Adduct Fluorescence as a Tool to Decipher Sequence Impact on Frameshift Mutations Mediated by a C-Linked C8-Biphenyl-Guanine Lesion

Chemical Research in Toxicology
Florence D BergerShana J Sturla

Abstract

Aromatic chemicals can undergo metabolic activation to afford electrophilic species that react at the C8-site of 2'-deoxyguanosine (dG) to generate bulky C8-dG adducts as a basis of initiating carcinogenesis. These DNA lesions have served as models to understand the mechanism of frameshift mutagenesis, especially within CG-dinucleotide repeat sequences, such as NarI (5'-GGCXCC-3', where X = C8-dG adduct), however there is still limited capacity to predict the likelihood of mutation arising within particular contexts, and hence chemistry-based strategies are needed for probing relationships between nucleic acid sequence and structure with replication errors. In the NarI sequence, certain C8-dG adducts may trigger in the course of DNA synthesis the formation of a slipped mutagenic intermediate (SMI) that contains a two nucleotide (XC) bulge in the template strand that can form upstream of the polymerase active site. This distortion facilitates polymerization but affords a GC dinucleotide deletion product (-2 frameshift mutation). In the current study, incorporating the fluorescent C-linked 4-fluorobiphenyl-dG (FBP-dG) adduct into two 22-mer templates containing CG-dinucleotide repeats ( NarI: 3'-CXCGGC-5' and CG3: 3'-CXCGCG-5', X...Continue Reading

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