MUTATION AND INACTIVATION OF CULTURED MAMMALIAN-CELLS EXPOSED TO BEAMS OF ACCELERATED HEAVY-IONS .4. BIOPHYSICAL INTERPRETATION
MUTATION AND INACTIVATION OF CULTURED MAMMALIAN-CELLS EXPOSED TO BEAMS OF ACCELERATED HEAVY-IONS .4. BIOPHYSICAL INTERPRETATION
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DOI:
10.1080/09553008014550201
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发表时间:
1980-01-01
影响因子:
2.6
通讯作者:
COX, R
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作者:
GOODHEAD, DT;MUNSON, RJ;COX, R
A biophysical analysis was made of the results of experiments which used accelerated heavy ions of 20-470 keV/.mu.m to induce inactivation and mutation (resistance to 6-thioguanine) in cultured V79 Chinese hamster cells and HF19 human diploid fibroblasts. The discrete nature of the primary ions must be explicitly taken into account before the numbers of induced lethal and mutagenic lesions can be deduced from the observed radiosensitivities. The measured numbers of lesions produced by the radiations of different LET [linear energy transfer] are compared with the relative numbers predicted by various models of radiation action. The observations can be explained on the hypothesis that each lethal lesion is produced by a deposition of small energy (small number of ionizations) in a distance of about 3 nm. Two different lesions appear to be involved: one which requires .gtorsim. 100 eV and is dominant with low-LET radiations, and another which requires .gtorsim. 300 eV and is dominant at high-LET. Similar conclusions may apply to mutagenic lesions except that the mechanism which dominates at high-LET requires significantly more than 300 eV. More precise assessments of the hypothesis and these numerical values must await detailed track structure calculations of the radiation on the nanometer scale. Alternative models which invoke accumulation of sublethal damage or interaction between sublesions over distances of the order of microns do not provide a consistent explanation of the observations. The frequently observed curvature of low-LET dose-responses is not due to interaction between sublesions but rather to some other mechanism such as a dose-dependent repair process. Low velocity, high-LET ions produce an average of appreciably < 1 lethal lesion in traversing the nucleus of the above mammalian cells; 90 keV/.mu.m He ions produce about 0.03-0.06 lethal lesions/.mu.m of track through the nucleus of the cells of thickness about 7 .mu.m. Some estimates are also made of the size of the nuclear region which is sensitive to the induction of mutation to 6-thioguanine-resistance; this region extends beyond the DNA of the structural gene itself.