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ArticleACS chemical biology2018

The RAD17 Promoter Sequence Contains a Potential Tail-Dependent G-Quadruplex That Downregulates Gene Expression upon Oxidative Modification.

Judy Zhu, Aaron M Fleming, Cynthia J Burrows

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Article in ACS chemical biology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23 citing papers in PubMed, 31 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Judy ZhuDepartment of Chemistry , University of Utah , Salt Lake City , Utah 84112-0850 , United States.
Aaron M FlemingDepartment of Chemistry , University of Utah , Salt Lake City , Utah 84112-0850 , United States.ORCID 0000-0002-2000-0310
Cynthia J BurrowsDepartment of Chemistry , University of Utah , Salt Lake City , Utah 84112-0850 , United States.ORCID 0000-0001-7253-8529
University of Utah · US

Funding

UTAH REGIONAL CANCER CENTERP30CA042014 · NCI · UTAH STATE HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM--UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI KATHARINE S ULLMAN · 1986 to 2026
$72.6M
Chemistry and Biology of Oxidized Purine Lesions in DNAR01CA090689 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI BURROWS, CYNTHIA J, DAVID, SHEILA SUE · 2002 to 2019
$5.5M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA042014NCI NIH HHS R01 CA090689
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Our laboratory has recently proposed that the oxidation of guanine (G) to 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine (OG) in G-rich promoter regions of DNA repair genes can serve as a regulatory mechanism of gene transcription. These regions also have the potential to fold into G-quadruplexes (G4). The human RAD17 promoter sequence has such a region in the template strand of the gene. In this work, the potential G-quadruplex sequence (PQS) of the RAD17 gene promoter was analyzed in different sequence contexts. With two extra nucleotides of the native sequence on either side of the G4, the structure was found to fold into a hybrid-like G4, similar to the hybrid-1 fold that the human telomere sequence can adopt. With only one nucleotide on either side of the PQS, the topology of the structure was observed to be mixed, and without extra nucleotides on the ends, the sequence adopted a parallel fold. Next, the sequence was studied with synthetic incorporation of the oxidative modification OG into specific sites and installed into the promoter of plasmids with a luciferase gene. These plasmids were transfected into a human cell line to observe the effect of the G4s on transcription. The RAD17 PQS was found to decrease luciferase expression with the presence of OG that is consistent with RAD17 expression under oxidative stress. This serves as an example of how oxidative modification could affect transcription in the context of a G4.

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G-QuadruplexesOxidative StressPromoter Regions, GeneticBase SequenceCell Cycle ProteinsCell LineDown-RegulationHumansLuciferasesOxidation-ReductionCell Cycle ProteinsLuciferasesRad17 protein, human

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