Isotopically labeled ozone, 18O3, generate 18O-labeled singlet molecular oxygen, 18O2 (1Δg), and oxidation of product of the purine moiety of 2\'-deoxyguanosine.

Author(s)

Flavia Daniela Motta

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Conjunto das Químicas (IQ e FCF) (CQ/DBDCQ)
• Defense date: 2011-07-28

Examining board members

Paolo Di Mascio; José Oscar Willian Vega Bustillos; Nadja Cristhina de Souza Pinto Lardner; Ana Paula de Melo Loureiro; Flavia Carla Meotti

• Advisor: Paolo Di Mascio

Abstract

Ozone (O3) is a potent oxidant and significant amounts can be formed in urban environments as a result of a series of complex photochemical events. It is a threat for human health. Due its chemical reactivity towards biological targets, ozone is able to promote oxidative modification in several biomolecules, such as DNA, proteins and lipids. Reactions of O3 with biomolecules are able to generate in high yields of singlet molecular oxygen [O2 (1Δg)]. The transfer of one oxygen atom from O3 to the oxidized substrate characterizes these reactions. Spin conservation rules require that the dioxygen generated in this reaction has to be in its singlet state. In this specific mechanism, hydrotrioxide has often been assumed as important intermediates in the ozonization process. In addition, ozone has been established as a powerful mutagenic agent, and the most observed mutation is in G:C transversion. This kind of transversion is typical in reactions involving DNA and reactive oxygen species, such as O2 (1Δg). However, the mechanisms by which O3 causes DNA damage have not yet been fully elucidated. In the present research, spectroscopic evidence for the generation of O2 (1Δg) was obtained by measuring the dimol light emission in the red spectral region (λ = 634 nm) and the monomol light emission in the near-infrared region (λ=1270 nm). Both measuements were done during interaction of O3 with dGuo and 8-oxodGuo. In addition, a system was built to produce isotopically labeled ozone with 18O. Thefore, in the same system that 8-oxodGuo, imidazolone and oxazolone, 18O-labeled and unlabeled diastereoisomeric spiroiminodihydantoin nucleosides were detected as the oxidation products with 18O3. In that case, analyses by HPLC coupled to mass spectrometry were performed. Moreover, in the O3 decomposition the formation of 18O-labeled O2 (1Δg) from 18O-labeled ozone was obtained by chemical trapping of O2 (1Δg) with EAS anthracene derivative and detected the corresponding 18O-labeled EAS endoperoxide. More evidence of the presence of O2 (1Δg) was unequivocally demonstrated by the direct characterization of the near-infrared light emission spectrum. (AU)