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Anderson RF, Shinde SS, Andrau L, Leung B, Skene C, White JM, Lobachevsky PN, Martin RF. Chemical Repair of Radical Damage to the GC Base Pair by DNA-Bound Bisbenzimidazoles. J Phys Chem B 2024. [PMID: 38686959 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.4c01069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2024]
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The migration of an electron-loss center (hole) in calf thymus DNA to bisbenzimidazole ligands bound in the minor groove is followed by pulse radiolysis combined with time-resolved spectrophotometry. The initially observed absorption spectrum upon oxidation of DNA by the selenite radical is consistent with spin on cytosine (C), as the GC• pair neutral radical, followed by the spectra of oxidized ligands. The rate of oxidation of bound ligands increased with an increase in the ratio (r) ligands per base pair from 0.005 to 0.04. Both the rate of ligand oxidation and the estimated range of hole transfer (up to 30 DNA base pairs) decrease with the decrease in one-electron reduction potential between the GC• pair neutral radical of ca. 1.54 V and that of the ligand radicals (E0', 0.90-0.99 V). Linear plots of log of the rate of hole transfer versus r give a common intercept at r = 0 and a free energy change of 12.2 ± 0.3 kcal mol-1, ascribed to the GC• pair neutral radical undergoing a structural change, which is in competition to the observed hole transfer along DNA. The rate of hole transfer to the ligands at distance, R, from the GC• pair radical, k2, is described by the relationship k2 = k0 exp(constant/R), where k0 includes the rate constant for surmounting a small barrier.
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- Robert F Anderson
- School of Chemical Sciences, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Victoria Street West, Auckland 1142, New Zealand
- Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Victoria Street West, Auckland 1142, New Zealand
- Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Victoria Street West, Auckland 1142, New Zealand
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- Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Victoria Street West, Auckland 1142, New Zealand
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- School of Chemistry and Bio-21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, University of Melbourne, Melbourne 3052, Australia
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- School of Chemistry and Bio-21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, University of Melbourne, Melbourne 3052, Australia
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- School of Chemistry and Bio-21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, University of Melbourne, Melbourne 3052, Australia
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- School of Chemistry and Bio-21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, University of Melbourne, Melbourne 3052, Australia
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- Molecular Radiation Biology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne 3052, Australia
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- School of Chemistry and Bio-21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, University of Melbourne, Melbourne 3052, Australia
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Moe MM, Benny J, Liu J. Collision-induced dissociation of homodimeric and heterodimeric radical cations of 9-methylguanine and 9-methyl-8-oxoguanine: correlation between intra-base pair proton transfer originating from the N1-H at a Watson-Crick edge and non-statistical dissociation. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:9263-9276. [PMID: 35403654 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp00312k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [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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It has been shown previously in protonated, deprotonated and ionized guanine-cytosine base pairs that intra-base pair proton transfer from the N1-H at the Watson-Crick edge of guanine to the complementary nucleobase prompts non-statistical dissociation of the base-pair system, and the dissociation of a proton-transferred base-pair structure is kinetically more favored than that of the starting, conventional base-pair structure. However, the fundamental chemistry underlying this anomalous and intriguing kinetics has not been completely revealed, which warrants the examination of more base-pair systems in different structural contexts in order to derive a generalized base-pair structure-kinetics correlation. The purpose of the present work is to expand the investigation to the non-canonical homodimeric and heterodimeric radical cations of 9-methylguanine (9MG) and 9-methyl-8-oxoguanine (9MOG), i.e., [9MG·9MG]˙+, [9MOG·9MG]˙+ and [9MOG·9MOG]˙+. Experimentally, collision-induced dissociation tandem mass spectrometry coupled with an electrospray ionization (ESI) source was used for the formation of base-pair radical cations, followed by detection of dissociation product ions and cross sections in the collisions with Xe gas under single ion-molecule collision conditions and as a function of the center-of-mass collision energy. Computationally, density functional theory and coupled cluster theory were used to calculate and identify probable base-pair structures and intra-base pair proton transfer and hydrogen transfer reactions, followed by kinetics modeling to explore the properties of dissociation transition states and kinetic factors. The significance of this work is twofold: it provides insight into base-pair opening kinetics in three biologically-important, non-canonical systems upon oxidative and ionization damage; and it links non-statistical dissociation to intra-base pair proton-transfer originating from the N1-H at the Watson-Crick edge of 8-oxoguanine, enhancing understanding towards the base-pair fragmentation assisted by proton transfer.
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- May Myat Moe
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Queens College of the City University of New York, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Queens, NY 11367, USA. .,Ph.D. Program in Chemistry, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 365 5th Ave., New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Queens College of the City University of New York, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Queens, NY 11367, USA. .,Ph.D. Program in Chemistry, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 365 5th Ave., New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Queens College of the City University of New York, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Queens, NY 11367, USA. .,Ph.D. Program in Chemistry, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 365 5th Ave., New York, NY 10016, USA
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Zhou W, Liu J. Reaction mechanism and dynamics for C8-hydroxylation of 9-methylguanine radical cation by water molecules. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:24464-24477. [PMID: 34698322 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp03884b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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In contrast to their spontaneous deprotonation in aqueous solution, reactions of guanine and guanosine radical cations with water in the gas phase are exclusively initiated by hydration of the radical cations as reported in recent work (Y. Sun et al., Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2018, 20, 27510). As gas-phase hydration reactions closely mimic the actual scenario for guanine radical cations in double-stranded DNA, exploration of subsequent reactions within their water complexes can provide an insight into the resulting oxidative damage to nucleosides. Herein guided-ion beam mass spectrometry experiment and direct dynamics trajectory simulations were carried out to examine prototype complexes of the 9-methylguanine radical cation with one and two water ligands (i.e., 9MG˙+·(H2O)1-2) in the gas phase, wherein the complexes were activated by collisional activation in the experiment and by thermal excitation at high temperatures in the simulations. Guided by mass spectroscopic measurements, trajectory results and reaction potential energy surface, three reaction pathways were identified. The first two reaction pathways start with H-atom abstraction from water by the O6 and N7 atoms in 9MG˙+ and are referred to as HAO6 and HAN7, respectively. The primary products of HAO6 and HAN7 reactions, including [9MG + HO6]+/[9MG + HN7]+ and ˙OH, react further to either form [8OH-9MG + HO6]˙+ and [8OH-9MG + HN7]˙+via C8-hydroxylation or form radical cations of 6-enol-guanine (6-enol-G˙+) and 7H-guanine (7HG˙+) via SN2-type methanol elimination. The third reaction pathway corresponds to the formation of 8OH-9MG+ by H elimination from the complex, referred to as HE. Among these product channels, [8OH-9MG + HN7]˙+ has the most favorable formation probability, especially in the presence of additional water molecules. This product may serve as a preceding structure to the 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine lesion in DNA and has implications for health effects of radiation exposure and radiation therapy.
