| Literature DB >> 20964331 |
Yuqin Cai1, Lihua Wang, Shuang Ding, Adam Schwaid, Nicholas E Geacintov, Suse Broyde.
Abstract
The impact of a bulky DNA lesion on the structure and dynamics of a nucleosome core particle (NCP) containing a lesion derived from the unusually potent tumorigen dibenzo[a,l]pyrene that resists nucleotide excision repair (NER) in free DNA was investigated using 65 ns molecular dynamics simulations. Our results reveal that, relative to unmodified NCP, the lesion stabilizes the nucleosome via stacking interactions, improved Watson-Crick base pairing, hydrogen bonding between DNA and histones, and damped dynamics. These findings suggest that such lesions should be as resistant to NER in the nucleosome environment as they are in free DNA.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20964331 PMCID: PMC2990886 DOI: 10.1021/bi101560y
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biochemistry ISSN: 0006-2960 Impact factor: 3.162