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Takenaka T, Yoshino I, Kouso H, Ohba T, Yohena T, Osoegawa A, Shoji F, Maehara Y. Combined evaluation of Rad51 and ERCC1 expressions for sensitivity to platinum agents in non-small cell lung cancer. Int J Cancer 2007; 121:895-900. [PMID: 17417781 DOI: 10.1002/ijc.22738] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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DNA repair enzyme expression in tumor cells possibly affects sensitivity to anti-cancer agents. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between expression status of DNA repair enzymes and chemosensitivity in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). NSCLC tissues prepared from the surgical specimens of 41 patients were subjected to immunohistochemical analysis for Rad51 and ERCC1 proteins and to a chemosensitivity test using the MTT assay. The relationships between the expression status of the DNA repair enzymes and ex vivo chemosensitivity to various agents were evaluated. A positive expression for Rad51 and ERCC1 was observed in 17 cases (41%) and 20 cases (49%), respectively. The positivity of Rad51 was closely related to a certain histologic type of squamous cell carcinoma and poor differentiation, and the positivity of ERCC1 tended to be related to squamous cell carcinoma. In chemosensitivity tests, sensitivities to CDDP and CBDCA were significantly lower when both 2 enzymes were positive (p = 0.012 and 0.04 in CDDP, 0.014 and 0.03 in CBDCA). Both Rad51 and ERCC1 expressions showed no significant relationship with sensitivities to paclitaxel, etoposide, vinorelbine, gemcitabine, 5-FU, or irinotecan. In conclusion, combined expression of Rad51 and ERCC1 expression is associated with resistance to platinum agents in the ex vivo study of clinical NSCLC, and evaluation of expression status of both DNA repair enzymes would be a predictor for clinical response to platinum-based chemotherapies.
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- Tomoyoshi Takenaka
- Department of Surgery and Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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Telomeres are among the most important structures in eukaryotic cells. Creating the physical ends of linear chromosomes, they play a crucial role in maintaining genome stability, control of cell division, cell growth and senescence. In vertebrates, telomeres consist of G-rich repetitive DNA sequences (TTAGGG)n and specific proteins, creating a specialized structure called the telosome that through mutual interactions with many other factors in the cell give rise to dynamic regulation of chromosome maintenance. In this review, we survey the structural and mechanistic aspects of telomere length regulation and how these processes lead to alterations in normal and immortal cell growth.
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- M Matulić
- Ruder Bosković Institute, Department of Molecular Biology, Zagreb, Croatia
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Tripsianes K, Folkers GE, Zheng C, Das D, Grinstead JS, Kaptein R, Boelens R. Analysis of the XPA and ssDNA-binding surfaces on the central domain of human ERCC1 reveals evidence for subfunctionalization. Nucleic Acids Res 2007; 35:5789-98. [PMID: 17720715 PMCID: PMC2034474 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Human ERCC1/XPF is a structure-specific endonuclease involved in multiple DNA repair pathways. We present the solution structure of the non-catalytic ERCC1 central domain. Although this domain shows structural homology with the catalytically active XPF nuclease domain, functional investigation reveals a completely distinct function for the ERCC1 central domain by performing interactions with both XPA and single-stranded DNA. These interactions are non-competitive and can occur simultaneously through distinct interaction surfaces. Interestingly, the XPA binding by ERCC1 and the catalytic function of XPF are dependent on a structurally homologous region of the two proteins. Although these regions are strictly conserved in each protein family, amino acid composition and surface characteristics are distinct. We discuss the possibility that after XPF gene duplication, the redundant ERCC1 central domain acquired novel functions, thereby increasing the fidelity of eukaryotic DNA repair.