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- Wenjing Zhou
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Queens College of the City University of New York, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Queens, NY 11367, USA. .,PhD Program in Chemistry, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 365 5th Ave., New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Queens College of the City University of New York, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Queens, NY 11367, USA. .,PhD Program in Chemistry, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 365 5th Ave., New York, NY 10016, USA
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Moe MM, Benny J, Sun Y, Liu J. Experimental and theoretical assessment of protonated Hoogsteen 9-methylguanine-1-methylcytosine base-pair dissociation: kinetics within a statistical reaction framework. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:9365-9380. [PMID: 33885080 DOI: 10.1039/d0cp06682f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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We investigated the collision-induced dissociation (CID) reactions of a protonated Hoogsteen 9-methylguanine-1-methylcytosine base pair (HG-[9MG·1MC + H]+), which aims to address the mystery of the literature reported "anomaly" in product ion distributions and compare the kinetics of a Hoogsteen base pair with its Watson-Crick isomer WC-[9MG·1MC + H]+ (reported recently by Sun et al.; Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2020, 22, 24986). Product ion cross sections and branching ratios were measured as a function of center-of-mass collision energy using guided-ion beam tandem mass spectrometry, from which base-pair dissociation energies were determined. Product structures and energetics were assessed using various theories, of which the composite DLPNO-CCSD(T)/aug-cc-pVTZ//ωB97XD/6-311++G(d,p) was adopted as the best-performing method for constructing a reaction potential energy surface. The statistical Rice-Ramsperger-Kassel-Marcus theory was found to provide a useful framework for rationalizing the dominating abundance of [1MC + H]+ over [9MG + H]+ in the fragment ions of HG-[9MG·1MC + H]+. The kinetics analysis proved the necessity for incorporating into kinetics modeling not only the static properties of reaction minima and transition states but more importantly, the kinetics of individual base-pair conformers that have formed in collisional activation. The analysis also pinpointed the origin of the statistical kinetics of HG-[9MG·1MC + H]+vs. the non-statistical behavior of WC-[9MG·1MC + H]+ in terms of their distinctively different intra-base-pair hydrogen-bonds and consequently the absence of proton transfer between the N1 position of 9MG and the N3' of 1MC in the Hoogsteen base pair. Finally, the Hoogsteen base pair was examined in the presence of a water ligand, i.e., HG-[9MG·1MC + H]+·H2O. Besides the same type of base-pair dissociation as detected in dry HG-[9MG·1MC + H]+, secondary methanol elimination was observed via the SN2 reaction of water with nucleobase methyl groups.
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- May Myat Moe
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Queens College of the City University of New York, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Queens, NY 11367, USA.
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Sun Y, Moe MM, Liu J. Is non-statistical dissociation a general feature of guanine–cytosine base-pair ions? Collision-induced dissociation of a protonated 9-methylguanine–1-methylcytosine Watson–Crick base pair, and comparison with its deprotonated and radical cation analogues. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:24986-25000. [DOI: 10.1039/d0cp04243a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Non-statistical dissociation of a protonated guanine–cytosine Watson–Crick base pair.
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- Yan Sun
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Queens College of the City University of New York
- Queens
- USA
- PhD Program in Chemistry
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Queens College of the City University of New York
- Queens
- USA
- PhD Program in Chemistry
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Queens College of the City University of New York
- Queens
- USA
- PhD Program in Chemistry
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Sun Y, Moe MM, Liu J. Mass spectrometry and computational study of collision-induced dissociation of 9-methylguanine–1-methylcytosine base-pair radical cation: intra-base-pair proton transfer and hydrogen transfer, non-statistical dissociation, and reaction with a water ligand. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:14875-14888. [DOI: 10.1039/d0cp01788d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A combined experimental and theoretical study is presented on the collision-induced dissociation of 9-methylguanine–1-methylcytosine base-pair radical cation ([9MG·1MC]˙+) and its monohydrate ([9MG·1MC]˙+·H2O) with Xe and Ar gases.
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- Yan Sun
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Queens College of the City University of New York
- Queens
- USA
- PhD Program in Chemistry
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Queens College of the City University of New York
- Queens
- USA
- PhD Program in Chemistry
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Queens College of the City University of New York
- Queens
- USA
- PhD Program in Chemistry
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Gomez-Mejiba SE, Ramirez DC. Trapping of DNA radicals with the nitrone spin trap 5,5-dimethyl-1-pyrroline N-oxide and genotoxic damage: Recent advances using the immuno-spin trapping technology. MUTATION RESEARCH-REVIEWS IN MUTATION RESEARCH 2019; 782:108283. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mrrev.2019.108283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2019] [Revised: 06/14/2019] [Accepted: 06/22/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Merta TJ, Geacintov NE, Shafirovich V. Generation of 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine in G-Quadruplexes Models of Human Telomere Sequences by One-electron Oxidation. Photochem Photobiol 2018; 95:244-251. [PMID: 29679477 PMCID: PMC6196120 DOI: 10.1111/php.12926] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2018] [Accepted: 04/04/2018] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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The mechanistic aspects of one-electron oxidation of G-quadruplexes in the basket (Na+ ions) and hybrid (K+ ions) conformations were investigated by transient absorption laser kinetic spectroscopy and HPLC detection of the 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine (8-oxoG) oxidation product. The photo-induced one-electron abstraction from G-quadruplexes was initiated by sulfate radical anions (SO4 ˙- ) derived from the photolysis of persulfate ions by 308 nm excimer laser pulses. In neutral aqueous solutions (pH 7.0), the transient absorbance of neutral guanine radicals, G(-H)˙, is observed following the complete decay of SO4 ˙- radicals (~10 μs after the actinic laser flash). In both basket and hybrid conformations, the G(-H)˙ decay is biphasic with one component decaying with a lifetime of ~0.1 ms, and the other with a lifetime of 20-30 ms. The fast decay component (~0.1 ms) in G-quadruplexes is correlated with the formation of 8-oxoG lesions. We propose that in G-quadruplexes, G(-H)˙ radicals retain radical cation character by sharing the N1-proton with the O6 -atom of G in the [G˙+ : G] Hoogsteen base pair; this [G(-H)˙: H+ G <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mo>⇄</mml:mo></mml:math> G˙+ : G] leads to the hydration of G˙+ radical cation within the millisecond time domain, and is followed by the formation of the 8-oxoG lesions.
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- Tomasz J Merta
- Chemistry Program, NYU Shanghai, Pudong Xinqu, Shanghai Shi, China
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- Chemistry Program, NYU Shanghai, Pudong Xinqu, Shanghai Shi, China.,Chemistry Department, New York University, New York, NY
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Sun Y, Zhou W, Moe MM, Liu J. Reactions of water with radical cations of guanine, 9-methylguanine, 2′-deoxyguanosine and guanosine: keto–enol isomerization, C8-hydroxylation, and effects of N9-substitution. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:27510-27522. [DOI: 10.1039/c8cp05453c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The reactions of D2O with guanine radical cations in nucleobases and nucleosides were studied in the gas phase using the guided-ion-beam experiment and computational modeling.
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- Yan Sun
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Queens College of the City University of New York
- Queens
- USA
- PhD Program in Chemistry
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Queens College of the City University of New York
- Queens
- USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Queens College of the City University of New York
- Queens
- USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Queens College of the City University of New York
- Queens
- USA
- PhD Program in Chemistry
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Rokhlenko Y, Cadet J, Geacintov NE, Shafirovich V. Mechanistic aspects of hydration of guanine radical cations in DNA. J Am Chem Soc 2014; 136:5956-62. [PMID: 24689701 PMCID: PMC4004273 DOI: 10.1021/ja412471u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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The mechanistic aspects of hydration of guanine radical cations, G(•+) in double- and single-stranded oligonucleotides were investigated by direct time-resolved spectroscopic monitoring methods. The G(•+) radical one-electron oxidation products were generated by SO4(•-) radical anions derived from the photolysis of S2O8(2-) anions by 308 nm laser pulses. In neutral aqueous solutions (pH 7.0), after the complete decay of SO4(•-) radicals (∼5 μs after the actinic laser flash) the transient absorbance of neutral guanine radicals, G(-H)(•) with maximum at 312 nm, is dominant. The kinetics of decay of G(-H)(•) radicals depend strongly on the DNA secondary structure. In double-stranded DNA, the G(-H)(•) decay is biphasic with one component decaying with a lifetime of ∼2.2 ms and the other with a lifetime of ∼0.18 s. By contrast, in single-stranded DNA the G(-H)(•) radicals decay monophasically with a ∼ 0.28 s lifetime. The ms decay component in double-stranded DNA is correlated with the enhancement of 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine (8-oxoG) yields which are ∼7 greater than in single-stranded DNA. In double-stranded DNA, it is proposed that the G(-H)(•) radicals retain radical cation character by sharing the N1-proton with the N3-site of C in the [G(•+):C] base pair. This [G(-H)(•):H(+)C ⇆ G(•+):C] equilibrium allows for the hydration of G(•+) followed by formation of 8-oxoG. By contrast, in single-stranded DNA, deprotonation of G(•+) and the irreversible escape of the proton into the aqueous phase competes more effectively with the hydration mechanism, thus diminishing the yield of 8-oxoG, as observed experimentally.
