title: Coding properties of a unique apurinic/apyrimidinic site replicated in mammalian cells.
abstract: The coding properties of abasic sites have been studied in mammalian cells using a single-stranded shuttle vector carrying a unique abasic site. The probe was produced by digestion with the uracil DNA glycosylase of a uracil-containing oligonucleotide which was inserted in the single-stranded vector. After replication in monkey COS7 cells able to support DNA replication of the vector, the plasmid progeny were isolated in bacteria. DNA sequencing of rescued plasmids showed that replication of abasic sites does not lead to preferential insertion of a given base opposite the non-coding site. The four bases were inserted with a frequency which was not statistically different from a random distribution. It appears therefore that the "A rule insertion" opposite a unique abasic site does not apply, at least with the sequence we used, for an exogenous single-stranded DNA replicated in mammalian cells. It was not necessary to induce SOS-like conditions by pretreatment of host cells, in order to replicate abasic sites.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, UPR 42, Institut de Recherches Scientifiques sur le Cancer, Villejuif, France.
authors.forename: J B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Cabral Neto
authors.forename: R E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Cabral
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Margot
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Le Page
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sarasin
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gentil
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001080:Apurinic Acid / Q000378:metabolism*; D001483:Base Sequence; D002460:Cell Line; D045647:DNA Glycosylases; D004252:DNA Mutational Analysis; D015342:DNA Probes / Q000138:chemical synthesis; D004260:DNA Repair / Q000502:physiology; D004261:DNA Replication / Q000502:physiology*; D005822:Genetic Vectors; D000882:Haplorhini; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009699:N-Glycosyl Hydrolases; D017354:Point Mutation / Q000235:genetics*; D011119:Polynucleotides / Q000378:metabolism*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D014498:Uracil; D051981:Uracil-DNA Glycosidase
chemical_list: D015342:DNA Probes; D011119:Polynucleotides; C001790:apyrimidinic acid; D001080:Apurinic Acid; D014498:Uracil; D045647:DNA Glycosylases; D009699:N-Glycosyl Hydrolases; D051981:Uracil-DNA Glycosidase