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JOURNAL OF INORGANIC BIOCHEMISTRY
卷 90, 期 3-4, 页码 97-105出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/S0162-0134(02)00411-7
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cadmium; carcinogen; covalent binding; DNA; HPLC; reactive oxygen species (ROS)
Cadmium is a potent carcinogen in rodents and has recently been accepted by the International Agency for Research on Cancer as a category I (human) carcinogen, but the molecular mechanism of its action remains largely unclear. It has however been suggested that cadmium-induced carcinogenesis may involve either direct or indirect interaction of Cd2+ with DNA. In this study it is found that when Cd2+ is allowed to interact with adenine and guanine, there is a marked change in the high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) retention time for adenine but not for guanine. Since Cd2+ is believed to bind covalently to adenine and guanine, the changes in retention time but absence of any cadmium in the peak fraction point to the following: (i) lability of cadmium-nucleobase adducts, and (ii) introduction of some kind of chemical modification in adenine but not in guanine as a result of covalent binding. This result is different from that for Ni2+ in which case a change in retention time was observed for guanine but not for adenine. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.
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