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New Perspectives on Unscheduled DNA Synthesis: Functional Assay for Global Genomic DNA Nucleotide Excision Repair. Methods Mol Biol 2020; 2102:483-507. [PMID: 31989573 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-0223-2_27] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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The unscheduled DNA synthesis (UDS) assay measures the ability of a cell to perform global genomic nucleotide excision repair (NER). This chapter provides instructions for the application of this technique by creating 6-4 photoproducts and pyrimidine dimers using UV-C (254 nm) irradiation. This procedure is designed specifically for quantification of the 6-4 photoproducts. Repair is quantified by the amount of radioactive thymidine incorporated during repair synthesis after this insult, and radioactivity is evaluated by grain counting after autoradiography. The results have been used to clinically diagnose human DNA repair deficiency disorders, and provide a basis for investigation of repair deficiency in human tissues or tumors. Genomic sequencing to establish the presence of specific mutations is also used now for clinical diagnosis of DNA repair deficiency syndromes. Few functional assays are available which directly measure the capacity to perform NER on the entire genome. Since live cells are required for this assay, explant culture techniques must be previously established. Host cell reactivation (HCR). As discussed in Chap. 28 is not an equivalent technique, as it measures only transcription-coupled repair (TCR) at active genes, a small subset of total NER. Our laboratory also explored the fluorescent label-based Click-iT assay that uses EdU as the label, rather than 3H thymidine. Despite emerging studies in the literature finding this assay to be useful for other purposes, we found that the EdU-based UDS assay was not consistent or reproducible compared with the 3H thymidine-based assay.
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Alanazi JS, Latimer JJ. Host Cell Reactivation: Assay for Actively Transcribed DNA (Nucleotide Excision) Repair Using Luciferase Family Expression Vectors. Methods Mol Biol 2020; 2102:509-528. [PMID: 31989574 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-0223-2_28] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Host cell reactivation (HCR) is a transfection-based assay in which intact cells repair damage localized to exogenous DNA. This chapter provides instructions for the application of this technique, using as an exemplar UV irradiation as a source of damage to a luciferase reporter plasmid. Through measurement of the activity of a successfully transcribed and translated reporter enzyme, the amount of damaged plasmid that a cell can "reactivate" or repair and express can be quantitated. Different DNA repair pathways can be analyzed by this technique by damaging the reporter plasmid in different ways. Since it involves repair of a transcriptionally active gene, when applied to UV damage the HCR assay measures the capacity of the host cells to perform transcription-coupled repair (TCR), a subset of the overall nucleotide excision repair pathway that specifically targets transcribed gene sequences. This method features two ways to perform the assay using expression vectors with luciferase and beta galactosidase, as well as with firefly luciferase and Renilla luciferase using the same luminometer.
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- Jowaher S Alanazi
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nova Southeastern University and AutoNation Breast Cancer Institute, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nova Southeastern University and AutoNation Breast Cancer Institute, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA.
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Latimer JJ, Majekwana VJ, Pabón-Padín YR, Pimpley MR, Grant SG. Regulation and disregulation of mammalian nucleotide excision repair: a pathway to nongermline breast carcinogenesis. Photochem Photobiol 2014; 91:493-500. [PMID: 25393451 DOI: 10.1111/php.12387] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2014] [Accepted: 10/27/2014] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Nucleotide excision repair (NER) is an important modulator of disease, especially in constitutive deficiencies such as the cancer predisposition syndrome Xeroderma pigmentosum. We have found profound variation in NER capacity among normal individuals, between cell-types and during carcinogenesis. NER is a repair system for many types of DNA damage, and therefore many types of genotoxic carcinogenic exposures, including ultraviolet light, products of organic combustion, metals and oxidative stress. Because NER is intimately related to cellular metabolism, requiring components of both the DNA replicative and transcription machinery, it has a narrow range of functional viability. Thus, genes in the NER pathway are expressed at the low levels manifested by, for example, nuclear transcription factors. As NER activity and gene expression vary by cell-type, it is inherently epigenetically regulated. Furthermore, this epigenetic modulation is disregulated during sporadic breast carcinogenesis. Loss of NER is one basis of genomic instability, a required element in cellular transformation, and one that potentially influences response to therapy. In this study, we demonstrate differences in NER capacity in eight adult mouse tissues, and place this result into the context of our previous work on mouse extraembryonic tissues, normal human tissues and sporadic early stage human breast cancer.
