Published in The Biochemical journal
The exocyclic amines of nucleobases can undergo deamination by various DNA damaging agents such as reactive oxygen species, nitric oxide, and water. The deamination of guanine and adenine generates the promutagenic xanthine and hypoxanthine, respectively. The exocyclic amines of bases in DNA are hydrogen bond donors, while the carbonyl moiety gener...
Published in Russian Journal of Organic Chemistry
AbstractPossible synthetic routes to 4-bromo-1,1′:4′,1″-terphenyl and 4-methyl-1,1′:4′,1″-terphenyl have been studied. Stevens rearrangement of quaternary ammonium salts containing 3-phenylprop-2-en-1-yl and 3-(4-bromo- or 4-methylphenyl)prop-2-yn-1-yl groups gave 1-(4-bromophenyl)-N,N-dimethyl-4-phenylhex-5-en-1-yn-3-amine, 1-(4-bromophenyl)-N,N-d...
Published in FEMS microbiology letters
Herbicides have been extensively used globally, resulting in severe environmental pollution. Novel butachlor-degrading Pseudomonas sp. strain But2 isolated from soil can degrade butachlor regardless of the concentration and grows without a lag phase. Specific degradation was increased at 0.01-0.1 mM, and did not change significantly at higher conce...
Published in International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Restriction of foreign DNA is a fundamental defense mechanism required for maintaining genomic stability and proper function of mammalian cells. APOBEC cytidine deaminases are crucial effector molecules involved in clearing pathogenic DNA of viruses and other microorganisms and improperly localized self-DNA (DNA leakages). Mastering the expression ...
Published in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)
The difluoromethyl group (CF2 H) is considered to be a lipophilic and metabolically stable bioisostere of an amino (NH2 ) group. Therefore, methods that can rapidly convert an NH2 group into a CF2 H group would be of great value to medicinal chemistry. We report herein an efficient Cu-catalyzed approach for the conversion of alkyl pyridinium salts,...
Published in Future microbiology
Aim: The inference of coronavirus evolution is largely based on mutations in SARS-CoV-2 genome. Misinterpretation of these mutations would mislead people about the evolution of SARS-CoV-2. Materials & methods: With 4521 lines of SARS-CoV-2, we obtained 3169 unique point mutation sites. We counted the numbers and calculated the minor allele frequenc...
Published in Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry
Fresh-frozen tissue is the “gold standard” biospecimen type for next-generation sequencing (NGS). However, collecting frozen tissue is usually not feasible because clinical workflows deliver formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue blocks. Some clinicians and researchers are reticent to embrace the use of FFPE tissue for NGS because FFPE tis...
Published in Frontiers in Chemistry
The first dinuclear and trinuclear chromium(III) and dinuclear vanadium(III) complexes of N 4- R -substituted-3,5-di(2-pyridyl)-1,2,4-triazole ( Rdpt ) ligands have been prepared by solvothermal complexations under inert atmospheres, and characterized. The reactions of CrIII and VIII with adpt ( R = amino) resulted in deamination of the ligand and ...
Fresh-frozen tissue is the "gold standard" biospecimen type for next-generation sequencing (NGS). However, collecting frozen tissue is usually not feasible because clinical workflows deliver formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue blocks. Some clinicians and researchers are reticent to embrace the use of FFPE tissue for NGS because FFPE tis...
Published in The FEBS journal
Kanamycin A is an aminoglycoside antibiotic isolated from Streptomyces kanamyceticus and used against a wide spectrum of bacteria, including Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Biosynthesis of kanamycin involves an oxidative deamination step catalyzed by kanamycin B dioxygenase (KanJ), thereby the C2' position of kanamycin B is transformed into a keto grou...
