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Roy L, Pan N, Ghosh R, Hasan MN, Mondal S, Banerjee A, Das M, Sen O, Bhattacharya K, Chattopadhyay A, Pal SK. A Mutagen Acts as a Potent Reducing Agent of Glycated Hemoglobin: a Combined Ultrafast Electron Transfer and Computational Studies. Chembiochem 2024; 25:e202300721. [PMID: 38226959 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.202300721] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2023] [Revised: 01/11/2024] [Accepted: 01/16/2024] [Indexed: 01/17/2024]
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Glycated hemoglobin (GHb) found in mammals undergoes irreversible damage when exposed to external redox agents, which is much more vulnerable than its normal counterpart hemoglobin (Hb). Besides the oxygen regulation throughout the body, Hb plays a vital role in balancing immunological health and the redox cycle. Photoinduced ultra-fast electron transfer phenomena actively participate in regulation of various kind of homeostasis involved in such biomacromolecules. In the present study we have shown that a well-known mutagen Ethidium Bromide (EtBr) reduces GHb in femtosecond time scale (efficiently) upon photoexcitation after efficient recognition in the biomolecule. We have performed similar experiment by colocalizing EtBr and Iron (Fe(III)) on the micellar surface as Hb mimic in order to study the excited state EtBr dynamics to rationalize the time scale obtained from EtBr in GHb and Hb. While other experimental techniques including Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS), Zeta potential, absorbance and emission spectroscopy have been employed for the confirmation of structural perturbation of GHb compared to Hb, a detailed computational studies involving molecular docking and density functional theory (DFT) have been employed for the explanation of the experimental observations.
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- Lopamudra Roy
- Department of Applied Optics and Photonics, University of Calcutta, JD-2, Sector-III, Salt Lake, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700 106, India
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Sciences, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Block-JD, Sector-III, Salt Lake, Kolkata, 700106
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Sciences, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Block-JD, Sector-III, Salt Lake, Kolkata, 700106
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Sciences, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Block-JD, Sector-III, Salt Lake, Kolkata, 700106
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Sciences, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Block-JD, Sector-III, Salt Lake, Kolkata, 700106
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- Department of Physics, Jadavpur University, 188, Raja S.C. Mallick Rd, Kolkata, 700032, India
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- Department of Zoology, Vidyasagar University Rangamati, Midnapore, 721102, India
- Department of Zoology, Uluberia College, University of Calcutta, Uluberia, Howrah, 711315, India
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Kalyani Nadia, Kalyani, West Bengal, 741245
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- Department of Applied Optics and Photonics, University of Calcutta, JD-2, Sector-III, Salt Lake, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700 106, India
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- Department of Basic Science and Humanities, Techno International New Town Block, DG 1/1, Action Area 1 New Town, Rajarhat, Kolkata, 700156, India
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Sciences, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Block-JD, Sector-III, Salt Lake, Kolkata, 700106
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Kufner CL, Crucilla S, Ding D, Stadlbauer P, Šponer J, Szostak JW, Sasselov DD, Szabla R. Photoinduced charge separation and DNA self-repair depend on sequence directionality and stacking pattern. Chem Sci 2024; 15:2158-2166. [PMID: 38332835 PMCID: PMC10848779 DOI: 10.1039/d3sc04971j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2023] [Accepted: 12/27/2023] [Indexed: 02/10/2024] Open
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Charge separation is one of the most common consequences of the absorption of UV light by DNA. Recently, it has been shown that this process can enable efficient self-repair of cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPDs) in specific short DNA oligomers such as the GAT[double bond, length as m-dash]T sequence. The mechanism was characterized as sequential electron transfer through the nucleobase stack which is controlled by the redox potentials of nucleobases and their sequence. Here, we demonstrate that the inverse sequence T[double bond, length as m-dash]TAG promotes self-repair with higher quantum yields (0.58 ± 0.23%) than GAT[double bond, length as m-dash]T (0.44 ± 0.18%) in a comparative study involving UV-irradiation experiments. After extended exposure to UV irradiation, a photostationary equilibrium between self-repair and damage formation is reached at 33 ± 13% for GAT[double bond, length as m-dash]T and at 40 ± 16% for T[double bond, length as m-dash]TAG, which corresponds to the maximum total yield of self-repair. Molecular dynamics and quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) simulations allowed us to assign this disparity to better stacking overlap between the G and A bases, which lowers the energies of the key A-˙G+˙ charge transfer state in the dominant conformers of the T[double bond, length as m-dash]TAG tetramer. These conformational differences also hinder alternative photorelaxation pathways of the T[double bond, length as m-dash]TAG tetranucleotide, which otherwise compete with the sequential electron transfer mechanism responsible for CPD self-repair. Overall, we demonstrate that photoinduced electron transfer is strongly dependent on conformation and the availability of alternative photodeactivation mechanisms. This knowledge can be used in the identification and prediction of canonical and modified DNA sequences exhibiting efficient electron transfer. It also further contributes to our understanding of DNA self-repair and its potential role in the photochemical selection of the most photostable sequences on the early Earth.
