Sulphur mustards inhibit binding of transcription factor AP2 in vitro.

نویسنده

  • P J Gray
چکیده

The bifunctional sulphur mustard (bis-(2-chloroethyl)sulphide, HD) and its monofunctional analogue (2-chloroethyl ethyl sulphide, CEES) are both vesicants. In this study, both mustards were shown to rapidly alkylate the AP2 consensus binding sequence incorporated in a 26mer oligonucleotide. The reaction was essentially complete within 10 min under the conditions employed in this study and -95% of the oligonucleotides were alkylated at least once using 500 microM HD and 1 mM CEES. Progressive alkylation of the consensus sequence was parallelled by a decrease in transcription factor binding. Under reaction conditions which alkylated approximately 95% of the oligonucleotides at least once, the binding of cloned human AP2 was reduced by 93 and 76% by HD and CEES, respectively, compared with control values. The interference with binding is a result of alkylation of the DNA and not damage to the transcription factor by mustard or its hydrolysis products. Interference with transcription factor binding would be expected to have a profound influence on the ability of the cell to function normally and to respond to DNA damage and may contribute significantly to the skin damage produced by these compounds.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Nucleic acids research

دوره 23 21  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1995