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Manghrani A, Rangadurai AK, Szekely O, Liu B, Guseva S, Al-Hashimi HM. Quantitative and systematic NMR measurements of sequence-dependent A-T Hoogsteen dynamics uncovers unique conformational specificity in the DNA double helix. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.05.15.594415. [PMID: 38798635 PMCID: PMC11118333 DOI: 10.1101/2024.05.15.594415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2024]
Abstract
The propensities to form lowly-populated short-lived conformations of DNA could vary with sequence, providing an important source of sequence-specificity in biochemical reactions. However, comprehensively measuring how these dynamics vary with sequence is challenging. Using 1H CEST and 13C R 1 ρ NMR, we measured Watson-Crick to Hoogsteen dynamics for an A-T base pair in thirteen trinucleotide sequence contexts. The Hoogsteen population and exchange rate varied 4-fold and 16-fold, respectively, and were dependent on both the 3'- and 5'-neighbors but only weakly dependent on monovalent ion concentration (25 versus 100 mM NaCl) and pH (6.8 versus 8.0). Flexible TA and CA dinucleotide steps exhibited the highest Hoogsteen populations, and their kinetics rates strongly depended on the 3'-neighbor. In contrast, the stiffer AA and GA steps had the lowest Hoogsteen population, and their kinetics were weakly dependent on the 3'-neighbor. The Hoogsteen lifetime was especially short when G-C neighbors flanked the A-T base pair. The Hoogsteen dynamics had a distinct sequence-dependence compared to duplex stability and minor groove width. Thus, our results uncover a unique source of sequence-specificity hidden within the DNA double helix in the form of A-T Hoogsteen dynamics and establish the utility of 1H CEST to quantitively measure sequence-dependent DNA dynamics.
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- Akanksha Manghrani
- Department of Biochemistry, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina 27705, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina 27705, United States
- Program in Molecular Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, ON, M5G 0A4, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina 27705, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina 27705, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, United States
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Kuzminov A. Bacterial nucleoid is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. J Bacteriol 2024; 206:e0021123. [PMID: 38358278 PMCID: PMC10994824 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00211-23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/16/2024] Open
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Bacterial chromosome, the nucleoid, is traditionally modeled as a rosette of DNA mega-loops, organized around proteinaceous central scaffold by nucleoid-associated proteins (NAPs), and mixed with the cytoplasm by transcription and translation. Electron microscopy of fixed cells confirms dispersal of the cloud-like nucleoid within the ribosome-filled cytoplasm. Here, I discuss evidence that the nucleoid in live cells forms DNA phase separate from riboprotein phase, the "riboid." I argue that the nucleoid-riboid interphase, where DNA interacts with NAPs, transcribing RNA polymerases, nascent transcripts, and ssRNA chaperones, forms the transcription zone. An active part of phase separation, transcription zone enforces segregation of the centrally positioned information phase (the nucleoid) from the surrounding action phase (the riboid), where translation happens, protein accumulates, and metabolism occurs. I speculate that HU NAP mostly tiles up the nucleoid periphery-facilitating DNA mobility but also supporting transcription in the interphase. Besides extruding plectonemically supercoiled DNA mega-loops, condensins could compact them into solenoids of uniform rings, while HU could support rigidity and rotation of these DNA rings. The two-phase cytoplasm arrangement allows the bacterial cell to organize the central dogma activities, where (from the cell center to its periphery) DNA replicates and segregates, DNA is transcribed, nascent mRNA is handed over to ribosomes, mRNA is translated into proteins, and finally, the used mRNA is recycled into nucleotides at the inner membrane. The resulting information-action conveyor, with one activity naturally leading to the next one, explains the efficiency of prokaryotic cell design-even though its main intracellular transportation mode is free diffusion.
