Selective covalent binding of the active sulfate ester of the carcinogen 5-(hydroxymethyl)chrysene to the adenine residue of calf thymus DNA

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5(Hydroxymethyl)chrysene (5-HCR) sulfate, an active metabolite of the carcinogen 5-HCR, bound significantly in a covalent manner to the purine bases of calf thymus DNA through its 5-methylene carbon with loss of sulfate anion when incubated at pH 7.4 and 37.degree.C. From the DNA were isolated two purine base adducts by high-pressure liquid chromatography, and they were identified as N6-[(chrysen-5-yl)methyl]adenine and N2-[(chrysen-5-yl)methyl]guanine with the corresponding synthetic specimens. The purine base adducts, appearing in the ratio 1 to 27 for guanine to adenine in the chromatogram, accounted for about 60% of the total covalent binding of 5-HCR sulfate to the DNA. 5-HCR sulfate also reacted specifically with the exocyclic amino groups of the purine bases of 2''-deoxyadenosine 5''-phosphate and 2''-deoxyguanosine 5''-phosphate at much lower rates than did with those of calf thymus DNA. Denaturing the DNA by heating following by rapid cooling, covalent binding of 5-HCR sulfate to it markedly decreased with the increasing ratio of N2-guanine to N6-adenine adducts (1:3.6). These results strongly suggest that secondary structure of DNA has an influence on the covalent binding of 5-HCR sulfate and that intercalation of the sulfate ester into DNA base pairs plays an important role in its preferential binding to N6 of the adenine residues of native DNA.

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