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Lehner AF. Reactions of deoxyribonucleotide bases with sulfooxymethyl or halomethyl polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons induce unwinding of DNA supercoils. Toxicol Mech Methods 2024; 34:423-443. [PMID: 38133498 DOI: 10.1080/15376516.2023.2297836] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2023] [Accepted: 12/16/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023]
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Torsional stress in double-stranded DNA enables and regulates facets of chromosomal metabolism, replication, and transcription and requires regulatory enzymatic systems including topoisomerases and histone methyltransferases. As such, this machinery may be subject to deleterious effects from reactive mutagens, including ones from carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) adduct formation with DNA. Supercoiled plasmid DNA was investigated for its torsional responses to adducts formed in vitro from PAH benzylic carbocation reactive intermediates created spontaneously by release of leaving groups. PAH sulfate esters were found to (1) unwind DNA in a concentration dependent manner, and (2) provide maximum unwinding in a pattern consistent with known carcinogenicities of the parent PAHs, that is, 6-methylbenzo[a]pyrene > 7,12-methylbenz[a]anthracene > 3-methylcholanthrene > 9-methylanthracene > 7-methylbenz[a]anthracene > 1-methylpyrene. Supercoil unwinding was demonstrated to be dependent on the presence of sulfate or chloride leaving groups such that reactive carbocations were generated in situ by hydrolysis. In silico modeling of intercalative complex topology showed PAH benzylic carbocation reactive functional groups in alignment with target nucleophiles on guanine bases in a 5'-dCdG-3' pocket in agreement with known formation of nucleotide adducts. Inhibitory or modulatory effects on PAH-induced supercoil unwinding were seen with ascorbic acid and an experimental antineoplastic agent Antineoplaston A10 in agreement with their known anticarcinogenic properties. In summary, the reactive PAH intermediates studied here undoubtedly participate in well-known mutational mechanisms such as frameshifts and apurinic site generation. However, they are also capable of random disruption of chromosomal supercoiling in a manner consistent with the known carcinogenicities of the parent compounds, and this mechanism may represent an additional detrimental motif worthy of further study for a more complete understanding of chemical carcinogenicity.
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- Andreas F Lehner
- Veterinary Diagnostic Lab, Toxicology Section, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
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Fu I, Geacintov NE, Broyde S. Differing structures and dynamics of two photolesions portray verification differences by the human XPD helicase. Nucleic Acids Res 2023; 51:12261-12274. [PMID: 37933861 PMCID: PMC10711554 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkad974] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2023] [Revised: 09/28/2023] [Accepted: 10/16/2023] [Indexed: 11/08/2023] Open
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Ultraviolet light generates cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer (CPD) and pyrimidine 6-4 pyrimidone (6-4PP) photoproducts that cause skin malignancies if not repaired by nucleotide excision repair (NER). While the faster repair of the more distorting 6-4PPs is attributed mainly to more efficient recognition by XPC, the XPD lesion verification helicase may play a role, as it directly scans the damaged DNA strand. With extensive molecular dynamics simulations of XPD-bound single-strand DNA containing each lesion outside the entry pore of XPD, we elucidate strikingly different verification processes for these two lesions that have very different topologies. The open book-like CPD thymines are sterically blocked from pore entry and preferably entrapped by sensors that are outside the pore; however, the near-perpendicular 6-4PP thymines can enter, accompanied by a displacement of the Arch domain toward the lesion, which is thereby tightly accommodated within the pore. This trapped 6-4PP may inhibit XPD helicase activity to foster lesion verification by locking the Arch to other domains. Furthermore, the movement of the Arch domain, only in the case of 6-4PP, may trigger signaling to the XPG nuclease for subsequent lesion incision by fostering direct contact between the Arch domain and XPG, and thereby facilitating repair of 6-4PP.
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- Iwen Fu
- Department of Biology, New York University, 24 Waverly Place, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10003, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, New York University, 100 Washington Square East, New York, NY 10003, USA
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- Department of Biology, New York University, 24 Waverly Place, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10003, USA
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Ab Dullah SS, Sabran MR, Hasiah AH, Abdullah R. Risk assessment of aflatoxin B 1 in herbal medicines and plant food supplements marketed in Malaysia using margin of exposure and RISK21 approaches. Genes Environ 2023; 45:31. [PMID: 37993956 PMCID: PMC10666461 DOI: 10.1186/s41021-023-00286-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2023] [Accepted: 10/24/2023] [Indexed: 11/24/2023] Open
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Aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) is a mycotoxin produced by several species of Aspergillus fungi which can cause liver cancer in animals and humans. This study aims to perform the risk assessment of AFB1 in herbal medicines and plant food supplements (PFS) in Malaysian market. A total of 31 herbal medicines and PFS were purchased through online platforms and over the counter using a targeted sampling strategy. Of 31 samples analysed using the ELISA method, 25 (80.6%) were contaminated with AFB1 at levels ranged from 0.275 to 13.941 μg/kg. The Benchmark Dose Lower Confidence level of 10 (BMDL10) of 63.46 ng/kg bw/day and the estimated dietary intake of the adult population ranged from 0.006 to 10.456 ng/kg bw/day were used to calculate the Margin of Exposure (MOE). The MOEs for 24 (96%) out of the 25 positive samples were lower than 10,000. The RISK21 matrix revealed that AFB1 exposure levels from herbal medicines and PFS differed greatly over the world. The calculated population risk of acquiring liver cancer from AFB1 exposure ranged from 0 to 0.261 cancers/100,000 populations/year and accounted for an estimated percentage of liver cancer incidence ranged from 0.002 to 4.149%. This study revealed a moderate risk of liver cancer attributable to AFB1 from herbal medicine and PFS among Malaysian populations and emphasised an urgency for risk management actions.
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- Siti Soleha Ab Dullah
- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, 43400 UPM, Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia
- Biomedical Research Policy and Strategic Planning Unit, Institute for Medical Research, National Institute of Health, Persiaran Setia Murni, Setia Alam, 40170, Shah Alam, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia
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- Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, 43400 UPM, Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, 43400 UPM, Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, 43400 UPM, Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia.
- Natural Medicines and Products Research Laboratory, Institute of Bioscience, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
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Popov AA, Petruseva IO, Naumenko NV, Lavrik OI. Methods for Assessment of Nucleotide Excision Repair Efficiency. BIOCHEMISTRY. BIOKHIMIIA 2023; 88:1844-1856. [PMID: 38105203 DOI: 10.1134/s0006297923110147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2023] [Revised: 08/30/2023] [Accepted: 08/31/2023] [Indexed: 12/19/2023]
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Nucleotide excision repair (NER) is responsible for removing a wide variety of bulky adducts from DNA, thus contributing to the maintenance of genome stability. The efficiency with which proteins of the NER system recognize and remove bulky adducts depends on many factors and is of great clinical and diagnostic significance. The review examines current concepts of the NER system molecular basis in eukaryotic cells and analyzes methods for the assessment of the NER-mediated DNA repair efficiency both in vitro and ex vivo.
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- Aleksei A Popov
- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia.
- Novosibirsk National Research State University, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
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Wu Y, Adeel MM, Sancar A, Li W. Nucleotide Excision Repair of Aflatoxin-induced DNA Damage within the 3D Human Genome Organization. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.09.27.559858. [PMID: 37808841 PMCID: PMC10557652 DOI: 10.1101/2023.09.27.559858] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/10/2023]
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Aflatoxin B1 (AFB1), a potent mycotoxin, is one of the two primary risk factors that cause liver cancer. In the liver, the bioactivated AFB1 intercalates into the DNA double helix to form a bulky DNA adduct which will lead to mutation if left unrepaired. We have adapted the tXR-seq method to measure the nucleotide excision repair of AFB1-induced DNA adducts. We have found that transcription-coupled repair plays a major role in the damage removal process and the released excision products have a distinctive length distribution pattern. We further analyzed the impact of 3D genome organization on the repair of AFB1-induced DNA adducts. We have revealed that chromosomes close to the nuclear center and A compartments undergo expedited repair processes. Notably, we observed an accelerated repair around both TAD boundaries and loop anchors. These findings provide insights into the complex interplay between repair, transcription, and 3D genome organization, shedding light on the mechanisms underlying AFB1-induced liver cancer.
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- Yiran Wu
- Department of Environmental Health Science, College of Public Health, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602
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- Department of Environmental Health Science, College of Public Health, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599
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- Department of Environmental Health Science, College of Public Health, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602
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Inhibition of E. coli RecQ Helicase Activity by Structurally Distinct DNA Lesions: Structure-Function Relationships. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms232415654. [PMID: 36555294 PMCID: PMC9779537 DOI: 10.3390/ijms232415654] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2022] [Revised: 11/27/2022] [Accepted: 11/30/2022] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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DNA helicase unwinding activity can be inhibited by small molecules and by covalently bound DNA lesions. Little is known about the relationships between the structural features of DNA lesions and their impact on unwinding rates and processivities. Employing E.coli RecQ helicase as a model system, and various conformationally defined DNA lesions, the unwinding rate constants kobs = kU + kD, and processivities P = (kU/(kU + kD) were determined (kU, unwinding rate constant; kD, helicase-DNA dissociation rate constant). The highest kobs values were observed in the case of intercalated benzo[a]pyrene (BP)-derived adenine adducts, while kobs values of guanine adducts with minor groove or base-displaced intercalated adduct conformations were ~10-20 times smaller. Full unwinding was observed in each case with the processivity P = 1.0 (100% unwinding). The kobs values of the non-bulky lesions T(6-4)T, CPD cyclobutane thymine dimers, and a guanine oxidation product, spiroiminodihydantoin (Sp), are up to 20 times greater than some of the bulky adduct values; their unwinding efficiencies are strongly inhibited with processivities P = 0.11 (CPD), 0.062 (T(6-4)T), and 0.63 (Sp). These latter observations can be accounted for by correlated decreases in unwinding rate constants and enhancements in the helicase DNA complex dissociation rate constants.
