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MUTAGENESIS
Volume 36, Issue 5, Pages 349-357Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mutage/geab027
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI [JP 16H02956, JP 19H04278, JP 17K12824]
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In human cells, G:C sites distant from 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine are frequently mutated when the Werner syndrome (WRN) protein is reduced. The study suggests the involvement of APOBEC3-family cytosine deaminases in untargeted mutations at G:C sites induced by G degrees and in cancer initiation by oxidative stress.
G:C sites distant from 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine (G degrees, 8-hydroxyguanine) are frequently mutated when the lesion-bearing plasmid DNA is replicated in human cells with reduced Werner syndrome (WRN) protein. To detect the untargeted mutations preferentially, the oxidised guanine base was placed downstream of the reporter supF gene and the plasmid DNA was introduced into WRN-knockdown cells. The total mutant frequency seemed higher in the WRN-knockdown cells as compared to the control cells. Mutation analyses revealed that substitution mutations occurred at the G:C pairs of 5'-GpA-3'/5'-TpC-3' sites, the preferred sequence for the apolipoprotein B mRNA-editing enzyme, catalytic polypeptide-like 3 (APOBEC3)-family cytosine deaminases, in the supF gene in both control and knockdown cells. These mutations were observed more frequently at G sites than C sites on the DNA strand where the G degrees base was originally located. This tendency was promoted by the knockdown of the WRN protein.The present results imply the possible involvement of APOBEC3-family cytosine deaminases in the action-at-a-distance (untargeted) mutations at G:C (or G) sites induced by G degrees and in cancer initiation by oxidative stress.
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