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Mutagenicity of heteroaromatic amines: Computational study on the influence of methyl substituents
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2016-09-28Registro en:
Borosky, Gabriela Leonor; Mutagenicity of heteroaromatic amines: Computational study on the influence of methyl substituents; Elsevier Science Inc; Journal Of Molecular Graphics & Modelling; 69; 28-9-2016; 92-102
1093-3263
CONICET Digital
CONICET
Autor
Borosky, Gabriela Leonor
Resumen
Quantum mechanical calculations were performed to elucidate the factors determining the variations in mutagenic activity within groups of isomeric heteroaromatic amines that differ in the position of methyl substituents. Formation energies for noncovalent complexes and covalent DNA adducts were evaluated by means of high level quantum chemical methods. According to the computational results in this work, covalent adduct stability is proposed to influence the relative mutagenicities of structurally related heterocyclic amines. The stability of covalent C8-dG DNA adducts was found to be mainly determined by π-stacking interactions between the fused ring system of the heteroaromatic amines and the flanking nucleobases. Relative mutagenicity of amines of very related structure is proposed to be regulated by both nitrenium ion and covalent adduct stabilities.