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DNA repair enzymes continuously provide surveillance throughout our cells, protecting the enclosed DNA from the damage that is constantly arising from oxidation, alkylating species, and radiation. Members of this enzyme class are intimately linked to pathways controlling cancer and inflammation and are promising targets for diagnostics and future therapies. Their study is benefiting widely from the development of new tools and methods aimed at measuring their activities. Here, we provide an Account of our laboratory's work on developing chemical tools to study DNA repair processes in vitro, as well as in cells and tissues, and what we have learned by applying them.We first outline early work probing how DNA repair enzymes recognize specific forms of damage by use of chemical analogs of the damage with altered shapes and H-bonding abilities. One outcome of this was the development of an unnatural DNA base that is incorporated selectively by polymerase enzymes opposite sites of missing bases (abasic sites) in DNA, a very common form of damage.We then describe strategies for design of fluorescent probes targeted to base excision repair (BER) enzymes; these were built from small synthetic DNAs incorporating fluorescent moieties to engender light-up signals as the enzymatic reaction proceeds. Examples of targets for these DNA probes include UDG, SMUG1, Fpg, OGG1, MutYH, ALKBH2, ALKBH3, MTH1, and NTH1. Several such strategies were successful and were applied both in vitro and in cellular settings; moreover, some were used to discover small-molecule modulators of specific repair enzymes. One of these is the compound SU0268, a potent OGG1 inhibitor that is under investigation in animal models for inhibiting hyperinflammatory responses.To investigate cellular nucleotide sanitation pathways, we designed a series of "two-headed" nucleotides containing a damaged DNA nucleotide at one end and ATP at the other; these were applied to studying the three human sanitation enzymes MTH1, dUTPase, and dITPase, some of which are therapeutic targets. The MTH1 probe (ARGO) was used in collaboration with oncologists to measure the enzyme in tumors as a disease marker and also to develop the first small-molecule activators of the enzyme.We proceed to discuss the development of a "universal" probe of base excision repair processes (UBER), which reacts covalently with abasic site intermediates of base excision repair. UBER probes light up in real time as the reaction occurs, enabling the observation of base excision repair as it occurs in live cells and tissues. UBER probes can also be used in efficient and simple methods for fluorescent labeling of DNA. Finally, we suggest interesting directions for the future of this field in biomedicine and human health.
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- Yong Woong Jun
- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, 369 North-South Axis, Stauffer I, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, 369 North-South Axis, Stauffer I, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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Treatment of Human HeLa Cells with Black Raspberry Extracts Enhances the Removal of DNA Lesions by the Nucleotide Excision Repair Mechanism. Antioxidants (Basel) 2022; 11:antiox11112110. [PMID: 36358482 PMCID: PMC9686895 DOI: 10.3390/antiox11112110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2022] [Revised: 10/22/2022] [Accepted: 10/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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As demonstrated by us earlier and by other researchers, a diet containing freeze-dried black raspberries (BRB) inhibits DNA damage and carcinogenesis in animal models. We tested the hypothesis that the inhibition of DNA damage by BRB is due, in part, to the enhancement of DNA repair capacity evaluated in the human HeLa cell extract system, an established in vitro system for the assessment of cellular DNA repair activity. The pre-treatment of intact HeLa cells with BRB extracts (BRBE) enhances the nucleotide excision repair (NER) of a bulky deoxyguanosine adduct derived from the polycyclic aromatic carcinogen benzo[a]pyrene (BP-dG) by ~24%. The NER activity of an oxidatively-derived non-bulky DNA lesion, guanidinohydantoin (Gh), is also enhanced by ~24%, while its base excision repair activity is enhanced by only ~6%. Western Blot experiments indicate that the expression of selected, NER factors is also increased by BRBE treatment by ~73% (XPA), ~55% (XPB), while its effects on XPD was modest (<14%). These results demonstrate that BRBE significantly enhances the NER yields of a bulky and a non-bulky DNA lesion, and that this effect is correlated with an enhancement of expression of the critically important NER factor XPA and the helicase XPB, but not the helicase XPD.
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DNA damage by chemicals, radiation, or oxidative stress leads to a mutational spectrum, which is complex because it is determined in part by lesion structure, the DNA sequence context of the lesion, lesion repair kinetics, and the type of cells in which the lesion is replicated. Accumulation of mutations may give rise to genetic diseases such as cancer and therefore understanding the process underlying mutagenesis is of immense importance to preserve human health. Chemical or physical agents that cause cancer often leave their mutational fingerprints, which can be used to back-calculate the molecular events that led to disease. To make a clear link between DNA lesion structure and the mutations a given lesion induces, the field of single-lesion mutagenesis was developed. In the last three decades this area of research has seen much growth in several directions, which we attempt to describe in this Perspective.
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- Ashis K Basu
- Department of Chemistry, The University of Connecticut Storrs, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, United States
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- Departments of Chemistry, Biological Engineering and Center for Environmental Health Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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Naumenko NV, Petruseva IO, Lavrik OI. Bulky Adducts in Clustered DNA Lesions: Causes of Resistance to the NER System. Acta Naturae 2022; 14:38-49. [PMID: 36694906 PMCID: PMC9844087 DOI: 10.32607/actanaturae.11741] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2022] [Accepted: 10/18/2022] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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The nucleotide excision repair (NER) system removes a wide range of bulky DNA lesions that cause significant distortions of the regular double helix structure. These lesions, mainly bulky covalent DNA adducts, are induced by ultraviolet and ionizing radiation or the interaction between exogenous/endogenous chemically active substances and nitrogenous DNA bases. As the number of DNA lesions increases, e.g., due to intensive chemotherapy and combination therapy of various diseases or DNA repair impairment, clustered lesions containing bulky adducts may occur. Clustered lesions are two or more lesions located within one or two turns of the DNA helix. Despite the fact that repair of single DNA lesions by the NER system in eukaryotic cells has been studied quite thoroughly, the repair mechanism of these lesions in clusters remains obscure. Identification of the structural features of the DNA regions containing irreparable clustered lesions is of considerable interest, in particular due to a relationship between the efficiency of some antitumor drugs and the activity of cellular repair systems. In this review, we analyzed data on the induction of clustered lesions containing bulky adducts, the potential biological significance of these lesions, and methods for quantification of DNA lesions and considered the causes for the inhibition of NER-catalyzed excision of clustered bulky lesions.
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- N. V. Naumenko
- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630090 Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630090 Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630090 Russia
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Kowalczyk K, Roszak J, Sobańska Z, Stępnik M. Review of mechanisms of genotoxic action of dibenzo[def,p]chrysene (formerly dibenzo[a,l]pyrene). TOXIN REV 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/15569543.2022.2124419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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- Department of Translational Research, Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, Łódź, Poland
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- Department of Translational Research, Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, Łódź, Poland
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Bienstock RJ, Perera L, Pasquinelli MA. Molecular Modeling Study of the Genotoxicity of the Sudan I and Sudan II Azo Dyes and Their Metabolites. Front Chem 2022; 10:880782. [PMID: 35815205 PMCID: PMC9261194 DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2022.880782] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2022] [Accepted: 05/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Azo dyes are defined by the presence of a characteristic N=N group. Sudan I and Sudan II are synthetic azo dyes that have been used as coloring agents. Although animal toxicity studies suggest that Sudan dyes are mutagenic, their molecular mechanism of action is unknown, thus making it challenging to establish thresholds for tolerable daily intake or to understand how these molecules could be modified to ameliorate toxicity. In addition, dye metabolites, such as azobiphenyl and 4-aminobiphenyl, have been correlated with epigenetic alterations. We shed some light on the mechanisms of Sudan dye genotoxicity through a molecular modeling study of Sudan I and Sudan II dyes and two common metabolites interacting with DNA as adducts. The results suggest that all four adducts cause significant perturbations to the DNA helical conformation and structure; thus, it can be inferred that DNA repair and replication processes would be significantly impacted.
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- Rachelle J. Bienstock
- Fiber and Polymer Science Program, Wilson College of Textiles, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, Durham, NC, United States
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- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, Durham, NC, United States
- *Correspondence: Lalith Perera, ; Melissa A. Pasquinelli,
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- Fiber and Polymer Science Program, Wilson College of Textiles, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States
- Forest Biomaterials, College of Natural Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States
- *Correspondence: Lalith Perera, ; Melissa A. Pasquinelli,
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Peluso M, Munnia A, Russo V, Galli A, Pala V, van der Schouw YT, Schulze MB, Weiderpass E, Tumino R, Saieva C, Exezarreta Pilar A, Aune D, Heath AK, Aglago E, Agudo A, Panico S, Petersen KEN, Tjønneland A, Cirera L, Rodriguez-Barranco M, Katzke V, Kaaks R, Ricceri F, Milani L, Vineis P, Sacerdote C. Cruciferous Vegetable Intake and Bulky DNA Damage within Non-Smokers and Former Smokers in the Gen-Air Study (EPIC Cohort). Nutrients 2022; 14:2477. [PMID: 35745207 PMCID: PMC9231287 DOI: 10.3390/nu14122477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2022] [Revised: 06/09/2022] [Accepted: 06/13/2022] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Epidemiologic studies have indicated that cruciferous vegetables can influence the cancer risk; therefore, we examined with a cross-sectional approach the correlation between the frequent consumption of the total cruciferous vegetables and the formation of bulky DNA damage, a biomarker of carcinogen exposure and cancer risk, in the Gen-Air study within the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) cohort. DNA damage measurements were performed in the peripheral blood of 696 of those apparently healthy without cancer controls, including 379 never-smokers and 317 former smokers from seven European countries by the 32P-postlabeling assay. In the Gen-Air controls, the median intake of cruciferous vegetables was 6.16 (IQR 1.16−13.66) g/day, ranging from 0.37 (IQR 0−6.00) g/day in Spain to 11.34 (IQR 6.02−16.07) g/day in the UK. Based on this information, participants were grouped into: (a) high consumers (>20 g/day), (b) medium consumers (3−20 g/day) and (c) low consumers (<3.0 g/day). Overall, low cruciferous vegetable intake was correlated with a greater frequency of bulky DNA lesions, including benzo(a)pyrene, lactone and quinone-adducts and bulky oxidative lesions, in the adjusted models. Conversely, a high versus low intake of cruciferous vegetables was associated with a reduction in DNA damage (up to a 23% change, p = 0.032); this was particularly evident in former smokers (up to a 40% change, p = 0.008). The Generalized Linear Regression models indicated an overall Mean Ratio between the high and the low consumers of 0.78 (95% confidence interval, 0.64−0.97). The current study suggests that a higher intake of cruciferous vegetables is associated with a lower level of bulky DNA adducts and supports the potential for cancer prevention strategies through dietary habit changes aimed at increasing the consumption of cruciferous vegetables.
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- Marco Peluso
- Research Branch, Regional Cancer Prevention Laboratory, ISPRO-Study, Prevention and Oncology Network Institute, 50139 Florence, Italy; (A.M.); (V.R.)
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- Research Branch, Regional Cancer Prevention Laboratory, ISPRO-Study, Prevention and Oncology Network Institute, 50139 Florence, Italy; (A.M.); (V.R.)
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- Research Branch, Regional Cancer Prevention Laboratory, ISPRO-Study, Prevention and Oncology Network Institute, 50139 Florence, Italy; (A.M.); (V.R.)
