Journal
BIOLOGIA
Volume 63, Issue 6, Pages 958-961Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.2478/s11756-008-0149-1
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Chlamydomonas reinhardtii; cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers; DNA damage detection; DNA repair; immunoassay
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Exposure of cells to ultraviolet radiation (UVR) is one of the best studied and most used model system for the examination of the biological effects of DNA damage, its repair and tolerance. The major product after UVR treatment is cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer (TT, TC, CC). Pyrimidine dimers are repaired by a direct reversal called photoreactivation or by excision of damage in a process of nucleotide excision repair. Several methods have been developed for the detection and quanti. cation of pyrimidine dimers in DNA. The technique of Small and Greimann, in which DNA is incubated with the pyrimidine dimer-specific endonuclease, was used for the analysis of mutant strains with impaired excision repair system of the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Another method is based on the binding of specific monoclonal antibodies to pyrimidine dimers. The aim of our work was to compare these two techniques with the use of mutant strains of C. reinhardtii - uvsX1 and uvsX2 which are assumed to be deficient in DNA damage recognition. One of their traits was sensitivity to UVR which could be caused by breakdown of the excision repair pathway. The results suggest that the immuno-approach is suitable for the detection of DNA damage induced by UVR.
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