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- Andrei Kuzminov
- Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
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Hucke A, Schröter R, Ceresa C, Chiorazzi A, Canta A, Semperboni S, Marmiroli P, Cavaletti G, Gess B, Ciarimboli G. Role of Mouse Organic Cation Transporter 2 for Nephro- and Peripheral Neurotoxicity Induced by Chemotherapeutic Treatment with Cisplatin. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:11486. [PMID: 37511245 PMCID: PMC10380567 DOI: 10.3390/ijms241411486] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2023] [Revised: 07/06/2023] [Accepted: 07/13/2023] [Indexed: 07/30/2023] Open
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Cisplatin (CDDP) is an efficient chemotherapeutic agent broadly used to treat solid cancers. Chemotherapy with CDDP can cause significant unwanted side effects such as renal toxicity and peripheral neurotoxicity. CDDP is a substrate of organic cation transporters (OCT), transporters that are highly expressed in renal tissue. Therefore, CDDP uptake by OCT may play a role in causing unwanted toxicities of CDDP anticancer treatment. In this study, the contribution of the mouse OCT2 (mOCT2) to CDDP nephro- and peripheral neurotoxicity was investigated by comparing the effects of cyclic treatment with low doses of CDDP on renal and neurological functions in wild-type (WT) mice and mice with genetic deletion of OCT2 (OCT2-/- mice). This CDDP treatment protocol caused significant impairment of kidneys and peripherical neurological functions in WT mice. These effects were significantly reduced in OCT2-/- mice, however, less profoundly than what was previously measured in mice with genetic deletion of both OCT1 and 2 (OCT1-2-/- mice). Comparing the apparent affinities (IC50) of mOCT1 and mOCT2 for CDDP, the mOCT1 displayed a higher affinity for CDDP than the mOCT2 (IC50: 9 and 558 µM, respectively). Also, cellular toxicity induced by incubation with 100 µM CDDP was more pronounced in cells stably expressing mOCT1 than in cells expressing mOCT2. Therefore, in mice, CDDP uptake by both OCT1 and 2 contributes to the development of CDDP undesired side effects. OCT seem to be suitable targets for establishing treatment protocols aimed at decreasing unwanted CDDP toxicity and improving anticancer treatment with CDDP.
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- Anna Hucke
- Experimentelle Nephrologie, Medizinische Klinik D, Universitätsklinikum Münster, 48149 Münster, Germany; (A.H.); (R.S.)
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- Experimentelle Nephrologie, Medizinische Klinik D, Universitätsklinikum Münster, 48149 Münster, Germany; (A.H.); (R.S.)
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- Experimental Neurology Unit, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano Bicocca, 20900 Monza, Italy; (C.C.); (A.C.); (A.C.); (S.S.); (P.M.); (G.C.)
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- Experimental Neurology Unit, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano Bicocca, 20900 Monza, Italy; (C.C.); (A.C.); (A.C.); (S.S.); (P.M.); (G.C.)
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- Experimental Neurology Unit, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano Bicocca, 20900 Monza, Italy; (C.C.); (A.C.); (A.C.); (S.S.); (P.M.); (G.C.)
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- Experimental Neurology Unit, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano Bicocca, 20900 Monza, Italy; (C.C.); (A.C.); (A.C.); (S.S.); (P.M.); (G.C.)
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- Experimental Neurology Unit, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano Bicocca, 20900 Monza, Italy; (C.C.); (A.C.); (A.C.); (S.S.); (P.M.); (G.C.)
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- Experimental Neurology Unit, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano Bicocca, 20900 Monza, Italy; (C.C.); (A.C.); (A.C.); (S.S.); (P.M.); (G.C.)
- Fondazione IRCCS San Gerardo dei Tintori, 20900 Monza, Italy
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- Department of Neurology, University Hospital Münster, 48149 Münster, Germany;
- Department of Neurology, Evangelisches Klinikum Bethel, University of Bielefeld, 33617 Bielefeld, Germany
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- Experimentelle Nephrologie, Medizinische Klinik D, Universitätsklinikum Münster, 48149 Münster, Germany; (A.H.); (R.S.)
