title: Gamma-ray- and UV-sensitive strains of a radioresistant cell line: isolation and cross-sensitivity to other agents.
abstract: Two gamma-ray-sensitive and two ultraviolet (UV)-sensitive variants were isolated from the gamma-ray- and UV-resistant TN-368 lepidopteran insect cell line. The isolation was performed by inducing mutations in the TN-368 cells using ethyl methanesulfonate, growing them for an expression period, irradiating with 137Cs gamma rays or 254-nm UV radiation, allowing cells to incorporate 5-bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) in the presence of hydroxyurea (DNA repair synthesis), and finally irradiating with 365-nm UV radiation to cause DNA strand breakage at sites of BrdU incorporation with the intent of killing those cells that have undergone DNA repair synthesis and sparing those cells which, for a variety of reasons, did not. The survival of the Cs2 and Cs7 variants exposed to X rays is significantly different from the parent TN-368 line at the P less than 0.0001 level. The survival of the UV10 and UV19 variants exposed to UV radiation is different from the parent at the P less than 0.0001 and P less than 0.003 levels, respectively. In cross-sensitivity testing of the gamma-ray-sensitive variants, only Cs2 is more sensitive to 254-nm UV and only Cs7 is more sensitive to 44 degrees C heating; both are sensitive to PUVA. The UV-sensitive mutants are both sensitive to X irradiation, PUVA, and mitomycin C. However, UV10 is not sensitive to 44 degrees C heating while UV19 is, making UV19 the only variant strain sensitive to all agents examined. Despite the isolation procedure which was intended to select for DNA repair-deficient cells, the results suggest that a more general mechanism is responsible for the sensitivity of the variant cells to the agents tested.
authors.affiliation: Division of Radiation Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota 55905.
authors.forename: T M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Koval
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002460:Cell Line; D002470:Cell Survival / Q000528:radiation effects; D002588:Cesium Radioisotopes; D004307:Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation; D005720:Gamma Rays; D014644:Genetic Variation / Q000235:genetics*; D007915:Lepidoptera; D011836:Radiation Tolerance / Q000235:genetics*; D014466:Ultraviolet Rays
chemical_list: D002588:Cesium Radioisotopes