Original Article

Journal of Investigative Dermatology (1981) 76, 59–62; doi:10.1111/1523-1747.ep12524886

The Post-UV Colony-Forming Ability of Normal Fibroblast Strains and of the Xeroderma Pigmentosum Group G Strain

Susanna F Barrett, Robert E Tarone, Alan N Moshell, Mary B Ganges and Jay H Robbins

Dermatology and Biometry Branches, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.A.

Received 21 April 1980; Accepted 25 July 1980.

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Abstract

In xeroderma pigmentosum, an inherited disorder of defective DNA repair, post-UV colony-forming ability of fibroblasts from patients in complementation groups A through F correlates with the patients neurological status. The first xeroderma pigmentosum patient assigned to the recently discovered group G had the neurological abnormalities of XP. We have determined the post-UV colony-forming ability of cultured fibroblasts from this patient and from 5 more control donors. Log-phase fibroblasts were irradiated with 254 no UV light from a germicidal lamp, trypsinized, and replated at known densities. After 2 to 4 weeks incubation the cells were fixed, stained and scored for colony formation. The strains post-UV colony-forming ability curves were obtained by plotting the log of the percent remaining post- UV colony-forming ability as a function of the UV dose. The post-UV colony-forming ability of 2 of the 5 new normal strains was in the previously defined control donor zone, but that of the other 3 extended down to the level of the most resistant xeroderma pigmentosum strain. The post-UV colony-forming ability curve of the group G fibroblasts was not significantly different from the curves of the group D fibroblast strains from patients with clinical histories similar to that of the group G patient.

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