PMID: 6405266May 1, 1983Paper

Mechanism of increased susceptibility to 4-nitroquinoline-1-oxide in cultured skin fibroblasts from patients with familial polyposis coli

Mutation Research
N AkamatsuM S Sasaki

Abstract

About 50% of the strains of cultured fibroblasts from patients with familial polyposis coli (FPC) exhibited increased susceptibility to cytotoxicity of 4-nitroquinoline-1-oxide (4NQO) compared with cells from normal individuals. The FPC cells that showed hyper-sensitivity to 4NQO were also hyper-sensitive to mitomycin C (MMC), but susceptibilities of these cells to UV radiation, methyl methanesulfonate (MMS) and N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (MNNG) were within the normal range. The extent of single-strand scission of DNA in the 4NQO-sensitive FPC cells was greater than in normal cells, and the amount of [14C]4NQO bound to DNA in the FPC cells was twice as high as in normal cells. The rate of release of [14C]4NQO from DNA by the post-culture was the same as in both FPC and normal cells. The 4NQO-sensitive FPC cells exhibited increased 4NQO-reductase activity; the level of this activity was consistent with the extent of the decrease in colony formation by 4NQO. These results suggest that the enhanced ability to activate 4NQO might be an important factor in the mechanism of susceptibility of FPC cells to 4NQO rather than the reduced ability to repair DNA.

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