Direct visualization of repair of oxidative damage by OGG1 in the nuclei of live cells.

Agnieszka Zielinska, OT Davies, RA Meldrum, Nikolas Hodges

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Abstract

Oxidative DNA damage caused by intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) is widely considered to be important in the pathology of a range of human diseases including cancer as well as in the aging process. A frequently occurring mutagenic base lesion produced by ROS is 8-oxo deoxyguanine (8-oxo dG) and the major enzyme for repair of 8-oxo dG is 8-oxoguanine-DNA glycosylase 1 (OGG1). There is now substantial evidence from bulk biochemical studies that a common human polymorphic variant of OGG1 (Ser326Cys) is repair deficient, and this has been linked to individual risk of pathologies related to oxidative stress. In the current study, we have used the technique of multiphoton microscopy to induce highly localized oxidative DNA damage in discrete regions of the nucleus of live cells. Cells transfected with GFP-tagged OGG1 proteins demonstrated rapid (
Original languageEnglish
JournalJournal of biochemical and molecular toxicology
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Publication statusPublished - 15 Nov 2010

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