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- *To whom correspondence should be addressed. +31 30 2534035+31 30 2537623
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Francis MA, Bagga P, Athwal R, Rainbow AJ. Partial Complementation of the DNA Repair Defects in Cells from Xeroderma Pigmentosum Groups A, C, D and F but not G by the denV Gene from Bacteriophage T4 ¶. Photochem Photobiol 2007. [DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2000)0720365pcotdr2.0.co2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Andrieux LO, Fautrel A, Bessard A, Guillouzo A, Baffet G, Langouët S. GATA-1 is essential in EGF-mediated induction of nucleotide excision repair activity and ERCC1 expression through ERK2 in human hepatoma cells. Cancer Res 2007; 67:2114-23. [PMID: 17332341 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-06-3821] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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The nucleotide excision repair (NER) pathway and its leading gene excision-repair cross-complementary 1 (ERCC1) have been shown to be up-regulated in hepatocellular carcinomas even in the absence of treatment with chemotherapeutics. The aim of this study was to determine the mechanism involved in NER regulation during the liver cell growth observed in hepatocellular carcinoma. Both NER activity and ERCC1 expression were increased after exposure to the epidermal growth factor (EGF) in cultured normal and tumoral human hepatocytes. These increases correlated with the activation of the kinase signaling pathway mitogen-activated protein/extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) kinase (MEK)/ERK that is known to be a key regulator in the G(1) phase of the hepatocyte cell cycle. Moreover, EGF-mediated activation of ERCC1 was specifically inhibited by either the addition of U0126, a MEK/ERK inhibitor or small interfering RNA-mediated knockdown of ERK2. Basal expression of ERCC1 was decreased in the presence of the phosphoinositide-3-kinase (PI3K) inhibitor and small hairpin RNA (shRNA) against the PI3K pathway kinase FKBP12-rapamycin-associated protein or mammalian target of rapamycin. Transient transfection of human hepatocytes with constructs containing different sizes of the 5'-flanking region of the ERCC1 gene upstream of the luciferase reporter gene showed an increase in luciferase activity in EGF-treated cells, which correlated with the presence of the nuclear transcription factor GATA-1 recognition sequence. The recruitment of GATA-1 was confirmed by chromatin immunoprecipitation assay. In conclusion, these results represent the first demonstration of an up-regulation of NER and ERCC1 in EGF-stimulated proliferating hepatocytes. The transcription factor GATA-1 plays an essential role in the induction of ERCC1 through the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway, whereas the PI3K signaling pathway contributes to ERCC1 basal expression.
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- Lise O Andrieux
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U620, Université de Rennes I, Hôpital Pontchaillou, IFR 140, 2 avenue du Pr Léon Bernard, 35043 Rennes Cedex, France
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Ciccia A, Ling C, Coulthard R, Yan Z, Xue Y, Meetei AR, Laghmani EH, Joenje H, McDonald N, de Winter JP, Wang W, West SC. Identification of FAAP24, a Fanconi anemia core complex protein that interacts with FANCM. Mol Cell 2007; 25:331-43. [PMID: 17289582 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2007.01.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 231] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2006] [Revised: 11/28/2006] [Accepted: 01/02/2007] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The Fanconi anemia (FA) core complex plays a crucial role in a DNA damage response network with BRCA1 and BRCA2. How this complex interacts with damaged DNA is unknown, as only the FA core protein FANCM (the homolog of an archaeal helicase/nuclease known as HEF) exhibits DNA binding activity. Here, we describe the identification of FAAP24, a protein that targets FANCM to structures that mimic intermediates formed during the replication/repair of damaged DNA. FAAP24 shares homology with the XPF family of flap/fork endonucleases, associates with the C-terminal region of FANCM, and is a component of the FA core complex. FAAP24 is required for normal levels of FANCD2 monoubiquitylation following DNA damage. Depletion of FAAP24 by siRNA results in cellular hypersensitivity to DNA crosslinking agents and chromosomal instability. Our data indicate that the FANCM/FAAP24 complex may play a key role in recruitment of the FA core complex to damaged DNA.
