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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

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