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Radiat Phys Chem Oxf Engl 1993. 2010 Nov 01;79(1):1144-1148. doi: 10.1016/j.radphyschem.2010.06.006.

Structure reactivity relationship in the reaction of DNA guanyl radicals with hydroxybenzoates.

Radiation physics and chemistry (Oxford, England : 1993)

Trinh T Do, Vicky J Tang, Joseph A Aguilera, Jamie R Milligan

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  1. Department of Radiology, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0610.

PMID: 21966099 PMCID: PMC3182468 DOI: 10.1016/j.radphyschem.2010.06.006

Abstract

In DNA, guanine bases are the sites from which electrons are most easily removed. As a result of hole migration to this stable location on guanine, guanyl radicals are major intermediates in DNA damage produced by the direct effect of ionizing radiation (ionization of the DNA itself and not through the intermediacy of water radicals). We have modeled this process by employing gamma irradiation in the presence of thiocyanate ions, a method which also produces single electron oxidized guanyl radicals in plasmid DNA in aqueous solution. The stable products formed in DNA from these radicals are detected as strand breaks after incubation with the FPG protein. When a phenolic compound is present in solution during gamma irradiation, the formation of guanyl radical species is decreased by electron donation from the phenol to the guanyl radical. We have quantified the rate of this reaction for four different phenolic compounds bearing carboxylate substituents as proton acceptors. A comparison of the rates of these reactions with the redox strengths of the phenolic compounds reveals that salicylate reacts ca. 10-fold faster than its structural analogs. This observation is consistent with a reaction mechanism involving a proton coupled electron transfer, because intra-molecular transfer of a proton from the phenolic hydroxyl group to the carboxylate group is possible only in salicylate, and is favored by the strong 6-membered ring intra-molecular hydrogen bond in this compound.

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