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Ameixa J, Bald I. Unraveling the Complexity of DNA Radiation Damage Using DNA Nanotechnology. Acc Chem Res 2024; 57:1608-1619. [PMID: 38780304 PMCID: PMC11154965 DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.4c00121] [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: 02/22/2024] [Revised: 05/05/2024] [Accepted: 05/09/2024] [Indexed: 05/25/2024]
Abstract
Radiation cancer therapies use different ionizing radiation qualities that damage DNA molecules in tumor cells by a yet not completely understood plethora of mechanisms and processes. While the direct action of the radiation is significant, the byproducts of the water radiolysis, mainly secondary low-energy electrons (LEEs, <20 eV) and reactive oxygen species (ROS), can also efficiently cause DNA damage, in terms of DNA strand breakage or DNA interstrand cross-linking. As a result, these types of DNA damage evolve into mutations hindering DNA replication, leading to cancer cell death. Concomitant chemo-radiotherapy explores the addition of radiosensitizing therapeutics commonly targeting DNA, such as platinum derivatives and halogenated nucleosides, to enhance the harmful effects of ionizing radiation on the DNA molecule. Further complicating the landscape of DNA damage are secondary structures such as G-quadruplexes occurring in telomeric DNA. These structures protect DNA from radiation damage, rendering them as promising targets for new and more selective cancer radiation treatments, rather than targeting linear DNA. However, despite extensive research, there is no single paradigm approach to understanding the mysterious way in which ionizing radiation causes DNA damage. This is due to the multidisciplinary nature of the field of research, which deals with multiple levels of biological organization, from the molecular building blocks of life toward cells and organisms, as well as with complex multiscale radiation-induced effects. Also, intrinsic DNA features, such as DNA topology and specific oligonucleotide sequences, strongly influence its response to damage from ionizing radiation. In this Account, we present our studies focused on the absolute quantification of photon- and low-energy electron-induced DNA damage in strategically selected target DNA sequences. Our methodology involves using DNA origami nanostructures, specifically the Rothemund triangle, as a platform to expose DNA sequences to either low-energy electrons or vacuum-ultraviolet (VUV, <15 eV) photons and subsequent atomic force microscopy (AFM) analysis. Through this approach, the effects of the DNA sequence, incorporation of halogenated radiosensitizers, DNA topology, and the radiation quality on radiation-induced DNA strand breakage have been systematically assessed and correlated with fundamental photon- and electron-driven mechanisms underlying DNA radiation damage. At lower energies, these mechanisms include dissociative electron attachment (DEA), where electrons attach to DNA molecules causing strand breaks, and dissociative photoexcitation of DNA. Additionally, further dissociative processes such as photoionization and electron impact contribute to the complex cascade of DNA damage events induced by ionizing radiation. We expect that emerging DNA origami-based approaches will lead to a paradigm shift in research fields associated with DNA damage and suggest future directions, which can foster the development of technological applications in nanomedicine, e.g., optimized cancer treatments or the molecular design of optimized radiosensitizing therapeutics.
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- João Ameixa
- Institute
of Chemistry, Hybrid Nanostructures, University
of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
- Centre
of Physics and Technological Research (CEFITEC), Department of Physics,
NOVA School of Science and Technology, University
NOVA of Lisbon, Campus de Caparica 2829-516, Portugal
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- Institute
of Chemistry, Hybrid Nanostructures, University
of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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Synthesis and recognition behavior studies of indole derivatives. INORG CHEM COMMUN 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.inoche.2022.110020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Effects of substituent and excess electron attachment on proton transfer between the radiosensitizer base pairs in aqueous solution. J Mol Liq 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2022.120216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Cornetta LM, Martinez TJ, Varella MTDN. Dissociative electron attachment to 5-bromo-uracil: non-adiabatic dynamics on complex-valued potential energy surfaces. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:6845-6855. [PMID: 35253036 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp05663h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Electron induced dissociation reactions are relevant to many fields, ranging from prebiotic chemistry to cancer treatments. However, the simulation of dissociation electron attachment (DEA) dynamics is very challenging because the auto-ionization widths of the transient negative ions must be accounted for. We propose an adaptation of the ab initio multiple spawning (AIMS) method for complex-valued potential energy surfaces, along the lines of recent developments based on surface hopping dynamics. Our approach combines models for the energy dependence of the auto-ionization widths, obtained from scattering calculations, with survival probabilities computed for the trajectory basis functions employed in the AIMS dynamics. The method is applied to simulate the DEA dynamics of 5-bromo-uracil in full dimensionality, i.e., taking all the vibrational modes into consideration. The propagation starts on the resonance state and describes the formation of Br- anions mediated by non-adiabatic couplings. The potential energies, gradients and non-adiabatic couplings were computed with the fractional-occupancy molecular orbital complete-active-space configuration-interaction method, and the calculated DEA cross section are consistent with the observed DEA intensities.
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- Lucas M Cornetta
- Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Rua Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, 777 - Cidade Universitária, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.
