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Douki T. Oxidative Stress and Genotoxicity in Melanoma Induction: Impact on Repair Rather Than Formation of DNA Damage? Photochem Photobiol 2020; 96:962-972. [PMID: 32367509 DOI: 10.1111/php.13278] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2020] [Accepted: 04/21/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Keratinocytes and melanocytes, two cutaneous cell types located within the epidermis, are the origin of most skin cancers, namely carcinomas and melanomas. These two types of tumors differ in many ways. First, carcinomas are almost 10 times more frequent than melanomas. In addition, the affected cellular pathways, the mutated genes and the metastatic properties of the tumors are not the same. This review addresses another specificity of melanomas: the role of photo-oxidative stress. UVA efficiently produces reactive oxygen species in melanocytes, which results in more frequent oxidatively generated DNA lesions than in other cell types. The question of the respective contribution of UVB-induced pyrimidine dimers and UVA-mediated oxidatively generated lesions to mutagenesis in melanoma remains open. Recent results based on next-generation sequencing techniques strongly suggest that the mutational signature associated with pyrimidine dimers is overwhelming in melanomas like in skin carcinomas. UVA-induced oxidative stress may yet be indirectly linked to the genotoxic pathways involved in melanoma through its ability to hamper DNA repair activities.
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- Thierry Douki
- Université Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS, IRIG, SyMMES, Grenoble, France
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Ultraviolet (UV) irradiation causes various types of DNA damage, which leads to specific mutations and the emergence of skin cancer in humans, often decades after initial exposure. Different UV wavelengths cause the formation of prominent UV-induced DNA lesions. Most of these lesions are removed by the nucleotide excision repair pathway, which is defective in rare genetic skin disorders referred to as xeroderma pigmentosum. A major role in inducing sunlight-dependent skin cancer mutations is assigned to the cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPDs). In this review, we discuss the mechanisms of UV damage induction, the genomic distribution of this damage, relevant DNA repair mechanisms, the proposed mechanisms of how UV-induced CPDs bring about DNA replication-dependent mutagenicity in mammalian cells, and the strong signature of UV damage and mutagenesis found in skin cancer genomes.
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Rodrigues Neves C, Buskermolen J, Roffel S, Waaijman T, Thon M, Veerman E, Gibbs S. Human saliva stimulates skin and oral wound healing in vitro. J Tissue Eng Regen Med 2019; 13:1079-1092. [PMID: 30968584 PMCID: PMC6593997 DOI: 10.1002/term.2865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2018] [Revised: 03/25/2019] [Accepted: 04/03/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Despite continuous exposure to environmental pathogens, injured mucosa within the oral cavity heals faster and almost scar free compared with skin. Saliva is thought to be one of the main contributing factors. Saliva may possibly also stimulate skin wound healing. If so, it would provide a novel therapy for treating skin wounds, for example, burns. This study aims to investigate the therapeutic wound healing potential of human saliva in vitro. Human saliva from healthy volunteers was filter sterilized before use. Two different in vitro wound models were investigated: (a) open wounds represented by 2D skin and gingiva cultures were used to assess fibroblast and keratinocyte migration and proliferation and (b) blister wounds represented by introducing freeze blisters into organotypic reconstructed human skin and gingiva. Re‐epithelialization and differentiation (keratin K10, K13, K17 expression) under the blister and inflammatory wound healing mediator secretion was assessed. Saliva‐stimulated migration of skin and oral mucosa fibroblasts and keratinocytes, but only fibroblast proliferation. Topical saliva application to the blister wound on reconstructed skin did not stimulate re‐epithelization because the blister wound contained a dense impenetrable dead epidermal layer. Saliva did promote an innate inflammatory response (increased CCL20, IL‐6, and CXCL‐8 secretion) when applied topically to the flanking viable areas of both wounded reconstructed human skin and oral mucosa without altering the skin specific keratin differentiation profile. Our results show that human saliva can stimulate oral and skin wound closure and an inflammatory response. Saliva is therefore a potential novel therapeutic for treating open skin wounds.
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- Charlotte Rodrigues Neves
- Department of Molecular Cell Biology and Immunology, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam Infection and Immunity Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Oral Cell Biology Academic Center For Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA), University of Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Oral Cell Biology Academic Center For Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA), University of Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Molecular Cell Biology and Immunology, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam Infection and Immunity Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Molecular Cell Biology and Immunology, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam Infection and Immunity Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Oral Biochemistry Academic Center For Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA), University of Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Molecular Cell Biology and Immunology, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam Infection and Immunity Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.,Department of Oral Cell Biology Academic Center For Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA), University of Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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Cadet J, Douki T. Formation of UV-induced DNA damage contributing to skin cancer development. Photochem Photobiol Sci 2018; 17:1816-1841. [PMID: 29405222 DOI: 10.1039/c7pp00395a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 216] [Impact Index Per Article: 36.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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UV-induced DNA damage plays a key role in the initiation phase of skin cancer. When left unrepaired or when damaged cells are not eliminated by apoptosis, DNA lesions express their mutagneic properties, leading to the activation of proto-oncogene or the inactivation of tumor suppression genes. The chemical nature and the amount of DNA damage strongly depend on the wavelength of the incident photons. The most energetic part of the solar spectrum at the Earth's surface (UVB, 280-320 nm) leads to the formation of cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPDs) and pyrimidine (6-4) pyrimidone photoproducts (64PPs). Less energetic but 20-times more intense UVA (320-400 nm) also induces the formation of CPDs together with a wide variety of oxidatively generated lesions such as single strand breaks and oxidized bases. Among those, 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine (8-oxoGua) is the most frequent since it can be produced by several mechanisms. Data available on the respective yield of DNA photoproducts in cells and skin show that exposure to sunlight mostly induces pyrimidine dimers, which explains the mutational signature found in skin tumors, with lower amounts of 8-oxoGua and strand breaks. The present review aims at describing the basic photochemistry of DNA and discussing the quantitative formation of the different UV-induced DNA lesions reported in the literature. Additional information on mutagenesis, repair and photoprotection is briefly provided.
