Excision repair of DNA base damage in human cells treated with the chemical carcinogen 4-nitroquinoline 1-oxide

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Abstract

Excision repair of DNA damage produced by 4-nitroquinoline 1-oxide (4NQO), a potent chemical carcinogen, was compared in a normal human amnion FL cell line and a xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) cell line unable to repair ultraviolet-induced pyramidine dimers. The main objective of this study was to investigate, by a direct assay of the loss of damage from DNA, whether DNA damage induced by 4NQO in human cells is repaired by the excision-repair system as in Escherichia coli cells. DNA was extracted from FL and XP cells treated with [3H]4NQO, hydrolyzed and subjected to radiochromatographic analysis in order to quantitate the initial formation of 4NQO damage and subsequent disappearance during post-incubation. Two peaks of stable 4NQO-quanine adducts appeared on the chromatogram, together with one peak of stable 4NQO-adenine adduct and a peak due to 4-aminoquinoline 1-oxide (4AQO) released from a labile fraction of 4NQO-guanine adduct during hydrolysis. The three kinds of stable 4NQO-purine adduct disappeared from DNA of the FL cells at almost the same rate of about 60% during 24-h post-incubation in culture medium, and 4AQO disappeared somewhat faster. In the XP cells, however, the stable adducts did not disappear from DNA, whereas about 40% of the 4AQO-releasing adduct disappeared from DNA. These findings at the molecular level quantitatively parallel the previous findings at the cellular level that the XP cells are several times as sensitive as normal cells to killing by 4NQO. These results lead to the conclusion that in human cells 4NQO-induced lethality is mainly due to the four kinds of 4NQO-purine adduct as it is in E. coli, and that the adducts are excisable by the same excision-repair mechanism that works on pyramidine dimers.

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