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Biomedical Sciences, University of Florence, 50139 Florence, Italy;
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- Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy;
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- Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, 3508 GA Utrecht, The Netherlands;
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- Department of Molecular Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, 14558 Nuthetal, Germany;
- Institute of Nutritional Science, University of Potsdam, 14558 Nuthetal, Germany
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- International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, 69372 Lyon, France;
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- Hyblean Association for Epidemiological Research, AIRE ONLUS, 97100 Ragusa, Italy;
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- Cancer Risk Factors and Life-Style Epidemiology Unit, ISPRO-Study, Prevention and Oncology Network Institute, 50139 Florence, Italy;
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- Ministry of Health of the Basque Government, Sub Directorate for Public Health and Addictions of Gipuzkoa, 20014 San Sebastian, Spain;
- Biodonostia Health Research Institute, Epidemiology of Chronic and Communicable Diseases Group, 20014 San Sebastián, Spain
- Spanish Consortium for Research on Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28029 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK; (D.A.); (A.K.H.); (E.A.)
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK; (D.A.); (A.K.H.); (E.A.)
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, UK; (D.A.); (A.K.H.); (E.A.)
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- Unit of Nutrition and Cancer, Catalan Institute of Oncology-ICO, 08908 L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain;
- Nutrition and Cancer Group, Epidemiology, Public Health, Cancer Prevention and Palliative Care Program, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute-IDIBELL, 08908 L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain
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- Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, Federico II University, 80138 Naples, Italy;
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- Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Diet, Cancer and Health, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark; (K.E.N.P.); (A.T.)
- Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Epidemiology, Regional Health Council-IMIB–Arrixaca, 30120 Murcia, Spain;
- CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), 28028 Madrid, Spain;
- Department of Social and Health Sciences, Murcia University, 30100 Murcia, Spain
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- CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), 28028 Madrid, Spain;
- Escuela Andaluza de Salud Pública (EASP), 18011 Granada, Spain
- Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs.GRANADA, 18012 Granada, Spain
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany; (V.K.); (R.K.)
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany; (V.K.); (R.K.)
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- Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences, University of Turin, 10124 Turin, Italy; (F.R.); (L.M.)
- Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, Città Della Salute e Della Scienza University-Hospital and Center for Cancer Prevention (CPO), 10126 Turin, Italy;
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- Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences, University of Turin, 10124 Turin, Italy; (F.R.); (L.M.)
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- MRC Centre for Environment and Health School of Public Health, Imperial College LondonSt Mary’s Campus, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK;
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- Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, Città Della Salute e Della Scienza University-Hospital and Center for Cancer Prevention (CPO), 10126 Turin, Italy;
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Nasrallah NA, Wiese BM, Sears CR. Xeroderma Pigmentosum Complementation Group C (XPC): Emerging Roles in Non-Dermatologic Malignancies. Front Oncol 2022; 12:846965. [PMID: 35530314 PMCID: PMC9069926 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2022.846965] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2021] [Accepted: 03/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Xeroderma pigmentosum complementation group C (XPC) is a DNA damage recognition protein essential for initiation of global-genomic nucleotide excision repair (GG-NER). Humans carrying germline mutations in the XPC gene exhibit strong susceptibility to skin cancer due to defective removal via GG-NER of genotoxic, solar UV-induced dipyrimidine photoproducts. However, XPC is increasingly recognized as important for protection against non-dermatologic cancers, not only through its role in GG-NER, but also by participating in other DNA repair pathways, in the DNA damage response and in transcriptional regulation. Additionally, XPC expression levels and polymorphisms likely impact development and may serve as predictive and therapeutic biomarkers in a number of these non-dermatologic cancers. Here we review the existing literature, focusing on the role of XPC in non-dermatologic cancer development, progression, and treatment response, and highlight possible future applications of XPC as a prognostic and therapeutic biomarker.
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- Nawar Al Nasrallah
- Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Occupational Medicine, Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, United States
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- Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Occupational Medicine, Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, United States
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- Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Occupational Medicine, Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, United States
- Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Richard L. Roudebush Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Indianapolis, IN, United States
- *Correspondence: Catherine R. Sears,
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Hecht SS, Hatsukami DK. Smokeless tobacco and cigarette smoking: chemical mechanisms and cancer prevention. Nat Rev Cancer 2022; 22:143-155. [PMID: 34980891 PMCID: PMC9308447 DOI: 10.1038/s41568-021-00423-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 33.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/05/2021] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Tobacco products present a deadly combination of nicotine addiction and carcinogen exposure resulting in millions of cancer deaths per year worldwide. A plethora of smokeless tobacco products lead to unacceptable exposure to multiple carcinogens, including the tobacco-specific nitrosamine N'-nitrosonornicotine, a likely cause of the commonly occurring oral cavity cancers observed particularly in South-East Asian countries. Cigarettes continue to deliver a large number of carcinogens, including tobacco-specific nitrosamines, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and volatile organic compounds. The multiple carcinogens in cigarette smoke are responsible for the complex mutations observed in critical cancer genes. The exposure of smokeless tobacco users and smokers to carcinogens and toxicants can now be monitored by urinary and DNA adduct biomarkers that may be able to identify those individuals at highest risk of cancer so that effective cancer prevention interventions can be initiated. Regulation of the levels of carcinogens, toxicants and nicotine in tobacco products and evidence-based tobacco control efforts are now recognized as established pathways to preventing tobacco related cancer.
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- Stephen S Hecht
- Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
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Paul D, Mu H, Tavakoli A, Dai Q, Chakraborty S, He C, Ansari A, Broyde S, Min JH. Impact of DNA sequences on DNA 'opening' by the Rad4/XPC nucleotide excision repair complex. DNA Repair (Amst) 2021; 107:103194. [PMID: 34428697 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2021.103194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2021] [Revised: 07/21/2021] [Accepted: 07/27/2021] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Rad4/XPC recognizes diverse DNA lesions to initiate nucleotide excision repair (NER). However, NER propensities among lesions vary widely and repair-resistant lesions are persistent and thus highly mutagenic. Rad4 recognizes repair-proficient lesions by unwinding ('opening') the damaged DNA site. Such 'opening' is also observed on a normal DNA sequence containing consecutive C/G's (CCC/GGG) when tethered to Rad4 to prevent protein diffusion. However, it was unknown if such tethering-facilitated DNA 'opening' could occur on any DNA or if certain structures/sequences would resist being 'opened'. Here, we report that DNA containing alternating C/G's (CGC/GCG) failed to be opened even when tethered; instead, Rad4 bound in a 180°-reversed manner, capping the DNA end. Fluorescence lifetime studies of DNA conformations in solution showed that CCC/GGG exhibits local pre-melting that is absent in CGC/GCG. In MD simulations, CGC/GCG failed to engage Rad4 to promote 'opening' contrary to CCC/GGG. Altogether, our study illustrates how local sequences can impact DNA recognition by Rad4/XPC and how certain DNA sites resist being 'opened' even with Rad4 held at that site indefinitely. The contrast between CCC/GGG and CGC/GCG sequences in Rad4-DNA recognition may help decipher a lesion's mutagenicity in various genomic sequence contexts to explain lesion-determined mutational hot and cold spots.
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- Debamita Paul
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Baylor University, Waco, TX, 76798, USA
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- Department of Biology, New York University, New York, NY, 10003, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Baylor University, Waco, TX, 76798, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60607, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60607, USA
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- Department of Biology, New York University, New York, NY, 10003, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Baylor University, Waco, TX, 76798, USA.
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Molecular dynamics simulations reveal how H3K56 acetylation impacts nucleosome structure to promote DNA exposure for lesion sensing. DNA Repair (Amst) 2021; 107:103201. [PMID: 34399316 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2021.103201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2021] [Revised: 07/12/2021] [Accepted: 08/02/2021] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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The first order of DNA packaging is the nucleosome with the DNA wrapped around the histone octamer. This leaves the nucleosomal DNA with access restrictions, which impose a significant barrier to repair of damaged DNA. The efficiency of DNA repair has been related to nucleosome structure and chromatin status, which is modulated in part by post-translational modifications (PTMs) of histones. Numerous studies have suggested a role for acetylation of lysine at position 56 of the H3 histone (H3K56ac) in various DNA transactions, including the response to DNA damage and its association with human cancer. Biophysical studies have revealed that H3K56ac increases DNA accessibility by facilitating spontaneous and transient unwrapping motions of the DNA ends. However, how this acetylation mark modulates nucleosome structure and dynamics to promote accessibility to the damaged DNA for repair factors and other proteins is still poorly understood. Here, we utilize approximately 5-6 microseconds of atomistic molecular dynamics simulations to delineate the impact of H3K56 acetylation on the nucleosome structure and dynamics, and to elucidate how these nucleosome properties are further impacted when a bulky benzo[a]pyrene-derived DNA lesion is placed near the acetylation site. Our findings reveal that H3K56ac alone induces considerable disturbance to the histone-DNA/histone-histone interactions, and amplifies the distortions imposed by the presence of the lesion. Our work highlights the important role of H3K56 acetylation in response to DNA damage and depicts how access to DNA lesions by the repair machinery can be facilitated within the nucleosome via a key acetylation event.
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Rodriguez FD, Coveñas R. Biochemical Mechanisms Associating Alcohol Use Disorders with Cancers. Cancers (Basel) 2021; 13:cancers13143548. [PMID: 34298760 PMCID: PMC8306032 DOI: 10.3390/cancers13143548] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2021] [Revised: 07/01/2021] [Accepted: 07/14/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Simple Summary Of all yearly deaths attributable to alcohol consumption globally, approximately 12% are due to cancers, representing approximately 0.4 million deceased individuals. Ethanol metabolism disturbs cell biochemistry by targeting the structure and function of essential biomolecules (proteins, nucleic acids, and lipids) and by provoking alterations in cell programming that lead to cancer development and cancer malignancy. A better understanding of the metabolic and cell signaling realm affected by ethanol is paramount to designing effective treatments and preventive actions tailored to specific neoplasias. Abstract The World Health Organization identifies alcohol as a cause of several neoplasias of the oropharynx cavity, esophagus, gastrointestinal tract, larynx, liver, or female breast. We review ethanol’s nonoxidative and oxidative metabolism and one-carbon metabolism that encompasses both redox and transfer reactions that influence crucial cell proliferation machinery. Ethanol favors the uncontrolled production and action of free radicals, which interfere with the maintenance of essential cellular functions. We focus on the generation of protein, DNA, and lipid adducts that interfere with the cellular processes related to growth and differentiation. Ethanol’s effects on stem cells, which are responsible for building and repairing tissues, are reviewed. Cancer stem cells (CSCs) of different origins suffer disturbances related to the expression of cell surface markers, enzymes, and transcription factors after ethanol exposure with the consequent dysregulation of mechanisms related to cancer metastasis or resistance to treatments. Our analysis aims to underline and discuss potential targets that show more sensitivity to ethanol’s action and identify specific metabolic routes and metabolic realms that may be corrected to recover metabolic homeostasis after pharmacological intervention. Specifically, research should pay attention to re-establishing metabolic fluxes by fine-tuning the functioning of specific pathways related to one-carbon metabolism and antioxidant processes.