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- Jean Cadet
- Département de Médecine Nucléaire et Radiobiologie, Faculté de Médecine, 3001 12e Avenue Nord, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec JIH 5N4, Canada.
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Gahlon HL, Romano LJ, Rueda D. Influence of DNA Lesions on Polymerase-Mediated DNA Replication at Single-Molecule Resolution. Chem Res Toxicol 2017; 30:1972-1983. [PMID: 29020440 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrestox.7b00224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Faithful replication of DNA is a critical aspect in maintaining genome integrity. DNA polymerases are responsible for replicating DNA, and high-fidelity polymerases do this rapidly and at low error rates. Upon exposure to exogenous or endogenous substances, DNA can become damaged and this can alter the speed and fidelity of a DNA polymerase. In this instance, DNA polymerases are confronted with an obstacle that can result in genomic instability during replication, for example, by nucleotide misinsertion or replication fork collapse. It is important to know how DNA polymerases respond to damaged DNA substrates to understand the mechanism of mutagenesis and chemical carcinogenesis. Single-molecule techniques have helped to improve our current understanding of DNA polymerase-mediated DNA replication, as they enable the dissection of mechanistic details that can otherwise be lost in ensemble-averaged experiments. These techniques have also been used to gain a deeper understanding of how single DNA polymerases behave at the site of the damage in a DNA substrate. In this review, we evaluate single-molecule studies that have examined the interaction between DNA polymerases and damaged sites on a DNA template.
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- Hailey L Gahlon
- Molecular Virology, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London , Du Cane Road, London W12 0NN, U.K.,Single Molecule Imaging Group, MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences , Du Cane Road, London W12 0NN, U.K
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- Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University , Detroit, Michigan 48202, United States
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- Molecular Virology, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London , Du Cane Road, London W12 0NN, U.K.,Single Molecule Imaging Group, MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences , Du Cane Road, London W12 0NN, U.K
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Comparative computational investigation of the reaction mechanism for the hydrolytic deamination of cytosine, cytosine butane dimer and 5,6-saturated cytosine analogues. COMPUT THEOR CHEM 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2013.10.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Pfeifer GP, Besaratinia A. UV wavelength-dependent DNA damage and human non-melanoma and melanoma skin cancer. Photochem Photobiol Sci 2011; 11:90-7. [PMID: 21804977 DOI: 10.1039/c1pp05144j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 272] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Ultraviolet (UV) irradiation from the sun has been epidemiologically and mechanistically linked to skin cancer, a spectrum of diseases of rising incidence in many human populations. Both non-melanoma and melanoma skin cancers are associated with sunlight exposure. In this review, we discuss the UV wavelength-dependent formation of the major UV-induced DNA damage products, their repair and mutagenicity and their potential involvement in sunlight-associated skin cancers. We emphasize the major role played by the cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPDs) in skin cancer mutations relative to that of (6-4) photoproducts and oxidative DNA damage. Collectively, the data implicate the CPD as the DNA lesion most strongly involved in human cancers induced by sunlight.
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- Gerd P Pfeifer
- Department of Cancer Biology, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, CA 91010, USA.
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Rochette PJ, Lacoste S, Therrien JP, Bastien N, Brash DE, Drouin R. Influence of cytosine methylation on ultraviolet-induced cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer formation in genomic DNA. Mutat Res 2009; 665:7-13. [PMID: 19427505 DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2009.02.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2008] [Revised: 01/25/2009] [Accepted: 02/17/2009] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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The ultraviolet (UV) component of sunlight is the main cause of skin cancer. More than 50% of all non-melanoma skin cancers and >90% of squamous cell carcinomas in the US carry a sunlight-induced mutation in the p53 tumor suppressor gene. These mutations have a strong tendency to occur at methylated cytosines. Ligation-mediated PCR (LMPCR) was used to compare at nucleotide resolution DNA photoproduct formation at dipyrimidine sites either containing or lacking a methylated cytosine. For this purpose, we exploited the fact that the X chromosome is methylated in females only on the inactive X chromosome, and that the FMR1 (fragile-X mental retardation 1) gene is methylated only in fragile-X syndrome male patients. Purified genomic DNA was irradiated with UVC (254nm), UVB (290-320nm) or monochromatic UVB (302 and 313nm) to determine the effect of different wavelengths on cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer (CPD) formation along the X-linked PGK1 (phosphoglycerate kinase 1) and FMR1 genes. We show that constitutive methylation of cytosine increases the frequency of UVB-induced CPD formation by 1.7-fold, confirming that methylation per se is influencing the probability of damage formation. This was true for both UVB sources used, either broadband or monochromatic, but not for UVC. Our data prove unequivocally that following UVB exposure methylated cytosines are significantly more susceptible to CPD formation compared with unmethylated cytosines.
