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Implications of reiterative DNA—Metal ion complexes in the induction and development of neoplastic cells

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Experimental data on the content in metal ions of DNA preparations from various neoplastic and healthy tissues are summarized: metal ions are preferentially bound to reiterative DNA sequences, where they may induce conformational variations and thus modify the binding of effector molecules such as repressors and polymerases.

A model is described where essential and toxic metals are successively loaded on ligand acceptor groups of increasing affinity and thus may reach the final active sites: enzymes and reiterative DNA sequences (equated at least partially to regulative DNA sequences). The effects of some molecules, including peptides, antibiotics, growth factors, hormones, and antineoplastic substances, on DNA conformation could be explained in part by their chelating ability.

The neoplastic state may be induced by a modification of metal ion transfer chains: quantitatively by a continuous derepression of genes coding for metal ligands, genes that are only temporarily derepressed during development in normal cells, and qualitatively by modifications of the nucleotidic sequence of structural genes leading to an increase of the chelating ability of the coded metal ligand.

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Guille, E., Grisvard, J. & Sissoëff, I. Implications of reiterative DNA—Metal ion complexes in the induction and development of neoplastic cells. Biol Trace Elem Res 1, 299–311 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02778832

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