One-electron oxidation of a pyrenyl photosensitizer covalently attached to dna and competition between its further oxidation and DNA hole injection

摘要

The photosensitized hole injection and guanine base damage phenomena have been investigated in the DNA sequence, 5′-d(CATG_1~(Py)CG_2TCCTAC) with a site-specifically positioned pyrene-like (Py) benzo[a]pyrene 7,8-diol 9,10-epoxide-derived N~2-guanine adduct (G_1~(Py)). Generation of the Py radical cation and subsequent hole injection into the DNA strand by a 355 nm nanosecond laser pulses (～4 mJ cm~(-2) results in the transformation of G_1~(Py) to the imidazolone derivative Iz_1~(Py) and a novel G_1~(Py*) photoproduct that has a mass larger by 16 Da (M+16) than the mass (M) of G_1(Py). In addition, hole transfer and the irreversible oxidation of G_2, followed by the formation of Iz_2 was observed (Yun et al. [2007], J. Am. Chem. Soc., 129, 9321). Oxygen-18 and deuterium isotope labeling methods, in combination with an extensive analysis of the MS/MS fragmentation patterns of the individual dG~(Py*) nucleoside adduct and other data show that dG~(Py*) has an unusual structure with a ruptured cyclohexenyl ring with a carbonyl group at the rupture site and intact guanine and pyrenyl residues. The formation of this product competes with hole injection and thus diminishes the efficiency of oxidation of guanines within the oligonucleotide strand by at least 15% in comparison with that in the dG~(Py) nucleoside adduct.