The role of UV-B light in skin carcinogenesis through the analysis of p53 mutations in squamous cell carcinomas of hairless mice

Carcinogenesis
N DumazF R de Gruijl

Abstract

Mutation spectra of the p53 gene from human skin carcinomas have been connected to solar UV radiation. For comparison we have characterized the mutation spectrum of the p53 gene in a very large sample of squamous cell carcinomas from hairless mice induced with UV of wavelength 280-320 nm (UV-B), which have substantiated the mutagenic effects of UV-B radiation in vivo. Tumors from hairless mice, random bred SKH:HR1 as well as inbred SKH:HRA strains, which are analyzed for mutations in the conserved domains of the p53 protein present a very specific mutation spectrum. The observed mutation frequency after chronic UV-B radiation in the p53 gene ranged from 54% (SKH-HRA) to 73% (SKH-HR1) among the 160 tumors analyzed. Over 95% of the mutations were found at dipyrimidine sites located in the non-transcribed strand, the majority were C-->T transitions and 5% were CC-->TT tandem double mutations. Four distinct UV-B mutation hot spots have been identified for the first time: two major ones at codons 267 (33%) and 272 (19%) and two minor ones at codons 146 (10%) and 173 (4%). The codon 267 hot spot consists of a CpG preceded by a pyrimidine, which confirms in vivo an important role for this UV-B mutable site in UV-B-induced skin tumors ...Continue Reading

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