TY - JOUR
T1 - Errors in DNA synthesis
T2 - A source of spontaneous mutations
AU - Loeb, Lawrence A.
AU - Cheng, Keith C.
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank the members of the Joseph Gottstein Laboratory for frequent and helpful discussions, and Mary Whiting for word processing under pressure. This work was supported in part by an NIH grant to LAL (CA-39903) and a Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Postdoctoral Fellowship to KCC (DRG-049).
PY - 1990/5
Y1 - 1990/5
N2 - Spontaneous mutations in somatic cells may engender several pathologic processes, including cancer. The sources of these mutations remain to be established. We present a conceptual framework in which to analyze the sources of spontaneous mutations and focus here on 3 endogenous processes that have the potential to generate spontaneous sequence alterations in DNA. These are: replication errors, depurination of DNA, and damage to DNA by the generation of active-oxygen species. Each of these processes occurs more frequently than the rate of mutagenesis in somatic cells, but are repaired by different and overlapping mechanisms. Model systems are being developed to determine the spectrum of mutations produced by each of these processes in vitro. A comparison of these spectra with the overall spectrum of spontaneous mutations in somatic cells may help to determine the contribution of each of these processes to spontaneous mutation.
AB - Spontaneous mutations in somatic cells may engender several pathologic processes, including cancer. The sources of these mutations remain to be established. We present a conceptual framework in which to analyze the sources of spontaneous mutations and focus here on 3 endogenous processes that have the potential to generate spontaneous sequence alterations in DNA. These are: replication errors, depurination of DNA, and damage to DNA by the generation of active-oxygen species. Each of these processes occurs more frequently than the rate of mutagenesis in somatic cells, but are repaired by different and overlapping mechanisms. Model systems are being developed to determine the spectrum of mutations produced by each of these processes in vitro. A comparison of these spectra with the overall spectrum of spontaneous mutations in somatic cells may help to determine the contribution of each of these processes to spontaneous mutation.
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U2 - 10.1016/0165-1110(90)90021-3
DO - 10.1016/0165-1110(90)90021-3
M3 - Article
C2 - 2188126
AN - SCOPUS:0025342964
SN - 0165-1110
VL - 238
SP - 297
EP - 304
JO - Mutation Research/Reviews in Genetic Toxicology
JF - Mutation Research/Reviews in Genetic Toxicology
IS - 3
ER -
