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Rapid repair of UVA-induced oxidized purines and persistence of UVB-induced dipyrimidine lesions determine the mutagenicity of sunlight in mouse cells

Ahmad Besaratinia1, Sang-in Kim and Gerd P. Pfeifer

Division of Biology, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, USA

1Correspondence: Division of Biology, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope National Medical Center, 1450 East Duarte Road, Duarte, CA 91010, USA. E-mail: ania{at}coh.org


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Despite the predominance of ultraviolet A (UVA) relative to UVB in terrestrial sunlight, solar mutagenesis in humans and rodents is characterized by mutations specific for UVB. We have investigated the kinetics of repair of UVA- and UVB-induced DNA lesions in relation to mutagenicity in transgenic mouse fibroblasts irradiated with equilethal doses of UVA and UVB in comparison to simulated-sunlight UV (SSL). We have also analyzed mutagenesis-derived carcinogenesis in sunlight-associated human skin cancers by compiling the published data on mutation types found in crucial genes in nonmelanoma and melanoma skin cancers. Here, we demonstrate a resistance to repair of UVB-induced cis-syn cyclobutane pyrimidine-dimers (CPDs) together with rapid removal of UVA-induced oxidized purines in the genome overall and in the cII transgene of SSL-irradiated cells. The spectra of mutation induced by both UVB and SSL irradiation in this experimental system are characterized by significant increases in relative frequency of C->T transitions at dipyrimidines, which are the established signature mutation of CPDs. This type of mutation is also the predominant mutation found in human nonmelanoma and melanoma tumor samples in the TP53, CDKN2, PTCH, and protein kinase genes. The prevailing role of UVB over UVA in solar mutagenesis in our test system can be ascribed to different kinetics of repair for lesions induced by the respective UV irradiation.—Besaratinia, A., Kim, S.-I., Pfeifer, G. P. Rapid repair of UVA-induced oxidized purines and persistence of UVB-induced dipyrimidine lesions determine the mutagenicity of sunlight in mouse cells.


Key Words: DNA damage • mutations • skin cancer • ultraviolet radiation


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SUNLIGHT ULTRAVIOLET (UV) RADIATION is an established environmental physical carcinogen, which has been implicated in the etiology of human skin cancer (1 , 2) . Of the UV spectrum of sunlight, the UVC (<280 nm) is entirely absorbed by stratospheric oxygen (O2). The resulting decomposed O2 molecules undergo recombination to form ozone (O3), which in turn, blocks the majority of UVB (280–320 nm). Owing to its high penetrating efficiency, the UVA (>320–400 nm) can mostly pass through various atmospheric layers and reach the surface of the Earth (1 , 3) . Thus, the terrestrial sunlight UV is mainly comprised of UVA (~95%) and the remainder unabsorbed UVB (~5%) (1) . Despite the disproportionately low presence of UVB in sunlight, its potent photocarcinogenicity accounts for the majority of solar UV-associated neoplasia (1 , 3) . Nonetheless, UVA is estimated to contribute to 10–20% of sunlight-induced carcinogenesis (4) .

The carcinogenicity of UVB is ascribed to the ability of this waveband to induce promutagenic DNA lesions, primarily cis-syn cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPDs), and pyrimidine (6–4) pyrimidone photoproducts [(6–4)PPs] (5) . The UVA is believed to trigger mutagenesis, among other modes of action, e.g., tumor promotion, through induction of photosensitization reactions that generate oxidative DNA lesions, particularly 8-oxo-7,8-dihydro-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-oxo-dG) (5) . Owing to their miscoding potentials, photodimeric CPDs and (6–4)PPs can induce single or tandem C->T transition mutations (6 7 8 9) , whereas 8-oxo-dG can produce largely G->T transversion mutations (10 , 11) . The lesion specificity and signature mutations of the respective UV wavebands can be used for investigating DNA damage-targeted mutagenicity of sunlight. Correlating the types of induced DNA lesions and mutations consequent to solar UV irradiation can verify the contribution of UVA and UVB to mutagenesis, thereby helping to unravel the underlying mechanism of sunlight-induced carcinogenesis.

Transgenic rodent mutagenesis systems are invaluable models for correlation studies of DNA damage and mutagenesis at both the genomic and single nucleotide levels (12) . Using transgenic Big Blue mouse embryonic fibroblasts, we have shown a typical oxidative-DNA damage-mediated mutagenicity of UVA in the lacI (13) and cII transgenes (14 , 15) . We have also demonstrated that the addition of cellular photosensitizers, i.e., riboflavin (16) and delta-aminolevulinic acid (14) , can intensify the observed UVA-induced DNA damage and mutagenesis, whereas inclusion of the antioxidant vitamin C can counteract the induced effects (16) . The characteristic oxidative-DNA damage derived mutagenicity of UVA is, however, not prevalent in sunlight-induced mutagenesis, wherein single and tandem C->T transitions at dipyrimidine sites dominate the spectrum of induced mutations (17 , 18) . The latter points to an overruling involvement of CPDs and/or (6–4)PPs induced by UVB in solar mutagenesis. Mechanistically, however, the superseding role of UVB over UVA in sunlight-induced mutagenesis has not been explained yet.

