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SCE formation after exposure of CHO cells prelabelled with BrdU or biotin-dUTP to various DNA-damaging agents

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Title SCE formation after exposure of CHO cells prelabelled with BrdU or biotin-dUTP to various DNA-damaging agents
 
Creator Stoilov, Lubomir
Wojcik, Andrzej
Giri, Ashok K
Obe, Gunter
 
Subject Molecular & Human Genetics
 
Description Formation of sister chromatid exchanges (SCE) is a mechanism of repair or bypass of DNA damage during S phase. Although SCE have been studied for a long time, the types of DNA lesions involved and the role of 5-bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) in SCE formation are a matter of debate. We have developed a novel method of differential labelling of sister chromatids with biotin-16-2'-deoxyuridine-5'-triphosphate (biotin-dUTP) and could show that a substantial proportion of radiation-induced SCE arise via damage to BrdU-moieties. The present investigations were performed to examine the role of BrdU in the formation of SCE by the endonucleases AluI and DNase I, as well as the alkylating agent mitomycin C (MMC). CHO cells unifilarily prelabelled with biotin-dUTP or BrdU were treated and the frequencies of SCE analysed in the first post-treatment mitoses. AluI induced similar frequencies of SCE in cells prelabelled with BrdU or biotin-dUTP. DNase I induced significantly more SCE in cells prelabelled with BrdU than with biotin-dUTP. MMC induced slightly more SCE in cells labelled with biotin-dUTP than BrdU, but the difference was not significant. The possible mechanisms responsible for the enhanced SCE frequency following DNase I treatment of cells prelabelled with BrdU are discussed.
 
Publisher Oxford University Press
 
Date 2002
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
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Identifier http://www.eprints.iicb.res.in/775/1/MUTAGENESIS__17_(5)_399%2D403;2002[30].pdf
Stoilov, Lubomir and Wojcik, Andrzej and Giri, Ashok K and Obe, Gunter (2002) SCE formation after exposure of CHO cells prelabelled with BrdU or biotin-dUTP to various DNA-damaging agents. Mutagenesis, 17 (5). pp. 399-403.
 
Relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mutage/17.5.399
http://www.eprints.iicb.res.in/775/