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Bifunctional DNA damaging agents continue to be the mainstay in various chemotherapeutic regimens used in the clinic. DNA interstrand crosslinks are considered to be the critical cytotoxic lesions for the biological activity of such agents. Gel-based electrophoretic assays can efficiently separate denatured single-stranded DNA from double-stranded, covalently-linked DNA resulting from the presence of an interstrand crosslink. The methods described here offer a simple way for the assessment of crosslinking efficiencies of bifunctional agents in both long fragments of DNA (e.g. 1-5 kb) and short oligonucleotide DNA duplexes. As the repair of interstrand crosslinks is a key determinant of cellular and clinical chemosensitivity, these methods can be useful for the characterization and isolation of site-directed adducted substrates for use in subsequent biochemical analysis of cellular recognition and DNA repair processes.
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Kiakos, K., Hartley, J.M., Hartley, J.A. (2010). Measurement of DNA Interstrand Crosslinking in Naked DNA Using Gel-Based Methods. In: Fox, K. (eds) Drug-DNA Interaction Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 613. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-418-0_18
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