title: Peplomycin-induced DNA repair synthesis in permeable mouse ascites sarcoma cells.
abstract: DNA repair synthesis induced in permeable mouse ascites sarcoma cells by peplomycin, an antitumor antibiotic, was studied. Mouse ascites sarcoma (SR-C3H/He) cells were permeabilized with a low concentration of Triton X-100 in an isotonic condition. Permeable cells were treated with an appropriate concentration of peplomycin to introduce single-strand breaks in permeable cell DNA. DNA repair synthesis in peplomycin-treated permeable cells was measured by incubating the cells with four deoxynucleoside triphosphates in an appropriate buffer system. The DNA repair synthesis was enhanced by ATP and NaCl at near physiological concentrations. More than 90% of DNA synthesis in the present system depended on the peplomycin-treatment. The repair nature of the DNA synthesis was confirmed by a BrdUMP density shift technique. The repair patches were largely completed and ligated in the presence of ATP. Analyses using selective inhibitors for DNA polymerases showed that both DNA polymerase Beta and aphidicolin-sensitive DNA polymerases (DNA polymerase alpha and/or delta) were involved in the repair DNA synthesis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Okayama University Medical School, Japan.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Akiyama
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fukushima
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tsutsui
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Seki
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000903:Antibiotics, Antineoplastic / Q000494:pharmacology*; D001761:Bleomycin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D002463:Cell Membrane Permeability / Q000502:physiology; D002500:Centrifugation, Isopycnic; D004260:DNA Repair / Q000187:drug effects*; D004273:DNA, Neoplasm / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D005090:Exodeoxyribonucleases / Q000378:metabolism; D051379:Mice; D017663:Peplomycin; D012513:Sarcoma, Experimental / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000235:genetics; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D000903:Antibiotics, Antineoplastic; D004273:DNA, Neoplasm; D001761:Bleomycin; D017663:Peplomycin; D005090:Exodeoxyribonucleases; C020133:exodeoxyribonuclease III