Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Intracellular Formation of a DNA Damage-Induced, Histone Post-Translational Modification Following Bleomycin Treatment

Marco Paolo Jacinto, Stephen D. Fried, and Marc M. Greenberg
Journal of the American Chemical Society Article ASAP

DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c02880

Evaluating the significance of various forms of DNA damage is complicated by discoveries that some lesions inactivate repair enzymes or produce more deleterious forms of damage. Histone lysines within nucleosomes react with the commonly produced C4′-oxidized abasic site (C4-AP) to concomitantly yield an electrophilic modification (KMP) on lysine and DNA strand scission. We developed a chemoproteomic approach to identify KMP in HeLa cells. More than 60 000 KMP-modified histones are produced per cell. Using LC-MS/MS, we detected KMP at 17 of the 57 lysine residues distributed throughout the four core histone proteins. Therefore, KMP constitutes a DNA damage-induced, nonenzymatic histone post-translational modification. KMP formation suggests that downstream processes resulting from DNA damage could have ramifications on cells.



Covalent Targeting of Histidine Residues with Aryl Fluorosulfates: Application to Mcl-1 BH3 Mimetics

Giulia Alboreggia, Parima Udompholkul, Emma L. Atienza, Kendall Muzzarelli, Zahra Assar, and Maurizio Pellecchia Journal of Medicinal Chemis...