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- Jean J Latimer
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL
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Latimer JJ, Kelly CM. Unscheduled DNA synthesis: the clinical and functional assay for global genomic DNA nucleotide excision repair. Methods Mol Biol 2014; 1105:511-32. [PMID: 24623250 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-739-6_36] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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The unscheduled DNA synthesis (UDS) assay measures the ability of a cell to perform global genomic nucleotide excision repair (NER). This chapter provides instructions for the application of this technique by creating 6-4 photoproducts and pyrimidine dimers using UV-C irradiation. This procedure is designed specifically for quantification of the 6-4 photoproducts. Repair is quantified by the amount of radioactive thymidine incorporated during repair synthesis after this insult, and radioactivity is evaluated by grain counting after autoradiography. The results are used to clinically diagnose human DNA repair deficiency disorders and provide a basis for investigation of repair deficiency in human tissues or tumors. No other functional assay is available that directly measures the capacity to perform NER on the entire genome without the use of specific antibodies. Since live cells are required for this assay, explant culture techniques must be previously established. Host cell reactivation (HCR), as discussed in Chapter 37, is not an equivalent technique, as it measures only transcription-coupled repair (TCR) at active genes, a small subset of total NER.
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- Jean J Latimer
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nova Southeastern University, 3301 College Avenue, Fort Lauderdale-Davie, FL, 33314-7796, USA,
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Host cell reactivation (HCR) is a transfection-based assay in which intact cells repair damage localized to exogenous DNA. This chapter provides instructions for the application of this technique, using as an exemplar UV irradiation as a source of damage to a luciferase reporter plasmid. Through measurement of the activity of a successfully transcribed and translated reporter enzyme, the amount of damaged plasmid that a cell can "reactivate" or repair and express can be quantitated. Different DNA repair pathways can be analyzed by this technique by damaging the reporter plasmid in different ways. Since it involves repair of a transcriptionally active gene, when applied to UV damage the HCR assay measures the capacity of the host cells to perform transcription-coupled repair, a subset of the overall nucleotide excision repair pathway that specifically targets transcribed gene sequences.
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Nucleotide excision repair deficiency is intrinsic in sporadic stage I breast cancer. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2010; 107:21725-30. [PMID: 21118987 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0914772107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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The molecular etiology of breast cancer has proven to be remarkably complex. Most individual oncogenes are disregulated in only approximately 30% of breast tumors, indicating that either very few molecular alterations are common to the majority of breast cancers, or that they have not yet been identified. In striking contrast, we now show that 19 of 19 stage I breast tumors tested with the functional unscheduled DNA synthesis assay exhibited a significant deficiency of DNA nucleotide excision repair (NER) capacity relative to normal epithelial tissue from disease-free controls (n = 23). Loss of DNA repair capacity, including the complex, damage-comprehensive NER pathway, results in genomic instability, a hallmark of carcinogenesis. By microarray analysis, mRNA expression levels for 20 canonical NER genes were reduced in representative tumor samples versus normal. Significant reductions were observed in 19 of these genes analyzed by the more sensitive method of RNase protection. These results were confirmed at the protein level for five NER gene products. Taken together, these data suggest that NER deficiency may play an important role in the etiology of sporadic breast cancer, and that early-stage breast cancer may be intrinsically susceptible to genotoxic chemotherapeutic agents, such as cis-platinum, whose damage is remediated by NER. In addition, reduced NER capacity, or reduced expression of NER genes, could provide a basis for the development of biomarkers for the identification of tumorigenic breast epithelium.
