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Du L, Zhang X, Xue J, Tang W, Li MD, Lan X, Zhu J, Zhu R, Weng Y, Li YL, Phillips DL. Influence of Water in the Photogeneration and Properties of a Bifunctional Quinone Methide. J Phys Chem B 2016; 120:11132-11141. [PMID: 27723330 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b08705] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Quinone methides (QM) are crucial reactive species in molecular biology and organic chemistry, with little known regarding the mechanism(s) for the generation of short-lived reactive QM intermediates from relevant precursors in aqueous solutions. In this study, several time-resolved spectroscopy methods were used to directly examine the photophysics and photochemical pathways of 1,1'-(2,2'-dihydroxy-1,1'-binaphthyl-6,6'-diyl)bis(N,N,N-trimethylmethanaminium) bromide (BQMP-b) from initial photoexcitation to the generation of the key reactive binol QM intermediate (BQM) in aqueous solution. The fluorescence of BQMP-b is effectively quenched with a small amount of water, which suggests an excited state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT) occurs. The kinetics isotope effects observed in femtosecond and nanosecond time-resolved transient absorption experiments provide evidence for the participation of water molecules in the BQMP-b singlet excited state ESIPT process and in the subsequent -HNMe3+ group release and ground state intramolecular proton transfer that give rise to production of the reactive BQM intermediate. Nanosecond time-resolved resonance Raman (ns-TR3) measurements were also employed to investigate the structure and properties of several intermediates, including the key reactive BQM in aqueous solution. The ns-TR3 and density functional theory (DFT) computational results were compared, and this indicates the binol moiety and water molecules both have important roles in the characteristics and structure of the key reactive BQM intermediate produced from BQMP-b. The results presented here also provide new benchmark characterization of bifunctional quinone methide intermediates that can be utilized to guide direct time-resolved spectroscopic study of the alkylation and interstrand cross-linking reactions of quinone methides with DNA in the future.
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- Lili Du
- Department of Chemistry, University of Hong Kong , Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong S.A.R., P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Hong Kong , Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong S.A.R., P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University , Hangzhou 310018, P. R. China
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- School of Pharmacy, Anhui Medical University , Meishan Road 81, Hefei 230032, P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Hong Kong , Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong S.A.R., P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Hong Kong , Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong S.A.R., P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100190, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Hong Kong , Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong S.A.R., P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100190, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100190, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Hong Kong , Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong S.A.R., P. R. China
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Nagamoto Y, Hattori A, Kakeya H, Takemoto Y, Takasu K. pH-sensitive DNA cleaving agents: in situ activation by ring contraction of benzo-fused cyclobutanols. Chem Commun (Camb) 2013; 49:2622-4. [DOI: 10.1039/c3cc39246e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Verga D, Nadai M, Doria F, Percivalle C, Di Antonio M, Palumbo M, Richter SN, Freccero M. Photogeneration and reactivity of naphthoquinone methides as purine selective DNA alkylating agents. J Am Chem Soc 2011; 132:14625-37. [PMID: 20863115 DOI: 10.1021/ja1063857] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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A one-step protecting-group-free synthesis of both 6-hydroxy-naphthalene-2-carbaldehyde and the bifunctional binaphthalenyl derivative afforded 6-hydroxymethylnaphthalen-2-ol, 6-methylaminomethyl-naphthalen-2-ol, [(2-hydroxy-3-naphthyl)methyl]trimethyl ammonium iodide, and a small library of bifunctional binol analogues in good yields. Irradiation of naphthol quaternary ammonium salt and binol-derivatives (X = OH, NHR, NMe(3)(+), OCOCH(3), and L-proline) at 310 and 360 nm resulted in the photogeneration of the 2,6-naphthoquinone-6-methide (NQM) and binol quinone methide analogues (BQMs) by a water-mediated excited-state proton transfer (ESPT). The hydration, the mono- and bis-alkylation reactions of morpholine and 2-ethanethiol, as N and S prototype nucleophiles, by the transient NQM (λ(max) 310, 330 nm) and BQMs (λ(max) 360 nm) were investigated in water by product distribution analysis and laser flash photolysis (LFP). Both the photogeneration and the reactivity of NQM and BQMs exhibited striking differences. BQMs were at least 2 orders of magnitude more reactive than NQM, and they were generated much more efficiently from a greater variety of photoprecursors including the hydroxymethyl, quaternary ammonium salt and several binol-amino acids. On the contrary, the only efficient precursor of NQM was the quaternary ammonium salt. All water-soluble BQM precursors were further investigated for their ability to alkylate and cross-link plasmid DNA and oligonucleotides by gel electrophoresis: the BQMs were more efficient than the isomeric o-BQM (binol quinone methide analogue of 2,3-naphthoquinone-3-methide). Sequence analysis by gel electrophoresis, HPLC, and MS showed that the alkylation occurred at purines, with a preference for guanine. In particular, a BQM was able to alkylate N7 of guanines resulting in depurination at the oligonucleotide level, and ribose loss at the nucleotide level. The photoreactivity of BQM precursors translated into photocytotoxic and cytotoxic effects on two human cancer cell lines: in particular, one compound showed promising selectivity index on both cell lines.
