| Literature DB >> 25306924 |
Lidia Chomicz1, Alex Petrovici, Ian Archbold, Amitava Adhikary, Anil Kumar, Michael D Sevilla, Janusz Rak.
Abstract
The mechanism of radiation-induced frank strand break formation in irradiated 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine (BrdU)-labelled DNA is still unclear despite the proven radiosensitizing properties of BrdU. Combination of ESR spectroscopy and quantum chemical modelling points to a simple reaction between the uridine-5-yl radical and water molecules that produces the genotoxic hydroxyl radical.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID: 25306924 PMCID: PMC4213299 DOI: 10.1039/c4cc07089e
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Chem Commun (Camb) ISSN: 1359-7345 Impact factor: 6.222