PMID- 31774658 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20201027 LR - 20201027 IS - 1520-5126 (Electronic) IS - 0002-7863 (Print) IS - 0002-7863 (Linking) VI - 141 IP - 49 DP - 2019 Dec 11 TI - Ultrafast Oxime Formation Enables Efficient Fluorescence Light-up Measurement of DNA Base Excision. PG - 19379-19388 LID - 10.1021/jacs.9b09812 [doi] AB - DNA glycosylases constitute a biologically and biomedically important group of DNA repair enzymes responsible for initiating base excision repair (BER). Measuring their activities can be useful for studying the mechanisms DNA damage and repair and for practical applications in cancer diagnosis and drug screening. Previous fluorescence methods for assaying DNA glycosylases are often complex and/or limited in scope to a single enzyme type. Here we report a universal base excision reporter (UBER) fluorescence probe design that implements an unprecedentedly rapid oxime reaction (>150 M(-1) s(-1)) with high specificity for the abasic (AP) site of DNA. The molecular rotor design achieves a robust >250-500-fold increase in fluorescence upon reaction with AP sites in DNA. By using the fluorescence reporter in concert with specific DNA lesion-containing substrates, the UBER probe can be used in a coupled assay in principle with any DNA glycosylase. We demonstrate the utility of the UBER probe by assaying five different glycosylases in real time as well as profiling glycosylase activity in cell lysates. We anticipate that the UBER probe will be of considerable utility to researchers studying DNA repair biology owing to its high level of generalizability, ease of use, and compatibility with biologically derived samples. FAU - Wilson, David L AU - Wilson DL AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-1922-427X AD - Department of Chemistry, Stanford Cancer Institute and ChEM-H Institute , Stanford University , Stanford , California 94305 , United States. FAU - Kool, Eric T AU - Kool ET AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-7310-2935 AD - Department of Chemistry, Stanford Cancer Institute and ChEM-H Institute , Stanford University , Stanford , California 94305 , United States. LA - eng GR - R01 CA217809/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20191127 PL - United States TA - J Am Chem Soc JT - Journal of the American Chemical Society JID - 7503056 RN - 0 (Fluorescent Dyes) RN - 0 (Oximes) RN - 9007-49-2 (DNA) RN - EC 3.2.2.- (DNA Glycosylases) SB - IM MH - DNA/*chemistry MH - DNA Damage MH - DNA Glycosylases/*chemistry MH - *DNA Repair MH - Fluorescent Dyes/*chemistry MH - Fluorometry MH - Molecular Structure MH - Oximes/*chemistry PMC - PMC7061905 MID - NIHMS1558496 COIS- The authors declare no competing financial interest. EDAT- 2019/11/28 06:00 MHDA- 2020/10/28 06:00 PMCR- 2020/03/09 CRDT- 2019/11/28 06:00 PHST- 2019/11/28 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2020/10/28 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2019/11/28 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2020/03/09 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1021/jacs.9b09812 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Am Chem Soc. 2019 Dec 11;141(49):19379-19388. doi: 10.1021/jacs.9b09812. Epub 2019 Nov 27.