Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6807259 | Neurobiology of Aging | 2013 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
Neurons are terminally differentiated cells with a high rate of metabolism and multiple biological properties distinct from their undifferentiated precursors. Previous studies showed that nucleotide excision DNA repair is downregulated in postmitotic muscle cells and neurons. Here, we characterize DNA damage susceptibility and base excision DNA repair (BER) capacity in undifferentiated and differentiated human neural cells. The results show that undifferentiated human SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells are less sensitive to oxidative damage than their differentiated counterparts, in part because they have robust BER capacity, which is heavily attenuated in postmitotic neurons. The reduction in BER activity in differentiated cells correlates with diminished protein levels of key long patch BER components, flap endonuclease-1, proliferating cell nuclear antigen, and ligase I. Thus, because of their higher BER capacity, proliferative neural progenitor cells are more efficient at repairing DNA damage compared with their neuronally differentiated progeny.
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Authors
Peter Sykora, Jenq-Lin Yang, Leslie K. Ferrarelli, Jingyan Tian, Takashi Tadokoro, Avanti Kulkarni, Lior Weissman, Guido Keijzers, David M. III, Mark P. Mattson, Vilhelm A. Bohr,