Glyoxal (ethanedial) is an increasingly used industrial chemical that has
been found to
bemutagenic in
bacteria and mammalian cells. In this study, the reactions of glyoxal with 2'-deoxyguanosine, 2'-deoxyadenosine, 2'-deoxycytidine, cytidine, thymidine, and calf thymus DNAhave
been studied in aqueous
buffered solutions. The nucleoside adducts were isolated
byreversed-phase liquid chromatography and characterized
by their UV a
bsor
bance and
1H and
13C NMR spectroscopic and mass spectrometric features. The reaction with 2'-deoxyguanosinegave one adduct, the previously known 3-(2
'-deoxy-
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a]purine-9-one adduct. The reaction of 2'-deoxyadenosine with glyoxalresulted in the formation of a previously not reported
N6-(hydroxyacetyl)-2'-deoxyadenosineadduct. In the reaction of glyoxal with 2'-deoxycytidine and cytidine at neutral conditions and37
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C, 5-hydroxyacetyl pyrimidine derivatives were o
btained. When the cytidine reaction wasperformed at pH 4.5 and 50
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C, the 5-hydroxyacetyl derivative of uridine was formed throughdeamination of cytidine-glyoxal. Adducts in the thymidine reaction could not
be detected. Inthe reaction of glyoxal with calf thymus DNA, the 2'-deoxyguanosine-glyoxal and 2'-deoxyadenosine-glyoxal adducts were o
btained, the former
being the major adduct.