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Genomic DNA is constantly being damaged and repaired and our genomes exist at lesion equilibrium for damage created by endogenous mutagens. Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) has the highest lesion equilibrium frequency recorded; presumably due to damage by H2O2 and free radicals generated during oxidative phosphorylation processes. We measured the frequencies of single strand breaks and oxidative base damage in mtDNA by ligation-mediated PCR and a quantitative Southern blot technique coupled with digestion by the enzymes endonuclease III and formamidopyrimidine DNA glycosylase. Addition of 5 mM alloxan to cultured rat cells increased the rate of oxidative base damage and, by several fold, the lesion frequency in mtDNA. After removal of this DNA damaging agent from culture, the single strand breaks and oxidative base damage frequency decreased to levels slightly below normal at 4 h and returned to normal levels at 8 h, the overshoot at 4 h being attributed to an adaptive up-regulation of mitochondrial excision repair activity. Guanine positions showed the highest endogenous lesion frequencies and were the most responsive positions to alloxan-induced oxidative stress. Although specific bases were consistently hot spots for damage, there was no evidence that removal of these lesions occurred in a strand-specific manner. The data reveal non-random oxidative damage to several nucleotides in mtDNA and an apparent adaptive, non-strand selective response for removal of such damage. These are the first studies to characterize oxidative damage and its subsequent removal at the nucleotide level in mtDNA.

Mapping frequencies of endogenous oxidative damage and the kinetic response to oxidative stress in a region of rat mtDNA