Theoretically, a resistance to the repair of UVB-induced lesions together with efficient removal of UVA-induced lesions may elucidate the predominance of characteristic UVB-induced mutations in solar mutagenesis (5) . In the present study, we have tested this theory by comparing the formation and kinetics of repair of UVA- and UVB-induced lesions, as well as analyzing the mutagenicity of the respective UV wavebands in mouse cells. We have irradiated transgenic Big Blue mouse embryonic fibroblasts with physiologically relevant doses of UVA and UVB, in comparison to that of simulated-sunlight UV (SSL). Subsequently, we have determined the formation and repair of oxidative DNA damage and dipyrimidine photolesions in the genome overall and, specifically, in the cII transgene at nucleotide resolution level, as well as analyzed the cII mutant frequency and mutation spectrum. Furthermore, we have analyzed mutagenesis-derived carcinogenesis in sunlight-associated human skin cancers by compiling the published data on mutation types found in crucial genes in nonmelanoma and melanoma skin cancers.


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Cell culture and UV irradiation
Early passage Big Blue mouse embryonic fibroblasts were grown as a monolayer at ~30–40% confluence in Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum. Prior to UV irradiation, the culture media were removed, and the cells were washed thoroughly with phosphate buffered saline (PBS). The culture dishes were filled with a 1-cm layer of PBS, placed on ice (with lids on), and then irradiated from above with UVA, UVB, and SSL (at ~5-cm distance). To ensure the sterility of cell cultures, we were compelled to irradiate petri dishes through the lids, although this procedure could likely cause a reduction of fluence rate, most notably in the case of UVB irradiation. Nonetheless, for all UV sources, we determined the fluence rate at the bottom surface of the irradiated culture dishes using a UVX radiometer (Ultraviolet Products, Upland, CA, USA) placed under the respectively irradiated petri dishes (with lids on). This enabled us to adjust for the blocking effect of the lids during various types of UV irradiation because we calculated the actual UV dose delivered to the cells after being filtered through the lids.

The UVA source was a Sellas Sunlight System (Medizinische Geräte GmbH; Gevelsberg, Germany) with an average fluence rate of 60 mW/cm2. The source exclusively emits long-wave UVA (UVA1: 340–400 nm) and not UVA at the borderline with UVB. The UVB source consisted of three fluorescent tubes (Philips TL 20 W/12R) filtered through a cellulose acetate sheet, which cuts off wavelengths below 295 nm. The source has a peak spectral emission at 312 nm and an average fluence rate of 1.15 mW/cm2. The SSL source was an Oriel 1000 W solar simulator powered with an ozone-free xenon arc lamp (Model 81190, Newport, Stratford, CT, USA). We installed an atmospheric attenuation filter (Air Mass 1.0; Newport) in this solar simulator to correct the output emission to match the solar spectrum at ground level when the sun is directly overhead.

Obviously, only in viable and proliferative cells can the induced DNA damage be efficiently translated into mutations. Thus, in keeping with the objective of our study to examine DNA-damage-targeted mutagenicity of UVA and UVB in comparison to SSL, we first determined biologically relevant doses of respective types of UV irradiation, which equally caused moderate cytotoxicity, i.e., 75% cell survival. Accordingly, we performed a series of preliminary tests in which increasing doses of UVA, UVB, or SSL irradiation were administered to the cells, and the corresponding kill curves for the respective types of UV irradiation were established. Once the acceptable equilethal doses of UVA, UVB, and SSL irradiation were determined, we then administered the respective doses of UV irradiation to a set of cell cultures at a similar cell density, and subsequently assessed the proliferative capacity of the cells at defined times postirradiation. More specifically, we prepared a comparable set of cultures by seeding 3 x 104 cells per culture dish on the day prior to UV irradiation (T=0). Eight hours postirradiation (T=1) and every 24 h thereafter until day 4 (T=2, T=3, and T=4), we harvested a subset of cell cultures from all treatment groups and subsequently performed total cell counting. As shown in Fig. 1 , the total number of viable cells determined in triplicate cultures of mouse embryonic fibroblasts irradiated with UVA, UVB, or SSL irradiation was comparable at all times postirradiation.


Figure 1
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  		Figure 1. Assessment of cell proliferation capacity in UV-irradiated mouse embryonic fibroblasts. Second passage mouse embryonic fibroblasts were seeded at a density of 3 x 104 cells per culture dish on the day prior to UV irradiation (T=0), and subsequently irradiated with equilethal (~75% cell survival) doses of UVA, UVB, and SSL in comparison with control, as described in Materials and Methods. Eight hours postirradiation (T=1) and every 24 h thereafter until day 4 (T=2, T=3, and T=4), a subset of cell cultures from all treatment groups was harvested, and subsequently total cell counting was performed. The total number of viable cells was determined in triplicate cultures irradiated with respective types of UV irradiation, and the results are averaged for all time points. Arrows indicate the defined times at which UV irradiation and cell harvesting for mutagenicity experiments, respectively, were performed. Error bars show means ± SD.

