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CHEMICAL RESEARCH IN TOXICOLOGY
Volume 20, Issue 5, Pages 745-756Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/tx6002968
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Near-UV photolysis of 2-methyl-1,4-naphthoquinone (MQ, menadione) tethered DNA induces initial charge transfer followed by either transport of the damage to G or the formation of interstrand cross-links between MQ and DNA bases. In this work, the products responsible for interstrand cross-links have been characterized by mass spectrometry, NMR, and comparison with model compounds. Three major products were formed in the photolysis of MQ-DNA duplexes. Two of the products (isomers) have a cross-link between C2 of a 2,3-saturated MQ moiety and N6 of a dAdo moiety. These products readily convert back to MQ and dAdo upon heating in neutral solution, and thus, they lead to reversible cross-links in MQ-DNA duplexes. The third product has a cross-link between C3 of a 2,3-unsaturated MQ moiety and N6 of an dAdo moiety. This product was stable in neutral solution. The formation of MQ to A cross-links in DNA may be explained by the coupling of MQ radicals that arise from the protonation of MQ radical anions, together with adenin-N6-yl radicals that arise from the deprotonation of A radical cations.
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