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- Department of Chemistry and PULSE Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.,SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão 1371, 05508-090, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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Cornetta LM, Coutinho K, Varella MTDN. Solvent effects on the π* shape resonances of uracil. J Chem Phys 2020; 152:084301. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5139459] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- L. M. Cornetta
- Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão 1371, 05508-090 São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão 1371, 05508-090 São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão 1371, 05508-090 São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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Mondal S, Manna D, Raja K, Mugesh G. Halogen Bonding in Biomimetic Deiodination of Thyroid Hormones and their Metabolites and Dehalogenation of Halogenated Nucleosides. Chembiochem 2020; 21:911-923. [PMID: 31773854 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201900619] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Thyroid hormones (THs) are key players in the endocrine system and play pivotal roles in carbohydrate and fat metabolism, protein synthesis, overall growth, and brain development. The thyroid gland predominantly produces thyroxine or 3,5,3',5'-tetraiodothyronine (T4) as a prohormone; three isoforms of a mammalian selenoenzyme-iodothyronine deiodinase (DIO1, DIO2 and DIO3)-catalyze the regioselective deiodination of T4 to produce biologically active and inactive metabolites. Whereas DIO1 catalyzes both 5- and 5'-deiodination of T4, DIO2 and DIO3 selectively mediate 5- and 5'-deiodination, respectively. In this review we discuss the regioselective deiodination of THs in the presence of organochalcogen compounds. Naphthalene-based compounds containing sulfur and/or selenium at the peri positions mediate regioselective 5-deiodination of THs, detailed mechanistic studies having revealed that the heterolytic cleavage of the C-I bond is facilitated by the formation of cooperative Se/S⋅⋅⋅I halogen bonds and Se/S⋅⋅⋅Se chalcogen bonds. We also discuss the biomimetic deiodination of several TH metabolites, including sulfated THs, iodothyronamines, and iodotyrosines. A brief discussion on the dehalogenation of halogenated nucleosides and nucleobases in the presence of organochalcogen compounds is also included.
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- Santanu Mondal
- Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India
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- Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India
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- Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India
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- Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India
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Mondal S, Mugesh G. Dehalogenation of Halogenated Nucleobases and Nucleosides by Organoselenium Compounds. Chemistry 2019; 25:1773-1780. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201805112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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- Santanu Mondal
- Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry; Indian Institute of Science; Bangalore 560012 India
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- Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry; Indian Institute of Science; Bangalore 560012 India
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Schürmann R, Vogel S, Ebel K, Bald I. The Physico-Chemical Basis of DNA Radiosensitization: Implications for Cancer Radiation Therapy. Chemistry 2018. [PMID: 29522244 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201800804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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High-energy radiation is used in combination with radiosensitizing therapeutics to treat cancer. The most common radiosensitizers are halogenated nucleosides and cisplatin derivatives, and recently also metal nanoparticles have been suggested as potential radiosensitizing agents. The radiosensitizing action of these compounds can at least partly be ascribed to an enhanced reactivity towards secondary low-energy electrons generated along the radiation track of the high-energy primary radiation, or to an additional emission of secondary reactive electrons close to the tumor tissue. This is referred to as physico-chemical radiosensitization. In this Concept article we present current experimental methods used to study fundamental processes of physico-chemical radiosensitization and discuss the most relevant classes of radiosensitizers. Open questions in the current discussions are identified and future directions outlined, which can lead to optimized treatment protocols or even novel therapeutic concepts.
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- Robin Schürmann
- Institute of Chemistry-Physical Chemistry, University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25, 14476, Potsdam, Germany.,Department 1-Analytical Chemistry and Reference Materials, BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Richard-Willstätter Str. 11, 12489, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Chemistry-Physical Chemistry, University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25, 14476, Potsdam, Germany.,Department 1-Analytical Chemistry and Reference Materials, BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Richard-Willstätter Str. 11, 12489, Berlin, Germany.,School of Analytical Sciences Adlershof, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Chemistry-Physical Chemistry, University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25, 14476, Potsdam, Germany.,Department 1-Analytical Chemistry and Reference Materials, BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Richard-Willstätter Str. 11, 12489, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Chemistry-Physical Chemistry, University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25, 14476, Potsdam, Germany.,Department 1-Analytical Chemistry and Reference Materials, BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Richard-Willstätter Str. 11, 12489, Berlin, Germany
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Mondal J, Manna AK, Patra GK. Highly selective hydrazone based reversible colorimetric chemosensors for expeditious detection of CN− in aqueous media. Inorganica Chim Acta 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ica.2018.01.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Bezzina JP, Prendergast MB, Blanksby SJ, Trevitt AJ. Gas-Phase Oxidation of the Protonated Uracil-5-yl Radical Cation. J Phys Chem A 2018; 122:890-896. [PMID: 29295616 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.7b09411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
This study targets the kinetics and product detection of the gas-phase oxidation reaction of the protonated 5-dehydrouracil (uracil-5-yl) distonic radical cation using ion-trap mass spectrometry. Protonated 5-dehydrouracil radical ions (5-dehydrouracilH+ radical ion, m/z 112) are produced within an ion trap by laser photolysis of protonated 5-iodouracil. Storage of the 5-dehydrouracilH+ radical ion in the presence of controlled concentration of O2 reveals two main products. The major reaction product pathway is assigned as the formation of protonated 2-hydroxypyrimidine-4,5-dione (m/z 127) + •OH. A second product ion (m/z 99), putatively assigned as a five-member-ring ketone structure, is tentatively explained as arising from the decarbonylation (-CO) of protonated 2-hydroxypyrimidine-4,5-dione. Because protonation of the 5-dehydrouracil radical likely forms a dienol structure, the O2 reaction at the 5 position is ortho to an -OH group. Following this addition of O2, the peroxyl-radical intermediate isomerizes by H atom transfer from the -OH group. The ensuing hydroperoxide then decomposes to eliminate •OH radical. It is shown that this elimination of •OH radical (-17 Da) is evidence for the presence of an -OH group ortho to the initial phenyl radical site, in good accord with calculations. The subsequent CO loss mechanism, to form the aforementioned five-member-ring structure, is unclear, but some pathways are discussed. By following the kinetics of the reaction, the room temperature second-order rate coefficient of the 5-dehydrouracilH+ distonic radical cation with molecular oxygen is measured at 7.2 × 10-11 cm3 molecule-1 s-1, Φ = 12% (with ±50% total accuracy). For aryl radical reactions with O2, the presence of the •OH elimination product pathway, following the peroxyl-radical formation, is an indicator of an -OH group ortho to the radical site.
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- James P Bezzina
- School of Chemistry, University of Wollongong , Wollongong, Australia 2522
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- Central Analytical Research Facility, Institute for Future Environments, Queensland University of Technology , Brisbane, Australia 4001
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- School of Chemistry, University of Wollongong , Wollongong, Australia 2522
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Cornetta LM, Kossoski F, Varella MTDN. Transient anion spectra of the potential radiosensitizers 5-cyanateuracil and 5-thiocyanateuracil. J Chem Phys 2017; 147:214310. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5007050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
Affiliation(s)
- L. M. Cornetta
- Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão 1731, 05508-090 São Paulo, Brazil
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- Instituto de Física “Gleb Wataghin,” Universidade Estadual de Campinas, 13083-859 Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
- Aix Marseille University, CNRS, ICR, Marseille, France
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão 1731, 05508-090 São Paulo, Brazil
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Wu X, Gao L, Liu J, Yang H, Wang S, Bu Y. Excess electron reactivity in amino acid aqueous solution revealed by ab initio molecular dynamics simulation: anion-centered localization and anion-relayed electron transfer dissociation. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 17:26854-63. [PMID: 26399512 DOI: 10.1039/c5cp03720d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Studies on the structure, states, and reactivity of excess electrons (EEs) in biological media are of great significance. Although there is information about EE interaction with desolvated biological molecules, solution effects are hardly explored. In this work, we present an ab initio molecular dynamics simulation study on the interaction and reactivity of an EE with glycine in solution. Our simulations reveal two striking results. Firstly, a pre-solvated EE partially localizes on the negatively charged -COO(-) group of the zwitterionic glycine and the remaining part delocalizes over solvent water molecules, forming an anion-centered quasi-localized structure, due to relative alignment of the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital energy levels of potential sites for EE residence in the aqueous solution. Secondly, after a period of anion-centered localization of an EE, the zwitterionic glycine is induced to spontaneously fragment through the cleavage of the N-Cα bond, losing ammonia (deamination), and leaving a ˙CH2-COO(-) anion radical, in good agreement with experimental observations. Introduction of the same groups (-COO(-) or -NH3(+)) in the side chain (taking lysine and aspartic acid as examples) can affect EE localization, with the fragmentation of the backbone part of these amino acids dependent on the properties of the side chain groups. These findings provide insights into EE interaction mechanisms with the backbone parts of amino acids and low energy EE induced fragmentation of amino acids and even peptides and proteins.
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- Xiuxiu Wu
- School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, P. R. China.
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Kossoski F, Varella MTDN. Negative ion states of 5-bromouracil and 5-iodouracil. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 17:17271-8. [PMID: 26073436 DOI: 10.1039/c5cp01475a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The valence anion states of the potential radiosensitisers 5-bromouracil and 5-iodouracil were investigated through elastic scattering calculations. These compounds have rich spectra of negative ion states that trigger off different mechanisms for dissociative electron attachment. For each molecule, we obtained a bound π* anion, two π* shape resonances and a low lying σ* anion state, in addition to a dipole-bound state (the latter was obtained using bound-state techniques). The σ* anion, formed by electron attachment to an anti-bonding carbon-halogen orbital, was found to have resonant character in 5-bromouracil, and bound-state character in 5-iodouracil. The present calculations place the σCBr* resonance around 0.7 eV, considerably below the energy inferred from the electron transmission data (1.3 eV). The signature of this anion state, not evident in the measurements, would be obscured by the large background arising from the dipolar interaction, not by the strong signature of the π2*, as presumed. Our results support the π2* resonance as a precursor state to dissociative electron attachment around 1.5 eV in both 5-bromouracil and 5-iodouracil, while the interplay among π1*, σ* and dipole-bound states would be expected close to 0 eV. We also discuss the suppression of the hydrogen elimination channels in these species.
