Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1911183 | Free Radical Biology and Medicine | 2007 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
Repair of the oxidized purine 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine (8-oxoGua) is inefficient in cells belonging to the B complementation group of Cockayne syndrome (CS-B), a developmental and neurological disorder characterized by defective transcription-coupled repair. We show here that cells belonging to the A complementation group (CS-A) are also defective in repair of 8-oxoGua and we demonstrate that expression of the Escherichia coli formamidopyrimidine DNA glycosylase (FPG) completely corrects the repair deficiency in both CS-A and CS-B cells. Phenotypically, CS-A cells are normally sensitive to toxicity and micronuclei induced by the oxidizing agent potassium bromate. CS-B cells display sensitivity to elevated concentrations of potassium bromate but this is not compensated by FPG expression, suggesting toxicity of lesions that are not FPG substrates. The data indicate that 8-oxoGua is not a major toxic and clastogenic lesion in CS cells.
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Monica Ropolo, Paolo Degan, Mara Foresta, Mariarosaria D'Errico, Denise Lasigliè, Eugenia Dogliotti, Gianluigi Casartelli, Simonetta Zupo, Alessandro Poggi, Guido Frosina,