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- Daniela Verga
- Dipartimento di Chimica Organica, Università di Pavia, V. le Taramelli 10, 27100 Pavia, Italy
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Freccero M, Gandolfi R. Modeling Substituent and Conformational Effects on the Reactivity of Antitumor Agents Containing a Cyclopropylcyclohexadienone Subunit. J Org Chem 2004; 69:6202-13. [PMID: 15357577 DOI: 10.1021/jo049193p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The uncatalyzed alkylation reactions of ammonia by the parent spirocyclopropylcyclohexadienone (6), its 3-amino analogue (7), the cyclic derivative (8), its N-formyl derivative (9), and a closer model (10) of the CPI (1-4) drugs have been investigated in gas phase and in water solvent bulk, using density functional theory at the B3LYP level with several basis sets and the C-PCM solvation model. The effect of several structural key features such as the vinylogous amide conjugation, the acylation of the 2-amino substituent, the ring constraint of the heterocyclic nitrogen atom at C(2) carbon in a ring, and the presence of a condensed pyrrole ring on the reaction activation energy have been investigated. Substrate 7, which is a flexible conformational model of the cyclopropylpyrroloindole moiety (CPI) contained in the duocarmycins, has been used to model the shape-dependent reactivity of these drugs, in gas phase and water solutions. The calculations indicate that shape dependence of reactivity is strongly operative both in gas phase and in polar solvents, since conformational effects are capable of reducing the reaction activation energy by -8.4 and -4.3 kcal mol(-1) in gas phase and in water solution, respectively, that is required to promote "conformational catalysis".
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- Mauro Freccero
- Dipartimento di Chimica Organica, Università di Pavia, V.le Taramelli 10, 27100 Pavia, Italy.
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Preferential damage to defined regions of genomic DNA by AT-specific anticancer drugs. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2002. [DOI: 10.1016/s1067-568x(02)80003-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Woynarowski JM, Chapman WG, Napier C, Herzig MC. Induction of AT-specific DNA-interstrand crosslinks by bizelesin in genomic and simian virus 40 DNA. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1999; 1444:201-17. [PMID: 10023060 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4781(99)00002-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Bizelesin is a bifunctional AT-specific DNA alkylating drug. Our study characterized the ability of bizelesin to induce interstrand crosslinks, a potential lethal lesion. In genomic DNA of BSC-1 cells, bizelesin formed from approx. 0.3 to 6.03+/-0.85 interstrand crosslinks per 106 base pairs, at 5-100 nM drug concentration, respectively, comparable to the number of total adducts previously determined in the same system (J.M. Woynarowski, M.M. McHugh, L.S. Gawron, T.A. Beerman, Biochemistry 34 (1995) 13042-13050). Bizelesin did not induce DNA-protein crosslinks or strand breaks. A model defined target, intracellular simian virus 40 (SV40) DNA, was employed to map at the nucleotide level sites of bizelesin adducts, including potential interstrand crosslinks. Preferential adduct formation was observed at AT tracts which are abundant in the SV40 matrix associated region and the origin of replication. Many sites, including each occurrence of 5'-T(A/T)4A-3', co-mapped on both DNA strands suggesting interstrand crosslinks, although monoadducts were also formed. Bizelesin adducts in naked SV40 DNA were found at similar sites. The localization of bizelesin-induced crosslinks in AT-rich tracts of replication-related regions is consistent with the potent anti-replicative properties of bizelesin. Given the apparent lack of other types of lesions in genomic DNA, interstrand crosslinks localized in AT-rich tracts, and to some extent perhaps also monoadducts, are likely to be lethal effects of bizelesin.
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- J M Woynarowski
- Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Cancer Therapy and Research Center, Institute for Drug Development, 14960 Omicron Dr., San Antonio, TX 78245-3217, USA.
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- Scott R. Rajski
- Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523
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