Correlation of bistranded clustered abasic DNA lesion processing with structural and dynamic DNA helix distortion.

ABSTRACT: Clustered apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP; abasic) DNA lesions produced by ionizing radiation are by far more cytotoxic than isolated AP lesion entities. The structure and dynamics of a series of seven 23-bp oligonucleotides featuring simple bistranded clustered damage sites, comprising of two AP sites, zero, one, three or five bases 3' or 5' apart from each other, were investigated through 400 ns explicit solvent molecular dynamics simulations. They provide representative structures of synthetically engineered multiply damage sites-containing oligonucleotides whose repair was investigated experimentally (Nucl. Acids Res. 2004, 32:5609-5620; Nucl. Acids Res. 2002, 30: 2800-2808). The inspection of extrahelical positioning of the AP sites, bulge and non Watson-Crick hydrogen bonding corroborates

SUBMITTER: Bignon E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5063003 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature