Critical Reviews™ in Eukaryotic Gene Expression

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2005, Volume15

Issue 4

90 pages

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Maricar Tarun
Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3060

James F. Rusling
Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3060; Department of Pharmacology, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT 06032

The detection and identification of DNA adducts is important for predicting human cancer risk posed by chemicals and for uncovering potential genotoxicity of new drug and agricultural chemical candidates. For compounds that react with DNA to form N7-guanine and/or N3-adenine adducts, neutral thermal hydrolysis provides a simple procedure for sample preparation. The N7-guanine and N3-adenine adducts are selectively ejected from the DNA chain, resulting in a clean sample matrix enriched in nucleobase adducts. Coupling neutral thermal hydrolysis with liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) provides sensitive methods to detect and quantitate DNA adducts, and structural information is provided by MS. Combining these technologies with capillary liquid chromatography sample preconcentration systems can provide exquisitely sensitive detection. In this review, we first summarize the chemistry of nucleobase adduct formation, briefly summarize modern methods to detect DNA adducts, and then describe neutral thermal hydrolysis coupled to LC-MS/MS and some of its applications to DNA damage studies. Finally, we review recent applications of neutral thermal hydrolysis and LC-MS to toxicity screening of chemicals.

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