Monomethylarsonous Acid Destroys a Tetrathiolate Zinc Finger Much More Efficiently than Inorganic Arsenite: Mechanistic Considerations and Consequences for DNA Repair Inhibition

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• 作者：Katarzyna Pia̧ ; tek ; Tanja Schwerdtle ; Andrea Hartwig ; and Wojciech Bal
• 刊名：Chemical Research in Toxicology
• 出版年：2008
• 出版时间：March 2008
• 年：2008
• 卷：21
• 期：3
• 页码：600-606
• 全文大小：266k
• 年卷期：v.21,no.3(March 2008)
• ISSN：1520-5010

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Arsenic compounds are human carcinogens. The ingested inorganic arsenic is metabolized to methylated derivatives, which are considered to be more toxic than the inorganic species. Interactions of trivalent arsenicals with thiol groups of proteins are believed to be important for arsenic carcinogenesis, but inorganic arsenite appears to bind to thiol groups more strongly than the methylated As^III species. Inhibition of the nucleotide excision repair pathway of DNA repair (NER) is likely to be of primary importance in arsenic carcinogenesis. Previously, we demonstrated that methylated As^III compounds are more efficient than arsenite in releasing zinc from ZnXPAzf, the zinc finger of XPA, a crucial member of the NER complex [Schwerdtle, T., Walter, I., and Hartwig, A. (2003) Arsenite and its biomethylated metabolites interfere with the formation and repair of stable BPDE-induced DNA adducts in human cells and impair XPAzf and Fpg. DNA Repair (Amsterdam) 2, 1449–1463]. In this work, we used ESI-MS to compare aerobic reactivities of arsenite and monomethylarsonous acid (MMA^III) toward ZnXPAzf on the molecular level. We demonstrated that equimolar MMA^III released Zn^II from ZnXPAzf easily, forming mono- and diarsenical derivatives of XPAzf. This reaction was accompanied by oxidation of unprotected thiol groups of the monomethylarsinated peptide to intramolecular disulfides. The estimated affinity of MMA^III to XPAzf is 30-fold higher than that established previously for arsenite binding to the thiol groups. No binding of arsenite to the thiol groups of XPAzf was observed under our experimental conditions, and a 10-fold excess of arsenite was required to partially oxidize ZnXPAzf. These results indicate a particular susceptibility of tetrathiolate zinc fingers to MMA^III, thereby providing a novel molecular pathway in arsenic carcinogenesis.