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- Yekaterina Rokhlenko
- Chemistry Department, New York University , 31 Washington Place, New York, New York 10003-5180, United States
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Alvarez-Idaboy JR, Galano A. On the chemical repair of DNA radicals by glutathione: hydrogen vs electron transfer. J Phys Chem B 2012; 116:9316-25. [PMID: 22799525 DOI: 10.1021/jp303116n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The chemical repair of radical-damaged DNA by glutathione in aqueous solution has been studied using density functional theory. Two main mechanisms were investigated: the single electron transfer (SET) and the hydrogen transfer (HT). Glutathione was found to repair radical damaged DNA by HT from the thiol group with rate constants that are close to the diffusion-limited regime, which means that the process is fast enough for repairing the damage before replication and therefore for preventing permanent DNA damage. The SET mechanism was found to be of minor importance for the activity of glutathione. In addition while SET can be essential for other compounds when repairing radical cation species, repairing the C'-centered guanosyl radicals via SET is not a viable mechanism, due to the very low electron affinity of these species. The importance of considering pH-related physiological conditions and using complex enough models, including the ribose moiety and the H bonding between base pairs, to study this kind of systems is discussed.
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- Juan Raúl Alvarez-Idaboy
- Departamento de Física y Química Teórica, Facultad de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México DF 04510, México.
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Galano A, Alvarez-Idaboy JR. On the evolution of one-electron-oxidized deoxyguanosine in damaged DNA under physiological conditions: a DFT and ONIOM study on proton transfer and equilibrium. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2012; 14:12476-84. [DOI: 10.1039/c2cp40799j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Reynisson J. Molecular mechanism of base pairing infidelity during DNA duplication upon one-electron oxidation. World J Clin Oncol 2010; 1:12-7. [PMID: 21603305 PMCID: PMC3095454 DOI: 10.5306/wjco.v1.i1.12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2010] [Revised: 09/21/2010] [Accepted: 09/28/2010] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The guanine radical cation (G•+) is formed by one-electron oxidation from its parent guanine (G). G•+ is rapidly deprotonated in the aqueous phase resulting in the formation of the neutral guanine radical [G(-H)•]. The loss of proton occurs at the N1 nitrogen, which is involved in the classical Watson-Crick base pairing with cytosine (C). Employing the density functional theory (DFT), it has been observed that a new shifted base pairing configuration is formed between G(-H)• and C constituting only two hydrogen bonds after deprotonation occurs. Using the DFT method, G(-H)• was paired with thymine (T), adenine (A) and G revealing substantial binding energies comparable to those of classical G-C and A-T base pairs. Hence, G(-H)• does not display any particular specificity for C compared to the other bases. Taking into account the long lifetime of the G(-H)• radical in the DNA helix (5 s) and the rapid duplication rate of DNA during mitosis/meiosis (5-500 bases per s), G(-H)• can pair promiscuously leading to errors in the duplication process. This scenario constitutes a new mechanism which explains how one-electron oxidation of the DNA double helix can lead to mutations.
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- Jóhannes Reynisson
- Jóhannes Reynisson, Department of Chemistry and Auckland Bioengineering Institute, The University of Auckland, Auckland 1142, New Zealand
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Do TT, Tang VJ, Aguilera JA, Milligan JR. Structure reactivity relationship in the reaction of DNA guanyl radicals with hydroxybenzoates. Radiat Phys Chem Oxf Engl 1993 2010; 79:1144-1148. [PMID: 21966099 DOI: 10.1016/j.radphyschem.2010.06.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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In DNA, guanine bases are the sites from which electrons are most easily removed. As a result of hole migration to this stable location on guanine, guanyl radicals are major intermediates in DNA damage produced by the direct effect of ionizing radiation (ionization of the DNA itself and not through the intermediacy of water radicals). We have modeled this process by employing gamma irradiation in the presence of thiocyanate ions, a method which also produces single electron oxidized guanyl radicals in plasmid DNA in aqueous solution. The stable products formed in DNA from these radicals are detected as strand breaks after incubation with the FPG protein. When a phenolic compound is present in solution during gamma irradiation, the formation of guanyl radical species is decreased by electron donation from the phenol to the guanyl radical. We have quantified the rate of this reaction for four different phenolic compounds bearing carboxylate substituents as proton acceptors. A comparison of the rates of these reactions with the redox strengths of the phenolic compounds reveals that salicylate reacts ca. 10-fold faster than its structural analogs. This observation is consistent with a reaction mechanism involving a proton coupled electron transfer, because intra-molecular transfer of a proton from the phenolic hydroxyl group to the carboxylate group is possible only in salicylate, and is favored by the strong 6-membered ring intra-molecular hydrogen bond in this compound.
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- Trinh T Do
- Department of Radiology, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0610
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Steenken S, Reynisson J. DFT calculations on the deprotonation site of the one-electron oxidised guanine-cytosine base pair. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2010; 12:9088-93. [PMID: 20532316 DOI: 10.1039/c002528c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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As calculated by the density functional theory (DFT), the acidity of cytosine's exocyclic amine group (C-N(4)H2) in the base pair G-C is considerably increased upon its one-electron oxidation. The proton affinity (PA) of the amine moiety is lowered by ionisation of G-C (which yields G(*+)-C) from -348.1 to -269.1 kcal mol(-1). The PA is further decreased by 7.6 kcal mol(-1) as a result of the ensuing proton transfer from G(*+) to C to yield the spin-charge separated base pair G(-H)(*)-C(+H)(+). Under these conditions and taking the hydration energy of H(+) into account, the overall proton transfer from the C-N(4)H2 group to the aqueous phase in the major groove is exothermic by -2.4 kcal mol(-1). This proton transfer to water from the initially present DNA radical cation constitutes separation of charge from spin and thus reduces positive charge transfer in double stranded DNA.
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- Steen Steenken
- Department of Chemistry & Auckland Bioengineering Institute, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, New Zealand
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Kaloudis P, Paris C, Vrantza D, Encinas S, Pérez-Ruiz R, Miranda MA, Gimisis T. Photolabile N-hydroxypyrid-2(1H)-one derivatives of guanine nucleosides: a new method for independent guanine radical generation. Org Biomol Chem 2009; 7:4965-72. [PMID: 19907788 DOI: 10.1039/b909138f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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One-electron oxidized guanine is an important reactive intermediate in the formation of oxidatively generated damage in DNA and a variety of methods have been utilized for the abstraction of a single electron from the guanine moiety. In this study, an alternative approach for the site specific, independent generation of the guanine radical, utilizing N-hydroxypyrid-2(1H)-one as a photolabile modifier of guanine, is proposed. Novel photolabile 6-[(1-oxido-2-pyridinyl)oxo]-6-deoxy- and 2',6-dideoxy-guanosine derivatives capable of generating the neutral guanine radical (G(-H)*) upon photolysis were synthesized and characterized. The generation of G(-H)* proceeds through homolysis of the N-O bond and was confirmed through continuous photolysis product analysis and trapping studies, as well as laser flash photolysis experiments.
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- Panagiotis Kaloudis
- Organic Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, 15771 Athens, Greece
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Rao PJ, Bothe E, Schulte-Frohlinde D. Reaction of Dithiothreitol and Para-nitroacetophenone with Different Radical Precursors of .OH Radical-induced Strand Break Formation of Single-stranded DNA in Anoxic Aqueous Solution. Int J Radiat Biol 2009; 61:577-91. [PMID: 1349622 DOI: 10.1080/09553009214551391] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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The yields of single-strand breakage (ssb) in single-stranded calf thymus DNA (ssDNA) have been determined after 60Co gamma-irradiation of aqueous anoxic solutions in the presence of different concentrations of dithiothreitol (DTT), ascorbate or trans-4,5-dihydroxy-1,2-dithiane, using low-angle laser light scattering. The influence of DTT on the kinetics of ssb formation has been determined by conductivity measurements in pulse radiolysis. The results suggest that strand breakage in ssDNA proceeds via two modes of about equal contribution and with half-lives of about 7 ms and 0.8s, respectively. Both modes reflect reactions of at least two DNA radicals, which react with DTT by hydrogen-atom transfer reactions with similar rate constants of about 5-9 x 10(5) dm3 mol-1 s-1. These hydrogen-atom transfer reactions inhibit strand break formation. The slow mode is shown to represent the decay of base-radicals to generate sugar radicals. The involvement of the oxidizing .OH adduct radical of guanine in the formation of strand breaks can be ruled out and there is no evidence for a contribution from the anion or radical anion of DTT to the inhibition of strand breaks via electron transfer reactions to DNA radicals.
