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  • Title: Augmentation of bleomycin-induced DNA damage in intact cells.
    Author: Moseley PL.
    Journal: Am J Physiol; 1989 Nov; 257(5 Pt 1):C882-7. PubMed ID: 2480714.
    Abstract:
    Bleomycin, an important cause of pulmonary fibrosis, is known to produce DNA damage. The mechanism for this damage in vitro is related to free radical production by a bleomycin and iron complex. To determine whether bleomycin causes damage to DNA in vivo by a similar mechanism, we used a viral minichromosome that is replicated in cultured cells. Bleomycin causes dose-dependent damage to intracellular DNA, and this damage is augmented by Fe2+ but not Fe3+. The augmentation of the bleomycin-induced DNA damage caused by Fe2+ is also dose dependent in that increasing DNA damage occurs with increasing amounts of Fe2+. These studies demonstrate that bleomycin causes damage to DNA in vivo and suggest that bleomycin must rely on Fe2+ to donate an electron for oxygen radical-induced DNA strand scission.
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