title: Sequence specificity of the 8-hydroxyguanine repair activity in rat organs.
abstract: The base excision repair system for 8-hydroxyguanine (8-OH-Gua) is believed to play a role in the prevention of mutations, such as GC-to-TA transversion, which leads to cancer development. However, the exact repair mechanism is still unclear. In this study, we examine whether the repair activity level for 8-hydroxyguanine, one of the major forms of oxidative DNA damage, depends on the sequence of the substrate DNA. We prepared six different oligonucleotides containing 8-hydroxyguanine as substrates and reacted them with crude extracts from the livers and kidneys of 8-week-old Sprague-Dawley rats. As a result, up to a 10-fold difference in the repair activity levels was observed, depending on the substrates used. Based on this observation, we suggest that the repair systems may act with sequence specificity on the damaged DNA.
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental Oncology, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, 807-8555, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hirano
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hirano
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Yamaguchi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Asami
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tsurudome
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kasai
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D004247:DNA / Q000378:metabolism; D004260:DNA Repair / Q000502:physiology*; D006147:Guanine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000378:metabolism*; D007668:Kidney / Q000378:metabolism; D008099:Liver / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley
chemical_list: C024829:8-hydroxyguanine; D006147:Guanine; D004247:DNA