For all comparative analyses, the equilethal doses of UVA, UVB, and SSL irradiation administered to the cells were 18 J/cm2 for UVA (365-nm sensor), 14.4 J/cm2 for SSL (365-nm sensor) and 75.6 mJ/cm2 for UVB (310-nm sensor), which are all biologically relevant, i.e., equivalent to doses received by humans exposed to midday, clear sky, midsummer sun for a short period of time. Immediately after UV irradiation and at defined times (up to 24 h posttreatment), the cells were harvested by trypsinization for evaluation of DNA damage and repair. Alternatively, the cells were cultured in complete growth medium for an additional 4 days, and afterward were analyzed for mutant frequency and mutation spectrum of the cII transgene. The 4-day growing period (expression time) is necessary for fixation of all mutations into the genome (12) . At the time of harvesting, all cultured cells had undergone a few rounds of population doublings and reached full confluence. All experiments were conducted in triplicate.

Lesion-specific cleavage assays with UV damage endonuclease, T4 endonuclease V, and formamidopyrimidine DNA glycosylase
The enzymatic digestion assays are based on the recognition and cleavage of specific types of DNA damage by specialized DNA repair enzymes, followed by gel electrophoresis. We used UV damage endonuclease (UVDE) for cleavage of CPDs, and (6–4)PPs and their Dewar photoisomers combined (19 20 21) , T4 endonuclease V (T4 Endo V) for nicking specifically at CPDs (12) , and formamidopyrimidine DNA glycosylase (Fpg) for cutting of oxidized (ring-opened) purines (22 , 23) . Briefly, DNA was digested with an excess amount of UVDE (Trevigen, Gaithersburg, MD, USA), T4 Endo V (Epicenter, Madison, WI, USA), or Fpg (Trevigen) in buffers supplied by the manufacturers. After ethanol precipitation, the digests were loaded onto a 1.5% alkaline agarose gel and run at 3.0 V/cm for 4 h, with constant recirculation of the running buffer. The electrophoretic profiles were determined using standard ethidium bromide staining. Scanning was performed using a Quantity One image analyzer of the Bio-Rad imaging equipment (Bio-Rad Laboratories, Life Science Group, Hercules, CA, USA).

Terminal transferase-dependent polymerase chain reaction (TD-PCR) and ligation-mediated polymerase chain reaction (LM-PCR)
The principles of TD-PCR are essentially similar to those of LM-PCR, with the only differences being the primer extension and ligation steps (12) . Methodologically, both techniques rely on the concept that DNA polymerase cannot synthesize past certain types of damage, i.e., bulky lesions, e.g., dipyrimidine photolesions, and single-strand breaks. TD-PCR can be readily applied to all DNA templates that contain polymerase-blocking lesions, including CPDs and (6–4)PPs. Unlike TD-PCR, LM-PCR requires conversion of original DNA templates to single-strand breaks with 5'-phosphate groups at the sites of lesion formation. To fulfill this requirement, we pretreated the genomic DNA as follows. For LM-PCR footprinting of oxidized (ring-opened) purines, we used Fpg digestion, which releases damaged bases to generate abasic sites, as well as cleaves the sugar-phosphate backbone to produce single-strand DNA breaks with 5'-phosphate termini. For LM-PCR footprinting of CPDs, we used T4 Endo V digestion, which cleaves the glycosidic bond of the 5'-pyrimidine in a CPD and breaks the phosphodiester bond 3' to the resulting abasic site, followed by Escherichia coli CPD photolyase reactivation, which detaches the dissociated 3'-pyrimidine, thereby yielding single-strand DNA with a normal base on the 5'-sugar-phosphate terminus (12) (see Supplemental Data).

cII Mutant frequency and mutation spectrometry determination
The {lambda}LIZ shuttle vectors, which contain the chromosomally integrated cII transgene, were recovered from the genomic DNA and packaged into viable phage particles using the Transpack Packaging Kit (Stratagene, La Jolla, CA, USA). After preadsorption of the phages to G1250 E. coli, the bacterial culture was grown on special TB1 agar plates. To select for cII mutants, the plates were incubated at 24°C for 48 h. Alternatively, the plates were incubated under nonselective condition, i.e., 37°C overnight, to express both the wild-type and mutant cII. Verification of all putative cII mutants was achieved by replating under the selective condition. The ratio of the number of verified mutant plaques to the total number of screened plaques denotes the cII mutant frequency. As recommended by the manufacturer (Stratagene), minimums of 3 x 105 rescued phages were screened for each experimental condition. For mutation spectrometry, all verified mutant plaques were amplified by PCR using the lambda select-cII sequencing primers, according to the manufacturer’s recommended protocol. The purified PCR products were then subjected to sequencing using a Big Dye terminator cycle sequencing kit and an ABI-3730 DNA Sequencer (ABI Prism, PE Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA, USA) (see Supplemental Data).

Statistical analysis
Results are expressed as means ± SD. All variables in UV-irradiated vs. control groups were compared by the Mann-Whitney U test. The entire mutation spectra and the specific types of mutation in the UV-irradiated vs. control groups were compared by the hypergeometric test of Adams and Skopek (24) and {chi}2 test, respectively. All statistical tests were two-sided. Values of P < 0.05 were considered statistically significant.


