One Way Traffic: Base-to-Backbone Hole Transfer in Nucleoside Phosphorodithioate |
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| Authors: | Dr. Renata Kaczmarek Samuel Ward Dipra Debnath Taisiya Jacobs Alexander D. Stark Dariusz Korczyński Prof. Dr. Anil Kumar Prof. Dr. Michael D. Sevilla Dr. Sergey A. Denisov Dr. Viacheslav Shcherbakov Dr. Pascal Pernot Prof. Dr. Mehran Mostafavi Prof. Dr. Roman Dembinski Prof. Dr. Amitava Adhikary |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Centre of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Sienkiewicza 112, 90-363 Łódź, Poland;2. Department of Chemistry, Oakland University, 146 Library Drive, Rochester, Michigan, 48309-4479 USA;3. Institut de Chimie Physique, UMR 8000 CNRS/Université Paris-Saclay, Bât. 349, Orsay, 91405 Cedex France |
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| Abstract: | The directionality of the hole-transfer processes between DNA backbone and base was investigated by using phosphorodithioate [P(S−)=S] components. ESR spectroscopy in homogeneous frozen aqueous solutions and pulse radiolysis in aqueous solution at ambient temperature confirmed initial formation of G.+-P(S−)=S. The ionization potential of G-P(S−)=S was calculated to be slightly lower than that of guanine in 5′-dGMP. Subsequent thermally activated hole transfer from G.+ to P(S−)=S led to dithiyl radical (P-2S.) formation on the μs timescale. In parallel, ESR spectroscopy, pulse radiolysis, and density functional theory (DFT) calculations confirmed P-2S. formation in an abasic phosphorodithioate model compound. ESR investigations at low temperatures and higher G-P(S−)=S concentrations showed a bimolecular conversion of P-2S. to the σ2-σ*1-bonded dimer anion radical [-P-2S 2S-P-]− [ΔG (150 K, DFT)=−7.2 kcal mol−1]. However, [-P-2S 2S-P-]− formation was not observed by pulse radiolysis [ΔG° (298 K, DFT)=−1.4 kcal mol−1]. Neither P-2S. nor [-P-2S 2S-P-]− oxidized guanine base; only base-to-backbone hole transfer occurs in phosphorodithioate. |
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| Keywords: | DNA damage hole transfer radicals radical ions radiation chemistry |
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