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Nucleic Acids Research, 2001, Vol. 29, No. 12 2558-2566
© 2001 Oxford University Press

A novel fluorometric oligonucleotide assay to measure O 6-methylguanine DNA methyltransferase, methylpurine DNA glycosylase, 8-oxoguanine DNA glycosylase and abasic endonuclease activities: DNA repair status in human breast carcinoma cells overexpressing methylpurine DNA glycosylase

Emiko L. Kreklau, Melissa Limp-Foster1,2, Naili Liu, Yi Xu1,2, Mark R. Kelley1,2 and Leonard C. Erickson*

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, 1Department of Pediatrics and 2Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University Cancer Center, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA

DNA repair status plays a major role in mutagenesis, carcinogenesis and resistance to genotoxic agents. Because DNA repair processes involve multiple enzymatic steps, understanding cellular DNA repair status has required several assay procedures. We have developed a novel in vitro assay that allows quantitative measurement of alkylation repair via O6-methylguanine DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) and base excision repair (BER) involving methylpurine DNA glycosylase (MPG), human 8-oxoguanine DNA glycosylase (hOGG1) and yeast and human abasic endonuclease (APN1 and APE/ref-1, respectively) from a single cell extract. This approach involves preparation of cell extracts in a common buffer in which all of the DNA repair proteins are active and the use of fluorometrically labeled oligonucleotide substrates containing DNA lesions specific to each repair protein. This method enables methylation and BER capacities to be determined rapidly from a small amount of starting sample. In addition, the stability of the fluorometric oligonucleotides precludes the substrate variability caused by continual radiolabeling. In this report this technique was applied to human breast carcinoma MDA-MB231 cells overexpressing human MPG in order to assess whether up-regulation of the initial step in BER alters the activity of selected other BER (hOGG1 and APE/ref-1) or direct reversal (MGMT) repair activities.

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +1 317 274 5202; Fax: +1 317 274 8046; Email: lcericks{at}iupui.edu


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