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Carcinogenesis, Vol 18, 121-125, Copyright © 1997 by Oxford University Press

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Radon and lung carcinogenesis: mutability of p53 codons 249 and 250 to 238Pu alpha-particles in human bronchial epithelial cells

SP Hussain, CH Kennedy, P Amstad, H Lui, JF Lechner and CC Harris
Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892-4255, USA.

Radon-222, a decay product of uranium-238 and a source of high linear energy transfer (LET) alpha-particles, has been implicated in the increased risk of lung cancer in uranium miners as well as non-miners. p53 mutation spectrum studies of radon-associated lung cancer have failed to show any specific mutational hot spot with the exception of a single study in which 31% of squamous cell and large cell lung cancers from uranium miners showed a p53 codon 249 AGGarg --> ATGmet mutation. Although the results of laboratory studies indicate that double-strand breaks and deletions are the principal genetic alterations caused by alpha-particles, uncertainty still prevails in the description of DNA damage in radon-associated human lung cancer. In the present study, we have evaluated the mutability of p53 codons 249 and 250 to alpha- particles in normal human bronchial epithelial (NHBE) cells using a highly sensitive genotypic mutation assay. Exposure of NHBE cells to a total dose of 4 Gy (equivalent to approximately 1460 working level months in uranium mining) of high LET alpha-radiation induced codon 249 AGG --> AAG transitions and codon 250 CCC --> ACC transversions with absolute mutation frequencies of 3.6 x 10(-7) and 3.8 x 10(-7) respectively. This mutation spectrum is consistent with our previous report of radon-associated human lung cancer.
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