GENETIC EFFECTS OF PHOTOADDUCTS AND PHOTOCROSS-LINKS IN DNA OF PHAGE-LAMBDA EXPOSED TO 360 NM LIGHT AND TRI-METHYLPSORALEN OR KHELLIN
GENETIC EFFECTS OF PHOTOADDUCTS AND PHOTOCROSS-LINKS IN DNA OF PHAGE-LAMBDA EXPOSED TO 360 NM LIGHT AND TRI-METHYLPSORALEN OR KHELLIN
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DOI:
10.1016/0005-2787(77)90319-7
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发表时间:
1977-01-01
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HOWARDFLANDERS, P
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CASSUTO, E;GROSS, N;HOWARDFLANDERS, P
The furocoumarin 4,5'',8-trimethylpsoralen sensitizes cells and viruses to 360 nm light, producing cross-links and monoadducts in their DNA. The furanochromone khellin is a less effective sensitizing agent than psoralen, but also induces cross-links and adducts in DNA. The number of cross-links increases as the square of the time of exposure to light. Greater fluences were required for khellin than for psoralen, possibly because of the less favorable angle of the distal unsaturated bonds for cross-linking pyrimidines in adjacent base pairs. By adjusting the time of exposure to 360 nm light, .lambda. phages were damaged with [3H]psoralen and [3H]khellin to produce equal numbers of cross-links. These exposures produced 8-times more [3H]khellin than [3H]psoralen adducts in the DNA of the phages. Similar exposures were made with nonradioactive photosensitizers to determine the effectiveness of .lambda. phages carrying cross-links and monoadducts in producing genetic recombinants. Phage-prophage genetic crosses were performed with psoralen and khellin-damaged phages under repressed conditions in which replication of the damaged DNA was blocked. Cross-links were .apprx. 20-times more effective than monoadducts for inducing recombination under repressed conditions. Tests on the survival of plaque forming ability on wild type bacteria [Escherichia coli], showed that cross-links were .apprx. 15-times more effective than the adducts. Thus in homoimmune crosses with psoralen-damaged .lambda. phages infecting wild type lysogens > 3/4 of the induced recombination can be attributed to cross-links rather than to monoadducts.