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- F Kossoski
- Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, Caixa Postal 66318, 05314-970, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
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Wang S, Zhao P, Zhang C, Bu Y. Mechanisms Responsible for High Energy Radiation Induced Damage to Single-Stranded DNA Modified by Radiosensitizing 5-Halogenated Deoxyuridines. J Phys Chem B 2016; 120:2649-57. [PMID: 26913546 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.5b11432] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Experimental studies showed that high energy radiation induced base release and DNA backbone breaks mainly occur at the neighboring 5' nucleotide when a single-stranded DNA is modified by radiosensitizing 5-halogenated deoxyuridines. However, no mechanism can be used to interpret these experimental observations. To better understand the radiosensitivity of 5-halogenated deoxyuridines, mechanisms involving hydrogen abstraction by the uracil-5-yl radical from the C2' and C3' positions of an adjacent nucleotide separately followed by the C3'-O3' or N-glycosidic bond rupture and the P-O3' bond breakage are investigated in the DNA sequence 5'-TU(•)-3' employing density functional theory calculations in the present study. It is found that hydrogen abstractions from both positions are comparable with the one from the C2' site slightly more favorable. The N-glycosidic bond cleavage in the neighboring 5' nucleotide following the internucleotide C2'-Ha abstraction is estimated to have the lowest activation free energies, indicating that the adjacent 5' base release dominates electron induced damage to single-stranded DNA incorporated by 5-halogenated deoxyuridines. Relative to the P-O3' bond breakage after the internucleotide C3'-H abstraction, the C3'-O3' bond rupture in the neighboring 5' nucleotide following the internucleotide C2'-Ha abstraction is predicted to have a lower activation free energy, implying that single-stranded DNA backbone breaks are prone to occur at the C3'-O3' bond site. The 5'-TU(•)-3' species has substantial electron affinity and can even capture a hydrated electron, forming the 5'-TU(-)-3' anion. However, the electron induced C3'-O3' bond rupture in 5'-TU(-)-3' anion via a pathway of internucleotide proton abstraction is only minor in both the gas phase and aqueous solution. The present theoretical predictions can interpret rationally experimental observations, thereby demonstrating that the mechanisms proposed here are responsible for high energy radiation induced damage to single-stranded DNA incorporated by radiosensitizing 5-halogenated deoxyuridines. By comparing with previous results, our work proves that the radiosensitizing action of 5-bromo-2-deoxyuridine is not weaker but stronger than its isomer 6-bromo-2-deoxyuridine on the basis of the available data.
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- Shoushan Wang
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Shandong University , Jinan 250100, P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Shandong University , Jinan 250100, P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Shandong University , Jinan 250100, P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Shandong University , Jinan 250100, P. R. China
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Wang CR, Mahmood J, Zhang QR, Vedadi A, Warrington J, Ou N, Bristow RG, Jaffray DA, Lu QB. In Vitro and In Vivo Studies of a New Class of Anticancer Molecules for Targeted Radiotherapy of Cancer. Mol Cancer Ther 2016; 15:640-50. [PMID: 26921393 DOI: 10.1158/1535-7163.mct-15-0862] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2015] [Accepted: 01/26/2016] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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There is a compelling need to develop anticancer therapies that target cancer cells and tissues. Arising from innovative femtomedicine studies, a new class of non-platinum-based halogenated molecules (called FMD molecules) that selectively kill cancer cells and protect normal cells in treatments of multiple cancers has been discovered. This article reports the first observation of the radiosensitizing effects of such compounds in combination with ionizing radiation for targeted radiotherapy of a variety of cancers. We present in vitro and in vivo studies focused on combination with radiotherapy of cervical, ovarian, head and neck, and lung cancers. Our results demonstrate that treatments of various cancer cells in vitro and in vivo mouse xenograft models with such compounds led to enhanced efficiencies in radiotherapy, while the compounds themselves induced no or little radiotoxicity toward normal cells or tissues. These compounds are therefore effective radiosensitizers that can be translated into clinical trials for targeted radiotherapy of multiple types of cancer. This study also shows the potential of femtomedicine to bring breakthroughs in understanding fundamental biologic processes and to accelerate the discovery of novel drugs for effective treatment or prevention of a variety of cancers. Mol Cancer Ther; 15(4); 640-50. ©2016 AACR.
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- Chun-Rong Wang
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and Ontario Cancer and Techna Institutes, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Department of Radiation Oncology, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and Ontario Cancer and Techna Institutes, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and Ontario Cancer and Techna Institutes, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Departments of Radiation Oncology and Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and Ontario Cancer and Techna Institutes, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Departments of Radiation Oncology and Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Departments of Biology and Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
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Ryu KY, Lee JJ, Kim JA, Park DY, Kim C. Colorimetric chemosensor for multiple targets, Cu2+, CN−and S2−. RSC Adv 2016. [DOI: 10.1039/c5ra27553a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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New Schiff-base was developed as colorimetric sensor for Cu2+, CN−and S2−with the detection limits lower than the given guidelines.
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- Ka Young Ryu
- Department of Fine Chemistry and Department of Interdisciplinary Bio IT Materials
- Seoul National University of Science and Technology
- Seoul 139-743
- Korea
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- Department of Fine Chemistry and Department of Interdisciplinary Bio IT Materials
- Seoul National University of Science and Technology
- Seoul 139-743
- Korea
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- Department of Fine Chemistry and Department of Interdisciplinary Bio IT Materials
- Seoul National University of Science and Technology
- Seoul 139-743
- Korea
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- Department of Fine Chemistry and Department of Interdisciplinary Bio IT Materials
- Seoul National University of Science and Technology
- Seoul 139-743
- Korea
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- Department of Fine Chemistry and Department of Interdisciplinary Bio IT Materials
- Seoul National University of Science and Technology
- Seoul 139-743
- Korea
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McAllister M, Smyth M, Gu B, Tribello GA, Kohanoff J. Understanding the Interaction between Low-Energy Electrons and DNA Nucleotides in Aqueous Solution. J Phys Chem Lett 2015; 6:3091-3097. [PMID: 26267207 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b01011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Reactions that can damage DNA have been simulated using a combination of molecular dynamics and density functional theory. In particular, the damage caused by the attachment of a low energy electron to the nucleobase. Simulations of anionic single nucleotides of DNA in an aqueous environment that was modeled explicitly have been performed. This has allowed us to examine the role played by the water molecules that surround the DNA in radiation damage mechanisms. Our simulations show that hydrogen bonding and protonation of the nucleotide by the water can have a significant effect on the barriers to strand breaking reactions. Furthermore, these effects are not the same for all four of the bases.
