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Komatsu K, Tauchi H. Mechanistic insights into the survival curve of HeLa cells with a short shoulder and their S phase-specific sensitivity†. JOURNAL OF RADIATION RESEARCH 2024; 65:256-258. [PMID: 38151954 PMCID: PMC10959425 DOI: 10.1093/jrr/rrad097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2023] [Revised: 11/10/2023] [Indexed: 12/29/2023]
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HeLa cells are a cell line with two unique cellular features: a short-shouldered survival curve and two peaks of radioresistance during the cell cycle phase, while their underlying mechanisms remain unclear. We herein proposed that these radiobiological features are due to a common mechanism by which radiation suppresses homologous recombination repair (HRR) in a dose-dependent manner. This radio-suppression of HRR is mediated by an intra-S checkpoint and reduces survivals of cells in S phase, especially early S phase, resulting in both short shoulder and radioresistance with two peaks in the cell cycle. This new explanation may not be limited to HeLa cells since a similar close association of these features is also observed in other type of cells.
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Affiliation(s)
- Kenshi Komatsu
- Radiation Biology Center, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Yoshida-konoecho, Sakyo, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Ibaraki University, Bunkyo 2-1-1, Mito, Ibaraki 310-8512, Japan
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Tauchia H, Ichimasa M, Ichimasa Y, Shiraishi T, Morishima K, Matsuura S, Komatsu K. Studies of Mutagenesis Caused by Low Dose Rate Tritium Radiation Using a Novel Hyper-Sensitive Detection System. FUSION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 2017. [DOI: 10.13182/fst02-a22622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Hiroshi Tauchia
- Department of Environmental Sciences, Ibaraki University 2-1-1 Bunkyo, Mito, Ibaraki 310-8512, Japan +81-(0)29-228-8383
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, Ibaraki University 2-1-1 Bunkyo, Mito, Ibaraki 310-8512, Japan +81-(0)29-228-8383
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, Ibaraki University 2-1-1 Bunkyo, Mito, Ibaraki 310-8512, Japan +81-(0)29-228-8383
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- Department of Radiation Biology, Hiroshima University, 1-2-3 Kasumi, Minami-ku, Hiroshima 734-8553, Japan +81-(0)82-257-5813
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- Department of Radiation Biology, Hiroshima University, 1-2-3 Kasumi, Minami-ku, Hiroshima 734-8553, Japan +81-(0)82-257-5813
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- Department of Radiation Biology, Hiroshima University, 1-2-3 Kasumi, Minami-ku, Hiroshima 734-8553, Japan +81-(0)82-257-5813
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- Department of Radiation Biology, Hiroshima University, 1-2-3 Kasumi, Minami-ku, Hiroshima 734-8553, Japan +81-(0)82-257-5813
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Tauchi H, Waku H, Matsumoto E, Yara S, Okumura S, Iwata Y, Komatsu K, Furusawa Y, Eguchi-Kasai K, Tachibana A. Two major factors involved in the reverse dose-rate effect for somatic mutation induction are the cell cycle position and LET value. JOURNAL OF RADIATION RESEARCH 2009; 50:441-448. [PMID: 19506344 DOI: 10.1269/jrr.09033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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To study mechanisms which could be involved in the reverse dose rate effect observed during mutation induction after exposure to high LET radiation, synchronized mouse L5178Y cells were exposed to carbon 290 MeV/n beams with different LET values at the G2/M, G1, G1/S or S phases in the cell cycle. The frequency of Hprt-deficient (6-thioguanine-resistant) mutant induction was subsequently determined. The results showed that after exposure to high LET value radiation (50.8 and 76.5 keV/microm), maximum mutation frequencies were seen at the G2/M phase, but after exposure to lower LET radiation (13.3 keV/microm), the highest mutation frequencies were observed at the G1 phase. The higher LET beam always produced higher mutation frequencies in the G2/M phase than in the G1 phase, regardless of radiation dose. These results suggest that cells in the G2/M phase is hyper-sensitive for mutation induction from high LET radiation, but not to mutation induction from low LET radiation. Molecular analysis of mutation spectra showed that large deletions (which could include almost entire exons) of the mouse Hprt gene were most efficiently induced in G2/M cells irradiated with high LET radiation. These entire exon deletions were not as frequent in cells exposed to lower LET radiation. This suggests that inappropriate recombination repair might have occurred in response to condensed damage in condensed chromatin in the G2/M phase. In addition, by using a hyper-sensitive mutation detection system (GM06318-10 cells), a reverse dose-rate effect was clearly observed after exposure to carbon beams with higher LET values (66 keV/microm), but not after exposure to beams with lower LET values (13.3 keV/microm). Thus, G2/M sensitivity towards mutation induction, and the dependence on radiation LET values could both be major factors involved in the reverse dose rate effect produced by high LET radiation.
