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  • Title: Synthesis and characterization of deoxyguanosine-benzoquinone adducts.
    Author: Jowa L, Witz G, Snyder R, Winkle S, Kalf GF.
    Journal: J Appl Toxicol; 1990 Feb; 10(1):47-54. PubMed ID: 2335711.
    Abstract:
    Benzene expresses its carcinogenic potential in humans largely in the form of acute leukemia. Because an understanding of the formation of DNA adducts by benzene metabolites may help to explain the etiological role they play in benzene-induced bone marrow disease, we have synthesized, isolated and characterized adducts formed by the reaction of deoxyguanosine with hydroquinone and p-benzoquinone, two toxic metabolites of benzene. [3H]Deoxyguanosine and [14C]hydroquinone reacted in neutral aqueous buffer containing iron to form two dual-labeled products, which were separated using HPLC. When p-benzoquinone was substituted for hydroquinone, the same adducts were formed in the absence of added iron. The ultraviolet and fluorescence spectra of the less polar adduct, called Adduct 2, were distinctly different from the spectra of the starting materials. NMR and mass spectrometry suggested a compound with a mass of 357 with the p-benzoquinone moiety bound to the N-1 and N2 positions of deoxyguanosine. Based on these data it is proposed that Adduct 2 is (3'OH)benzetheno(1,N2)deoxyguanosine. The more polar product, Adduct 1, was found to have a unique ultraviolet spectrum but did not appear to be fluorescent. Both adducts were observed after calf thymus DNA was incubated with hydroquinone and digested to its constituent nucleosides.
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