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Of relevance for the present study, culturing of mouse embryonic fibroblasts under physiological O2 tension (3%) minimizes the burden of oxidative stress on the cells and enhances their proliferation capacity (16) . This leads to a significant reduction in the frequency of spontaneously derived mutations associated with in vitro aging and an enhanced accumulation of induced mutations (16 , 25 , 26) . Obviously, only in viable and replicating cells can the induced DNA lesions be efficiently translated into mutations. Therefore, we administered moderate but biologically relevant doses of UVA, UVB, and SSL at equilethal doses, leading to ~75% cell survival (see Fig. 1 ).

DNA damage in the genome
We used specific DNA repair enzymes in combination with alkaline agarose gel electrophoresis to qualitatively assess different types of induced lesions in the overall genome of UV-irradiated cells. We used UVDE for determining CPDs and (6–4)PPs combined (19) , T4 Endo V for quantifying CPDs only (12) , and Fpg protein for detecting oxidized (ring-opened) purines, e.g., 8-oxo-dG (22 , 23) . As shown in Fig. 2 , both UVB and SSL irradiation produced UVDE-sensitive sites and to a lesser extent T4 Endo V-sensitive sites in the overall genome of irradiated cells. In both cases, the intensity of UVDE-sensitive sites equaled that of T4 Endo V-sensitive sites within 6 h of irradiation. This indicates a complete removal of (6–4)PPs from the overall genome of UVB- and SSL-irradiated cells within this time period. Subsequently, equivalent levels of UVDE- and T4 Endo V-sensitive sites remained unchanged over 24 h, which implies a persistence of CPDs in the genome overall throughout this time period. Conversely, UVA irradiation did not induce detectable UVDE-sensitive sites or T4 Endo V-sensitive sites in the overall genome of irradiated cells. However, the UVA and SSL irradiation both gave rise to Fpg-sensitive sites in the genomic DNA of irradiated cells. Remarkably, in both cases, the induced Fpg-sensitive sites were fully removed within 30 min of irradiation. Because Fpg recognizes sites of base loss (AP sites) in addition to base modifications (22 , 23) , the absence of AP sites in the overall genome of UVA-irradiated cells can be inferred from the absence of sites sensitive to T4 Endo V, since this latter enzyme would also recognize AP sites (27) . UVB irradiation did not form appreciable levels of Fpg-sensitive sites in the overall genome of irradiated cells, however (see Fig. 2 ).


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  		Figure 2. Qualitative assessment of induced DNA damage in mouse genome. Mouse embryonic fibroblasts were irradiated with equilethal (~75% cell survival) doses of UVA, UVB, and SSL in comparison with control, as described in Materials and Methods. Genomic DNA was isolated and digested with specialized DNA repair enzymes, including UVDE for detecting CPDs and (6–4)PPs combined, T4 Endo V for determining CPDs only, and Fpg for detecting oxidized (ring-opened) purines. The DNA digests were subjected to alkaline agarose gel electrophoresis, followed by standardized visualization procedure. For brevity, results at select time points are shown. Symbols + and – represent the presence and absence, respectively, of the indicated treatment conditions. In this assay, the frequency of lesions is roughly estimated from the central location of the most intense part of the smear but not from the length of the smear. "Digestion buffer only" indicates that no enzyme was added to the reaction mix. M, molecular size marker.

DNA damage in the cII transgene
We used TD-PCR to map the formation of dipyrimidine photolesions [CPDs and (6–4)PPs combined] in the cII transgene of UV-irradiated cells (12) . As shown in Fig. 3 (left panel), both UVB and SSL irradiation produced CPDs and/or (6–4)PPs at similar locations along the cII transgene, with UVB irradiation inducing relatively higher DNA damage. The UVA irradiation, however, did not form a considerable level of dipyrimidine photolesions in the cII transgene. For the most part, the detected levels of damage consequent to UVB and SSL irradiation were decreased 6 h postirradiation. To precisely identify the type of dipyrimidine photolesions induced by UVB and SSL irradiation, we used successive T4 Endo V digestion and CPD photolyase reactivation coupled with LM-PCR, a genomic footprinting methodology for specific detection of CPDs (12) . The similar patterns of lesions detected by LM-PCR and TD-PCR, respectively, verified that a great number of dipyrimidine photolesions identified by TD-PCR were indeed CPDs, which persisted over 24 h post-UVB and SSL irradiation (Fig. 3 , middle panel). By rule of elimination, the fraction of DNA damage that was repaired within 6 h of UVB and SSL irradiation, as determined by TD-PCR, was presumably (6–4)PPs (see Fig. 2 ).


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  		Figure 3. Mapping of induced DNA damage in the cII transgene. TD-PCR and LM-PCR footprinting of the full-length cII transgene was done using the genomic DNA of mouse embryonic fibroblasts irradiated with equilethal (~75% cell survival) doses of UVA, UVB, and SSL in comparison with control. Left panel: footprinting of dipyrimidine photolesions [CPDs and (6–4)PPs combined] by TD-PCR. Middle panel: footprinting of CPDs by LM-PCR. The LM-PCR bands migrate ~3 bases faster than the corresponding TD-PCR bands due to the addition of three riboguanosine triphosphate to all primer extension products in the latter method. Right panel: footprinting of oxidized (ring-opened) purines by LM-PCR. +Fpg, with Fpg enzyme predigestion to quantify oxidized (ring-opened) purines; –Fpg, without Fpg enzyme predigestion to quantify nonspecific background bands, e.g., UV-induced single-strand breaks or abasic sites and strand breaks, resulting from spontaneous depurination of DNA. For brevity, results at select time points are shown. bp, base pair; M, molecular size marker; nt, nucleotide position.