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- Patrick J Rochette
- Division of Pathology, Department of Medical Biology, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
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Biverstål A, Johansson F, Jenssen D, Erixon K. Cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers do not fully explain the mutagenicity induced by UVA in Chinese hamster cells. Mutat Res 2008; 648:32-9. [PMID: 18950648 DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2008.09.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2008] [Revised: 08/26/2008] [Accepted: 09/11/2008] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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UVA generates low levels of cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPDs). Here we asked the question whether CPDs could fully explain the level of mutations induced by UVA. Relative mutagenicities of UVA and UVC were calculated at equal levels of CPDs in cell lines, deficient in different aspects of repair. Survival and gene mutations in the hprt locus were analyzed in a set of Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell lines, i.e., wild-type, Cockayne syndrome B protein-deficient (CSB), XRCC3-deficient and XRCC1-deficient adjusted to the same level of CPDs which was analyzed as strand breaks as a result of DNA cleavage by T4 endonuclease V at CPD sites. Induced mutagenicity of UVA was approximately 2 times higher than the mutagenicity of UVC in both wild-type and XRCC1-deficient cells when calculated at equal level of CPDs. Since this discrepancy could be explained by the fact that the TT-dimers, induced by UVA, might be more mutagenic than C-containing CPDs induced by UVC, we applied acetophenone, a photosensitizer previously shown to generate enhanced levels of TT-CPDs upon UVB exposure. The results suggested that the TT-CPDs were actually less mutagenic than the C-containing CPDs. We also found that the mutagenic effect of UVA was not significantly enhanced in a cell line deficient in the repair of CPDs. Altogether this suggests that neither base excision- nor nucleotide excision-repair was involved. We further challenge the possibility that the lesion responsible for the mutations induced by UVA was of a more complex nature and which possibly is repaired by homologous recombination (HR). The results indicated that UVA was more recombinogenic than UVC at equal levels of CPDs. We therefore suggest that UVA induces a complex type of lesion, which might be an obstruction during replication fork progression that requires HR repair to be further processed.
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- Anna Biverstål
- Stockholm University, Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Toxicology, Stockholm, Sweden
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Mouret S, Charveron M, Favier A, Cadet J, Douki T. Differential repair of UVB-induced cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers in cultured human skin cells and whole human skin. DNA Repair (Amst) 2008; 7:704-12. [PMID: 18313369 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2008.01.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2007] [Revised: 01/11/2008] [Accepted: 01/15/2008] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPDs) and pyrimidine (6-4) pyrimidone photoproducts (6-4PPs) are the two main classes of mutagenic DNA damages induced by UVB radiation. Numerous studies have been devoted so far to their formation and repair in human cells and skin. However, the biochemical methods used often lack the specificity that would allow the individual study of each of the four CPDs and 6-4PPs produced at TT, TC, CT and CC dinucleotides. In the present work, we applied an HPLC-mass spectrometry assay to study the formation and repair of CPDs and 6-4PPs photoproducts in primary cultures of human keratinocytes and fibroblasts as well as in whole human skin. We first observed that the yield of dimeric lesions was slightly higher in fibroblasts than in keratinocytes. In contrast, the rate of global repair was higher in the last cell type. Moreover, removal of DNA photoproducts in skin biopsies was found to be slower than in both cultured skin cells. In agreement with previous works, the repair of 6-4PPs was found to be more efficient than that of CPDs in the three types of samples, with no observed difference between the removal of the TT and TC derivatives. In contrast, a significant influence of the nature of the two modified pyrimidines was observed on the repair rate of CPDs. The decreasing order of removal efficiency was the following: C<>T>C<>C>T<>C>T<>T. These data, together with the known intrinsic mutational properties of the lesions, would support the reported UV mutation spectra. A noticeable exception concerns CC dinucleotides that are mutational hotspots with an UV-specific CC to TT tandem mutation, although related bipyrimidine photoproducts are produced in low yields and efficiently repaired.
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- Stéphane Mouret
- Laboratoire Lésions des Acides Nucléiques, Service de Chimie Inorganique et Biologique UMR-E 3 CEA-UJF, CEA/DSM/Département de Recherche Fondamentale sur la Matière Condensée, CEA-Grenoble, 38054 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
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Delaney JC, Essigmann JM. Biological properties of single chemical-DNA adducts: a twenty year perspective. Chem Res Toxicol 2008; 21:232-52. [PMID: 18072751 PMCID: PMC2821157 DOI: 10.1021/tx700292a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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The genome and its nucleotide precursor pool are under sustained attack by radiation, reactive oxygen and nitrogen species, chemical carcinogens, hydrolytic reactions, and certain drugs. As a result, a large and heterogeneous population of damaged nucleotides forms in all cells. Some of the lesions are repaired, but for those that remain, there can be serious biological consequences. For example, lesions that form in DNA can lead to altered gene expression, mutation, and death. This perspective examines systems developed over the past 20 years to study the biological properties of single DNA lesions.
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- James C. Delaney
- Departments of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
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- Departments of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
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Douki T. UV-induced DNA Damage. BIOPHYSICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF SOLAR RADIATION ON HUMAN SKIN 2007. [DOI: 10.1039/9781847557957-00225] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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- Thierry Douki
- Laboratoire “Lésions des Acides Nucléiques” Service de Chimie Inorganique et Biologique Grenoble France
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Proksch E, Jensen JM, Crichton-Smith A, Fowler A, Clitherow J. Rationale Behandlung von Patienten mit Verbrennungen 1. Grades. Hautarzt 2007; 58:604-10. [PMID: 17565478 DOI: 10.1007/s00105-007-1364-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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First-degree burns are the most common type of burn, but are often inadequately treated. The methods of treatment and the course of healing are poorly documented owing to the fact that first-degree burns are generally not considered to be a serious injury. First-degree burns can be caused by thermal injury or UV irradiation (sunburn). The pathophysiology and the therapeutic approach are similar, although the damage follows a different time course for each injury--immediate damage after contact with hot objects, liquids or fire, delayed damage after sun exposure. After initial cooling with water, aqueous emulsions with small amounts of well-tolerated lipids (O/W emulsions) are best suited for treating first-degree burns or sunburn. Water evaporates producing cooling and reducing inflammation; the lipids accelerate the repair of the damaged skin barrier and reduce drying. Foam sprays and lotions are ideal because they are easy and painless to apply. The use of topical corticosteroids is not recommended, as superiority to the vehicle has not been shown.
