ISSN:
0021-9541
Keywords:
Life and Medical Sciences
;
Cell & Developmental Biology
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Biology
,
Medicine
Notes:
We examined the role of the factor deficient in xeroderma pigmentosum group A (XP-A) cells in the formation of proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) complex with DNA in the DNA repair process in human fibroblasts following cisdiamminedichloroplatinum (CDDP)-treatment. Immunofluorescence staining after methanol fixation was used to detect the PCNA complex formation. When quiescent normal cells were PCNA-stained at 3 h after 100 μM CDDP treatment for 1 h, almost all nuclei of the cells showed a punctuated staining pattern. On the other hand, nuclei of XP-A cells were not stained. These results were the same with the findings following 10J/m2 of ultraviolet light (UV)-irradiation. The quantitative analysis of the PCNA immunofluorescence intensity of normal cells revealed that the mean intensity was increased by 4.8 times by the CDDP-treatment and 6.1 times by the UV-irradiation, compared with that of untreated cells. The intensities among nuclei ranged widely in both treatments. In contrast, the mean intensity was not increased in XP-A cells by the same treatments. However, when XP-A cells were fused with normal cells with polyethylene glycol (PEG) treatment, the nuclei of the XP-A cells showed positive PCNA-staining following CDDP-treatment or UV-irradiation in almost all cases. These results suggest that the PCNA complex formation may play a role in the DNA repair process after the step where the factor deficient in XP-A cells is involved following CDDP-treatment as well as following UV-irradiation. © 1992 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
Additional Material:
4 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jcp.1041520324
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