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Latimer JJ, Johnson JM, Miles TD, Dimsdale JM, Edwards RP, Kelley JL, Grant SG. Cell-type-specific level of DNA nucleotide excision repair in primary human mammary and ovarian epithelial cell cultures. Cell Tissue Res 2008; 333:461-7. [PMID: 18575893 DOI: 10.1007/s00441-008-0645-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2007] [Accepted: 05/13/2008] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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DNA repair, a fundamental function of cellular metabolism, has long been presumed to be constitutive and equivalent in all cells. However, we have previously shown that normal levels of nucleotide excision repair (NER) can vary by 20-fold in a tissue-specific pattern. We have now successfully established primary cultures of normal ovarian tissue from seven women by using a novel culture system originally developed for breast epithelial cells. Epithelial cells in these cultures aggregated to form three-dimensional structures called "attached ovarian epispheres". The availability of these actively proliferating cell cultures allowed us to measure NER functionally and quantitatively by the unscheduled DNA synthesis (UDS) assay, a clinical test used to diagnose constitutive deficiencies in NER capacity. We determined that ovarian epithelial cells manifested an intermediate level of NER capacity in humans, viz., only 25% of that of foreskin fibroblasts, but still 2.5-fold higher than that of peripheral blood lymphocytes. This level of DNA repair capacity was indistinguishable from that of normal breast epithelial cells, suggesting that it might be characteristic of the epithelial cell type. Similar levels of NER activity were observed in cultures established from a disease-free known carrier of a BRCA1 truncation mutation, consistent with previous normal results shown in breast epithelium and blood lymphocytes. These results establish that at least three "normal" levels of such DNA repair occur in human tissues, and that NER capacity is epigenetically regulated during cell differentiation and development.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jean J Latimer
- Center for Environmental Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA.
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Research has shown that lymphocytes of high-distress patients have reduced DNA repair relative to that of low-distress patients and healthy controls. Furthermore, deficits in repair are associated with an increased risk of cancer. Using and academic stress model, we hypothesized that students would exhibit lower levels of Nucleotide Excision Repair (NER) during a stressful exam period when compared to a lower stress period. Participants were 19 healthy graduate level students. NER was measured in lymphocytes using the unscheduled DNA synthesis (UDS) assay with slide autoradiography. Contrary to prediction, mean values for NER significantly increased during the higher stress period relative to the lower stress period controlling for background differences in repair. Furthermore, lymphocytes had significantly increased repair of endogenous damage during the higher stress period. Stress appears to directly increase DNA repair. Additionally, stress may increase DNA repair indirectly by increasing damage to DNA.
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- MICHAEL J. FORLENZA
- Division of Behavioral Medicine and Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, 3600 Forbes Ave, Suite 405, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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- University of Pittsburgh Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, Magee Women’s Research Institute
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- Division of Behavioral Medicine and Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, 3600 Forbes Ave, Suite 405, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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Gashegu J, Vanmuylder N, Kassengera Z, Evrard L, Glineur R, Philippson C, Rooze M, Louryan S. [Expression of caspase 3 and p53 during physiological apoptosis and apoptosis induced by three teratologic agents during early craniofacial development of the mouse embryo]. Morphologie 2005; 89:82-9. [PMID: 16110744 DOI: 10.1016/s1286-0115(05)83243-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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The neural crest-derived mesectoderm gives rise to physiologic apoptosis areas in early vertebrate embryos. Certain teratologic agents increase this phenomenon. The purpose of this work was to detect caspase 3 (which is associated with the apoptosis cascade) and p53 in cell death areas, both during physiological apoptosis and during apoptosis induced by three agents (retinoic acid, methyl-triazene, irradiation). Antibody revelation was performed using the aBC peroxidase kit. Quantifications were also performed on histological sections. We observed caspase 3 uptake on some apoptotic and preapoptotic cells in control embryos, and in the embryos exposed to the three teratogens. Immunoreactivity generally preceded the development of cytological features of apoptosis. However, p53 was expressed only in the embryos exposed to ionizing radiation and methyl-triazene (an alkylating agent), but not significantly in embryos exposed to retinoic acid. The present results throw some light on apoptosis mechanisms in several teratologic conditions.
