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The detection of incomplete chromosome elements (ICE, i.e., elements with telomeric signal at only one terminal end) and interstitial fragments induced by the radiomimetic compound bleomycin (BLM) was carried out in a Chinese hamster embryo (CHE) cell line using FISH with a telomeric peptide nucleic acid (PNA) probe. CHE cells were treated with 0, 1, 2.5, 5, and 7.5 microg/ml of BLM and chromosomal aberrations were analyzed in the first mitosis after treatment using a telomeric PNA probe. The relationship between chromosomal aberrations frequency and bleomycin concentration was of linear type (P < 0.05 for all type of aberrations analyzed, i.e., multicentric chromosomes, centric rings, interstitial fragments and ICE). After BLM treatment, about 20-30% of the analyzed metaphases contained one or more pairs of ICE. Acentric interstitial fragments, lacking telomeric signals, were observed with a frequency of about 4-7 times higher than the dicentric frequency. Acentric interstitial fragments and ICE were induced at similar frequencies, except for the lowest BLM concentration (1 microg/ml), where the latter ones showed a higher frequency than the former ones. Furthermore, it was estimated that about 53% of excess acentric fragments originate from complete exchanges (interstitial deletions) and 47% from incomplete exchanges or terminal deletions. These results show that interstitial fragments and ICE are the most frequent asymmetrical chromosomal aberrations induced by BLM and indicate that true incompleteness is a common event following exposure to BLM. Moreover, the comparable trend of the concentration-response relationship for the different aberrations strongly suggests that all BLM-induced asymmetrical aberrations are formed by a similar underlying mechanism.
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PMID:Detection of incomplete chromosome elements and interstitial fragments induced by bleomycin in hamster cells using a telomeric PNA probe. 1545 Mar 98

Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) with a telomeric peptide nucleic acid (PNA) probe was employed to analyze the induction of incomplete chromosome elements (ICE, i.e., unjoined or "open" chromosome elements with telomeric signal at only one end) and excess acentric fragments (i.e., in excess of fragments resulting from the formation of dicentric and ring chromosomes) by the methylating agent streptozotocin (STZ) in a Chinese hamster embryo (CHE) cell line. CHE cells were treated with 0-4 mM STZ and chromosomal aberrations were analyzed in the first mitosis after treatment using the telomeric probe. Centric (incomplete chromosomes) and acentric (terminal fragments) ICE were the only unstable chromosome-type aberrations induced by STZ in CHE cells. The induction of these aberrations exhibited a curvilinear concentration-response relationship. About 40% of the metaphases present in cell cultures treated with STZ contained one or more pairs of ICE. In STZ-treated cells, ICE were always observed as pairs consisting of an incomplete chromosome and a terminal fragment. Moreover, all of the excess acentric fragments induced by STZ were of terminal type. These results indicate that chromosomal incompleteness is a very common event following exposure to STZ and suggest that all of the excess acentric fragments induced by STZ originate from terminal deletions.
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PMID:Analysis of streptozotocin-induced incomplete chromosome elements and excess acentric fragments in Chinese hamster cells using a telomeric PNA probe. 1570 82

Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) with a telomeric peptide nucleic acid probe was employed to analyze the induction of incomplete chromosome elements (ICE; i.e., incomplete chromosomes and terminal fragments) by bleomycin (BLM) in two mammalian cell lines. Chinese hamster embryo cells (CHE cell line, average 2n = 23) and domestic rabbit cells (CPC cell line, average 2n = 44) were treated with 2.5 micro g/ml BLM; after 18 hr of incubation, first-division metaphases were stained with the telomeric probe, and ICE and other unstable chromosomal aberrations were scored. BLM induced ICE, dicentrics, and interstitial acentric fragments in CHE cells, but only ICE in CPC cells. About 50% of the metaphases in BLM-treated CHE cells contained one or more pairs of ICE, while only 20% of treated CPC cells contained ICE. Almost 100% of the BLM-induced ICE in both cell lines consisted of pairs formed by an incomplete chromosome and a terminal fragment. Our results confirm that ICE are the most frequent type of unstable chromosomal aberration induced by BLM in mammalian cells. Moreover, the present study shows that an increase in the chromosome number does not necessarily result in an increase in the frequency of BLM-induced ICE. The results also show that the difference in the chromosomal sensitivity to BLM in CHE and CPC cells is due to differences in the absolute frequency but not in the pattern (i.e., type and proportion) of ICE.
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PMID:A comparative analysis of bleomycin-induced incomplete chromosome elements in two mammalian cell lines using a telomeric PNA probe. 1694 55