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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 134, Issue 4, Pages 2111-2119Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja2084042
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- Region Rhone-Alpes
- French Ministery of research
- Swiss National Science Foundation
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DNA damages induced by oxidative intrastrand cross-links have been the subject of intense research during the past decade. Yet, the currently available experimental protocols used to isolate such lesions only allow to get structural information about linked dinucleotides. The detailed structure of the damaged DNA macromolecule has remained elusive. In this study we generated in silico the most frequent oxidative intrastrand cross-link adduct, G[8,S-Me]T, embedded in a solvated DNA dodecamer by means of quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) Car-Parrinello simulations. The free energy of activation required to bring the reactant close together and to form the C-C covalent-bond is estimated to be similar to 40 kcal/mol. We observe that the G[8,5-Me]T tandem lesion is accommodated with almost no perturbation of the Watson-Crick hydrogen-bond network and induces bend and unwinding angles of similar to 20 degrees and 8 degrees, respectively. This rather small structural distortion of the DNA macromolecule compared to other well characterized intrastrand cross-links, such as cyclobutane pyrimidines dimers or cisplatin-DNA complex adduct, is a probable rationale for the known lack of efficient repair of oxidative damages.
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