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- Maeve McAllister
- †Atomistic Simulation Centre, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom
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- †Atomistic Simulation Centre, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom
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- †Atomistic Simulation Centre, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom
- ‡Department of Physics, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 21004, China
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- †Atomistic Simulation Centre, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom
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- †Atomistic Simulation Centre, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom
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Mondal S, Manna D, Mugesh G. Selenium-Mediated Dehalogenation of Halogenated Nucleosides and its Relevance to the DNA Repair Pathway. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2015; 54:9298-302. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201503598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2015] [Revised: 05/14/2015] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Mondal S, Manna D, Mugesh G. Selenium-Mediated Dehalogenation of Halogenated Nucleosides and its Relevance to the DNA Repair Pathway. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2015. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201503598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Zhao J, Wang M, Fu A, Yang H, Bu Y. Hydrated Electron Transfer to Nucleobases in Aqueous Solutions Revealed by Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulations. Chemphyschem 2015; 16:2348-56. [DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201500040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2015] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Lu QB, Zhang QR, Ou N, Wang CR, Warrington J. In Vitro and In Vivo Studies of Non-Platinum-Based Halogenated Compounds as Potent Antitumor Agents for Natural Targeted Chemotherapy of Cancers. EBioMedicine 2015; 2:544-53. [PMID: 26351651 PMCID: PMC4551467 DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2015.04.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2015] [Revised: 04/16/2015] [Accepted: 04/17/2015] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Based on a molecular-mechanism-based anticancer drug discovery program enabled by an innovative femtomedicine approach, we have found a previously unknown class of non-platinum-based halogenated molecules (called FMD compounds) as potent antitumor agents for effective treatment of cancers. Here, we present in vitro and in vivo studies of the compounds for targeted chemotherapy of cervical, breast, ovarian, and lung cancers. Our results show that these FMD agents led to DNA damage, cell cycle arrest in the S phase, and apoptosis in cancer cells. We also observed that such a FMD compound caused an increase of reduced glutathione (GSH, an endogenous antioxidant) levels in human normal cells, while it largely depleted GSH in cancer cells. We correspondingly found that these FMD agents exhibited no or little toxicity toward normal cells/tissues, while causing significant cytotoxicity against cancer cells, as well as suppression and delay in tumor growth in mouse xenograft models of cervical, ovarian, breast and lung cancers. These compounds are therefore a previously undiscovered class of potent antitumor agents that can be translated into clinical trials for natural targeted chemotherapy of multiple cancers. Femtomedicine may accelerate drug discovery for effective treatment of cancer. A previously undiscovered class of non-platinum-based halogenated compounds is found to have potent antitumor effects. FMD agents can be used for natural targeted chemotherapy of multiple types of cancer while inducing minimal toxicity.
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- Qing-Bin Lu
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- Departments of Biology and Chemistry, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- Corresponding author at: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Ghorai A, Mondal J, Chandra R, Patra GK. A reversible fluorescent-colorimetric imino-pyridyl bis-Schiff base sensor for expeditious detection of Al3+ and HSO3− in aqueous media. Dalton Trans 2015; 44:13261-71. [DOI: 10.1039/c5dt01376c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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A reversible fluorescent-colorimetric imino-pyridyl bis-Schiff base receptor (N1E,N4E)-N1,N4-bis(pyridine-4-ylmethylene)benzene-1,4-diamine (L) for easy, convenient, rapid and sensitive detection of both Al3+ and HSO3− in aqueous medium has been developed.
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- Anupam Ghorai
- Department of Chemistry
- Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya
- Bilaspur (C.G)
- India
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- Department of Chemistry
- Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya
- Bilaspur (C.G)
- India
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- Department of Chemistry
- Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya
- Bilaspur (C.G)
- India
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- Department of Chemistry
- Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya
- Bilaspur (C.G)
- India
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Sequence dependence of electron-induced DNA strand breakage revealed by DNA nanoarrays. Sci Rep 2014; 4:7391. [PMID: 25487346 PMCID: PMC4260214 DOI: 10.1038/srep07391] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2014] [Accepted: 11/20/2014] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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The electronic structure of DNA is determined by its nucleotide sequence, which is for instance exploited in molecular electronics. Here we demonstrate that also the DNA strand breakage induced by low-energy electrons (18 eV) depends on the nucleotide sequence. To determine the absolute cross sections for electron induced single strand breaks in specific 13 mer oligonucleotides we used atomic force microscopy analysis of DNA origami based DNA nanoarrays. We investigated the DNA sequences 5′-TT(XYX)3TT with X = A, G, C and Y = T, BrU 5-bromouracil and found absolute strand break cross sections between 2.66 · 10−14 cm2 and 7.06 · 10−14 cm2. The highest cross section was found for 5′-TT(ATA)3TT and 5′-TT(ABrUA)3TT, respectively. BrU is a radiosensitizer, which was discussed to be used in cancer radiation therapy. The replacement of T by BrU into the investigated DNA sequences leads to a slight increase of the absolute strand break cross sections resulting in sequence-dependent enhancement factors between 1.14 and 1.66. Nevertheless, the variation of strand break cross sections due to the specific nucleotide sequence is considerably higher. Thus, the present results suggest the development of targeted radiosensitizers for cancer radiation therapy.
