PMID: 9653449Jul 8, 1998Paper

Repair of cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers in the O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) gene of MGMT proficient and deficient human cell lines and comparison with the repair of other genes and a repressed X-chromosomal locus

Mutation Research
F SkorpenH E Krokan

Abstract

We studied the repair of cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPDs) in the 5' terminal part of the transcriptionally inactive O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) gene of MGMT-deficient human cell lines (A172, A-253 and WI-38 VA13) and in a proficient cell line (HaCaT), in which the MGMT gene was transcribed. Repair rates in the MGMT gene were compared with those in the active uracil-DNA glycosylase (UNG) and c-myc genes, and those in the repressed X-linked 754 locus and the RNA polymerase I-transcribed ribosomal gene cluster. In the active MGMT gene, there was a distinct strand specificity with more repair in the template (transcribed) strand (TS) than in the non-template strand (NTS). In contrast, no apparent strand bias in the repair of CPDs was observed in the inactive MGMT gene in the MGMT deficient cell lines, although the rates of repair varied between different cell lines. Repair in the inactive MGMT gene was consistently lower than repair in the NTSs of the expressed genes, and approached the generally poor repair of the repressed 754 locus. Whereas repair in the UNG gene was strand-specific in HaCaT, A-172 and WI-38 VA13 cells, no clear strand bias in repair of this gene was evident in A253 cells and repair was rel...Continue Reading

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