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- Corinna L Kufner
- Department of Astronomy, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 60 Garden Street Cambridge MA 02138 USA
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- Department of Astronomy, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 60 Garden Street Cambridge MA 02138 USA
- Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University Cambridge Massachusetts 02138 USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Biology and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital Boston Massachusetts 02114 USA
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University Cambridge Massachusetts 02138 USA
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- Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences Královopolská 135 61200 Brno Czech Republic
- Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Czech Advanced Technology and Research Institute (CATRIN), Palacky University Olomouc Slechtitelu 241/27, 783 71, Olomouc - Holice Czech Republic
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- Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences Královopolská 135 61200 Brno Czech Republic
- Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Czech Advanced Technology and Research Institute (CATRIN), Palacky University Olomouc Slechtitelu 241/27, 783 71, Olomouc - Holice Czech Republic
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The University of Chicago Chicago IL 60637 USA
- Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago Chicago Illinois 60637 USA
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- Department of Astronomy, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 60 Garden Street Cambridge MA 02138 USA
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- Institute of Advanced Materials, Faculty of Chemistry, Wrocław University of Science and Technology Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27 Wrocław 50-370 Poland
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Petropoulos V, Uboldi L, Maiuri M, Cerullo G, Martinez-Fernandez L, Balanikas E, Markovitsi D. Effect of the DNA Polarity on the Relaxation of Its Electronic Excited States. J Phys Chem Lett 2023; 14:10219-10224. [PMID: 37931204 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c02580] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2023]
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The DNA polarity, i.e., the order in which nucleobases are connected together via the phosphodiester backbone, is crucial for several biological processes. But, so far, there has not been experimental evidence regarding its effect on the relaxation of DNA electronic excited states. Here we examine this aspect for two dinucleotides containing adenine and guanine: 5'-dApdG-3' and 5'-dGpdA-3' in water. We used two different femtosecond transient absorption setups: one providing high temporal resolution and broad spectral coverage (330-650 nm) between 30 fs and 50 ps, and the other recording decays at selected wavelengths until 1.2 ns. The transient absorption spectra corresponding to the minima in the potential energy surface of the first excited state were computed by quantum chemistry methods. Our results show that the excited charge transfer state in 5'-dGpdA-3' is formed with a ∼75% higher quantum yield and exhibits slower decay (170 ± 10 ps vs 112 ± 12 ps) compared to 5'-dApdG-3'.
