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DNA-damaging agents induce the 72-kD heat shock protein in SV40 transformed normal human fibroblasts
T Muramatsu1, H Ohno, T Shirai
1Department of Dermatology, Nara Medical University, Japan.
Abstract:
In order to elucidate the involvement of DNA damage in the induction of heat shock proteins (stress proteins), we examined the induction of 72-kD heat shock protein (HSP72) in an SV40-transformed human fibroblast cell line (WI38VA13) which was exposed to various DNA-damaging agents, including 1-(4-amino-2-methyl-5-pyrimidinyl)methyl-3-(2-chloroethyl)-3 -nitro-methylmethane sulfonate, N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine, and 4-nitroquinoline-N-oxide. Induction of HSP72 was detected by the indirect immunofluorescence method using a monoclonal antibody. All the DNA-damaging agents used in this study induced HSP72 on human fibroblasts. This result indicates that DNA damage is one trigger for the induction of HSP72.
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