Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters
Formation of 8-S-L-cysteinylguanosine from 8-bromoguanosine
and cysteine q
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Toshinori Suzuki , Aya Kosaka, Michiyo Inukai
School of Pharmacy, Shujitsu University, Okayama 703-8516, Japan
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When 8-bromoguanosine was incubated with cysteine at pH 7.4 and 37 °C, a previously unidentified
product was formed as a major product in addition to guanosine. The product was identified as a cysteine
substitution derivative of guanosine at the 8 position, 8-S-L-cysteinylguanosine. The reaction was accel-
erated under mildly basic conditions. The cysteine adduct of guanosine was fairly stable and decomposed
with a half-life of 193 h at pH 7.4 and 37 °C. Similar results were observed for incubation of 8-bromo-20-
deoxyguanosine with cysteine. The results suggest that 8-bromoguanine in nucleosides, nucleotides,
RNA, and DNA can react with thiols resulting in stable adducts.
Received 9 March 2013
Revised 23 April 2013
Accepted 26 April 2013
Available online 9 May 2013
Keywords:
8-Bromoguanosine
Cysteine
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8-S-L-cysteinylguanosine
Guanosine
Eosinophil peroxidase (EPO) plays an important role in defense
one order of magnitude lower than that of 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroxy-
20-deoxyguanosine (8-oxo-dGuo).10 In diabetic patients, urinary
8-Br-dGuo and 8-Cl-dGuo levels were eightfold higher than the
levels in healthy volunteers, whereas there was a small increase
in 8-oxo-dGuo. This implies that 8-Br-dGuo exists in healthy hu-
mans and that inflammatory diseases greatly increase its level.
Thus, the importance of 8-Br-dGuo is becoming clear. However,
there is little information available about the reaction of 8-Br-dGuo
with intracellular molecules. In the present study, we investigated
mechanisms against parasites mediated by the oxidation of Brꢀ.1
EPO generates a reactive species hypobromous acid (HOBr) from
H2O2 and Brꢀ. An EPO/H2O2/Brꢀ system in the presence of a plasma
concentration of Clꢀ can react with nucleosides to form
brominated nucleosides including 8-bromo-20-deoxyguanosine
(8-Br-dGuo).2–4 Meanwhile, myeloperoxidase (MPO), an enzyme
secreted from neutrophil and monocytic cells, generates hypochlo-
rous acid (HOCl) from H2O2 and Clꢀ.5,6 The formed HOCl is also of
central importance in host defense mechanisms. MPO can generate
chlorinated nucleosides including 8-chloro-20-deoxyguanosine (8-
Cl-dGuo).7 It has been reported that an MPO/H2O2/Clꢀ system in
the presence of a plasma concentration of Brꢀ also generates bro-
minated nucleosides.8 HOCl formed in the MPO system would re-
act with Brꢀ, generating a brominating reagent, HOBr. An in vitro
DNA replication study showed that human DNA polymerases
incorporated 20-deoxyguanosine-50-monophosphate (dGMP), 20-
deoxyadenosine-50-monophosphate (dAMP), and 20-deoxythymi-
dine-50-monophosphate (dTMP) in addition to one-base deletion
opposite to an 8-Br-dGuo residue in an oligodeoxynucleotide, sug-
gesting that 8-Br-dGuo in DNA is a mutagenic lesion.9 Recently,
8-Br-dGuo was detected in urine from healthy volunteers with a
similar concentration of 8-Cl-dGuo, while the concentrations are
the reaction of 8-bromoguanosine (8-Br-Guo) with
and report identification of the products.
L-cysteine (Cys)
A solution of 100 lM 8-Br-Guo (Santa Cruz Biotechnology, TX,
USA) and 50 mM Cys (Sigma, MO, USA) was incubated in
100 mM potassium phosphate buffer at pH 7.4 and 37 °C for 48 h
in the dark. When the reaction mixture was analyzed by reversed
phase (RP) HPLC, two product peaks appeared in the chromato-
gram (Fig. 1). The products were collected and subjected to spec-
trometric measurements. The product eluted at the retention
time of 6.5 min showed a UV spectrum with kmax = 252 nm and
an ESI-TOF/MS spectrum with m/z = 282 in the negative mode.
The product was identified as guanosine (Guo) by coincidence of
the RP-HPLC retention time and UV and MS spectra of an authentic
Guo. The product eluted at the retention time of 7.7 min showed a
UV spectrum with kmax = 272 nm (Fig. 1, inset). An ESI-TOF/MS
spectrum showed m/z = 401 and 314 in the negative mode
(Fig. 2). High-resolution ESI-TOF/MS (negative) of the molecular
ion showed m/z = 401.088576, which agreed with the theoretical
molecular mass for C13H17N6O7S composition within 1 ppm. 1H-
NMR showed no aromatic proton signal and three aliphatic proton
signals in addition to six aliphatic ribose proton signals. 13C-NMR
q
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