Base-pairing preferences, physicochemical properties and mutational behaviour of the DNA lesion 8-nitroguanine\dagger\. Bhamra, I., Compagnone-Post, P., O'Neil, I. a, Iwanejko, L. a, Bates, A. D, & Cosstick, R. Nucleic acids research, 40(21):11126–11138, September, 2012.
Base-pairing preferences, physicochemical properties and mutational behaviour of the DNA lesion 8-nitroguanine\dagger\ [link]Paper  doi  abstract   bibtex   
8-Nitro-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-nitrodG) is a relatively unstable, mutagenic lesion of DNA that is increasingly believed to be associated with tissue inflammation. Due to the lability of the glycosidic bond, 8-nitrodG cannot be incorporated into oligodeoxynucleotides (ODNs) by chemical DNA synthesis and thus very little is known about its physicochemical properties and base-pairing preferences. Here we describe the synthesis of 8-nitro-2'-O-methylguanosine, a ribonucleoside analogue of this lesion, which is sufficiently stable to be incorporated into ODNs. Physicochemical studies demonstrated that 8-nitro-2'-O-methylguanosine adopts a syn conformation about the glycosidic bond; thermal melting studies and molecular modelling suggest a relatively stable syn-8-nitroG·anti-G base pair. Interestingly, when this lesion analogue was placed in a primer-template system, extension of the primer by either avian myeloblastosis virus reverse transcriptase (AMV-RT) or human DNA polymerase β (pol β), was significantly impaired, but where incorporation opposite 8-nitroguanine did occur, pol β showed a 2:1 preference to insert dA over dC, while AMV-RT incorporated predominantly dC. The fact that no 8-nitroG·G base pairing is seen in the primer extension products suggests that the polymerases may discriminate against this pairing system on the basis of its poor geometric match to a Watson-Crick pair.
@article{Bhamra2012,
	title = {Base-pairing preferences, physicochemical properties and mutational behaviour of the {DNA} lesion 8-nitroguanine\{dagger\}},
	volume = {40},
	issn = {1362-4962},
	url = {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22965127},
	doi = {10.1093/nar/gks799},
	abstract = {8-Nitro-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-nitrodG) is a relatively unstable, mutagenic lesion of DNA that is increasingly believed to be associated with tissue inflammation. Due to the lability of the glycosidic bond, 8-nitrodG cannot be incorporated into oligodeoxynucleotides (ODNs) by chemical DNA synthesis and thus very little is known about its physicochemical properties and base-pairing preferences. Here we describe the synthesis of 8-nitro-2'-O-methylguanosine, a ribonucleoside analogue of this lesion, which is sufficiently stable to be incorporated into ODNs. Physicochemical studies demonstrated that 8-nitro-2'-O-methylguanosine adopts a syn conformation about the glycosidic bond; thermal melting studies and molecular modelling suggest a relatively stable syn-8-nitroG·anti-G base pair. Interestingly, when this lesion analogue was placed in a primer-template system, extension of the primer by either avian myeloblastosis virus reverse transcriptase (AMV-RT) or human DNA polymerase β (pol β), was significantly impaired, but where incorporation opposite 8-nitroguanine did occur, pol β showed a 2:1 preference to insert dA over dC, while AMV-RT incorporated predominantly dC. The fact that no 8-nitroG·G base pairing is seen in the primer extension products suggests that the polymerases may discriminate against this pairing system on the basis of its poor geometric match to a Watson-Crick pair.},
	number = {21},
	journal = {Nucleic acids research},
	author = {Bhamra, Inder and Compagnone-Post, Patricia and O'Neil, Ian a and Iwanejko, Lesley a and Bates, Andrew D and Cosstick, Richard},
	month = sep,
	year = {2012},
	pmid = {22965127},
	keywords = {\#nosource},
	pages = {11126--11138},
}

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