An improved method for the detection of differential survival between normal and xeroderma pigmentosum lymphoblastoid cell lines in culture with 4-nitroquinoline-1-oxide

Chikako Kiyohara, Tomio Hirohata, Masanori Kuratsune, Junya Nagayama

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Abstract

The effects of the UV-mimetic chemical 4-nitroquinoline-1-oxide (4-NQO) upon cell lines heterozygous or homozygous for the recessive mutant xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) were investigated. Human lymphoblastoid cell lines, which were established from 4 XP homozygote patients (XPL15, XPL17, XPL19 and XPL20), 2 XP heterozygote individuals (XPPL17 and XPML17) and 58 normal individuals, were cultured in the presence of 4-NQO at doses of 0, 2, 4 and 8 × 10-6 M. Then the total cell number was counted and the viability of the cells was measured by the dye exclusion method using trypan blue and a newly devised fluorometric method with fluorescein diacetate. Results showed that 4-NQO affected, in increasing order of impairment, the cell lines: normal <XP heterozygote < XP homozygote.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)111-117
Number of pages7
JournalMutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis
Volume249
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul 1991

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Molecular Biology
  • Genetics
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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