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Keane JA, Ealy AD. An Overview of Reactive Oxygen Species Damage Occurring during In Vitro Bovine Oocyte and Embryo Development and the Efficacy of Antioxidant Use to Limit These Adverse Effects. Animals (Basel) 2024; 14:330. [PMID: 38275789 PMCID: PMC10812430 DOI: 10.3390/ani14020330] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2023] [Revised: 01/10/2024] [Accepted: 01/18/2024] [Indexed: 01/27/2024] Open
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The in vitro production (IVP) of bovine embryos has gained popularity worldwide and in recent years and its use for producing embryos from genetically elite heifers and cows has surpassed the use of conventional superovulation-based embryo production schemes. There are, however, several issues with the IVP of embryos that remain unresolved. One limitation of special concern is the low efficiency of the IVP of embryos. Exposure to reactive oxygen species (ROS) is one reason why the production of embryos with IVP is diminished. These highly reactive molecules are generated in small amounts through normal cellular metabolism, but their abundances increase in embryo culture because of oocyte and embryo exposure to temperature fluctuations, light exposure, pH changes, atmospheric oxygen tension, suboptimal culture media formulations, and cryopreservation. When uncontrolled, ROS produce detrimental effects on the structure and function of genomic and mitochondrial DNA, alter DNA methylation, increase lipid membrane damage, and modify protein activity. Several intrinsic enzymatic pathways control ROS abundance and damage, and antioxidants react with and reduce the reactive potential of ROS. This review will focus on exploring the efficiency of supplementing several of these antioxidant molecules on oocyte maturation, sperm viability, fertilization, and embryo culture.
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- School of Animal Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24060, USA;
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Ussembayev Y, Beunis F, Oorlynck L, Bahrami M, Strubbe F, Neyts K. Single Elementary Charge Fluctuations on Nanoparticles in Aqueous Solution. ACS NANO 2023; 17:22952-22959. [PMID: 37787115 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c08161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/04/2023]
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100 years ago, in 1923, the Nobel prize in physics was awarded for measurement of the unit charge. In addition to a profound impact on contemporary physics, this discovery has reshaped our understanding of charge-based interactions in chemistry and biology, ranging from oxidation and ionization to protein folding and metabolism. In a liquid, the discrete nature of the electric charge becomes prominent at the nanoscale when a charge carrier is exchanged between a molecule or a nanoparticle and the surrounding medium. However, our ability to observe the dynamics of such interactions at the level of a single elementary charge is limited due to the abundance of ions in water. Here, we report on the observation of single binding-unbinding events with elementary charge resolution at the surface of a nanoparticle suspended in water. Discrete steps in the electrical charge are revealed by analyzing the motion of optically trapped nanoparticles under the influence of an applied sinusoidal electric field. The measurements are sufficiently fast and long to observe individual (dis)charging events that occur on average every 3 s. Our results offer prospective routes for studying the dynamics of diverse chemical and biological phenomena on the nanoscale with elementary charge resolution.
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- Yera Ussembayev
- LCP Research Group, Ghent University, Technologiepark 126, 9052 Gent, Belgium
- Center for Nano- and Biophotonics, Ghent University, Technologiepark 126, 9052 Gent, Belgium
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- LCP Research Group, Ghent University, Technologiepark 126, 9052 Gent, Belgium
- Center for Nano- and Biophotonics, Ghent University, Technologiepark 126, 9052 Gent, Belgium
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- LCP Research Group, Ghent University, Technologiepark 126, 9052 Gent, Belgium
- Center for Nano- and Biophotonics, Ghent University, Technologiepark 126, 9052 Gent, Belgium
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- LCP Research Group, Ghent University, Technologiepark 126, 9052 Gent, Belgium
- Center for Nano- and Biophotonics, Ghent University, Technologiepark 126, 9052 Gent, Belgium
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- LCP Research Group, Ghent University, Technologiepark 126, 9052 Gent, Belgium
- Center for Nano- and Biophotonics, Ghent University, Technologiepark 126, 9052 Gent, Belgium
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- LCP Research Group, Ghent University, Technologiepark 126, 9052 Gent, Belgium
- Center for Nano- and Biophotonics, Ghent University, Technologiepark 126, 9052 Gent, Belgium
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Akossi RF, Delbac F, El Alaoui H, Wawrzyniak I, Peyretaillade E. The intracellular parasite Anncaliia algerae induces a massive miRNA down-regulation in human cells. Noncoding RNA Res 2023; 8:363-375. [PMID: 37275245 PMCID: PMC10238475 DOI: 10.1016/j.ncrna.2023.05.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2023] [Revised: 04/27/2023] [Accepted: 05/07/2023] [Indexed: 06/07/2023] Open
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Anncaliia algerae belongs to microsporidia, a group of obligate intracellular parasites related to fungi. These parasites are largely spread in water and food-webs and can infect a wide variety of hosts ranging from invertebrates to vertebrates including humans. In humans, microsporidian infections are mainly opportunistic as immunocompetent hosts can clear parasites naturally. Recent studies however have reported persistent microsporidian infections and have highlighted them as a risk factor in colon cancer. This may be a direct result of cell infection or may be an indirect effect of the infectious microenvironment and the host's response. In both cases, this raises the question of the effects of microsporidian infection at the host and host-cell levels. We aimed to address the question of human host intracellular response to microsporidian infection through a transcriptomic kinetic study of human foreskin fibroblasts (HFF) infected with A.algerae, a human infecting microsporidia with an exceptionally wide host range. We focused solely on host response studying both coding and small non-coding miRNA expression. Our study revealed a generalized down-regulation of cell miRNAs throughout infection with up to 547 different miRNAs downregulated at some timepoints and also transcriptomic dysregulations that could facilitate parasite development with immune and lipid metabolism genes modulation. We also hypothesize possible small nucleic acid expropriation explaining the miRNA downregulation. This work contributes to a better understanding of the dialogue that can occur between an intracellular parasite and its host at the cellular level, and can guide future studies on microsporidian infection biology to unravel the mode of action of these minimalist parasites at the tissue or host levels.We have also generated a kinetic and comprehensive transcriptomic data set of an infectious process that can help support comparative studies in the broader field of parasitology. Lastly, these results may warrant for caution regarding microsporidian exposure and persistent infections.
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- Reginald Florian Akossi
- Laboratoire “Microorganismes: Génome et Environnement” (LMGE), UMR 6023, Université Clermont Auvergne and CNRS, F-63000, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Laboratoire “Microorganismes: Génome et Environnement” (LMGE), UMR 6023, Université Clermont Auvergne and CNRS, F-63000, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Laboratoire “Microorganismes: Génome et Environnement” (LMGE), UMR 6023, Université Clermont Auvergne and CNRS, F-63000, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Laboratoire “Microorganismes: Génome et Environnement” (LMGE), UMR 6023, Université Clermont Auvergne and CNRS, F-63000, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Laboratoire “Microorganismes: Génome et Environnement” (LMGE), UMR 6023, Université Clermont Auvergne and CNRS, F-63000, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Khrustalev VV, Stojarov AN, Shen C, Khrustaleva TA. Consequences of asymmetric mutational pressure for the dynamic of linear B-cell epitopes repertoire of influenza a virus neuraminidase rearrangement. Biosystems 2023; 231:104970. [PMID: 37442364 DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2023.104970] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2023] [Revised: 07/02/2023] [Accepted: 07/02/2023] [Indexed: 07/15/2023]
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Full-length nucleotide sequences of avian influenza A virus neuraminidase coding region (20,631 sequences) were analyzed and compared with those isolated from viruses infecting human and swine (63,750 sequences). If in fourfold degenerate sites there is asymmetric A-bias that may be more or less asymmetric depending on the type of neuraminidase and the host, than in twofold degenerate sites from third codon positions there is a strong asymmetric U-bias in coding regions of N4, N5, and N8 isolated from viruses infecting birds, as well as in those of N1 and N2 isolated from viruses infecting human, swine, and birds, while in coding regions of N9 isolated from birds, there is surprisingly strong C-bias, and in sequences of N3, N6, and N7 the usage of C is quite close to the level of U. Revealed stabilization of both U and C in twofold degenerate sites is the evidence of frequent changes in mutational pressure direction. Asymmetric mutational pressure was one of the sources of amino acid replacements that resulted in an equal percentage of sites with appeared and disappeared linear B-cell epitopes in N1, N2, N4, and N5 (33.62-35.33% vs. 32.41-36.45%, respectively), and controlled by the immune pressure it resulted in a stronger tendency to disappear for B-cell epitopes of N3, N6, N7, N8, and N9 of avian viruses (8.74-28.77% vs. 28.96-38.89%). The lack of correlation between nucleotide usages in fourfold and twofold degenerate sites for three nucleotides, except U, is a strong evidence of mutational pressure theory.
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- Vladislav Victorovich Khrustalev
- Department of General Chemistry, Belarusian State Medical University, Dzerzinskogo, 83, Minsk, Belarus; Multidisciplinary Diagnostic Laboratory, Institute of Physiology of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Academicheskaya, 28, Minsk, Belarus.
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- Southern Medical University, Guanzhou, China No.1023-1063 South Shatai Road, Baiyun District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, 510515, PR China
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- Multidisciplinary Diagnostic Laboratory, Institute of Physiology of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Academicheskaya, 28, Minsk, Belarus
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Šebela M. The use of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry in enzyme activity assays and its position in the context of other available methods. MASS SPECTROMETRY REVIEWS 2023; 42:1008-1031. [PMID: 34549449 DOI: 10.1002/mas.21733] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2021] [Revised: 08/28/2021] [Accepted: 08/30/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Activity assays are indispensable for studying biochemical properties of enzymes. The purposes of measuring activity are wide ranging from a simple detection of the presence of an enzyme to kinetic experiments evaluating the substrate specificity, reaction mechanisms, and susceptibility to inhibitors. Common activity assay methods include spectroscopy, electrochemical sensors, or liquid chromatography coupled with various detection techniques. This review focuses on the use of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) as a growing and modern alternative, which offers high speed of analysis, sensitivity, versatility, possibility of automation, and cost-effectiveness. It may reveal reaction intermediates, side products or measure more enzymes at once. The addition of an internal standard or calculating the ratios of the substrate and product peak intensities and areas overcome the inherent inhomogeneous distribution of analyte and matrix in the sample spot, which otherwise results in a poor reproducibility. Examples of the application of MALDI-TOF MS for assaying hydrolases (including peptidases and β-lactamases for antibiotic resistance tests) and other enzymes are provided. Concluding remarks summarize advantages and challenges coming from the present experience, and draw future perspectives such as a screening of large libraries of chemical compounds for their substrate or inhibitory properties towards enzymes.
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- Marek Šebela
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, and CATRIN, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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Bakman AS, Kuznetsova AA, Yanshole LV, Ishchenko AA, Saparbaev M, Fedorova OS, Kuznetsov NA. Fluorescently labeled human apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease APE1 reveals effects of DNA polymerase β on the APE1-DNA interaction. DNA Repair (Amst) 2023; 123:103450. [PMID: 36689867 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2023.103450] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2022] [Revised: 12/26/2022] [Accepted: 01/09/2023] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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The base excision repair (BER) pathway involves sequential action of DNA glycosylases and apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) endonucleases to incise damaged DNA and prepare DNA termini for incorporation of a correct nucleotide by DNA polymerases. It has been suggested that the enzymatic steps in BER include recognition of a product-enzyme complex by the next enzyme in the pathway, resulting in the "passing-the-baton" model of transfer of DNA intermediates between enzymes. To verify this model, in this work, we aimed to create a suitable experimental system. We prepared APE1 site-specifically labeled with a fluorescent reporter that is sensitive to stages of APE1-DNA binding, of formation of the catalytic complex, and of subsequent dissociation of the enzyme-product complex. Interactions of the labeled APE1 with various model DNA substrates (containing an abasic site) of varied lengths revealed that the enzyme remains mostly in complex with the DNA product. By means of the fluorescently labeled APE1 in combination with a stopped-flow fluorescence assay, it was found that Polβ stimulates both i) APE1 binding to an abasic-site-containing DNA duplex with the formation of a catalytically competent complex and ii) the dissociation of APE1 from its product. These findings confirm DNA-mediated coordination of APE1 and Polβ activities and suggest that Polβ is the key trigger of the DNA transfer between the enzymes participating in initial steps of BER.
