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STUDY OF PYRIMIDINE DIMERS IN MAMMALIAN CELLS SURVIVING LOW DOSES OF ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION *
Author(s) -
Trosko J. E.,
Kasschau M. R.
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
photochemistry and photobiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.818
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1751-1097
pISSN - 0031-8655
DOI - 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1967.tb08806.x
Subject(s) - pyrimidine dimer , chinese hamster , polynucleotide , incubation , pyrimidine , ultraviolet , ultraviolet radiation , dna , chemistry , radiation , hamster , photochemistry , biophysics , microbiology and biotechnology , biochemistry , biology , radiochemistry , dna repair , materials science , physics , optics , optoelectronics
— Ultraviolet‐induced pyrimidine dimers were not found to be excided from the DNA of Chinese hamster cells in small oligounucleotides. At doses whereby many cells survive the radiation, the dimers were still associates with the large polynucleotides even after 48 hr of postirradiation incubation.