Abstract
We show here that copper carbenes generated from diazo acetamides alkylate single RNAs, mRNAs, or pools of total transcriptome RNA, delivering exclusively alkylation at the O6 position in guanine (O6G). Although the reaction is effective with free copper some RNA fragmentation occurs, a problem we resolve by developing a novel water-stable copper N-heterocyclic carbene complex. Carboxymethyl adducts at O6G are known mutagenic lesions in DNA but their relevance in RNA biochemistry is unknown. As a case-in-point we re-examine an old controversy regarding whether O6G damage in RNA is susceptible to direct RNA repair.
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