title: DNA repair and the accumulation of oxidatively damaged DNA are affected by fruit intake in mice.
abstract: AGING is associated with elevated oxidative stress and DNA damage. To achieve healthy aging, we must begin to understand how diet affects cellular processes. We postulated that fruit-enriched diets might initiate a program of enhanced DNA repair and thereby improve genome integrity. C57Bl/6 J mice were fed for 14 weeks a control diet or a diet with 8% peach or nectarine extract. The activities of DNA repair enzymes, the level of DNA damage, and gene expression changes were measured. Our study showed that repair of various oxidative DNA lesions was more efficient in liver extracts derived from mice fed fruit-enriched diets. In support of these findings, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis revealed that there was a decrease in the levels of formamidopyrimidines in peach-fed mice compared with the controls. Additionally, microarray analysis revealed that NTH1 was upregulated in peach-fed mice. Taken together, these results suggest that an increased intake of fruits might modulate the efficiency of DNA repair, resulting in altered levels of DNA damage.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Molecular Gerontology, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, 251 Bayview Blvd., Baltimore, MD 21224, USA.
authors.forename: Deborah L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Croteau
authors.forename: Nadja C
authors.initials: NC
authors.lastname: de Souza-Pinto
authors.forename: Charlotte
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Harboe
authors.forename: Guido
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Keijzers
authors.forename: Yongqing
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Kevin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Becker
authors.forename: Shan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sheng
authors.forename: Vilhelm A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Bohr
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001835:Body Weight; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000502:physiology; D004247:DNA / Q000378:metabolism*; D004249:DNA Damage; D004260:DNA Repair; D043224:Deoxyribonuclease (Pyrimidine Dimer) / Q000378:metabolism; D004032:Diet; D004435:Eating; D005638:Fruit; D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D008099:Liver / Q000737:chemistry; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D046228:Microarray Analysis; D008928:Mitochondria / Q000502:physiology; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D014020:Tissue Extracts / Q000378:metabolism; D015854:Up-Regulation
chemical_list: D014020:Tissue Extracts; D004247:DNA; D043224:Deoxyribonuclease (Pyrimidine Dimer); C468347:NTHL1 protein, human