Adenine reaction with

Cleavage at A or G If the DNA is first treated with acid, dimethyl sulfate methylates adenine at the 3-position as well as guanine at the 7-position (not shown). Subsequent reaction with OH and piperidine triggers degradation and displacement of the methylated A or G purine base and strand scission, essentially as indicated here for reaction of dimethyl sulfate with guanine. 

The analogons deamination reaction is not observed in l-methyl-2 -deoxy-adenosine nncleosides. ° Rather, in the adenine series, the Dimroth rearrangement occnrs (Scheme 8.4). On the contrary, in styrene adducts of 2 -deoxyadenosine, the hydroxyl residue of the adduct undergoes intramolecular reaction with the base to initiate deamination (Scheme 8.6). ° ° Similarly, cytosine residues bearing styrene adducts at the N3-position undergo rapid deamination (nearly complete deamination is seen within 75h). °°... 

Acolbifene is also metabolized to a QM (Scheme 10.10)64 formed by oxidation at the C-17 methyl group. This QM is considerably more reactive compared to the tamoxifen quinone methide, which indicates that the acolbifene quinone methide is an electrophile of intermediate stability (Table 10.2). In addition, the acolbifene QM was determined to react with deoxynucleosides, with one of the major adducts resulting from reaction with the exocyclic amino group of adenine.64... 

Figure 3.1 Two essential steps of chemical reaction of formaldehyde (HCHO) with nucleic acid exemplified by adenine that are similar to formaldehyde-protein reactions, (a) Addition reaction as the first step, resulting in a methylol derivative, methylol adenylic acid (b) Second step is a condensation reaction, a stable product methylene-bis-adenylic acid is derived between the methylol derivative and another adenine. Reproduced with permission from Shi et al.,AIMM 2001 9 107-116. 

Polymerisation of HCN species is also possible once the initial monomers have been formed by the reactions with nitrogen HCN polymers have been postulated in many places in the solar system, from the clouds of Jupiter and Saturn to the dark colour of the surface of comet Halley, not to mention its possible role in the formation of the prebiotic molecule adenine. Photolysis of HCN produces CN and then the formation of nitrile polymers ... 

The reactions of [Ru(edta)(H20)] with adenine, and with adenosine and its phosphate derivatives amp, adp, and atp, involve ring closure in a reversibly-formed intermediate containing a unidentate incoming ligand. Both formation (cf. above) and aquation of the intermediates are, on the evidence of the AS values for the amp, adp and atp systems, associative. Rate constants for ring closure are between 0.6 and 4.4 s-1 (165). 

Orotic acid in the diet (usually at a concentration of 1 per cent) can induce a deficiency of adenine and pyridine nucleotides in rat liver (but not in mouse or chick liver). The consequence is to inhibit secretion of lipoprotein into the blood, followed by the depression of plasma lipids, then in the accumulation of triglycerides and cholesterol in the liver (fatty liver) [141 — 161], This effect is not prevented by folic acid, vitamin B12, choline, methionine or inositol [141, 144], but can be prevented or rapidly reversed by the addition of a small amount of adenine to the diets [146, 147, 149, 152, 162]. The action of orotic acid can also be inhibited by calcium lactate in combination with lactose [163]. It was originally believed that the adenine deficiency produced by orotic acid was caused by an inhibition of the reaction of PRPP with glutamine in the de novo purine synthesis, since large amounts of PRPP are utilized for the conversion of orotic acid to uridine-5 -phosphate. However, incorporation studies of glycine-1- C in livers of orotic acid-fed rats revealed that the inhibition is caused rather by a depletion of the PRPP available for reaction with glutamine than by an effect on the condensation itself [160]. 

On NMR monitoring of the reaction of nicotine adenine dinucleotide (NAD ), an important co-factor in enzymatic reactions, with 43 at pH 6, the formation of two unique diastereomeric cyclic trimeric metallacalixarene systems 49, in a self-assembly mode, was evident (1999JOM(589)66). These products have a narrow stability range at pH 6 and decompose at lower or higher pH. The complex 49 was neither electroactive nor it was possible to convert it to the corresponding NADH-based system (1999JOM(589)66). 

The adenine radical cation was observed in a single crystal of adenine hydrochloride hemihydrate [43]. In this crystal, the adenine is protonated at Nl. After electron loss, the molecule deprotonates at Nl, giving Ade(Nl -l-H, Nl-H). This produces a radical that is structurally equivalent to the cation of the neutral adenine molecule with spin density on C8 and N6 [p(C8) = 0.17 and p(N6) = 0.25]. The adenine radical cation is strongly acidic (pi a< 1) [22]. This strong driving force makes the reaction independent of environmental conditions. In single crystals of adenosine [42] and anhydrous deoxyadenosine [44], the N6 deprotonated cation [Ade(N6-H) ] is observed which is characterized by p(C8) = 0.16 and p(N6) = 0.42. The experimental isotropic hyperfine couplings are N6-H = 33.9 MHz and C8-H = 12.4 MHz. 

There are some methods that are specific to HCHO. For example, the Hantzsch reaction of HCHO, collected with a diffusion scrubber, with ammonium acetate, acetic acid, and acetylacetone to form diacetyldihydrolutidine, which is measured using its fluorescence at 470 nm, has been applied to air measurements (Dasgupta et al., 1988, 1990 Kleindienst et al., 1988a,b Lawson et al., 1990 Khare et al., 1997). Reaction with 1,3-cyclohexanedione and ammonium acetate to form a dihydropyridine derivative that is measured by fluorescence has been used in conjunction with a diffusion scrubber (Fan and Dasgupta, 1994). Enzymatic methods have been used in which formaldehyde dehydrogenase catalyzes the oxidation of HCHO to HCOOH in the presence of -nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, NAD+, which is reduced to NADH. The latter is measured by fluorescence at 450 nm (Lazrus et al., 1988 Ho and Richards, 1990). 

Chen, R.-F., Mieyal, J.J. Goldthwait, D.A. (1981) The reaction of P-propiolactone with derivatives of adenine and with DNA. Carcinogenesis, 2, 73-80... 

Free purine and pyrimidine bases are constantly released in cells during the metabolic degradation of nucleotides. Free purines are in large part salvaged and reused to make nucleotides, in a pathway much simpler than the de novo synthesis of purine nucleotides described earlier. One of the primary salvage pathways consists of a single reaction catalyzed by adenosine phosphoribosyltransferase, in which free adenine reacts with PRPP to yield the corresponding adenine nucleotide ... 

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