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CELLULAR IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 254, Issue 2, Pages 117-123Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.cellimm.2008.08.002
Keywords
Cancer autoantibodies; Reactive nitrogen species; Peroxynitrite modified DNA; DNA damage
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- UGC-CSIR (NET) fellowship from Government of India
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Peroxynitrite (ONOO-) has been vastly implicated in mutagenesis and cancer development. Present study probes the antigenicity of peroxynitrite damaged DNA (ONOO--DNA) in cancer patients. Purified human placental DNA was damaged by the synergistic action of sodium nitroprusside (SNP) and Pyrogallol for 3 h at 37 degrees C. Binding characteristics of cancer autoantibodies as well as experimentally induced anti-peroxynitrite-DNA (anti-ONOO--DNA) antibodies were assessed by ELISA and band shift assay. DNA modifications produced single strand breaks, decreased melting temperature (T-m), hyperchromicity in UV spectrum and decreased fluorescence intensity. The ONOO--DNA induced high titre antibodies in experimental animals. Cancer autoantibodies exhibited enhanced binding with the modified DNA as compared to the native form. Lymphocyte DNA from cancer patients showed appreciable recognition of anti ONCC--DNA IgG as compared to the DNA from healthy subjects. The peroxynitrite modified DNA presents unique epitopes which may be one of the factors for the autoantibody induction in cancer patients. (c) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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