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  • Title: Comparison of spontaneous and ultraviolet-induced mutagenesis on naked SV40 DNA and SV40 virus.
    Author: Bourre F, Lichtenberger A, Sarasin A.
    Journal: Mutat Res; 1991; 250(1-2):49-53. PubMed ID: 1658643.
    Abstract:
    Molecular aspects of mutagenesis in mammalian cells have been essentially analyzed using biological probes such as viruses and shuttle vectors. Although the main data concerning the specificity of carcinogen-induced mutations are similar, the observed spontaneous mutation frequencies are significantly different when using one or the other model. This frequency is considerably higher with shuttle vectors than with viruses. We have performed an analysis of mutagenesis in order to determine if the obligatory transfection step associated with shuttle vector technology was responsible for the high mutation frequency found with these molecules. For this purpose simian virus 40 (SV40) genome used as virus or as naked DNA was introduced into permissive cells by viral infection or DNA transfection respectively. Our results show that transfection alone does not induce a higher mutation frequency on SV40 DNA than virus infection. Moreover, we have shown that the ultraviolet-light induced mutation spectrum was similar on the SV40 VP1 gene after viral infection or DNA transfection.
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