Psoralen/UVA treatment and chromosomes
- 1 January 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Human Genetics
- Vol. 38 (2) , 195-207
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00527403
Abstract
Treatment of human lymphocytes in vitro with trimethylpsoralen or 8-methoxypsoralen and UVA irradiation (PUVA) induced chromosome damage, mainly constrictions and gaps, but also breaks and exchanges, and increased the frequency of sister chromatid exchange (SCE). The localization of the chromosome aberrations was nonrandom. The coincidence of many PUVA hits with mercaptoenthanol hits suggests that PUVA may have other targets in the cell than the DNA, perhaps the folding proteins of the chromosomes and the nuclear membrane/chromatin attachment organelles. Caffeine increased in a synergistic way the chromosome aberration yield if added after PUVA treatment, but there was no effect when caffeine was present before and during PUVA treatment. The SCE frequency was increased in the presence of caffeine.Keywords
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