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3-03<br />
Mutational Effect of Gamma-rays and Carbon Ion<br />
Beams on Arabidopsis Seedlings<br />
R. Yoshihara, Y. Hase, S. Nozawa, A. N. Sakamoto and I. Narumi<br />
It is expected that ion beams confer different mutational<br />
effects from low LET radiations such as gamma-rays.<br />
Indeed, ion beams have been used to produce many valuable<br />
cultivars. However, little is known about the mutational<br />
effects of ion beams on higher plants. Understanding<br />
mutational effects of ion beams is important for<br />
improvement of ion beam breeding technique. Therefore,<br />
to elucidate the molecular mechanisms of mutagenesis by<br />
ion beams in higher plants, effects of ion beams on DNA<br />
damage, DNA repair and mutation were investigated in this<br />
study.<br />
Radiation induces various types of DNA lesions.<br />
Especially, DNA double strand break (DSB) and oxidative<br />
DNA damages (for example oxidized guanine) are major<br />
DNA lesions. In animal and bacteria, it has been proved<br />
that DSB and oxidized guanine induced deletion and base<br />
change mutations, respectively 1) . In our previous study, we<br />
showed that the incidence of mutation induced by oxidized<br />
guanine was quite low in Arabidopsis dry seed 2) . Thus, we<br />
speculated that atypical condition in dry seed such as low<br />
water content and cell proliferation activity affected<br />
mutation induced by oxidized guanine.<br />
In this study, Arabidopsis seedlings were exposed to<br />
220 MeV carbon ion beams (220 MeV 12 C 5+ ). They were<br />
separately irradiated with gamma-rays as a control of low<br />
LET radiation. One-week-old seedlings were exposed to<br />
radiations and sensitivity of seedlings was estimated by the<br />
measurement of 5th leaf formation rate (Fig. 1).<br />
Arabidopsis seedlings showed higher sensitivity to 220 MeV<br />
12 C 5+ than gamma-rays.<br />
For mutation spectrum analysis, Arabidopsis/rpsL 3)<br />
plants were irradiated with 80% of shoulder dose of each<br />
radiation. Mutant frequency was increased by the<br />
irradiation of both radiations (Table 1). Deletion/insertion<br />
and G to A transition were major mutations induced by both<br />
radiations in Arabidopsis seedlings. These types of<br />
mutations are also induced in Arabidopsis dry seed by both<br />
radiations. Our mutation spectrum analysis also showed<br />
that base change mutations induced by oxidized guanine (G<br />
to T and A to C) were not increased in Arabidopsis<br />
seedlings like dry seed (Table 2), suggesting the effects of<br />
oxidized guanine induced by ionizing radiation may be<br />
lower in plant than in other organisms, irrespective of LET.<br />
We will analyze mutation spectrum induced by radiation in<br />
DNA repair deficient Arabidopsis to investigate effects of<br />
DNA repair system on mutagenesis by oxidized guanine.<br />
<strong>JAEA</strong>-<strong>Review</strong> <strong>2010</strong>-065<br />
Radiation-Applied Biology Division, QuBS, <strong>JAEA</strong><br />
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Fig. 1 Sensitivity of Arabidopsis seedling to gamma-<br />
rays and 220 MeV 12 C 5+ . Sensitivity of Arabidopsis<br />
seedlings to radiations were estimated by counting<br />
plants which formed 5th leaf by 7 days after<br />
irradiation. Shoulder doses of gamma-rays and<br />
220 MeV 12 C 5+ were 64 Gy and 17 Gy, respectively.<br />
Table 1 Mutant frequency in Arabidopsis seedling.<br />
Mutant Total clone MF (×10 –5 )<br />
Background 20 575,879 3.4 ± 0.9<br />
Gamma-rays 32 259,372 12.8 ± 6.3**<br />
220 MeV 12 C 5+ 13 96,874 16.4 ± 10.3**<br />
MF is Mutant frequency (Mutant / Total clone).<br />
Statistical analysis was performed by t-test (**: p