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- E Proksch
- Universitäts-Hautklinik, Schittenhelmstrasse 7, 24105 Kiel, Germany.
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Courdavault S, Baudouin C, Sauvaigo S, Mouret S, Candéias S, Charveron M, Favier A, Cadet J, Douki T. Unrepaired Cyclobutane Pyrimidine Dimers Do Not Prevent Proliferation of UV-B-irradiated Cultured Human Fibroblasts¶. Photochem Photobiol 2007. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.2004.tb00004.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Lee HM, Kim JK. 1H-NMR Studies of Duplex DNA Decamer Containing a Uracil Cyclobutane Dimer: Implications Regarding the High UV Mutagenecity of CC Photolesions¶. Photochem Photobiol 2007. [DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2002)0760417hnsodd2.0.co2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Errol Friedberg suggested that I write a biographical account of the work carried out in my lab for the Historical Reflections section of the DNA Repair. Although I started out studying meiotic recombination, I have spent much of the last four and a half decades focused on trying to understand the mechanism underlying induced mutagenesis, which led me into what was eventually called DNA damage tolerance, the process that facilitates the resumption of replication when replicases are stalled at sites of DNA template damage. The following account highlights some of our work that contributed to an understanding of the mechanisms underlying these activities, carried out by the RAD6 pathway, my main preoccupation over this period.
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- Christopher W Lawrence
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 602 Elmwood Avenue, Rochester, NY 14642, United States.
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Delaney JC, Essigmann JM. Assays for determining lesion bypass efficiency and mutagenicity of site-specific DNA lesions in vivo. Methods Enzymol 2006; 408:1-15. [PMID: 16793359 DOI: 10.1016/s0076-6879(06)08001-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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DNA damage, if left unrepaired, may hinder translesion synthesis, leading to cytotoxicity, and instruct a DNA polymerase to incorporate an incorrect incipient base opposite the damage, leading to mutagenicity. This chapter describes technology used to measure quantitatively the degree to which a specific type of DNA damage impedes DNA replication. The technology also quantifies the mutation frequency and specificity of such damage after replication within cells. If cells with defined defects in DNA repair are used as hosts for replication, one can pinpoint the specific enzymes or pathways of repair that are operative on specific types of DNA damage.
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- James C Delaney
- Department of Chemistry and Biological Engineering Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
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Courdavault S, Baudouin C, Charveron M, Canguilhem B, Favier A, Cadet J, Douki T. Repair of the three main types of bipyrimidine DNA photoproducts in human keratinocytes exposed to UVB and UVA radiations. DNA Repair (Amst) 2005; 4:836-44. [PMID: 15950551 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2005.05.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2005] [Revised: 04/29/2005] [Accepted: 05/01/2005] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Induction of DNA damage by solar UV radiation is a key event in the development of skin cancers. Bipyrimidine photoproducts, including cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPDs), (6-4) photoproducts (64 PPs) and their Dewar valence isomers, have been identified as major UV-induced DNA lesions. In order to identify the predominant and most persistent lesions, we studied the repair of the three types of photolesions in primary cultures of human keratinocytes. Specific and quantitative data were obtained using HPLC associated with tandem mass spectrometry. As shown in other cell types, 64 PPs are removed from UVB-irradiated keratinocytes much more efficiently than CPDs. In contrast, CPDs are still present in high amounts when cells recover their proliferation capacities after cell cycle arrest and elimination of a part of the population by apoptosis. The predominance of CPDs is still maintained when keratinocytes are exposed to a combination of UVB and UVA. Under these conditions, 64 PPs are converted into their Dewar valence isomers that are as efficiently repaired as their (6-4) precursors. Exposure of cells to pure UVA radiation generates thymine cyclobutane dimers that are slightly less efficiently repaired than CPDs produced upon UVB irradiation. Altogether, our results show that CPDs are the most frequent and the less efficiently repaired bipyrimidine photoproducts irrespectively of the applied UV treatment.
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- Sophie Courdavault
- Laboratoire "Lésions des Acides Nucléiques", Service de Chimie Inorganique et Biologique, CEA/DSM/Département de Recherche Fondamentale sur la Matière Condensée, CEA-Grenoble, 17 avenue des Martyrs, 38054 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
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Courdavault S, Baudouin C, Sauvaigo S, Mouret S, Candéias S, Charveron M, Favier A, Cadet J, Douki T. Unrepaired cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers do not prevent proliferation of UV-B-irradiated cultured human fibroblasts. Photochem Photobiol 2004; 79:145-51. [PMID: 15068027 DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2004)079<0145:ucpddn>2.0.co;2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Mutagenic and carcinogenic UV-B radiation is known to damage DNA mostly through the formation of bipyrimidine photoproducts, including cyclobutane dimers (CPD) and (6-4) photoproducts ((6-4) PP). Using high-performance liquid chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry, we investigated the formation and repair of thymine-thymine (TT) and thymine-cytosine (TC) CPD and (6-4) PP in the DNA of cultured human dermal fibroblasts. A major observation was that the rate of repair of the photoproducts did not depend on the identity of the modified pyrimidines. In addition, removal of CPD was found to significantly decrease with increasing applied UV-B dose, whereas (6-4) PP were efficiently repaired within less than 24 h, irrespective of the dose. As a result, a relatively large amount of CPD remained in the genome 48 h after the irradiation. Because the overall applied doses (<500 J m(-2)) were chosen to induce moderate cytotoxicity, fibroblasts could recover their proliferation capacities after transitory cell cycle arrest, as shown by 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine (BrdUrd) incorporation and flow cytometry analysis. It could thus be concluded that UV-B-irradiated cultured primary human fibroblasts normally proliferate 48 h after irradiation despite the presence of high levels of CPD in their genome. These observations emphasize the role of CPD in the mutagenic effects of UV-B.
