IMR Press / FBL / Volume 28 / Issue 10 / DOI: 10.31083/j.fbl2810252
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8-Oxoguanine-DNA-Glycosylase Gene Polymorphism and the Effects of an Alternating Magnetic Field on the Sensitivity of Peripheral Blood
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1 Department of Radiophysics and Nanotechnology, Kuban State University, 350040 Krasnodar, Russia
2 Laboratory of Problems of Stable Isotope Spreading in Living Systems, Federal Research Center the Southern Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 344006 Rostov-on-Don, Russia
3 Department of Fundamental and Clinical Biochemistry, Kuban State Medical University, 350063 Krasnodar, Russia
4 Administrative department, All-Russian Research Institute of Phytopathology, 143050 Moscow region, Russia
*Correspondence: tekytska@mail.ru (Elena Tekutskaya)
Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2023, 28(10), 252; https://doi.org/10.31083/j.fbl2810252
Submitted: 14 July 2023 | Revised: 24 August 2023 | Accepted: 6 September 2023 | Published: 20 October 2023
Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s). Published by IMR Press.
This is an open access article under the CC BY 4.0 license.
Abstract

Background: The production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in animals and cells often results from exposure to low-intensity factors, including magnetic fields. Much of the discussion about the initiation of oxidative stress and the role of ROS and radicals in the effects of magnetic fields has centered on radical-induced DNA damage. Methods: The DNA concentration in the final solution was determined spectrophotometrically. Typing of the polymorphic variant rs1052133 of the 8-oxoguanin DNA glycosylase (hOGG1) gene was performed by polymerase chain reaction. An enzyme immunoassay was performed to determine the level of 8-oxyguanine in DNA. To process samples exposed to an alternating magnetic field, the authors developed a device for the automated study of biological fluids in an alternating magnetic field. The content of hydrogen peroxide in aqueous solutions of DNA was determined using the spectrophotometric method. Results: It was experimentally determined that an increase in the concentration of hydrogen peroxide in an aqueous medium by 3–5 times under the action of a low-frequency magnetic field reduces the resistance of the genomic material to oxidative modification and the accumulation of 8-oxyguanine in DNA. A model is proposed for the mechanism of action of a low-frequency magnetic field on aqueous solutions of nucleic acids and proteins, which satisfies the model of a chemical oscillator for the transformations of reactive oxygen species in an aqueous medium. The model illustrates the oscillating nature of the processes occurring in an aqueous solution of DNA and makes it possible to predict changes in the concentration of hydrogen peroxide in an aqueous solution of biopolymers, depending on the frequency of the acting low-intensity magnetic field. Conclusions: The key element in the mechanisms involved in the effects of low-intensity magnetic field on living systems is the occurrence of ROS generation in the aquatic environment of chemical oscillators, in which the competition of physical and chemical processes (electron transfers, reactions of decay and addition of radicals, spin magnetically induced conversion, synthesis, and decay of the longest-lived form—hydrogen peroxide) is controlled by a magnetic field.

Keywords
low-frequency magnetic field
8-oxoguanine-DNA-glycosylase
polymorphism
hydrogen peroxide
reactive oxygen species
chemical oscillator
Funding
FZEN-2023-0006/Kuban State University
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