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DNA Damage and Repair 2 Flashcards

1
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What can carcinogens do to DNA

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Form abasic sites: base absent though ribophosphate backbone remains
Form base dimers: between adjacent bases on the same strand
Form DNA adducts: covalent binding of other compounds to DNA) including alkylation
Hydroxylate bases: meaning they are no longer recognised/functional
Single or double strand breaks: single strand breaks can be repaired easily, doubles can’t)

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Give an example of a family of carcinogens and what they are formed from

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Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

Common environmental pollutants formed from the combustion of fossil fuels or tobacco

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Describe benzo[a]pyrene

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Insoluble in water, and to be excreted in urine it needs to be, so it undergoes metabolism

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Describe the metabolism of benzo[a]pyrene

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  1. Oxidation by cytochrome P450 oxidase, giving it a reactive epoxide ring
  2. Epoxide hydrolase converts it to a diol
  3. Cytochrome P450 adds another epoxide
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What is the effect of the metabolism of benzo[a]pyrene

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Makes benzo[a]pyrene soluble, but also incredibly electrophilic. The best source of electrons in the cell is DNA (or protein), so b[a]p ends up forming adducts to bases, especially guanine.

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Where is aflatoxin B1 found

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food stores contaminated with aspergillus

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Describe the metabolism of aflatoxin B1

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epoxide added by a P450 and can adduct to guanine

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Describe the metabolism of 2-napthylamine

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  1. Amine group hydroxylated to an amide by P450 (phase I)
  2. Conjugated to glucoronide via glucoronyl transferase (Phase II) in the liver
  3. This allows it to enter the urine
  4. Acidic pH of urine causes the dissociation of the bond between the 2-napthylamine and the glucoronide
  5. This leaves an electrophilic nitrenium ion, which finds electrons in the DNA of bladder cells
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Where is 2-npahtylamine found

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Common in dyes in the past

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10
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What is deamination and give an example

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Primary amino groups of nucleic acid bases can be converted to ketogroups
cytosine conversion to uracil

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What is chemical modification

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Nucleic acid bases are susceptible to modifications by a wide variety of chemical agents
Common for Adduct formation
Several types of hyper-reactive oxygen can modify DNA bases

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What is a common product of thymine oxidation

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Thymine glycol

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How can hyper-reactive oxygen species be generated

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As byproducts during normal oxidative metabolism
Ionising radiation (x-rays, gamma rays)
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14
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How do environmental chemicals modify DNA bases

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Addition of methyl or alkyl groups

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15
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What carcinogens can cause to damage DNA

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dietary
lifestyle
environmental
occupational
medical
endogenous
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16
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Which types of radiation can damage DNA

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ionizing (UV, x-ray, or gamma)
solar
cosmic

17
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What is photodamage

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Ultraviolet light is absorbed by the nucleic acid bases

The resulting influx of energy can induce chemical changes

18
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What are the most frequent photoproducts consequences of

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Bond formation between adjacent pyrimidines within one strand.

19
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Explain how ionising radiation is able to damage DNA

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Generates free radicals in cells (most often from water)
super oxide radical (O2•)
hydroxyl radical (HO•)

These possess unpaired electrons, and so are electrophilic. They damage DNA very easily

20
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Give examples of how free radicals can modify bases

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  • forming pyrimidine glycols
  • opening the rings of purines
  • hydroxylating purines to 8-hydroxyguanine (the most mutagenic) or 8-hydroxyadenine
21
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Give examples of how free radicals (e.g. from oxygen) affect DNA (base modifications, free radicals, UV)

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Base modifications can lead to abasic sites as the defective base is removed.
Free radicals can also cause single or double strand breaks.
UV can cause base dimers to form between pyrimidines (a bit different, as not all UV is ionising).

22
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What is the role of p53 in dealing with cellular stress

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(tumour suppressor gene)
Responds to cellular insults:
Mitotic apparatus dysfunction 
DNA replication stress
Double-Strand breaks
23
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What is the regulation mechanisms of p53

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MDM2 keeps p53 inactive.

It is then lost in damage, allowing p53 to activate transcriptional pathways, including DNA repair

24
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What are the types of DNA repair

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Direct reversal of DNA damage

Base excision repair (mainly for apurinic/apyrimidinic damage)

Nucleotide excision repair (mainly for bulky DNA adducts)

During or post replication repair

25
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Describe direct DNA repair

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the reversal or simple removal of the damage by the use of proteins which carry out specific enzymatic reactions

26
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Give an example of direct DNA repair

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photolyase splits pyrimidine dimers (opposite of UV action), repairing thymine dimers

methyltransferases / alkyltransferases remove alkyl groups from DNA

27
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Describe base excision repair of DNA damage

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Damage to base (but not to the phosphodiester backbone)

  1. DNA glycosylase removes the base of the nucleotide without affecting the backbone
  2. AP-endonuclease cuts the DNA strand open
  3. DNA polymerase adds the correct base (e.g. Pol-beta)
  4. DNA ligase closes the strand
28
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Describe the nucleotide excision repair of DNA damage

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  1. Endonuclease removes the phosphodiester bond
  2. Helicase removes a large chunk of bases (including backbone)
  3. DNA polymerase remakes the strand
  4. DNA ligase closes strand
29
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Give examples of human genetic disease involving nucleotide excision repair

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Xeroderma pigmentosum
Trichothiodystrophy
Cockayne’s syndrome

30
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Describe DNA double strand break repair

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Direct joining of the broken ends. This requires proteins that recognize and bind to the exposed ends and bring them together for ligating.
Non-complementary nucleotides - Nonhomologous End-Joining (NHEJ).

31
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What are the types of therapeutic agents used to cause DNA damage in tumour cells

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Alkylating agents
Agents that make bulky adducts
Agents that induce double strand breaks

32
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Explain how is DNA damage tested for

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  1. Structural alerts/SAR
  2. In vitro bacterial gene mutation assay
  3. in vitro mammalian cell assay
  4. in vivo mammalian assay
  5. Investigation in vivo mammalian assays
33
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Describe the Ames test for mutagenicity of chemicals

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  1. Bacteria that do not synthesis histidine (AA) are bathed in the chemical to be tested and a enzyme preparation
  2. Placement on histidine-free media
    3, If a colony forms, then its means the bacteria has mutated and acquired the ability to synthesise histidine
  3. Counting the number of colonies quantifies the mutagenic capability of the chemical.
34
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Give an example of a bacterium that does not synthesise histidine

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Salmonella

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