Structures of oxaliplatin‐oligonucleotide adducts from DNA

Oxaliplatin, [(1R,2R)‐cyclohexane‐1,2‐diamine](ethanedioato‐O,O')platinum(II) shows a great efficiency against colorectal cancer. Although the mode of action of oxaliplatin is not yet understood, it is commonly accepted that binding of oxaliplatin to DNA prevents DNA synthesis and alters protein to DNA binding. In order to elucidate the modified DNA–protein interaction and thus to understand the mechanisms leading to cellular misinterpretation of DNA information and apoptosis, we have identified the preferential binding sites and the dynamics of the oxaliplatin‐DNA intrastrand and interstrand adducts at the oligomer level using high‐performance liquid chromatography/electrospray ionization‐tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC/ESI‐MS/MS) and HPLC/inductively coupled plasma‐MS for quantitative studies. We used a combination of benzonase, alkaline phosphatase and Nuclease S1 for digestion. This digestion procedure allows the study of platinated oligomeric nucleotides and more complex interstrand adducts. The digestion products were mostly chromatographically separated and characterized using HPLC/ESI‐ion trap MS/MS experiments. We could show that the adducts to guanine and adenine are quite dynamic; that is, the ratios are changing for several days. In addition, the resulting adducts provide evidence for the action of the digesting enzymes and indicate that the adduct spectrum at the oligomeric level is different to that at the commonly studies dinucleotide level. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Interaction of dipropyltin(IV) with amino acids,peptides, dicarboxylic acids and DNA constituents

Interaction of dipropyltin(IV) with selected amino acids, peptides, dicarboxylic acids or DNA constituents was investigated using potentiometric techniques. Amino acids form 1?:?1 and 1?:?2 complexes and, in some cases, protonated complexes. The amino acid is bound to dipropyltin(IV) by the amino and carboxylate groups. Serine is complexed to dipropyltin(IV) with ionization of the alcoholic group. A relationship exists between the acid dissociation constant of the amino acids and the formation constants of the corresponding complexes. Dicarboxylic acids form both 1?:?1 and 1?:?2 complexes. Diacids forming five- and six-membered chelate rings are the most stable. Peptides form complexes with stoichiometric coefficients 111(MLH), 110(ML) and 11-1(MLH_?1)(tin: peptide: H⁺). The mode of coordination is discussed based on existing data and previous investigations. DNA constituents inosine, adenosine, uracil, uridine, and thymine form 1?:?1 and 1?:?2 complexes and the binding sites are assigned. Inosine 5′-monophosphate, guanosine 5′-monophosphate, adenosine 5′-monophosphate and adenine form protonated species in addition to 1?:?1 and 1?:?2 complexes. The protonation sites and tin-binding sites were elucidated. Cytosine and cytidine do not form complexes with dipropyltin(IV) due to low basicity of the donor sites. The stepwise formation constants of the complexes formed in solution were calculated using the non-linear least-square program MINIQUAD-75. The concentration distribution of the various complex species was evaluated as a function of pH.     

Interaction of Cationic Manganese Porphyrins with DNA. A Binding Model

The DNA cleavage properties of two cationic manganese porphyrins possessing different peripheral substituents were compared. The identical nature of the strand scission patterns of the porphyrins on a 139 base pair restriction fragment of pBR-322 DNA, along with other evidence, suggests that the porphyrin is end-on bound via the minor groove in a melted or partially melted region of DNA. This unusual binding mode underscores the potential of outisde binding cationic metalloporphyrins as probes for low melting regions of DNA     

An Efficient Chosen-Plaintext Attack on an Image Fusion Encryption Algorithm Based on DNA Operation and Hyperchaos

This paper proposes a more efficient attack method on an image fusion encryption algorithm based on DNA operation and hyperchaos. Although several references have reported some methods to crack the image encryption algorithm, they are not the most efficient. The proposed chosen-plaintext attack method can break the encryption scheme with (4×N/M+1) or (M/(4×N)+1) chosen-plaintext images, which is much less than the number of chosen-plaintext images used in the previous cracking algorithms, where M and N represent the height and width of the target ciphertext image, respectively. The effectiveness of the proposed chosen-plaintext attack is supported by theoretical analysis, and verified by experimental results.     

Modifications Induced by UV-Vis Irradiation on DNA Extract of Kiwifruit Investigated by Spectroscopic and Statistic Methods

ABSTRACT

Revealing molecular alterations induced on kiwifruit under UV-Vis irradiation requires a discussion of biochemical-cell infrared (IR) fingerprint (900 cm^?1–1800 cm^?1) bands characteristic of nucleic acids. FTIR-ATR spectroscopy and statistics and nondestructive methods for screening exposure effects induced by irradiation were used. There the irradiation influence on the main molecular bonds (i.e., ν(C-C), ν_s(PO₂?) and ν_as(PO₂?)) can be observed. Regression methods were used for statistical investigations. Two categories of variables were used: the absorbance measured at fixed wavenumber variables and the exposure dose. The bivariate correlations, partial correlations, and polynomial regression methods from SPSS were used for statistical investigations. The obtained results show that FTIR-ATR, in correlation with statistics techniques, might be useful to assess immediate radiation and oxidative-induced damage to nucleic acids. In this case IR spectroscopy can be used successfully to study conformational changes during DNA reversible denaturation especially on the sugar-phosphate vibrations domain.     

双核铂(Ⅱ)配合物[{Pt(H2O)2I}μ-OOC-COO-{Pt(H2O)2I}]对人体癌细胞的作用

采用MTT和SRB法研究了双核铂(Ⅱ)配合物[{Pt(H2O)2I}μ-OOC-COO-{Pt(H2O)2I}](BPI)对人体癌细胞的增殖抑制作用,又通过流式细胞法、Giemsa染色法、等离子体质谱法研究了它的抗癌机制.实验结果表明:在10 μmol·L-1浓度下,该配合物对HL-60, BGC-823,Bel-7402,KB,Hela,HCT-8,MCF-7和EJ 8种肿瘤细胞都表现出有较高的活性,对HL-60、BGC-823和Bel-7402 3种肿瘤细胞的抑制率都在70%以上,它能阻止HL-60细胞G2+M→G1期的进行;对HL-60细胞的凋亡诱导作用不明显;在相同浓度情况下其与HL-60细胞的DNA键合量大于顺铂.     

电化学方法研究(phen)2Cu2+配合物与DNA的相互作用

用电化学循环伏安法和微分脉冲伏安法研究了1,10-邻菲咯啉铜配合物[（phen）2Cu^2＋]与小牛胸腺DNA（CTDNA）的相互作用。结果发现,在pH=7．4的三羟甲基胺基甲烷-盐酸缓冲溶液（Tris—HCl）中,（phen）2Cu^2＋配合物的铜离子在循环伏安图上呈现明显的准可逆氧化-还原波。当加入一定量的小牛胸腺DNA时,配合物（phen）,Cu^2＋的氧化和还原峰电流均有所下降。通过比较（phen）2Cu^2＋配合物中加入单链DNA和双链DNA后的氧化和还原峰电流下降的程度,前者比后者F降的程度小,可以得出（phen）2Cu^2＋配合物与小牛胸腺双链DNA的作用方式存在着插入式的沟槽结合模式。这个结论在本实验中由盐效应进一步得到证实。由此可知,（phen）2Cu^2＋配合物与小牛胸腺DNA形成了一种插入式的电惰性结合物,从而导致氧化还原峰电流下降。