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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1986-7-18
pubmed:abstractText
Several antitumor drugs including DNA intercalative and non intercalative agents induce in vitro and in vivo double-stranded DNA breaks by stabilization of a topoisomerase II-DNA complex. In order to locate cleavage sites in an actively transcribed oncogene, N417 cells, originating from a human small cell lung carcinoma and containing 45-50 copies of c-myc oncogene, were treated with mAMSA, 9 hydroxyellipticine and VM 26. The presence of DNA lesions in c-myc was investigated by Southern blot hybridization with a human c-myc probe. In addition to normal bands, DNA patterns of drug treated-cells revealed the presence of new bands most likely corresponding to topoisomerase II-mediated cleavage as these bands were not found in untreated control DNA and in DNA treated with oAMSA, a biologically inactive stereoisomer of mAMSA. Major cleavage sites induced by drugs in the N417 cell c-myc locus were located in the 5' end of the c-myc exon 1 closely to some DNAse I hypersensitive sites which are assumed to reflect an activity of the gene. Therefore our data suggest that TopoII-mediated drug activity correlates with gene activity.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0006-291X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
29
pubmed:volume
137
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
154-60
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1986
pubmed:articleTitle
In vivo stimulation by antitumor drugs of the topoisomerase II induced cleavage sites in c-myc protooncogene.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't