Dose-Dependent Changes in the Spectrum of Mutations Induced by Ionizing Radiation
Authors:
- Robert JordanRJRobert Jordan
- Juan SunJSJuan Sun
- Hongbau MaHMHongbau Ma
- Abraham W. HsieAHAbraham W. Hsie
- 1 March 2000
- journal article
- Published by Radiation Research Society in Radiation Research
- Vol. 153 (3) , 312-317
Abstract
Schwartz, J.L., Jordan, R., Sun, J., Ma, H. and Hsie, A.W. Dose-Dependent Changes in the Spectrum of Mutations Induced by Ionizing Radiation. We examined the influence of dose on the spectrum of mutations induced at the hypoxanthine guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (Hprt) locus in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells. Independent CHO-K1 cell mutants at the Hprt locus were isolated from cells exposed to 0, 0.5, 1.5, 3.0 and 6.0 Gy 137Cs γ rays, and the genetic changes responsible for the mutations were determined by multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based exon deletion analysis. We observed dose-dependent changes in mutation spectra. At low doses, the principal radiation-induced mutations were point mutations. With increasing dose, multibase deletion mutations became the predominant mutation type such that by 6.0 Gy, there were almost three times more deletion mutations than point mutations. The dose response for induction of point mutations was linear while that for multibase deletions fit ...Keywords
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