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The interactions of novel mononuclear platinum-based complexes with DNA. BMC Cancer 2018; 18:1284. [PMID: 30577821 PMCID: PMC6303901 DOI: 10.1186/s12885-018-5194-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2018] [Accepted: 12/06/2018] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Background Cisplatin has been widely used for the treatment of cancer and its antitumour activity is attributed to its capacity to form DNA adducts, predominantly at guanine residues, which impede cellular processes such as DNA replication and transcription. However, there are associated toxicity and drug resistance issues which plague its use. This has prompted the development and screening of a range of chemotherapeutic drug analogues towards improved efficacy. The biological properties of three novel platinum-based compounds consisting of varying cis-configured ligand groups, as well as a commercially supplied compound, were characterised in this study to determine their potential as anticancer agents. Methods The linear amplification reaction was employed, in conjunction with capillary electrophoresis, to quantify the sequence specificity of DNA adducts induced by these compounds using a DNA template containing telomeric repeat sequences. Additionally, the DNA interstrand cross-linking and unwinding efficiency of these compounds were assessed through the application of denaturing and native agarose gel electrophoresis techniques, respectively. Their cytotoxicity was determined in HeLa cells using a colorimetric cell viability assay. Results All three novel platinum-based compounds were found to induce DNA adduct formation at the tandem telomeric repeat sequences. The sequence specificity profile at these sites was characterised and these were distinct from that of cisplatin. Two of these compounds with the enantiomeric 1,2-diaminocyclopentane ligand (SS and RR-DACP) were found to induce a greater degree of DNA unwinding than cisplatin, but exhibited marginally lower DNA cross-linking efficiencies. Furthermore, the RR-isomer was more cytotoxic in HeLa cells than cisplatin. Conclusions The biological characteristics of these compounds were assessed relative to cisplatin, and a variation in the sequence specificity and a greater capacity to induce DNA unwinding was observed. These compounds warrant further investigations towards developing more efficient chemotherapeutic drugs.
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Brabec V, Hrabina O, Kasparkova J. Cytotoxic platinum coordination compounds. DNA binding agents. Coord Chem Rev 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2017.04.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Bai L, Gao C, Liu Q, Yu C, Zhang Z, Cai L, Yang B, Qian Y, Yang J, Liao X. Research progress in modern structure of platinum complexes. Eur J Med Chem 2017; 140:349-382. [PMID: 28985575 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2017.09.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2017] [Revised: 07/18/2017] [Accepted: 09/18/2017] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Since the antitumor activity of cisplatin was discovered in 1967 by Rosenberg, platinum-based anticancer drugs have played an important role in chemotherapy in clinic. Nevertheless, platinum anticancer drugs also have caused severe side effects and cross drug resistance which limited their applications. Therefore, a significant amount of efforts have been devoted to developing new platinum-based anticancer agents with equal or higher antitumor activity but lower toxicity. Until now, a large number of platinum-based complexes have been prepared and extensively investigated in vitro and in vivo. Among them, some platinum-based complexes revealing excellent anticancer activity showed the potential to be developed as novel type of anticancer agents. In this account, we present such platinum-based anticancer complexes which owning various types of ligands, such as, amine carrier ligands, leaving groups, reactive molecule, steric hindrance groups, non-covalently binding platinum (II) complexes, Platinum(IV) complexes and polynuclear platinum complexes. Overall, platinum-based anticancer complexes reported recently years upon modern structure are emphasized.
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- Linkui Bai
- Faculty of Life Science and Technology, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, China
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- Faculty of Life Science and Technology, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, China.
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- Faculty of Life Science and Technology, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, China
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- Faculty of Life Science and Technology, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, China
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- Faculty of Life Science and Technology, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, China
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- Faculty of Life Science and Technology, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, China
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- Faculty of Life Science and Technology, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, China
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- Faculty of Life Science and Technology, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, China
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- Faculty of Life Science and Technology, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, China
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- Faculty of Life Science and Technology, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, China
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Guo C, Asamitsu S, Kashiwazaki G, Sato S, Bando T, Sugiyama H. DNA Interstrand Crosslinks by H-pin Polyamide (S
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-CBI Conjugates. Chembiochem 2016; 18:166-170. [DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201600425] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2016] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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- Chuanxin Guo
- Department of Chemistry; Graduate School of Science; Kyoto University; Kitashirakawa-Oiwakecho Sakyo-ku Kyoto Japan
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- Department of Chemistry; Graduate School of Science; Kyoto University; Kitashirakawa-Oiwakecho Sakyo-ku Kyoto Japan
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- Department of Chemistry; Graduate School of Science; Kyoto University; Kitashirakawa-Oiwakecho Sakyo-ku Kyoto Japan
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- Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (WPI-iCeMS); Kyoto University; Yoshida-Ushinomiyacho Sakyo-ku Kyoto Japan
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- Department of Chemistry; Graduate School of Science; Kyoto University; Kitashirakawa-Oiwakecho Sakyo-ku Kyoto Japan
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- Department of Chemistry; Graduate School of Science; Kyoto University; Kitashirakawa-Oiwakecho Sakyo-ku Kyoto Japan
- Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (WPI-iCeMS); Kyoto University; Yoshida-Ushinomiyacho Sakyo-ku Kyoto Japan
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