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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1988-10-27
pubmed:abstractText
Thymine glycol (5,6-dihydroxy-5,6-dihydrothymine) is a base damage common to oxidative mutagens and the major stable radiolysis product of thymine in DNA. We assessed the mutagenic potential of thymine glycols in single-stranded bacteriophage DNA during transfection of Escherichia coli wild-type and umuC strains. cis-Thymine glycols were induced in DNA by reaction with the chemical oxidant, osmium tetroxide (OsO4); modification of thymines was quantitated by using anti-thymine glycol antibody. Inactivation of transfecting molecules showed that one lethal hit corresponded to 1.5 to 2.1 thymine glycols per phage DNA in normal cells, whereas conditions of W-reactivation (SOS induction) reversed 60 to 80% of inactivating events. Forward mutations in the lacI and lacZ' (alpha) genes of f1 and M13 hybrid phage DNAs were induced in OsO4-treated DNA in a dose-dependent manner, in both wild-type and umuC cells. Sequence analysis of hybrid phage mutants revealed that mutations occurred preferentially at cytosine sites rather than thymine sites, indicating that thymine glycols were not the principal pre-mutagenic lesions in the single-stranded DNA. A mutagenic specificity for C----T transitions was confirmed by OsO4-induced reversion of mutant lac phage. Pathways for mutagenesis at derivatives of oxidized cytosine are discussed.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0022-2836
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
20
pubmed:volume
201
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
239-46
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1988
pubmed:articleTitle
Oxidative damage in DNA. Lack of mutagenicity by thymine glycol lesions.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biochemistry, University of Rochester, School of Medicine and Dentistry, NY 14642.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.