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Negative regulation of alkylation-induced sister-chromatid exchange by poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 activity
1Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Abteilung Tumorvirologie, Heidelberg, Germany.
Abstract:
One of the earliest responses to DNA damage in eukaryotic cells is activation of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 (PARP-1), a DNA strand break-dependent nuclear enzyme which covalently modifies proteins with poly(ADP-ribose). Here, we show that conditional over-expression of PARP-1 in stably transfected hamster cells, which causes cellular over-accumulation of poly(ADP-ribose) by several-fold, strongly suppresses alkylation-induced sister-chromatid exchange (SCE), while cytotoxicity of alkylation treatment is slightly enhanced. Viewed together with the known potentiation of SCE by abrogation of PARP-1 activity, our results provide evidence that PARP-1 activity is an important regulator of alkylation-induced SCE formation, imposing a control that is strictly negative and commensurate with the level of enzyme activity.
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