QUANTITATION OF ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION-INDUCED CYCLOBUTYL PYRIMIDINE DIMERS IN DNA BY VIDEO AND PHOTOGRAPHIC DENSITOMETRY

被引:13
作者
FREEMAN, SE
THOMPSON, BD
机构
[1] Lovelace Medical Foundation, Albuquerque, NM 87108, 2425 Ridgecrest Drive, Southeast
关键词
Aromatic compounds - Electrophoresis - Ultraviolet radiation - Video cameras;
D O I
10.1016/0003-2697(90)90070-P
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
We have compared video and photographic methods for calculating the number of ultraviolet radiation (uv)-induced pyrimidine dimers in DNA from the bacteriophage T7 exposed to uv (0 to 800 J/m2) from an FS40 sunlamp. DNA was incubated with a pyrimidine dimerspecific Micrococcus luteus uv endonuclease, subjected to alkaline agarose gel electrophoresis, neutralized, and stained with ethidium bromide, and the DNA fluorescence was recorded either with a video camera or on photographic film. The slopes of the dose-response curves for the number of uv-endonuclease-sensitive sites per 103 bases (pyrimidine dimers) was 1.2 (±0.1) × 10-4 uv-endonuclease-sensitive sites per J/m2 for the video analysis and 1.3 (±0.04) × 10-4 uv-endonuclease-sensitive sites per J/m2 for the photographic analysis. Results for pyrimidine dimer determination by either method were statistically comparable. © 1990.
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页码:222 / 228
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