Elevation of DCTP Pools in Xeroderma Pigmentosum Variant Human Fibroblasts Alters the Effects of DNA Repair Arrest by Arabinofuranosyl Cytosine

Overview

Journal Cell Biol Toxicol

Publisher Springer

Specialties Cell Biology
Toxicology

Date 1985 Jan 1

PMID 3917128

Authors

W C Dunn

J D Regan

R D Snyder

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Abstract

DNA excision repair inhibition by arabinofuranosyl cytosine (ara-C) or by ara-C/hydroxyurea (HU) was measured in log phase and confluent cultures of normal and xeroderma pigmentosium (XP)-variant human fibroblasts following insult by ultraviolet (UV) light (20 J/m2). Repair inhibition was determined by measuring the accumulation of DNA single-strand breaks/10(8) daltons following cell culture exposure to ara-C or ara-C/HU in a series of 3 hr. pulses up ro 24 hr. after UV insult. Both normal and XP-variant derived cells showed a wide range of sensitivity to ara-C in log phase cells (0.2-9.4 breaks/10(8) daltons DNA), although strand break accumulation was constant for each specific cell line. The same cells were more sensitive to ara-C/HU with a 2-14 fold increase in DNA strand breaks depending upon the cell line assayed. In confluent cultures of normal cells, maximum sensitivity to ara-C and ara-C/HU was achieved with similar levels of repair inhibition observed (16.1 and 16.5 breaks/10(8) daltons, respectively). The same level of repair inhibition was observed in confluent XP-variants receiving ara-C/HU, but was reduced by 62-68% in cells treated with ara-C alone. Ara-C repair arrest was more rapidly reversed by competing concentrations of exogenous deoxycytidine (dCyd) in XP-variant compared to normal cells, especially in confluent cell cultures. In ara-C/HU treated cells, the level of dCyd reversal was reduced in the XP-variant when compared to cells exposed to ara-C alone. However, the same addition of HU had relatively little effect on dCyd reversal in normal cells. The measurements of dNTP levels indicate an elevated level of intracellular deoxycytosine triphosphate in XP-variant vs normal cells. The implications of these results are discussed as they relate to possible excision repair anomalies in the XP-variant.

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