Furthermore, we used Fpg digestion in combination with LM-PCR to map the formation of oxidized (ring-opened) purines in the cII transgene of UV irradiated cells (12) . As shown in Fig. 3 (right panel), UVA and SSL irradiation induced comparable levels of oxidized (ring-opened) purines at similar positions along the cII transgene. In both cases, the induced oxidized (ring-opened) purines completely disappeared within 30 min of irradiation. Methodologically, in LM-PCR and TD-PCR, single-strand DNA breaks may produce nonspecific signals above background (12) . To show the specificity of our footprinting analysis, we subjected the genomic DNA of all UV-irradiated cells to LM-PCR without enzymatic predigestion, a sensitive method of quantifying single-strand DNA breaks (16) . In all UV-irradiated cells, we ruled out the possibility of formation of single-strand DNA breaks in the cII transgene (Fig. 3 , right panel). The latter is consistent with the lack of detection of single-strand DNA breaks in the overall genome of UV-irradiated cells (Fig. 2 , "Digestion buffer only" lanes; single-strand DNA breaks manifest as smears in alkaline agarose gel electrophoresis).

cII Mutation analysis
UVA irradiation was weakly but significantly mutagenic to mouse embryonic fibroblasts, as it elevated the cII mutant frequency 3.9-fold over background (P<0.03) (Table 1 ). Conversely, SSL and UVB irradiation were extremely mutagenic, as they increased the relative frequencies of cII mutants 43.3- and 99.3-fold, respectively, in the irradiated cells. To establish the spectra of induced and spontaneous mutations, we sequenced the DNA of cII mutants obtained from UV-irradiated and control cells. We randomly selected 110, 161, and 100 cII mutant plaques induced by UVB, UVA, and SSL irradiation, respectively, in comparison to 154 spontaneously arisen control plaques. Of the respective number of plaques, 108, 152, 87, and 147 contained a minimum of one mutation in the cII transgene. As shown in Table 2 , single mutations, mostly single-base substitutions, predominated in all induced-mutation and control spectra. Also, tandem base substitutions, including the hallmark CC->TT transitions (6 7 8 9) , occurred exclusively in UV-induced mutation spectra. Detailed mutation spectra induced by UVB, UVA, and SSL irradiation as compared with spontaneous mutation spectra are presented in Fig. 4 . The overall spectra of mutations induced by UVB, UVA, or SSL irradiation were all significantly different from those of control (P<0.001; Adams and Skopek test).


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  		Table 1. Mutant frequency of the cII transgene in Big Blue mouse embryonic fibroblasts irradiated with equilethal doses of UVA, UVB, and SSL or control


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  		Table 2. Types of UV-induced and spontaneously derived mutations in the cII transgene in Big Blue mouse embryonic fibroblasts irradiated with equilethal doses of UVB, UVA, and SSL or control


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  		Figure 4. UV-induced and spontaneous cII mutation spectrometry. Detailed mutation spectra of the cII transgene in mouse embryonic fibroblasts irradiated with equilethal (~75% cell survival) doses of UVB, UVA, and SSL in comparison to control. Mutations were quantified using the lambda transgenic shuttle vector recovery kit for Big Blue rodents (Stratagene, La Jolla, CA, USA). Randomly selected cII mutant plaques, including 110, 161, and 100 plaques induced by UVB, UVA, and SSL irradiation, respectively, in comparison to 154 control plaques that were subjected to DNA sequencing. Of the respective number of plaques, 108, 152, 87, and 147 contained a minimum of one mutation in the cII transgene. The UVB- and SSL-induced mutations are set above the reference cII sequence, whereas the UVA-induced mutations and spontaneous control mutations are shown below the reference cII sequence. The UVB-induced mutations and spontaneous control mutations are set in capital letters, whereas the SSL- and UVA-induced mutations are set in small letters; the two are separated from one another by dashes (–). Data on UVA mutation spectrometry are adapted from ref. 15 . Substituted bases are in bold. Deleted bases are underlined; multiple deletions are continuously underlined. Inserted bases are shown with an arrow. Numbers below the bases are the nucleotide positions.

To specify the differences between induced-mutation and control spectra, we compared the frequency of each type of mutation, e.g., transitions, transversions, etc., in the respective mutation spectra. In the Big Blue system, the cII transgene is a nontranscribed gene (28) . Thus, the strand bias of mutagenesis, a phenomenon caused by transcription-coupled DNA repair (TCR) (29) , is unlikely to affect the spectrum of mutations produced in this transgene. Methodologically, therefore, it is appropriate to combine the strand mirror counterparts of all transitions (e.g., G->A+C->T) and transversions (e.g., G->T+C->A) when comparing the specific types of mutation between different treatment groups. As shown in Table 3 , G:C->A:T transitions prevailed in the spectra of mutations produced by both UVB and SSL irradiation, i.e., 86.7% and 79.8% of all induced mutations, respectively, vs. 39.2% in control; P < 0.001. The G:C->A:T transition mutations induced by UVB and SSL irradiation occurred (almost) entirely at dipyrimidine sites, i.e., 98% and 100%, respectively. The latter type of mutations accounted for 85% and 80%, respectively, of the observed increases in cII mutant frequency consequent to UVB and SSL irradiation.


