Use of UV endonuclease from Micrococcus luteus to monitor the progress of DNA repair in UV-irradiated human cells |
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Authors: | M C Paterson P H Lohman M L Sluyter |
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Institution: | Laboratory for Molecular Genetics, Leiden State University and Medical Laboratory TNO, 139 Lange Kleiweg, Rijswijk The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | A sensitive enzymatic assay has been developed to follow the progress of NDA repair in human cells exposed to UV radiation. The assay employs an endonuclease selectively active at sites containing pyrimidine dimers in UV-damaged DNA. Primary fibroblasts are exposed to 254 nm radiation and incubated for specified times, their radioactivity labelled DNA is isolated and treated with a UV endonuclease extensively purified from Micrococcus luteus. Endonuclease-susceptible site remaining in the DNA are subsequently observed as single-strand scissions by sedimentation in alkaline sucrose gradients. In comparison to the situation with excision-proficient normal cells, those derived from patients suffering from either the classical or the De Sanctis-Cacchione clinical form of Xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) exhibit a marked diminution in the rate of disappearance of nuclease-susceptible lesions with time of post-UV incubation. |
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Keywords: | Mn number average molecular weight Mw weight average molecular weight XP Xeroderma pigmentosum |
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