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Compound-specific DNA adduct profiling with nanopore sequencing and IonStats

Koski, Y.; Patel, D.; Kakko von Koch, N.; Jouhten, P.; Aaltonen, L.; Palin, K.; Sahu, B.; Pitkanen, E.

2025-11-01 bioinformatics
10.1101/2025.10.31.685820 bioRxiv
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AO_SCPLOWBSTRACTC_SCPLOWCovalently bound DNA adducts are mutation precursors that contribute to aging and diseases such as cancer. Accurate detection of adducts in the genome will shed light on tumorigenesis. Commonly used detection methods are unable to pinpoint the exact genomic locations of adducts. Long-read nanopore sequencing has the potential to accurately detect multiple types of DNA adducts at single-nucleotide precision. In this study, we developed a novel statistical toolkit, IonStats, to profile DNA adducts in nanopore sequencing data. With IonStats, we investigated the effects of four adduct-inducing genotoxic compounds on nanopore sequencing, and found both shared and compound-specific perturbations in base quality scores, ionic current profiles, and translocation dynamics. Notably, aristolochic acid II and melphalan treatments profoundly altered nanopore readouts and led to substantial sequence-specific read interruptions. Our study shows that nanopore sequencing can be effectively employed to detect and characterize DNA adducts, paving the way for high-resolution, high-throughput profiling of DNA damage and the exposome.

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