Journal of Jianghan University(Natural Science Edition) ›› 2012, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (5): 80-84.

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Combined Effect Study of C60/Cu2+ Affecting Plasmid DNA Conformation

LI Jia1,LIN Yan2,LI Zhun-jie3,LI Zheng1,LIANG Yong1   

  1. 1. School of Medicine,Jianghan University,Wuhan 430056,Hubei,China;
    2. College of Recourses and Environment,Huazhong Agricultural University,Wuhan 430074,China;
    3. College of Life Scicence,Jianghan University,Wuhan 430056,Hubei,China
  • Received:2012-07-06 Online:2012-10-20 Published:2013-11-07

Abstract: The toxic effects of carbon nanoparticles have been increasingly gaining attention. In this research, the combined effect of C60/Cu2+ on DNA conformation was comparatively studied by altering various reaction conditions, to assess the biological toxicity of carbon nanoparticles. The results showed that without photoexcitation, C60/Cu2+ could significantly induce the conversion of supercoiled DNA into nicked DNA, and this DNA cleavage effect was enhanced as the concentration of Cu2+ and C60 increased. Moreover, the cleaved DNA could be reconnected to circular DNA by T4 DNA ligase, which indicated that the phosphodiester bond was the splicing site of C60/Cu2+. In addition, various ROS savengers could not reduce the DNA cleavage effect of C60/Cu2+, which was relate to the feature that Cu2+ played a pivotal role in DNA cleavage. Taken together, these results demonstrated that C60/Cu2+ could significantly induce the DNA cleavage without photoexcitation, which exhibited obvious combined effect. Further consideration should be given in assessment of their potential genotoxicity.

Key words: Cu2+, C60, T4 DNA ligase, ROS

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