DNA CLEAVAGE BY CATIONIC METALLOPORPHYRINS
DNA CLEAVAGE BY CATIONIC METALLOPORPHYRINS
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DOI:
10.1007/978-94-011-0255-1_16
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1995
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B. Meunier;G. Pratviel;J. Bernadou
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作者:
B. Meunier;G. Pratviel;J. Bernadou
Within the two last decades, much data has been published on chemical and biochemical aspects of structural damages generated by oxidative stress on cellular constituents (DNA, proteins, lipids and carbohydrates).1Oxidative damage to DNA can be initiated by several methods: ionizing radiation,2photooxidation (UV or visible light with or without photosentitizers),3hydroperoxides activated by traces of adventitious transition metals salts,4 hydroxyl radicals5 or various other oxidizing agents (for a recent review article on the oxidative degradation of DNA, see ref. 6). In this latter category, we find cytotoxic drugs like bleomycin or agents having an enediyne motif, and chemical nucleases mainly based on redox-active transition metal complexes (for recent review articles, see ref. 7,8). DNA damages can be produced by oxidation of nucleobases or sugar units. Damages on deoxyribose lead to the loss of one base information and/or a break on a DNA strand which might correspond to a lethal lesion, especially when an oxidation process produces a doublestrand break (DSB), via a true DSB or via two near single-strand breaks (SSBs) on opposite strands.