Effect of sequence and metal ions on UVB-induced anti cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer formation in human telomeric DNA sequences.

ABSTRACT: Irradiation of G-quadruplex forming human telomeric DNA with ultraviolet B (UVB) light results in the formation of anti cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPDs) between loop 1 and loop 3 in the presence of potassium ions but not sodium ions. This was unexpected because the sequences involved favor the nonphotoreactive hybrid conformations in K(+) solution, whereas a potentially photoreactive basket conformation is favored in Na(+) solution. To account for these contradictory results, it was proposed that the loops are too far apart in the basket conformation in Na(+) solution but close enough in a two G-tetrad basket-like form 3 conformation that can form in K(+) solution. In the current study, Na(+) was still found to inhibit anti CPD formation in sequences designed to stabilize the form 3 co

SUBMITTER: Smith JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4005637 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature