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ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY
卷 6, 期 5, 页码 916-928出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/b717437c
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The one-electron oxidation of duplex DNA generates a nucleobase radical cation (electron hole) that migrates long distances by a hopping mechanism. The radical cation reacts irreversibly with H2O or O-2 to form oxidation products (damaged bases). In normal DNA (containing the four common DNA bases), reaction occurs most frequently at guanine. However, in DNA duplexes that do not contain guanine (i.e., those comprised exclusively of A/T base pairs), we discovered that reaction occurs primarily at thymine and gives products resulting from oxidation of the T-C5 methyl group and from addition to its C5-C6 double bond. This surprising result shows that it is the relative reactivity, not the stability, of a nucleobase radical cation that determines the nature of the products formed from oxidation of DNA. A mechanism for reaction is proposed whereby a thymine radical cation may either lose a proton from its methyl group or H2O/O-2 may add across its double bond. In the latter case, addition may initiate a tandem reaction that converts both thymines of a TT step to oxidation products.
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