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- Francisco D. Rodriguez
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Salamanca, 37007 Salamanca, Spain
- Group GIR USAL: BMD (Bases Moleculares del Desarrollo), 37007 Salamanca, Spain;
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +34-677-510-030
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- Group GIR USAL: BMD (Bases Moleculares del Desarrollo), 37007 Salamanca, Spain;
- Institute of Neurosciences of Castilla y León (INCYL), Laboratory of Neuroanatomy of the Peptidergic Systems, University of Salamanca, 37007 Salamanca, Spain
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Wang P, Roider E, Coulter ME, Walsh CA, Kramer CS, Beuning PJ, Giese RW. DNA Adductomics by mass tag prelabeling. RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY : RCM 2021; 35:e9095. [PMID: 33821547 PMCID: PMC10668917 DOI: 10.1002/rcm.9095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2020] [Revised: 04/01/2021] [Accepted: 04/01/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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RATIONALE As a new approach to DNA adductomics, we directly reacted intact, double-stranded (ds)-DNA under warm conditions with an alkylating mass tag followed by analysis by liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry. This method is based on the tendency of adducted nucleobases to locally disrupt the DNA structure (forming a "DNA bubble") potentially increasing exposure of their nucleophilic (including active hydrogen) sites for preferential alkylation. Also encouraging this strategy is that the scope of nucleotide excision repair is very broad, and this system primarily recognizes DNA bubbles. METHODS A cationic xylyl (CAX) mass tag with limited nonpolarity was selected to increase the retention of polar adducts in reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) for more detectability while maintaining resolution. We thereby detected a diversity of DNA adducts (mostly polar) by the following sequence of steps: (1) react DNA at 45°C for 2 h under aqueous conditions with CAX-B (has a benzyl bromide functional group to label active hydrogen sites) in the presence of triethylamine; (2) remove residual reagents by precipitating and washing the DNA (a convenient step); (3) digest the DNA enzymatically to nucleotides and remove unlabeled nucleotides by nonpolar solid-phase extraction (also a convenient step); and (4) detect CAX-labeled, adducted nucleotides by LC/MS2 or a matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI)-MS technique. RESULTS Examples of the 42 DNA or RNA adducts detected, or tentatively so based on accurate mass and fragmentation data, are as follows: 8-oxo-dGMP, ethyl-dGMP, hydroxyethyl-dGMP (four isomers, all HPLC-resolved), uracil-glycol, apurinic/apyrimidinic sites, benzo[a]pyrene-dGMP, and, for the first time, benzoquinone-hydroxymethyl-dCMP. Importantly, these adducts are detected in a single procedure under a single set of conditions. Sensitivity, however, is only defined in a preliminary way, namely the latter adduct seems to be detected at a level of about 4 adducts in 109 nucleotides (S/N ~30). CONCLUSIONS CAX-Prelabeling is an emerging new technique for DNA adductomics, providing polar DNA adductomics in a practical way for the first time. Further study of the method is encouraged to better characterize and extend its performance, especially in scope and sensitivity.
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- Poguang Wang
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Cutaneous Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Genetics and Genomics, Boston Children's Hospital, Center for Life Sciences, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
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Urwin DJ, Alexandrova AN. Regularization of least squares problems in CHARMM parameter optimization by truncated singular value decompositions. J Chem Phys 2021; 154:184101. [PMID: 34241037 DOI: 10.1063/5.0045982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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We examine the use of the truncated singular value decomposition and Tikhonov regularization in standard form to address ill-posed least squares problems Ax = b that frequently arise in molecular mechanics force field parameter optimization. We illustrate these approaches by applying them to dihedral parameter optimization of genotoxic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-DNA adducts that are of interest in the study of chemical carcinogenesis. Utilizing the discrete Picard condition and/or a well-defined gap in the singular value spectrum when A has a well-determined numerical rank, we are able to systematically determine truncation and in turn regularization parameters that are correspondingly used to produce truncated and regularized solutions to the ill-posed least squares problem at hand. These solutions in turn result in optimized force field dihedral terms that accurately parameterize the torsional energy landscape. As the solutions produced by this approach are unique, it has the advantage of avoiding the multiple iterations and guess and check work often required to optimize molecular mechanics force field parameters.
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- Derek J Urwin
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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Latimer JJ, Alhamed A, Sveiven S, Almutairy A, Klimas NG, Abreu M, Sullivan K, Grant SG. Preliminary Evidence for a Hormetic Effect on DNA Nucleotide Excision Repair in Veterans with Gulf War Illness. Mil Med 2021; 185:e47-e52. [PMID: 31334811 PMCID: PMC7353836 DOI: 10.1093/milmed/usz177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2019] [Revised: 06/17/2019] [Accepted: 06/25/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Introduction Veterans of the 1991 Gulf War were potentially exposed to a mixture of stress, chemicals and radiation that may have contributed to the persistent symptoms of Gulf War Illness (GWI). The genotoxic effects of some of these exposures are mediated by the DNA nucleotide excision repair (NER) pathway. We hypothesized that individuals with relatively low DNA repair capacity would suffer greater damage from cumulative genotoxic exposures, some of which would persist, causing ongoing problems. Materials and Methods Blood samples were obtained from symptomatic Gulf War veterans and age-matched controls. The unscheduled DNA synthesis assay, a functional measurement of NER capacity, was performed on cultured lymphocytes, and lymphocyte mRNA was extracted and analyzed by sequencing. Results Despite our hypothesis that GWI would be associated with DNA repair deficiency, NER capacity in lymphocytes from affected GWI veterans actually exhibited a significantly elevated level of DNA repair (p = 0.016). Both total gene expression and NER gene expression successfully differentiated individuals with GWI from unaffected controls. The observed functional increase in DNA repair capacity was accompanied by an overexpression of genes in the NER pathway, as determined by RNA sequencing analysis. Conclusion We suggest that the observed elevations in DNA repair capacity and NER gene expression are indicative of a “hormetic,” i.e., induced or adaptive protective response to battlefield exposures. Normally such effects are short-term, but in these individuals this response has resulted in a long-term metabolic shift that may also be responsible for the persistent symptoms of GWI.
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- Jean J Latimer
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nova Southeastern University, 3200 South University Drive, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33328.,South University Drive, AutoNation Institute for Breast Cancer Research, 3321, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33328
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nova Southeastern University, 3200 South University Drive, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33328.,South University Drive, AutoNation Institute for Breast Cancer Research, 3321, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33328
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- South University Drive, AutoNation Institute for Breast Cancer Research, 3321, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33328
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nova Southeastern University, 3200 South University Drive, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33328.,South University Drive, AutoNation Institute for Breast Cancer Research, 3321, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33328
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- Department of Clinical Immunology, Nova Southeastern University, 3200 South University Drive, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33328.,Department of Medicine, Miami VA Healthcare System, 1201 NW 16th St, Miami, FL 33313
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- Department of Clinical Immunology, Nova Southeastern University, 3200 South University Drive, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33328
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- Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, 715 Albany St, Boston, MA 02118
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- South University Drive, AutoNation Institute for Breast Cancer Research, 3321, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33328.,Department of Public Health, Nova Southeastern University, 3200 South University Drive, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33328
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Abdullah R, Wesseling S, Spenkelink B, Louisse J, Punt A, Rietjens IM. Defining in vivo dose-response curves for kidney DNA adduct formation of aristolochic acid I in rat, mouse and human by an in vitro and physiologically based kinetic modeling approach. J Appl Toxicol 2020; 40:1647-1660. [PMID: 33034907 PMCID: PMC7689901 DOI: 10.1002/jat.4024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2020] [Revised: 05/14/2020] [Accepted: 05/28/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Aristolochic acid I (AAI) is a well-known genotoxic kidney carcinogen. Metabolic conversion of AAI into the DNA-reactive aristolactam-nitrenium ion is involved in the mode of action of tumor formation. This study aims to predict in vivo AAI-DNA adduct formation in the kidney of rat, mouse and human by translating the in vitro concentration-response curves for AAI-DNA adduct formation to the in vivo situation using physiologically based kinetic (PBK) modeling-based reverse dosimetry. DNA adduct formation in kidney proximal tubular LLC-PK1 cells exposed to AAI was quantified by liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization-tandem mass spectrometry. Subsequently, the in vitro concentration-response curves were converted to predicted in vivo dose-response curves in rat, mouse and human kidney using PBK models. Results obtained revealed a dose-dependent increase in AAI-DNA adduct formation in the rat, mouse and human kidney and the predicted DNA adduct levels were generally within an order of magnitude compared with values reported in the literature. It is concluded that the combined in vitro PBK modeling approach provides a novel way to define in vivo dose-response curves for kidney DNA adduct formation in rat, mouse and human and contributes to the reduction, refinement and replacement of animal testing.
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- Rozaini Abdullah
- Division of ToxicologyWageningen UniversityWageningenThe Netherlands
- Department of Environmental & Occupational Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health SciencesUniversiti Putra MalaysiaSelangorMalaysia
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- Division of ToxicologyWageningen UniversityWageningenThe Netherlands
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- Division of ToxicologyWageningen UniversityWageningenThe Netherlands
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- Division of ToxicologyWageningen UniversityWageningenThe Netherlands
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Feher KM, Kolbanovskiy A, Durandin A, Shim Y, Min JH, Lee YC, Shafirovich V, Mu H, Broyde S, Geacintov NE. The DNA damage-sensing NER repair factor XPC-RAD23B does not recognize bulky DNA lesions with a missing nucleotide opposite the lesion. DNA Repair (Amst) 2020; 96:102985. [PMID: 33035795 PMCID: PMC8423485 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2020.102985] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2020] [Revised: 08/27/2020] [Accepted: 09/21/2020] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The Nucleotide Excision Repair (NER) mechanism removes a wide spectrum of structurally different lesions that critically depend on the binding of the DNA damage sensing NER factor XPC-RAD23B (XPC) to the lesions. The bulky mutagenic benzo[a]pyrene diol epoxide metabolite-derived cis- and trans-B[a]P-dG lesions (G*) adopt base-displaced intercalative (cis) or minor groove (trans) conformations in fully paired DNA duplexes with the canonical C opposite G* (G*:C duplexes). While XPC has a high affinity for binding to these DNA lesions in fully complementary double-stranded DNA, we show here that deleting only the C in the complementary strand opposite the lesion G* embedded in 50-mer duplexes, fully abrogates XPC binding. Accurate values of XPC dissociation constants (KD) were determined by employing an excess of unmodified DNA as a competitor; this approach eliminated the binding and accumulation of multiple XPC molecules to the same DNA duplexes, a phenomenon that prevented the accurate estimation of XPC binding affinities in previous studies. Surprisingly, a detailed comparison of XPC dissociation constants KD of unmodified and lesion-containing G*:Del complexes, showed that the KD values were -2.5-3.6 times greater in the case of G*:Del than in the unmodified G:Del and fully base-paired G:C duplexes. The origins of this unexpected XPC lesion avoidance effect is attributed to the intercalation of the bulky, planar B[a]P aromatic ring system between adjacent DNA bases that thermodynamically stabilize the G*:Del duplexes. The strong lesion-base stacking interactions associated with the absence of the partner base, prevent the DNA structural distortions needed for the binding of the BHD2 and BHD3 β-hairpins of XPC to the deletion duplexes, thus accounting for the loss of XPC binding and the known NER-resistance of G*:Del duplexes.
