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Collateral Damage Occurs When Using Photosensitizer Probes to Detect or Modulate Nucleic Acid Modifications.


ABSTRACT: Nucleic acids are chemically modified to fine-tune their properties for biological function. Chemical tools for selective tagging of base modifications enables new approaches; the photosensitizers riboflavin and anthraquinone were previously proposed to oxidize N6 -methyladenine (m6 A) or 5-methylcytosine (5mdC) selectively. Herein, riboflavin, anthraquinone, or Rose Bengal were allowed to react with the canonical nucleosides dA, dC, dG, and dT, and the modified bases 5mdC, m6 A, 8-oxoguanine (dOG), and 8-oxoadenine (dOA) to rank their reactivities. The nucleoside studies reveal that dOG is the most reactive and that the native nucleoside dG is higher or similar in reactivity to 5mdC or m6 A; competition in both single- and double-stranded DNA of dG vs. 5mdC or 6mdA for oxidant confirmed that dG is favorably oxidized. Thus, photosensitizers are promiscuous nucleic acid oxidants with poor chemoselectivity that will negatively impact attempts at targeted oxidation of modified nucleotides in cells.

SUBMITTER: Fleming AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8810719 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Collateral Damage Occurs When Using Photosensitizer Probes to Detect or Modulate Nucleic Acid Modifications.

Fleming Aaron M AM   Chabot Michael B MB   Nguyen Ngoc L B NLB   Burrows Cynthia J CJ  

Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20211229 7


Nucleic acids are chemically modified to fine-tune their properties for biological function. Chemical tools for selective tagging of base modifications enables new approaches; the photosensitizers riboflavin and anthraquinone were previously proposed to oxidize N<sup>6</sup> -methyladenine (m<sup>6</sup> A) or 5-methylcytosine (5mdC) selectively. Herein, riboflavin, anthraquinone, or Rose Bengal were allowed to react with the canonical nucleosides dA, dC, dG, and dT, and the modified bases 5mdC,  ...[more]

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