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Structural and thermodynamic features of spiroiminodihydantoin damaged DNA duplexes.
Biochemistry - 11 Oct 2005
Jia Lei, Shafirovich Vladimir, Shapiro Robert, Geacintov Nicholas E, Broyde Suse
Abstract excerpt
Oxidation of guanine or 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine can produce spiroiminodihydantoin (Sp) R and S stereoisomers. Both in vitro and in vivo experiments have shown that the Sp stereoisomers are highly mutagenic, causing G --> C and G --> T transversion mutations. Therefore, they are of interest as potential endogenous cancer causing lesions. However, their structural properties in DNA duplexes remain to be...
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