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  • Title: DNA base sequence changes and sequence specificity of bromodeoxyuridine-induced mutations in mammalian cells.
    Author: Davidson RL, Broeker P, Ashman CR.
    Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A; 1988 Jun; 85(12):4406-10. PubMed ID: 3288993.
    Abstract:
    By using a shuttle vector system developed in our laboratory, we have carried out studies on the molecular mechanism by which 5-bromodeoxyuridine (BrdUrd) induces mutations in mammalian cells. The target for mutagenesis in these studies was the Escherichia coli gpt gene that was contained within a retroviral shuttle vector and integrated into chromosomal DNA in mouse A9 cells. Shuttle vector-transformed cells expressing the gpt gene were mutagenized with BrdUrd and cells with mutations in the gpt gene were selected. Shuttle vector sequences were recovered from the mutant cells, and the base sequence of the mutant gpt genes was determined. The great majority of the BrdUrd-induced mutations involving single-base changes were found to be G.C----A.T transitions. We have shown that mutagenesis by BrdUrd depends upon perturbation of deoxycytidine metabolism. Thus, the current results suggest that BrdUrd mutagenesis involves mispairing and misincorporation of BrdUrd opposite guanine in DNA, driven by nucleotide pool perturbation caused by BrdUrd and the resulting imbalanced supply of triphosphates available for DNA synthesis. The results also revealed a very high degree of sequence specificity for the BrdUrd mutagenesis. BrdUrd-induced G.C----A.T transitions occurred almost exclusively in sequences with two adjacent guanine residues. Furthermore, in approximately equal to 90% of the cases, the guanine residue involved in mutation was the one in the more 3' position.
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