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. 1994 Nov 25;22(23):4979–4982. doi: 10.1093/nar/22.23.4979

Sequence-specific DNA double-strand breaks induced by triplex forming 125I labeled oligonucleotides.

I G Panyutin 1, R D Neumann 1
PMCID: PMC523766  PMID: 7800489

Abstract

A triplex-forming oligonucleotide (TFO) complementary to the polypurine-polypyrimidine region of the nef gene of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) was labeled with 125I at the C5 position of a single deoxycytosine residue. Labeled TFO was incubated with a plasmid containing a fragment of the nef gene. Decay of 125I was found to cause double-strand breaks (DSB) within the nef gene upon triplex formation in a sequence specific manner. No DSB were detected after incubation at ionic conditions preventing triplex formation or when TFO was labeled with 32P instead of 125I. Mapping DSB sites with single base resolution showed that they are distributed within 10 bp of a maximum located exactly opposite the position of the [125I] IdC in the TFO. We estimate that on average the amount of DSB produced per decay is close to one.

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