Abstract:
:Cationic aromatic tricyclic compounds including triphenylmethane dyes, phenazines, phenoxazines, acridines, phenothiazines, phenanthridinium compounds, anthracenes and xanthene dyes, which amplify cell killing in phleomycin-treated Escherichia coli B cells also modified phleomycin-induced breakdown of DNA to acid-soluble fragments. A plot of DNA breakdown as a function of concentration was bell-shaped for each of the active compounds, i.e. as the concentration increased, DNA breakdown was enhanced initially, but above a certain concentration, the proportion of DNA degraded declined, often to zero. One of the compounds, acriflavine, when tested also inhibited DNA breakdown following ultraviolet irradiation. A study, by sedimentation methods, of DNA single-strand breakage in phleomycin-treated E. coli cells, using 3 representative compounds, Crystal Violet, 3,6-diaminoacridine and Methylene Blue, revealed a consistent increase in DNA strand breaks as concentration of compound increased. In similar experiments with ethidium bromide the breakage yield/concentration curve exhibited a maximum. In general, however, it seems that the inhibition of DNA-breakdown observed at higher concentrations of these amplifying compounds is not explicable by an effect on the primary breakage event, but is due to suppression of exonucleolytic activity in the cells.
journal_name
Nucleic Acids Resjournal_title
Nucleic acids researchauthors
Grigg GW,Gero AM,Sasse WH,Sleigh MJdoi
10.1093/nar/12.23.9083subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1984-12-11 00:00:00pages
9083-93issue
23eissn
0305-1048issn
1362-4962journal_volume
12pub_type
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