Regulation of repair of naturally occurring DNA strand breaks in lymphocytes |
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Authors: | W.L. Greer J.G. Kaplan |
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Affiliation: | Department of Biochemistry University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2H7, Canada |
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Abstract: | Mouse lymphocytes have been shown to contain DNA strand breaks that were repaired within 2h of onset of culture with mitogen. Inhibitors of ADP ribosylation prevented this repair and blocked cell proliferation. The mitogen concanavalin A caused the internal concentration of NAD+, the substrate of the ADP ribose polymerase, to rise to about double that of resting cells within 45 min of stimulation. Addition of 300 μm nicotinamide to the culture in absence of mitogen also resulted in a similar increase in internal [NAD+], resulting in increased ADP ribosylation activity (measured in permeabilized cells) and in joining of DNA strand breaks; however, none of the subsequent events of lymphocyte activation such as blast transformation and DNA synthesis occurred. These findings indicate that (1) cellular [NAD+] is a rate limiting factor in repair of DNA strand breaks in resting lymphocytes and (2) this repair is necessary but not sufficient for lymphocyte proliferation. |
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Keywords: | NAD nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide Con A concanavalin A LPS lipopolysaccharide TdR thymidine |
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