PMID: 3756170Oct 16, 1986Paper

Mechanism of DNA strand breakage by piperidine at sites of N7-alkylguanines

Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta
W B MattesK W Kohn

Abstract

The volatile, secondary amine piperidine is used in the Maxam-Gilbert chemical method of DNA sequencing to create strand breaks in DNA at sites of damaged bases. As such it is often used in generalized studies of DNA damage to identify 'alkali-labile lesions'. We confirm the mechanism proposed by Maxam and Gilbert (Maxam, A. and Gilbert, W. (1980) Methods Enzymol. 65, 499-560) by which aqueous piperidine creates strand breaks at sites of N7-guanine alkylations: alkaline conditions catalyze rupture of the C8-N9 bond, forming a formamido-pyrimidine structure which is displaced from the ribose moiety by piperidine. In keeping with this mechanism, the tertiary amine, N-methylpiperidine, does not catalyze the formation of strand breaks in alkylated DNA. Our data confirm the prediction that high pH in and of itself will not create strand breaks at sites of N7-alkylguanines.

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