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Inducible responses to DNA damage in the mouse embryo fibroblasts cell line C3H/10T1/2 and its transformed counterpart C3H/MCA

Thesis/Dissertation ·
OSTI ID:6148510

Early passage mouse embryo fibroblasts cells (C3H/10T1/2) were treated with ultraviolet (UV) radiation of 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) in order to determine whether such treatment induced DNA repair processes, measured as increased survival and mutagenesis of Herpes simplex (HSV-1). No enhanced host cell reactivation of UV-irradiated virus was observed following treatment of cells with UV-irradiation or TPA. Replication of undamaged virus in untreated C3H cells resulted in an increase over the background mutation frequency. When the cells were UV-irradiated and infected with unirradiated virus, a decrease in mutagenesis was observed. Decreased untargeted mutagenesis was shown to be dose- and time-dependent, reaching a minimum at a fluence of 5-7 Jm/sup /minus/2/ for 24 hours between irradiation and infection of cells. There was no change in mutagenesis of UV-irradiated virus grown in UV-irradiated cells compared to untreated cells. The repair capacity of methylcholanthrene-transformed C3H cells (MCA cells) was compared with untransformed C3H cells. The cell lines demonstrated similar cell survival curves following UV-irradiation but differed markedly in their ability to repair damaged HSV-1.

Research Organization:
Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park (USA)
OSTI ID:
6148510
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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