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. 2015 Jan 20;30(4):368–385. doi: 10.1007/s12291-014-0475-8

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Effects of peroxynitrite on DNA. The superoxide (O•−2) and nitric oxide (NO) reacts to form peroxynitrite, which attacks DNA resulting in (i) oxidation of deoxyribose, (ii) formation of 8-Nitro-Guanine, ultimately result in single strand breaks, (iii) oxidation of guanine owing its fragmentation