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- Artemiy S Bakman
- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS), 8 Prospekt Akad. Lavrentyeva, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS), 8 Prospekt Akad. Lavrentyeva, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- International Tomography Center SB RAS, 3a Institutskaya Str., Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Group "Mechanisms of DNA Repair and Carcinogenesis", Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus, CNRS UMR9019, Université Paris-Saclay, 94805 Villejuif, France
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- Group "Mechanisms of DNA Repair and Carcinogenesis", Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus, CNRS UMR9019, Université Paris-Saclay, 94805 Villejuif, France; NCJSC "Al-Farabi Kazakh National University" Almaty, Kazakhstan
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS), 8 Prospekt Akad. Lavrentyeva, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS), 8 Prospekt Akad. Lavrentyeva, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia; Department of Natural Sciences, Novosibirsk State University, 2 Pirogova Str., Novosibirsk 630090, Russia.
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Khrustalev VV, Khrustaleva TA, Popinako AV. Germline mutations directions are different between introns of the same gene: case study of the gene coding for amyloid-beta precursor protein. Genetica 2023; 151:61-73. [PMID: 36129589 DOI: 10.1007/s10709-022-00166-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2022] [Accepted: 09/08/2022] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Amyloid-beta precursor protein (APP) is highly conserved in mammals. This feature allowed us to compare nucleotide usage biases in fourfold degenerated sites along the length of its coding region for 146 species of mammals and birds in search of fragments with significant deviations. Even though cytosine usage has the highest value in fourfold degenerated sites in APP coding region from all tested placental mammals, in contrast to marsupial mammals with the bias toward thymine usage, the most frequent germline and somatic mutations in human APP coding region are C to T and G to A transitions. The same mutational AT-pressure is characteristic for germline mutations in introns of human APP gene. However, surprisingly, there are several exceptional introns with deviations in germline mutations rates. The most of those introns surround exons with exceptional biases in nucleotide usage in fourfold degenerated sites. Existence of such fragments in exons 4 and 5, as well as in exon 14, can be connected with the presence of lncRNA genes in complementary strand of DNA. Exceptional nucleotide usage bias in exons 16 and 17 that contain a sequence encoding amyloid-beta peptides can be explained either by the presence of yet unmapped lncRNA(s), or by the autonomous expression of a short mRNA that encodes just C-terminal part of the APP providing an alternative source of amyloid-beta peptides. This hypothesis is supported by the increased rate of T to C transitions in introns 16-17 and 17-18 of Human APP gene relatively to other introns.
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- Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Research Center of Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation
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Hang B. A DNA Cleavage Assay Using Synthetic Oligonucleotide Containing a Single Site-Directed Lesion for In Vitro Base Excision Repair Study. Methods Mol Biol 2023; 2701:77-90. [PMID: 37574476 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-3373-1_5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/15/2023]
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Many chemicals cause mutation or cancer in animals and humans by forming DNA lesions, including base adducts, which play a critical role in mutagenesis and carcinogenesis. A large number of such adducts are repaired by the DNA glycosylase-mediated base excision repair (BER) pathway, and some are processed by nucleotide excision repair (NER) and nucleotide incision repair (NIR). To understand what structural features determine repair enzyme specificity and mechanism in chemically modified DNA in vitro, we developed and optimized a DNA cleavage assay using defined oligonucleotides containing a single, site specifically placed lesion. This assay can be used to investigate novel activities against any newly identified derivatives from chemical compounds, substrate specificity and cleavage efficiency of repair enzymes, and quantitative structure-function relationships. Overall, the methodology is highly sensitive and can also be modified to explore whether a lesion is processed by NER or NIR activity, as well as to study its miscoding properties in translesion DNA synthesis (TLS).
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- Bo Hang
- Division of Biological Systems and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.
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Kinetic Features of 3'-5'-Exonuclease Activity of Apurinic/Apyrimidinic Endonuclease Apn2 from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms232214404. [PMID: 36430884 PMCID: PMC9697762 DOI: 10.3390/ijms232214404] [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: 10/09/2022] [Revised: 11/16/2022] [Accepted: 11/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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In yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells, apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) sites are primarily repaired by base excision repair. Base excision repair is initiated by one of two AP endonucleases: Apn1 or Apn2. AP endonucleases catalyze hydrolytic cleavage of the phosphodiester backbone on the 5' side of an AP site, thereby forming a single-strand break containing 3'-OH and 5'-dRP ends. In addition, Apn2 has 3'-phosphodiesterase activity (removing 3'-blocking groups) and 3' → 5' exonuclease activity (both much stronger than its AP endonuclease activity). Nonetheless, the role of the 3'-5'-exonuclease activity of Apn2 remains unclear and presumably is involved in the repair of damage containing single-strand breaks. In this work, by separating reaction products in a polyacrylamide gel and by a stopped-flow assay, we performed a kinetic analysis of the interaction of Apn2 with various model DNA substrates containing a 5' overhang. The results allowed us to propose a mechanism for the cleaving off of nucleotides and to determine the rate of the catalytic stage of the process. It was found that dissociation of a reaction product from the enzyme active site is not a rate-limiting step in the enzymatic reaction. We determined an influence of the nature of the 3'-terminal nucleotide that can be cleaved off on the course of the enzymatic reaction. Finally, it was found that the efficiency of the enzymatic reaction is context-specific.
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Senchurova SI, Kuznetsova AA, Ishchenko AA, Saparbaev M, Fedorova OS, Kuznetsov NA. The Kinetic Mechanism of 3′-5′ Exonucleolytic Activity of AP Endonuclease Nfo from E. coli. Cells 2022; 11:cells11192998. [PMID: 36230958 PMCID: PMC9562005 DOI: 10.3390/cells11192998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2022] [Revised: 09/19/2022] [Accepted: 09/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Escherichia coli apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) endonuclease Nfo is one of the key participants in DNA repair. The principal biological role of this enzyme is the recognition and hydrolysis of AP sites, which arise in DNA either as a result of the spontaneous hydrolysis of an N-glycosidic bond with intact nitrogenous bases or under the action of DNA glycosylases, which eliminate various damaged bases during base excision repair. Nfo also removes 3′-terminal blocking groups resulting from AP lyase activity of DNA glycosylases. Additionally, Nfo can hydrolyze the phosphodiester linkage on the 5′ side of some damaged nucleotides on the nucleotide incision repair pathway. The function of 3′-5′-exonuclease activity of Nfo remains unclear and probably consists of participation (together with the nucleotide incision repair activity) in the repair of cluster lesions. In this work, using polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and the stopped-flow method, we analyzed the kinetics of the interaction of Nfo with various model DNA substrates containing a 5′ single-stranded region. These data helped to describe the mechanism of nucleotide cleavage and to determine the rates of the corresponding stages. It was revealed that the rate-limiting stage of the enzymatic process is a dissociation of the reaction product from the enzyme active site. The stability of the terminal pair of nucleotides in the substrate did not affect the enzymatic-reaction rate. Finally, it was found that 2′-deoxynucleoside monophosphates can effectively inhibit the 3′-5′-exonuclease activity of Nfo.
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- Svetlana I. Senchurova
- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Group «Mechanisms of DNA Repair and Carcinogenesis», Equipe Labellisée LIGUE 2016, CNRS UMR9019, Université Paris-Saclay, Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus, CEDEX, F-94805 Villejuif, France
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- Group «Mechanisms of DNA Repair and Carcinogenesis», Equipe Labellisée LIGUE 2016, CNRS UMR9019, Université Paris-Saclay, Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus, CEDEX, F-94805 Villejuif, France
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
- Correspondence: (O.S.F.); (N.A.K.)
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
- Department of Natural Sciences, Novosibirsk State University, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
- Correspondence: (O.S.F.); (N.A.K.)
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Senchurova SI, Syryamina VN, Kuznetsova AA, Novopashina DS, Ishchenko AA, Saparbaev M, Dzuba SA, Fedorova OS, Kuznetsov NA. The mechanism of damage recognition by apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease Nfo from Escherichia coli. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2022; 1866:130216. [PMID: 35905924 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2022.130216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2022] [Revised: 06/18/2022] [Accepted: 07/18/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) endonuclease Nfo from Escherichia coli recognises AP sites in DNA and catalyses phosphodiester bond cleavage on the 5' side of AP sites and some damaged or undamaged nucleotides. Here, the mechanism of target nucleotide recognition by Nfo was analysed by pulsed electron-electron double resonance (PELDOR, also known as DEER) spectroscopy and pre-steady-state kinetic analysis with Förster resonance energy transfer detection of DNA conformational changes during DNA binding. The efficiency of endonucleolytic cleavage of a target nucleotide in model DNA substrates was ranked as (2R,3S)-2-(hydroxymethyl)-3-hydroxytetrahydrofuran [F-site] > 5,6-dihydro-2'-deoxyuridine > α-anomer of 2'-deoxyadenosine >2'-deoxyuridine > undamaged DNA. Real-time conformational changes of DNA during interaction with Nfo revealed an increase of distances between duplex ends during the formation of the initial enzyme-substrate complex. The use of rigid-linker spin-labelled DNA duplexes in DEER measurements indicated that double-helix bending and unwinding by the target nucleotide itself is one of the key factors responsible for indiscriminate recognition of a target nucleotide by Nfo. The results for the first time show that AP endonucleases from different structural families utilise a common strategy of damage recognition, which globally may be integrated with the mechanism of searching for specific sites in DNA by other enzymes.
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- Svetlana I Senchurova
- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS), 8 Prospekt Akad, Lavrentieva, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Voevodsky Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion, SB RAS, 3 Institutskaya Str., Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS), 8 Prospekt Akad, Lavrentieva, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS), 8 Prospekt Akad, Lavrentieva, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Group «Mechanisms of DNA Repair and Carcinogenesis», CNRS UMR9019, Université Paris-Saclay, Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus, F-94805 Villejuif Cedex, France
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- Group «Mechanisms of DNA Repair and Carcinogenesis», CNRS UMR9019, Université Paris-Saclay, Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus, F-94805 Villejuif Cedex, France
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- Voevodsky Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion, SB RAS, 3 Institutskaya Str., Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS), 8 Prospekt Akad, Lavrentieva, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia.
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS), 8 Prospekt Akad, Lavrentieva, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia; Department of Natural Sciences, Novosibirsk State University, 2 Pirogova Str., Novosibirsk 630090, Russia.
