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    Evaluation of the genotoxic and antigenotoxic effects of exopolysaccharide pullulan in human lymphocytes in vitro
    (Elsevier, 2021) Yuzbasioglu, Deniz; Mamur, Sevcan; Avuloglu-Yilmaz, Ece; Erikel, Esra; Celebi-Keskin, Ayten; Unal, Fatma
    Pullulan is a biocompatible and water-soluble exo-polysaccharide produced by primary strains of the fungus Aureobasidium pullulans. It is frequently used in the pharmaceutical and food industries. In this study, possible cytotoxic effect of pullulan was assessed using the MTT assay in the human breast cancer (MCF-7) cell line. Micronucleus (MN), micronucleus-FISH (MN-FISH), random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD-PCR), and comet assays were used to investigate genotoxic and antigenotoxic effects of pullulan against mitomycin C (MMC) (at MN assay) and hydrogen peroxide (at comet assay) in human lymphocytes. Antigenotoxicity was determined using two different applications: 1 h pretreatment and simultaneous treatment. In the MTT assay, pullulan significantly reduced the cell viability at 15.6-2000 mu g/mL compared to the control. No significant alterations in MN rates were found in human lymphocytes treated with different concentrations of pullulan compared to the control. In contrast, co-treatment of pullulan and MMC decreased the frequency of MN in almost all the treatment concentrations and durations compared to the MMC. No significant change was observed in the frequency of the centromere-positive C + or negative C-MNi compared to the positive control. In comet assay, pullulan did not affect comet tail intensity compared to the negative control. On the contrary, pullulan in combination with H2O2 significantly decreased tail intensity at almost all the concentrations compared to the positive control. The changes occurring in RAPD-PCR profiles following pullulan treatments included an increase or decrease in band intensity and gain or loss of bands. These results indicate that exopolysaccharide Pullulan is not genotoxic; moreover, it possesses a protective effect against MMC and H2O2 induced genotoxicity. In breast cancer cells, pullulan induced cytotoxic/anti-proliferative effect.
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    Genotoxicity of monosodium glutamate
    (Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, 2016) Ataseven, Nazmiye; Yuzbasioglu, Deniz; Keskin, Ayten Celebi; Unal, Fatma
    Monosodium glutamate (MSG) is one of the most widely used flavor enhancers throughout the world. The aim of this study is to investigate the genotoxic potential of MSG by using chromosome aberrations (CM), sister-chromatid exchanges (SCEs), cytokinesis-blocked micronucleus (CBMN), and random amplified polymorphic DNA-polimerase chain reaction (RAPD-PCR) in cultured human lymphocytes and alkaline comet assays in isolated human lymphocytes, which were incubated with six concentrations (250, 500, 1000, 2000, 4000 and 8000 mu g/mL) of MSG. The result of this study indicated that MSG significantly and dose dependently increased the frequencies of CM, SCE and MN in all treatments and times, compared with control. However, the replication (RI) and nuclear division indices (NDI) were not affected. In this paper, in vitro genotoxic effects of the MSG was also investigated on human peripheral lymphocytes by analysing the RAPD-PCR with arbitrary 10-mer primers. The changes occurring in RAPD profiles after MSG treatment include increase or decrease in band intensity and gain or loss of bands. In the comet assay, this additive caused DNA damage at all concentrations in isolated human lymphocytes after 1-h in vitro exposure. Our results demonstrate that MSG is genotoxic to the human peripheral blood lymphocytes in vitro. (C) 2016 Published by Elsevier Ltd.