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HOST CELL REACTIVATION BY FIBROBLASTS FROM PATIENTS WITH PIGMENTARY DEGENERATION OF THE RETINA
Author(s) -
DavidLytle C.,
Tarone RobertE.,
Barrett SusannaF.,
Wirtschafter JonathanD.,
Dupuy JeanMarie,
Robbins JayH.
Publication year - 1983
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.1751-1097.1983.tb04508.x
Subject(s) - retinitis pigmentosa , xeroderma pigmentosum , retinal degeneration , degeneration (medical) , retina , biology , cockayne syndrome , macular degeneration , fibroblast , pathology , cell culture , medicine , dna repair , genetics , dna , ophthalmology , neuroscience
–Cockayne syndrome (CS) is an autosomal recessive disease characterized by numerous clinical abnormalities including acute sun sensitivity and primary pigmentary degeneration of the retina. Cultured fibroblasts from CS patients are hypersensitive to ultraviolet (UV) radiation. Since host cell reactivation of irradiated virus is a useful probe to evaluate repair in different host cells, we studied such host cell reactivation in CS and in other diseases with retinal degeneration. The survival of UV‐irradiated Herpes simplex virus type 1 was determined in fibroblast lines from four normal donors. two patients with CS, one with both xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) and CS, and from several other patients with (Usher syndrome, olivopontocerebellar atrophy, retinitis pigmentosa) and without (XP, ataxia telangiectasia) primary pigmentary degeneration of the retina. The viral survival curves (log survival vs linear fluence) in all cell lines showed two components: a very sensitive initial component (not quantitated in this study) followed by an exponential, less sensitive component. The exponential component had greater sensitivity than normal in the case of the CS patients, the patient with both XP and CS. and the XP patient. We propose that patients with CS have defective repair of DNA which may be the cause of their retinal degeneration.