DNA-AMP

DNA Adduct Molecular Probes: Elucidating the Diet-Cancer Connection at Chemical Resolution

 Coordinatore EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZURICH 

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 Nazionalità Coordinatore Switzerland [CH]
 Totale costo 1˙500˙000 €
 EC contributo 1˙500˙000 €
 Programma FP7-IDEAS-ERC
Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
 Code Call ERC-2010-StG_20091118
 Funding Scheme ERC-SG
 Anno di inizio 2010
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2010-09-01   -   2015-08-31

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZURICH

 Organization address address: Raemistrasse 101
city: ZUERICH
postcode: 8092

contact info
Titolo: Prof.
Nome: Shana
Cognome: Sturla
Email: send email
Telefono: +41 44 632 91 75
Fax: +41 44 634 53 51

CH (ZUERICH) hostInstitution 1˙500˙000.00
2    EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZURICH

 Organization address address: Raemistrasse 101
city: ZUERICH
postcode: 8092

contact info
Titolo: Prof.
Nome: Shana Jocette
Cognome: Sturla
Email: send email
Telefono: +41 44 6329175

CH (ZUERICH) hostInstitution 1˙500˙000.00

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reactivity    food    biological    interactions    structure    basis    probes    formed    molecular    tools    carcinogenesis    cancer    potentially    adducts    bulky    chemical    dna    components    carcinogens    levels   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Bulky DNA adducts formed from chemical carcinogens dictate structure, reactivity, and mechanism of chemical-biological reactions; therefore, their identification is central to evaluating and mitigating cancer risk. Natural food components, or others associated with certain food preparations or metabolic conversions, initiate potentially damaging genetic mutations after forming DNA adducts, which contribute critically to carcinogenesis, despite the fact that they are typically repaired biochemically and they are formed at extremely low levels. This situation places significant limitations on our ability to understand the role of formation, repair, and mutagenesis on the basis of the complex DNA reactivity profiles of food components. The long-term goals of this research are to contribute basic knowledge and advanced experimental tools required to understand, on the basis of chemical structure, the contributions of chronic, potentially adverse, dietary chemical carcinogen exposure to cancer development. It is proposed that a new class of synthetic nucleosides, devised on the basis of preliminary discoveries made in the independent laboratory of the applicant, will serve as molecular probes for bulky DNA adducts and can be effectively used to study and AMPlify, i.e. as a sensitive diagnostic tool, low levels of chemically-specific modes of DNA damage. The proposed research is a chemical biology-based approach to the study of carcinogenesis. Experiments involve chemical synthesis, thermodynamic and kinetic characterization DNA-DNA and enzyme-DNA interactions, and nanoparticle-based molecular probes. The proposal describes a potentially ground-breaking approach for profiling the biological reactivities of chemical carcinogens, and we expect to gain fundamental knowledge and chemical tools that can contribute to the prevention of diseases influenced by gene-environment interactions.'

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