Molecular analysis of hypoxanthine phosphoribosyl transferase mutants induced by glycidyl 1‐naphthyl ether in mouse spleen cells in vivo
- 1 January 1993
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis
- Vol. 22 (2) , 71-77
- https://doi.org/10.1002/em.2850220204
Abstract
Treatment of C57BL/6J mice with an epoxide, glycidyl 1‐naphthyl ether (GNE), resulted in an average of a 3.4‐fold increase in frequency of 6‐thioguanine‐resistant mutants of mouse spleen T‐lymphocytes. In similar experiments with the epoxide trichloropropylene oxide, no increase in mutant frequency was found. To determine the kind and location of mutations in the coding region of the hypoxanthine phosphoribosyl transferase (HPRT) gene, 26 GNE‐induced mutants and 17 spontaneous mutants were analyzed by direct sequencing of polymerase chain reaction amplified cDNA. Among the GNE‐induced mutants, HPRT cDNA was present in 22, while that from 4 could not be detected. Among the spontaneous mutants, HPRT cDNA was present in 15 and absent in 2. Among GNE‐induced mutants, base substitution in HPRT occurred in 15 of 22 mutants analyzed. Nine of 15 base substitutions involved TA base pairs, primarily TA→CG transitions. Base substitutions were found throughout exons 3–7 but 46% of substitutions were located in exon 3 and one frameshift mutation involving a GC base pair in exon 3 was also observed. Among the spontaneous mutants, base substitutions of HPRT occurred in 7 of 15 mutants analyzed with 6 of 7 base substitutions involving a TA base pair and another 2 of the 15 mutants showed a 4 base pair deletion. The base substitution spectrum in GNE‐induced mutants was different from that of the spontaneous mutants.Keywords
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