Key words: 8-Hydroxy-2′-deoxyguanosine -hprt -Mutation -Deletion 8-Hydroxy-2′-deoxyguanosine (8OHdG), a typical oxidative marker compound in DNA, is widely used as an indicator of carcinogenesis.1-6) However, in a previous study, 7) only a weak correlation was observed between 8OHdG and the frequency of mutation when N,N′-bis(2-hydroxyperoxy-2-methoxyethyl)-1,4,5,8-naphthalenetetracarboxylic-diimide (NP-III) was used as a source of hydroxyl radical (OH • ). NP-III is a photo-Fenton reagent known to generate OH• upon UVA irradiation. 8, 9) It was suggested that the damaged guanine would not directly contribute to errors in DNA that cause mutation and that the evaluation of 8OHdG would not necessarily reflect mutagenicity in a cellular system. In addition, it was possible that the mutation in our system was NP-III-dependent and would occur regardless of the generation of OH• or formation of 8OHdG. In this study, we investigated the relationship between 8OHdG and mutagenicity in V79 cells by sequence analysis of hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (hprt) gene mutants obtained through treatment with NP-III. Further, we also analyzed the effect of riboflavin (Rf), a photosensitizer known to induce the formation of 8OHdG.
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MATERIALS AND METHODS
Cells and reagentsChinese hamster lung fibroblasts, V79 (V79 379A, IFO#50082), were grown in Eagle's minimum essential medium supplemented with 10% heatinactivated fetal calf serum, 100 U/ml penicillin and 100 µg/ml streptomycin. NP-III was kindly provided by Dr. Seiichi Matsugo at Yamanashi University. Rf was purchased from Sigma Chemical (St. Louis, MO). Cell treatments and 8OHdG determination The cells were treated as described in a previous study. 7) Briefly, V79 cells were plated at 5×10 5 /60-mm dish and incubated for 24 h at 37°C in 5% CO 2 . The cells were washed and incubated in Dulbecco's phosphate-buffered saline for 15 min with either 20 µM NP-III or 20 µg/ml Rf under UV irradiation at 366 nm. The dose of UVA in this condition was ~10 kJ/m 2 . 7) After the treatment, the cells were washed and some were stored as a cell pellet at −80°C until the determination of 8OHdG. The determination was made under anaerobic conditions as described 13) to minimize experimental artifacts and by HPLC with an electrochemical detection system.
Determination of mutagenicity and sequence analysisThe mutagenicity of the cells was evaluated by hypoxantine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT) mutation