Mutagenic properties of a unique abasic site in mammalian cells

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
A GentilA Sarasin

Abstract

The mutagenic properties of a true unique abasic site located opposite a guanine residue were studied. An oligonucleotide containing a chemically-produced abasic site was inserted into a shuttle vector able to replicate both in simian cells and in bacteria. Plasmid DNA was rescued from simian cells and screened in bacteria by differential hybridization with a labelled oligonucleotide probe. Mutations were easily detected and sequenced. Results showed that opposite a guanine the abasic site was error free repaired or replicated by mammalian cells with an efficiency of 99%. Point mutations occurred at a frequency of approximately 1% in control host cells and at more than 3% in UV-pre-irradiated host cells. Adenine, cytosine or thymine were found to have been inserted opposite the abasic site. No preferential insertion for a particular base was observed in contrast to that reported in bacteria.

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