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CORRELATION BETWEEN INACTIVATION OF HUMAN CELLS and NUMBERS OF PYRIMIDINE DIMERS INDUCED BY A SUN LAMP and 254 nm RADIATION
Author(s) -
Kantor G. J.,
Setlow R. B.
Publication year - 1982
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.1751-1097.1982.tb03846.x
Subject(s) - pyrimidine dimer , photolyase , irradiation , sunlight , radiation , radiosensitivity , biophysics , dna , dimer , in vivo , biology , pyrimidine , fluence , dna repair , chemistry , microbiology and biotechnology , optics , biochemistry , genetics , physics , organic chemistry , nuclear physics
— Nondividing human fibroblasts are inactivated by radiation from a source (a Westinghouse sun lamp) that simulates the UV spectrum of sunlight. Survival curves determined for a DNA excision repair‐proficient and a repair‐deficient strain (XP12BE) are related to those determined using germicidal light (254 nm) by constant fluence modification factors. In addition, the same fraction of XP12BE cells are killed per pyrimidine dimer by 254 nm and sun lamp light. These results, when related to other survival and photoreactivation studies, suggest that the mechanism for inactivation of nondividing human cells by sun lamp light is the same as that by 254 nm and that pyrimidine dimers are the major responsible photolesion. Repair reverses some of the lethal effects of this light. We suggest that these conclusions apply to sunlight‐irradiated skin cells in vivo.