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- Katie M Feher
- Chemistry Department, New York University, 100 Washington East, New York, NY, 10003-5180, USA
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- Chemistry Department, New York University, 100 Washington East, New York, NY, 10003-5180, USA
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- Chemistry Department, New York University, 100 Washington East, New York, NY, 10003-5180, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Baylor University, Waco, TX, 76706, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Baylor University, Waco, TX, 76706, USA
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- Chemistry Department, New York University, 100 Washington East, New York, NY, 10003-5180, USA
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- Chemistry Department, New York University, 100 Washington East, New York, NY, 10003-5180, USA
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- Department of Biology, New York University, 100 Washington Square East, New York, N.Y., 10003-5180, USA
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- Department of Biology, New York University, 100 Washington Square East, New York, N.Y., 10003-5180, USA
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- Chemistry Department, New York University, 100 Washington East, New York, NY, 10003-5180, USA.
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Piberger AL, Bowry A, Kelly RDW, Walker AK, González-Acosta D, Bailey LJ, Doherty AJ, Méndez J, Morris JR, Bryant HE, Petermann E. PrimPol-dependent single-stranded gap formation mediates homologous recombination at bulky DNA adducts. Nat Commun 2020; 11:5863. [PMID: 33203852 PMCID: PMC7673990 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19570-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2020] [Accepted: 10/15/2020] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Stalled replication forks can be restarted and repaired by RAD51-mediated homologous recombination (HR), but HR can also perform post-replicative repair after bypass of the obstacle. Bulky DNA adducts are important replication-blocking lesions, but it is unknown whether they activate HR at stalled forks or behind ongoing forks. Using mainly BPDE-DNA adducts as model lesions, we show that HR induced by bulky adducts in mammalian cells predominantly occurs at post-replicative gaps formed by the DNA/RNA primase PrimPol. RAD51 recruitment under these conditions does not result from fork stalling, but rather occurs at gaps formed by PrimPol re-priming and resection by MRE11 and EXO1. In contrast, RAD51 loading at double-strand breaks does not require PrimPol. At bulky adducts, PrimPol promotes sister chromatid exchange and genetic recombination. Our data support that HR at bulky adducts in mammalian cells involves post-replicative gap repair and define a role for PrimPol in HR-mediated DNA damage tolerance.
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- Ann Liza Piberger
- Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK.
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- Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
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- Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
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- Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
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- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9RQ, UK
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- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9RQ, UK
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- Molecular Oncology Program, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain
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- Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
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- Department of Oncology & Metabolism, The Medical School, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2RX, UK
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- Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK.
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Peterson LA, Balbo S, Fujioka N, Hatsukami DK, Hecht SS, Murphy SE, Stepanov I, Tretyakova NY, Turesky RJ, Villalta PW. Applying Tobacco, Environmental, and Dietary-Related Biomarkers to Understand Cancer Etiology and Evaluate Prevention Strategies. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2020; 29:1904-1919. [PMID: 32051197 PMCID: PMC7423750 DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-19-1356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2019] [Revised: 12/18/2019] [Accepted: 01/27/2020] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Many human cancers are caused by environmental and lifestyle factors. Biomarkers of exposure and risk developed by our team have provided critical data on internal exposure to toxic and genotoxic chemicals and their connection to cancer in humans. This review highlights our research using biomarkers to identify key factors influencing cancer risk as well as their application to assess the effectiveness of exposure intervention and chemoprevention protocols. The use of these biomarkers to understand individual susceptibility to the harmful effects of tobacco products is a powerful example of the value of this type of research and has provided key data confirming the link between tobacco smoke exposure and cancer risk. Furthermore, this information has led to policy changes that have reduced tobacco use and consequently, the tobacco-related cancer burden. Recent technological advances in mass spectrometry led to the ability to detect DNA damage in human tissues as well as the development of adductomic approaches. These new methods allowed for the detection of DNA adducts in tissues from patients with cancer, providing key evidence that exposure to carcinogens leads to DNA damage in the target tissue. These advances will provide valuable insights into the etiologic causes of cancer that are not tobacco-related.See all articles in this CEBP Focus section, "Environmental Carcinogenesis: Pathways to Prevention."
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- Lisa A Peterson
- Division of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
- Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Division of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Division of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Yang S, Liu JDH, Diem M, Wesseling S, Vervoort J, Oostenbrink C, Rietjens IMCM. Molecular Dynamics and In Vitro Quantification of Safrole DNA Adducts Reveal DNA Adduct Persistence Due to Limited DNA Distortion Resulting in Inefficient Repair. Chem Res Toxicol 2020; 33:2298-2309. [PMID: 32786539 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrestox.0c00097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The formation and repair of N2-(trans-isosafrol-3'-yl)-2'-deoxyguanosine (S-3'-N2-dG) DNA adduct derived from the spice and herbal alkenylbenzene constituent safrole were investigated. DNA adduct formation and repair were studied in vitro and using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. DNA adduct formation was quantified using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LCMS) in wild type and NER (nucleotide excision repair) deficient CHO cells and also in HepaRG cells and primary rat hepatocytes after different periods of repair following exposure to safrole or 1'-hydroxysafrole (1'-OH safrole). The slower repair of the DNA adducts found in NER deficient cells compared to that in CHO wild type cells indicates a role for NER in repair of S-3'-N2-dG DNA adducts. However, DNA repair in liver cell models appeared to be limited, with over 90% of the adducts remaining even after 24 or 48 h recovery. In our further studies, MD simulations indicated that S-3'-N2-dG adduct formation causes only subtle changes in the DNA structure, potentially explaining inefficient activation of NER. Inefficiency of NER mediated repair of S-3'-N2-dG adducts points at persistence and potential bioaccumulation of safrole DNA adducts upon daily dietary exposure.
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- Shuo Yang
- Division of Toxicology, Wageningen University and Research, Stippeneng 4, 6708 WE Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Molecular Modeling and Simulation, Department of Material Sciences and Process Engineering, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Molecular Modeling and Simulation, Department of Material Sciences and Process Engineering, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, Austria
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- Division of Toxicology, Wageningen University and Research, Stippeneng 4, 6708 WE Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Division of Biochemistry, Wageningen University and Research, Stippeneng 4, 6708 WE Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Molecular Modeling and Simulation, Department of Material Sciences and Process Engineering, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, Austria
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- Division of Toxicology, Wageningen University and Research, Stippeneng 4, 6708 WE Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Kolbanovskiy M, Aharonoff A, Sales AH, Geacintov NE, Shafirovich V. Remarkable Enhancement of Nucleotide Excision Repair of a Bulky Guanine Lesion in a Covalently Closed Circular DNA Plasmid Relative to the Same Linearized Plasmid. Biochemistry 2020; 59:2842-2848. [PMID: 32786887 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.0c00441] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [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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The excision of DNA lesions by human nucleotide excision repair (NER) has been extensively studied in human cell extracts. Employing DNA duplexes with fewer than 200 bp containing a single bulky, benzo[a]pyrene-derived guanine lesion (B[a]P-dG), the NER yields are typically on the order of ∼5-10%, or less. Remarkably, the NER yield is enhanced by a factor of ∼6 when the B[a]P-dG lesion is embedded in a covalently closed circular pUC19NN plasmid (contour length of 2686 bp) rather than in the same plasmid linearized by a restriction enzyme with the B[a]P-dG adduct positioned at the 945th nucleotide counted from the 5'-end of the linearized DNA molecules. Furthermore, the NER yield in the circular pUC19NN plasmid is ∼9 times greater than in a short 147-mer DNA duplex with the B[a]P-dG adduct positioned in the middle. Although the NER factors responsible for these differences were not explicitly identified here, we hypothesize that the initial DNA damage sensor XPC-RAD23B is a likely candidate; it is known to search for DNA lesions by a constrained one-dimensional search mechanism [Cheon, N. Y., et al. (2019) Nucleic Acids Res. 47, 8337-8347], and our results are consistent with the notion that it dissociates more readily from the blunt ends than from the inner regions of linear DNA duplexes, thus accounting for the remarkable enhancement in NER yields associated with the single B[a]P-dG adduct embedded in covalently closed circular plasmids.
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- Marina Kolbanovskiy
- Department of Chemistry, New York University, 31 Washington Place, New York, New York 10003-5180, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, New York University, 31 Washington Place, New York, New York 10003-5180, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, New York University, 31 Washington Place, New York, New York 10003-5180, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, New York University, 31 Washington Place, New York, New York 10003-5180, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, New York University, 31 Washington Place, New York, New York 10003-5180, United States
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Jeong YER, Lenz SAP, Wetmore SD. DFT Study on the Deglycosylation of Methylated, Oxidized, and Canonical Pyrimidine Nucleosides in Water: Implications for Epigenetic Regulation and DNA Repair. J Phys Chem B 2020; 124:2392-2400. [PMID: 32108483 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c00783] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Density functional theory (B3LYP) was used to characterize the kinetics and thermodynamics of the (nonenzymatic) deglycosylation in water for a variety of 2'-deoxycytidine (dC) and 2'-deoxyuridine (dU) nucleoside derivatives that differ in methylation and subsequent oxidation of the C5 substituent. A range of computational models are considered that combine implicit and explicit solvation of the nucleophile and nucleobase. Regardless of the model implemented, our calculations reveal that the glycosidic bond in dC is inherently more stable than that in dU. Furthermore, C5 methylation of either pyrimidine and subsequent oxidation of the methyl group yield overall small changes to the Gibbs reaction energy profiles and thereby preserve lower deglycosylation barriers for the dC compared to those for the dU nucleoside derivatives. However, hydrolytic deglycosylation becomes significantly more energetically favorable when 5-methyl-dC (5m-dC) undergoes two or three rounds of oxidation, with the Gibbs energy barrier decreasing and the reaction becoming more exergonic by up to 40 kJ/mol. In fact, two or three oxidation reactions from 5m-dC result in a deglycosylation barrier similar to that for dU, as well as those for the associated C5-methylated (2'-deoxythymidine) and oxidized (5-hydroxymethyl-dU) derivatives. These predicted trends in the inherent deglycosylation energetics in water directly correlate with the previously reported activity of thymine DNA glycosylase (TDG), which cleaves the glycosidic bond in select dC nucleosides as part of epigenetic regulation and in dU variants as part of DNA repair. Thus, our data suggests that fundamental differences in the intrinsic reactivity of the pyrimidine nucleosides help regulate the function of human enzymes that maintain cellular integrity.