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- P J Rao
- Max-Planck-Institut für Strahlenchemie, Mülheim a.d. Ruhr, Germany
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Shinde SS, Maroz A, Hay MP, Anderson RF. One-electron reduction potential of the neutral guanyl radical in the GC base pair of duplex DNA. J Am Chem Soc 2009; 131:5203-7. [PMID: 19320486 DOI: 10.1021/ja8087339] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The one-electron oxidation of guanine in the GC base pair of DNA has been investigated using pulse radiolysis combined with DFT calculations. Reaction of benzotriazinyl radicals with DNA results in the formation of the neutral guanyl radical and redox equilibria. The one-electron reduction potential, E(7), of the neutral guanyl radical in the GC base pair is determined for the first time as 1.22 +/- 0.02 V, from both absorption and kinetic data.
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- Sujata S Shinde
- Department of Chemistry and Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, New Zealand
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Gomez-Mejiba SE, Zhai Z, Akram H, Deterding LJ, Hensley K, Smith N, Towner RA, Tomer KB, Mason RP, Ramirez DC. Immuno-spin trapping of protein and DNA radicals: "tagging" free radicals to locate and understand the redox process. Free Radic Biol Med 2009; 46:853-65. [PMID: 19159679 PMCID: PMC2692890 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2008.12.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2008] [Revised: 12/17/2008] [Accepted: 12/19/2008] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Biomolecule-centered radicals are intermediate species produced during both reversible (redox modulation) and irreversible (oxidative stress) oxidative modification of biomolecules. These oxidative processes must be studied in situ and in real time to understand the molecular mechanism of cell adaptation or death in response to changes in the extracellular environment. In this regard, we have developed and validated immuno-spin trapping to tag the redox process, tracing the oxidatively generated modification of biomolecules, in situ and in real time, by detecting protein- and DNA-centered radicals. The purpose of this methods article is to introduce and update the basic methods and applications of immuno-spin trapping for the study of redox biochemistry in oxidative stress and redox regulation. We describe in detail the production, detection, and location of protein and DNA radicals in biochemical systems, cells, and tissues, and in the whole animal as well, by using immuno-spin trapping with the nitrone spin trap 5,5-dimethyl-1-pyrroline N-oxide.
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- Sandra E. Gomez-Mejiba
- Free Radical Biology and Aging Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK 73104
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- Free Radical Biology and Aging Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK 73104
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- Free Radical Biology and Aging Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK 73104
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- Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
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- Free Radical Biology and Aging Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK 73104
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- Advanced Magnetic Resonance Center, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK 73104
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- Advanced Magnetic Resonance Center, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK 73104
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- Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
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- Laboratory of Pharmacology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
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- Free Radical Biology and Aging Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK 73104
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Jena NR, Mishra PC, Suhai S. Protection Against Radiation-Induced DNA Damage by Amino Acids: A DFT Study. J Phys Chem B 2009; 113:5633-44. [DOI: 10.1021/jp810468m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- N. R. Jena
- Division Molecular Biophysics (B020), Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, D - 69120 Heidelberg, Germany, and Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221005, India
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- Division Molecular Biophysics (B020), Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, D - 69120 Heidelberg, Germany, and Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221005, India
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- Division Molecular Biophysics (B020), Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ), Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, D - 69120 Heidelberg, Germany, and Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221005, India
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Crean C, Lee YA, Yun BH, Geacintov NE, Shafirovich V. Oxidation of guanine by carbonate radicals derived from photolysis of carbonatotetramminecobalt(III) complexes and the pH dependence of intrastrand DNA cross-links mediated by guanine radical reactions. Chembiochem 2008; 9:1985-91. [PMID: 18655084 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200800105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The carbonate radical anion CO(3)(*-) is a decomposition product of nitrosoperoxycarbonate derived from the combination of carbon dioxide and peroxynitrite, an important biological byproduct of the inflammatory response. The selective oxidation of guanine in DNA by CO(3)(*-) radicals is known to yield spiroiminodihydantoin (Sp) and guanidinohydantoin (Gh) products, and also a novel intrastrand cross-linked product: 5'-d(CCATCG*CT*ACC), featuring a linkage between guanine C8 (G*) and thymine N3 (T*) atoms in the oligonucleotide (Crean et al., Nucleic Acids Res. 2008, 36, 742-755). Involvement of the T-N3 (pK(a) of N3-H is 9.67) suggests that the formation of 5'-d(CCATCG*CT*ACC) might be pH-dependent. This hypothesis was tested by generating CO(3)(*-) radicals through the photodissociation of carbonatotetramminecobalt(III) complexes by steady-state UV irradiation, which allowed for studies of product yields in the pH 5.0-10.0 range. The yield of 5'-d(CCATCG*CT*ACC) at pH 10.0 is approximately 45 times greater than at pH 5.0; this is consistent with the proposed mechanism, which requires N3(H) thymine proton dissociation followed by nucleophilic addition to the C8 guanine radical.
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- Conor Crean
- Chemistry Department, New York University, 31 Washington Place, New York, NY 10003-5180, USA
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Li MJ, Liu L, Wei K, Fu Y, Guo QX. Significant effects of phosphorylation on relative stabilities of DNA and RNA sugar radicals: remarkably high susceptibility of h-2' abstraction in RNA. J Phys Chem B 2007; 110:13582-9. [PMID: 16821885 DOI: 10.1021/jp060331j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The roles of nucleic acid radicals in DNA and RNA damage cannot be properly understood in the absence of knowledge of the C-H bond strengths depicting the energy cost to generate each of these radicals. However, previous theoretical studies on the relative energies of different nucleic acid radicals are not fully convincing mainly because of the use of oversimplified model compounds. In the present study we chose nucleoside 3',5'-bisphosphates as model compounds for DNA and RNA, in which the effects of both the nucleobase and phosphorylation were taken into consideration. Using the newly developed ONIOM-G3B3 methods, we calculated the gas-phase bond dissociation enthalpies and solution-phase bond dissociation free energies of all the carbohydrate C-H bonds in the model compounds. It was found that the monoanionic phosphate group (OPO3H-) was a better radical stabilization group than the OH group by 1.3 kcal/mol, whereas the neutral phosphate group (OPO3H2) was a significantly worse radical stabilization group than OH by 4.4 kcal/mol. Due to these reasons, the relative thermodynamic susceptibility of H-abstraction from deoxyribonucleotides and ribonucleotides varied considerably depending on the phosphorylation state and the charge carried by the phosphate groups. Strikingly, the bond dissociation free energy of C2'-H in ribonucleotides was dramatically lower than that of all the other C-H bonds by 5-6 kcal/mol regardless of the phosphorylation state and the charge carried by the phosphate group. This explained the previous experimental finding that radiation damage of RNA occurs mainly via H-abstraction at H-2'. A model study suggested that the strength of the hydrogen bonding interaction between the 2'-OH and 3-phosphate groups should dramatically increase from ribonucleoside 3',5'-bisphosphate to its C2' radical. The strengthened hydrogen bonding stabilized the C2' radical, rendering the C2'-H bond of RNA extraordinarily vulnerable to H-abstraction.
