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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1986-2-20
pubmed:abstractText
The hereditary dysplastic nevus syndrome (DNS) is a well-characterized disorder in which affected individuals have increased numbers of premalignant (dysplastic) nevi and a markedly increased risk of developing cutaneous melanoma. Seeking evidence of a systemic disorder in DNS, we examined the effect of ultraviolet radiation on cultured lymphoid cells. Epstein-Barr virus-transformed lymphoblastoid cell lines from patients with hereditary DNS had similar survival values following treatment with 2.3 to 9.0 J of 254-nm ultraviolet radiation per m2 as did lines from control individuals. Mutagenesis at the hypoxanthineguanine phosphoribosyltransferase locus was assessed by measuring the induction of resistance to thioguanine using a microtiter well assay. Three lymphoblastoid cell lines from patients with hereditary DNS and melanoma had a 2- to 3-fold greater frequency of induced mutants per clonable cell than three normal lines following exposure to 4.5 to 9.0 J of ultraviolet radiation per m2. Expanded clones of mutated DNS lymphoblastoid cell lines had less than 6% of normal hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase activity. Inhibition and recovery of DNA synthesis following ultraviolet exposure were similar in 2 DNS and 2 normal lines. Repair by DNS lines of ultraviolet-induced DNA damage was in the normal range as measured by alkaline elution. Thus, hereditary DNS exhibits in vitro hypermutability which may reflect increased susceptibility to ultraviolet-induced somatic mutations in vivo. This abnormality may be related to the increased melanoma susceptibility of patients with hereditary DNS.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0008-5472
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
46
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1005-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-8-12
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1986
pubmed:articleTitle
Hereditary dysplastic nevus syndrome: lymphoid cell ultraviolet hypermutability in association with increased melanoma susceptibility.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article