SUI Li1, 2 WANG Xiao1 ZHOU Pingkun2 NI Meinan1 KONG Fuquan1 YANG Lei1 LIU Jiancheng1 ZHAO Kui1 1. Effect of dose and DNA concentration on DNA damage induced by protons[J]. Nuclear techniques, 2011, 34(6): 447-451.
SUI Li1, 2 WANG Xiao1 ZHOU Pingkun2 NI Meinan1 KONG Fuquan1 YANG Lei1 LIU Jiancheng1 ZHAO Kui1 1. Effect of dose and DNA concentration on DNA damage induced by protons[J]. Nuclear techniques, 2011, 34(6): 447-451.DOI:
Effect of dose and DNA concentration on DNA damage induced by protons
The pUC19 plasmid DNA solutions in different DNA concentrations
with or without mannitol
were irradiated by 16 MeV protons to different doses.Changes in the DNA form were observed by means of gel electrophoresis in order to study effects of dose and DNA concentration on yields of DNA strand breaks.The results indicate that the dose and DNA concentration response exist in two solution systems
the forms of DNA changed from intact supercoiled to open circular
in a linear relationship with the dose.The yields of DNA strand breaks in DNA solution without mannitol are much more than that those with mannitol
illuminating that mannitol can scavenge the free radicals and reduce the yields of DNA single and double strand breaks induced by protons efficiently.In addition
the dose effects of DNA damage were investigated at a concentration of 10 or 100 ng/?L.The results show that dilute DNA solution need lower dose than the dense solution in observing similar degree of damage.