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ArticleChemical research in toxicology2019

Oxidative Modification of Guanine in a Potential Z-DNA-Forming Sequence of a Gene Promoter Impacts Gene Expression.

Aaron M Fleming, Judy Zhu, Yun Ding, Selma Esders, Cynthia J Burrows

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Article in Chemical research in toxicology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18 citing papers in PubMed.

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  17. The genomics of oxidative DNA damage, repair, and resulting mutagenesis.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2020
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5 authors.

Aaron M FlemingDepartment of Chemistry , University of Utah , 315S 1400 East , Salt Lake City , Utah 84112-0850 , United States.ORCID 0000-0002-2000-0310
Judy ZhuDepartment of Chemistry , University of Utah , 315S 1400 East , Salt Lake City , Utah 84112-0850 , United States.
Yun DingDepartment of Chemistry , University of Utah , 315S 1400 East , Salt Lake City , Utah 84112-0850 , United States.ORCID 0000-0002-6624-0934
Selma EsdersDepartment of Chemistry , University of Utah , 315S 1400 East , Salt Lake City , Utah 84112-0850 , United States.
Cynthia J BurrowsDepartment of Chemistry , University of Utah , 315S 1400 East , Salt Lake City , Utah 84112-0850 , United States.ORCID 0000-0001-7253-8529

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

One response to oxidation of guanine (G) to 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine (OG) in a gene promoter is regulation of mRNA expression suggesting an epigenetic-like role for OG. A proposed mechanism involves G oxidation within a potential G-quadruplex-forming sequence (PQS) in the promoter, enabling a structural shift from B-DNA to a G-quadruplex fold (G4). When OG was located in the coding vs template strand, base excision repair led to an on/off transcriptional switch. Herein, a G-rich, potential Z-DNA-forming sequence (PZS) comprised of a d(GC)

Indexed as

Base SequenceCell Line, TumorDNA AdductsDNA, Z-FormGene ExpressionGenomeG-QuadruplexesGuanineHumansOxidation-ReductionOxidative StressPromoter Regions, Genetic8-hydroxyguanineDNA AdductsDNA, Z-FormGuanine

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PMID30821442
PMCPMC6533144

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