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Exponential or shouldered survival curves result from repair of DNA double-strand breaks depending on postirradiation conditions.

Radiat. Res. 114, 54-63 (1988)
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The yeast mutant rad54-3 is temperature conditional for the rejoining of DNA double-strand breaks, but cells do proliferate at both the restrictive and permissive temperatures. Thus, after irradiation with 30 MeV electrons, survival curves can be obtained which may or may not involve double-strand break rejoining under certain experimental conditions. Because of this special property of rad54-3 cells, it was possible to demonstrate that rejoining of radiation-induced double-strand breaks under nongrowth conditions yields exponeintial survival curves the slopes of which decrease as a function of the rejoining time. These survival data suggest that, under nongrowth conditions, the rejoining of double-strand breaks is an unsaturated process and lacks binary misrepair. In contrast, whenever rejoining of double-strand breaks occurs under growth conditions, shouldered survival curves are observed. This is true for immediate plating as well as for delayed plating survival curves. It is proposed that it is the unsaturated rejoining of double-strand breaks under nongrowth conditions, lacking binary misrepair, which is responsible for potentially lethal damage repair.
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Publication type Article: Journal article
Document type Scientific Article
Language english
Publication Year 1988
HGF-reported in Year 0
ISSN (print) / ISBN 0033-7587
e-ISSN 1938-5404
Quellenangaben Volume: 114, Issue: 1, Pages: 54-63 Article Number: , Supplement: ,
Publisher Radiation Research Society
Reviewing status Peer reviewed
Institute(s) Abteilung Biophysikalische Strahlenforschung
PubMed ID 3281185
Scopus ID 0023944161
Erfassungsdatum 1988-12-31