We report bending flexibility of damaged duplexes possessing an apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) site analogue, a cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer (CPD), and a pyrimidine(6-4)pyrimidone photoproduct (6-4PP). Based on the electrochemical evaluation on electrodes, the duplex flexibilities of the lesions increased in the following order: CPD < AP < 6-4PP. We discussed the possibility that the emerging local...

Polypyrimidine tract-binding protein (PTB) is an abundant vertebrate hnRNP protein. PTB binding sites have been found within introns both upstream and downstream of alternative exons in a number of genes that are negatively controlled by the binding of PTB. We have previously reported that PTB binds to a pyrimidine tract within an RNA processing enhancer located adjacent to an alternative 3'-te...

Pyrimidine nucleotides represent one of the most fundamental of cellular components. They are the building blocks for the direct synthesis of DNA and RNA that function in information storage and retrieval within the cell, but they also participate in the metabolism of a large number of other cellular components from sugar interconversion to cellular polysaccharides to glycoproteins and phosphol...

A highly selective inhibition of de novo pyrimidine synthesis in the intact cell has been demonstrated by the action of N-(phosphonacetyl)-L-aspartate (PALA), a transition-state analog inhibitor of the reaction catalyzed by asparate transcarbamylase. The effect of pyrimidine deprivation induced by this agent on the viability and survival of human normal (WI-38) and colonic cancer cells (HT-29) ...

We investigated an uncommon biotransformation of pyrimidine during the metabolism of GNE-892 ((R)-2-amino-1,3',3'-trimethyl-7'-(pyrimidin-5-yl)-3',4'-dihydro-2'H-spiro[imidazole-4,1'-naphthalen]-5(1H)-one), a β-secretase 1 inhibitor. Three novel metabolites, formed by conversion of pyrimidine to pyrazole, were observed in the (14)C-radiolabeled mass balance study in rats. Their structures were ...

Lead is a highly toxic metal and a very strong poison. Lead poisoning usually occurs over a period of months or years. The poisoning can cause severe mental and physical impairment. Young children are most vulnerable to lead poisoning [1-2]. Lead poisoning is accompanied by an acquired deficiency of erythrocyte pyrimidine 5'nucleotidase (P5’N). Genetically determined deficiency of P5’N enzyme w...

The femtosecond transient absorption technique was used to study the relaxation of excited electronic states created by absorption of 267-nm light in all of the naturally occurring pyrimidine DNA and RNA bases in aqueous solution. The results reveal a surprising bifurcation of the initial excited-state population in <1 ps to two nonradiative decay channels within the manifold of singlet states....

ABC excinuclease of Escherichia coli removes 6-4 photoproducts and pyrimidine dimers from DNA by making two single strand incisions, one 8 phosphodiester bonds 5' and another 4 or 5 phosphodiester bonds 3' to the lesion. We describe in this communication a method, which utilizes DNA photolyase from E. coli, pyrimidine dimer endonucleases from M. luteus and bacteriophage T4, and alkali hydrolysi...