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Kossoski F, Bettega MHF, Varella MTDN. Shape resonance spectra of uracil, 5-fluorouracil, and 5-chlorouracil. J Chem Phys 2014; 140:024317. [PMID: 24437887 DOI: 10.1063/1.4861589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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We report on the shape resonance spectra of uracil, 5-fluorouracil, and 5-chlorouracil, as obtained from fixed-nuclei elastic scattering calculations performed with the Schwinger multichannel method with pseudopotentials. Our results are in good agreement with the available electron transmission spectroscopy data, and support the existence of three π∗ resonances in uracil and 5-fluorouracil. As expected, the anion states are more stable in the substituted molecules than in uracil. Since the stabilization is stronger in 5-chlorouracil, the lowest π∗ resonance in this system becomes a bound anion state. The present results also support the existence of a low-lying σCCl (*) shape resonance in 5-chlorouracil. Exploratory calculations performed at selected C-Cl bond lengths suggest that the σCCl (*) resonance could couple to the two lowest π∗ states, giving rise to a very rich dissociation dynamics. These facts would be compatible with the complex branching of the dissociative electron attachment cross sections, even though we cannot discuss any details of the vibration dynamics based only on the present fixed-nuclei results.
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- F Kossoski
- Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, Caixa Postal 66318, 05314-970 São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Caixa Postal 19044, 81531-990 Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, Caixa Postal 66318, 05314-970 São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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Liu J, Cukier RI, Bu Y, Shang Y. Glucose-Promoted Localization Dynamics of Excess Electrons in Aqueous Glucose Solution Revealed by Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulation. J Chem Theory Comput 2014; 10:4189-97. [PMID: 26588118 DOI: 10.1021/ct500238k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Ab initio molecular dynamics simulations reveal that an excess electron (EE) can be more efficiently localized as a cavity-shaped state in aqueous glucose solution (AGS) than in water. Compared with that (∼1.5 ps) in water, the localization time is shortened by ∼0.7-1.2 ps in three AGSs (0.56, 1.12, and 2.87 M). Although the radii of gyration of the solvated EEs are all close to 2.6 Å in the four solutions, the solvated EE cavities in the AGSs become more compact and can localize ∼80% of an EE, which is considerably larger than that (∼40-60% and occasionally ∼80%) in water. These observations are attributed to a modification of the hydrogen-bonded network by the introduction of glucose molecules into water. The water acts as a promoter and stabilizer, by forming voids around glucose molecules and, in this fashion, favoring the localization of an EE with high efficiency. This study provides important information about EEs in physiological AGSs and suggests a new strategy to efficiently localize an EE in a stable cavity for further exploration of biological function.
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- Jinxiang Liu
- Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University , Jinan, 250100, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University , East Lansing, 48224-1322, United States
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- Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University , Jinan, 250100, China
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- National Supercomputer Center in Jinan, Jinan, 250101, China
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Na YJ, Park GJ, Jo HY, Lee SA, Kim C. A colorimetric chemosensor based on a Schiff base for highly selective sensing of cyanide in aqueous solution: the influence of solvents. NEW J CHEM 2014. [DOI: 10.1039/c4nj01199f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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A new highly selective colorimetric chemosensor 1 shows exclusive response toward cyanide by a color change in aqueous solution.
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- Yu Jeong Na
- Department of Fine Chemistry and Department of Interdisciplinary Bio IT Materials
- Seoul National University of Science and Technology
- Seoul 139-743, Korea
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- Department of Fine Chemistry and Department of Interdisciplinary Bio IT Materials
- Seoul National University of Science and Technology
- Seoul 139-743, Korea
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- Department of Fine Chemistry and Department of Interdisciplinary Bio IT Materials
- Seoul National University of Science and Technology
- Seoul 139-743, Korea
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- Department of Fine Chemistry and Department of Interdisciplinary Bio IT Materials
- Seoul National University of Science and Technology
- Seoul 139-743, Korea
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- Department of Fine Chemistry and Department of Interdisciplinary Bio IT Materials
- Seoul National University of Science and Technology
- Seoul 139-743, Korea
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Peng MJ, Guo Y, Yang XF, Suzenet F, Li J, Li CW, Duan YW. Coumarin–hemicyanine conjugates as novel reaction-based sensors for cyanide detection: convenient synthesis and ICT mechanism. RSC Adv 2014. [DOI: 10.1039/c4ra01598c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Lu LY, Ou N, Lu QB. Antioxidant induces DNA damage, cell death and mutagenicity in human lung and skin normal cells. Sci Rep 2013; 3:3169. [PMID: 24201298 PMCID: PMC3821017 DOI: 10.1038/srep03169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2013] [Accepted: 10/23/2013] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Clinical trials have shown that antioxidant supplementation increased the risk of lung and skin cancers, but the underlying molecular mechanism is unknown. Here, we show that epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) as an exemplary antioxidant induced significant death and DNA damage in human lung and skin normal cells through a reductive mechanism. Our results show direct evidence of reductive DNA damage in the cells. We found that EGCG was much more toxic against normal cells than H₂O₂ and cisplatin as toxic and cancer-causing agents, while EGCG at low concentrations (≤100 μM) increased slightly the lung cancer cell viability. EGCG induced DNA double-strand breaks and apoptosis in normal cells and enhanced the mutation frequency. These results provide a compelling explanation for the clinical results and unravel a new reductive damaging mechanism in cellular processes. This study therefore provides a fresh understanding of aging and diseases, and may lead to effective prevention and therapies.
