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One of the key events in tumor initiation in mouse skin is mutational activation of the H-ras gene. Papillomas induced by the most carcinogenic environmental polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH), dibenzo[a,l]pyrene (DB[a,l]P), in SENCAR mouse skin contain a specific H-ras codon 61 (CAA→CTA) mutation. We describe here detection of these mutations in preneoplastic skin by measuring the frequency of an induced XbaI RFLP, created by the mutation. Development of the PCR-XbaI RFLP method, sensitive enough to detect 1 codon 61 mutant allele among 10 000 wild-type genes, is described. The results indicate that codon 61 mutations are induced 1 day (0.1%) after DB[a,l]P treatment on mouse skin, reach a high value (5%) by day 3, rapidly decline between days 7–9 and increase again during the clonal expansion of pre-papillomas into tumors. The detection of codon 61 mutations 1 day after DB[a,l]P exposure suggests that mutations occurred by pre-replication misrepair.
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Chakravarti, D., Mailander, P., Franzen, J. et al. Detection of dibenzo[a,l]pyrene-induced H-ras codon 61 mutant genes in preneoplastic SENCAR mouse skin using a new PCR–RFLP method. Oncogene 16, 3203–3210 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.onc.1201853
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