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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1997-1-7
pubmed:abstractText
Due to their limited life time in culture and their relative resistance to DNA transfection, primary fibroblasts derived from UV-hypersensitive patients could not be used for cloning DNA repair gene and studying stable complementation with wild-type DNA repair genes. Primary cells were only used for complementation analysis after transient expression through cell fusion. DNA microinjection and transfection. We report the retroviral-mediated highly efficient transfer and stable expression of XPD/ERCC2 gene in fibroblast strains from eight different patients using the LXPDSN retroviral vector. Cells derived from skin biopsies of xeroderma pigmentosum and trichothiodystrophy patients were incubated with vector-containing suspension and selected with the neomycin-analog G418. LXPDSN vector specifically complemented cells belonging to the XP-D group. Long-term reversion of repair-deficient phenotype, monitored by UV survival and UDS analysis, has been achieved in these diploid fibroblasts. We demonstrate this methodology is a powerful tool to study phenotypic reversion of nucleotide excision repair-deficient cells such as cellular DNA repair properties and we suggest that it may be used to study other cellular parameters (cell cycle regulation, p53 stability or immunosurveillance-controlling factors) involved in UV-induced skin cancers and which reliability requires the use of untransformed cells.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0027-5107
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
2
pubmed:volume
364
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
161-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Long-term complementation of DNA repair deficient human primary fibroblasts by retroviral transduction of the XPD gene.
pubmed:affiliation
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, UPR 42, CNRS, Villejuif, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't