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Culture of cells in high exogenous levels (>10−4 M) of bromodeoxyuridine (BrdUrd) or thymidine will increase the baseline sister chromatid exchange (SCE) frequency. The effect is thought to be related to the balance of the DNA precursors thymidine and deoxycytidine. Exogenous addition of deoxycytidine will reverse this effect. Single and twin SCEs were analysed in Colcemid-induced tetraploid Chinese hamster ovary cells exposed to different concentrations of BrdUrd to determine at what stage SCEs are induced by high levels of BrdUrd. In cells exposed to low concentrations of BrdUrd (10−5 M), equal numbers of SCEs were induced in each of the two cell cycles. With increasing concentrations of BrdUrd (10−4 to 2×10−4 M), SCE frequency increased in both cell cycles, but far more SCEs were induced in the second cell cycle. Deoxycytidine (2×10−4 M) reduced the frequency of SCEs primarily by reducing the frequency of SCEs induced in the second cell cycle. Treatment with 3-aminobenzamide (3AB), a potent inhibitor of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase, produced effects similar to exposure to high levels of BrdUrd including inducing SCEs in the second replication cycle. This suggests a similar mechanism of action. Deoxycytidine had no effect on 3AB-induced SCEs, however, and there was no interaction between 3AB and high exogenous levels of BrdUrd in SCE induction. Thus these two agents probably act through different mechanisms.
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Schwartz, J.L. Analysis of bromodeoxyuridine-induced single and twin sister chromatid exchanges in tetraploid Chinese hamster ovary cells. Chromosoma 93, 409–412 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00285822
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