectrometry and in-source fragmentation. RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY : RCM 2005; 19:3075-85. [PMID: 16206154 DOI: 10.1002/rcm.2151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Many nucleosides and their modified forms have been studied by mass spectrometry elaborating the detailed fragmentation pathways under MS2 and MS(n) conditions. Although the C-nucleoside pseudouridine has been fragmented and studied briefly, usually amongst many other nucleosides, it has not been investigated to the same extent as other nucleosides. In this report a number of different mass spectrometric techniques are applied to obtain a fuller picture of pseudouridine fragmentation. At the same time this study is used to compare different tandem mass spectrometric techniques, including a novel methodology utilising a quadrupole time-of-flight (Q-ToF) instrument for MS(n) analysis comparable with that available with an ion trap mass spectrometer.
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- Edward Dudley
- Biomolecular Analysis Mass Spectrometry (BAMS) Facility, Grove Building, University of Wales Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK.
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Zhou S, Sitaramaiah D, Pomerantz SC, Crain PF, McCloskey JA. Tandem mass spectrometry for structure assignments of wye nucleosides from transfer RNA. NUCLEOSIDES NUCLEOTIDES & NUCLEIC ACIDS 2004; 23:41-50. [PMID: 15043135 DOI: 10.1081/ncn-120027816] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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The tricyclic wye nucleoside family of eight known members constitutes one of the most complex and interesting series of posttranscriptionally modified nucleosides in transfer RNA. The principal reaction paths represented in collision-induced dissociation mass spectra of wye bases and their analogs have been studied in order to determine those structural features that can be readily established by mass spectrometry. The main routes of fragmentation are determined by the presence vs. absence of an amino acid side chain at C-7 (1H-imidazo[1,2-a]purine nomenclature). The common methionine-related side chain is cleaved at two points, providing a ready means of establishing the presence and net level of side chain modification. For those molecules without a side chain, the initial reaction steps are characteristically controlled by the presence vs. absence of methyl at N-4, allowing determination of the methylation status of that site. In the latter case initial opening of the central (pyrimidine) ring, in analogy to the dissociation behavior of guanine, causes loss of identity of C-6/C-7 so that placement of a single methyl at either site is not possible. Subsequent complex reaction paths follow, which include loss of CO and sequential loss of two molecules of HCN.
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- Shaolian Zhou
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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Hankin JA, Murphy RC. Mass spectrometric quantitation of deoxyguanosine and leukotriene A4-deoxyguanosine adducts of DNA. Anal Biochem 2004; 333:156-64. [PMID: 15351292 DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2004.06.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2004] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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An assay was developed using electrospray ionization negative ion tandem mass spectrometry (MS) to identify and quantitate the major product in the reaction of leukotriene A(4) (LTA(4)) with deoxyguanosine (dGuo). A second quantitative assay was established using the same separation and detection techniques to determine the amount of dGuo isolated from enzymatically processed DNA. The amount of LTA(4)-dGuo adduct could then be analytically determined in DNA samples and normalized to the amount of dGuo that had been simultaneously derived from the DNA sample. Stable isotope-labeled internal standards used for these quantitative assays were readily synthesized from isotopically labeled [(15)N(5)(13)C(10)]deoxyguanosine triphosphate and analyzed for isotopic purity using MS. A comparison of fragment ions formed from stable isotope analogs of dGuo revealed the loss of deoxyribose and secondarily the loss of a series of stable neutral small molecules in a fashion similar to patterns described previously for the collisional fragmentation of protonated guanine determined by positive ion fast atom bombardment/MS/MS. The combined quantitative assays were used for the determination of the amount of endogenously formed LTA(4)-dGuo adducts observed in DNA when isolated human neutrophils that had been incubated with arachidonic acid were stimulated with calcium ionophore to initiate leukotriene biosynthesis.
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- Joseph A Hankin
- Division of Cell Biology, Department of Pediatrics, National Jewish Medical and Research Center, 1400 Jackson Street, Denver, CO 80206, USA
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Dudley E, Lemière F, Van Dongen W, Tuytten R, El-Sharkawi S, Brenton AG, Esmans EL, Newton RP. Analysis of urinary nucleosides. IV. Identification of urinary purine nucleosides by liquid chromatography/electrospray mass spectrometry. RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY : RCM 2004; 18:2730-2738. [PMID: 15499664 DOI: 10.1002/rcm.1685] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Modified urinary nucleosides are potentially invaluable in cancer diagnosis. High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) was combined with full scan mass spectrometry (MS), tandem mass spectrometry and MSn analysis in order to identify purine nucleosides purified from urine. UV peaks evident in the chromatogram were examined by the various mass spectrometric techniques and adenosine, 1-methyladenosine, xanthosine, N1-methylguanosine, N2-methylguanosine, N2,N2-dimethylguanosine, N2,N2,N7-trimethylguanosine, inosine, and 1-methylinosine were each identified in the urine samples from cancer patients. The benefits of the use of LC/MS compared with HPLC alone are discussed.
