HYDROXYL RADICAL INDUCED CROSS-LINKING OF CYTOSINE AND TYROSINE IN NUCLEOHISTONE
HYDROXYL RADICAL INDUCED CROSS-LINKING OF CYTOSINE AND TYROSINE IN NUCLEOHISTONE
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DOI:
10.1021/bi00456a020
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发表时间:
1990-01-30
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
DIZDAROGLU, M
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作者:
GAJEWSKI, E;DIZDAROGLU, M
Hydroxyl radical induced formation of a DNA-protein cross-link involving cytosine and tyrosine in nucleohistone in buffered aqueous solution is reported. The technique of gas chromatography-mass spectrometry was used for this investigation. A .gamma.-irradiated aqueous mixture of cytosine and tryosine was first investigated in order to obtain gas chromatographic-mass spectrometric properties of possible cytosine-tyrosine cross-links. One cross-link was observed, and its structure was identified as the product from the formation of a covalent bond between carbon 6 of cytosine and carbon 3 of tyrosine. With the use of gas chromatography-mass spectrometry with selected-ion monitoring, this cytosine-tyrosine cross-link was identified in acidic hydrolysates of calf thymus nucleohistone .gamma.-irradiated in N2O-saturated aqueous solution. The yield of this DNA-protein cross-link in nucleohistone was found to be a linear function of the radiation dose in the range of 100-500 Gy (J.cntdot.kg-1). This yield amounted to 0.05 nmol.cntdot.J-1. Mechanisms underlying the formation of the cytosine-tyrosine cross-link in nucleohistone were proposed to involve radical-radical and/or radical addition reactions of hydroxyl adduct radicals of cytosine and tyrosine moieties, forming a covalent bond between carbon 6 of cytosine and carbon 3 of tyrosine. When oxygen was present in irradiated solutions, no cytosine-tyrosine cross-links were observed.