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Samareh A, Asadikaram G, MojtabaAbbasi-Jorjandi, Abdollahdokht D, Abolhassani M, Khanjani N, Nematollahi MH. Occupational exposure to pesticides in farmworkers and the oxidative markers. Toxicol Ind Health 2022; 38:455-469. [PMID: 35701988 DOI: 10.1177/07482337221106754] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Organophosphate (OPPs) and organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) are the two predominant forms of pesticides extensively used all around the world and are being reconsidered as environmental pollutants. The current study sought to assess the role of socioeconomic factors on the level of pesticides residues and the oxidative effects of exposure to OPPs and OCPs among the farmworkers of southeast Iran. In this cross-sectional study, 192 farmworkers and 74 non-farmworkers (controls) were involved. Gas chromatography (GC) was performed to measure the serum levels of organochlorine chemicals (2,4-DDT, 4,4-DDT, 2,4-DDE, 4,4-DDE, α-HCH, β-HCH, and γ-HCH). Furthermore, acetylcholinesterase (AChE) activity, arylesterase activity of paraoxonase-1 (PON-1), and several oxidative stress (OS) markers were assessed. In addition, the impact of several parameters such as home to farm distance, education level, ventilation status, and personal protective equipment (PPE) on pesticide levels was analyzed. The levels of OCPs in the farmworkers were significantly higher than the control subjects. In addition, AChE activity, arylesterase activity of PON-1, and total antioxidant capacity in farmworkers were significantly less, and MDA levels were higher than the controls. Education level was associated with farmworkers' protective behavior. The current findings suggested that some phased out OCPs can still be measured in human samples in the southeast of Iran. Furthermore, the current study demonstrated that exposure to OCPs and OPPs was accompanied by adverse consequences regarding OS parameters and subsequent health problems. In addition, the findings of the present study suggest that improving farmworkers' education might be associated with reduced exposure to pesticides and less adverse health effects.
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- Ali Samareh
- Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Institute of Basic and Clinical Physiology Sciences, Kerman, Iran.,Department of Clinical Biochemistry, School of Medicine, 48463Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, School of Medicine, 48463Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran.,Neuroscience Research Center, Institute of Neuropharmacology, School of Medicine, 48463Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, School of Medicine, 48463Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran.,Physiology Research center, Institute of Basic and Clinical Physiology Sciences, 48463Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
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- Physiology Research center, Institute of Basic and Clinical Physiology Sciences, 48463Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, School of Medicine, 48463Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
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- Environmental Health Engineering Research Center, 48463Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, School of Medicine, 48463Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran.,Physiology Research center, Institute of Basic and Clinical Physiology Sciences, 48463Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
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Bulygin AA, Fedorova OS, Kuznetsov NA. Insights into Mechanisms of Damage Recognition and Catalysis by APE1-like Enzymes. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms23084361. [PMID: 35457179 PMCID: PMC9026830 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23084361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2022] [Revised: 04/12/2022] [Accepted: 04/13/2022] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) endonucleases are the key DNA repair enzymes in the base excision repair (BER) pathway, and are responsible for hydrolyzing phosphodiester bonds on the 5′ side of an AP site. The enzymes can recognize not only AP sites but also some types of damaged bases, such as 1,N6-ethenoadenosine, α-adenosine, and 5,6-dihydrouridine. Here, to elucidate the mechanism underlying such a broad substrate specificity as that of AP endonucleases, we performed a computational study of four homologous APE1-like endonucleases: insect (Drosophila melanogaster) Rrp1, amphibian (Xenopus laevis) APE1 (xAPE1), fish (Danio rerio) APE1 (zAPE1), and human APE1 (hAPE1). The contact between the amino acid residues of the active site of each homologous APE1-like enzyme and the set of damaged DNA substrates was analyzed. A comparison of molecular dynamic simulation data with the known catalytic efficiency of these enzymes allowed us to gain a deep insight into the differences in the efficiency of the cleavage of various damaged nucleotides. The obtained data support that the amino acid residues within the “damage recognition” loop containing residues Asn222–Ala230 significantly affect the catalytic-complex formation. Moreover, every damaged nucleotide has its unique position and a specific set of interactions with the amino acid residues of the active site.
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- Anatoly A. Bulygin
- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, SB RAS, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia;
- Department of Natural Sciences, Novosibirsk State University, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, SB RAS, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia;
- Correspondence: (O.S.F.); (N.A.K.)
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, SB RAS, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia;
- Department of Natural Sciences, Novosibirsk State University, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
- Correspondence: (O.S.F.); (N.A.K.)
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Azees PAA, Natarajan S, Amaechi BT, Thajuddin N, Raghavendra VB, Brindhadevi K, Pugazhendhi A. An empirical review on the risk factors, therapeutic strategies and materials at nanoscale for the treatment of oral malignancies. Process Biochem 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.procbio.2022.04.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Comparative Analysis of Exo- and Endonuclease Activities of APE1-like Enzymes. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms23052869. [PMID: 35270011 PMCID: PMC8911113 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23052869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2022] [Revised: 03/03/2022] [Accepted: 03/04/2022] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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Apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP)-endonucleases are multifunctional enzymes that are required for cell viability. AP-endonucleases incise DNA 5′ to an AP-site; can recognize and process some damaged nucleosides; and possess 3′-phosphodiesterase, 3′-phosphatase, and endoribonuclease activities. To elucidate the mechanism of substrate cleavage in detail, we analyzed the effect of mono- and divalent metal ions on the exo- and endonuclease activities of four homologous APE1-like endonucleases (from an insect (Rrp1), amphibian (xAPE1), fish (zAPE1), and from humans (hAPE1)). It was found that the enzymes had similar patterns of dependence on metal ions’ concentrations in terms of AP-endonuclease activity, suggesting that the main biological function (AP-site cleavage) was highly conserved among evolutionarily distant species. The efficiency of the 3′-5′ exonuclease activity was the highest in hAPE1 among these enzymes. In contrast, the endoribonuclease activity of the enzymes could be ranked as hAPE1 ≈ zAPE1 ≤ xAPE1 ≤ Rrp1. Taken together, the results revealed that the tested enzymes differed significantly in their capacity for substrate cleavage, even though the most important catalytic and substrate-binding amino acid residues were conserved. It can be concluded that substrate specificity and cleavage efficiency were controlled by factors external to the catalytic site, e.g., the N-terminal domain of these enzymes.
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Kuznetsova AA, Senchurova SI, Ishchenko AA, Saparbaev M, Fedorova OS, Kuznetsov NA. Common Kinetic Mechanism of Abasic Site Recognition by Structurally Different Apurinic/Apyrimidinic Endonucleases. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:ijms22168874. [PMID: 34445579 PMCID: PMC8396254 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22168874] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2021] [Revised: 08/12/2021] [Accepted: 08/16/2021] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) endonucleases Nfo (Escherichia coli) and APE1 (human) represent two conserved structural families of enzymes that cleave AP-site–containing DNA in base excision repair. Nfo and APE1 have completely different structures of the DNA-binding site, catalytically active amino acid residues and catalytic metal ions. Nonetheless, both enzymes induce DNA bending, AP-site backbone eversion into the active-site pocket and extrusion of the nucleotide located opposite the damage. All these stages may depend on local stability of the DNA duplex near the lesion. Here, we analysed effects of natural nucleotides located opposite a lesion on catalytic-complex formation stages and DNA cleavage efficacy. Several model DNA substrates that contain an AP-site analogue [F-site, i.e., (2R,3S)-2-(hydroxymethyl)-3-hydroxytetrahydrofuran] opposite G, A, T or C were used to monitor real-time conformational changes of the tested enzymes during interaction with DNA using changes in the enzymes’ intrinsic fluorescence intensity mainly caused by Trp fluorescence. The extrusion of the nucleotide located opposite F-site was recorded via fluorescence intensity changes of two base analogues. The catalytic rate constant slightly depended on the opposite-nucleotide nature. Thus, structurally different AP endonucleases Nfo and APE1 utilise a common strategy of damage recognition controlled by enzyme conformational transitions after initial DNA binding.
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- Alexandra A. Kuznetsova
- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia; (A.A.K.); (S.I.S.)
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia; (A.A.K.); (S.I.S.)
- Department of Natural Sciences, Novosibirsk State University, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Group Mechanisms of DNA Repair and Carcinogenesis, Equipe Labellisée LIGUE 2016, CNRS UMR9019, Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus, Université Paris-Saclay, F-94805 Villejuif, France; (A.A.I.); (M.S.)
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- Group Mechanisms of DNA Repair and Carcinogenesis, Equipe Labellisée LIGUE 2016, CNRS UMR9019, Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus, Université Paris-Saclay, F-94805 Villejuif, France; (A.A.I.); (M.S.)
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia; (A.A.K.); (S.I.S.)
- Correspondence: (O.S.F.); (N.A.K.)
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia; (A.A.K.); (S.I.S.)
- Correspondence: (O.S.F.); (N.A.K.)
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Davletgildeeva AT, Ishchenko AA, Saparbaev M, Fedorova OS, Kuznetsov NA. The Enigma of Substrate Recognition and Catalytic Efficiency of APE1-Like Enzymes. Front Cell Dev Biol 2021; 9:617161. [PMID: 33842455 PMCID: PMC8033172 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2021.617161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2020] [Accepted: 02/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Despite significant achievements in the elucidation of the nature of protein-DNA contacts that control the specificity of nucleotide incision repair (NIR) by apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) endonucleases, the question on how a given nucleotide is accommodated by the active site of the enzyme remains unanswered. Therefore, the main purpose of our study was to compare kinetics of conformational changes of three homologous APE1-like endonucleases (insect Drosophila melanogaster Rrp1, amphibian Xenopus laevis xAPE1, and fish Danio rerio zAPE1) during their interaction with various damaged DNA substrates, i.e., DNA containing an F-site (an uncleavable by DNA-glycosylases analog of an AP-site), 1,N6-ethenoadenosine (εA), 5,6-dihydrouridine (DHU), uridine (U), or the α-anomer of adenosine (αA). Pre-steady-state analysis of fluorescence time courses obtained for the interaction of the APE1-like enzymes with DNA substrates containing various lesions allowed us to outline a model of substrate recognition by this class of enzymes. It was found that the differences in rates of DNA substrates’ binding do not lead to significant differences in the cleavage efficiency of DNA containing a damaged base. The results suggest that the formation of enzyme–substrate complexes is not the key factor that limits enzyme turnover; the mechanisms of damage recognition and cleavage efficacy are related to fine conformational tuning inside the active site.
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- Anastasiia T Davletgildeeva
- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia.,Department of Natural Sciences, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Group "Mechanisms of DNA Repair and Carcinogenesis", Equipe Labellisée LIGUE 2016, CNRS UMR 9019, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France
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- Group "Mechanisms of DNA Repair and Carcinogenesis", Equipe Labellisée LIGUE 2016, CNRS UMR 9019, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
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McNeill DR, Whitaker AM, Stark WJ, Illuzzi JL, McKinnon PJ, Freudenthal BD, Wilson DM. Functions of the major abasic endonuclease (APE1) in cell viability and genotoxin resistance. Mutagenesis 2021; 35:27-38. [PMID: 31816044 DOI: 10.1093/mutage/gez046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2019] [Accepted: 11/12/2019] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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DNA is susceptible to a range of chemical modifications, with one of the most frequent lesions being apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) sites. AP sites arise due to damage-induced (e.g. alkylation) or spontaneous hydrolysis of the N-glycosidic bond that links the base to the sugar moiety of the phosphodiester backbone, or through the enzymatic activity of DNA glycosylases, which release inappropriate bases as part of the base excision repair (BER) response. Unrepaired AP sites, which lack instructional information, have the potential to cause mutagenesis or to arrest progressing DNA or RNA polymerases, potentially causing outcomes such as cellular transformation, senescence or death. The predominant enzyme in humans responsible for repairing AP lesions is AP endonuclease 1 (APE1). Besides being a powerful AP endonuclease, APE1 possesses additional DNA repair activities, such as 3'-5' exonuclease, 3'-phophodiesterase and nucleotide incision repair. In addition, APE1 has been shown to stimulate the DNA-binding activity of a number of transcription factors through its 'REF1' function, thereby regulating gene expression. In this article, we review the structural and biochemical features of this multifunctional protein, while reporting on new structures of the APE1 variants Cys65Ala and Lys98Ala. Using a functional complementation approach, we also describe the importance of the repair and REF1 activities in promoting cell survival, including the proposed passing-the-baton coordination in BER. Finally, results are presented indicating a critical role for APE1 nuclease activities in resistance to the genotoxins methyl methanesulphonate and bleomycin, supporting biologically important functions as an AP endonuclease and 3'-phosphodiesterase, respectively.
