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Carcinogenesis, Vol. 22, No. 8, 1179-1183, August 2001
© 2001 Oxford University Press

MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND CANCER PREVENTION

DNA damage-related RNA expression to assess individual sensitivity to ionizing radiation

Karine Bishay, Kathy Ory, Marie-Françoise Olivier, Jérôme Lebeau, Céline Levalois and Sylvie Chevillard,1

CEA, DSV, DRR, 60–68 Avenue du Général Leclerc, BP6, 92265 Fontenay-aux-Roses Cedex, France

Predictive markers of intrinsic radiosensitivity in healthy individuals are needed in monitoring their occupational or environmental radiation exposure and may predict a patient's response to radiotherapy. Ionizing radiation can induce a large spectrum of DNA lesions, but under optimal DNA repair conditions, the principal residual lesions of importance are misrepaired double-strand breaks. The micronucleus (MN) assay represents a useful test in measuring radiosensitivity since it reflects non-repaired DNA breaks at the time of cell division. Spontaneous and radiation-induced MN vary greatly between individuals, and little is known about the molecular mechanisms of this variability. DNA repair and apoptosis processes are involved in the cellular response to radiation-induced DNA damage, and variation in gene expression related to these cellular pathways could be linked to individual radiosensitivity. In this study we analysed by real-time quantitative RT–PCR the basal expression of 12 genes involved both in DNA repair and apoptosis in a series of blood samples obtained from 32 healthy male donors. Relationships between basal RNA expressions and MN frequency and distribution per bi-nucleated cell were studied after ex vivo irradiation of total blood samples. Our results indicate that the variability of mRNA gene expression among the 32 subjects appears to be of the same magnitude or higher than that found for spontaneous or radiation-induced MN frequency and that RAD51 gene expression is negatively correlated with radiation-induced MN frequency.


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