title: Radiation-induced crosslinking between poly(deoxyadenylic-deoxythymidylic acid) and tripeptides containing aromatic residues.
abstract: OH.-induced covalent peptide-nucleotide adducts have been isolated by reverse-phase chromatography from the enzymic hydrolyzates of gamma-ray irradiated solutions containing double-stranded poly(deoxyadenylic-deoxythymidylic acid) and one of the tripeptides, lysyl-tryptophyl-lysine or lysyl-tyrosyl-lysine. Numerous compounds were formed, resulting presumably from different modes of radical addition. All isomers appeared to have the same general structure peptide-d(ApTpA), based mostly on double-labelling experiments of bases and phosphate groups in DNA. The major adduct fraction obtained from Lys-Trp-Lys and poly(dA-dT) was purified to homogeneity by sequential reverse-phase and ion-exchange chromatography, and characterized spectrally. The pattern of acid and alkaline hydrolysis suggests that thymine is the site of peptide-nucleotide binding in this particular adduct fraction.
authors.affiliation: Unité 219 INSERM, Centre Universitaire, Orsay, France.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Favaudon
mesh_terms: D003037:Cobalt Radioisotopes; D005720:Gamma Rays; D009842:Oligopeptides / Q000528:radiation effects*; D011067:Poly dA-dT / Q000528:radiation effects*; D011089:Polydeoxyribonucleotides / Q000528:radiation effects*
chemical_list: D003037:Cobalt Radioisotopes; D009842:Oligopeptides; D011089:Polydeoxyribonucleotides; D011067:Poly dA-dT