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- Daniel R McNeill
- Laboratory of Molecular Gerontology, National Institute on Aging, Intramural Research Program, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Tumor Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Biomedical Research Institute, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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Kladova OA, Iakovlev DA, Groisman R, Ishchenko AA, Saparbaev MK, Fedorova OS, Kuznetsov NA. An Assay for the Activity of Base Excision Repair Enzymes in Cellular Extracts Using Fluorescent DNA Probes. BIOCHEMISTRY (MOSCOW) 2021; 85:480-489. [PMID: 32569555 DOI: 10.1134/s0006297920040082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Damaged DNA bases are removed by the base excision repair (BER) mechanism. This enzymatic process begins with the action of one of DNA glycosylases, which recognize damaged DNA bases and remove them by hydrolyzing N-glycosidic bonds with the formation of apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) sites. Apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 (APE1) hydrolyzes the phosphodiester bond on the 5'-side of the AP site with generation of the single-strand DNA break. A decrease in the functional activity of BER enzymes is associated with the increased risk of cardiovascular, neurodegenerative, and oncological diseases. In this work, we developed a fluorescence method for measuring the activity of key human DNA glycosylases and AP endonuclease in cell extracts. The efficacy of fluorescent DNA probes was tested using purified enzymes; the most efficient probes were tested in the enzymatic activity assays in the extracts of A549, MCF7, HeLa, WT-7, HEK293T, and HKC8 cells. The activity of enzymes responsible for the repair of AP sites and removal of uracil and 5,6-dihydrouracil residues was higher in cancer cell lines as compared to the normal HKC8 human kidney cell line.
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- O A Kladova
- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
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- Groupe "Réparation de l'AND", Equipe Labellisée par la Ligue Nationale contre le Cancer, CNRS UMR 8200, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, F-94805, France.,Gustave Roussy, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, F-94805, France
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- Groupe "Réparation de l'AND", Equipe Labellisée par la Ligue Nationale contre le Cancer, CNRS UMR 8200, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, F-94805, France.,Gustave Roussy, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, F-94805, France
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- Groupe "Réparation de l'AND", Equipe Labellisée par la Ligue Nationale contre le Cancer, CNRS UMR 8200, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, F-94805, France.,Gustave Roussy, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, F-94805, France
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia. .,Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia. .,Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
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Chang HL, Su KY, Goodman SD, Yen RS, Cheng WC, Yang YC, Lin LI, Chang SY, Fang WH. Measurement of uracil-DNA glycosylase activity by matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry technique. DNA Repair (Amst) 2020; 97:103028. [PMID: 33254084 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2020.103028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2020] [Revised: 11/19/2020] [Accepted: 11/19/2020] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Uracil-DNA glycosylase (UDG) is a highly conserved DNA repair enzyme that acts as a key component in the base excision repair pathway to correct hydrolytic deamination of cytosine making it critical to genome integrity in living organisms. We report here a non-labeled, non-radio-isotopic and very specific method to measure UDG activity. Oligodeoxyribonucleotide duplex containing a site-specific G:U mismatch that is hydrolyzed by UDG then subjected to Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry analysis. A protocol was developed to maintain the AP product in DNA without strand break then the cleavage of uracil was identified by the mass change from uracil substrate to AP product. From UDG kinetic analysis, for G:U substrate the Km is 50 nM, Vmax is 0.98 nM/s and Kcat = 9.31 s-1. The method was applied to uracil glycosylase inhibitor measurement with an IC50 value of 7.6 pM. Single-stranded and double-stranded DNAs with uracil at various positions of the substrates were also tested for UDG activity albeit with different efficiencies. The simple, rapid, quantifiable, scalable and versatile method has potential to be the reference method for monofunctional glycosylase measurement, and can also be used as a tool for glycosylase inhibitors screening.
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- Hui-Lan Chang
- Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences and Medical Biotechnology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences and Medical Biotechnology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC; Department of Laboratory Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
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- Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, Nationwide Children's Hospital and the Department of Pediatrics, the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences and Medical Biotechnology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences and Medical Biotechnology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC; Department of Laboratory Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences and Medical Biotechnology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC; Department of Laboratory Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences and Medical Biotechnology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC; Department of Laboratory Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences and Medical Biotechnology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC; Department of Laboratory Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC.
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Kladova OA, Alekseeva IV, Saparbaev M, Fedorova OS, Kuznetsov NA. Modulation of the Apurinic/Apyrimidinic Endonuclease Activity of Human APE1 and of Its Natural Polymorphic Variants by Base Excision Repair Proteins. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:ijms21197147. [PMID: 32998246 PMCID: PMC7583023 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21197147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2020] [Revised: 09/24/2020] [Accepted: 09/25/2020] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Human apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 (APE1) is known to be a critical player of the base excision repair (BER) pathway. In general, BER involves consecutive actions of DNA glycosylases, AP endonucleases, DNA polymerases, and DNA ligases. It is known that these proteins interact with APE1 either at upstream or downstream steps of BER. Therefore, we may propose that even a minor disturbance of protein–protein interactions on the DNA template reduces coordination and repair efficiency. Here, the ability of various human DNA repair enzymes (such as DNA glycosylases OGG1, UNG2, and AAG; DNA polymerase Polβ; or accessory proteins XRCC1 and PCNA) to influence the activity of wild-type (WT) APE1 and its seven natural polymorphic variants (R221C, N222H, R237A, G241R, M270T, R274Q, and P311S) was tested. Förster resonance energy transfer–based kinetic analysis of abasic site cleavage in a model DNA substrate was conducted to detect the effects of interacting proteins on the activity of WT APE1 and its single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) variants. The results revealed that WT APE1 activity was stimulated by almost all tested DNA repair proteins. For the SNP variants, the matters were more complicated. Analysis of two SNP variants, R237A and G241R, suggested that a positive charge in this area of the APE1 surface impairs the protein–protein interactions. In contrast, variant R221C (where the affected residue is located near the DNA-binding site) showed permanently lower activation relative to WT APE1, whereas neighboring SNP N222H did not cause a noticeable difference as compared to WT APE1. Buried substitution P311S had an inconsistent effect, whereas each substitution at the DNA-binding site, M270T and R274Q, resulted in the lowest stimulation by BER proteins. Protein–protein molecular docking was performed between repair proteins to identify amino acid residues involved in their interactions. The data uncovered differences in the effects of BER proteins on APE1, indicating an important role of protein–protein interactions in the coordination of the repair pathway.
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- Olga A. Kladova
- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia; (O.A.K.); (I.V.A.)
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia; (O.A.K.); (I.V.A.)
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- Groupe «Mechanisms of DNA Repair and Carcinogenesis», Equipe Labellisée LIGUE 2016, CNRS UMR9019, Université Paris-Saclay, Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus, CEDEX, F-94805 Villejuif, France;
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia; (O.A.K.); (I.V.A.)
- Department of Natural Sciences, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
- Correspondence: (O.S.F.); (N.A.K.)
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia; (O.A.K.); (I.V.A.)
- Department of Natural Sciences, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
- Correspondence: (O.S.F.); (N.A.K.)
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Khrustalev VV, Giri R, Khrustaleva TA, Kapuganti SK, Stojarov AN, Poboinev VV. Translation-Associated Mutational U-Pressure in the First ORF of SARS-CoV-2 and Other Coronaviruses. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:559165. [PMID: 33072018 PMCID: PMC7536284 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.559165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2020] [Accepted: 08/31/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Within 4 months of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2, more than 250 nucleotide mutations have been detected in ORF1ab of the virus isolated from infected persons from different parts of the globe. These observations open up an obvious question about the rate and direction of mutational pressure for further vaccine and therapeutics designing. In this study, we did a comparative analysis of ORF1a and ORF1b by using the first isolate (Wuhan strain) as the parent sequence. We observed that most of the nucleotide mutations are C to U transitions. The rate of synonymous C to U transitions is significantly higher than the rate of non-synonymous ones, indicating negative selection on amino acid substitutions. Further, trends in nucleotide usage bias have been investigated in 49 coronaviruses species. A strong bias in nucleotide usage in fourfold degenerate sites toward uracil residues is seen in ORF1ab of all the studied coronaviruses: both in the ORF1a and in the ORF1b translated thanks to the programmed ribosomal frameshifting that has an efficiency of 14 – 45% in different species. A more substantial mutational U-pressure is observed in ORF1a than in ORF1b perhaps because ORF1a is translated more frequently than ORF1b. Mutational U-pressure is there even in ORFs that are not translated from genomic RNA plus strands, but the bias is weaker than in ORF1ab. Unlike other nucleotide mutations, mutational U-pressure caused by cytosine deamination, mostly occurring during the RNA plus strand replication and also translation, cannot be corrected by the proof-reading machinery of coronaviruses. The knowledge generated on the mutational U-pressure that becomes stronger during translation of viral RNA plus strands has implications for vaccine and nucleoside analog development for treating COVID-19 and other coronavirus infections.
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- School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Mandi, India
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- Biochemical Group of Multidisciplinary Diagnostic Laboratory, Institute of Physiology of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus
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Warsinggih, Irawan B, Labeda I, Lusikooy RE, Sampetoding S, Kusuma MI, Uwuratuw JA, Syarifuddin E, Prihantono, Faruk M. Association of superoxide dismutase enzyme with staging and grade of differentiation colorectal cancer: A cross-sectional study. Ann Med Surg (Lond) 2020; 58:194-199. [PMID: 32994983 PMCID: PMC7505864 DOI: 10.1016/j.amsu.2020.08.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2020] [Accepted: 08/17/2020] [Indexed: 02/09/2023] Open
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Introduction The increase of superoxide dismutase (SOD) level in colorectal cancer (CRC) patients based on the examination of staging and grade of differentiation still evidently represents a clinical problem. SOD level raises at a certain staging and reduce at a certain grade of differentiation. For that reason, this study aimed to assess the association between SOD and the variables analyzed in this study. Materials and methods This study was observational study using a cross-sectional research design aimed to measure the association between SOD and staging as well as grade of differentiation in CRC incidence. The study was conducted in our institution from January until March 2018. Results Statistical analyses of the data derived from the laboratory indicated that age and histopathological examination (TNM staging) had statistically significant correlation with SOD1 level. This significant correlation was proven from results of the statistical analyses of each variable at p = 0.039 (age) and p = 0.001 (TNM staging) respectively. Subsequent tests concerning the correlation between age and TNM staging on SOD1 level revealed that the study samples in the category of 30-49 age years old showed statistically significant correlation with SOD1 level with p = 0.009. Conclusion The increase of grade of differentiation was proportional to the increase of SOD1 level as antioxidant against cancer in CRC patients.
