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Recapitulation of the Cellular Xeroderma Pigmentosum-Variant Phenotypes Using Short Interfering RNA for DNA Polymerase H¹

Department of Dermatology and University of California San Francisco Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143-0808

The lesion-specific DNA polymerase POLH gene is mutated in xeroderma pigmentosum variant (XP-V) patients who exhibit an increased skin cancer incidence from UV exposure. Normal cells in which POLH expression was reduced using short interfering RNAs (siRNAs) were compared with the XP-V cellular phenotype that results from naturally occurring inactivating mutations. Stable clones expressing siRNA had partially reduced POLH protein levels, and intermediate levels of UV sensitivity and S phase checkpoint activation, but similar levels of Mre11 foci as in XP-V cells. Therefore, suppression of POLH expression levels by siRNA recapitulates most of the phenotypes seen in cells from XP-V patients with inactivating mutations in POLH.

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