A fluorimetric assay for monitoring depurination of the N7-alkylguanine adduct derived from the anticancer natural product leinamycin is described. This general approach could potentially provide the foundation for a high throughput assay that detects DNA-alkylating agents or a convenient continuous fluorimetric assay for base excision repair enzymes.

The reaction mechanism leading to metalated DNA fragments in which guanine-N7,O6 spans the metal-metal bond of dirhodium antitumour complexes in a bridging fashion at equatorial sites has been unravelled by a comprehensive prediction of intermediates and transition states.

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The dinuclear platinum complexes [[trans -PtCl (NH3)2]2[mu]-[NH2(CH2) n NH2]](NO3)2[1,1/t,t ( n = 4,6)] and [[cis-PtCl(NH3)2]2[mu];-[NH2(CH2) n NH2](NO3) 2[1,1/c,c ( n = 4,6)] exhibit antitumour activity comparable with cisplatin. 1,1/c,c complexes do not form 1,2 GG intrastrand adducts, the major adduct of cisplatin, with double-stranded DNA. This 1H NMR spectroscopy study shows that, in the a...

BACKGROUND To evaluate long-term survival of the first cohort of stage-4 neuroblastoma patients treated with the N7 induction chemotherapy, surgery of the primary tumor and high-dose chemotherapy (HDC) containing Busulfan-Melphalan (Bu-Mel) followed by autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT). PROCEDURE From 1998 to 1999, 47 children were included in the NB97 trial and treated with inducti...

Replacing the N,N-chelating ligand 2,2'-bipyridine (bpy) in the Ir(III) pentamethylcyclopentadienyl (Cp*) complex [(η(5)-C(5)Me(5))Ir(bpy)Cl](+) (1) with the C,N-chelating ligand 2-phenylpyridine (phpy) to give [(η(5)-C(5)Me(5))Ir(phpy)Cl] (2) switches on cytotoxicity toward A2780 human ovarian cancer cells (IC(50) values of >100 μM for 1 and 10.8 μM for 2). Ir-Cl hydrolysis is rapid for both c...

The processing of covalent aflatoxin B, (AFBi)-DNA adducts was investigated in confluent normal fibroblasts (NF) and xeroderma pigmentosum skin fibroblasts of Complementation Group A (XPA) following treatment with rat liver microsomeactivated AFB, for 30 min. Following rapid DMA isolation at slightly acidic pH by a new filter technique, more than 90% of the adducts corresponded to 2,3-dihydro-2...

Monitoring exposure to alkylating agents may be achieved by quantitatively determining the adduct levels formed with nucleic acids and/or proteins. One of the most significant results arising from the application of this approach has been the discovery in control populations of "background" levels of alkylated nucleic acid bases or alkylated proteins, in particular hemoglobin (Hb). In the case ...

The LysR member of bacterial transactivators, OxyR, governs transcription of genes involved in the response to H2O2 and organic (alkyl) hydroperoxides (AHP) in the Gram-negative pathogen, Pseudomonas aeruginosa. We have previously shown that organisms lacking OxyR are rapidly killed by <2 or 500 mM H2O2 in planktonic and biofilm bacteria, respectively. In this study, we first employed a bioinfo...

The coronavirus family of positive-strand RNA viruses includes important pathogens of livestock, companion animals, and humans, including the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus that was responsible for a worldwide outbreak in 2003. The unusually complex coronavirus replicase/transcriptase is comprised of 15 or 16 virus-specific subunits that are autoproteolytically derived from two l...