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Proliferation of carcinogen-damaged hepatocytes during cell-cycle-dependent initiation of hepatocarcinogenesis in the rat
Department of Pathology and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill. NC 27599-7295, USA
2Laboratory of Comparative Carcinogenesis, NCI-Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center Frederick, MD 21702-1201
3Microbiological Associates Inc., Bethesda, MD 20816
4Department of Biostatistics and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27699-7400, USA
Hepatocyte proliferation and damage to DNA were characterized during the initiation phase of carcinogenesis in livers of rats that had received a single administration of the methylating agent methyl(acetoxymethyl)nitrosamine(DMN-OAc). Quiescent non-proliferating hepatocytes in intact livers did not appear to be susceptible to initiation by DMN-OAc, whereas proliferating hepatocytes in the S phase appeared to have greatest risk. To characterize the phenomenology of S-phase-dependent initiation further, the fractions of hepatocytes in the S and M phases of the cell cycle were enumerated at various times after treatment with DMN-OAc. Hepatocytes treated when in G1 experienced a delay of up to 20 h in the onset of S phase and a reduced rate of entry into the S and M cycle phases. Hepatocytes treated when in S phase experienced considerable delay in progression to mitosis due in part to inhibition of DNA replication. Hepatocytes treated when in late S/G2 also demonstrated a delay in progression into mitosis. The levels of 7-methylguanine and O6-methyldeoxyguanosine were quantified in the nuclear DNA of proliferating hepatocytes. The kinetics of removal of these lesions appeared to be first-order (half-life = 24 h). Hepatocyte risk of initiation was modeled by a function which summed over time the product of the fraction of hepatocytes in the S phase and the fraction of residual, unrepaired damage to DNA. For hepatocytes treated when in early G1, the timeweighted frequency of premutagenic DNA damage that was present during DNA replication was estimated to be less than half of that for hepatocytes treated when in early S. The results suggest that cell-cycle-dependent variation m sensitivity to initiation of hepatocarcinogenesis may be, in part, due to efficient removal of potentially carcinogenic lesions from DNA during an extended G1. The apparent high sensitivity of hepatocytes in late S/G2 suggests the contribution of additional factors.
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