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Alkali reversal of psoralen cross-link for the targeted delivery of psoralen monoadduct lesion

Journal Article · · Biochemistry; (United States)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/bi00417a020· OSTI ID:6464916

Psoralen intercalates into double-stranded DNA and photoreacts mainly with thymines to form monoadducts and interstrand cross-links. The authors used an oligonucleotide model to demonstrate a novel mechanism: the reversal of psoralen cross-links by base-catalyzed rearrangement at 90/sup 0/C (BCR). The BCR reaction is more efficient than the photoreversal reaction. They show that the BCR occurs predominantly on the furan side of a psoralen cross-link. The cleavage does not result in the breaking of the DNA backbone, and the thymine based freed from the cross-link by the cleavage reaction appears to be unmodified. Similarly, BCR of the furan-side monoadduct of psoralen removed the psoralen molecule and regenerated the unaltered native oligonucleotide. The pyrone-side psoralen monoadduct is relatively resistant to BCR. One can use BCR to perform efficient oligonucleotide-directed, site-specific delivery of a psoralen monoadduct. As a demonstration of this approach, they have hybridized a 19 base long oligonucleotide vehicle containing a furan-side psoralen monoadduct to a 56 base long complementary oligonucleotide target strand and formed a specific cross-link at the target site with 365-nm UV. Subsequent BCR released the oligonucleotide vehicle and deposited the psoralen at the target site.

Research Organization:
Institute for Cancer Research, Philadelphia, PA (USA)
OSTI ID:
6464916
Journal Information:
Biochemistry; (United States), Journal Name: Biochemistry; (United States) Vol. 27:17; ISSN BICHA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English