DNA Cross-Linking Agents as Antitumor Drugs

Rajski, Scott R.; Williams, Robert M.

doi:10.1021/cr9800199

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“…Indeed, the toxic effect of many anticancer drugs is based on DNA intra-and interstrand cross-linking (at unspecific sites). 167,168 To the best of our knowledge, Burrows et al are the only researchers, who reported an oxidative crosslinking between a metallopeptide-PNA conjugate and a complementary DNA strand. 169 In comparison, papers describing interstrand cross-linking between DNA strands are numerous.…”

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Metal-containing peptide nucleic acid conjugates

2011

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Peptide Nucleic Acids (PNAs) are non-natural DNA/RNA analogues with favourable physicochemical properties and promising applications. Discovered nearly 20 years ago, PNAs have recently re-gained quite a lot of attention. In this Perspective article, we discuss the latest advances on the preparation and utilisation of PNA monomers and oligomers containing metal complexes. These metalconjugates have found applications in various research fields such as in the sequence-specific detection of nucleic acids, in the hydrolysis of nucleic acids and peptides, as radioactive probes or as modulators of PNA˙DNA hybrid stability, and last but not least as probes for molecular and cell biology.

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Metal-containing peptide nucleic acid conjugates

2011

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“…Alkylation chemotherapies are widely used in clinics to treat various tumors [2,[78][79][80][81][82][83]. The presence of DNA deal-kylation repair activity of the human homolog of C-Ada has been shown to confer resistance to some of these therapies.…”

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Oxidative dealkylation DNA repair mediated by the mononuclear non-heme iron AlkB proteins

Mishina

2006

Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry

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DNA can be damaged by various intracellular and environmental alkylating agents to produce alkylation base lesions. These base damages, if not repaired promptly, may cause genetic changes that lead to diseases such as cancer. Recently, it was discovered that some of the alkylation DNA base damage can be directly removed by a family of proteins called the AlkB proteins that utilize a mononuclear non-heme iron(II) and α-ketoglutarate as cofactor and cosubstrate. These proteins activate dioxygen and perform an unprecedented oxidative deal-kylation of the alkyl adducts on DNA heteroatoms. This review summarizes the discovery of this activity and the recent research advances in studying this unique DNA repair pathway. The focus is placed on the chemical mechanism and function of these proteins. KeywordsDNA repair; AlkB; ABH; Direct repair; Mononuclear non-heme iron; Dioxygenase; Oxidative dealkylation; Demethylation Direct repair of alkylation DNA damageCellular DNA is subject to nonenzymatic alkylation (methylation) by environmental or chemical mutagens, resulting in adducts that are toxic and mutagenic [1][2][3][4][5][6]. Organisms have evolved a variety of mechanisms to repair these mutagenic damages. Escherichia coli (E. coli) responds to this threat by activating an adaptive responsive pathway, mediated by the E. coli Ada protein [7]. Upon receiving a methyl group from the damaged DNA, Ada turns into a transcriptional activator and activates its own expression and that of the alkB gene and two other genes, alkA and aidB ( Fig. 1(a)) [4,7,8]. The upregulated Ada is a bifunctional protein, which uses a N-terminal Cys38 residue to remove a methyl group fromS p -methylphosphotriester and a C-terminal Cys321 residue to remove a methyl adduct from O 6 -methylguanaine ( Fig. 1(b)) [9][10][11]. Both repair functions are irreversible and represent rare examples of direct repair of DNA damage. AlkA is a glycosylase that cleaves methylated bases from DNA and performs the first step of the well-known base excision repair of base lesions [12][13][14]. The precise function of AidB is still unknown. The function of the last member of this adaptive response, AlkB, also remained unknown until recently despite extensive research efforts. E. coli AlkBSince the first genetic study in 1983 isolating the E. coli mutant with specific sensitivity to the alkylating agent methylmethane sulfonate, MMS [15], the activity of AlkB was undisclosed The Fe II /αKG-dependent dioxygenase superfamily is widespread from bacteria to humans [19] and is the largest known non-heme iron protein family [20][21][22][23]. It represents a wide diversity of enzymes that catalyze the hydroxylation of unactivated C-H groups of a variety of substrates by coupling reductive activation of dioxygen with a decarbox-ylation of αKG, the co-substrate, to succinate. In the event of oxidation one of the oxygen atoms from O 2 is incorporated into the succinate and the other as a hydroxyl in the product [24]. This group of enzymes is known for their importance in ...

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“…Its discovery was fortuitous in the extreme, arising from research carried out on a platinum electrode to investigate the effects of an electric current on the growth rates of E. coli. 3,4 During the experiments, bacterial cell division was inhibited. Further research led to the discovery that the electrolysis product, 1, was responsible for the activity.…”

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Some Applications of Electrochemistry in Biomedical Chemistry. Emphasis on the Correlation of Electrochemical and Bioactive Properties

Abreu¹,

Ferraz²,

Goulart³

2002

J. Braz. Chem. Soc.

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Essa revisão resume alguns dos aspectos mais relevantes na correlação entre processos e parâmetros eletroquímicos e atividades biológicas, relacionadas, principalmente, a doenças tropicais e câncer. Apesar da gama de possibilidades e da complexidade da química celular/tecidual/extracelular, é possível racionalizar o papel da eletroquímica em poucas bases teóricas, principalmente: transferência eletrônica -estresse oxidativo, geração eletroquímica in situ de agentes tóxicos diferentes das espécies oxigenadas reativas, interação com endobióticos, com ênfase particular em alquilação biorredutiva e substituição de endobióticos com função em reações de oxi-redução biológicas. O uso de métodos eletroquímicos para a obtenção de mecanismos de ação de drogas e na análise de eventos celulares é também apresentado. Nessas correlações, métodos e/ou parâmetros eletroquímicos exercem papel relevante, porém, não absoluto.This review summarises some of the more relevant achievements in the correlation between electrochemical processes and parameters and bioactive properties, mainly related to cancer and tropical diseases. Despite the broad range of possibilities and the complexity of cell/tissue/extracell chemistry, it is possible to rationalise the role of electrochemistry in few basic theoretical frameworks, mainly, the one based on electron transfer-oxidative stress and in situ generation of toxic species, other than the reactive oxygen species; interaction with endobiotics, with emphasis on bioreductive alkylation and replacement of endobiotics with function in biological redox reactions. The use of electrochemical methods to obtain relevant informations about drugs' mechanism of action and analysis of cellular events is also presented. Electrochemical methods and/or parameters play essential but not absolute roles.

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DNA Cross-Linking Agents as Antitumor Drugs

Cited by 583 publications

References 350 publications

Metal-containing peptide nucleic acid conjugates

Metal-containing peptide nucleic acid conjugates

Oxidative dealkylation DNA repair mediated by the mononuclear non-heme iron AlkB proteins

Some Applications of Electrochemistry in Biomedical Chemistry. Emphasis on the Correlation of Electrochemical and Bioactive Properties

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