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. 1974 Nov;14(11):835–845. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(74)85953-9

DNA Repair in Human/Embryonic Chick Heterokaryons

Ability of Each Species to Aid the Other in the Removal of Ultraviolet-Induced Damage

M C Paterson, P H M Lohman, A Westerveld, M L Sluyter
PMCID: PMC1334579  PMID: 4474028

Abstract

Cultured human and embryonic chick fibroblasts possess different enzyme-mediated processes to repair cyclobutyl pyrimidine dimers induced in their deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) by ultraviolet (UV) radiation. While dimers are corrected in human cells by excision repair, a photoenzymatic repair process exists in embryonic chick cells for the removal of these potentially deleterious UV photoproducts. We have utilized a sensitive enzymatic assay to monitor the disappearance, i.e. repair, of dimer-containing sites in fused populations of human and chick cells primarily consisting of multinucleate human/chick heterokaryons. Fused cultures were constructed such that UV photoproducts were present only in chick DNA when evaluating excision repair and only in human DNA when evaluating photoenzymatic repair. Based on the kinetics of site removal observed in these cultures we are led to conclude the following: Within heterokaryons per se the photoreactivating enzyme derived from chick nuclei and at least one excision-repair enzyme (presumably a UV endonuclease) derived from human nuclei act on UV-damaged DNA in foreign nuclei with an efficiency equal to that displayed toward their own nuclear DNA. Hence, after cell fusion these chick and human repair enzymes are apparently able to diffuse into foreign nuclei and once therein competently attack UV-irradiated DNA independently of its origin. In harmony with the situation in nonfused parental cultures, in heterokaryons the chick photoenzymatic repair process rapidly removed all dimer-containing sites from human DNA including the residual fraction normally acted upon slowly by the human excision-repair process.

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