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  		Table 3. Comparative mutation spectra of the cII transgene in Big Blue mouse embryonic fibroblasts irradiated with equilethal doses of UVB, UVA, and SSL or control

Recently, we have characterized the spectrum of mutations induced by UVA irradiation in both the cII (14 , 15) and lacI (13) transgene of the same model system under standardized conditions. We have established that UVA irradiation predominantly induced single mutations, mainly single base substitutions, in both the cII and lacI transgene. Whereas the relative frequency of G:C->T:A transversions in the cII and lacI transgenes were significantly induced consequent to UVA irradiation, i.e., ~26% and 28% of all induced mutations in the respective genes, G:C to A:T transitions at dipyrimidine sites occurred almost equally in UVA-induced and control mutation spectra in both the cII and lacI transgene (13 , 15) .

Mutation spectrometry in human skin cancers
We have updated our knowledge of mutagenesis-derived carcinogenesis in sunlight-associated human skin cancers by performing a thorough literature search and compiling the published data on mutation types found in crucial genes in nonmelanoma and melanoma skin cancers. We included relevant tumor suppressor genes in our mutation spectrometry data analysis and excluded oncogenes, such as BRAF or RAS from our analysis because mutations in the latter genes occur only at very few selected codon positions. i.e., BRAF codon V600 (30) or RAS codons 12, 13, and 61 (31 , 32) , respectively. Data for the TP53 gene (n=94 for melanomas and n=482 for nonmelanoma skin cancers) were obtained from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) mutation database (R11 version, October 2007) (33) . Data for the CDKN2 gene (n=99) (34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46) and PTCH gene (n=183) (47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58) were derived from the published literature. Data for protein kinase genes (n=146) were extracted from high-throughput sequencing of cancer genomes (59) .

As shown in Fig. 5 , C->T and CC->TT transition mutations predominate the mutation spectra found in the TP53 gene of human nonmelanoma skin tumors (basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas), and in the TP53 (33) , CDKN2 (34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46) , and protein kinase genes (59) of melanomas. Furthermore, over 90% of such mutations occur exclusively at dipyrimidine sequences (33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 , 59) . On the other hand, G->T transversions constitute less than 10% of all mutations in all cases (33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 , 59) . The single C->T transitions, tandem CC->TT transitions, and deletions and insertions account for ~47%, ~15%, and ~17%, respectively, of all mutations occurring in the PTCH gene in basal cell carcinomas.


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  		Figure 5. Mutation spectra in human skin tumors. The pie charts show the percentages of particular types of mutations found in the TP53 gene of human nonmelanoma skin tumors (basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas), in the TP53, CDKN2, and protein kinase genes of melanomas, and in the PTCH gene of basal cell carcinomas. Data for the TP53 gene (n=94 for melanomas and n=482 for nonmelanoma skin cancers) were obtained from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) mutation database (R11 version, October 2007) (33) . Data for the CDKN2 gene (n=99) (34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46) and PTCH gene (n=183) (47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58) were derived from the published literature. The mutations found in protein kinase genes (n=146) are derived from high throughput sequencing of cancer genomes (59) .


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Despite the predominance of mutagenic UVA in terrestrial sunlight UV, solar mutagenesis in humans and rodents is characterized by UVB-specific DNA damage and mutations (17 , 18) . The overshadowing of UVA by UVB, the minor UV component of sunlight, has not been mechanistically investigated, however. To study the overriding role of UVB over UVA in solar mutagenesis, we have examined the kinetics of repair of UVA- and UVB-induced lesions in relation to mutagenicity in mouse embryonic fibroblasts irradiated with equitoxic doses of UVA and UVB in comparison to SSL.

Qualitative assessment of DNA damage in the overall genome of UV-irradiated cells revealed that both UVB and SSL irradiation, but not UVA irradiation, induced a combination of CPDs and (6–4)PPs. However, the induced (6–4)PPs were repaired within 6 h of both UVB and SSL irradiation. The CPDs formed by UVB or SSL irradiation remained persistent for at least 24 h postirradiation. A faster repair of (6–4)PPs relative to CPDs has been reported by others (60 61 62 63 64 65 66) and ascribed to a greater distortion or unwinding of the DNA helix by (6–4)PPs (67 68 69) . The latter may facilitate the recognition and processing of (6–4)PPs by nucleotide excision repair (NER) machinery (70) . In addition, unlike CPDs that are formed almost equally in the core and linker regions of nucleosomes (71 , 72) , (6–4)PPs are predominantly formed in the latter regions, which are more accessible to complex DNA repair proteins (70 , 73 , 74) . The observed persistence of CPDs in the genome of UV-irradiated cells is consistent with the known deficiency of rodent cells for carrying out NER for CPDs (75) . We (76) and others (77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85) have previously shown a time-dependent resistance to repair of CPDs in normal human cells, as well.

