PHOTOCLEAVAGE OF DNA - IRRADIATION OF QUINONE-CONTAINING REAGENTS CONVERTS SUPERCOILED TO LINEAR DNA

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作者
KOCH, T
ROPP, JD
SLIGAR, SG
SCHUSTER, GB
机构
[1] UNIV ILLINOIS,DEPT CHEM,URBANA,IL 61801
[2] UNIV ILLINOIS,DEPT BIOCHEM,ROGER ADAMS LAB,URBANA,IL 61801
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10.1111/j.1751-1097.1993.tb04931.x
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Irradiation (350 nm) of air-saturated solutions of reagents containing an anthraquinone group linked to quaternary alkyl ammonium groups converts supercoiled DNA to circular and to linear DNA. Generation of linear DNA does not occur by accumulation of numerous single-strand cuts but by coincident-site double-strand cleavage of DNA. Irradiation forms the triplet state of the anthraquinone, which reacts either by hydrogen atom abstraction from a sugar of DNA or by electron transfer from a base of the DNA. Subsequent reactions result in chain scission. The quinone is apparently reformed after this sequence and reirradiation leads to double-strand cleavage.
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