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- Warsinggih
- Division of Digestive, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Hasanuddin University, Makassar, Indonesia
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- Division of Digestive, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Hasanuddin University, Makassar, Indonesia
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- Division of Digestive, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Hasanuddin University, Makassar, Indonesia
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- Division of Digestive, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Hasanuddin University, Makassar, Indonesia
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- Division of Digestive, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Hasanuddin University, Makassar, Indonesia
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- Division of Digestive, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Hasanuddin University, Makassar, Indonesia
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- Division of Digestive, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Hasanuddin University, Makassar, Indonesia
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- Division of Digestive, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Hasanuddin University, Makassar, Indonesia
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- Division of Oncology, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Hasanuddin University, Makassar, Indonesia
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- Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Hasanuddin University, Makassar, Indonesia
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Khrustalev VV, Khrustaleva TA, Stojarov AN, Sharma N, Bhaskar B, Giri R. The history of mutational pressure changes during the evolution of adeno-associated viruses: A message to gene therapy and DNA-vaccine vectors designers. INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION 2019; 77:104100. [PMID: 31678645 DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2019.104100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2019] [Revised: 08/25/2019] [Accepted: 10/29/2019] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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The use of virus-associated vectors for gene therapy and vaccination have emerged as safe and effective delivery system. Like all other genetic materials, these vehicles are also prone to spontaneous mutations. To understand what types of nucleotide mutations are expected in the vector, one needs to know distinct characteristics of mutational process in the corresponding virus. In this study we analyzed mutational pressure directions along the length of the genomes of all types of primate adeno-associated viruses (AAV) that are frequently used in gene therapy or DNA-vaccines. We observed clear evidences of transcription-associated mutational pressure in AAV: nucleotide usage biases are changing drastically after each of the three promoters: the higher the rate of transcription, the stronger the bias towards GC to AT mutations. Moreover, the usage of G decreased at the lower transcription rate (after P19 promoter) than the usage of C (after P40 promoter). Since nucleotide usage biases are retrospective indices, we created a scenario of changes in transcriptional map during the AAV evolution. Current mutational pressure directions are different for AAV types, while all of them demonstrate high rates of T to C transitions in the second long ORF. Since transcription rate and cell tropism are the main factors determining the preferable direction of nucleotide mutations in AAV, mutational pressure should be checked experimentally in DNA vectors before their final design with the aim to make the transferred gene more stable against those mutations.
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- Biochemical Group of Multidisciplinary Diagnostic Laboratory, Institute of Physiology of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus
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- School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Himachal Pradesh 175005, India
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- School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Himachal Pradesh 175005, India
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- School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Himachal Pradesh 175005, India; BioX Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, VPO Kamand, 175005, India
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Kuznetsova AA, Matveeva AG, Milov AD, Vorobjev YN, Dzuba SA, Fedorova OS, Kuznetsov NA. Substrate specificity of human apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease APE1 in the nucleotide incision repair pathway. Nucleic Acids Res 2019; 46:11454-11465. [PMID: 30329131 PMCID: PMC6265485 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gky912] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2018] [Accepted: 10/10/2018] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Human apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) endonuclease APE1 catalyses the hydrolysis of phosphodiester bonds on the 5′ side of an AP-site (in the base excision repair pathway) and of some damaged nucleotides (in the nucleotide incision repair pathway). The range of substrate specificity includes structurally unrelated damaged nucleotides. Here, to examine the mechanism of broad substrate specificity of APE1, we performed pulsed electron–electron double resonance (PELDOR) spectroscopy and pre-steady-state kinetic analysis with Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) detection of DNA conformational changes during DNA binding and lesion recognition. Equilibrium PELDOR and kinetic FRET data revealed that DNA binding by APE1 leads to noticeable damage-dependent bending of a DNA duplex. Molecular dynamics simulations showed that the damaged nucleotide is everted from the DNA helix and placed into the enzyme’s binding pocket, which is formed by Asn-174, Asn-212, Asn-229, Ala-230, Phe-266 and Trp-280. Nevertheless, no damage-specific contacts were detected between these amino acid residues in the active site of the enzyme and model damaged substrates containing 1,N6-ethenoadenosine, α-adenosine, 5,6-dihydrouridine or F-site. These data suggest that the substrate specificity of APE1 is controlled by the ability of a damaged nucleotide to flip out from the DNA duplex in response to an enzyme-induced DNA distortion.
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- Alexandra A Kuznetsova
- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia.,Department of Physics, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia.,Department of Physics, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia.,Department of Natural Sciences, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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Khrustalev VV, Khrustaleva TA, Poboinev VV, Yurchenko KV. Mutational pressure and natural selection in epidermal growth factor receptor gene during germline and somatic mutagenesis in cancer cells. Mutat Res 2019; 815:1-9. [PMID: 30974384 DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2019.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2018] [Revised: 01/15/2019] [Accepted: 03/26/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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In this study we investigated nucleotide usage biases along the length of a gene encoding human epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and found out that there had been mutational GC-pressure with stronger asymmetric C-pressure in that gene before the preferable direction of nucleotide mutations changed. Current preferable direction of germline mutations in EGFR gene has been estimated with the help of Ensembl data base of gene variations. Preferable direction of somatic mutations in EGFR gene from cancer cells has been estimated with the help of COSMIC data base. Both germline and somatic mutations in cancer cells have the same GC to AT preferable direction in EGFR gene. These data have been used with the aim to find fragments of EGFR gene that have lower probability of missense C to T and G to A transitions to occur. So, the less mutable parts of extracellular EGFR domain are: C-terminal part of the first beta barrel and the central part of the second beta barrel. The less mutable parts of tyrosine kinase EGFR domain are: ATP-binding site (partially), regulatory alpha helix, and fragments that change their secondary structure during the activation process. These parts of EGFR should be considered as the best targets for new types of therapy development. Such criterion as low mutability is especially important for the selection of targets for anti-tumor therapy, since we have detected positive selection of amino acid replacements during somatic mutagenesis of EGFR gene in cancer cells.
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- Biochemical Group of the Multidisciplinary Diagnostic Laboratory, Institute of Physiology of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Academicheskaya, 28, Minsk, Belarus
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Lin PY, Chang YJ, Chen YC, Lin CH, Erkekoglu P, Chao MW, Tseng CY. Anti-cancer effects of 3,5-dimethylaminophenol in A549 lung cancer cells. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0205249. [PMID: 30307971 PMCID: PMC6181324 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0205249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2018] [Accepted: 09/23/2018] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Exposure to 3,5-dimethylaminophenol (3,5-DMAP), the metabolite of the 3-5-dimethylaniline, was shown to cause high levels of oxidative stress in different cells. The aim of the present work was to observe whether this metabolite can lead to cytotoxicity, oxidative stress, DNA damage and cell cycle changes in non-small cell lung cancer A549 cells. 3,5-DMAP caused a dose-dependent increase in cytotoxicity, generation of superoxide (O2-.), inductions in the enzyme activities orchestrating cellular antioxidant balance, increases in lipid peroxidation as well as DNA damage. However, 3,5-DMAP showed significantly lower cytotoxicity towards human lung fibroblast (HLF) cells. 3,5-DMAP also led to molecular events, like inducing apoptotic markers (ie. p53, Bad, Bax and cytochrome c); decreasing anti-apoptotic proteins (Bcl-2) and alterations in cell cycle. Our findings indicate that the cytotoxicity caused by this particular alkylaniline metabolite led to initiation of caspase 3-mediated apoptosis. Furthermore, 3,5-DMAP attenuated carcinogenic properties like migration capacity of A549 cells and eventually inhibited growth of A549 cells in an in vivo mouse model. Tumor sections showed that 3,5-DMAP down-regulated c-Myc expression but up-regulated p53 and cytochrome c, all of which might result in tumor growth arrest. Co-treatment with N-acetylcysteine provided reductions in cytotoxicity and positively modulated genetic events induced by 3,5-DMAP in A549 cells. In conclusion, our findings demonstrate 3,5-DMAP may be a potential anti-cancer drug in cancer, due to its self redox cycling properties.
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- Pei-Ying Lin
- Department of Bioscience Technology, College of Science, Chung Yuan Christian University, Zhongli district, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Department of Bioscience Technology, College of Science, Chung Yuan Christian University, Zhongli district, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Department of Radiology, Taoyuan General Hospital, Taoyuan district, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Department of Bioscience Technology, College of Science, Chung Yuan Christian University, Zhongli district, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Hacettepe University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Toxicology,Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Bioscience Technology, College of Science, Chung Yuan Christian University, Zhongli district, Taoyuan, Taiwan
- Center of Nanotechnology, Chung Yuan Christian University, Zhongli district, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Center of Nanotechnology, Chung Yuan Christian University, Zhongli district, Taoyuan, Taiwan
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, Chung Yuan Christian University, Zhongli district, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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Kladova OA, Krasnoperov LN, Kuznetsov NA, Fedorova OS. Kinetics and Thermodynamics of DNA Processing by Wild Type DNA-Glycosylase Endo III and Its Catalytically Inactive Mutant Forms. Genes (Basel) 2018; 9:genes9040190. [PMID: 29601551 PMCID: PMC5924532 DOI: 10.3390/genes9040190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2018] [Revised: 03/22/2018] [Accepted: 03/27/2018] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Endonuclease III (Endo III or Nth) is one of the key enzymes responsible for initiating the base excision repair of oxidized or reduced pyrimidine bases in DNA. In this study, a thermodynamic analysis of structural rearrangements of the specific and nonspecific DNA-duplexes during their interaction with Endo III is performed based on stopped-flow kinetic data. 1,3-diaza-2-oxophenoxazine (tCO), a fluorescent analog of the natural nucleobase cytosine, is used to record multistep DNA binding and lesion recognition within a temperature range (5-37 °C). Standard Gibbs energy, enthalpy, and entropy of the specific steps are derived from kinetic data using Van't Hoff plots. The data suggest that enthalpy-driven exothermic 5,6-dihydrouracil (DHU) recognition and desolvation-accompanied entropy-driven adjustment of the enzyme-substrate complex into a catalytically active state play equally important parts in the overall process. The roles of catalytically significant amino acids Lys120 and Asp138 in the DNA lesion recognition and catalysis are identified. Lys120 participates not only in the catalytic steps but also in the processes of local duplex distortion, whereas substitution Asp138Ala leads to a complete loss of the ability of Endo III to distort a DNA double chain during enzyme-DNA complex formation.
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- Olga A Kladova
- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine (ICBFM), 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia.
- Department of Natural Sciences, Novosibirsk State University, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia.
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- New Jersey Institute of Technology, Department of Chemistry and Environment Sciences, University Heights, Newark, NJ 07102, USA.
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine (ICBFM), 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia.
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine (ICBFM), 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia.
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Valenzuela L, Sepúlveda S, Ponce I, Galanti N, Cabrera G. The overexpression of TcAP1 endonuclease confers resistance to infective Trypanosoma cruzi trypomastigotes against oxidative DNA damage. J Cell Biochem 2018; 119:5985-5995. [PMID: 29575156 DOI: 10.1002/jcb.26795] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2017] [Accepted: 02/20/2018] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agent of Chagas' disease survives to DNA damage generated by ROS/RNS inside to their different hosts. In recent eukaryotes, oxidative DNA damage is repaired mainly by the Base Excision Repair (BER) pathway, being essential the apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease activity. Using a pTREX-gfp vector, the nucleotide sequence that encodes T. cruzi AP endonuclease TcAP1 (orthologue of human APE1) and a putative TcAP1 dominant negative (TcAP1DN), were transfectedand expressed in T. cruzi epimastigotes. TcAP1-GFP and TcAP1DN-GFP were expressed in those modified epimastigotes and found in the parasite nucleus. The endonucleases were purified under native conditions and the AP endonuclease activity was evaluated. While TcAP1 presents the expected AP endonuclease activity TcAP1DN does not. Moreover, TcAP1DN partially inhibits in vitro TcAP1 enzymatic activity. Transfected epimastigotes expressing TcAP1-GFP and TcAP1DN-GFP were differentiated to infective trypomastigotes. The infective parasites maintained both proteins (TcAP1-GFP and TcAP1DN-GFP) in the nucleus. The overexpression of TcAP1-GFP in epimastigotes and trypomastigotes increases the viability of both parasite forms when exposed to oxidative stress while the expression of TcAP1DN-GFP did not show any in vivo inhibitory effect, suggesting that endogenous TcAP1 constitutive expression overcomes the TcAP1DN inhibitory activity. Our results show that TcAP1 is important for trypomastigote survival under oxidative conditions similar to those found in infected mammalian cells, then increasing its permanence in the infected cells and the possibility of development of Chagas disease.
