Unique DNA repair properties of a xeroderma pigmentosum revertant

Mol Cell Biol. 1987 Sep;7(9):3353-7. doi: 10.1128/mcb.7.9.3353-3357.1987.

Abstract

A group A xeroderma pigmentosum revertant with normal sensitivity was created by chemical mutagenesis. It repaired (6-4) photoproducts normally but not pyrimidine dimers and had near normal levels of repair replication, sister chromatid exchange, and mutagenesis from UV light. The rate of UV-induced mutation in a shuttle vector, however, was as high as the rate in the parental xeroderma pigmentosum cell line.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • 4-Nitroquinoline-1-oxide
  • Cell Line, Transformed
  • DNA Repair*
  • Humans
  • Methylnitronitrosoguanidine
  • Mutation / drug effects
  • Mutation / radiation effects
  • Pyrimidine Dimers
  • Sister Chromatid Exchange
  • Ultraviolet Rays
  • Xeroderma Pigmentosum / genetics*

Substances

  • Pyrimidine Dimers
  • Methylnitronitrosoguanidine
  • 4-Nitroquinoline-1-oxide