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PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY
Volume 81, Issue 2, Pages 404-418Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1562/2004-06-15-RA-201.1
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The photochemistry of the dinucleoside monophosphate thymidylyl-(3'-5')-5-methyl-2'-deoxycytidine (Tpm(5) dC) has been studied in aqueous solution using both 254 nm and UV-B radiation. A variety of dinucleotide photoproducts containing 5-methylcytosine (m(5)C) have been isolated and characterized. These include two cyclobutane dimers (CBD) (the cis-syn [c,s]and trans-syn forms), a (6-4) adduct and its related Dewar isomer, and two isomers of a product in which the m(5)C moiety was converted into an acrylamidine. Small amounts of thymidylyl-(Y-5')thymidine (TpT) were also formed, presumably as a secondary photoreaction product. In addition, a photoproduct was characterized in which the m(5)C moiety was lost, thus generating 3'-thymidylic acid esterified with 2'-deoxyribose at the 5-hydroxyl on the sugar moiety. The c,s CBD of Tpm(5)dC readily undergoes deamination to form the corresponding CBD of TpT. The kinetics of this deamination process has been studied; the corresponding enthalpy and entropy of activation for the reaction have been evaluated at pH 7.4 as being, respectively, 73.4 kJ/mol and -103.5 J/K mol. Deamination was not observed for the other characterized photoproducts of Tpm(5)dC.
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