Repair of O6-methylguanine in DNA by demethylation is lacking in Mer− human tumor cell strains
- 1 January 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Carcinogenesis: Integrative Cancer Research
- Vol. 4 (2) , 199-205
- https://doi.org/10.1093/carcin/4.2.199
Abstract
The ability of extracts of human tumor cells to demethylate O6-methylguanine (O 6 -MeG) in DNA was assayed using the synthetic DNA polymer poly(dC,dG,m 6 dG). Cell strains proficient in repair of O 6 -MeG in vivo (Mer+ phenotype) contained a methyltransferase activity while repair deficient cells (Mer − phenotype) had little or no activity. Mixing extracts of different Mer − strains did not result in the appearance of the activity. Extracts of Mer − cells did not inhibit the activity in extracts of Mer + cells. Both Mer + and Mer − strains contained methylnitrosourea-damage-specific endonudease activity. The data suggest that the Mer + strains are deficient in methyltransferase and that this is the fundamental reason for their hypersensitivity to the cytotoxic effects of DNA alkyla-tion. The activity was partially purified from a Mer + colon carcinoma cell strain. Its kinetics parallel the repair of O 6 -MeG in DNA in vivo and suggest that the activity is inactivated during repair of DNA.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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