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- Min-Jie Li
- Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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Anderson RF, Shinde SS, Maroz A. Cytosine-gated hole creation and transfer in DNA in aqueous solution. J Am Chem Soc 2007; 128:15966-7. [PMID: 17165712 DOI: 10.1021/ja0658416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The selenite radical, SeO3-, has been found to selectively produce the cytosyl radical upon one-electron oxidation of duplex DNA. This is at first a surprising result as SeO3- can only oxidize guanine of the DNA bases, implying that the transiently formed guanyl radical cation must transpose into the neutral cytosyl radical with loss of a proton. Back oxidation to produce the neutral guanyl radical, in competition with another fixation reaction, is observed.
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- Robert F Anderson
- Department of Chemistry, The University of Auckland, Auckland 1, New Zealand.
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Immuno-spin trapping is a highly sensitive method for detecting DNA radicals in biological systems. This technique involves three main steps: (i) in situ and real-time trapping of DNA radicals with the nitrone spin trap 5,5-dimethyl-1-pyrroline-N-oxide (DMPO), thus forming DMPO-DNA nitrone adducts (referred to here as nitrone adducts); (ii) purification of nitrone adducts; and (iii) analysis of nitrone adducts by heterogeneous immunoassays using Abs against DMPO. In experiments, DMPO is added prior to the formation of free radicals. It diffuses easily through all cell compartments and is present when DNA free radicals are formed as a result of oxidative damage. Due to its low toxicity, DMPO can be used in cells at high enough concentrations to out-compete the normal reactions of DNA radicals, thus ensuring a high yield of DNA nitrone adducts. Because both protein and DNA nitrone adducts are formed, it is important that the DNA be pure in order to avoid misinterpretations. Depending on the model under study, this protocol can be completed in as few as 6 h.
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- Dario C Ramirez
- Laboratory of Pharmacology and Chemistry, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, 111 TW Alexander Drive, Building 101, MD F0-02, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA.
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Gervasio FL, Boero M, Parrinello M. Double Proton Coupled Charge Transfer in DNA. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2006. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.200602106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Gervasio FL, Boero M, Parrinello M. Double Proton Coupled Charge Transfer in DNA. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2006; 45:5606-9. [PMID: 16888729 DOI: 10.1002/anie.200602106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Francesco Luigi Gervasio
- Computational Science, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, USI Campus, Via Giuseppe Buffi 13, 6900 Lugano, Switzerland
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Guanine bases in DNA are the most sensitive to oxidation. A lot of effort has been devoted to the understanding of the chemical modifications of guanine under different oxidizing conditions, the final goal being to know which lesions in DNA can be expected in vivo and their biological consequences. This article analyses the mechanisms underlying guanine oxidation by the comparison between one- and two-electron transfer processes. The different oxidants used in vitro give complementary answers. This overview presents a choice of some key intermediates and the predictive description of G-oxidation products that can be generated from these intermediates depending on the reaction conditions.
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- Geneviève Pratviel
- Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination du CNRS, 205 route de Narbonne, 31077 Toulouse cedex 4, France.
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Liu N, Ban F, Boyd RJ. Modeling Competitive Reaction Mechanisms of Peroxynitrite Oxidation of Guanine. J Phys Chem A 2006; 110:9908-14. [PMID: 16898693 DOI: 10.1021/jp061297b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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5-Guanidino-4-nitroimidazole is a stable product from the peroxynitrite induced one-electron oxidation of guanine. Reaction mechanisms to form the 5-guanidino-4-nitroimidazole as well as 8-nitroguanine, through the combination of the guanine radical cation and nitrogen dioxide radical and through the combination of the deprotonated neutral guanine radical and nitrogen dioxide radical, have been investigated by the use of the B3LYP method of density functional theory. Our calculations suggest that the guanine radical cation mechanism is preferred over the neutral guanine radical mechanism and that a water molecule is involved in the reaction as a catalyst or as a reactant.
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- Ning Liu
- Department of Chemistry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada B3H 4J3
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Adhikary A, Becker D, Collins S, Koppen J, Sevilla MD. C5'- and C3'-sugar radicals produced via photo-excitation of one-electron oxidized adenine in 2'-deoxyadenosine and its derivatives. Nucleic Acids Res 2006; 34:1501-11. [PMID: 16537838 PMCID: PMC1401510 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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We report that photo-excitation of one-electron-oxidized adenine [A(-H)•] in dAdo and its 2′-deoxyribonucleotides leads to formation of deoxyribose sugar radicals in remarkably high yields. Illumination of A(-H)• in dAdo, 3′-dAMP and 5′-dAMP in aqueous glasses at 143 K leads to 80-100% conversion to sugar radicals at C5′ and C3′. The position of the phosphate in 5′- and 3′-dAMP is observed to deactivate radical formation at the site of substitution. In addition, the pH has a crucial influence on the site of sugar radical formation; e.g. at pH ∼5, photo-excitation of A(-H)• in dAdo at 143 K produces mainly C5′• whereas only C3′• is observed at high pH ∼12. 13C substitution at C5′ in dAdo yields 13C anisotropic couplings of (28, 28, 84) G whose isotropic component 46.7 G identifies formation of the near planar C5′•. A β-13C 16 G isotropic coupling from C3′• is also found. These results are found to be in accord with theoretically calculated 13C couplings at C5′ [DFT, B3LYP, 6-31(G) level] for C5′• and C3′•. Calculations using time-dependent density functional theory [TD-DFT B3LYP, 6-31G(d)] confirm that transitions in the near UV and visible induce hole transfer from the base radical to the sugar group leading to sugar radical formation.
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- To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +1 248 370 2328; Fax: +1 248 370 2321;
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Ramirez DC, Mejiba SEG, Mason RP. Immuno–spin trapping of DNA radicals. Nat Methods 2006; 3:123-7. [PMID: 16432522 DOI: 10.1038/nmeth852] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2005] [Accepted: 12/23/2005] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The detection of DNA radicals by immuno-spin trapping (IST) is based on the trapping of radicals with 5,5-dimethyl-1-pyrroline N-oxide (DMPO), forming stable nitrone adducts that are then detected using an anti-DMPO serum. DNA radicals are very reactive species, and because they are paramagnetic they have previously been detected only by electron spin resonance (ESR) with or without spin trapping, which is not available in most bioresearch laboratories. IST combines the simplicity, reliability, specificity and sensitivity of spin trapping with heterogeneous immunoassays for the detection of DNA radicals, and complements existing methods for the measurement of oxidatively generated DNA damage. Here we have used IST to demonstrate that DMPO traps Cu(II)-H(2)O(2)-induced DNA radicals in situ and in real time, forming DMPO-DNA nitrone adducts, but preventing both 8-oxo-7,8-dihydro-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-oxo-dG) formation and DNA fragmentation. We also applied IST to detect DNA radicals in rat hepatocytes exposed to Cu(II) and H(2)O(2) under nonlethal conditions.
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- Dario C Ramirez
- Laboratory of Pharmacology and Chemistry, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, 111 T.W. Alexander Dr., Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA.
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Kupan A, Saulière A, Broussy S, Seguy C, Pratviel G, Meunier B. Guanine Oxidation by Electron Transfer: One- versus Two-Electron Oxidation Mechanism. Chembiochem 2005; 7:125-33. [PMID: 16323222 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200500284] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The degeneracy of the guanine radical cation, which is formed in DNA by oxidation of guanine by electron transfer, was studied by a detailed analysis of the oxidation products of guanine on oligonucleotide duplexes and by labeling experiments. It was shown that imidazolone, the major product of guanine oxidation, is formed through a one-electron oxidation process and incorporates one oxygen atom from O2. The formation of 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine by a two-electron oxidation process was a minor pathway. The two-electron oxidation mechanism was also evidenced by the formation of a tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane adduct.
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- Adam Kupan
- Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination du CNRS, 205 route de Narbonne, 31077 Toulouse Cedex4, France
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Kawai K, Osakada Y, Fujitsuka M, Majima T. Consecutive Adenine Sequences Are Potential Targets in Photosensitized DNA Damage. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005; 12:1049-54. [PMID: 16183029 DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2005.07.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2005] [Revised: 06/20/2005] [Accepted: 07/07/2005] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Based on direct spectroscopic measurements of hole transfer in DNA and quantification of the yield of DNA oxidative damage, consecutive adenine sequences were found to be a good launching site for photosensitizers to inject a hole in DNA, where the following rapid hole transfer between adenines causes a long-lived charge-separated state leading to DNA oxidative damage. According to the results, the essential requisites for an efficient and/or harmful photosensitizer are determined as follows: to be able to oxidize adenine to trigger hole transfer between adenines, and react rapidly with molecular oxygen following its reduction, avoiding charge recombination and making the reaction irreversible. These results will greatly help us to classify photosensitizers harmful to human health, and to design an improved photosensitizer for biochemical applications.