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- Hiroshi Tauchi
- Department of Biological Science, Faculty of Science, Ibaraki University, Ibaraki.
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Watanabe H, Kashimoto N, Kajimura J, Ishikawa M, Kamiya K. Tumor induction by monoenergetic neutrons in B6C3F1 mice. JOURNAL OF RADIATION RESEARCH 2007; 48:205-10. [PMID: 17443058 DOI: 10.1269/jrr.0614] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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This study was undertaken to investigate induction of tumors by monoenergetic neutrons in B6C3F1 mice. Individual groups of 6 week-old animals of both sexes (about 30 mice/group) were exposed to 0.5 Gy of various monoenergetic neutrons (dose rate 0.5 cGy/min) and then observed for 13 months. The incidences of tumors (mainly liver neoplasms) in non-irradiated male and female controls were 11% and 0%, respectively. In the irradiated animals, the incidences were 53%, 50%, 60% and 43% in males, and 75%, 81%, 71%, and 85% in females, after 0.18, 0.32, 0.6 and 1.0 MeV neutron exposure, respectively. There were no significant differences in the tumor induction rate among the different energy groups.
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- Hiromitsu Watanabe
- Department of Experimental Oncology, Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine, Hiroshima University.
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Vilenchik MM, Knudson AG. Inverse radiation dose-rate effects on somatic and germ-line mutations and DNA damage rates. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2000; 97:5381-6. [PMID: 10792040 PMCID: PMC25837 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.090099497] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The mutagenic effect of low linear energy transfer ionizing radiation is reduced for a given dose as the dose rate (DR) is reduced to a low level, a phenomenon known as the direct DR effect. Our reanalysis of published data shows that for both somatic and germ-line mutations there is an opposite, inverse DR effect, with reduction from low to very low DR, the overall dependence of induced mutations being parabolically related to DR, with a minimum in the range of 0.1 to 1.0 cGy/min (rule 1). This general pattern can be attributed to an optimal induction of error-free DNA repair in a DR region of minimal mutability (MMDR region). The diminished activation of repair at very low DRs may reflect a low ratio of induced ("signal") to spontaneous background DNA damage ("noise"). Because two common DNA lesions, 8-oxoguanine and thymine glycol, were already known to activate repair in irradiated mammalian cells, we estimated how their rates of production are altered upon radiation exposure in the MMDR region. For these and other abundant lesions (abasic sites and single-strand breaks), the DNA damage rate increment in the MMDR region is in the range of 10% to 100% (rule 2). These estimates suggest a genetically programmed optimatization of response to radiation in the MMDR region.
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- M M Vilenchik
- The Sally Balin Medical Center, Media, PA 19063, USA
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Tauchi H, Endo S, Eguchi-Kasai K, Furusawa Y, Suzuki M, Matsuura S, Ando K, Nakamura N, Sawada S, Komatsu K. Cell cycle and LET dependence for radiation-induced mutation: a possible mechanism for reversed dose-rate effect. JOURNAL OF RADIATION RESEARCH 1999; 40 Suppl:45-52. [PMID: 10804993 DOI: 10.1269/jrr.40.s45] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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A previous study of the mutagenic action of 252Cf radiation in mouse L5178Y cells showed that the mutation frequency was higher when the dose was chronic rather than acute, which was in sharp contrast to the effects reported for gamma-rays (Nakamura and Sawada, 1988). A subsequent study using synchronized cells revealed that the cells at the G2/M stage were uniquely sensitive to mutation induction by 252Cf radiation but not to gamma-rays (Tauchi et al., 1993). A long phase cell population was first subjected to conditioning gamma or 252Cf radiation doses at different dose-rates. The cell cycle distribution of these cells was then observed, and they were then exposed to 252Cf radiation, and the mutation rate was determined. The G2/M fraction increased by 3- to 4-fold when the conditioning doses (2 Gy of gamma or 1 Gy of 252Cf radiation) were delivered chronically over 10 h, but only slightly when the same doses were delivered over a 1 h period or less. Subsequent 252Cf irradiation gave higher mutation frequencies in the cells pre-irradiated with gamma-rays over a protracted period of time than in those exposed with the higher dose-rate gamma-rays. These results suggest that the radiation-induced G2 block could be at least partly (but not totally) responsible for this reverse dose-rate effect (Tauchi et al. 1996). Possible factors which cause the hyper-sensitivity of G2/M cells to mutation induction by neutrons will be discussed.
