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  • Title: [The interrelation between changes in the structural organization of replicon clusters, a retarded fork displacement rate and the high level of spontaneous SCEs in form II of xeroderma pigmentosum].
    Author: Barenfel'd LS, Nergadze SG, Pleskach NM, Mikhel'son VM.
    Journal: Tsitologiia; 1992; 34(6):88-94. PubMed ID: 1455562.
    Abstract:
    A cytogenetic observation, that the sister chromatid exchanges (SCE) occur 3 times more frequently in a special form of xeroderma pigmentosum--XPII than in the norm, prompted a study of DNA replication in this rare disease. Using DNA fiber autoradiography, the rate of fork movement and the frequency of initiation in the adjacent clusters of replicons were estimated. The rate of fork movement was significantly slower than that in classical XP and in normal cells. Here evidence was provided on another defect in DNA replication in XPII that involves a significantly decreased number of simultaneously operating adjacent clusters of replicons, which results in a decreased rate of DNA chain-growth. According to the Painter replication model for SCE, the exchanges arise due to double-strand DNA breaks occurring on the border between two adjacent clusters, respectively, completely and partially replicated. A retarded fork-displacement rate together with a decreased rate of DNA-chain growth may cause this situation to persist longer than in the norm. Thus, our data provide a further support of the replication model for SCE. A similar combination of cytogenetic and molecular defects has been obtained earlier in the Bloom syndrome cells.
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