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- Kiyohiko Kawai
- The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research (SANKEN), Osaka University, Ibaraki, Japan.
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Ly A, Bandong SL, Tran NQ, Sullivan KJ, Milligan JR. Reactivity of DNA Guanyl Radicals with Phenolate Anions. J Phys Chem B 2005; 109:13368-74. [PMID: 16852669 DOI: 10.1021/jp050495k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Guanine bases are the most easily oxidized sites in DNA. Electron-deficient guanine species are major intermediates produced in DNA by the direct effect of ionizing radiation (ionization of the DNA itself) because of preferential hole migration within DNA to guanine bases. By using thiocyanate ions to modify the indirect effect (ionization of the solvent), we are able to produce these single-electron-oxidized guanine radical species in dilute aqueous solutions of plasmid DNA where the direct effect is negligible. The guanyl radical species produce stable modified guanine products. They can be detected in the plasmid by converting them to strand breaks after incubation with a DNA repair enzyme. If a phenol is present during irradiation, the yield of modified guanines is decreased. The mechanism is reduction of the guanine radical species by the phenol. It is possible to derive a rate constant for the reaction of the phenol with the guanyl radical. The pH dependence shows that phenolate anions are more reactive than their conjugate acids, although the difference for guanyl radicals is smaller than with other single-electron-oxidizing agents. At physiological pH values, the reduction of a guanyl radical entails the transfer of a proton in addition to the electron. The relatively small dependence of the rate constant on the driving force implies that the electron cannot be transferred before the proton. These results emphasize the potential importance of acidic tyrosine residues and the intimate involvement of protons in DNA repair.
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- Anne Ly
- Department of Radiology, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0610, USA
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Gervasio FL, Laio A, Parrinello M, Boero M. Charge localization in DNA fibers. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2005; 94:158103. [PMID: 15904193 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.94.158103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2004] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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We study by first-principles molecular dynamics the mechanism of electron hole (positive charge) localization in a laboratory realizable radical cation Z DNA crystal. We find that at room temperature structural deformation does not provide an efficient localization mechanism. Instead, we find evidence for the importance of changes in the protonation state for stabilizing the radical defect.
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Misiaszek R, Crean C, Geacintov NE, Shafirovich V. Combination of nitrogen dioxide radicals with 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine and guanine radicals in DNA: oxidation and nitration end-products. J Am Chem Soc 2005; 127:2191-200. [PMID: 15713097 DOI: 10.1021/ja044390r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The oxidation and nitration reactions in DNA associated with the combination of nitrogen dioxide radicals with 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine (8-oxoGua) and guanine radicals were explored by kinetic laser spectroscopy and mass spectrometry methods. The oxidation/nitration processes were triggered by photoexcitation of 2-aminopurine (2AP) residues site-specifically positioned in the 2'-deoxyribooligonucleotide 5'-d(CC[2AP]TC[X]CTACC) sequences (X = 8-oxoGua or G), by intense 308 nm excimer laser pulses. The photoionization products, 2AP radicals, rapidly oxidize either 8-oxoGua or G residues positioned within the same oligonucleotide but separated by a TC dinucleotide step on the 3'-side of 2AP. The two-photon ionization of the 2AP residue also generates hydrated electrons that are trapped by nitrate anions thus forming nitrogen dioxide radicals. The combination of nitrogen dioxide radicals with the 8-oxoGua and G radicals occurs with similar rate constants (approximately 4.3 x 10(8) M(-1) s(-1)) in both single- and double-stranded DNA. In the case of 8-oxoGua, the major end-products of this bimolecular radical-radical addition are spiroiminodihydantoin lesions, the products of 8-oxoGua oxidation. Oxygen-18 isotope labeling experiments reveal that the O-atom in the spiroiminodihydantoin lesion originates from water molecules, not from nitrogen dioxide radicals. In contrast, combination of nitrogen dioxide and guanine neutral radicals generated under the same conditions results in the formation of the nitro products, 5-guanidino-4-nitroimidazole and 8-nitroguanine adducts. The mechanistic aspects of the oxidation/nitration processes and their biological implications are discussed.
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- Richard Misiaszek
- Chemistry Department and Radiation and Solid State Laboratory, 31 Washington Place, New York University, New York, New York 10003-5180, USA
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Ly A, Tran NQ, Sullivan K, Bandong SL, Milligan JR. Involvement of proton transfer in the reductive repair of DNA guanyl radicals by aniline derivatives. Org Biomol Chem 2005; 3:917-23. [PMID: 15731879 DOI: 10.1039/b418681h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The most easily oxidized sites in DNA are the guanine bases, and major intermediates produced by the direct effect of ionizing radiation (ionization of the DNA itself) are electron deficient guanine species. By means of a radiation chemical method (gamma-irradiation of aqueous thiocyanate), we are able to produce these guanyl radicals in dilute aqueous solutions of plasmid DNA where the direct effect would otherwise be negligible. Stable modified guanine products are formed from these radicals. They can be detected in the plasmid conversion to strand breaks after a post-irradiation incubation with a DNA base excision endonuclease enzyme. If aniline compounds are also present, the yield of modified guanines is strongly attenuated. The mechanism responsible for this effect is electron donation from the aniline compound to the guanyl radical, and it is possible to derive rate constants for this reaction. Aniline compounds bearing electron withdrawing groups (e.g., 4-CF3) were found to be less reactive than those bearing electron donating groups (e.g., 4-CH3). At physiological pH values, the reduction of a guanyl radical involves the transfer of a proton as well as of an electron. The mild dependence of the rate constant on the driving force suggests that the electron is not transferred before the proton. Although the source of the proton is unclear, our observations emphasize the importance of an accompanying proton transfer in the reductive repair of oxidative damage to guanine bases which are located in a biologically active double stranded plasmid DNA substrate.
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- Anne Ly
- Department of Radiology, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0610, USA
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Shukla LI, Adhikary A, Pazdro R, Becker D, Sevilla MD. Formation of 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine-radicals in gamma-irradiated DNA by multiple one-electron oxidations. Nucleic Acids Res 2004; 32:6565-74. [PMID: 15601999 PMCID: PMC545457 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Electron spin resonance (ESR) studies of radicals formed by radiation-induced multiple one-electron oxidations of guanine moieties in DNA are reported in this work. Annealing of gamma-irradiated DNA from 77 to 235 K results in the hydration of one electron oxidized guanine (G*+) to form the 8-hydroxy-7,8-dihydroguanin-7-yl-radical (*GOH) having one beta-proton coupling of 17-28 G and an anisotropic nitrogen coupling, A(parallel), of approximately 20 G, A(perpendicular) = 0 with g(parallel) = 2.0026 and g(perpendicular) = 2.0037. Further annealing to 258 K results in the formation of a sharp singlet at g = 2.0048 with line-width of 5.3 G that is identified as the 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine one-electron-oxidized radical (8-oxo-G*+). This species is formed via two one-electron oxidations of *GOH. These two one-electron oxidation steps leading to the formation of 8-oxo-G*+ from *GOH in DNA, are in accordance with the expected ease of oxidation of *GOH and 8-oxo-G. The incorporation of oxygen from water in G*+ leading to *GOH and to 8-oxo-G*+ is verified by ESR studies employing 17O isotopically enriched water, which provide unambiguous evidence for the formation of both radicals. ESR analysis of irradiated-DNA in the presence of the electron scavenger, Tl3+, demonstrates that the cationic pathway leads to the formation of the 8-oxo-G*+. In irradiated DNA-Tl3+ samples, Tl3+ captures electrons. Tl2+ thus produced is a strong oxidant (2.2 V), which is metastable at 77 K and is observed to increase the formation of G*+ and subsequently of 8-oxo-G*+ upon annealing. We find that in the absence of the electron scavenger the yield of 8-oxo-G*+ is substantially reduced as a result of electron recombinations with G*+ and possible reaction with *GOH.
