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  • Title: Studies on the influence of photoreactivation on the frequencies of UV-induced chromosomal aberrations, sister-chromatid exchanges and pyrimidine dimers in chicken embryonic fibroblasts.
    Author: Natarajan AT, van Zeeland AA, Verdegaal-Immerzeel EA, Filon AR.
    Journal: Mutat Res; 1980 Feb; 69(2):307-17. PubMed ID: 6244488.
    Abstract:
    Chicken embryonic fibroblasts, which possess photoreactivating enzyme were used to study the influence of photoreactivating light on the induction of pyrimidine dimers, sister-chromatid exchanges (SCEs) and chromosomal aberrations by 254 nm UV. While photoreactivation (PR) efficiently removed most of the induced dimers (75-95%), the frequencies of SCEs and chromosomal aberrations were reduced only by about 30-65%, in parallel experiments. Since pyrimidine dimers are the only photoreactivable photolesions known, the reduction in the frequencies of SCEs and chromosomal aberrations on PR has been interpreted as due to disappearance of pyrimidine dimers, implying that these lesions are the primary events responsible for the induction of the biological end points studied. The possible reasons for the lack of quantitative relationship between the frequencies of dimers and the frequencies of SCEs and chromosomal aberrations are discussed.
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