The fate of 8-methoxypsoralen photoinduced crosslinks in nuclear and mitochondrial yeast DNA: comparison of wild-type and repair-deficient strains.
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Magaña-Schwencke, N
RESUMO
In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, after 8-methoxypsoralen [8-(OMe)Ps] photoaddition, more crosslinks are induced per unit dose in mitochondrial DNA than in nuclear DNA. In wild-type cells treated in the exponential phase of growth, single- and double-strand breaks are produced during crosslink removal and then are rejoined upon postexposure incubation. The incision step is almost blocked in the rad 3-2 mutant, which is also defective in excision-repair of UV-induced (254 nm) pyrimidine dimers. The cutting of crosslinks from nuclear DNA is depressed in wild-type stationary-phase cells. This is correlated with a higher sensitivity of such cells to 8-(OMe)Ps photoinduced cell killing. The incision of crosslinks is dramatically reduced in mitochondrial DNA. The rejoining of single- and double-strand breaks is not only dependent on the product of the RAD51 gene (as shown by others) but also of the PSO2 gene. A correlation was found between the ability to recombine and strand rejoining. Therefore, as in bacteria, both the excision and the recombinational repair systems are involved in crosslink repair in yeast. However, double-strand breaks in yeast constitute repair intermediates which are not detected in Escherichia coli. The LD37 (dose necessary to induce a mean of one lethal hit per cell) corresponds to about 120 crosslinks per genome in exponential-phase cells of the wild type and to 1-2 crosslinks in the pso2-1 mutant.
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