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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
卷 49, 期 4, 页码 1803-1815出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkab007
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) [RGPIN105785]
- Simon Fraser University
- NSERC [RGPIN05559]
- Ministry of Education in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Saudi Arabia Cultural Bureau in Ottawa, Canada
The study reports fast kinetic measurements to identify the H2O2-generated activated heme species within a heme.DNAzyme, showing that the DNA GQ enhances both the kinetics of formation of the active intermediate and the oxidation step of the substrate.
Hemin [Fe(III)-protoporphyrin IX] is known to bind tightly to single-stranded DNA and RNA molecules that fold into G-quadruplexes (GQ). Such complexes are strongly activated for oxidative catalysis. These heme.DNAzymes and ribozymes have found broad utility in bioanalytical and medicinal chemistry and have also been shown to occur within living cells. However, how a GQ is able to activate hemin is poorly understood. Herein, we report fast kinetic measurements (using stopped-flow UV-vis spectrophotometry) to identify the H2O2-generated activated heme species within a heme.DNAzyme that is active for the oxidation of a thioether substrate, dibenzothiophene (DBT). Singular value decomposition and global fitting analysis was used to analyze the kinetic data, with the results being consistent with the heme.DNAzyme's DBT oxidation being catalyzed by the initial Fe(III)heme-H2O2 complex. Such a complex has been predicted computationally to be a powerful oxidant for thioether substrates. In the heme.DNAzyme, the DNA GQ enhances both the kinetics of formation of the active intermediate as well as the oxidation step of DBT by the active intermediate. We show, using both stopped flow spectrophotometry and EPR measurements, that a classic Compound I is not observable during the catalytic cycle for thioether sulfoxidation.
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