Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10771988 | Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications | 2005 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
The mechanisms of sister chromatid exchanges (SCEs) are not known. One hypothesis is that SCE is a manifestation of Rad51-dependent homologous recombination repair. In order to test this hypothesis, we have compared the frequencies of SCEs induced by mitomycin C (MMC) and 254Â nm ultraviolet radiation (UVC) in wt V79B and the Rad51C-deficient CL-V4B cells. SCEs were analysed in the first (M1) and second (M2) post-treatment mitoses. In M1 MMC induced the same frequencies of SCEs in CL-V4B and V79B cells, while the UVC-induced SCE frequencies were lower in CL-V4B than V79B cells. In CL-V4B cells, MMC-induced SCEs were higher in M2 than in M1, suggesting that interstrand cross-links (ICL) are either not removed completely or are transformed into another form of DNA damage that persists until the next cell cycle. We suggest that SCEs may represent a mechanism to bypass MMC-induced ICL without their removal.
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Andrzej Wojcik, Lubomir Stoilov, Irena Szumiel, Randy Legerski, Günter Obe,