Triple helix-forming oligonucleotides target psoralen adducts to specific chromosomal sequences in human cells.
AUTOR(ES)
Oh, D H
RESUMO
The ability to target photochemical adducts to specific genomic DNA sequences in cells is useful for studying DNA repair and mutagenesis in intact cells, and also as a potential mode of gene-specific therapy. Triple helix-forming DNA oligonucleotides linked to psoralen (psoTFOs) were designed to deliver UVA-induced psoralen photoadducts to two distinct sequences within the human interstitial collagenase gene. A primer extension assay demonstrated that the appropriate psoTFO selectively damages a collagenase cDNA target. Site-specific genomic psoTFO DNA adducts were detected by a single-strand ligation PCR assay. The adduct, formed at a single site by a psoTFO in purified genomic DNA, contrasted with the multiple sites that were damaged within the observed segment of the collagenase gene upon treatment with free psoralen and subsequent photoactivation. When treated with psoTFOs, both repair-deficient fibroblasts from xero- derma pigmentosum complementation group A and HT1080 fibrosarcoma cells exhibited site-specific DNA adducts following UVA irradiation. Addition of phorbol ester, a transcriptional activator of the collagenase gene, to xeroderma pigmentosum cells did not detectably alter the initial levels of damage produced by psoTFOs, suggesting that further stimulation of transcription neither improves accessibility of psoTFOs to their targets nor enhances removal of non-covalently bound psoTFOs.
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