Structures of DNA duplexes containing O6-carboxymethylguanine, a lesion associated with gastrointestinal cancer, reveal a mechanism for inducing pyrimidine transition mutations.
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Zhang, FTsunoda, M
Suzuki, K
Kikuchi, Y
Wilkinson, O
Millington, C
Margison, Geoffrey P
Williams, D
Czarina M
Takénaka, A
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Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Iwaki-Meisei University, Iwaki 970-8551, Japan, Faculty of Pharmacy, Iwaki-Meisei University, Iwaki 970-8551, Japan, Department of Chemistry, Centre for Chemical Biology, Krebs Institute, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S3 7HF, UK, Cancer Research-UK Carcinogenesis Group, Paterson Institute for Cancer Research, University of Manchester, Manchester M20 9BX, UK and Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama 226-8501, Japan.Issue Date
2013-04-10
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N-nitrosation of glycine and its derivatives generates potent alkylating agents that can lead to the formation of O(6)-carboxymethylguanine (O(6)-CMG) in DNA. O(6)-CMG has been identified in DNA derived from human colon tissue, and its occurrence has been linked to diets high in red and processed meats. By analogy to O(6)-methylguanine, O(6)-CMG is expected to be highly mutagenic, inducing G to A mutations during DNA replication that can increase the risk of gastrointestinal and other cancers. Two crystal structures of DNA dodecamers d(CGCG[O(6)-CMG]ATTCGCG) and d(CGC[O(6)-CMG]AATTCGCG) in complex with Hoechst33258 reveal that each can form a self-complementary duplex to retain the B-form conformation. Electron density maps clearly show that O(6)-CMG forms a Watson-Crick-type pair with thymine similar to the canonical A:T pair, and it forms a reversed wobble pair with cytosine. In situ structural modeling suggests that a DNA polymerase can accept the Watson-Crick-type pair of O(6)-CMG with thymine, but might also accept the reversed wobble pair of O(6)-CMG with cytosine. Thus, O(6)-CMG would permit the mis-incorporation of dTTP during DNA replication. Alternatively, the triphosphate that would be formed by carboxymethylation of the nucleotide triphosphate pool d[O(6)-CMG]TP might compete with dATP incorporation opposite thymine in a DNA template.Citation
Structures of DNA duplexes containing O6-carboxymethylguanine, a lesion associated with gastrointestinal cancer, reveal a mechanism for inducing pyrimidine transition mutations. 2013: Nucleic Acids ResJournal
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10.1093/nar/gkt198PubMed ID
23580550Type
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1362-4962ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1093/nar/gkt198
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