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The ultraviolet-light induction of DNA damage has been measured in the epidermis of hairless mice with the use of damage-specific endonucleases from Micrococcus luteus. The rates of induction of endonuclease-sensitive sites in HRS/J/Anl and Skh:hairless-1 mice were 6.1 +/- 0.5 X 10(-11) and 6.5 +/- 0.8 X 10(-11)/dalton/J/sq m from a FS40 fluorescent sun lamp (280 to 400 nm), respectively. Enzymatic photoreactivation with yeast photoreactivating enzyme showed that approximately 80% of the endonuclease-sensitive sites were cycloburyl pyrimidine dimers. In both strains of mice the pyrimidine dimers remained in high-molecular-weight DNA for 24 hr after irradiation. These data show that mouse epithelial cells in vivo have little or no capacity for the excision repair of pyrimidine dimers.
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