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- Lata I Shukla
- Department of Chemistry, Oakland University, Rochester, MI 38309, USA
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Misiaszek R, Crean C, Joffe A, Geacintov NE, Shafirovich V. Oxidative DNA damage associated with combination of guanine and superoxide radicals and repair mechanisms via radical trapping. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:32106-15. [PMID: 15152004 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m313904200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 175] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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In living tissues under inflammatory conditions, superoxide radicals (O(2)*)) are generated and are known to cause oxidative DNA damage. However, the mechanisms of action are poorly understood. It is shown here that the combination of O(2)* with guanine neutral radicals, G(-H)* in single- or double-stranded oligodeoxyribonucleotides (rate constant of 4.7 +/- 1.0 x 10(8) m(-1) s(-1) in both cases), culminates in the formation of oxidatively modified guanine bases (major product, imidazolone; minor product, 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine). The G(-H)* and O(2)* radicals were generated by intense 308 nm excimer laser pulses resulting in the one-electron oxidation and deprotonation of guanine in the 5'-d(CC[2AP]-TCGCTACC) strands and the trapping of the ejected electrons by molecular oxygen (Shafirovich, V., Dourandin, A., Huang, W., Luneva, N. P., and Geacintov, N. E. (2000) Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2, 4399-4408). The addition of Cu,Zn-superoxide dismutase, known to react rapidly with superoxide, dramatically enhances the life-times of guanine radicals from 4 to 7 ms to 0.2-0.6 s in the presence of 5 microm superoxide dismutase. Oxygen-18 isotope labeling experiments reveal two pathways of 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine formation including either addition of O(2)* to the C-8 position of G(-H)* (in the presence of oxygen), or the hydration of G(-H)* (in the absence of oxygen). The formation of the guanine lesions via combination of guanine and superoxide radicals is greatly reduced in the presence of typical antioxidants such as trolox and catechol that rapidly regenerate guanine by the reductive "repair" of G(-H)* radicals. The mechanistic aspects of the radical reactions that either regenerate undamaged guanine in DNA or lead to oxidatively modified guanine bases are discussed.
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- Richard Misiaszek
- Chemistry Department and Radiation and Solid State Laboratory, New York University, New York, New York 10003-5180, USA
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Milligan JR, Aguilera JA, Hoang O, Ly A, Tran NQ, Ward JF. Repair of Guanyl Radicals in Plasmid DNA by Electron Transfer Is Coupled to Proton Transfer. J Am Chem Soc 2004; 126:1682-7. [PMID: 14871098 DOI: 10.1021/ja030319u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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By using gamma-irradiation in the presence of thiocyanate ions, we have generated guanyl radicals in plasmid DNA. These can be detected by using an Escherichia coli base excision repair endonuclease to convert their stable end products to strand breaks. The yield of enzyme-sensitive sites is strongly attenuated by the presence of micromolar concentrations of one of a series of singly substituted phenols, and it is possible to derive bimolecular rate constants for the reduction of DNA guanyl radicals by these phenols. More strongly reducing phenols were found to react more rapidly. This electron-transfer reaction also involves a proton transfer. By comparing the expected energetics of the reaction with the observed rate constants, the electron transfer is found to be mechanistically coupled with the proton transfer.
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- Jamie R Milligan
- Department of Radiology, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0610, USA.
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Shafirovich V, Geacintov NE. Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reactions at a Distance in DNA Duplexes. Top Curr Chem (Cham) 2004. [DOI: 10.1007/b94475] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Milligan JR, Aguilera JA, Ly A, Tran NQ, Hoang O, Ward JF. Repair of oxidative DNA damage by amino acids. Nucleic Acids Res 2003; 31:6258-63. [PMID: 14576314 PMCID: PMC275458 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg816] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Guanyl radicals, the product of the removal of a single electron from guanine, are produced in DNA by the direct effect of ionizing radiation. We have produced guanyl radicals in DNA by using the single electron oxidizing agent (SCN)2-, itself derived from the indirect effect of ionizing radiation via thiocyanate scavenging of OH. We have examined the reactivity of guanyl radicals in plasmid DNA with the six most easily oxidized amino acids cysteine, cystine, histidine, methionine, tryptophan and tyrosine and also simple ester and amide derivatives of them. Cystine and histidine derivatives are unreactive. Cysteine, methionine, tyrosine and particularly tryptophan derivatives react to repair guanyl radicals in plasmid DNA with rate constants in the region of approximately 10(5), 10(5), 10(6) and 10(7) dm3 mol(-1) s(-1), respectively. The implication is that amino acid residues in DNA binding proteins such as histones might be able to repair by an electron transfer reaction the DNA damage produced by the direct effect of ionizing radiation or by other oxidative insults.
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- J R Milligan
- Department of Radiology, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0610, USA.
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Kobayashi K, Tagawa S. Direct observation of guanine radical cation deprotonation in duplex DNA using pulse radiolysis. J Am Chem Soc 2003; 125:10213-8. [PMID: 12926943 DOI: 10.1021/ja036211w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 174] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The dynamics of one-electron oxidation of guanine (G) base mononucleotide and that in DNA have been investigated by pulse radiolysis. The radical cation (G+*) of deoxyguanosine (dG), produced by oxidation with SO(4)-*, rapidly deprotonates to form the neutral G radical (G(-H)*) with a rate constant of 1.8 x 10(7) s(-1) at pH 7.0, as judged from transient spectroscopy. With experiments using different double-stranded oligonucleotides containing G, GG, and GGG sequences, the absorbance increases at 625 nm, characteristic of formation of the G(-H)*, were found to consist of two phases. The rate constants of the faster ( approximately 1.3 x 10(7) s(-1)) and slower phases ( approximately 3.0 x 10(6) s(-1)) were similar for the different oligonucleotides. On the other hand, in the oligonucleotide containing G located at the 5'- and 3'-terminal positions, only the faster phase was seen. These results suggest that the lifetime of the radical cation of the G:C base pair (GC+*), depending on its location in the DNA chain, is longer than that of free dG. In addition, the absorption spectral intermediates showed that hole transport to a specific G site within a 12-13mer double-stranded oligonucleotide is complete within 50 ns; that is, the rate of hole transport over 20 A is >10(7) s(-1).
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- Kazuo Kobayashi
- The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, Mihogaoka 8-1, Ibaraki Osaka 567-0047, Japan.
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Pelle E, Huang X, Mammone T, Marenus K, Maes D, Frenkel K. Ultraviolet-B-induced oxidative DNA base damage in primary normal human epidermal keratinocytes and inhibition by a hydroxyl radical scavenger. J Invest Dermatol 2003; 121:177-83. [PMID: 12839579 DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1747.2003.12330.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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To evaluate the effects of ultraviolet-induced environmental trauma on human skin cells, primary normal human epidermal keratinocytes were exposed to ultraviolet-B radiation (290-320 nm). We found that relatively low doses of ultraviolet-B (62.5-500 mJ per cm2) caused dose-dependent increases in 8-oxo-7,8-dihydro-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-oxo-dG), a biomarker of oxidative DNA damage. Unirradiated normal human epidermal keratinocytes contained 1.49 (+/- 0.11) 8-oxo-dG per 10(6) 2'-deoxyguanosine (dG) residues in cellular DNA, which increased linearly to as high as 6.24 (+/- 0.85) 8-oxo-dG per 10(6) dG after irradiation with 500 mJ per cm2. Further, this oxidative damage was reduced by 60.7% when the cells were pretreated with 1 mM mannitol. As hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is known to be generated during oxidative stress, its accumulation in ultraviolet-B-irradiated normal human epidermal keratinocytes was also assessed and correlated to 8-oxo-dG formation. An ultraviolet-B-induced increase in H2O2 was observed in normal human epidermal keratinocytes and its production was inhibited by the addition of catalase. Based on the ability of a neutral molecule like H2O2 to permeate membranes, our data indicate that, after ultraviolet-B irradiation, H2O2 migrates from the cytosol to the nucleus where it participates in a Fenton-like reaction that results in the production of hydroxyl radicals (OH*), which may then cause 8-oxo-dG formation in cellular DNA. This conclusion is supported by our data showing that OH* scavengers, such as mannitol, are effective inhibitors of oxidative DNA base damage. Although increased levels of 8-oxo-dG were previously found in immortalized mouse keratinocytes exposed to ultraviolet-B radiation, we now report the induction of 8-oxo-dG in normal human skin keratinocytes at ultraviolet-B doses relevant to human skin exposure.
