DNA repair response in human epidermal keratinocytes from donors of different age

Journal Article · Mon Nov 01 04:00:00 EST 1982 · J. Invest. Dermatol.; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/1523-1747.ep12500087· OSTI ID:6453687

Liu, S C; Parsons, C S; Hanawalt, P C

We have compared the excision-repair and growth properties of epidermal keratinocytes from humans of different ages. Keratinocytes isolated from newborn and adult abdominal skin at autopsy were cultured on collagen gels. Repair replication was assayed by the 5-bromodeoxyuridine density-labeling method following ultraviolet (UV) irradiation (254 nm) of the cultures. The keratinocytes from newborn donors proliferated more rapidly and attained a higher concentration at confluence than did those from aged donors. Semiconservative DNA replication was inhibited by UV radiation to an equal extent in cell cultures from newborns and adults. After a UV dose of 13 J/m2, the time course of DNA repair was similar for the respective cultures. Furthermore, there were no significant differences in the time course of repair for keratinocytes in the proliferative or the plateau phase of growth. The dose-response curves for repair replication in cells from both young and old donors maximized at about 50 J/m2 but the attenuation in repair at higher doses appeared somewhat greater in cells from older donors. We conclude that no significant age-related differences exist in the rate and extent of the repair-replication response of human epidermal keratinocytes to UV-radiation damage in DNA. However, it remains to be determined whether other cellular recovery responses to damaged DNA are also relatively unrelated to age.

• Research Organization: Department of Dermatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California
• OSTI ID: 6453687
• Journal Information: J. Invest. Dermatol.; (United States), Journal Name: J. Invest. Dermatol.; (United States) Vol. 79:5; ISSN JIDEA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.
AGE DEPENDENCE
ANIMAL CELLS
ANIMAL TISSUES
BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS
BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS
BIOLOGICAL RECOVERY
BIOLOGICAL REPAIR
BODY
COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS
DNA
DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIPS
DOSES
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
EPIDERMIS
EPITHELIUM
NUCLEIC ACIDS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANS
RADIATION DOSES
RADIATION EFFECTS
RADIATIONS
RADIOSENSITIVITY
RECOVERY
REPAIR
SKIN
TISSUES
ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION