Does hydroxyurea inhibit DNA replication in mouse cells by more than one mechanism?
Open Access
- 1 March 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Molecular and Cellular Biology
- Vol. 3 (3), 297-304
- https://doi.org/10.1128/mcb.3.3.297
Abstract
Cell-free DNA synthesis was performed in a lysed cell system from mouse cell cultures. The in vitro reaction was totally inhibited by N-ethylmaleimide but unaffected by hydroxyurea or fluorodeoxyuridine when these compounds were added to the incubation mixture. However, in a preparation obtained from cells which had been blocked by hydroxyurea before lysis, the rate of DNA synthesis was markedly reduced. This effect could not have been caused by the depletion of the precursor pools as all necessary triphosphates were added to the in vitro incubation mixture. Analysis by alkaline density gradients showed that the ligation of primary synthesis products is retarded in hydroxyurea-pretreated lysed cells and that small fragments accumulate. These results suggest that hydroxyurea interferes with the processing of early replication products, preventing the formation of longer intermediates. Its mechanism is either independent from the well-known inhibition of ribonucleoside diphosphate reductase or it may be the result of an as-yet-unknown function of this enzyme in a later step of replication. This observation could help to explain why cells appear to be blocked by hydroxyurea in the early part of the S phase (rather than at the G1/S border proper) and also why DNA repair synthesis is relatively insensitive to the drug.This publication has 37 references indexed in Scilit:
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