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Toxic DNA damage by hydrogen peroxide through the Fenton reaction in vivo and in vitro.

James A. Imlay, +2 more
- 29 Apr 1988 - 
- Vol. 240, Iss: 4852, pp 640-642
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An in vitro Fenton system was established that generates DNA strand breaks and inactivates bacteriophage and that also reproduces the suppression of DNA damage by high concentrations of peroxide.
Abstract
Exposure of Escherichia coli to low concentrations of hydrogen peroxide results in DNA damage that causes mutagenesis and kills the bacteria, whereas higher concentrations of peroxide reduce the amount of such damage. Earlier studies indicated that the direct DNA oxidant is a derivative of hydrogen peroxide whose formation is dependent on cell metabolism. The generation of this oxidant depends on the availability of both reducing equivalents and an iron species, which together mediate a Fenton reaction in which ferrous iron reduces hydrogen peroxide to a reactive radical. An in vitro Fenton system was established that generates DNA strand breaks and inactivates bacteriophage and that also reproduces the suppression of DNA damage by high concentrations of peroxide. The direct DNA oxidant both in vivo and in this in vitro system exhibits reactivity unlike that of a free hydroxyl radical and may instead be a ferryl radical.

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The biology of oxygen radicals

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Fenton's reagent revisited

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TL;DR: Wansbrough-Jones as discussed by the authors gave the manuscript of this paper to Professor Sir William Pope, but the final revision for the press had not been made and in its original from the paper was not suitable for publication in an English journal; but since, Professor Haber had considered carefully how he wished to present the results embodied in it, the form and sequence of the paper remain unmodified.
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