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- Title
Interference with DNA repair after ionizing radiation by a pyrrole-imidazole polyamide.
- Authors
Diaz-Perez, Silvia; Kane, Nathanael; Kurmis, Alexis A.; Yang, Fei; Kummer, Nicolas T.; Dervan, Peter B.; Nickols, Nicholas G.
- Abstract
Pyrrole-imidazole (Py–Im) polyamides are synthetic non-genotoxic minor groove-binding small molecules. We hypothesized that Py–Im polyamides can modulate the cellular response to ionizing radiation. Pre-treatment of cells with a Py-Im polyamide prior to exposure to ionizing radiation resulted in a delay in resolution of phosphorylated γ-H2AX foci, increase in XRCC1 foci, and reduced cellular replication potential. RNA-sequencing of cell lines exposed to the polyamide showed induction of genes related to the ultraviolet radiation response. We observed that the polyamide is almost 10-fold more toxic to a cell line deficient in DNA ligase 3 as compared to the parental cell line. Alkaline single cell gel electrophoresis reveals that the polyamide induces genomic fragmentation in the ligase 3 deficient cell line but not the corresponding parental line. The polyamide interferes directly with DNA ligation in vitro. We conclude that Py-Im polyamides may be further explored as sensitizers to genotoxic therapies.
- Subjects
DNA repair; POLYAMIDES; IONIZING radiation; RNA sequencing; GEL electrophoresis
- Publication
PLoS ONE, 2018, Vol 13, Issue 5, p1
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0196803