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- J Gashegu
- Laboratoire d'Anatomie et Embryologie, Faculté de Médecine, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, CP 619, route de Lennik 808, B 1070 Bruxelles
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Kelly CM, Latimer JJ. Unscheduled DNA synthesis: a functional assay for global genomic nucleotide excision repair. METHODS IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY (CLIFTON, N.J.) 2005; 291:303-20. [PMID: 15502232 PMCID: PMC4751077 DOI: 10.1385/1-59259-840-4:303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/07/2023]
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The unscheduled DNA synthesis (UDS) assay measures a cell's ability to perform global genomic nucleotide excision repair (NER). This chapter provides instructions for the application of this technique in living cells by creating 6-4 photoproducts and pyrimidine dimers using UVC irradiation, then allowing for their repair. Repair is quantified by the amount of radioactive thymidine incorporated after this insult, and the length of time allowed for this incorporation is specific for repair of particular lesions. Radioactivity is evaluated by grain counting after autoradiography. The results are used to diagnosis repair-deficient disorders clinically and provide a basis for investigation of repair deficiency in human tissues or tumors. At the present time, no other functional assay is available that directly measures the capacity to perform NER on the entire genome without the use of specific antibodies. Since live cells are required for this assay, explant culture techniques must be previously established. Host cell reactivation, as discussed in Chapter 28, is not an equivalent technique, as it specifically measures transcription-coupled repair at active genes, a subset of total NER.
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- Crystal M Kelly
- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Johnson JM, Latimer JJ. Analysis of DNA repair using transfection-based host cell reactivation. METHODS IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY (CLIFTON, N.J.) 2005; 291:321-35. [PMID: 15502233 PMCID: PMC4860737 DOI: 10.1385/1-59259-840-4:321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/01/2023]
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Host cell reactivation (HCR) is a transfection-based assay in which intact cells repair damage localized to exogenous DNA. This chapter provides instructions for the application of this technique using UV irradiation as a source of damage to a luciferase reporter plasmid. Through measurement of the activity of a reporter enzyme, the amount of damaged plasmid that a cell can "reactivate" or repair and express can be quantitated. Different DNA repair pathways can be analyzed by this technique by damaging the reporter plasmid in different ways. Because it involves repair of a transcriptionally active gene, when applied to UV damage the HCR assay measures the capacity of the host cells to perform transcription-coupled repair (TCR), a subset of the overall nucleotide excision repair pathway that specifically targets transcribed gene sequences.
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- Jennifer M Johnson
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA, USA
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Latimer JJ, Nazir T, Flowers LC, Forlenza MJ, Beaudry-Rodgers K, Kelly CM, Conte JA, Shestak K, Kanbour-Shakir A, Grant SG. Unique tissue-specific level of DNA nucleotide excision repair in primary human mammary epithelial cultures. Exp Cell Res 2003; 291:111-21. [PMID: 14597413 PMCID: PMC4729389 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-4827(03)00368-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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DNA repair is essential for the maintenance of genomic integrity and stability. Nucleotide excision repair (NER) is a major pathway responsible for remediation of damage caused by UV light, bulky adducts, and cross-linking agents. We now show that NER capacity is differentially expressed in human tissues. We established primary cultures of peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBLs: N = 33) and foreskin fibroblasts (FF: N = 6), as well as adult breast tissue (N = 22) using a unique culture system, and measured their NER capacity using the unscheduled DNA synthesis (UDS) functional assay. Relative to FF, primary cultures of breast cells exhibited only 24.6 +/- 2.1% of NER capacity and PBLs only 8.9 +/- 1.2%. Cells from the breast therefore have a unique and distinctive DNA repair capacity. The NER capacities of all three cell types had similar coefficients of variation in the range of 10%-15%, which should be taken into account when running controls for this contextual assay. Unlike previous studies and speculation in the field, we found that NER was not affected by cell morphology, donor age, or proliferation as measured by the S phase index. While the NER capacity of the transformed lymphoblastoid cell line TK6 was within the range of our PBL samples, the breast tumor-derived MDA MB-231 cell line was four-fold higher than normal breast tissue. These studies show that analysis of baseline DNA repair in normal human cell types is critical as a basis for evaluation of the effects of "mutator" genes as etiological factors in the development of cancer.
