Strand specific DNA repair in different stages of the cell cycle
Conference
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· Cytometry (Baltimore); (United States)
OSTI ID:6827792
- Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
The genomic location of a DNA lesions can dramatically influence the efficiency of repair. For example, in asynchronous human cells there is preferential repair of UV-induced cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPDs) in the transcribed strands of active genes. The efficiencies of repair in the non-transcribed strands of the genes examined thus far are essentially equivalent to that in the genome overall, but significantly slower than that in the transcribed strands. The authors' current interest is how these DNA repair efficiencies might be influenced by the phase of the cell cycle. They developed a method to assay repair of specific DNA sequences in any phase of the cell cycle, using a synchronization procedure that does not perturb the cell cycle. Ethanol fixed cells were stained with chromomycin A3 and sorted on the basis of DNA content. Fractions were collected corresponding to G1; early, middle and late S; and G2/M. They are currently examining the initial frequency of CPDs and the efficiencies of repair in each strand of the dihydrofolate reductase gene in cultured human cells. These experiments are important to an understanding of how the heterogeneity in DNA damage processing in particular sequences and as a function of the cell cycle may be involved in biological endpoints such as mutagenesis and malignant transformation.
- OSTI ID:
- 6827792
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9303114--
- Conference Information:
- Journal Name: Cytometry (Baltimore); (United States) Journal Volume: 6
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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