Carcinogenesis, Vol 19, 1053-1059, Copyright © 1998 by Oxford University Press
V Abalea, J Cillard, MP Dubos, JP Anger, P Cillard and I Morel
Iron-overload diseases frequently develop hepatocellular carcinoma. The
genotoxic mechanism whereby iron is involved in hepatocarcinogenesis might
involve an oxidative process via the intermediate production of reactive
oxygen species. This was presently investigated by examining kinetics of
formation and repair of DNA base lesions in primary rat hepatocyte cultures
supplemented with the iron chelate, ferric nitrilotriacetate Fe-NTA (10 and
100 microM). Seven DNA base oxidation products have been identified in DNA
extracts by gas chromatography- mass spectrometry, which showed a
predominance of oxidized-purines (8- oxo-guanine, xanthine, fapy-adenine,
2-oxo-adenine) above oxidized pyrimidines (5-OHMe-uracil, 5-OH-uracil,
5-OH-cytosine) in control cultures. All these DNA oxidation products
revealed a significant dose- dependent increase at 4 to 48 h after Fe-NTA
supplementation, among which fapy-adenine showed the highest increase and
5-OH-cytosine was the least prominent. Involvement of iron in this
oxidative process was established by a correlation between extent in DNA
oxidation and intracellular level of toxic low molecular weight iron. DNA
excision- repair activity was estimated by release of DNA oxidation
products in culture medium. All the seven DNA oxidation products were
detected in the medium of control cultures and showed basal repair
activity. This DNA repair activity was increased in a time- and
dose-dependent fashion with Fe-NTA. Oxidized-pyrimidines, among which was
5-OHMe-Uracil, were preferentially repaired, which explains the low levels
detected in oxidized DNA. Since oxidized bases substantially differed from
one another in terms of excision rates from cellular DNA, specific
excision- repair enzymes might be involved. Our findings, however,
demonstrate that even though DNA repair pathways were activated in
iron-loaded hepatocyte cultures, these processes were not stimulated enough
to prevent an accumulation of highly mutagenic DNA oxidative products in
genomic DNA. The resulting genotoxic effect of Fe-NTA might be relevant in
understanding the hepatocarcinogenic evolution of iron-overload diseases.
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Iron-induced oxidative DNA damage and its repair in primary rat hepatocyte culture
INSERM U456, Groupe Detoxification Reparation Tissulaire, and Laboratoire de biologie cellulaire, UFR des Sciences Pharmaceutiques et Biologiques, Rennes, France.
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