Abstract
The mutagenic properties of UV-induced photoproducts, both the cis-syn thymine-thymine dimer (TT) and the thymine-thymine pyrimidine pyrimidone (6-4) photoproduct [T(6-4)T] were studied in mammalian cells using shuttle vectors. A shuttle vector able to replicate in both mammalian cells and bacteria was produced in its single-stranded DNA form. A unique photoproduct was inserted at a single restriction site and after recircularization of the single-stranded DNA vector, this latter was transfected into simian COS7 cells. After DNA replication the vector was extracted from cells and used to transform bacteria. Amplified DNA was finally analyzed without any selective screening, DNA from randomly picked bacterial colonies being directly sequenced. Our results show clearly that both lesions are mutagenic, but at different levels. Mutation frequencies of 2 and 60% respectively were observed with the TT dimer and the T(6-4)T. With the TT dimer the mutations were targeted on the 3'-T. With the T(6-4)T a large variety of mutations were observed. A majority of G-->T transversions were semi-targeted to the base before the 5'-T of the photoproduct. These kinds of mutations were not observed when the same plasmid was transfected directly into SOS-induced JM105 bacteria or when the T(6-4)T oligonucleotide inserted in a different plasmid was replicated in SOS-induced SMH10 Escherichia coil bacteria. These semi-targeted mutations are therefore the specific result of bypass of the T(6-4)T lesion in COS7 cells by one of the eukaryotic DNA polymerases.
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