USE OF METABOLIC INHIBITORS TO INVESTIGATE THE EXCISION REPAIR OF PYRIMIDINE DIMERS AND NON-DIMER DNA DAMAGES INDUCED IN HUMAN AND ICR 2A FROG CELLS BY SOLAR ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION |
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Authors: | Chuck C.-K.,Chao &dagger Barry S.,Rosenstein |
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Affiliation: | Radiation Biology Section, Department of Radiology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75235, USA |
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Abstract: | Abstract— ICR 2A frog and normal human skin fibroblasts were exposed to either 5 J/m2 of 254 nm UV or 50 kJ/m2 of the Mylar-filtered solar UV wavelengths produced by a fluorescent sunlamp. Following these approximately equitoxic treatments, cells were incubated in medium containing the DNA synthesis inhibitors hydroxyurea (HU) and 1–β-D-arabinofuranosyl cytosine (ara C) for 0–20 min (human fibroblasts) or 0–4 h (frog cells) to accumulate DNA breaks resulting from enzymatic incision during excision repair. It was found that breaks were formed in human cells at about a 200-f-old higher rate compared with the ICR 2A cells indicating a relatively low capacity for excision repair in the frog cells. In addition, the rate of DNA break formation in solar UV-irradiated cells was only one-third of the level detected in 254 nm-irradiated cells. This result is consistent with the conclusion that the pathway(s) involved in the repair of solar UV-induced DNA damages differs from the repair of lesions produced in cells exposed to 254 nm UV. |
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