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- Ye Eun Rebecca Jeong
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive West, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada T1K 3M4
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive West, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada T1K 3M4
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive West, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada T1K 3M4
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Cellular levels and molecular dynamics simulations of estragole DNA adducts point at inefficient repair resulting from limited distortion of the double-stranded DNA helix. Arch Toxicol 2020; 94:1349-1365. [PMID: 32185416 PMCID: PMC7225201 DOI: 10.1007/s00204-020-02695-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2019] [Accepted: 03/02/2020] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Estragole, naturally occurring in a variety of herbs and spices, can form DNA adducts after bioactivation. Estragole DNA adduct formation and repair was studied in in vitro liver cell models, and a molecular dynamics simulation was used to investigate the conformation dependent (in)efficiency of N2-(trans-isoestragol-3'-yl)-2'-deoxyguanosine (E-3'-N2-dG) DNA adduct repair. HepG2, HepaRG cells, primary rat hepatocytes and CHO cells (including CHO wild-type and three NER-deficient mutants) were exposed to 50 μM estragole or 1'-hydroxyestragole and DNA adduct formation was quantified by LC-MS immediately following exposure and after a period of repair. Results obtained from CHO cell lines indicated that NER plays a role in repair of E-3'-N2-dG adducts, however, with limited efficiency since in the CHO wt cells 80% DNA adducts remained upon 24 h repair. Inefficiency of DNA repair was also found in HepaRG cells and primary rat hepatocytes. Changes in DNA structure resulting from E-3'-N2-dG adduct formation were investigated by molecular dynamics simulations. Results from molecular dynamics simulations revealed that conformational changes in double-stranded DNA by E-3'-N2-dG adduct formation are small, providing a possible explanation for the restrained repair, which may require larger distortions in the DNA structure. NER-mediated enzymatic repair of E-3'-N2-dG DNA adducts upon exposure to estragole will be limited, providing opportunities for accumulation of damage upon repeated daily exposure. The inability of this enzymatic repair is likely due to a limited distortion of the DNA double-stranded helix resulting in inefficient activation of nucleotide excision repair.
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Kaur R, Nikkel DJ, Wetmore SD. Computational studies of DNA repair: Insights into the function of monofunctional DNA glycosylases in the base excision repair pathway. WIRES COMPUTATIONAL MOLECULAR SCIENCE 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/wcms.1471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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- Rajwinder Kaur
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Lethbridge Lethbridge Alberta Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Lethbridge Lethbridge Alberta Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Lethbridge Lethbridge Alberta Canada
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Gooderham NJ, Cohen SM, Eisenbrand G, Fukushima S, Guengerich FP, Hecht SS, Rietjens IMCM, Rosol TJ, Bastaki M, Linman MJ, Taylor SV. The safety evaluation of food flavoring substances: the role of genotoxicity studies. Crit Rev Toxicol 2020; 50:1-27. [PMID: 32162576 DOI: 10.1080/10408444.2020.1712589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The Flavor and Extract Manufacturers Association (FEMA) Expert Panel relies on the weight of evidence from all available data in the safety evaluation of flavoring substances. This process includes data from genotoxicity studies designed to assess the potential of a chemical agent to react with DNA or otherwise cause changes to DNA, either in vitro or in vivo. The Panel has reviewed a large number of in vitro and in vivo genotoxicity studies during the course of its ongoing safety evaluations of flavorings. The adherence of genotoxicity studies to standardized protocols and guidelines, the biological relevance of the results from those studies, and the human relevance of these studies are all important considerations in assessing whether the results raise specific concerns for genotoxic potential. The Panel evaluates genotoxicity studies not only for evidence of genotoxicity hazard, but also for the probability of risk to the consumer in the context of exposure from their use as flavoring substances. The majority of flavoring substances have given no indication of genotoxic potential in studies evaluated by the FEMA Expert Panel. Examples illustrating the assessment of genotoxicity data for flavoring substances and the consideration of the factors noted above are provided. The weight of evidence approach adopted by the FEMA Expert Panel leads to a rational assessment of risk associated with consumer intake of flavoring substances under the conditions of use.
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- Havlik-Wall Professor of Oncology, Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA
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- Food Chemistry & Toxicology, University of Kaiserslautern (retired), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Masonic Cancer Center and Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA
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- Flavor and Extract Manufacturers Association, Washington, DC, USA
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- Flavor and Extract Manufacturers Association, Washington, DC, USA
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- Flavor and Extract Manufacturers Association, Washington, DC, USA
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Benkerroum N. Chronic and Acute Toxicities of Aflatoxins: Mechanisms of Action. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2020; 17:E423. [PMID: 31936320 PMCID: PMC7013914 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17020423] [Citation(s) in RCA: 172] [Impact Index Per Article: 43.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2019] [Revised: 12/23/2019] [Accepted: 12/29/2019] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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There are presently more than 18 known aflatoxins most of which have been insufficiently studied for their incidence, health-risk, and mechanisms of toxicity to allow effective intervention and control means that would significantly and sustainably reduce their incidence and adverse effects on health and economy. Among these, aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) has been by far the most studied; yet, many aspects of the range and mechanisms of the diseases it causes remain to be elucidated. Its mutagenicity, tumorigenicity, and carcinogenicity-which are the best known-still suffer from limitations regarding the relative contribution of the oxidative stress and the reactive epoxide derivative (Aflatoxin-exo 8,9-epoxide) in the induction of the diseases, as well as its metabolic and synthesis pathways. Additionally, despite the well-established additive effects for carcinogenicity between AFB1 and other risk factors, e.g., hepatitis viruses B and C, and the hepatotoxic algal microcystins, the mechanisms of this synergy remain unclear. This study reviews the most recent advances in the field of the mechanisms of toxicity of aflatoxins and the adverse health effects that they cause in humans and animals.
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- Noreddine Benkerroum
- Department of Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry MacDonald Campus, McGill University, 21111 Lakeshore, Ste Anne de Bellevue, QC H9X 3V9, Canada
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Salk JJ, Kennedy SR. Next-Generation Genotoxicology: Using Modern Sequencing Technologies to Assess Somatic Mutagenesis and Cancer Risk. ENVIRONMENTAL AND MOLECULAR MUTAGENESIS 2020; 61:135-151. [PMID: 31595553 PMCID: PMC7003768 DOI: 10.1002/em.22342] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2019] [Revised: 09/20/2019] [Accepted: 09/25/2019] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Mutations have a profound effect on human health, particularly through an increased risk of carcinogenesis and genetic disease. The strong correlation between mutagenesis and carcinogenesis has been a driving force behind genotoxicity research for more than 50 years. The stochastic and infrequent nature of mutagenesis makes it challenging to observe and to study. Indeed, decades have been spent developing increasingly sophisticated assays and methods to study these low-frequency genetic errors, in hopes of better predicting which chemicals may be carcinogens, understanding their mode of action, and informing guidelines to prevent undue human exposure. While effective, widely used genetic selection-based technologies have a number of limitations that have hampered major advancements in the field of genotoxicity. Emerging new tools, in the form of enhanced next-generation sequencing platforms and methods, are changing this paradigm. In this review, we discuss rapidly evolving sequencing tools and technologies, such as error-corrected sequencing and single cell analysis, which we anticipate will fundamentally reshape the field. In addition, we consider a variety emerging applications for these new technologies, including the detection of DNA adducts, inference of mutational processes based on genomic site and local sequence contexts, and evaluation of genome engineering fidelity, as well as other cutting-edge challenges for the next 50 years of environmental and molecular mutagenesis research. Environ. Mol. Mutagen. 61:135-151, 2020. © 2019 The Authors. Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Environmental Mutagen Society.
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- Jesse J. Salk
- Department of Medicine, Division of Medical OncologyUniversity of Washington School of MedicineSeattleWashington
- TwinStrand BiosciencesSeattleWashington
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- Department of PathologyUniversity of WashingtonSeattleWashington
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Cai Y, Geacintov NE, Broyde S. Variable impact of conformationally distinct DNA lesions on nucleosome structure and dynamics: Implications for nucleotide excision repair. DNA Repair (Amst) 2019; 87:102768. [PMID: 32018112 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2019.102768] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2019] [Revised: 11/14/2019] [Accepted: 12/08/2019] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The packaging of DNA in nucleosomes presents a barrier for biological transactions including replication, transcription and repair. However, despite years of research, how the DNA is freed from the histone proteins and thereby allows the molecular machines to access the DNA remains poorly understood. We are interested in global genomic nucleotide excision repair (GG-NER). It is established that the histones are obstacles to this process, and DNA lesions are repaired less efficiently in nucleosomes than in free DNA. In the present study, we utilized molecular dynamics simulations to elucidate the nature of the distortions and dynamics imposed in the nucleosome by a set of three structually different lesions that vary in GG-NER efficiencies in free DNA, and in nucleosomes [Shafirovich, Geacintov, et. al, 2019]. Two of these are bulky lesions derived from metabolic activation of the environmental carcinogen benzo[a]pyrene, the 10R (+)-cis-anti-B[a]P-N2-dG and the stereoisomeric 10S (+)-trans-anti-B[a]P-N2-dG, which respectively adopt base-displaced/intercalated and minor groove-aligned conformations in DNA. The third is a non-bulky lesion, the 5'R-8-cyclo-2'-deoxyguanosine cross-link, produced by reactive oxygen and nitrogen species; cyclopurine lesions are highly mutagenic. These adducts are placed near the dyad axis, and rotationally with the lesion-containing strand facing towards or away from the histones. While each lesion has distinct conformational characteristics that are retained in the nucleosome, a spectrum of structural and dynamic disturbances, from slight to substantial, are displayed that depend on the lesion's structure and position in the nucleosome. We hypothesize that these intrinsic structural and dynamic distinctions provide different signals to initiate the cascade of chromatin-opening processes, including acetylation and other post translational modifications, remodeling by ATP-dependent complexes and spontaneous unwrapping that regulate the rate of access to the lesion; this may translate ultimately into varying GG-NER efficiencies, including repair resistance when signals for access are too weak.
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- Yuqin Cai
- Department of Biology, New York University, 100 Washington Square East, New York, NY, 10003, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, New York University, 100 Washington Square East, New York, NY, 10003, USA
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- Department of Biology, New York University, 100 Washington Square East, New York, NY, 10003, USA.
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Chakraborty S, Steinbach PJ, Paul D, Mu H, Broyde S, Min JH, Ansari A. Enhanced spontaneous DNA twisting/bending fluctuations unveiled by fluorescence lifetime distributions promote mismatch recognition by the Rad4 nucleotide excision repair complex. Nucleic Acids Res 2019; 46:1240-1255. [PMID: 29267981 PMCID: PMC5815138 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkx1216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2017] [Accepted: 12/12/2017] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Rad4/XPC recognizes diverse DNA lesions including ultraviolet-photolesions and carcinogen-DNA adducts, initiating nucleotide excision repair. Studies have suggested that Rad4/XPC senses lesion-induced helix-destabilization to flip out nucleotides from damaged DNA sites. However, characterizing how DNA deformability and/or distortions impact recognition has been challenging. Here, using fluorescence lifetime measurements empowered by a maximum entropy algorithm, we mapped the conformational heterogeneities of artificially destabilized mismatched DNA substrates of varying Rad4-binding specificities. The conformational distributions, as probed by FRET between a cytosine-analog pair exquisitely sensitive to DNA twisting/bending, reveal a direct connection between intrinsic DNA deformability and Rad4 recognition. High-specificity CCC/CCC mismatch, free in solution, sampled a strikingly broad range of conformations from B-DNA-like to highly distorted conformations that resembled those observed with Rad4 bound; the extent of these distortions increased with bound Rad4 and with temperature. Conversely, the non-specific TAT/TAT mismatch had a homogeneous, B-DNA-like conformation. Molecular dynamics simulations also revealed a wide distribution of conformations for CCC/CCC, complementing experimental findings. We propose that intrinsic deformability promotes Rad4 damage recognition, perhaps by stalling a diffusing protein and/or facilitating ‘conformational capture’ of pre-distorted damaged sites. Surprisingly, even mismatched DNA specifically bound to Rad4 remains highly dynamic, a feature that may reflect the versatility of Rad4/XPC to recognize many structurally dissimilar lesions.
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- Sagnik Chakraborty
- Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA
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- Center for Molecular Modeling, Center for Information Technology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA
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- Department of Biology, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
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- Department of Biology, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA.,Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA
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5',8-Cyclopurine Lesions in DNA Damage: Chemical, Analytical, Biological, and Diagnostic Significance. Cells 2019; 8:cells8060513. [PMID: 31141888 PMCID: PMC6628319 DOI: 10.3390/cells8060513] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2019] [Revised: 05/18/2019] [Accepted: 05/22/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Purine 5′,8-cyclo-2′-deoxynucleosides (cPu) are tandem-type lesions observed among the DNA purine modifications and identified in mammalian cellular DNA in vivo. These lesions can be present in two diasteroisomeric forms, 5′R and 5′S, for each 2′-deoxyadenosine and 2′-deoxyguanosine moiety. They are generated exclusively by hydroxyl radical attack to 2′-deoxyribose units generating C5′ radicals, followed by cyclization with the C8 position of the purine base. This review describes the main recent achievements in the preparation of the cPu molecular library for analytical and DNA synthesis applications for the studies of the enzymatic recognition and repair mechanisms, their impact on transcription and genetic instability, quantitative determination of the levels of lesions in various types of cells and animal model systems, and relationships between the levels of lesions and human health, disease, and aging, as well as the defining of the detection limits and quantification protocols.
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Shafirovich V, Kolbanovskiy M, Kropachev K, Liu Z, Cai Y, Terzidis MA, Masi A, Chatgilialoglu C, Amin S, Dadali A, Broyde S, Geacintov NE. Nucleotide Excision Repair and Impact of Site-Specific 5',8-Cyclopurine and Bulky DNA Lesions on the Physical Properties of Nucleosomes. Biochemistry 2019; 58:561-574. [PMID: 30570250 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.8b01066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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The nonbulky 5',8-cyclopurine DNA lesions (cP) and the bulky, benzo[ a]pyrene diol epoxide-derived stereoisomeric cis- and trans- N2-guanine adducts (BPDE-dG) are good substrates of the human nucleotide excision repair (NER) mechanism. These DNA lesions were embedded at the In or Out rotational settings near the dyad axis in nucleosome core particles reconstituted either with native histones extracted from HeLa cells (HeLa-NCP) or with recombinant histones (Rec-NCP). The cP lesions are completely resistant to NER in human HeLa cell extracts. The BPDE-dG adducts are also NER-resistant in Rec-NCPs but are good substrates of NER in HeLa-NCPs. The four BPDE-dG adduct samples are excised with different efficiencies in free DNA, but in HeLa-NCPs, the efficiencies are reduced by a common factor of 2.2 ± 0.2 relative to the NER efficiencies in free DNA. The NER response of the BPDE-dG adducts in HeLa-NCPs is not directly correlated with the observed differences in the thermodynamic destabilization of HeLa-NCPs, the Förster resonance energy transfer values, or hydroxyl radical footprint patterns and is weakly dependent on the rotational settings. These and other observations suggest that NER is initiated by the binding of the DNA damage-sensing NER factor XPC-RAD23B to a transiently opened BPDE-modified DNA sequence that corresponds to the known footprint of XPC-DNA-RAD23B complexes (≥30 bp). These observations are consistent with the hypothesis that post-translational modifications and the dimensions and properties of the DNA lesions are the major factors that have an impact on the dynamics and initiation of NER in nucleosomes.
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- Vladimir Shafirovich
- Department of Chemistry , New York University , 31 Washington Place , New York , New York 10003-5180 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , New York University , 31 Washington Place , New York , New York 10003-5180 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , New York University , 31 Washington Place , New York , New York 10003-5180 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , New York University , 31 Washington Place , New York , New York 10003-5180 , United States
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- Department of Biology , New York University , 31 Washington Place , New York , New York 10003-5180 , United States
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- Istituto per la Sintesi Organica e la Fotoreattività , Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche , Via P. Gobetti 101 , 40129 Bologna , Italy
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- Istituto per la Sintesi Organica e la Fotoreattività , Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche , Via P. Gobetti 101 , 40129 Bologna , Italy
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- Istituto per la Sintesi Organica e la Fotoreattività , Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche , Via P. Gobetti 101 , 40129 Bologna , Italy
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- Department of Pharmacology, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center , Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine , Hershey , Pennsylvania 17033 , United States
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- Bronx College of the City University of New York , Bronx , New York 10453 , United States
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- Department of Biology , New York University , 31 Washington Place , New York , New York 10003-5180 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , New York University , 31 Washington Place , New York , New York 10003-5180 , United States
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Brody Y, Kimmerling RJ, Maruvka YE, Benjamin D, Elacqua JJ, Haradhvala NJ, Kim J, Mouw KW, Frangaj K, Koren A, Getz G, Manalis SR, Blainey PC. Quantification of somatic mutation flow across individual cell division events by lineage sequencing. Genome Res 2018; 28:1901-1918. [PMID: 30459213 PMCID: PMC6280753 DOI: 10.1101/gr.238543.118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2018] [Accepted: 10/27/2018] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Mutation data reveal the dynamic equilibrium between DNA damage and repair processes in cells and are indispensable to the understanding of age-related diseases, tumor evolution, and the acquisition of drug resistance. However, available genome-wide methods have a limited ability to resolve rare somatic variants and the relationships between these variants. Here, we present lineage sequencing, a new genome sequencing approach that enables somatic event reconstruction by providing quality somatic mutation call sets with resolution as high as the single-cell level in subject lineages. Lineage sequencing entails sampling single cells from a population and sequencing subclonal sample sets derived from these cells such that knowledge of relationships among the cells can be used to jointly call variants across the sample set. This approach integrates data from multiple sequence libraries to support each variant and precisely assigns mutations to lineage segments. We applied lineage sequencing to a human colon cancer cell line with a DNA polymerase epsilon (POLE) proofreading deficiency (HT115) and a human retinal epithelial cell line immortalized by constitutive telomerase expression (RPE1). Cells were cultured under continuous observation to link observed single-cell phenotypes with single-cell mutation data. The high sensitivity, specificity, and resolution of the data provide a unique opportunity for quantitative analysis of variation in mutation rate, spectrum, and correlations among variants. Our data show that mutations arrive with nonuniform probability across sublineages and that DNA lesion dynamics may cause strong correlations between certain mutations.
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- Yehuda Brody
- Klarman Cell Observatory, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
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- MIT Department of Biological Engineering, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
- Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
- MGH Cancer Center and Department of Pathology, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
- MIT Department of Biological Engineering, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
- MGH Cancer Center and Department of Pathology, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
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- Klarman Cell Observatory, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
- MGH Cancer Center and Department of Pathology, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
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- MIT Department of Biological Engineering, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
- Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
- MIT Department of Biological Engineering, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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Mu H, Zhang Y, Geacintov NE, Broyde S. Lesion Sensing during Initial Binding by Yeast XPC/Rad4: Toward Predicting Resistance to Nucleotide Excision Repair. Chem Res Toxicol 2018; 31:1260-1268. [PMID: 30284444 PMCID: PMC6247245 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrestox.8b00231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Nucleotide excision repair (NER) excises a variety of environmentally derived DNA lesions. However, NER efficiencies for structurally different DNA lesions can vary by orders of magnitude; yet the origin of this variance is poorly understood. Our goal is to develop computational strategies that predict and identify the most hazardous, repair-resistant lesions from the plethora of such adducts. In the present work, we are focusing on lesion recognition by the xeroderma pigmentosum C protein complex (XPC), the first and required step for the subsequent assembly of factors needed to produce successful NER. We have performed molecular dynamics simulations to characterize the initial binding of Rad4, the yeast orthologue of human XPC, to a library of 10 different lesion-containing DNA duplexes derived from environmental carcinogens. These vary in lesion chemical structures and conformations in duplex DNA and exhibit a wide range of relative NER efficiencies from repair resistant to highly susceptible. We have determined a promising set of structural descriptors that characterize initial binding of Rad4 to lesions that are resistant to NER. Key initial binding requirements for successful recognition are absent in the repair-resistant cases: There is little or no duplex unwinding, very limited interaction between the β-hairpin domain 2 of Rad4 and the minor groove of the lesion-containing duplex, and no conformational capture of a base on the lesion partner strand. By contrast, these key binding features are present to different degrees in NER susceptible lesions and correlate to their relative NER efficiencies. Furthermore, we have gained molecular understanding of Rad4 initial binding as determined by the lesion structures in duplex DNA and how the initial binding relates to the repair efficiencies. The development of a computational strategy for identifying NER-resistant lesions is grounded in this molecular understanding of the lesion recognition mechanism.
