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ArticleNucleic acids research2025

Oxidative events in a double helix system promote the formation of kinetically trapped G-quadruplexes.

Simon Aleksič, Peter Podbevšek, Janez Plavec

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 authors.

Simon AleksičSlovenian NMR Centre, National Institute of Chemistry, Hajdrihova 19, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Peter PodbevšekSlovenian NMR Centre, National Institute of Chemistry, Hajdrihova 19, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.ORCID 0000-0002-2563-4507
Janez PlavecSlovenian NMR Centre, National Institute of Chemistry, Hajdrihova 19, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.ORCID 0000-0003-1570-8602

Funding

ARIS P1-0242CERIC
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Guanine-rich oligonucleotide sequences can adopt four-stranded G-quadruplex structures. These sequences are highly susceptible to oxidative damage due to the low redox potential of their constituent guanine nucleotides. Oxidative lesions of guanine residue exhibit perturbations in the position of hydrogen-bond donors and acceptors, which can impair the formation of G-quadruplexes. Here we studied the effect of guanine oxidation in model systems comprised of a G-rich as well as a complementary C-rich DNA strand to discern how oxidative damage can destabilize double-stranded DNA and promote G-quadruplex formation. Our data show that G-rich strands containing oxidative lesions can still adopt the G-quadruplex fold due to the presence of spare G-tracts, which rescue the damaged G-tracts via either full or partial replacement. However, most of the observed G-quadruplexes are kinetically trapped structures and the preferred equilibrium state of the two-stranded constructs is double-stranded DNA.

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DNAG-QuadruplexesDNA DamageGuanineHydrogen BondingKineticsNucleic Acid ConformationOxidation-ReductionDNAGuanine

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PMID40183633
PMCPMC11969667

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