DNA damage and repair in human peripheral blood lymphocytes following treatment with microcystin-LR

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• 作者：Lankoff ; Anna ; Krzowski ; Lukasz ; Glab ; Joanna ; Banasik ; Anna ; Lisowska ; Halina ; Kuszewski ; Tomasz ; et. al.
• 关键词：Microcystin-LR ; DNA damage ; Chromosome aberrations ; Apoptosis ; DNA repair
• 刊名：Mutation Research/Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis
• 出版年：2004
• 出版时间：April 11, 2004
• 年：2004
• 卷：559
• 期：1-2
• 页码：131-142
• 全文大小：240 K

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The purpose of this study was to find a possible explanation of the inconsistency of data regarding the genotoxicity of microcystin-LR (MC-LR). We compared the results of the comet assay with the results of the analysis of chromosome aberrations and apoptosis. In order to investigate the influence of MC-LR on DNA damage in human lymphocytes, cells were treated with MC-LR at different concentrations (1, 10 and 25μg/ml) for 6, 12, 18 and 24h. Analyses of Olive Tail Moment (OTM) as an indicator of DNA damage showed that MC-LR treatment induced DNA damage in a time-dependent manner, reaching its maximum after 18h. The lowest values of OTM were observed after 24h. MC-LR had no effect on the frequency of chromosome aberrations in lymphocytes. Since some data available in the literature indicate that apoptosis may lead to overestimated or false positive results regarding the genotoxicity of mutagens in the comet assay, we measured the frequency of late apoptotic cells by use of the comet assay and the frequency of early apoptotic cells with the TUNEL method. The comet assay results revealed that the highest level of apoptosis was observed after 24h and the lowest after 18h. The comparison of the frequency of apoptotic cells determined by the comet assay with DNA damage (OTM) examined by the comet assay revealed a statistically significant, negative correlation. The TUNEL results showed that the frequency of apoptotic cells progressively increased in a dose- and time-dependent manner. The comparison of the frequency of apoptotic cells determined by TUNEL method with DNA damage (OTM) examined by the comet assay showed a significant positive correlation for lymphocytes treated with MC-LR for 6, 12 and 18h. Therefore, our findings indicate that microcystin-LR-induced DNA damage observed in the comet assay may be related to the early stages of apoptosis due to cytotoxicity but not genotoxicity. In addition, we examined the DNA repair kinetics in lymphocytes following treatment with microcystin-LR and ionizing radiation. Our results indicate that MC-LR has an inhibiting effect on the repair of radiation-induced damage.