Nucleic acid oxidation in DNA damage repair and epigenetics.
Nucleic acid oxidation in DNA damage repair and epigenetics.
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DOI:
10.1021/cr400432d
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发表时间:
2014-04-23
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影响因子:
62.1
通讯作者:
He, Chuan
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作者:
Zheng, Guanqun;Fu, Ye;He, Chuan
Methylation is a widely occurring chemical modification in nucleic acids and proteins. Methylating agents, either extracellular or intracellular, can attack vulnerable sites in DNA, which can lead to cytotoxic and/or cancerogenic DNA damages. Methylation also plays critical signaling roles in biology. Using S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) as the most common electrophilic source of methyl groups, various methyltransferases modify DNA, RNA, and proteins to generate different biological methylations that impact gene expression regulation. 1, 2 Whereas the significance of methylation is widely appreciated, the demethylation process, oxidative demethylation in particular, has received much recent attention due in large part to its cellular regulatory functions. Demethylation, together with methylation, continuously sculpts the methylomes of biomolecules. This review focuses on oxidative demethylation as mediated by a family of mononuclear iron (II)-containing enzymes. The members of this family of enzymes were first discovered as DNA-repair proteins that oxidatively reverse DNA methylation damage. Subsequent research in recent years has revealed much broader and significant roles of these demethylases in controlling gene expression through the demethylation of epigenetic methylations on DNA, RNA, and histones. DNA methylation damage caused by methylating agents can occur on different positions of bases or backbones. The location depends on the chemical reaction type (SN1 or SN2 nucleophilic substitution), as well as the susceptibility of the position. In general, the SN1 type of methylating agent (eg, N-methyl-N′-nitrosourea, MNU) methylates both nitrogen and oxygen atoms in nucleic acids, whereas the SN2-type agents (eg, methylmethane sulfonate, MMS) tend to attack the nucleophilic N-position of exposed bases (Figure 1A). 3− 5 The resulting lesions exhibit different levels of cellular toxicity and mutagenic influence and can be promptly reversed by enzymes through either nucleophilic substitutions or oxidative demethylations (Figure 1B). 3, 6 This review discusses the oxidative demethylation repair pathway only. N1-Methyladenine (m1A) and N3-methylcytosine (m3C) are major lesions formed in single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) in the presence of SN2-type methylating agents. 3, 4, 6 Methylations in these two positions compromise Watson− Crick base pairing during DNA replication, resulting in cytotoxcity. 7 Through an unprecedented oxidative demethylation mechanism revealed over 10 years ago, the FeII/α-ketoglutarate-(α-KG-) dependent AlkB family dioxygenases can repair these methylating DNA lesions. 8, 9 Since then, human homologues that perform similar repair functions have been identified. Studies of other homologues or proteins belonging to the same general family have uncovered a range of demethylation functions that reverse epigenetic methylations on histones, RNA, and DNA in higher
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影响因子:
16
作者:
Begley, Ulrike;Dyavaiah, Madhu;Begley, Thomas J.
通讯作者:
Begley, Thomas J.
DOI:
10.1016/0027-5107(90)90173-2
发表时间:
1990-07-01
期刊:
MUTATION RESEARCH
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