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- Vasilis Petropoulos
- IFN-CNR, Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, I-20133 Milano, Italy
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- IFN-CNR, Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, I-20133 Milano, Italy
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- IFN-CNR, Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, I-20133 Milano, Italy
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- IFN-CNR, Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, I-20133 Milano, Italy
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- Departamento de Química, Facultad de Ciencias and Institute for Advanced Research in Chemical Sciences (IADCHEM), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Campus de Excelencia UAM-CSIC, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva-4, Switzerland
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Institut de Chimie Physique, UMR8000, 91405 Orsay, France
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Kufner CL, Krebs S, Fischaleck M, Philippou-Massier J, Blum H, Bucher DB, Braun D, Zinth W, Mast CB. Sequence dependent UV damage of complete pools of oligonucleotides. Sci Rep 2023; 13:2638. [PMID: 36788271 PMCID: PMC9929323 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-29833-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2022] [Accepted: 02/10/2023] [Indexed: 02/16/2023] Open
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Understanding the sequence-dependent DNA damage formation requires probing a complete pool of sequences over a wide dose range of the damage-causing exposure. We used high throughput sequencing to simultaneously obtain the dose dependence and quantum yields for oligonucleotide damages for all possible 4096 DNA sequences with hexamer length. We exposed the DNA to ultraviolet radiation at 266 nm and doses of up to 500 absorbed photons per base. At the dimer level, our results confirm existing literature values of photodamage, whereas we now quantified the susceptibility of sequence motifs to UV irradiation up to previously inaccessible polymer lengths. This revealed the protective effect of the sequence context in preventing the formation of UV-lesions. For example, the rate to form dipyrimidine lesions is strongly reduced by nearby guanine bases. Our results provide a complete picture of the sensitivity of oligonucleotides to UV irradiation and allow us to predict their abundance in high-UV environments.
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- Corinna L. Kufner
- grid.38142.3c000000041936754XHarvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Department of Astronomy, Harvard University, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
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- grid.5252.00000 0004 1936 973XLaboratory for Functional Genome Analysis, Gene Center, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Feodor-Lynen-Straße 25, 81377 Munich, Germany
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- grid.5252.00000 0004 1936 973XLaboratory for Functional Genome Analysis, Gene Center, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Feodor-Lynen-Straße 25, 81377 Munich, Germany
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- grid.5252.00000 0004 1936 973XLaboratory for Functional Genome Analysis, Gene Center, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Feodor-Lynen-Straße 25, 81377 Munich, Germany
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- grid.5252.00000 0004 1936 973XLaboratory for Functional Genome Analysis, Gene Center, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Feodor-Lynen-Straße 25, 81377 Munich, Germany
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- grid.6936.a0000000123222966Chemistry Department, TUM School of Natural Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Lichtenbergstr. 4, 85748 Garching, Germany
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- grid.5252.00000 0004 1936 973XSystems Biophysics, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Amalienstr. 54, 80799 Munich, Germany
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- grid.5252.00000 0004 1936 973XBiomolecular Optics and Center for Integrated Protein Science, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Oettingenstrasse 67, 80538 Munich, Germany
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- grid.5252.00000 0004 1936 973XSystems Biophysics, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Amalienstr. 54, 80799 Munich, Germany
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Lee W, Matsika S. Mechanistic Aspects of the Effect of Flanking Nucleotide Sequence on CPD Formation and CPD Self-Repair in DNA. J Phys Chem B 2023; 127:18-25. [PMID: 36574488 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c06680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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A cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer (CPD) is a photolesion which is produced by a cycloaddition reaction between two stacked pyrimidine bases upon UV light absorption. Because of its harmful effect on important cellular processes involving DNA and especially its relevance to skin cancer, the mechanisms of how a CPD is formed or repaired have been studied extensively, and it has been demonstrated that flanking nucleotide sequences play a crucial role in CPD formation or self-repair. Understanding the mechanisms behind this sequence dependence of CPD formation or self-repair is of great importance because it can give us valuable information on which sequence will be vulnerable to this DNA photodamage. This Perspective focuses on the mechanisms of how flanking nucleotide sequences affect CPD formation or self-repair, especially highlighting the role of computational studies in this field.