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- Sophie Courdavault
- Laboratoire Lésions des Acides Nucléiques, Service de Chimie Inorganique et Biologique, CEA/DSM/Département de Recherche Fondamentale sur la Matière Condensée, CEA-Grenoble, France
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Lee DH, Pfeifer GP. Deamination of 5-methylcytosines within cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers is an important component of UVB mutagenesis. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:10314-21. [PMID: 12525487 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m212696200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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UVB mutagenesis is characterized by an abundance of C --> T and 5-methylcytosine --> T transitions at dipyrimidine sequences. It is not known how these mutations might arise. One hypothesis is that UV-induced mutations occur only after deamination of the cytosine or 5-methylcytosine within the pyrimidine dimer. It is not clear how methylation of cytosines at the 5-position influences deamination and how this affects mutagenesis. We have now conducted experiments with a CpG-methylated supF shuttle vector that was irradiated with UVB and then incubated at 37 degrees C to allow time for deamination before passage through a human cell line to establish mutations. This led to a significantly increased frequency of CC --> TT mutations and of transition mutations at 5'-PymCG-3' sequences. A spectrum of deaminated cis-syn cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers in the supF gene was determined using the mismatch glycosylase activities of MBD4 protein in combination with ligation-mediated PCR. Methylation at the C-5 position promoted the deamination of cytosines within cis-syn cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers, and these two events combined led to a significantly increased frequency of UVB-induced transition mutations at 5'-PymCG-3' sequences. Under these conditions, the majority of all supF mutations were transition mutations at 5'-PymCG-3', and they clustered at several mutational hot spots. Exactly these types of mutations are frequently observed in the p53 gene of nonmelanoma skin tumors. This particular mutagenic pathway may become prevalent under conditions of inefficient DNA repair and slow proliferation of cells in the human epidermis.
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- Dong-Hyun Lee
- Division of Biology, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope, Duarte, California 91010, USA
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Burger A, Fix D, Liu H, Hays J, Bockrath R. In vivo deamination of cytosine-containing cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers in E. coli: a feasible part of UV-mutagenesis. Mutat Res 2003; 522:145-56. [PMID: 12517420 DOI: 10.1016/s0027-5107(02)00310-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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We have estimated in vivo deamination rates for cytosines in cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPD or PyPy) in UV-irradiated E. coli deficient in uracil DNA glycosylase. The protocol consisted of UV-irradiation, holding in buffer to allow for deamination of cytosines in CPDs and photoreversal (PR) to establish uracils where cytosines in CPD deaminated. The deamination rate at TC photoproducts targeting glutamine tRNA suppressor mutations was estimated from the increase in the mutation frequency after PR (MF(PR)) that developed as UV-irradiated cells were held before PR. Evidence suggested that an earlier study with this protocol under-estimated the deamination rate at sites producing the same mutations in an E. coli B/r strain. With a K12 strain, where the targeting apparently is principally by CPD and not (6-4) photoproducts, a larger rate of k = 0.0091 min(-1) at 42 degrees C resulted. The dark assay for MF also increased significantly with time for deamination consistent with a model for efficient mutation by translesion synthesis at uracil-containing CPD. In addition, we used a strain constructed by Cupples and Miller in which beta-galactosidase was inactive because -GGG- was at codon 461 and would revert to Lac(+) only when replaced by -GAG- or -GAA- for glutamate. CC photoproducts at this target site in the opposite DNA strand could reveal effects of first and second deaminations in the same CPD. MF(PR) for Lac(+) mutations increased and then decreased as a function of deamination time (at six temperatures 36-48 degrees C). Fitting an approximate model equation that distinguished two different deamination rates to these data suggested a first deamination producing Lac(+) at a rate about eight-fold less than a second deamination restoring the Lac(-) phenotype. We conclude that deamination, changing a cytosine-containing CPD to a uracil-containing CPD, could be an integral part of UV-induced C-to-T mutations.
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- A Burger
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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Lee HM, Kim JK. H-NMR studies of duplex DNA decamer containing a uracil cyclobutane dimer: implications regarding the high UV mutagenecity of CC photolesions. Photochem Photobiol 2002; 76:417-22. [PMID: 12405150 DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2002)076<0417:hnsodd>2.0.co;2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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To determine the origin of the UV-specific CC to TT tandem mutation at the CC site, we made a duplex DNA decamer containing a uracil cis-syn cyclobutane dimer (CBD) as the deaminated model of a cytosine dimer. Two-dimensional 1H-NMR spectroscopy studies were performed on this sequence where two adenines (Ade) were opposite to the uracil dimer. Two imino protons of the uracil dimer were found to retain Watson-Crick hydrogen bonding with the opposite Ade, although the 5'-U(NH) of the dimer site showed unusual upfield shift like that of the 5'-T(NH) of the TT dimer, which seemed to be associated with deshielding by the flanking base rather than with reduced hydrogen bonding. (McAteer et al. 1998, J. Mol. Biol. 282:1013-1032). Hydrogen bondings at the dimer site were also supported by detecting typical strong nuclear Overhauser effects (NOE) between two imino protons and the opposite Ade H2 or NH2. But sequential NOE interactions of base protons with sugar protons were absent at the two flanking nucleotides of the 5' side of the uracil dimer and at the intradimer site, contrasting with its thymine analog where sequential NOE was absent only at the A4-T5 step. In addition, NOE cross peak for U5(NH) <--> A4(H2) was detected, although the NOE interactions of U6(NH) with A7(H2) and A17(H2) were not observed in contrast to the thymine dimer duplex. This different local structural alteration may be affected by the induced right-hand twisted puckering mode of cis-syn cyclobutane ring of the uracil dimer in the B-DNA duplex, even though the isolated uracil dimer had left-hand twisted puckering rigidly. In parallel, these observations may be correlated with observed differences in mutagenic properties between cis-syn UU dimer and cis-syn TT dimer.