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- Lucía Valenzuela
- Programa de Biología Celular y Molecular, Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.,Programa de Doctorado en Ciencias Silvoagropecuarias y Veterinarias, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Programa de Biología Celular y Molecular, Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Programa de Biología Celular y Molecular, Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Programa de Biología Celular y Molecular, Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Programa de Biología Celular y Molecular, Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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Zakharenko AL, Lebedeva NA, Lavrik OI. DNA Repair Enzymes as Promising Targets in Oncotherapy. RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY 2018. [DOI: 10.1134/s1068162017060140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Transcription-associated mutational pressure in the Parvovirus B19 genome: Reactivated genomes contribute to the variability of viral populations. J Theor Biol 2017; 435:199-207. [PMID: 28941869 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2017.09.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2017] [Revised: 07/12/2017] [Accepted: 09/19/2017] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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In this study we used non-overlapping parts of the two long open reading frames coding for nonstructural (NS) and capsid (VP) proteins of all available sequences of the Parvovirus B19 subgenotype 1a genome and found out that the rates of A to G, C to T and A to T mutations are higher in the first long reading frame (NS) of the virus than in the second one (VP). This difference in mutational pressure directions for two parts of the same viral genome can be explained by the fact of transcription of just the first long reading frame during the lifelong latency in nonerythroid cells. Adenine deamination (producing A to G and A to T mutations) and cytosine deamination (producing C to T mutations) occur more frequently in transcriptional bubbles formed by DNA "plus" strand of the first open reading frame. These mutations can be inherited only in case of reactivation of the infectious virus due to the help of Adenovirus that allows latent Parvovirus B19 to start transcription of the second reading frame and then to replicate its genome by the rolling circle mechanism using the specific origin. Results of this study provide evidence that the genomes reactivated from latency make significant contributions to the variability of Parvovirus B19.
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On the synthesis of quinone-based BODIPY hybrids: New insights on antitumor activity and mechanism of action in cancer cells. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 2017; 27:4446-4456. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2017.08.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2017] [Accepted: 08/03/2017] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Samaranayake GJ, Huynh M, Rai P. MTH1 as a Chemotherapeutic Target: The Elephant in the Room. Cancers (Basel) 2017; 9:cancers9050047. [PMID: 28481306 PMCID: PMC5447957 DOI: 10.3390/cancers9050047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2017] [Revised: 04/29/2017] [Accepted: 04/29/2017] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Many tumors sustain elevated levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS), which drive oncogenic signaling. However, ROS can also trigger anti-tumor responses, such as cell death or senescence, through induction of oxidative stress and concomitant DNA damage. To circumvent the adverse consequences of elevated ROS levels, many tumors develop adaptive responses, such as enhanced redox-protective or oxidatively-generated damage repair pathways. Targeting these enhanced oxidative stress-protective mechanisms is likely to be both therapeutically effective and highly specific to cancer, as normal cells are less reliant on such mechanisms. In this review, we discuss one such stress-protective protein human MutT Homolog1 (MTH1), an enzyme that eliminates 8-oxo-7,8-dihydro-2’-deoxyguanosine triphosphate (8-oxodGTP) through its pyrophosphatase activity, and is found to be elevated in many cancers. Our studies, and subsequently those of others, identified MTH1 inhibition as an effective tumor-suppressive strategy. However, recent studies with the first wave of MTH1 inhibitors have produced conflicting results regarding their cytotoxicity in cancer cells and have led to questions regarding the validity of MTH1 as a chemotherapeutic target. To address the proverbial "elephant in the room" as to whether MTH1 is a bona fide chemotherapeutic target, we provide an overview of MTH1 function in the context of tumor biology, summarize the current literature on MTH1 inhibitors, and discuss the molecular contexts likely required for its efficacy as a therapeutic target.
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- Govindi J Samaranayake
- Department of Medicine/Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33136, USA.
- Sheila and David Fuente Graduate Program in Cancer Biology, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA.
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- Department of Medicine/Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33136, USA.
- College of Arts and Sciences, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33146, USA.
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- Department of Medicine/Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33136, USA.
- Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miami, FL 33136, USA.
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Khrustalev VV, Khrustaleva TA, Sharma N, Giri R. Mutational Pressure in Zika Virus: Local ADAR-Editing Areas Associated with Pauses in Translation and Replication. Front Cell Infect Microbiol 2017; 7:44. [PMID: 28275585 PMCID: PMC5319961 DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2017.00044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2016] [Accepted: 02/07/2017] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Zika virus (ZIKV) spread led to the recent medical health emergency of international concern. Understanding the variations in virus system is of utmost need. Using available complete sequences of ZIKV we estimated directions of mutational pressure along the length of consensus sequences of three lineages of the virus. Results showed that guanine usage is growing in ZIKV RNA plus strand due to adenine to guanine transitions, while adenine usage is growing due to cytosine to adenine transversions. Especially high levels of guanine have been found in two-fold degenerated sites of certain areas of RNA plus strand with high amount of secondary structure. The usage of cytosine in two-fold degenerated sites shows direct dependence on the amount of secondary structure in 52% (consensus sequence of East African ZIKV lineage)—32% (consensus sequence of epidemic strains) of the length of RNA minus strand. These facts are the evidences of ADAR-editing of both strands of ZIKV genome during pauses in replication. RNA plus strand can also be edited by ADAR during pauses in translation caused by the appearance of groups of rare codons. According to our results, RNA minus strand of epidemic ZIKV strain has lower number of points in which polymerase can be stalled (allowing ADAR-editing) compared to other strains. The data on preferable directions of mutational pressure in epidemic ZIKV strain is useful for future vaccine development and understanding the evolution of new strains.
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- Laboratory of Cellular Technologies, Institute of Physiology of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Minsk, Belarus
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- School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi Mandi, India
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- School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi Mandi, India
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Repair of oxidatively induced DNA damage by DNA glycosylases: Mechanisms of action, substrate specificities and excision kinetics. MUTATION RESEARCH-REVIEWS IN MUTATION RESEARCH 2017; 771:99-127. [PMID: 28342455 DOI: 10.1016/j.mrrev.2017.02.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2016] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Endogenous and exogenous reactive species cause oxidatively induced DNA damage in living organisms by a variety of mechanisms. As a result, a plethora of mutagenic and/or cytotoxic products are formed in cellular DNA. This type of DNA damage is repaired by base excision repair, although nucleotide excision repair also plays a limited role. DNA glycosylases remove modified DNA bases from DNA by hydrolyzing the glycosidic bond leaving behind an apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) site. Some of them also possess an accompanying AP-lyase activity that cleaves the sugar-phosphate chain of DNA. Since the first discovery of a DNA glycosylase, many studies have elucidated the mechanisms of action, substrate specificities and excision kinetics of these enzymes present in all living organisms. For this purpose, most studies used single- or double-stranded oligodeoxynucleotides with a single DNA lesion embedded at a defined position. High-molecular weight DNA with multiple base lesions has been used in other studies with the advantage of the simultaneous investigation of many DNA base lesions as substrates. Differences between the substrate specificities and excision kinetics of DNA glycosylases have been found when these two different substrates were used. Some DNA glycosylases possess varying substrate specificities for either purine-derived lesions or pyrimidine-derived lesions, whereas others exhibit cross-activity for both types of lesions. Laboratory animals with knockouts of the genes of DNA glycosylases have also been used to provide unequivocal evidence for the substrates, which had previously been found in in vitro studies, to be the actual substrates in vivo as well. On the basis of the knowledge gained from the past studies, efforts are being made to discover small molecule inhibitors of DNA glycosylases that may be used as potential drugs in cancer therapy.
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Kuznetsov NA, Fedorova OS. Thermodynamic analysis of fast stages of specific lesion recognition by DNA repair enzymes. BIOCHEMISTRY (MOSCOW) 2016; 81:1136-1152. [DOI: 10.1134/s0006297916100114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Klanjscek T, Muller EB, Nisbet RM. Feedbacks and tipping points in organismal response to oxidative stress. J Theor Biol 2016; 404:361-374. [PMID: 27245109 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2016.05.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2015] [Revised: 05/23/2016] [Accepted: 05/25/2016] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Biological feedbacks play a crucial role in determining effects of toxicants, radiation, and other environmental stressors on organisms. Focusing on reactive oxygen species (ROS) that are increasingly recognized as a crucial mediator of many stressor effects, we investigate how feedback strength affects the ability of organisms to control negative effects of exposure. We do this by developing a general theoretical framework for describing effects of a wide range of stressors and species. The framework accounts for positive and negative feedbacks representing cellular processes: (i) production of ROS due to metabolism and the stressor, (ii) ROS reactions with cellular compounds that cause damage, and (iii) cellular control of both ROS and damage. We suggest functional forms that capture generic properties of cellular control mechanisms constituting the feedbacks, assess stability of equilibrium states in the resulting models, and investigate tipping points at which cellular control breaks down causing unregulated increase of ROS and damage. Depending on the chosen functional forms, the models can have zero, one, or two positive steady states; except in one singular case, the steady state with lowest values of ROS and damage is locally stable. We found two types of tipping points: those induced by changes in the parameters (including the stressor intensity), and those induced by the history of exposure, i.e. ROS and damage levels. The relatively simple models effectively describe several patterns of cellular responses to stress, such as the covariation of ROS and damage, the break-down of cellular control leading to explosion of ROS and/or damage, increase in damage even when ROS is (near)-constant, and the effects of exposure history on the ability of the cell to handle additional stress. The models quantify dynamics of cellular control, and could therefore be used to estimate the metabolic costs of stress and help integrate them into models that use energetic considerations to model organism's response to the environment. Although developed with unicellular organisms in mind, our models can be applied to all multicellular organisms that utilize similar feedbacks when dealing with stress.
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- Tin Klanjscek
- University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA; Ruder Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia.
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- University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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- University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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Kuznetsov NA, Kiryutin AS, Kuznetsova AA, Panov MS, Barsukova MO, Yurkovskaya AV, Fedorova OS. The formation of catalytically competent enzyme-substrate complex is not a bottleneck in lesion excision by human alkyladenine DNA glycosylase. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2016; 35:950-967. [PMID: 27025273 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2016.1171800] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Human alkyladenine DNA glycosylase (AAG) protects DNA from alkylated and deaminated purine lesions. AAG flips out the damaged nucleotide from the double helix of DNA and catalyzes the hydrolysis of the N-glycosidic bond to release the damaged base. To understand better, how the step of nucleotide eversion influences the overall catalytic process, we performed a pre-steady-state kinetic analysis of AAG interaction with specific DNA-substrates, 13-base pair duplexes containing in the 7th position 1-N6-ethenoadenine (εA), hypoxanthine (Hx), and the stable product analogue tetrahydrofuran (F). The combination of the fluorescence of tryptophan, 2-aminopurine, and 1-N6-ethenoadenine was used to record conformational changes of the enzyme and DNA during the processes of DNA lesion recognition, damaged base eversion, excision of the N-glycosidic bond, and product release. The thermal stability of the duplexes characterized by the temperature of melting, Tm, and the rates of spontaneous opening of individual nucleotide base pairs were determined by NMR spectroscopy. The data show that the relative thermal stability of duplexes containing a particular base pair in position 7, (Tm(F/T) < Tm(εA/T) < Tm(Hx/T) < Tm(A/T)) correlates with the rate of reversible spontaneous opening of the base pair. However, in contrast to that, the catalytic lesion excision rate is two orders of magnitude higher for Hx-containing substrates than for substrates containing εA, proving that catalytic activity is not correlated with the stability of the damaged base pair. Our study reveals that the formation of the catalytically competent enzyme-substrate complex is not the bottleneck controlling the catalytic activity of AAG.
