On September 8, 1998, Gelfand, Craig A.; Plum, G. Eric; Grollman, Arthur P.; Johnson, Francis; Breslauer, Kenneth J. published an article.Name: Imidazo[1,2-c]pyrimidin-5(6H)-one The title of the article was The Impact of an Exocyclic Cytosine Adduct on DNA Duplex Properties: Significant Thermodynamic Consequences Despite Modest Lesion-Induced Structural Alterations. And the article contained the following:
The exocyclic base adduct 3,N4-deoxyethenocytosine (εC) is a common DNA lesion that can arise from carcinogen exposure and/or as a byproduct of cellular processes. We have examined the thermal and thermodn. impact of this lesion on DNA duplex properties, as well as the structural alterations imparted by the lesion. For these studies, we used calorimetric and spectroscopic techniques to investigate a family of 13-mer DNA duplexes of the form (5’CGCATGNGTACGC3′)•(3’GCGTACNCATGCG5′), where the central N•N base pair represents the four standard Watson-Crick base pairs (corresponding to four control duplexes), and where either one of the N bases has been replaced by εC, yielding eight test duplexes. Studies on these 12 duplexes permit us to assess the impact of the εC lesion as a function of sequence context. Our spectroscopic and calorimetric data allow us to reach the following conclusions: (i) The εC lesion imparts a large penalty on duplex stability, with sequence context only modestly modulating the extent of this lesion-induced destabilization. This result contrasts with our recent studies of duplexes with abasic sites, where sequence context was found to be the predominant determinant of thermodn. damage. (ii) For the εC-containing duplexes, sequence context effects are most often observed in the enthalpic contribution to lesion-induced duplex destabilization. However, due to compensating entropies, the free energy changes associated with this lesion-induced duplex destabilization are nearly independent of sequence context. (iii) Despite significant lesion-induced changes in duplex energetics, our spectroscopic probes detect only modest lesion-induced changes in duplex structure. In fact, the overall duplex maintains a global B-form conformation, in agreement with NMR structural data. We discuss possible interpretations of the apparent disparity between the severe thermodn. and relatively mild structural impacts of the εC lesion on duplex properties. We also note and discuss the implications of empirical correlations between biophys. and biol. properties of lesion-containing duplexes. The experimental process involved the reaction of Imidazo[1,2-c]pyrimidin-5(6H)-one(cas: 55662-66-3).Name: Imidazo[1,2-c]pyrimidin-5(6H)-one
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