Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) damage induced by bleomycin-Fe(II) in vitro: Formation of 8-hydroxyguanine residues in DNA.

Abstract
Treatment of calf thymus deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) with bleomycin-Fe(II) at 0.degree. C for 5 min resulted in the formation of 8-hydroxyguanine (8-OH-Gua) residues in DNA in a dose dependent manner, in addition to the formation of base propenal, a DNA-degradation product. The amount of 8-OH-Gua was about one-hundredth of that of base propenal. Treatment of cellular DNA with bleomycin did not result in any increase of 8-OH-Gua even under conditions of 100% cell killing.