For verification purposes, we also performed a complementary experiment to establish the kinetics of repair of UV-induced DNA damage in human cells. Accordingly, we irradiated normal human skin fibroblasts under the same experimental conditions as those used for their counterpart mouse cells. As shown in Fig. 6 , we confirmed that, in agreement with previous findings reported by us (76) as well as by others (77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85) , although repair of UVB- and SSL-induced CPDs is relatively more efficient in human cells as compared to mouse cells, a fraction of these lesions remains persistent in the genome of normal human cells over a full cell cycle, i.e., 32 h.


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  		Figure 6. Qualitative assessment of induced DNA damage in the genome of human cells. Normal human skin fibroblasts were irradiated with equilethal (~75% cell survival) doses of UVA, UVB, and SSL in comparison with controls, as described in Materials and Methods. Genomic DNA was isolated and digested with Fpg for detecting oxidized (ring-opened) purines and T4 Endo V for determining CPDs. The DNA digests were subjected to alkaline agarose gel electrophoresis, followed by standardized visualization procedure. For brevity, results at select time points are shown. M, molecular size marker.

Conversely, UVA irradiation failed to produce detectable dipyrimidine photolesions in the overall genome of irradiated cells. Instead, UVA and SSL irradiation alike formed significant levels of oxidized (ring-opened) purines in the genome of irradiated cells. In both cases, the induced oxidized (ring-opened) purines were completely removed from the genome within 30 min of irradiation. No significant formation of oxidized (ring-opened) purines was observed in the overall genome of UVB-irradiated cells, however. In confirmation, our TD-PCR footprinting verified an induction of dipyrimidine photolesions in the cII transgene consequent to UVB and SSL irradiation only. Also, comparative TD-PCR and LM-PCR analyses established a persistence of CPDs and an efficient repair of (6–4)PPs in the cII transgene consequent to UVB and SSL irradiation. Furthermore, LM-PCR footprinting of oxidized (ring-opened) purines showed a comparable formation of these lesions in the cII transgene after UVA and SSL irradiation only. The induced oxidized (ring-opened) purines were fully removed from the cII transgene within 30 min of UVA and SSL irradiation. In mammalian cells, base excision repair is known to rapidly restore the genome from a plethora of oxidative DNA damage (86 87 88 89) . The fast repair of Fpg-sensitive sites found in our study is consistent with the previously reported repair rates of 8-hydroxyguanine in human keratinocytes and fibroblasts (90) and of oxidative purine modifications in Chinese hamster ovary cells (91) , which showed half-lives of 30 min and 2–3 h, respectively. Likewise, our supplementary experiment verified that, similar to the situation found in mouse fibroblasts, the Fpg-sensitive sites produced in the genomic DNA of UVA- and SSL-irradiated human cells are rapidly and efficiently repaired within 45 min postirradiation (see Fig. 6 ).

Determination of cII mutant frequency in UV-irradiated cells revealed that, in agreement with our previous findings (14 15 16) , UVA irradiation was weakly, yet, significantly mutagenic in the cII transgene. The relatively low mutagenicity of UVA irradiation in the cII transgene can be attributed to the efficient removal of UVA-induced oxidized (ring-opened) purines from this gene. Presumably, a small fraction of UVA-induced lesions, which may have encountered replicative DNA polymerases before being subjected to base excision repair, has contributed to the observed mutagenicity of UVA irradiation. In contrast, SSL irradiation and UVB irradiation showed potent mutagenicity in the cII transgene.

Mutation spectrometry analysis established a significantly different pattern of mutations induced by UVB and SSL irradiation from that of UVA irradiation or control. The induced-mutation spectra by UVB and SSL irradiation, respectively, showed remarkable resemblance to one another, however. The UVB- and SSL-induced mutation spectra were both characterized by significant increases in relative frequency of G:C to A:T transitions occurring (almost) exclusively at dipyrimidine sites, including a portion of hallmark CC to TT tandem transitions (6 7 8 9) . These types of mutation are the signature mutations of dipyrimidine photolesions (6 7 8 9) . We reaffirmed the major role of dipyrimidine photolesions in UVB and SSL irradiation-induced mutagenesis by demonstrating that G:C to A:T transitions at pyrimidine dinucleotides accounted for 85% and 80% of the increases in cII mutant frequency consequent to the respective types of UV irradiation. The characteristic G:C to T:A transversions induced by UVA irradiation, however, were not distinguishable in SSL irradiation-induced mutation spectrum, presumably, because of the minor contribution of this type of mutation to the overall mutation load, i.e., 3.3%.

Thus far, diverging results have been reported on the types of DNA damage and mutations induced by UVA irradiation (84 , 85 , 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107) . The discrepancies are likely to be due to the experimental variables used in different studies, including UVA source and dose, species and cell types tested, and sensitivity of the applied measurement techniques. For instance, irradiation sources that emit contaminating UV wavebands, e.g., in the UVB range, are not suitable for characterizing UVA genotoxicity, as they produce distorted induced mutation spectra by giving rise to UVB-specific photoproducts. Even a small contamination by UVB of a UVA source can be significant, because, on a per joule basis, UVB radiation is up to 50,000 times more genotoxic than UVA radiation (108) . Woollons et al. (109) have demonstrated that 75% of all CPDs induced in human keratinocytes irradiated with a UVA sunlamp were caused by the 0.8% UVB component of this source. Likewise, the use of an irradiation source emitting a small but significant portion of UVB radiation resulted in a mutation spectrum predominated by single and tandem C->T transitions at dipyrimidine sites in the lacZ gene in mouse skin epidermis (102) .