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- Wook Lee
- Department of Biochemistry, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon 24341, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, United States
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Takakado A, Iwata K. Sequence-dependent thymine dimerization and lifetimes of the photoexcited state of oligonucleotides. Chem Commun (Camb) 2022; 58:10198-10201. [PMID: 36000476 DOI: 10.1039/d2cc03902h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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DNA-sequence-dependent thymine-thymine (TT) dimerization was investigated from the perspective of the UV-induced charge transfer state. Steady-state and transient absorption measurements suggest that the relatively small oxidation potential and long-lived charge transfer state at the neighboring nucleobases of the TT site may reduce DNA lesion accumulation.
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- Akira Takakado
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Gakushuin University, 1-5-1 Mejiro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 171-8588, Japan.
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Gakushuin University, 1-5-1 Mejiro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 171-8588, Japan.
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Zuluaga C, Spata VA, Matsika S. Benchmarking Quantum Mechanical Methods for the Description of Charge-Transfer States in π-Stacked Nucleobases. J Chem Theory Comput 2020; 17:376-387. [PMID: 33346637 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.0c00973] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
Charge-transfer (CT) states are of special interest in photochemical research because they can facilitate chemical reactions through the rearrangement of electrons and subsequently chemical bonds in a molecular system. Of particular importance to this research is the transfer of electrons between π-stacked nucleobases in DNA because they play an important role in its photophysics and photochemistry. Computational methods are paramount for the study of CT states because of the current inability of experimental methods to easily detect such states. However, many ab-initio wavefunction-based and density functional theory (DFT) methods fail to accurately describe these CT states. Here, we benchmark how 40 different quantum mechanical methods describe the excited states of a guanine-thymine π-stacked nucleobase dimer system, both in 5'-TG-3' and 5'-GT-3' conformations. We find that the distance between the nucleobases plays a major role in the energy of the CT state and in the difference of the dipole moments between the CT and ground state. There is a larger range of values (and errors) for the energies of CT states compared to those of states localized on one nucleobase. Wavefunction-based methods have similar errors for the CT and localized valence states, while DFT methods are very sensitive to the amount of Hartree-Fock exchange. Long-range-corrected functionals with a careful balance of the Hartree-Fock exchange included can predict very accurate CT states and a balanced description with the localized states.
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- Camilo Zuluaga
- Department of Chemistry, Temple University, 1901 N 13th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Temple University, 1901 N 13th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Temple University, 1901 N 13th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Kufner CL, Zinth W, Bucher DB. UV-Induced Charge-Transfer States in Short Guanosine-Containing DNA Oligonucleotides. Chembiochem 2020; 21:2306-2310. [PMID: 32239789 PMCID: PMC7496882 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.202000103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2020] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Charge transfer has proven to be an important mechanism in DNA photochemistry. In particular, guanine (dG) plays a major role as an electron donor, but the photophysical dynamics of dG-containing charge-transfer states have not been extensively investigated so far. Here, we use UV pump (266 nm) and picosecond IR probe (∼5-7 μm) spectroscopy to study ultrafast dynamics in dG-containing short oligonucleotides as a function of sequence and length. For the pure purine oligomers, we observed lifetimes for the charge-transfer states of the order of several hundreds of picoseconds, regardless of the oligonucleotide length. In contrast, pyrimidine-containing dinucleotides d(GT) and d(GC) show much faster relaxation dynamics in the 10 to 30 ps range. In all studied nucleotides, the charge-transfer states are formed with an efficiency of the order of ∼50 %. These photophysical characteristics will lead to an improved understanding of DNA damage and repair processes.
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- Corinna L. Kufner
- Biomolecular Optics and Center for Integrated Protein ScienceLudwig-Maximilians-University MunichOettingenstr. 6780538MunichGermany
- present affiliation: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Department of AstronomyHarvard University60 Garden StreetCambridgeMA 02138USA
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- Biomolecular Optics and Center for Integrated Protein ScienceLudwig-Maximilians-University MunichOettingenstr. 6780538MunichGermany
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- Biomolecular Optics and Center for Integrated Protein ScienceLudwig-Maximilians-University MunichOettingenstr. 6780538MunichGermany
- present affiliation: Department of ChemistryTechnical University of MunichLichtenbergstr. 485748MunichGermany
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