ChemInform Abstract: Electron and Hydrogen Transfer Reactions of Nucleotides: From Stern-Volmer Quenching to Nucleoprotein Structure

Autor: Mark F. Sistare, Pamela J. Carter, Jinheung Kim, H. Holden Thorp
Rok vydání: 2010
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Zdroj: ChemInform. 29
ISSN: 1522-2667
0931-7597
DOI: 10.1002/chin.199837312
Popis: The complex Pt2(pop)44− abstracts hydrogen atoms and electrons from DNA upon photolysis into the d σ ∗ → p σ excited state (pop = P2O5H22−). In duplex DNA, the hydrogen atoms are abstracted from the 4′- and 5′- positions of the deoxynbose functionality, and electrons are abstracted by tunneling from the guanine nucleobase. At high Mg2+ concentrations, the Pt2(pop)44− tetraanion can associate more intimately with the duplex, and both hydrogen atom and electron transfer are efficient; however, at low Mg2+ concentrations, the complex is situated far from the duplex so that the only efficient pathway is electron tunneling. Therefore, the guanine/sugar ratio decreases with increasing Mg2+. The electron transfer pathway can also be examined in the absence of the hydrogen transfer pathway in thermal reactions where the electron is abstracted from guanine by Ru(bpy)33+ (bpy = 2,2′-bipyridine). These reactions can be initiated electrochemically by potentiation of the complex to the 3 + form, which produces catalytic enhancements in cyclic voltammograms. These enhancements show that guanine multiplets are more reactive than dispersed guanines. Finally, binding of DNA to the HhaI methyltransferase causes flipping of a cytosine into the active site of the enzyme, leaving behind an unpaired guanine residue that is more reactive towards electron transfer than the paired guanine, an effect visible in high-resolution electrophoresis gels after photolysis in the presence of Pt2(pop)44−.
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