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- N A Kuznetsov
- a Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine , Lavrentyev Ave. 8, Novosibirsk 630090 , Russia.,c Department of Natural Sciences , Novosibirsk State University , Pirogova St. 2, Novosibirsk 630090 , Russia
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- b International Tomography Center SB RAS, Institutskaya 3a , Novosibirsk 630090 , Russia.,c Department of Natural Sciences , Novosibirsk State University , Pirogova St. 2, Novosibirsk 630090 , Russia
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- a Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine , Lavrentyev Ave. 8, Novosibirsk 630090 , Russia
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- b International Tomography Center SB RAS, Institutskaya 3a , Novosibirsk 630090 , Russia.,c Department of Natural Sciences , Novosibirsk State University , Pirogova St. 2, Novosibirsk 630090 , Russia
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- c Department of Natural Sciences , Novosibirsk State University , Pirogova St. 2, Novosibirsk 630090 , Russia
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- b International Tomography Center SB RAS, Institutskaya 3a , Novosibirsk 630090 , Russia.,c Department of Natural Sciences , Novosibirsk State University , Pirogova St. 2, Novosibirsk 630090 , Russia
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- a Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine , Lavrentyev Ave. 8, Novosibirsk 630090 , Russia
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Local Mutational Pressures in Genomes of Zaire Ebolavirus and Marburg Virus. Adv Bioinformatics 2015; 2015:678587. [PMID: 26798338 PMCID: PMC4698526 DOI: 10.1155/2015/678587] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2015] [Revised: 10/30/2015] [Accepted: 11/03/2015] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Heterogeneities in nucleotide content distribution along the length of Zaire ebolavirus and Marburg virus genomes have been analyzed. Results showed that there is asymmetric mutational A-pressure in the majority of Zaire ebolavirus genes; there is mutational AC-pressure in the coding region of the matrix protein VP40, probably, caused by its high expression at the end of the infection process; there is also AC-pressure in the 3'-part of the nucleoprotein (NP) coding gene associated with low amount of secondary structure formed by the 3'-part of its mRNA; in the middle of the glycoprotein (GP) coding gene that kind of mutational bias is linked with the high amount of secondary structure formed by the corresponding fragment of RNA negative (-) strand; there is relatively symmetric mutational AU-pressure in the polymerase (Pol) coding gene caused by its low expression level. In Marburg virus all genes, including C-rich fragment of GP coding region, demonstrate asymmetric mutational A-bias, while the last gene (Pol) demonstrates more symmetric mutational AU-pressure. The hypothesis of a newly synthesized RNA negative (-) strand shielding by complementary fragments of mRNAs has been described in this work: shielded fragments of RNA negative (-) strand should be better protected from oxidative damage and prone to ADAR-editing.
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Čejková D, Strouhal M, Norris SJ, Weinstock GM, Šmajs D. A Retrospective Study on Genetic Heterogeneity within Treponema Strains: Subpopulations Are Genetically Distinct in a Limited Number of Positions. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2015; 9:e0004110. [PMID: 26436423 PMCID: PMC4593590 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2015] [Accepted: 09/02/2015] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Pathogenic uncultivable treponemes comprise human and animal pathogens including agents of syphilis, yaws, bejel, pinta, and venereal spirochetosis in rabbits and hares. A set of 10 treponemal genome sequences including those of 4 Treponema pallidum ssp. pallidum (TPA) strains (Nichols, DAL-1, Mexico A, SS14), 4 T. p. ssp. pertenue (TPE) strains (CDC-2, Gauthier, Samoa D, Fribourg-Blanc), 1 T. p. ssp. endemicum (TEN) strain (Bosnia A) and one strain (Cuniculi A) of Treponema paraluisleporidarum ecovar Cuniculus (TPLC) were examined with respect to the presence of nucleotide intrastrain heterogeneous sites. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS The number of identified intrastrain heterogeneous sites in individual genomes ranged between 0 and 7. Altogether, 23 intrastrain heterogeneous sites (in 17 genes) were found in 5 out of 10 investigated treponemal genomes including TPA strains Nichols (n = 5), DAL-1 (n = 4), and SS14 (n = 7), TPE strain Samoa D (n = 1), and TEN strain Bosnia A (n = 5). Although only one heterogeneous site was identified among 4 tested TPE strains, 16 such sites were identified among 4 TPA strains. Heterogeneous sites were mostly strain-specific and were identified in four tpr genes (tprC, GI, I, K), in genes involved in bacterial motility and chemotaxis (fliI, cheC-fliY), in genes involved in cell structure (murC), translation (prfA), general and DNA metabolism (putative SAM dependent methyltransferase, topA), and in seven hypothetical genes. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE Heterogeneous sites likely represent both the selection of adaptive changes during infection of the host as well as an ongoing diversifying evolutionary process.
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- Darina Čejková
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
- Department of Immunology, Veterinary Research Institute, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- The Genome Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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Reddy PT, Jaruga P, Nelson BC, Lowenthal MS, Jemth AS, Loseva O, Coskun E, Helleday T, Dizdaroglu M. Production, Purification, and Characterization of ¹⁵N-Labeled DNA Repair Proteins as Internal Standards for Mass Spectrometric Measurements. Methods Enzymol 2015; 566:305-32. [PMID: 26791985 DOI: 10.1016/bs.mie.2015.06.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Oxidatively induced DNA damage is caused in living organisms by a variety of damaging agents, resulting in the formation of a multiplicity of lesions, which are mutagenic and cytotoxic. Unless repaired by DNA repair mechanisms before DNA replication, DNA lesions can lead to genomic instability, which is one of the hallmarks of cancer. Oxidatively induced DNA damage is mainly repaired by base excision repair pathway with the involvement of a plethora of proteins. Cancer tissues develop greater DNA repair capacity than normal tissues by overexpressing DNA repair proteins. Increased DNA repair in tumors that removes DNA lesions generated by therapeutic agents before they became toxic is a major mechanism in the development of therapy resistance. Evidence suggests that DNA repair capacity may be a predictive biomarker of patient response. Thus, knowledge of DNA-protein expressions in disease-free and cancerous tissues may help predict and guide development of treatments and yield the best therapeutic response. Our laboratory has developed methodologies that use mass spectrometry with isotope dilution for the measurement of expression of DNA repair proteins in human tissues and cultured cells. For this purpose, full-length (15)N-labeled analogs of a number of human DNA repair proteins have been produced and purified to be used as internal standards for positive identification and accurate quantification. This chapter describes in detail the protocols of this work. The use of (15)N-labeled proteins as internal standards for the measurement of several DNA repair proteins in vivo is also presented.
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- Prasad T Reddy
- Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland, Rockville, Maryland, USA.
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- Biochemical Measurement Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
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- Biosystems and Biomaterials Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
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- Biochemical Measurement Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Division of Translational Medicine and Chemical Biology, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Division of Translational Medicine and Chemical Biology, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Biochemical Measurement Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Division of Translational Medicine and Chemical Biology, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Biochemical Measurement Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA.
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Association of DNA Repair Gene APE1 Asp148Glu Polymorphism with Breast Cancer Risk. DISEASE MARKERS 2015; 2015:869512. [PMID: 26257461 PMCID: PMC4519542 DOI: 10.1155/2015/869512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2015] [Revised: 04/22/2015] [Accepted: 06/10/2015] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate the role of APE1 Asp148Glu polymorphism in breast cancer progression in Saudi population. METHODS We examined the genetic variations (rs1130409) in the DNA base excision repair gene APE1 at codon 148 (Asp148Glu) and its association with breast cancer risk using genotypic assays and in silico structural as well as functional predictions. In silico structural analysis was performed with Asp148Glu allele and compared with the predicted native protein structure. The wild and mutant 3D structures of APE1 were compared and analyzed using solvent accessibility models for protein stability confirmation. RESULTS Genotypic analysis of APE1 (rs1130409) showed statistically significant association of Asp148Glu with elevated susceptibility to breast cancer. The in silico analysis results indicated that the nsSNP Asp148Glu may cause changes in the protein structure and is associated with breast cancer risk. CONCLUSION Taken together, this is the first report that established that Asp148Glu variant has structural and functional effect on the APE1 and may play an important role in breast cancer progression in Saudi population.
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Beletsky AV, Malyavko AN, Sukhanova MV, Mardanova ES, Zvereva ME, Mardanov AV, Dontsova OA, Lavrik OI, Ravin NV. Expression of genes involved in DNA repair and telomere maintenance in the yeast Hansenula polymorpha DL1 under heat stress. DOKL BIOCHEM BIOPHYS 2015; 462:185-8. [PMID: 26163216 DOI: 10.1134/s1607672915030126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2015] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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- A V Beletsky
- Bioengineering Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. 60-letiya Oktyabrya 7/1, Moscow, 117312, Russia
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Characterization of DNA substrate specificities of apurinic/apyrimidinic endonucleases from Mycobacterium tuberculosis. DNA Repair (Amst) 2015; 33:1-16. [PMID: 26043425 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2015.05.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2014] [Revised: 04/19/2015] [Accepted: 05/18/2015] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) endonucleases are key enzymes involved in the repair of abasic sites and DNA strand breaks. Pathogenic bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis contains two AP endonucleases: MtbXthA and MtbNfo members of the exonuclease III and endonuclease IV families, which are exemplified by Escherichia coli Xth and Nfo, respectively. It has been shown that both MtbXthA and MtbNfo contain AP endonuclease and 3'→5' exonuclease activities. However, it remains unclear whether these enzymes hold 3'-repair phosphodiesterase and nucleotide incision repair (NIR) activities. Here, we report that both mycobacterial enzymes have 3'-repair phosphodiesterase and 3'-phosphatase, and MtbNfo contains in addition a very weak NIR activity. Interestingly, depending on pH, both enzymes require different concentrations of divalent cations: 0.5mM MnCl2 at pH 7.6 and 10 mM at pH 6.5. MtbXthA requires a low ionic strength and 37 °C, while MtbNfo requires high ionic strength (200 mM KCl) and has a temperature optimum at 60 °C. Point mutation analysis showed that D180 and N182 in MtbXthA and H206 and E129 in MtbNfo are critical for enzymes activities. The steady-state kinetic parameters indicate that MtbXthA removes 3'-blocking sugar-phosphate and 3'-phosphate moieties at DNA strand breaks with an extremely high efficiency (kcat/KM=440 and 1280 μM(-1)∙min(-1), respectively), while MtbNfo exhibits much lower 3'-repair activities (kcat/KM=0.26 and 0.65 μM(-1)∙min(-1), respectively). Surprisingly, both MtbXthA and MtbNfo exhibited very weak AP site cleavage activities, with kinetic parameters 100- and 300-fold lower, respectively, as compared with the results reported previously. Expression of MtbXthA and MtbNfo reduced the sensitivity of AP endonuclease-deficient E. coli xth nfo strain to methylmethanesulfonate and H2O2 to various degrees. Taken together, these data establish the DNA substrate specificity of M. tuberculosis AP endonucleases and suggest their possible role in the repair of oxidative DNA damage generated by endogenous and host- imposed factors.
