The cytotoxic and mutagenic effects of alkylating agents on human lymphoid cells are caused by different DNA lesions
- 1 January 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Carcinogenesis: Integrative Cancer Research
- Vol. 6 (5), 789-792
- https://doi.org/10.1093/carcin/6.5.789
Abstract
The Burkitt's lymphoma cell line Raji has a Mex+ phenotype. It is more resistant to killing by alkylating agents than a sub line (Raji TK−) which is Mex−. A reduction in O6-methylguanine (O6MeG)-DNA methyltransferase can be brought about by growing Raji cells in the presence of free O6MeG. The depletion in enzyme activity is specific and reversible; removal of O6MeG from the medium results in the restoration of methyltransferase activity within 4 h. Raji cells, in which methyltransferase has been reduced by this treatment to below detectable levels, are not sensitised to killing by N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine or the cross-linking nitrosoureas, 1, 3-bis(2-chloroethyl)-1-nitro-sourea and 1-(2-chloroethyl)-1-nitrosourea. This implies that adducts at the 06 atom of guanine in DNA are not potentially cytotoxic lesions. Secondly, it suggests that a defect other than the lack of methyltransferase is responsible for the sensitivity of Mex− cells to killing by alkylating agents.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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