PMID: 11336984May 5, 2001Paper

Molecular characterisation of camptothecin-induced mutations at the hprt locus in Chinese hamster cells

Mutation Research
E BalestrieriF Degrassi

Abstract

The capacity of the topoisomerase I inhibitor camptothecin (CPT) to induce single locus mutations at the hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (hprt) gene and the DNA changes underlying induced mutations were analysed in Chinese hamster ovary cells. Camptothecin treatments increased hprt mutations up to 50-fold over the spontaneous levels at highly cytotoxic doses. Genomic DNA was isolated from 6-thioguanine resistant clones and subjected to multiplex PCR to screen for gross alterations in the gene structure. The molecular analysis revealed that deletion mutants represented 80% of the analysed clones, including total hprt deletion, multiple and single exon deletions. Furthermore, a fraction of the analysed clones showed deletions of more than one exon that were characterised by the absence of non-contiguous exons. These data show that single locus mutations induced by camptothecin are characterised by large deletions or complex rearrangements rather than single base substitutions and suggest that the recombinational repair of camptothecin-induced strand breaks at replication fork may be involved in the generations of these alterations at the chromatin structure level.

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