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- Linda Y. Lu
- Department of Physics and Astronomy and Departments of Biology and Chemistry, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy and Departments of Biology and Chemistry, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy and Departments of Biology and Chemistry, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
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Alizadeh E, Sanche L. Precursors of solvated electrons in radiobiological physics and chemistry. Chem Rev 2012; 112:5578-602. [PMID: 22724633 DOI: 10.1021/cr300063r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 232] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Elahe Alizadeh
- Groupe en Sciences des Radiations, Département de Médecine Nucléaire et Radiobiologie, Faculté de médecine et des sciences de la santé, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
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Gu J, Leszczynski J, Schaefer HF. Interactions of electrons with bare and hydrated biomolecules: from nucleic acid bases to DNA segments. Chem Rev 2012; 112:5603-40. [PMID: 22694487 DOI: 10.1021/cr3000219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 158] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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- Jiande Gu
- Drug Design & Discovery Center, State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, CAS, PR China.
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Electron transfer-based combination therapy of cisplatin with tetramethyl-p-phenylenediamine for ovarian, cervical, and lung cancers. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2012; 109:10175-80. [PMID: 22685209 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1203451109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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The platinum-based chemotherapy is the standard treatment for several types of cancer. However, cancer cells often become refractory with time and most patients with serious cancers die of drug resistance. Recently, we have discovered a unique dissociative electron-transfer mechanism of action of cisplatin, the first and most widely used platinum-based anticancer drug. Here, we show that the combination of cisplatin with an exemplary biological electron donor, N,N,N',N'-tetramethyl-p-phenylenediamine (TMPD), may overcome the resistance of cancer cells to cisplatin. Our steady-state absorption and fluorescence spectroscopic measurements confirm the effective dissociative electron-transfer reaction between TMPD and cisplatin. More significantly, we found that the combination of 100 μM TMPD with cisplatin enhances double-strand breaks of plasmid DNA by a factor of approximately 3.5 and dramatically reduces the viability of cisplatin-sensitive human cervical (HeLa) cancer cells and highly cisplatin-resistant human ovarian (NIH:OVCAR-3) and lung (A549) cancer cells. Furthermore, this combination enhances apoptosis and DNA fragmentation by factors of 2-5 compared with cisplatin alone. These results demonstrate that this combination treatment not only results in a strong synergetic effect, but also makes resistant cancer cells sensitive to cisplatin. Because cisplatin is the cornerstone agent for the treatment of a variety of human cancers (including testicular, ovarian, cervical, bladder, head/neck, and lung cancers), our results show both the potential to improve platinum-based chemotherapy of various human cancers and the promise of femtomedicine as an emerging frontier in advancing cancer therapy.
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Keller A, Bald I, Rotaru A, Cauët E, Gothelf KV, Besenbacher F. Probing electron-induced bond cleavage at the single-molecule level using DNA origami templates. ACS NANO 2012; 6:4392-9. [PMID: 22510060 DOI: 10.1021/nn3010747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Low-energy electrons (LEEs) play an important role in nanolithography, atmospheric chemistry, and DNA radiation damage. Previously, the cleavage of specific chemical bonds triggered by LEEs has been demonstrated in a variety of small organic molecules such as halogenated benzenes and DNA nucleobases. Here we present a strategy that allows for the first time to visualize the electron-induced dissociation of single chemical bonds within complex, but well-defined self-assembled DNA nanostructures. We employ atomic force microscopy to image and quantify LEE-induced bond dissociations within specifically designed oligonucleotide targets that are attached to DNA origami templates. In this way, we use a highly selective approach to compare the efficiency of the electron-induced dissociation of a single disulfide bond with the more complex cleavage of the DNA backbone within a TT dinucleotide sequence. This novel technique enables the fast and parallel determination of DNA strand break yields with unprecedented control over the DNA's primary and secondary structure. Thus the detailed investigation of DNA radiation damage in its most natural environment, e.g., DNA nucleosomes constituting the chromatin, now becomes feasible.
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- Adrian Keller
- Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO) and Danish National Research Foundation: Centre for DNA Nanotechnology (CDNA), Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
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Kopyra J. Low energy electron attachment to the nucleotide deoxycytidine monophosphate: direct evidence for the molecular mechanisms of electron-induced DNA strand breaks. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2012; 14:8287-9. [PMID: 22573242 DOI: 10.1039/c2cp40847c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Reactions induced by the attachment of low energy electrons to an entire gas phase nucleotide (2'-deoxycytidine 5'-monophosphate) are reported for the first time. From the resonant attachment profiles information on the site of initial electron localization and from the observed ionic fragments information on final bond cleavage can be extracted.
