Unscheduled DNA Synthesis in the Germ Cells of Male Mice Exposed In Vivo to the Chemical Mutagen Ethyl Methanesulfonate
- 1 December 1974
- journal article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 71 (12) , 4955-4959
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.71.12.4955
Abstract
An unscheduled DNA synthesis has been clearly demonstrated in meiotic and postmeiotic germ cell stages of the male mouse after in vivo treatment with a 250 mg/kg dose of ethyl methanesulfonate. The germ cell stages showing unscheduled DNA synthesis range from early to middle meiotic prophase stages through early to middle spermatid stages. The initiation of this synthesis, taken to be repair of chemically damaged DNA in these germ cells, is rapid, beginning within 1 hour after the injection of ethyl methanesulfonate. Unscheduled DNA synthesis has not been detected in the most mature germ cell stages, which give rise to dominant lethal mutations, nor does it occur in germ cell stages where protamine has replaced the chromosomal histones.Keywords
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