Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Taverna Porro ML
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3852885 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Taverna Porro Marisa L ML Greenberg Marc M MM
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20131022 44
Double strand breaks (DSBs) are the most deleterious form of DNA damage. Natural products that produce them are potent cytotoxic agents. Designing molecules that produce DSBs via a single chemical event is challenging. We determined that formation of a C4'-nucleotide radical in duplex DNA under aerobic conditions gives rise to a DSB. The original radical yields a strand break containing a peroxyl radical, which initiates opposite strand cleavage via C4'-hydrogen atom abstraction. This mechanism ...[more]