Mutagenesis, Vol. 15, No. 1, 85-90,
January 2000
© 2000 UK Environmental Mutagen Society/Oxford University Press
Induction and repair of formaldehyde-induced DNA–protein crosslinks in repair-deficient human cell lines
Universitätsklinikum Ulm, Abteilung Medizinische Genetik, D-89070 Ulm, Germany
We have previously shown that the alkaline Comet assay (single cell gel electrophoresis) in a modified version is a sensitive test for the detection of formaldehyde-induced DNA–protein crosslinks (DPC). Our results also indicated that formaldehyde-induced DPC are related to the formation of chromosomal effects such as micronuclei and sister chromatid exchanges. To better understand the genetic consequences of formaldehyde-induced DPC we have now investigated the induction and removal of DPC in relationship to the formation of micronuclei in normal and repair-deficient human cell lines. We did not find significant differences between normal cells, a xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) cell line and a Fanconi anaemia (FA) cell line with respect to the induction and removal of DPC. However, the induction of micronuclei was enhanced in both repair-deficient cell lines, particularly in XP cells, under the same treatment conditions. Comparative investigations with the DNA–DNA crosslinker mitomycin C (MMC) revealed a delayed removal of crosslinks and enhanced induction of micronuclei in both repair-deficient cell lines. FA cells were found to be particularly hypersensitive to micronucleus induction by MMC. In contrast to the results with formaldehyde, induction of micronuclei by MMC occurred at much lower concentrations than the effects in the Comet assay. Our results suggest that more than one repair pathway can be involved in the repair of crosslinks and that disturbed excision repair has more severe consequences with regard to the formation of chromosomal aberrations after formaldehyde treatment than has disturbed crosslink repair.
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