The aim of the present study is to determine the chemical structure and conformation of DNA adducts formed by incubation of the bioactive form of 2-amino-1-methyl-6-phenylimidazo[4,5-b]pyridine (PhIP), N-acetoxy-PhIP, with a single-stranded 11mer oligodeoxyribonucleotide. Using conditions optimized to give the C8-dG-PhIP adduct as the major product, sufficient material was synthesized for NMR s...

We have examined DNA adduct formation in HL-60 cells and human bone marrow treated with either hydroquinone or p-benzoquinone and have found that these treatments produce the same DNA adduct in both cell types. The DNA adduct level from these treatments varied from 0.05 to 7.5 adducts per 10(7) nucleotides as a function of treatment time and concentration for both compounds. Reaction of calf th...

To elucidate the relationship between DNA adduct formation and tumorigenesis, a number of experiments have been conducted to measure DNA adducts in target tissues from experimental animals during continuous exposure to carcinogens. With aflatoxins, aromatic amines, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, tumor induction appears to be associated with the major DNA adduct detected, whereas with N-n...

sodium salt of n-acetyl-dl-tryptophan (at) and octanoic acid (caprylic acid ca) individually and in combination were studied as thermal stabilizer with different concentrations in heat treatment of human albumin solution. hplc protein profiles before pasteurization of albumin showed less than 1% polymer. in free stabilizer albumin solution during pasteurization visible clot was formed. but by u...

Platinum-DNA adducts can be assayed in peripheral blood leukocytes by means of atomic absorption spectroscopy and ELISA, and high adduct levels have been correlated previously with favorable clinical response to platinum-based chemotherapy. Our purpose was to study adduct formation in peripheral blood leukocytes by means of a new method, inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopy (ICP-MS), an...

The intranuclear distribution of initial and persistent DNA adducts induced in vivo after four weekly injections of the hepatocarcinogen 2-acetylaminofluorene was examined in rat liver by using a protocol that fractionates chromatin from various regions of each of the multiple nuclear DNA loops. Ten hours after the initial dose, two acetylated [(N-acetyl-N-(deoxyguanosin-8-yl)-2-aminofluorene a...

Alkbh1 is a human homolog of the Escherichia coli AlkB protein that directs DNA repair by removing alkylation damage to DNA bases. While the in vivo role of Alkbh1 is still unknown, the protein was recently shown to possess abasic site lyase activity in vitro and to cleave abasic sites according to a betaelimination mechanism. Surprisingly, Alkbh1 forms a covalent adduct to the 5?-DNA product. ...

Chemicals combine with DNA, resulting in DNA damage, which could initiate carcinogenesis. To study whether benzene or benzene metabolites bind to DNA, DNA adducts in various tissues and their persistence in leukocytes were examined using the 32P-postlabeling assay. LACA mice were dosed ip with benzene at 500 mg/kg bw twice for 5 days. Two additional spots of DNA adducts are formed in bone marro...

Platinum-DNA adducts can be measured in peripheral blood leukocytes during platinum-based chemotherapy, and high adduct levels have been correlated with favorable clinical response in patients with germ cell cancer. Twenty-five patients with advanced germ cell cancer were treated with platinum-based chemotherapy regimens using the same dose and schedule of cisplatin. Platinum-DNA adducts were m...

The levels of aromatic/hydrophobic DNA adducts were analyzed in normal lung tissue from 63 lung cancer patients and examined in relation to exposure and genetic factors. Adduct levels were slgnificantiy higher in smokers than in nonsmokers, but among smokers the number of cigarettes smoked per day had only low significance for the variation in adduct levels. An inverse correlation was found bet...