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Bloom's syndrome (BS) and EM9 cells both display elevated frequencies of sister chromatid exchange (SCE) following growth for two rounds of DNA replication in bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU)-containing medium. To learn whether hyperresponsiveness to BrdU itself might play a role in causing the SCE elevation, the effects of BrdU on two other parameters, cellular proliferation and chromosome disruption, were examined, comparing the responses of BS and normal lymphoblastoid cells and of EM9 and CHO cells. BS and normal cells responded similarly with respect to growth for 4 days in BrdU-containing medium (0, 1, 3, and 5 μg/ml). Chromosome aberrrations were increased only slightly in the BS and normal cells after 2 days in BrdU. CHO cells responded to growth in BrdU-containing medium like BS and normal cells; however, little growth of EM9 was detected at any of the BrdU concentrations employed. CHO and EM9 cells also exhibited strikingly different amounts of chromosome damage following growth in BrdU. After 2 days in 1, 3, and 5 μg/ml BrdU 21%, 46%, and 50%, respectively, of the CHO cells had chromosome aberrations in contrast to 92%, 96%, and 98% of the EM9 cells. Most of the aberrations in the BrdU-treated CHO cells consisted of what appeared to be polycentric and ring chromosomes or chromosomes exhibiting telomere association. Acentric fragments were absent from most cells with polycentric and ring chromosomes, indicating either that the abnormal chromosomes were formed during an earlier cell cycle or that the abnormal chromosomes represent a form of association in which the telomeres are apposed so tightly that the juncture between chromosomes cannot be identified microscopically. EM9 cells treated with BrdU exhibited many chromatid and isochromatid gaps and breaks as well as numerous quadriradial, triradial, and complex interchange configurations. In addition, the types of aberrations present in CHO cells also were increased greatly in number. The different responses of BS and EM9 cells to growth in BrdU suggest that the molecular defects in the two cell types are different.
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Ray, J.H., German, J. Bloom's syndrome and EM9 cells in BrdU-containing medium exhibit similarly elevated frequencies of sister chromatid exchange but dissimilar amounts of cellular proliferation and chromosome disruption. Chromosoma 90, 383–388 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00294165
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