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- Hyun Mee Lee
- Department of Chemistry, Yeungnam University, Taegu, South Korea
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Dany AL, Douki T, Triantaphylides C, Cadet J. Repair of the main UV-induced thymine dimeric lesions within Arabidopsis thaliana DNA: evidence for the major involvement of photoreactivation pathways. JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY. B, BIOLOGY 2001; 65:127-35. [PMID: 11809370 DOI: 10.1016/s1011-1344(01)00254-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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The UV-B induced formation of thymine cis-syn cyclobutane dimer and related (6-4) photoproduct was monitored within DNA of cultured cells and plants of Arabidopsis thaliana. This was achieved using a sensitive and accurate HPLC-tandem mass spectrometry assay. It was found that the cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer was formed in a ninefold higher yield than the (6-4) photoproduct. The removal of the lesions was then studied by incubating irradiated cells either in the darkness, under visible light or upon exposure to UV-A radiation. Dark repair of both cyclobutane dimers and (6-4) photoproducts was found to be very ineffective. In contrast, a rapid decrease in the level of photoproducts was observed when UV-B-irradiated cells were exposed to UV-A and, to a lesser extent, to visible light. The removal of (6-4) adducts was found to occur more efficiently. These results strongly suggest that repair of UV-induced photolesions in plants is mainly mediated by photolyases.
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- A L Dany
- Département d'Ecophysiologie Végétale et de Microbiologie, Laboratoire de Radiobiologie Végétale, CEA/Cadarache, 13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France
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You YH, Lee DH, Yoon JH, Nakajima S, Yasui A, Pfeifer GP. Cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers are responsible for the vast majority of mutations induced by UVB irradiation in mammalian cells. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:44688-94. [PMID: 11572873 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m107696200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 211] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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The most prevalent DNA lesions induced by UVB are the cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPDs) and the pyrimidine (6-4) pyrimidone photoproducts ((6-4)PPs). It has been a long standing controversy as to which of these photoproduct is responsible for mutations in mammalian cells. Here we have introduced photoproduct-specific DNA photolyases into a mouse cell line carrying the transgenic mutation reporter genes lacI and cII. Exposure of the photolyase-expressing cell lines to photoreactivating light resulted in almost complete repair of either CPDs or (6-4)PPs within less than 3 h. The mutations produced by the remaining, nonrepaired photoproducts were scored. The mutant frequency in the cII gene after photoreactivation by CPD photolyase was reduced from 127 x 10(-5) to 34 x 10(-5) (background, 8-10 x 10(-5)). Photoreactivation with (6-4) photolyase did not lower the mutant frequency appreciably. In the lacI gene the mutant frequency after photoreactivation repair of CPDs was reduced from 148 x 10(-5) to 28 x 10(-5) (background, 6-10 x 10(-5)). Mutation spectra obtained with and without photoreactivation by CPD photolyase indicated that the remaining mutations were derived from background mutations, unrepaired CPDs, and other DNA photopoducts including perhaps a small contribution from (6-4)PPs. We conclude that CPDs are responsible for at least 80% of the UVB-induced mutations in this mammalian cell model.
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- Y H You
- Department of Biology, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, California 91010, USA
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Ravanat JL, Douki T, Cadet J. Direct and indirect effects of UV radiation on DNA and its components. JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY. B, BIOLOGY 2001; 63:88-102. [PMID: 11684456 DOI: 10.1016/s1011-1344(01)00206-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 602] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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In this survey, emphasis was placed on the main photoreactions of nucleic acid components, involving both direct and indirect effects. The main UVB- and UVA-induced DNA photoproducts, together with the mechanisms of their formation, are described. Information on the photoproduct distribution within cellular DNA is also provided, taking into account the limitations of the different analytical methods applied to monitor the formation of the DNA damage. Thus, the formation of the main DNA dimeric pyrimidine lesions produced by direct absorption of UVB photons was assessed using a powerful HPLC-tandem mass spectrometry assay. In addition, it was found that UVA photooxidation damage mostly involves the guanine residues of cellular DNA as the result of singlet oxygen generation by still unknown endogenous photosensitizers.
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- J L Ravanat
- Laboratoire Lésions des Acides Nucléiques, Service de Chimie Inorganique et Biologique, UMR 5046, Département de Recherche Fondamentale sur la Matière Condensée, CEA Grenoble, 17 Avenue des Martyrs, F-38054 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
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You YH, Pfeifer GP. Similarities in sunlight-induced mutational spectra of CpG-methylated transgenes and the p53 gene in skin cancer point to an important role of 5-methylcytosine residues in solar UV mutagenesis. J Mol Biol 2001; 305:389-99. [PMID: 11152598 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2000.4322] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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In the p53 gene of human sunlight-associated skin cancers, 35 % of the mutations involve trinucleotide sequences with the rare base 5-methylcytosine (5'PymCG). In order to determine the involvement of 5-methylcytosine in sunlight-induced mutations, we have analyzed the cII transgene in mouse cells, a mutational target gene that we found is methylated at most CpG sequences. We report that the mutational spectra produced by irradiation with 254 nm UVC radiation and simulated sunlight, respectively, differ most dramatically by the much higher involvement of dipyrimidine structures containing 5-methylcytosine in the solar UV mutation spectrum (32 % versus 9 % of all mutations). A distinct mutational hotspot induced by simulated sunlight occurs at a sequence 5'TmCG and is associated with high levels of cis-syn cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer formation. A comparison of sunlight-induced mutational spectra of the cII and lacI transgenes, as well as the p53 gene in skin tumors, shows that 5-methylcytosine is involved in 25 to 40 % of all mutations in all three systems. The combined data make a strong case that cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers forming preferentially at dipyrimidine sequences with 5-methylcytosine are responsible for a considerable fraction of the mutations induced by sunlight in mammalian cells.