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- Jean J Latimer
- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
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DNA damage caused by genotoxic agents can impact on virtually any cellular process due to its ability to affect gene expression and subsequent gene products. The importance of repairing damaged DNA is evidenced by the variety of DNA repair pathways that have evolved in all living organisms, and the human syndromes caused by a lack of this repair ability. This review focuses on the expression and activity of DNA repair pathways during mammalian organogenesis, and the role of these pathways in ensuring the stability of the conceptal genome. DNA repair capacity may play a role also in the response of the conceptus to genotoxic agents that may induce malformations; the consequences of exposure to a genotoxic agent during organogenesis depend on the extent of the damage and on the ability of the embryo to respond by repairing DNA or arresting cell division. The four main repair pathways (nucleotide excision repair, base excision repair, mismatch repair, and recombination repair) are expressed to various degrees during organogenesis, as are members of the genotoxic stress-activated cell cycle checkpoint pathways. Developmental-stage-specific alterations in transcript levels, protein levels, as well as activity, indicate that the regulation of DNA repair pathways during development is complex. The importance of DNA repair pathways in endogenous damage control is illustrated by the sensitivity of development to their disruption if some of these genes are mutated. Furthermore, the conceptus has a limited capacity to alter DNA repair responses following exposure to genotoxic agents.
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- Robert K Vinson
- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, McGill University, 3655 Promenade Sir-William-Osler, Montreal, Que., Canada H3G-1Y6
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Grant SG, Wenger SL, Latimer JJ, Thull D, Burke LW. Analysis of genomic instability using multiple assays in a patient with Rothmund-Thomson syndrome. Clin Genet 2000; 58:209-15. [PMID: 11076043 PMCID: PMC4712958 DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0004.2000.580308.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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We report on a patient with Rothmund-Thomson syndrome (RTS) whose cytogenetic evaluation showed a normal karyotype with no evidence of trisomy mosaicism or chromosomal rearrangements. Cultured lymphocytes from the patient, her mother, and a control exposed to mitomycin C and diepoxybutane did not show increased sensitivity to the dialkylating agents. Unlike some previous reports, we found no evidence of a deficiency in nucleotide excision repair, as measured with the functional unscheduled DNA synthesis assay. Glycophorin A analysis of red blood cells for somatic mutation revealed suspiciously high frequencies of both allele loss and loss-and-duplication variants in the blood of the patient, a pattern consistent with observations in other RecQ-related human diseases, and evidence for clonal expansion of a mutant clone in the mother. Discrepant results in the literature may reflect true heterogeneity in the disease or the fact that a consistent set of tests has not been applied to RTS patients.
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- S G Grant
- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Layher SK, Cleaver JE. Quantification of XPA gene expression levels in human and mouse cell lines by competitive RT-PCR. Mutat Res 1997; 383:9-19. [PMID: 9042415 DOI: 10.1016/s0921-8777(96)00040-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Expression of the mammalian photoproduct-specific DNA-binding protein XPA has been quantified by competitive reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction, a method that provides relative numbers of mRNA molecules per cell. Human primary and simian virus (SV)40-transformed fibroblasts had 4.8 and 8.4 transcripts per cell, respectively; mouse embryonic and SV40-transformed fibroblasts had 6.7 and 5.5 transcripts per cell, respectively. None of these differences are significant, and the mean value of 5 to 8 transcripts per cell indicates that XPA is expressed as a low-abundance mRNA. Two cell lines transfected with XPA on a conditional promoter showed different numbers of XPA mRNA molecules, consistent with their respective responses to an inducer and their sensitivity to ultraviolet light. The similarity of results in human and mouse cells shows that a difference in XPA expression cannot account for the greater repair of nontranscribed DNA in human cells.
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- S K Layher
- Laboratory of Radiobiology and Environmental Health, University of California, San Francisco 94143-0750, USA
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