DNA methylation in 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine-resistant variants of C3H 10T1/2 C18 cells.
AUTOR(ES)
Flatau, E
RESUMO
A cell line (T17) was derived from C3H 10T1/2 C18 cells after 17 treatments with increasing concentrations of 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine. The T17 cell line was very resistant to the cytotoxic effects of 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine, and the 50% lethal dose for 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine was ca. 3 microM, which was 30-fold greater than that of the parental C3H 10T1/2 C18 cells. Increased drug resistance was not due to a failure of the T17 cell line to incorporate 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine into DNA. The cells were also slightly cross-resistant to 5-azacytidine. The percentage of cytosines modified to 5-methylcytosine in T17 cells was 0.7%, a 78% decrease from the level of 3.22% in C3H 10T1/2 C18 cells. The DNA cytosine methylation levels in several clones isolated from the treated lines were on the order of 0.7%, and clones with methylation levels lower than 0.45% were not obtained even after further drug treatments. These highly decreased methylation levels appeared to be unstable, and DNA modification increased as the cells divided in the absence of further drug treatment. The results suggest that it may not be possible to derive mouse cells with vanishingly low levels of 5-methylcytosine and that considerable de novo methylation can occur in cultured lines.
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