title: DNA damage and repair in gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase-positive and negative hepatocytes in primary culture from carcinogen-treated rats.
abstract: Chemically induced DNA fragmentation and unscheduled DNA synthesis were determined in gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase (GGT)-positive and GGT-negative hepatocytes isolated from rat livers subjected to a multistage hepatocarcinogenesis regimen (Solt-Farber), which included 0.05% phenobarbital promotion for 6 weeks (early) or 6 months (late). The results indicated that there was DNA damage in untreated GGT-positive and GGT-negative hepatocytes with either period of promotion compared with normal hepatocytes; however, no statistical difference could be seen between GGT-positive and GGT-negative hepatocytes. DNA damage induced in vitro by the activation-dependent carcinogen dimethylnitrosamine was much less in GGT-positive hepatocytes than in GGT-negative hepatocytes or normal hepatocytes. No significant difference in DNA damage was seen in both GGT-positive and GGT-negative cell populations following treatment with the activation-independent carcinogen ethylnitrosourea (ENU), although DNA damage of GGT-positive hepatocytes was less than that of normal hepatocytes. The background of unscheduled DNA synthesis in both GGT-positive and GGT-negative hepatocytes at either time of promotion was higher than that of normal hepatocytes. The capacity for DNA repair in GGT-positive hepatocytes appeared to be lower than that in GGT-negative hepatocytes. GGT-negative hepatocytes exhibited a lower capacity for DNA repair than that of normal hepatocytes in terms of the rate of unscheduled DNA synthesis elicited by dimethylnitrosamine and ethylnitrosourea in vitro.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oncology, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53706.
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Y H
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: G L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Sattler
authors.forename: H C
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Pitot
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002273:Carcinogens / Q000494:pharmacology*; D002471:Cell Transformation, Neoplastic / Q000139:chemically induced; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D004249:DNA Damage / Q000187:drug effects; D004260:DNA Repair / Q000187:drug effects; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D005038:Ethylnitrosourea / Q000494:pharmacology; D005260:Female; D008099:Liver / Q000201:enzymology*; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000201:enzymology; D051381:Rats; D011916:Rats, Inbred F344; D005723:gamma-Glutamyltransferase / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D002273:Carcinogens; D005723:gamma-Glutamyltransferase; D005038:Ethylnitrosourea