Mutagenesis of 8-oxoguanine adjacent to an abasic site in simian kidney cells:: Tandem mutations and enhancement of G→T transversions
Mutagenesis of 8-oxoguanine adjacent to an abasic site in simian kidney cells:: Tandem mutations and enhancement of G→T transversions
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DOI:
10.1021/tx050119r
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发表时间:
2005-08-01
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4.1
通讯作者:
Basu, AK
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作者:
Kalam, MA;Basu, AK
Clustered DNA damages are well-established characteristics of ionizing radiation. As a model clustered lesion in the same strand of DNA, we have evaluated the mutagenic potential of 8-oxoguanine (8-oxoG) adjacent to a uracil in simian kidney cells using a phagemid vector. The uracil residue would be excised by the enzyme uracil DNA glycosylase in vivo generating an abasic site (AP site). A solitary uracil in either GUGTC or GTGUC sequence context provided > 60% progeny containing GTGTC indicating that dAMP incorporation opposite the AP site or uracil occurred, but a > 30% population showed replacement of U by A, C, or G, which suggests that dTMP, dGMP, or dCMP incorporation also occurred, respectively, opposite the A-P site. While the preference for targeted base substitutions at the GUG site was T >> C > A > G, the same at the GUC site was T >> A > C > G. We conclude that base incorporation opposite an A-P site is sequence-dependent. For 8-oxoG, as compared to 23-24% G -> T mutants from a single 8-oxoG in a TG(8-oxo)T sequence context, the tandem lesions UG(8-oxo)T and TG(8-oxo)U generated similar to 60 and > 85% progeny, respectively, that did not contain the TGT sequence. A significant fraction of tandem mutations were detected when uracil was adjacent to 8-oxoG. What we found most interesting is that the total targeted G(8-oxo ->)T transversions that included both single and tandem mutations at the TG(8-oxo)U site was nearly 60% relative to about 30% at the UG(8-oxo)T site. A higher mutational frequency at the TG(8-oxo)U sequence may arise from a change in DNA polymerase that is more error prone. Thermal melting experiments showed that the T-m for the 8-oxoG:C pair in the TG(8-oxo)(AP*) sequence in a 12-mer was lower than the same in a (AP*)G(8-oxo)T 12-mer with Delta Delta G 0.8 kcal/mol (where AP* represents tetrahydrofuran, the model abasic site). When the 8-oxoG:C pair in each sequence was compared with a 8-oxoG:A pair, the former was found to be more stable than the latter. The preference for C over A opposite 8-oxoG for the (AP*)G(8-oxo)T 12-mer duplex with a Delta Delta G of 1.6 kcal/mol dropped to 0.4 kcal/mol in the TG(8-oxo)(AP*) 12-mer duplex. This suggests that the polymerase discrimination to incorporate dCMP over dAMP would be less efficient in the TG(8-oxo)(AP*) sequence relative to (AP*)G(8-oxo)T. Additionally, the efficiency of recognition and excision of A opposite 8-oxoG by a mismatch repair protein may be impaired in the TG(8-oxo)(AP*) sequence context.