Supercoiling affects the accessibility of glutathione to DNA-bound molecules: Positive supercoiling inhibits calicheamicin-induced DNA damage
AUTOR(ES)
LaMarr, W. A.
FONTE
National Academy of Sciences
RESUMO
DNA superhelical tension, an important feature of genomic organization, is known to affect the interactions of intercalating molecules with DNA. However, the effect of torsional tension on nonintercalative DNA-binding chemicals has received less attention. We demonstrate here that the enediyne calicheamicin γ1I, a strand-breaking agent specific to the minor groove, causes ≈50% more damage in negatively supercoiled plasmid DNA than in DNA with positive superhelicity. Furthermore, we show that the decrease in damage in positively supercoiled DNA is controlled at the level of thiol activation of the drug. Our results suggest that supercoiling may affect both the activity of nonintercalating genotoxins in vivo and the accessibility of glutathione and other small physiologic molecules to DNA-bound chemicals or reactions occurring in the grooves of DNA.
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