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Kuznetsov NA, Kladova OA, Kuznetsova AA, Ishchenko AA, Saparbaev MK, Zharkov DO, Fedorova OS. Conformational Dynamics of DNA Repair by Escherichia coli Endonuclease III. J Biol Chem 2015; 290:14338-49. [PMID: 25869130 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m114.621128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2014] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Escherichia coli endonuclease III (Endo III or Nth) is a DNA glycosylase with a broad substrate specificity for oxidized or reduced pyrimidine bases. Endo III possesses two types of activities: N-glycosylase (hydrolysis of the N-glycosidic bond) and AP lyase (elimination of the 3'-phosphate of the AP-site). We report a pre-steady-state kinetic analysis of structural rearrangements of the DNA substrates and uncleavable ligands during their interaction with Endo III. Oligonucleotide duplexes containing 5,6-dihydrouracil, a natural abasic site, its tetrahydrofuran analog, and undamaged duplexes carried fluorescent DNA base analogs 2-aminopurine and 1,3-diaza-2-oxophenoxazine as environment-sensitive reporter groups. The results suggest that Endo III induces several fast sequential conformational changes in DNA during binding, lesion recognition, and adjustment to a catalytically competent conformation. A comparison of two fluorophores allowed us to distinguish between the events occurring in the damaged and undamaged DNA strand. Combining our data with the available structures of Endo III, we conclude that this glycosylase uses a multistep mechanism of damage recognition, which likely involves Gln(41) and Leu(81) as DNA lesion sensors.
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- Nikita A Kuznetsov
- From the Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, 8 Lavrentyev Ave., Novosibirsk 630090, Russia, the Department of Natural Sciences, Novosibirsk State University, 2 Pirogova St., Novosibirsk 630090, Russia, and
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- From the Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, 8 Lavrentyev Ave., Novosibirsk 630090, Russia, the Department of Natural Sciences, Novosibirsk State University, 2 Pirogova St., Novosibirsk 630090, Russia, and
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- From the Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, 8 Lavrentyev Ave., Novosibirsk 630090, Russia, the Department of Natural Sciences, Novosibirsk State University, 2 Pirogova St., Novosibirsk 630090, Russia, and
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- the Groupe "Réparation de l'ADN," Université Paris-Sud XI, UMR8200 CNRS, Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif Cedex F-94805, France
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- the Groupe "Réparation de l'ADN," Université Paris-Sud XI, UMR8200 CNRS, Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif Cedex F-94805, France
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- From the Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, 8 Lavrentyev Ave., Novosibirsk 630090, Russia, the Department of Natural Sciences, Novosibirsk State University, 2 Pirogova St., Novosibirsk 630090, Russia, and
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- From the Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, 8 Lavrentyev Ave., Novosibirsk 630090, Russia, the Department of Natural Sciences, Novosibirsk State University, 2 Pirogova St., Novosibirsk 630090, Russia, and
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Dyakonova ES, Koval VV, Lomzov AA, Ishchenko AA, Fedorova OS. The role of His-83 of yeast apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease Apn1 in catalytic incision of abasic sites in DNA. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2015; 1850:1297-309. [PMID: 25766873 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2015.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2014] [Revised: 02/16/2015] [Accepted: 03/04/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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BACKGROUND The apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) endonuclease Apn1 from Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a key enzyme involved in the base excision repair (BER) at the cleavage stage of abasic sites (AP sites) in DNA. The crystal structure of Apn1 from S. cerevisiae is unresolved. Based on its high amino acid homology to Escherichia coli Endo IV, His-83 is believed to coordinate one of three Zn2+ ions in Apn1's active site similar to His-69 in Endo IV. Substituting His-83 with Ala is proposed to decrease the AP endonuclease activity of Apn1 owing to weak coordination of Zn2+ ions involved in enzymatic catalysis. METHODS The kinetics of recognition, binding, and incision of DNA substrates with the H83A Apn1 mutant was investigated. The stopped-flow method detecting fluorescence intensity changes of 2-aminopurine (2-aPu) was used to monitor the conformational dynamics of DNA at pre-steady-state conditions. RESULTS We found substituting His-83 with Ala influenced catalytic complex formation and further incision of the damaged DNA strand. The H83A Apn1 catalysis depends not only on the location of the mismatch relative to the abasic site in DNA, but also on the nature of damage. CONCLUSIONS We consider His-83 properly coordinates the active site Zn2+ ion playing a crucial role in catalytic incision stage. Our data prove suppressed enzymatic activity of H83A Apn1 results from the reduced number of active site Zn2+ ions. GENERAL SIGNIFICANCE Our study provides insights into mechanistic specialty of AP site repair by yeast AP endonuclease Apn1 of Endo IV family, which members are not found in mammals, but are present in many microorganisms. The results will provide useful guidelines for design of new anti-fungal and anti-malarial agents.
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- Elena S Dyakonova
- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lavrentyev Ave., 8, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russian Federation
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lavrentyev Ave., 8, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russian Federation; Novosibirsk State University, Pirogov St., 2, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russian Federation
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lavrentyev Ave., 8, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russian Federation; Novosibirsk State University, Pirogov St., 2, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russian Federation
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- Groupe «Réparation de l'ADN», Université Paris-Sud XI, UMR8200 CNRS, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif Cedex F-94805, France
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lavrentyev Ave., 8, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russian Federation; Novosibirsk State University, Pirogov St., 2, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russian Federation.
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Kovalchuk IP, Golubov A, Koturbash IV, Kutanzi K, Martin OA, Kovalchuk O. Age-dependent changes in DNA repair in radiation-exposed mice. Radiat Res 2015; 182:683-94. [PMID: 25409128 DOI: 10.1667/rr13697.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Ionizing radiation (IR) is a well-known human carcinogen. Young and adult individuals are known to respond to radiation in a different manner. In this study, we analyzed changes in the spleen of juvenile (two-week-old), adult (two-month-old) and old (18-month-old) C57BL/6 male mice subjected to a whole-body exposure to 1 Gy of X rays. We measured the number of γ-H2AX foci and ATM protein levels as a reflection of the level of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs), and found that old animals had a high frequency of occurrence of noninduced DSBs. Exposure to X rays resulted in a rapid increase in the number of DSBs in juvenile and adult animals at 6 h postirradiation followed by a return to preirradiated DSB values at 96 h postirradiation. No changes were observed in old animals. The analysis of the levels of proteins involved in DNA damage base excision and mismatch repair pathways, including KU70, RAD51, POL β, POL δ, POL ε, APE1 and MSH2 showed substantial age-dependent radiation-induced differences. Finally, we demonstrated that old animals had a higher background level of cell apoptosis compared to younger animals, but in contrast to younger animals, old animals were not able to commit spleen cells to apoptosis after being irradiated. Thus, spleen cells of old mice have a high level of spontaneous DNA damage, but they are not able to deal with additional radiation-induced damage as efficiently as younger animals, substantiating age-depending differences in radiation-induced DNA damage and repair response and its outcomes.
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- Igor P Kovalchuk
- a Department of Biological Sciences, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
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Oxidatively induced DNA damage and its repair in cancer. MUTATION RESEARCH-REVIEWS IN MUTATION RESEARCH 2014; 763:212-45. [PMID: 25795122 DOI: 10.1016/j.mrrev.2014.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 173] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2014] [Revised: 11/03/2014] [Accepted: 11/04/2014] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Oxidatively induced DNA damage is caused in living organisms by endogenous and exogenous reactive species. DNA lesions resulting from this type of damage are mutagenic and cytotoxic and, if not repaired, can cause genetic instability that may lead to disease processes including carcinogenesis. Living organisms possess DNA repair mechanisms that include a variety of pathways to repair multiple DNA lesions. Mutations and polymorphisms also occur in DNA repair genes adversely affecting DNA repair systems. Cancer tissues overexpress DNA repair proteins and thus develop greater DNA repair capacity than normal tissues. Increased DNA repair in tumors that removes DNA lesions before they become toxic is a major mechanism for development of resistance to therapy, affecting patient survival. Accumulated evidence suggests that DNA repair capacity may be a predictive biomarker for patient response to therapy. Thus, knowledge of DNA protein expressions in normal and cancerous tissues may help predict and guide development of treatments and yield the best therapeutic response. DNA repair proteins constitute targets for inhibitors to overcome the resistance of tumors to therapy. Inhibitors of DNA repair for combination therapy or as single agents for monotherapy may help selectively kill tumors, potentially leading to personalized therapy. Numerous inhibitors have been developed and are being tested in clinical trials. The efficacy of some inhibitors in therapy has been demonstrated in patients. Further development of inhibitors of DNA repair proteins is globally underway to help eradicate cancer.
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Kuznetsova AA, Kuznetsov NA, Ishchenko AA, Saparbaev MK, Fedorova OS. Pre-steady-state fluorescence analysis of damaged DNA transfer from human DNA glycosylases to AP endonuclease APE1. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2014; 1840:3042-51. [PMID: 25086253 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2014.07.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2014] [Revised: 07/08/2014] [Accepted: 07/22/2014] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND DNA glycosylases remove the modified, damaged or mismatched bases from the DNA by hydrolyzing the N-glycosidic bonds. Some enzymes can further catalyze the incision of a resulting abasic (apurinic/apyrimidinic, AP) site through β- or β,δ-elimination mechanisms. In most cases, the incision reaction of the AP-site is catalyzed by special enzymes called AP-endonucleases. METHODS Here, we report the kinetic analysis of the mechanisms of modified DNA transfer from some DNA glycosylases to the AP endonuclease, APE1. The modified DNA contained the tetrahydrofurane residue (F), the analogue of the AP-site. DNA glycosylases AAG, OGG1, NEIL1, MBD4(cat) and UNG from different structural superfamilies were used. RESULTS We found that all DNA glycosylases may utilise direct protein-protein interactions in the transient ternary complex for the transfer of the AP-containing DNA strand to APE1. CONCLUSIONS We hypothesize a fast "flip-flop" exchange mechanism of damaged and undamaged DNA strands within this complex for monofunctional DNA glycosylases like MBD4(cat), AAG and UNG. Bifunctional DNA glycosylase NEIL1 creates tightly specific complex with DNA containing F-site thereby efficiently competing with APE1. Whereas APE1 fast displaces other bifunctional DNA glycosylase OGG1 on F-site thereby induces its shifts to undamaged DNA regions. GENERAL SIGNIFICANCE Kinetic analysis of the transfer of DNA between human DNA glycosylases and APE1 allows us to elucidate the critical step in the base excision repair pathway.
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia; Department of Natural Sciences, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia.
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- Groupe «Réparation de l'ADN», Université Paris-Sud XI, UMR8200 CNRS, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif Cedex F-94805, France
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- Groupe «Réparation de l'ADN», Université Paris-Sud XI, UMR8200 CNRS, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif Cedex F-94805, France
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia; Department of Natural Sciences, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia.
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Glutathione-dependent and -independent oxidative stress-control mechanisms distinguish normal human mammary epithelial cell subsets. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2014; 111:7789-94. [PMID: 24821780 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1403813111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Mechanisms that control the levels and activities of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in normal human mammary cells are poorly understood. We show that purified normal human basal mammary epithelial cells maintain low levels of ROS primarily by a glutathione-dependent but inefficient antioxidant mechanism that uses mitochondrial glutathione peroxidase 2. In contrast, the matching purified luminal progenitor cells contain higher levels of ROS, multiple glutathione-independent antioxidants and oxidative nucleotide damage-controlling proteins and consume O2 at a higher rate. The luminal progenitor cells are more resistant to glutathione depletion than the basal cells, including those with in vivo and in vitro proliferation and differentiation activity. The luminal progenitors also are more resistant to H2O2 or ionizing radiation. Importantly, even freshly isolated "steady-state" normal luminal progenitors show elevated levels of unrepaired oxidative DNA damage. Distinct ROS control mechanisms operating in different subsets of normal human mammary cells could have differentiation state-specific functions and long-term consequences.
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