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- NYU-ECNU Center for Computational Chemistry at New York University Shanghai , Shanghai 200062 , China
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A mass spectrometric platform for the quantitation of sulfur mustard-induced nucleic acid adducts as mechanistically relevant biomarkers of exposure. Arch Toxicol 2018; 93:61-79. [PMID: 30324314 DOI: 10.1007/s00204-018-2324-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2018] [Accepted: 10/02/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Despite its worldwide ban, the warfare agent sulfur mustard (SM) still represents a realistic threat, due to potential release in terroristic attacks and asymmetric conflicts. Therefore, the rigorous and quantitative detection of SM exposure is crucial for diagnosis, health risk assessment, and surveillance of international law. Alkylation adducts of nucleic acids can serve as valuable toxicologically relevant 'biomarkers of SM exposure'. Here, we developed a robust and versatile bioanalytical platform based on isotope dilution UPLC-MS/MS to quantify major SM-induced DNA and RNA adducts, as well as adducts induced by the monofunctional mustard 2-chloroethyl ethyl sulfide. We synthesized 15N/13C-labeled standards, which allowed absolute quantitation with full chemical specificity and subfemtomole sensitivities. DNA and RNA mono-alkylation adducts and crosslinks were carefully analyzed in a dose- and time-dependent manner in various matrices, including human cancer and primary cells, derived of the main SM-target tissues. Nucleic acid adducts were detected up to 6 days post-exposure, indicating long persistence, which highlights their toxicological relevance and proves their suitability as forensic and medical biomarkers. Finally, we investigated ex vivo-treated rat skin biopsies and human blood samples, which set the basis for the implementation into the method portfolio of Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons-designated laboratories to analyze authentic samples from SM-exposed victims.
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Fedeles BI, Essigmann JM. Impact of DNA lesion repair, replication and formation on the mutational spectra of environmental carcinogens: Aflatoxin B 1 as a case study. DNA Repair (Amst) 2018; 71:12-22. [PMID: 30309820 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2018.08.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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In a multicellular organism, somatic mutations represent a permanent record of the past chemical and biochemical perturbations experienced by a cell in its local microenvironment. Akin to a perpetual recording device, with every replication, genomic DNA accumulates mutations in patterns that reflect: i) the sequence context-dependent formation of DNA damage, due to environmental or endogenous reactive species, including spontaneous processes; ii) the activity of DNA repair pathways, which, depending on the type of lesion, can erase, ignore or exacerbate the mutagenic consequences of that DNA damage; and iii) the choice of replication machinery that synthesizes the nascent genomic copy. These three factors result in a richly contoured sequence context-dependent mutational spectrum that, from appearances, is distinct for most individual forms of DNA damage. Such a mutagenic legacy, if appropriately decoded, can reveal the local history of genome-altering events such as chemical or pathogen exposures, metabolic stress, and inflammation, which in turn can provide an indication of the underlying causes and mechanisms of genetic disease. Modern tools have positioned us to develop a deep mechanistic understanding of the cellular factors and pathways that modulate a mutational process and, in turn, provide opportunities for better diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers, better exposure risk assessment and even actionable therapeutic targets. The goal of this Perspective is to present a bottom-up, lesion-centric framework of mutagenesis that integrates the contributions of lesion replication, lesion repair and lesion formation to explain the complex mutational spectra that emerge in the genome following exposure to mutagens. The mutational spectra of the well-studied hepatocarcinogen aflatoxin B1 are showcased here as specific examples, but the implications are meant to be generalizable.
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- Bogdan I Fedeles
- Departments of Biological Engineering, Chemistry and The Center for Environmental Health Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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- Departments of Biological Engineering, Chemistry and The Center for Environmental Health Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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Mu H, Geacintov NE, Broyde S, Yeo JE, Schärer OD. Molecular basis for damage recognition and verification by XPC-RAD23B and TFIIH in nucleotide excision repair. DNA Repair (Amst) 2018; 71:33-42. [PMID: 30174301 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2018.08.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Global genome nucleotide excision repair (GG-NER) is the main pathway for the removal of bulky lesions from DNA and is characterized by an extraordinarily wide substrate specificity. Remarkably, the efficiency of lesion removal varies dramatically and certain lesions escape repair altogether and are therefore associated with high levels of mutagenicity. Central to the multistep mechanism of damage recognition in NER is the sensing of lesion-induced thermodynamic and structural alterations of DNA by the XPC-RAD23B protein and the verification of the damage by the transcription/repair factor TFIIH. Additional factors contribute to the process: UV-DDB, for the recognition of certain UV-induced lesions in particular in the context of chromatin, while the XPA protein is believed to have a role in damage verification and NER complex assembly. Here we consider the molecular mechanisms that determine repair efficiency in GG-NER based on recent structural, computational, biochemical, cellular and single molecule studies of XPC-RAD23B and its yeast ortholog Rad4. We discuss how the actions of XPC-RAD23B are integrated with those of other NER proteins and, based on recent high-resolution structures of TFIIH, present a structural model of how XPC-RAD23B and TFIIH cooperate in damage recognition and verification.
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- Hong Mu
- Department of Biology, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
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- Department of Biology, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
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- Center for Genomic Integrity, Institute for Basic Science, Ulsan, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Genomic Integrity, Institute for Basic Science, Ulsan, Republic of Korea; Department of Biological Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, Republic of Korea.
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Cai Y, Fu I, Geacintov NE, Zhang Y, Broyde S. Synergistic effects of H3 and H4 nucleosome tails on structure and dynamics of a lesion-containing DNA: Binding of a displaced lesion partner base to the H3 tail for GG-NER recognition. DNA Repair (Amst) 2018; 65:73-78. [PMID: 29631253 PMCID: PMC5911426 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2018.02.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2017] [Revised: 01/29/2018] [Accepted: 02/26/2018] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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How DNA lesions in nucleosomes are recognized for global genome nucleotide excision repair (GG-NER) remains poorly understood, and the roles that histone tails may play remains to be established. Histone H3 and H4 N-terminal tails are of particular interest as their acetylation states are important in regulating nucleosomal functions in transcription, replication and repair. In particular the H3 tail has been the focus of recent attention as a site for the interaction with XPC, the GG-NER lesion recognition factor. Here we have investigated how the structure and dynamics of the DNA lesion cis-B[a]P-dG, derived from the environmental carcinogen benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]P), is impacted by the presence of flanking H3 and H4 tails. This lesion is well-repaired by GG-NER, and adopts a base-displaced/intercalated conformation in which the lesion partner C is displaced into the major groove. We used molecular dynamics simulations to obtain structural and dynamic characterizations for this lesion positioned in nucleosomal DNA so that it is bracketed by the H3 and H4 tails. The H4 tail was studied in unacetylated and acetylated states, while the H3 tail was unacetylated, its state when it binds XPC (Kakumu, Nakanishi et al., 2017). Our results reveal that upon acetylation, the H4 tail is released from the DNA surface; the H3 tail then forms a pocket that induces flipping and capture of the displaced lesion partner base C. This reveals synergistic effects of the behavior of the two tails. We hypothesize that the dual capability of the H3 tail to sense the displaced lesion partner base and to bind XPC could foster recognition of this lesion by XPC for initiation of GG-NER in nucleosomes.
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- Yuqin Cai
- Department of Biology, New York University, 100 Washington Square East, New York, NY, 10003, USA
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- Department of Biology, New York University, 100 Washington Square East, New York, NY, 10003, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, New York University, 100 Washington Square East, New York, NY, 10003, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, New York University, 100 Washington Square East, New York, NY, 10003, USA; NYU-ECNU Center for Computational Chemistry at NYU Shanghai, Shanghai 200062, China
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- Department of Biology, New York University, 100 Washington Square East, New York, NY, 10003, USA.
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Stiborova M. Formation of Covalent DNA Adducts by Enzymatically Activated Carcinogens and Drugs In Vitro and Their Determination by 32P-postlabeling. J Vis Exp 2018. [PMID: 29630053 DOI: 10.3791/57177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022] Open
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Covalent DNA adducts formed by chemicals or drugs with carcinogenic potency are judged as one of the most important factors in the initiation phase of carcinogenic processes. This covalent binding, which is considered the cause of tumorigenesis, is now evaluated as a central dogma of chemical carcinogenesis. Here, methods are described employing the reactions catalyzed by cytochrome P450 and additional biotransformation enzymes to investigate the potency of chemicals or drugs for their activation to metabolites forming these DNA adducts. Procedures are presented describing the isolation of cellular fractions possessing biotransformation enzymes (microsomal and cytosolic samples with cytochromes P450 or other biotransformation enzymes, i.e., peroxidases, NADPH:cytochrome P450 oxidoreductase, NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase, or xanthine oxidase). Furthermore, methods are described that can be used for the metabolic activation of analyzed chemicals by these enzymes as well as those for isolation of DNA. Further, the appropriate methods capable of detecting and quantifying chemical/drug-derived DNA adducts, i.e., different modifications of the 32P-postlabeling technique and employment of radioactive-labeled analyzed chemicals, are shown in detail.
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Ceppi M, Munnia A, Cellai F, Bruzzone M, Peluso MEM. Linking the generation of DNA adducts to lung cancer. Toxicology 2017; 390:160-166. [PMID: 28928033 DOI: 10.1016/j.tox.2017.09.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2017] [Revised: 09/11/2017] [Accepted: 09/15/2017] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Worldwide, lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death. DNA adducts are considered a reliable biomarker that reflects carcinogen exposure to tobacco smoke, but the central question is what is the relationship of DNA adducts and cancer? Therefore, we investigated this relationship by a meta-analysis of twenty-two studies with bronchial adducts for a total of 1091 subjects, 887 lung cancer cases and 204 apparently healthy individuals with no evidence of lung cancer. Our study shows that these adducts are significantly associated to increase lung cancer risk. The value of Mean Ratiolung-cancer (MR) of bronchial adducts resulting from the random effects model was 2.64, 95% C.I. 2.00-3.50, in overall lung cancer cases as compared to controls. The significant difference, with lung cancer patients having significant higher levels of bronchial adducts than controls, persisted after stratification for smoking habits. The MRlung-cancer value between lung cancer patients and controls for smokers was 2.03, 95% C.I. 1.42-2.91, for ex-smokers 3.27, 95% C.I. 1.49-7.18, and for non-smokers was 3.81, 95% C.I. 1.85-7.85. Next, we found that the generation of bronchial adducts is significantly related to inhalation exposure to tobacco smoke carcinogens confirming its association with volatile carcinogens. The MRsmoking estimate of bronchial adducts resulting from meta-regression was 2.28, 95% Confidence Interval (C.I.) 1.10-4.73, in overall smokers in respect to non-smokers. The present work provides strengthening of the hypothesis that bronchial adducts are not simply relate to exposure, but are a cause of chemical-induced lung cancer.
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- Marcello Ceppi
- Clinical Epidemiology Branch, IRCCS - Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Largo R. Benzi 10, 16132 Genoa, Italy
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- Cancer Risk Factor Branch, Regional Cancer Prevention Laboratory, ISPOCancer Prevention and Research Institute, 50139 - Florence, Italy
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- Cancer Risk Factor Branch, Regional Cancer Prevention Laboratory, ISPOCancer Prevention and Research Institute, 50139 - Florence, Italy
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- Clinical Epidemiology Branch, IRCCS - Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Largo R. Benzi 10, 16132 Genoa, Italy
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- Cancer Risk Factor Branch, Regional Cancer Prevention Laboratory, ISPOCancer Prevention and Research Institute, 50139 - Florence, Italy.
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