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Ultraviolet Mutagenesis in a Plasmid Vector Replicated in Lymphoid Cells from a Patient with the Melanoma-prone Disorder Dysplastic Nevus Syndrome

Laboratory of Molecular Carcinogenesis, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 [S. S., H. L. W., K. H. K.], and Otsuka Pharmaceutical Corporation, Rockville, Maryland 20854 [M. M. S.]

The hereditary dysplastic nevus syndrome (DNS) is an autosomal dominant disorder in which affected individuals have increased numbers of dysplastic (premalignant) nevi and a >100-fold increased risk of developing cutaneous melanoma. Epstein-Barr virus-transformed lymphoblastoid cell lines from patients with hereditary DNS have been shown to be hypermutable to UV radiation (M. I. R. Perera et al., Cancer Res., 46: 1005–1009, 1986). To examine the mechanism involved in this UV hypermutability, we used a shuttle vector plasmid, pZ189, which carries a 160-base pair marker gene, supF, and can replicate in human cells. pZ189 was treated with UV radiation and transfected into DNS6BE, a lymphoblastoid cell line from a patient with hereditary DNS. Plasmid survival after UV was similar with the DNS6BE line and with a lymphoblastoid cell line from a normal donor. Plasmid mutation frequency was greater with the DNS line in accord with the DNS cellular hypermutability. Base sequence analysis was performed on 69 mutated plasmids recovered from the DNS line. There were significantly more plasmids with single base substitution mutations (P < 0.01) in comparison to UV-treated plasmids passed through normal fibroblasts. pZ189 hypermutability and an increased frequency of single base substitutions was previously found with a cell line from a melanoma-prone xeroderma pigmentosum patient. These differences may be related to the increased melanoma susceptibility in both DNS and xeroderma pigmentosum.

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Received 3/20/89. Revised 6/19/89. Accepted 8/ 4/89.

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