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Nucleic Acids Research, 1992, Vol. 20, No. 24 6543-6548
© 1992

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Fidelity of replication of the leading and the lagging DNA strands opposite N-methyl-N-nitrosourea-induced DNA damage in human cells

T. Basic-Zaninovic+, F. Palombo§, M. Bignami and E. Dogliotti*

Laboratory of Comparative Txicology and Ecotoxicology, Istituto Superiore di Sanitá Rome, Italy

*To whom correspondence should be addressed

Received September 22, 1992. Revised November 12, 1992. Accepted November 12, 1992.

Semi-conservative replication of double-stranded DNA in eukaryotic cells is an asymmetric process involving leading and lagging strand synthesis and different DNA polymerases. We report a study to analyze the effect of these asymmetries when the replication machinery encounters alkylation-induced DNA adducts. The model system is an EBV-derived shuttle vector which replicates in synchrony with the host human cells and carries as marker gene the bacterial gpt gene. A preferential distribution of N-methyl-N-nitrosourea (MNU)-induced mutations in the non transcribed DNA strand of the shuttle vector pF1-EBV was previously reported. The hypermutated strand was the leading strand. To test whether the different fidelity of DNA polymerases synthesizing the leading and the lagging strands might contribute to MNU-induced mutation distribution the mutagenesis study was repeated on the shuttle vector pTF-EBV which contains the gpt gene in the inverted orientation. We show that the base substitution error rates on an alkylated substrate are similar for the replication of the leading and lagging strands. Moreover, we present evidence that the fidelity of replication opposite O6-methylguanine adducts of both the leading and lagging strands is not affected by the 3' flanking base. The preferential targeting of mutations after replication of alkylated DNA is mainly driven by the base at the 5' side of the G residues.

Present address: +Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Present address: §I.R.B.M., Pomezia, Italy


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