Intestinal mucosa phosphodiesterase

Two diastereoisomers have been identified as radiation induced decomposition products of dC. The synthesis of one of these isomers, (5 5,55,6S)-5, 6-cyclo-5-hydroxy-5,6-dihydro-2 -deoxyuridine (81), and its incorporation into DNA, has been reported The presence of the lesion causes a marked destabilisation of DNA duplexes. The nucleases PI, calf spleen phosphodiesterase and bovine intestinal mucosa phosphodiesterase failed to cleave the lesion, nor was it a substrate for a number of repair enzymes, and it acted as a block to Klenow fragment and Taq polymerases. 

The incorporation of the 5R and 5S diastereoisomers of the 5-hydroxyhydan-toin (derived from oxidative damage of dC) derivative (89) has been achieved using phosphoramidite chemistry and mild deprotection. Whilst the ODNs containing either diastereoisomer were digested with nuclease Pi, the hydantoin derivatives were resistant to digestion by calf spleen and bovine intestinal mucosa phosphodiesterases. 

In the small intestine, ribonuclease and deoxyribonuclease I, which are secreted in the pancreatic juice, hydrolyze nucleic acids mainly to oligonucleotides. The oligonucleotides are further hydrolyzed by phosphodiesterases, also secreted by the pancreas, to yield 5 - and 3 -mononucleotides. Most of the mononucleotides are then hydrolyzed to nucleosides by various group-specific nucleotidases or by a variety of nonspecific phosphatases. The resulting nucleosides may be absorbed intact by the intestinal mucosa, or they may un-... 

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