Polyamine Adducts with AP Sites: Interaction with DNA Polymerases and AP Endonucleases

AV Yudkina, MM Amanova… - Chemical Research in …, 2025 - ACS Publications
Biological polyamines, such as spermine, spermidine, and putrescine, are abundant
intracellular compounds mostly bound to nucleic acids. Due to their nucleophilic nature …

Light-Driven Installation of Aminooxyhomolysine on Histones and Its Application for Synthesizing Stable and Site-Specific 3′-DNA–Histone Cross-Links

Y Liu, Y Peng, Z Wang, X Wei, K Yang - Bioconjugate Chemistry, 2024 - ACS Publications
Histones react with various aldehyde-containing DNA modifications to form reversible but
long-lived DNA–histone cross-links. The investigation of their biochemical effects and repair …

Dual-responsive probe and DNA interstrand crosslink precursor target the unique redox status of cancer cells

D Yu, L Wang, J Li, X Zeng, Y Jia, J Tian… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Elevated GSH and H2O2 in cancer cells is sometimes doubted due to their contrary
reactivities. Here, we construct a dual-responsive fluorescent probe to confirm the …

Mass Spectrometry Evidence for Forming Schiff Base 3′-DNA-Histone Cross-Links from Abasic Sites in Vitro and in Human Cells

Y Peng, C Bryan, K Yang - Chemical Research in Toxicology, 2024 - ACS Publications
Histones catalyze DNA strand incision at apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) sites accompanied by
the formation of reversible but long-lived DNA–protein cross-links at 3′-termini (3′-histone …

Human 8‐Oxoguanine Glycosylase OGG1 Cleaves Abasic Sites and Covalently Conjugates to 3′‐DNA Termini via Cysteine and Histidine Addition

C Bryan, K Yang - ChemBioChem - Wiley Online Library
Oxoguanine glycosylase 1 (OGG1) repairs the major oxidative DNA damage, 8‐oxo‐2′‐
deoxyguanosine. It has been reported that OGG1 incises the most frequently formed DNA …