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Title: Absence of superoxide dismutase activity causes nuclear DNA fragmentation during the aging process
Authors: Muid, Khandaker Ashfaqul
Karakaya, Hüseyin Çaglar
Koç, Ahmet
Keywords: Aging
Antioxidant
Comet assay
DNA damage
Oxidative stress
Reactive oxygen species
Publisher: Academic Press Inc.
Source: Muid, K.A., Karakaya, H.Ç., and Koç, A. (2014). Absence of superoxide dismutase activity causes nuclear DNA fragmentation during the aging process. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 444(2), 260-263. doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2014.01.056
Abstract: Superoxide dismutases (SOD) serve as an important antioxidant defense mechanism in aerobic organisms, and deletion of these genes shortens the replicative life span in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Even though involvement of superoxide dismutase enzymes in ROS scavenging and the aging process has been studied extensively in different organisms, analyses of DNA damages has not been performed for replicatively old superoxide dismutase deficient cells. In this study, we investigated the roles of SOD1, SOD2 and CCS1 genes in preserving genomic integrity in replicatively old yeast cells using the single cell comet assay. We observed that extend of DNA damage was not significantly different among the young cells of wild type, sod1Δ and sod2Δ strains. However, ccs1Δ mutants showed a 60% higher amount of DNA damage in the young stage compared to that of the wild type cells. The aging process increased the DNA damage rates 3-fold in the wild type and more than 5-fold in sod1Δ, sod2Δ, and ccs1Δ mutant cells. Furthermore, ROS levels of these strains showed a similar pattern to their DNA damage contents. Thus, our results confirm that cells accumulate DNA damages during the aging process and reveal that superoxide dismutase enzymes play a substantial role in preserving the genomic integrity in this process.
URI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2014.01.056
http://hdl.handle.net/11147/5542
ISSN: 0006-291X
0006-291X
1090-2104
Appears in Collections:Molecular Biology and Genetics / Moleküler Biyoloji ve Genetik
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