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DNA repair is essential for maintaining the integrity of the genetic material, and a number of DNA repair mechanisms have been fairly well characterized for the nuclear DNA of eukaryotic cells as well as prokaryotes. However, little is known about DNA repair in mitochondria. Using highly sensitive immunoanalytical methods to detect specific DNA alkylation products, we found active removal of O6-ethyl-2'-deoxyguanosine (O6-EtdGuo) from rat liver mitochondrial DNA after pulse-exposure to N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea in vivo. In the kidney, O6-EtdGuo was removed from mitochondrial DNA with moderate efficiency, but nearly no removal was observed from the DNA of brain mitochondria. Among the rat tissues examined, the kinetics of O6-EtdGuo elimination from mitochondrial DNA was very similar to the kinetics of removal from nuclear DNA. O4-Ethyl-2'-deoxythymidine, another premutagenic DNA ethylation product, was stable in both mitochondrial and nuclear DNA of rat liver.
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