Effects of Interferon on Mitomycin C-Induced Sister Chromatid Exchanges and on Ultraviolet Induced Unscheduled DNA Synthesis

This article is about the effects of interferon(IFN)on sisterchromatid exchange(SCE)frequencies induced by mitomycin C(MMC)and/or unscheduled DNA synthesis(UDS)induced by ultra-violet light(UV).The result shows that SCE frequencies in peri-pheral lymphocytes from 4 normal individuals and 3 patients withxeroderma pigmentosum(XP)treated with IFN before the additionof MMC were much lower than those of the controls.But after thetreatment of IFN followed by UV irradiation,no difference was fo-und between the UDS levels of the lymphocytes from 2 normal in-dividuals and 2 patients with XP and those from the controls.Thewriters deduce that IFN may have some effect of antimutation