AIMS Materials Science (Nov 2015)

Surface plasmon resonance imaging of the conversion of clustered DNA lesions into double strand breaks by Fpg protein

  • Muriel Jourdan,
  • Julia Pingel,
  • Arnaud Buhot,
  • Thierry Livache,
  • Jean-François Constant

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3934/matersci.2015.4.473
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 4
pp. 473 – 483

Abstract

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Ionizing radiations induce clustered damage sites known to be severely challenging for the cell's repair machinery. In the present study, we have grafted on a biochip four synthetic oligonucleotide duplexes containing either a single 8-oxoguanine, a single 2'-deoxyribose abasic site or two different clustered damages containing these two lesions on opposite strands. Using a SPR imaging-based DNA array, we qualitatively observed the hierarchy of lesion processing by the base excision repair (BER) enzyme Fpg (Formamidopyrimidine (fapy)-DNA glycosylase). We could notably show that Fpg can convert a cluster of lesions into a potentially lethal double strand break (DSB) and demonstrate that SPR imaging is suitable to investigate the incision steps occurring during the repair process.

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