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- Y H You
- Department of Biology, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, CA 91010, USA
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UV damage to nucleic acid components. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2001. [DOI: 10.1016/s1568-461x(01)80045-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/08/2023]
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Yoon JH, Lee CS, O'Connor TR, Yasui A, Pfeifer GP. The DNA damage spectrum produced by simulated sunlight. J Mol Biol 2000; 299:681-93. [PMID: 10835277 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2000.3771] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The mutagenic effects of ultraviolet and solar irradiation are thought to be due to the formation of DNA photoproducts, most notably cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPDs) and pyrimidine (6-4) pyrimidone photoproducts ((6-4)PPs). Experimental systems for determining the levels and sequence dependence of photoproduct formation in DNA have often used high doses of short-wave (UVC) irradiation. We have re-assessed this issue by using DNA sequencing technologies and different doses of UVC as well as more physiologically relevant doses of solar irradiation emitted from a solar UV simulator. It has been questioned whether hot alkali treatment can detect (6-4)PPs at all sequence positions. With high UVC doses, the sequence distribution of (6-4)PPs was virtually identical when hot alkali or UV damage endonuclease (UVDE) were used for detection, which appears to validate both methods. The (6-4)PPs form at 5'-TpC and 5'CpC sequences but very low levels are seen at all other dipyrimidines including 5'-TpT. Contrary to expectation, we find that (6-4) photoproducts form at almost undetectable levels under conditions of irradiation for up to five hours with the solar UV simulator. The same treatment produces high levels of CPDs. In addition, DNA glycosylases, which recognize oxidized and ring-opened bases, did not produce significant cleavage of sunlight-irradiated DNA. From these data, we conclude that cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers are at least 20 to 40 times more frequent than any other DNA photoproduct when DNA or cells are irradiated with simulated sunlight.
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- J H Yoon
- Department of Biology, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, CA, 91010, USA
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Shuttle vectors carrying the supF suppressor tRNA gene were originally developed for mutagenesis experiments in primate and human cells. Since then, the supF gene has been used as a mutation reporter in other mammalian cells, yeast, Escherichia coli, and transgenic mice. The widespread use of the vector for studies of many DNA reactive agents has produced a large database of mutation spectra. These provide primary information on the kinds and distribution of mutations provoked by many agents and, in many instances, allow comparisons between related agents or the same agent in different cell backgrounds. In this review we will discuss some of these data with a primary focus on the interpretation of UV mutation spectra. We will also describe our development and application of custom supF marker genes as an approach to studying the effect of sequence context on mutation hotspots and cold spots. Our studies suggest that C-C photoproducts are not mutagenic in certain sequence contexts in which T-C photoproducts are mutation hotspots. In addition, we have found several examples of sequence context effects acting as much as 80 bases away from the site of mutation. We will consider some of the problems raised by these studies and the possible resolution of some of them offered by the newly discovered family of damage bypass DNA polymerases.
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- K A Canella
- Laboratory of Molecular Carcinogenesis, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Room 3D06, Building 37, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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In human skin cancers, more than 30 % of all mutations in the p53 gene are transitions at dipyrimidines within the sequence context CpG, i.e. 5'-TCG and 5'-CCG, found at several mutational hotspots. Since CpGs are methylated along the p53 gene, these mutations may be derived from solar UV-induced pyrimidine dimers forming at sequences that contain 5-methylcytosine. In Xorder to define the contribution of 5-methylcytosine to sunlight-induced mutations, we have used mouse fibroblasts containing the CpG-methylated lacI transgene as a mutational target. We sequenced 182 UVC (254 nm UV)-induced mutations and 170 mutations induced by a solar UV simulator, along with 75 mutations in untreated cells. Only a few of the mutations in untreated cells were transitions at dipyrimidines, but more than 95% of the UVC and solar irradiation-induced mutations were targeted to dipyrimidine sites, the majority being transitions. After UVC irradiation, 6% of the base substitutions were at dipyrimidines containing 5-methylcytosine and only 2.2% of all mutations were transitions within this sequence context. However, 24% of the solar light-induced mutations were at dipyrimidines that contain 5-methylcytosine and most of them were transitions. Two sunlight-induced mutational hotspots at methylated CpGs correlated with sequences that form the highest levels of cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers after irradiation with sunlight but not with UVC. The data indicate that dipyrimidines that contain 5-methylcytosine are preferential targets for sunlight-induced mutagenesis in cultured mammalian cells, thus explaining the large proportion of p53 mutations at such sites in skin tumors in vivo.
