Evidence for Base Substitutions and Repair of DNA Mismatch Damage Induced by Low Energy N^+ Ion Beam Implantation in E. coli

Ever since the low energy N + ion beam has been accepted, the mutations of ionizing radiation are attributable mainly to avoidance of DNA damages repair. Evidences based on in vivo proof results are limited. Using the E.coli wild type and mutator strains, the mutant frequencies suggest that base substitutions in rpoB gene are induced by the N + implantation. A highly conserved region is selected to get the direct evidence for base substitutions by sequence of the high fidelity PCR amplification products in mutants. Most of the mutants (90.9%, 40/44) have at least one base substitution in the amplification region. The evidences for CG to TA (55%, 22/40), AT to GC (20%, 8/40) and TA to CG (5%, 2/40) transitions are identified. The transversions are AT to TA (15%, 6/40) and GC to CG (5%, 2/40). It is suggested that DNA cytosine methylase might play an important role in mismatch repair of DNA damage induced by N + implantation by analysis of the mutant frequencies of mutator strains.

低能N^+辐照拟南芥诱导基因组DNA碱基变异分析

用低能N^+离子束注入拟南芥后获得的稳定突变体T80Ⅱ作为实验材料,对突变体植株进行了RAPD标记,并将T80Ⅱ和对照部分RAPD特异条带进行克隆测序和DNA序列分析。结果显示,在可分辨的总计397个RAPD条带中,T80Ⅱ株系中有52个条带表现出差异,包括条带的缺失和增加,条带变异率为13.1％;克隆的T80Ⅱ序列中,平均每16.8个碱基出现1个碱基变异位点,表现出较高频率的碱基突变。碱基突变类型包括碱基的颠换、转换、缺失、插入等。在检测到的275个碱基突变中,主要是单碱基置换(97.09％),碱基缺失或者插入的比例较小(2.91％)。在碱基置换中,转换的频率(66.55％)高于颠换的频率(30.55％)。此外,构成DNA的4种碱基均可以被离子束辐照诱发变异,而且每一种碱基都可以被其他3种碱基所替换,但是胸腺嘧啶(T)的辐射敏感性要高于其他3种碱基。通过分析突变碱基周边序列,对低能N^+离子注入拟南芥突变体引发的碱基突变热点进行了讨论。