It is known that cells of varying species and types are differently resistant toward genotoxic and cytotoxic effects of UVA radiation (15 , 16 , 110) . The differences may arise from various cellular contexts, e.g., photosensitizers and antioxidants contents, DNA repair capacity, and fidelity of DNA polymerase bypass, specific for each species and cell type (5 , 111) . To meet the sensitivity requirement of most available techniques for quantification of photo-induced DNA damages, especially at the level of nucleotide resolution, intense UVA irradiation is necessary to produce sufficient number of DNA lesions (84 , 85 , 99 100 101 , 104) . Such high doses of UVA irradiation may not necessarily be relevant for mutagenicity experiments, because excessive doses of UVA may impede cell proliferation, thereby precluding the DNA damage to be translated into a mutation (5) . The choice of dosing is also important for establishing DNA damage-targeted mutagenicity of UVA, because irradiation dose per se may determine the type of induced DNA lesions (110) . As we have recently shown, formation of DNA damage, in and of itself, is not sufficient to produce mutagenesis (112) . Thus, it is imperative to investigate UVA-induced DNA damage and mutagenesis simultaneously and at biologically relevant doses (5) .

While it is generally agreed that the UVB portion of sunlight is responsible for the induction of nonmelanoma skin cancers, i.e., basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas, there have been suggestions that UVA is involved in the formation of melanoma. For example, UVA is capable of inducing melanoma-like lesions in opossums (113) and in certain fish species (114) . In a recent meta-analysis of data linking UVA tanning bed exposure to melanoma risk, exposure to sun beds before 35 yr of age significantly increased the risk of melanoma, based on 7 informative studies (summary relative risk, 1.75; 95% CI, 1.35–2.26) (115) . Our compilation of published data on the types of mutations found in human skin tumors revealed that C->T and CC->TT transitions clearly predominate the mutation spectra for both nonmelanoma and melanoma skin cancers in the TP53 gene, and for melanomas in the CDKN2 and in protein kinase genes. In the same set of samples, G->T transversions, which would be a hallmark of UVA-induced mutagenesis, were generally rare and accounted for only 10% or less of the tumor-associated mutations (Fig. 5) . Also, single and tandem C->T transitions combined constitute ~62% of all mutations occurring in the PTCH gene in basal cell carcinomas. These results obtained with human tumor specimens are completely in line with the data obtained in our experimental system, in which we showed that sunlight-induced mutagenesis is characterized by UVB but not UVA induced mutations.

We acknowledge that to simultaneously detect DNA damage and repair and mutagenesis, we have used a transcriptionally inactive reporter gene of a mouse model system (116) . In humans, however, DNA damage-targeted mutagenesis in endogenous cancer-relevant genes might be more complex, e.g., because of influential factors such as TCR, which has been shown to preferentially remove DNA lesions from the transcribed strand of actively expressed genes (29 , 62 , 63 , 117) . Admittedly, therefore, caution should be taken in interpreting data obtained from in vitro or in vivo model systems because these systems lack "complete" comparability to humans (12) . Nonetheless, if used properly, both systems can provide invaluable information, which may help unravel many aspects of human carcinogenesis (28 , 118) .

We (119 , 120) and others (121) have verified the utility of in vitro model systems for establishing DNA damage-targeted mutagenicity of carcinogens by demonstrating that treatment of normal human bronchial epithelial cells with a tobacco-derived carcinogen, benzo[a]pyrene diol epoxide (B[a]PDE), results in DNA damage formation at lung cancer mutational hotspots in the RAS oncogenes and TP53 tumor suppressor gene. Similarly, solar UV irradiation in vitro has been shown to induce DNA damage at distinctive nucleotide positions along cancer-related genes, which colocalize with skin cancer mutational hotspots established in the respective target genes in vivo (12) . More specifically, we have shown that B[a]PDE can form DNA lesions at specific nucleotide positions along the lacI and cII transgenes in Big Blue mouse embryonic fibroblasts, which correspond to the sites of B[a]PDE-induced mutations in the respective transgenes (122) . The patterns of B[a]PDE-induced DNA adduction and mutagenesis in both transgenes perfectly mirrored those found in the TP53 gene in smoking-related lung cancer (122) . Likewise, we have demonstrated DNA adduct-targeted mutagenicity of other smoke-derived carcinogens, e.g., N-hydroxy-4-acetylaminobiphenyl and dibenzo[a,l]pyrene, in the same model system (123 , 124) .

In conclusion, the present study is an attempt to address the question of the etiology of sunlight-induced mutagenesis in mammalian cells, specifically in mouse cells. Here, we have unequivocally shown a resistance to repair of UVB-induced CPDs together with rapid removal of UVA-induced lesions in the cII transgene of mouse embryonic fibroblasts, which can mechanistically explain the predominance of characteristic UVB-induced mutagenesis in SSL-irradiated mouse cells.


   ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
 
This work was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (ES06070) to G.P.P.

Received for publication January 4, 2008. Accepted for publication February 21, 2008.


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