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Photochemical control of DNA structure through radical disproportionation.


ABSTRACT: Photolysis of an aryl sulfide-containing 5,6-dihydropyrimidine (1) at 350 nm produces high yields of thymidine and products resulting from trapping of a 5,6-dihydrothymidin-5-yl radical by O? or thiols. Thymidine is believed to result from disproportionation of the radical pair originally generated from C--S bond homolysis of 1 on the microsecond timescale, which is significantly shorter than other photochemical transformations of modified nucleotides into their native forms. Duplex DNA containing 1 is destabilized, presumably due to disruption of ?-stacking. Incorporation of 1 within the binding site of the restriction endonuclease EcoRV provides a photochemical switch for turning on the enzyme's activity. In contrast, 1 is a substrate for endonuclease VIII and serves as a photochemical off switch for this base excision repair enzyme. Modification 1 also modulates the activity of the 10-23 DNAzyme, despite its incorporation into a nonduplex region. Overall, dihydropyrimidine 1 shows promise as a tool to provide spatiotemporal control over DNA structure on the miscrosecond timescale.

SUBMITTER: San Pedro JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3807129 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Photochemical control of DNA structure through radical disproportionation.

San Pedro Joanna Maria N JM   Greenberg Marc M MM  

Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology 20130812 13


Photolysis of an aryl sulfide-containing 5,6-dihydropyrimidine (1) at 350 nm produces high yields of thymidine and products resulting from trapping of a 5,6-dihydrothymidin-5-yl radical by O₂ or thiols. Thymidine is believed to result from disproportionation of the radical pair originally generated from C--S bond homolysis of 1 on the microsecond timescale, which is significantly shorter than other photochemical transformations of modified nucleotides into their native forms. Duplex DNA containi  ...[more]

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