Powerful skin cancer protection by a CPD-photolyase transgene |
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Authors: | Jans Judith Schul Wouter Sert Yurda-Gul Rijksen Yvonne Rebel Heggert Eker Andre P M Nakajima Satoshi van Steeg Harry de Gruijl Frank R Yasui Akira Hoeijmakers Jan H J van der Horst Gijsbertus T J |
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Institution: | Department of Genetics, Medical Genetics Center, Center for Biomedical Genetics, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Post Office Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands. |
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Abstract: | BACKGROUND: The high and steadily increasing incidence of ultraviolet-B (UV-B)-induced skin cancer is a problem recognized worldwide. UV introduces different types of damage into the DNA, notably cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPDs) and (6-4) photoproducts (6-4PPs). If unrepaired, these photolesions can give rise to cell death, mutation induction, and onset of carcinogenic events, but the relative contribution of CPDs and 6-4PPs to these biological consequences of UV exposure is hardly known. Because placental mammals have undergone an evolutionary loss of photolyases, repair enzymes that directly split CPDs and 6-4PPs into the respective monomers in a light-dependent and lesion-specific manner, they can only repair UV-induced DNA damage by the elaborate nucleotide excision repair pathway. RESULTS: To assess the relative contribution of CPDs and 6-4PPs to the detrimental effects of UV light, we generated transgenic mice that ubiquitously express CPD-photolyase, 6-4PP-photolyase, or both, thereby allowing rapid light-dependent repair of CPDs and/or 6-4PPs in the skin. We show that the vast majority of (semi)acute responses in the UV-exposed skin (i.e., sunburn, apoptosis, hyperplasia, and mutation induction) can be ascribed to CPDs. Moreover, CPD-photolyase mice, in contrast to 6-4PP-photolyase mice, exhibit superior resistance to sunlight-induced tumorigenesis. CONCLUSIONS: Our data unequivocally identify CPDs as the principal cause of nonmelanoma skin cancer and provide genetic evidence that CPD-photolyase enzymes can be employed as effective tools to combat skin cancer. |
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