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- Janina Kopyra
- Department of Chemistry, Siedlce University, 3 Maja 54, 08-110 Siedlce, Poland.
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Chomicz L, Rak J, Storoniak P. Electron-induced elimination of the bromide anion from brominated nucleobases. A computational study. J Phys Chem B 2012; 116:5612-9. [PMID: 22510158 DOI: 10.1021/jp3008738] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The enhancement of radiodamage to DNA labeled with halonucleobases is attributed to the reactive radical produced from a halonucleobase by the attachment of an electron. We examined at the B3LYP/6-31++G** level electron capture by four brominated nucleobases (BrNBs): 8-bromo-9-methyladenine, 8-bromo-9-methylguanine, 5-bromo-1-methylcytosine, and 5-bromo-1-methyluracil followed by the release of the bromide anion and a nucleobase radical. We demonstrate that neutral BrNBs in both gas and aqueous phases are better electron acceptors than unsubstituted NBs and that resulting anion radicals, BrNBs(•-), can easily transform into the product complex of the bromide anion and the nucleobase radical ([Br(-)···NB(•)]). The overall thermodynamic stimulus for the process starting with the neutral BrNB and ending with the isolated bromide anion and the NB(•) radical is similar in the case of all four BrNBs studied, which suggests their comparable radiosensitizing capabilities.
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- Lidia Chomicz
- Department of Chemistry, University of Gdańsk , Sobieskiego 18, 80-952 Gdańsk, Poland
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Loakes D. Nucleotides and nucleic acids; oligo- and polynucleotides. ORGANOPHOSPHORUS CHEMISTRY 2012. [DOI: 10.1039/9781849734875-00169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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- David Loakes
- Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road Cambridge CB2 2QH UK
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Polska K, Rak J, Bass AD, Cloutier P, Sanche L. Electron stimulated desorption of anions from native and brominated single stranded oligonucleotide trimers. J Chem Phys 2012; 136:075101. [PMID: 22360262 PMCID: PMC3813477 DOI: 10.1063/1.3685587] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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We measured the low energy electron stimulated desorption (ESD) of anions from thin films of native (TXT) and bromine monosubstituted (TBrXT) oligonucleotide trimers deposited on a gold surface (T = thymidine, X = T, deoxycytidine (C), deoxyadenosine (A) or deoxyguanosine (G), Br = bromine). The desorption of H(-), CH(3)(-)/NH(-), O(-)/NH(2)(-), OH(-), CN(-), and Br(-) was induced by 0 to 20 eV electrons. Dissociative electron attachment, below 12 eV, and dipolar dissociation, above 12 eV, are responsible for the formation of these anions. The comparison of the results obtained for the native and brominated trimers suggests that the main pathways of TBrXT degradation correspond to the release of the hydride and bromide anions. Significantly, the presence of bromine in oligonucleotide trimers blocks the electron-induced degradation of nuclobases as evidenced by a dramatic decrease in CN(-) desorption. An increase in the yields of OH(-) is also observed. The debromination yield of particular oligonucleotides diminishes in the following order: BrdU > BrdA > BrdG > BrdC. Based on these results, 5-bromo-2(')-deoxyuridine appears to be the best radiosensitizer among the studied bromonucleosides.
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- Katarzyna Polska
- Department of Chemistry, University of Gdańsk, Sobieskiego 18, 80-952 Gdańsk, Poland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Gdańsk, Sobieskiego 18, 80-952 Gdańsk, Poland
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- Research Group in the Radiation Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec J1H 5N4, Canada
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- Research Group in the Radiation Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec J1H 5N4, Canada
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- Research Group in the Radiation Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec J1H 5N4, Canada
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Direct observation of ultrafast-electron-transfer reactions unravels high effectiveness of reductive DNA damage. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2011; 108:11778-83. [PMID: 21730183 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1104367108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Both water and electron-transfer reactions play important roles in chemistry, physics, biology, and the environment. Oxidative DNA damage is a well-known mechanism, whereas the relative role of reductive DNA damage is unknown. The prehydrated electron (e(pre)-), a novel species of electrons in water, is a fascinating species due to its fundamental importance in chemistry, biology, and the environment. e(pre)- is an ideal agent to observe reductive DNA damage. Here, we report both the first in situ femtosecond time-resolved laser spectroscopy measurements of ultrafast-electron-transfer (UET) reactions of e(pre)- with various scavengers (KNO(3), isopropanol, and dimethyl sulfoxide) and the first gel electrophoresis measurements of DNA strand breaks induced by e(pre)- and OH(•) radicals co-produced by two-UV-photon photolysis of water. We strikingly found that the yield of reductive DNA strand breaks induced by each e(pre)- is twice the yield of oxidative DNA strand breaks induced by each OH(•) radical. Our results not only unravel the long-standing mystery about the relative role of radicals in inducing DNA damage under ionizing radiation, but also challenge the conventional notion that oxidative damage is the main pathway for DNA damage. The results also show the potential of femtomedicine as a new transdisciplinary frontier and the broad significance of UET reactions of e(pre)- in many processes in chemistry, physics, biology, and the environment.
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