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- Y H You
- Department of Biology, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, CA, 91010, USA
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Tu Y, Dammann R, Pfeifer GP. Sequence and time-dependent deamination of cytosine bases in UVB-induced cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers in vivo. J Mol Biol 1998; 284:297-311. [PMID: 9813119 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.2176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The mutational specificity of UV-light is characterized by an abundance of C to T transition mutations at dipyrimidines containing cytosine or 5-methylcytosine. A significant percentage of these mutations are CC to TT double transitions. Of the major types of UV-induced DNA lesions, the cis-syn cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPDs) are thought to be the most mutagenic lesions, at least in mammalian cells. It has been proposed that the CPDs become mutagenic perhaps only after cytosine bases within these dimers deaminate to uracil and the resulting U-containing photolesions are correctly bypassed by DNA polymerases. In order to assess the significance of this proposed mutagenic mechanism, we have developed two methods to specifically measure deaminated CPDs in UV-irradiated human cells or DNA. The first method is based on enzymatic photoreversal of CPDs, followed by cleavage of the DNA with uracil DNA glycosylase, an AP lyase activity, and ligation-mediated PCR to map the resulting strand breaks. The second method, which can be used to detect double deamination events (CC to UU), is PCR amplification of photolyase-treated DNA using primers complemetary to the deaminated sequences. We have measured deamination events in the human p53 gene, which contains a large percentage of C to T transitions in skin cancers. The deamination reactions are specific for cytosine within CPDs, are negligible immediately after irradiation, and are time-dependent and DNA sequence context-dependent. Twenty four hours after irradiation of human fibroblasts with UVB light, between 10 and 60% of most CPD signals are converted to the deaminated form, depending on the sequence. Significant deamination occurs at skin cancer mutation sites in the p53 gene. Double deamination also occurs and this reaction can involve dimers containing 5-methylcytosine or cytosine. These double events are expected to occur more frequently in cells with a DNA repair defect because there is more time for deamination in unrepaired lesions. This may explain the relatively high frequency of CC to TT mutations in skin cancers from xeroderma pigmentosum patients. In summary, these novel detection techniques demonstrate that deamination of cytosine in pyrimidine dimers is a significant event that most likely contributes to the mutational specificity of UVB irradiation in human cells.
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- Y Tu
- Department of Biology, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, CA, 91010, USA
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Douki T, Zalizniak T, Cadet J. Far-UV-induced dimeric photoproducts in short oligonucleotides: sequence effects. Photochem Photobiol 1997; 66:171-9. [PMID: 9277137 DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1997.tb08639.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers and pyrimidine(6-4)pyrimidone adducts represent the two major classes of far-UV-induced DNA photoproducts. Because of the lack of appropriate detection methods for each individual photoproduct, little is known about the effect of the sequence on their formation. In the present work, the photoproduct distribution obtained upon exposure of a series of dinucleoside monophosphates to 254 nm light was determined. In the latter model compounds, the presence of a cytosine, located at either the 5'- or the 3'-side of a thymine moiety, led to the preferential formation of (6-4) adducts, whereas the cis-syn cyclobutane dimer was the main thymine-thymine photoproduct. In contrast, the yield of dimeric photoproducts, and particularly of (6-4) photoadducts, was very low upon irradiation of the cytosine-cytosine dinucleoside monophosphate. However, substitution of cytosine by uracil led to an increase in the yield of (6-4) photoproduct. It was also shown that the presence of a phosphate group at the 5'- end of a thymine-thymine dinucleoside monophosphate does not modify the photoproduct distribution. As an extension of the studies on dinucleoside monophosphates, the trinucleotide TpdCpT was used as a more relevant DNA model. The yields of formation of the thymine-cytosine and cytosine-thymine (6-4) photoproducts were in a 5:1 ratio, very close to the value obtained upon photolysis of the related dinucleoside monophosphates. The characterization of the two TpdCpT (6-4) adducts was based on 1H NMR, UV and mass spectroscopy analyses. Additional evidence for the structures was inferred from the analysis of the enzymatic digestion products of the (6-4) adducts of TpdCpT with phosphodiesterases. The latter enzymes were shown to induce the quantitative release of the photoproduct as a modified dinucleoside monophosphate in a highly sequence-specific manner.
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- T Douki
- Département de Recherche Fondamentale sur la Matière Condensée, SCIB/Laboratoire des Lésions des Acides Nucléiques, CEA/Grenoble, France
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G x C-->A x T transitions within T-C or C-C bipyrimidine sequences are by far the most frequent class of mutation induced by 254-nm UV irradiation in most genes and species investigated, but the reason for the high degree of mutability and specificity at these sites is uncertain. Some data implicate the deamination of cytosine to uracil as a possible cause, but other results appear to indicate that the rate of deamination is too low for this to be significant in Escherichia coli. If deamination is not the cause, the high degree of mutability must presumably reflect the inherent properties of T-C and C-C dimers. We investigated this question by transfecting excision-deficient and excision-proficient strains of E. coli with single-stranded vectors that carried a site-specific cis-syn T-C cyclobutane dimer and by analyzing the nucleotide sequences of replicated vector products. We found that replication past the T-C dimer, like replication past its T-T and U-U counterparts, is in fact >95% accurate and that the frequencies of bypass are also very similar for these photoproducts. Since the T-C dimer appears to be only weakly mutagenic, the high frequency of UV-induced mutations at T-C sites presumably depends on some other process, such as deamination, although the mechanism remains to be established.
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- M J Horsfall
- Department of Biophysics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, New York 14642, USA
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Pfeifer GP. Formation and processing of UV photoproducts: effects of DNA sequence and chromatin environment. Photochem Photobiol 1997; 65:270-83. [PMID: 9066304 DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1997.tb08560.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 227] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers and (6-4) photoproducts are the two major classes of lesions produced in DNA by UVB and UVC irradiation. Their distribution along genes is nucleotide sequence-dependent. In vivo, the frequency of these lesions at specific sites is modulated by nucleosomes and other DNA binding proteins. Repair of UV photoproducts is dependent on the transcriptional status of the sequences to be repaired and on the chromatin environment. The formation of DNA photolesions by UV light is responsible for the induction of mutations and the development of skin cancer. To understand the mechanisms of UV mutagenesis, it is important to know how these lesions are formed, by which cellular pathways they are repaired and how they are dealt with by DNA polymerases.
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- G P Pfeifer
- Department of Biology, Beckman Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, CA 91010, USA.
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- T Douki
- CEA/Département de Recherche Fondamentale sur la Matière Condensée-SESAM/LAN, Grenoble, France
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