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Methyl-cytosine-driven structural changes enhance adduction kinetics of an exon 7 fragment of the p53 gene

Malla, Spundana
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Kadimisetty, Karteek
; 
Fu, You-Jun
; 
Choudhary, Dharamainder
; 
Schenkman, John B.
; 
Rusling, James F.
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2017-01-19
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diol epoxide, b-DNA, cpg, transition, complex, damage, sites
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Malla, Spundana; Kadimisetty, Karteek; Fu, You-Jun; Choudhary, Dharamainder; Schenkman, John B. Rusling, James F. (2017). Methyl-cytosine-driven structural changes enhance adduction kinetics of an exon 7 fragment of the p53 gene. Scientific Reports 7 ,
Abstract
Methylation of cytosine (C) at C-phosphate-guanine (CpG) sites enhances reactivity of DNA towards electrophiles. Mutations at CpG sites on the p53 tumor suppressor gene that can result from these adductions are in turn correlated with specific cancers. Here we describe the first restriction-enzyme-assisted LC-MS/MS sequencing study of the influence of methyl cytosines (MeC) on kinetics of p53 gene adduction by model metabolite benzo[a]pyrene-7,8-dihydrodiol-9,10-epoxide (BPDE), using methodology applicable to correlate gene damage sites for drug and pollutant metabolites with mutation sites. This method allows direct kinetic measurements by LC-MS/MS sequencing for oligonucleotides longer than 20 base pairs (bp). We used MeC and non-MeC (C) versions of a 32 bp exon 7 fragment of the p53 gene. Methylation of 19 cytosines increased the rate constant 3-fold for adduction on G at the major reactive CpG in codon 248 vs. the non-MeC fragment. Rate constants for non-CpG codons 244 and 243 were not influenced significantly by MeC. Conformational and hydrophobicity changes in the MeC-p53 exon 7 fragment revealed by CD spectra and molecular modeling increase the BPDE binding constant to G in codon 248 consistent with a pathway in which preceding reactant binding greatly facilitates the rate of covalent S(N)2 coupling.
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Springer Nature
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10.1038/srep40890
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