[The association of TCR-mutant cells with DNA polymorphism in women residing in radiation polluted regions of the Russian Federation]

Radiats Biol Radioecol. 2009 Jul-Aug;49(4):389-96.
[Article in Russian]

Abstract

Using flow-cytometric method the frequency of lymphocytes beaming mutations at T-cell receptor (TCR) locus was assessed in women residing in radiation polluted regions of Bryansk and Tula Districts. Simultaneously genotyping of the 8 polymorph loci for genes involved in detoxication of xenobiotics and oestrogen metabolism was carried out. The increased TCR-mutant cell frequency was found to be characteristic of homozygotes of the low activity appropriated enzymes for 3 loci (HFE187, GSTM1 and MTHFR) at least. This tendency was statistically significant in case of deletion polymorphism of the GSTM1 gene: TCR-mutant cell frequency of the homozygous carriers of a deletion at the GSTM1 locus was (4.63 +/- 0.18) x 10(-4) while it was (4.05 +/- 0.15) x 10(-4) in other groups of persons. The greatest mutant cell frequency was observed in carriers of the minor allele 4889G of the locus CYP1A. More often the increased values of the TCR-mutant cells (outside range "3sigma") were determined in women with genotypes A/G or G/G of the locus CYP1A1 (25%) than in carries of the normal genotype A/A (1.6%) (OR = 20.6; p = 0.0002). The comparison of the groups of women with reproductive system diseases reveals significant elevation in the mean TCR-mutant cell frequency in inhabitants of the most radiation polluted region among others.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Cytochrome P-450 CYP1A1 / genetics
  • DNA / genetics
  • Environmental Exposure*
  • Female
  • Flow Cytometry
  • Genital Diseases, Female / genetics
  • Genital Diseases, Female / immunology
  • Genotype
  • Glutathione Transferase / genetics
  • Hemochromatosis Protein
  • Histocompatibility Antigens Class I / genetics
  • Humans
  • Lymphocyte Count
  • Lymphocytes / immunology*
  • Membrane Proteins / genetics
  • Mutation
  • Polymorphism, Genetic
  • Radioactive Pollutants*
  • Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell / genetics*
  • Russia

Substances

  • HFE protein, human
  • Hemochromatosis Protein
  • Histocompatibility Antigens Class I
  • Membrane Proteins
  • Radioactive Pollutants
  • Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell
  • DNA
  • Cytochrome P-450 CYP1A1
  • Glutathione Transferase