Induction and rejoining of gamma-ray-induced DNA single- and double-strand breaks in Chinese hamster AA8 cells and in two radiosensitive clones.

The induction and rejoining of gamma-ray-induced DNA strand breaks were measured in a Chinese hamster ovary cell line, AA8, and in two radiosensitive clones (EM9 and NM2) derived from it. The kinetics of recovery from sublethal damage (SLD) and potentially lethal damage (PLD) has previously been characterized in each of these lines [vanAnkeren et al., Radiat. Res., 115, 223-237 (1988)]. No significant differences were observed among the cell lines in the yields of either DNA single-strand breaks (SSBs) or double-strand breaks (DSBs) as assayed by filter elution. Data for SSB rejoining in AA8 and NM2 cells irradiated with 7.5 Gy were fit by a biexponential process (t1/2 values of approximately 4 and 80 min). In comparison, SSB rejoining in EM9 cells was initially slower (t1/2 = 10 min) and a higher level of SSBs was unrejoined 6 h after irradiation. DSB rejoining in AA8 cells assayed at pH 9.6 was also biphasic (t1/2 values of 15 and 93 min), although when assayed at pH 7.0, most (approximately 80%) of the damage was rejoined at a constant rate (t1/2 = 45 min) during the first 2 h. EM9 cells exhibited a slower initial rate of DSB rejoining when assayed at pH 9.6 but showed no difference compared with AA8 cells in DSB rejoining when assayed at pH 7.0. These results indicate that radiosensitive EM9 cells, whose kinetics of recovery from SLD and PLD was the same as that of AA8 cells, have a defect in the fast phase of SSB rejoining but no measurable defect in DSB rejoining. Conversely, NM2 cells, which displayed a reduced shoulder width on their survival curve and decreased recovery from SLD, had no demonstrable defects in the rate or extent of rejoining of DSBs or SSBs. When compared with the SLD and PLD data reported previously, these results suggest that there is no direct correlation between either of these recovery processes and the rejoining of SSBs or DSBs as assayed here.

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