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- Edward Pelle
- Estee Lauder Research Laboratories, Melville, New York 11747, USA.
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Shafirovich V, Dourandin A, Huang W, Geacintov NE. The carbonate radical is a site-selective oxidizing agent of guanine in double-stranded oligonucleotides. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:24621-6. [PMID: 11320091 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m101131200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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The carbonate radical anion (CO(3)) is believed to be an important intermediate oxidant derived from the oxidation of bicarbonate anions and nitrosoperoxocarboxylate anions (formed in the reaction of CO(2) with ONOO(-)) in cellular environments. Employing nanosecond laser flash photolysis methods, we show that the CO(3) anion can selectively oxidize guanines in the self-complementary oligonucleotide duplex d(AACGCGAATTCGCGTT) dissolved in air-equilibrated aqueous buffer solution (pH 7.5). In these time-resolved transient absorbance experiments, the CO(3) radicals are generated by one-electron oxidation of the bicarbonate anions (HCO(3)(-)) with sulfate radical anions (SO(4)) that, in turn, are derived from the photodissociation of persulfate anions (S(2)O(8)(2-)) initiated by 308-nm XeCl excimer laser pulse excitation. The kinetics of the CO(3) anion and neutral guanine radicals, G(-H)( small middle dot), arising from the rapid deprotonation of the guanine radical cation, are monitored via their transient absorption spectra (characteristic maxima at 600 and 315 nm, respectively) on time scales of microseconds to seconds. The bimolecular rate constant of oxidation of guanine in this oligonucleotide duplex by CO(3) is (1.9 +/- 0.2) x 10(7) m(-1) s(-1). The decay of the CO(3) anions and the formation of G(-H)( small middle dot) radicals are correlated with one another on the millisecond time scale, whereas the neutral guanine radicals decay on time scales of seconds. Alkali-labile guanine lesions are produced and are revealed by treatment of the irradiated oligonucleotides in hot piperidine solution. The DNA fragments thus formed are identified by a standard polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis assay, showing that strand cleavage occurs at the guanine sites only. The biological implications of these oxidative processes are discussed.
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- V Shafirovich
- Chemistry Department, Radiation and Solid State Laboratory, 31 Washington Place, New York University, New York, NY 10003-5180, USA.
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Shafirovich V, Cadet J, Gasparutto D, Dourandin A, Huang W, Geacintov NE. Direct Spectroscopic Observation of 8-Oxo-7,8-dihydro-2‘-deoxyguanosine Radicals in Double-Stranded DNA Generated by One-Electron Oxidation at a Distance by 2-Aminopurine Radicals. J Phys Chem B 2000. [DOI: 10.1021/jp0029055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Vladimir Shafirovich
- Chemistry Department and Radiation and Solid State Laboratory, 31 Washington Place, New York University, New York, New York 10003-5180, and Laboratoire “Lésions des Acides Nucléiques”, SCIB/DRFMC and UMR CNRS 5046, CEA/Grenoble, 17 rue des Martyrs, F-38054 Grenoble, Cedex 9, France
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- Chemistry Department and Radiation and Solid State Laboratory, 31 Washington Place, New York University, New York, New York 10003-5180, and Laboratoire “Lésions des Acides Nucléiques”, SCIB/DRFMC and UMR CNRS 5046, CEA/Grenoble, 17 rue des Martyrs, F-38054 Grenoble, Cedex 9, France
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- Chemistry Department and Radiation and Solid State Laboratory, 31 Washington Place, New York University, New York, New York 10003-5180, and Laboratoire “Lésions des Acides Nucléiques”, SCIB/DRFMC and UMR CNRS 5046, CEA/Grenoble, 17 rue des Martyrs, F-38054 Grenoble, Cedex 9, France
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- Chemistry Department and Radiation and Solid State Laboratory, 31 Washington Place, New York University, New York, New York 10003-5180, and Laboratoire “Lésions des Acides Nucléiques”, SCIB/DRFMC and UMR CNRS 5046, CEA/Grenoble, 17 rue des Martyrs, F-38054 Grenoble, Cedex 9, France
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- Chemistry Department and Radiation and Solid State Laboratory, 31 Washington Place, New York University, New York, New York 10003-5180, and Laboratoire “Lésions des Acides Nucléiques”, SCIB/DRFMC and UMR CNRS 5046, CEA/Grenoble, 17 rue des Martyrs, F-38054 Grenoble, Cedex 9, France
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- Chemistry Department and Radiation and Solid State Laboratory, 31 Washington Place, New York University, New York, New York 10003-5180, and Laboratoire “Lésions des Acides Nucléiques”, SCIB/DRFMC and UMR CNRS 5046, CEA/Grenoble, 17 rue des Martyrs, F-38054 Grenoble, Cedex 9, France
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Yoshioka Y, Kitagawa Y, Takano Y, Yamaguchi K, Nakamura T, Saito I. Experimental and Theoretical Studies on the Selectivity of GGG Triplets toward One-Electron Oxidation in B-Form DNA. J Am Chem Soc 1999. [DOI: 10.1021/ja991032t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 168] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Yasunori Yoshioka
- Contribution from the Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan, Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan, and CREST, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0081, Japan
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- Contribution from the Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan, Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan, and CREST, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0081, Japan
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- Contribution from the Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan, Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan, and CREST, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0081, Japan
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- Contribution from the Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan, Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan, and CREST, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0081, Japan
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- Contribution from the Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan, Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan, and CREST, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0081, Japan
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- Contribution from the Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan, Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan, and CREST, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0081, Japan
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Luo N, Litvin A, Osman R. Theoretical Studies of Ribose and Its Radicals Produced by Hydrogen Abstraction from Ring Carbons. J Phys Chem A 1999. [DOI: 10.1021/jp982799v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Ning Luo
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine of the City University of New York, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, New York 10029
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine of the City University of New York, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, New York 10029
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine of the City University of New York, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, New York 10029
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Gorner H, Currell LJ. Transient conductivity OF 1,3-dimethyluracil, uridine and 3-methyluridine in aqueous solution following 20-ns laser excitation at 248 nm. Radiat Phys Chem Oxf Engl 1993 1996. [DOI: 10.1016/0969-806x(95)00456-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Ulanski P, Bothe E, Hildenbrand K, Rosiak JM, von Sonntag C. Radiolysis of poly(acrylic acid) in aqueous solution. Radiat Phys Chem Oxf Engl 1993 1995. [DOI: 10.1016/0969-806x(95)00290-e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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The importance of radical-induced damage to DNA is apparent from the ever-increasing number of publications in this area. This review focuses on the damage caused to DNA by reactive oxygen-centred radicals, however formed. These may be hydroxyl radicals, which arise either from the radiolysis of water by ionizing radiation (gamma-rays or X-rays), or from a purely chemical source. Alternatively, metal-bound oxyl radicals (M-O.) are also active intermediates in DNA-cleaving reactions and may be formed from synthetic compounds or from natural products such as bleomycin (BLM). Chemical mechanisms leading to the observed degradation products are covered in detail. The biological effects of some of the DNA base lesions formed are touched upon, concentrating on the molecular mechanisms behind the initial events that lead to mutagenesis.
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- A P Breen
- University of Nottingham, Department of Chemistry, UK
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