Radiation and hydrogen peroxide induced free radical damage to DNA.
Radiation and hydrogen peroxide induced free radical damage to DNA.
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1987-06
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J. Ward;J. Evans;C. Limoli;P. Calabro-Jones
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J. Ward;J. Evans;C. Limoli;P. Calabro-Jones
In a previous publication (Ward et al., 1985) we examined the production of intracellular DNA damage of the strand break type produced by hydrogen peroxide treatment of mammalian cells. To summarize our findings: V79 and HeLa cells when treated with hydrogen peroxide at 0°C are not readily killed - a treatment with 40mM for 10min is necessary to kill 63% (Figure 1). However the DNA of these cells showed significant levels of single strand breaks (SSB) at micromolar levels of the agent (50micromolar for 10min produced 5 Gray equivalents of damage: 5,000 SSB per cell (Elkind & Redpath, 1977)). This means that, if the yield of SSB produced by hydrogen peroxide is linearly dependent on concentration, 0.4 million SSB are produced per cell per lethal event. In contrast, for ionizing radiation the yield of SSB per cell per lethal event is 1,000 (Elkind & Redpath, 1977). By the use of OH radical scavengers we showed that the species from hydrogen peroxide causing the damage was the OH radical and that the distance travelled by this species prior to reacting with DNA was on average 15 A. This distance is in agreement with the mechanism proposed for the production of OH radicals and their subsequent reaction with DNA:Hydrogen peroxide reacting in a Fenton reaction with a variable valency metal ion bound to the DNA. Subsequent studies brought to anomaly: if the cells were treated at temperature (24°C) or at 37°C, they were killed with lower concentrations of hydrogen peroxide (Figure (DO =35micromolar) (Hofmann We measure the yield of SSB after room temperature treatment. None (less than 100 per cell) were found at concentrations of hydrogen peroxide up to 10mM.