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- H Tauchi
- Department of Radiation Biology, Hiroshima University, Japan
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Sasaki MS. Radioadaptive response: an implication for the biological consequences of low dose-rate exposure to radiations. Mutat Res 1996; 358:207-13. [PMID: 8946026 DOI: 10.1016/s0027-5107(96)00122-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Radioadaptive response provides a considerable impact on the risk assessment of low-dose and low dose-rate exposures to ionizing radiations. The cells previously exposed to low doses of radiations become resistant to the induction of mutations, chromosome aberrations and cell killing by the subsequent doses but more susceptible to malignant transformation. The reaction kinetics of radioadaptive response were incorporated into a modelling of biological consequences of protracted low dose-rate exposures to radiations. The model is also consistent with the low dose-rate effects on spermatogonial mutations and translocations in the experimental animals and inverse dose-rate effects of morphological transformation in cultured cells.
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- M S Sasaki
- Radiation Biology Center, Kyoto University, Japan
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Komatsu K, Sawada S, Takeoka S, Kodama S, Okumura Y. Dose-rate effects of neutrons and gamma-rays on the induction of mutation and oncogenic transformation in plateau-phase mouse m5S cells. Int J Radiat Biol 1993; 63:469-74. [PMID: 8096859 DOI: 10.1080/09553009314550621] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The dose-rate effect of 252-californium neutrons was investigated using confluent cultures of mouse m5S cells. The relative biological effectiveness (RBE) of neutrons for oncogenic transformation was increased from 3.3 to 5.1 when the dose-rate was reduced from 1.8 to 0.12 cGy/min. Similarly, neutron RBE values for HPRT- mutation were 4.9 and 7.4 at dose-rates of 1.8 and 0.12 cGy/min, respectively. The increases in RBE as dose-rate was reduced were due mainly to diminished transformation- and mutation-induction by gamma-rays (the standard radiation). The yields of neutron-induced oncogenic transformation as well as neutron-induced mutation were constant for both dose rates. Our observation contrasts with reports by others using proliferating cells where both oncogenic transformation and mutation were enhanced with neutron exposure at a reduced dose-rate, the so-called inverse dose-rate effect. Since m5S cells are sensitive to postconfluent inhibition of cell division, this observation could be ascribed to cell growth conditions used in these experiments. The mechanism of the inverse dose-rate effect of neutrons suggests that the enhancement of neutron-induced mutation and oncogenic transformation at a reduced dose-rate is strongly associated with cell proliferation during exposure.
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- K Komatsu
- Department of Radiation Biophysics, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, Japan
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Tauchi H, Nakamura N, Sawada S. Cell cycle dependence for the induction of 6-thioguanine-resistant mutations: G2/M stage is distinctively sensitive to 252Cf neutrons but not to 60Co gamma-rays. Int J Radiat Biol 1993; 63:475-81. [PMID: 8096860 DOI: 10.1080/09553009314550631] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Cell cycle dependence for the induction of 6-thioguanine-resistant mutation was investigated using synchronized mouse L5178Y cells after exposure to 4 Gy to 60Co gamma-rays or 1 Gy of 252Cf radiation (fission neutrons). Maximal mutation frequency was observed immediately after release from colcemid block (G2/M phase) after 252Cf radiation, whereas it was 1 h after the release (G1 phase) after 60Co gamma-rays. When the mutation frequency was plotted against the surviving fraction, a general correlation was observed between the two parameters except for G2/M and G1 phases which were more mutable per lethal event for 252Cf and 60Co radiations, respectively.
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- H Tauchi
- Department of Radiobiology, Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Hiroshima, Japan
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Radiation-Induced Mutation in Mammalian Cells at Low Doses and Dose Rates. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-035416-0.50008-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/15/2023]
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