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A mutational hot spot induced by N-hydroxy-aminofluorene in dihydrofolate reductase mutants of Chinese hamster ovary cells.

Eighteen mutants deficient in dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) activity were induced with 0.5 microM N-hydroxy-aminofluorene in four separate experiments. This carcinogen dose killed approximately 80% of the treated cells and resulted in a mutational frequency approximately 3 x 10(-6). The nature of the induced changes in each of the mutants was determined by direct sequencing following polymerase chain reaction amplification, or in one instance, by Southern blot analysis. Nearly all (15/17) of the mutations were single base changes. Consistent with the binding specificity of this chemical, all mutations were targeted to guanine bases. The predominant change was G:C-->T:A transversion which was evident in 11/15 mutants. A single dG-AF mutational hotspot was noted at a site in the DHFR coding sequence of exon 4; one-third of the induced point mutations arose at this position. These results are compared with our previous analyses of mutants induced with the related aromatic amine, N-2-acetoxy-2-acetyl-aminofluorene.[1]

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  1. A mutational hot spot induced by N-hydroxy-aminofluorene in dihydrofolate reductase mutants of Chinese hamster ovary cells. Carothers, A.M., Urlaub, G., Mucha, J., Yuan, W., Chasin, L.A., Grunberger, D. Carcinogenesis (1993) [Pubmed]
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