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- Edward Dudley
- Biomolecular Analysis Mass Spectrometry (BAMS) Facility, Grove Building, University of Wales Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK
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Kamel AM, Munson B. Collisionally-induced dissociation of purine antiviral agents: mechanisms of ion formation using gas phase hydrogen/deuterium exchange and electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY (CHICHESTER, ENGLAND) 2004; 10:239-257. [PMID: 15103102 DOI: 10.1255/ejms.538] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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ESI and CID mass spectra were obtained for two purine nucleoside antiviral agents (acycloguanosine and vidarabine) and one purine nucleotide (vidarabine monophosphate) and the corresponding compounds in which the labile hydrogens were replaced by deuterium gas phase exchange. The number of labile hydrogens, x, was determined from a comparison of ESI spectra obtained with N(2) and with ND(3) as the nebulizer gas. CID mass spectra were obtained for [M+H](+) and [M -H](-) ions and the exchanged analogs, [M(Dx)+D](+) and [M(Dx)-D](-), produced by ESI using a Sciex API-IIIplus mass spectrometer. Compositions of product ions and mechanisms of decomposition were determined by comparison of the CID mass spectra of the undeuterated and deuterated species. Protonated purine antiviral agents dissociate through rearrangement decompositions of base-protonated [M+H](+) ions by cleavage of the glycosidic bonds to give the protonated bases with a sugar moiety as the neutral fragment. Cleavage of the same bonds with charge retention on the sugar moiety gives low abundance ions, due to the low proton affinity of the sugar moiety compared to that of purine base. CID of protonated purine bases [B+H](+) occurs through two major pathways: (1) elimination of NH(3) (ND(3)) and (2) loss of NH(2)CN (ND(2)CN). Minor pathways include elimination of HNCO (DNCO), loss of CO, and loss of HCN (DCN). Deprotonated acycloguanosine and vidarabine exhibit the deprotonated base [B-H](-) as a major fragment from glycosidic bond cleavage and charge delocalization on the base. Deprotonated vidarabine monophosphate, however, shows predominantly phosphate related product ions. CID of deprotonated guanine shows two principal pathways: (1) elimination of NH(3) (ND(3)) and (2) loss of NH(2)CN (ND(2)CN). Minor pathways include elimination of HNCO (DNCO), loss of CO, and loss of HCN (DCN). The dissociation reactions of deprotonated adenine, however, proceed by elimination of HCN and (2) elimination of NCHNH (NCHND). The mass spectra of the antiviral agents studied in this paper may be useful in predicting reaction pathways in other heteroaromatic ring decompositions of nucleosides and nucleotides.
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- Amin M Kamel
- Department of Pharmacokinetics, Dynamics and Metabolism, Pfizer Global Research and Development, Groton Laboratories, Groton, CT 06340, USA.
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Abstract
Leukotriene A(4) (LTA(4)) is a chemically reactive conjugated triene epoxide that is formed by 5-lipoxygenase and is an intermediate in the formation of the biologically active eicosanoids leukotriene B(4) and leukotriene C(4). The present study was undertaken to determine whether or not LTA(4) could serve as an electrophilic species that nucleosides and nucleotides could attack, ultimately resulting in a covalent adduct. Electrospray ionization mass spectrometry and tandem mass spectrometry were used to study the covalent binding of LTA(4) with uridine, cytidine, adenosine, and guanosine. The reaction with guanosine was found to yield five major and at least six minor adduct species. Reversed phase HPLC and mass spectrometric data suggested that the guanosine attacked LTA(4) either at carbon-12 or carbon-6 with opening the epoxide at carbon-5 to yield a series of adducts characterized by the molecular anion [M-H](-) at m/z 600.3. Reactions of LTA(4) with mixtures of nucleosides and nucleotides revealed that guanine-containing nucleosides were the most reactive toward LTA(4). The facility of the reaction of guanine with LTA(4) raises the possibility that this intermediate of leukotriene biosynthesis formed on or near the cellular nuclear envelope may react with nucleosides and nucleotides present in RNA or DNA.
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Affiliation(s)
- D C Reiber
- Division of Cell Biology, National Jewish Medical and Research Center, 1400 Jackson Street, Denver, Colorado, 80206, USA
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