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JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY B-BIOLOGY
Volume 77, Issue 1-3, Pages 45-54Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2004.08.009
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clonogenic survival; apoptosis; micronuclei; cell cycle perturbation; PLDR; Hoechst-33342; aphidicolin
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The effects of minor groove binding ligand bisbenzimidazole derivative Hoechst-33342 on the cellular response to UV damage have been studied in two human glioma cell lines BMG-1. and U-87 grown as monolayer cultures. Treatment induced cell death (macro-colony assay) and growth inhibition, potential lethal damage recovery, cytogenetic damage (micronuclei formation) and proliferation kinetics were studied as parameters for cellular response. Pre and post-irradiation treatment with Hoechst-33342 (1-20 muM) enhanced the UV-induced growth inhibition and cell death in a concentration dependent manner in both cell lines. At higher Hoechst-33342 concentrations (>5 muM), the cytotoxic effects of the combination (Hoechst-33342+UV) were highly synergistic and mainly mediated through apoptosis implying the possible interactions of lesions caused by both the agents. The enhanced cell death due to Hoechst-33342 was accompanied by a significant increase (2-3 folds at 5 muM) in UV-induced micronuclei formation in BMG-1 cells. Under these conditions, Hoechst-33342 also enhanced the UV-induced cell cycle delay, mainly due to S and G(2) blocks. The increase in UV-induced micronuclei formation observed after treatment with Hoechst-33342 indicates that the DNA bound Hoechst-33342 may interfere with the rejoining of DNA strand breaks. Since the treatment of cells with the replication inhibitor aphidicolin reduced the enhancement of UV induced cytotoxicity by Hoechst-33342, ongoing DNA replication appears to stimulate Hoechst-33342 and UV-induced cytotoxicity. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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