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- Alberto Ciccia
- Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute, Clare Hall Laboratories, South Mimms, Herts, UK
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Clingen PH, Arlett CF, Hartley JA, Parris CN. Chemosensitivity of primary human fibroblasts with defective unhooking of DNA interstrand cross-links. Exp Cell Res 2007; 313:753-60. [DOI: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2006.11.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2006] [Revised: 11/14/2006] [Accepted: 11/15/2006] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Liu X, Lao Y, Yang IY, Hecht SS, Moriya M. Replication-coupled repair of crotonaldehyde/acetaldehyde-induced guanine-guanine interstrand cross-links and their mutagenicity. Biochemistry 2006; 45:12898-905. [PMID: 17042508 PMCID: PMC2518849 DOI: 10.1021/bi060792v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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The repair of acetaldehyde/crotonaldehyde-induced guanine (N2)-guanine (N2) interstrand cross-links (ICLs), 3-(2-deoxyribos-1-yl)-5,6,7,8-(N2-deoxyguanosyl)-6(R or S)-methylpyrimido[1,2-alpha]purine-10(3H)-one, was studied using a shuttle plasmid bearing a site-specific ICL. Since the authentic ICLs can revert to monoadducts, a chemically stable model ICL, 1,3-bis(2'-deoxyguanos-N2-yl)butane derivative, was also employed to probe the ICL repair mechanism. Since the removal of ICL depends on the nucleotide excision repair (NER) mechanism in Escherichia coli, the plasmid bearing the model ICL failed to yield transformants in NER-deficient host cells, proving the stability of this ICL in cells. The authentic ICLs yielded transformants in the NER-deficient hosts; therefore, these transformants are produced by plasmid bearing spontaneously reverted monoadducts. In contrast, in NER-deficient human cells, the model ICL was removed by an NER-independent repair pathway, which is unique to higher eukaryotes. This repair did not associate with a transcriptional event, but with replication. The analysis of repaired molecules revealed that the authentic and model ICLs were repaired mostly (>94%) in an error-free manner in both hosts. The major mutations that were observed were G --> T transversions targeting the cross-linked dG located in the lagging strand template. These results support one of the current models for the mammalian NER-independent ICL repair mechanism, in which a DNA endonuclease(s) unhooks an ICL from the leading strand template at a stalled replication fork site by incising on both sides of the ICL and then translesion synthesis is conducted across the "half-excised" ICL attached to the lagging strand template to restore DNA synthesis.
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- * To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: 631-44-3082. Fax: 631-444-7641. E-mail:
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Wu Y, Zacal NJ, Rainbow AJ, Zhu XD. XPF with mutations in its conserved nuclease domain is defective in DNA repair but functions in TRF2-mediated telomere shortening. DNA Repair (Amst) 2006; 6:157-66. [PMID: 17055345 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2006.09.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2006] [Revised: 09/12/2006] [Accepted: 09/12/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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TRF2, a telomere-binding protein, is a crucial player in telomere length maintenance. Overexpression of TRF2 results in telomere shortening in both normal primary fibroblasts and telomerase-positive cancer cells. TRF2 is found to be associated with XPF-ERCC1, a structure-specific endonuclease involved in nucleotide excision repair, crosslink repair and DNA recombination. XPF-ERCC1 is implicated in TRF2-dependent telomere loss in mouse keratinocytes, however, whether XPF-ERCC1 and its nuclease activity are required for TRF2-mediated telomere shortening in human cells is unknown. Here we report that TRF2-induced telomere shortening is abrogated in human cells deficient in XPF, demonstrating that XPF-ERCC1 is required for TRF2-promoted telomere shortening. To further understand the role of XPF in TRF2-dependent telomere shortening, we generated constructs containing either wild type XPF or mutant XPF proteins carrying amino acid substitutions in its conserved nuclease domain. We show that wild type XPF can complement XPF-deficient cells for repair of UV-induced DNA damage whereas the nuclease-inactive XPF proteins fail to do so, indicating that the nuclease activity of XPF is essential for nucleotide excision repair. In contrast, both wild type XPF and nuclease-inactive XPF proteins, when expressed in XPF-deficient cells, are able to rescue TRF2-mediated telomere shortening. Thus, our results suggest that the function of XPF in TRF2-mediated telomere shortening is conserved between mouse and human. Furthermore, our findings reveal an unanticipated nuclease-independent function of XPF in TRF2-mediated telomere shortening.
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- Yili Wu
- Department of Biology, LSB438, McMaster University, 1280 Main St. West, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S4K1
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Hanada K, Budzowska M, Modesti M, Maas A, Wyman C, Essers J, Kanaar R. The structure-specific endonuclease Mus81-Eme1 promotes conversion of interstrand DNA crosslinks into double-strands breaks. EMBO J 2006; 25:4921-32. [PMID: 17036055 PMCID: PMC1618088 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7601344] [Citation(s) in RCA: 231] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2006] [Accepted: 08/16/2006] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Repair of interstrand crosslinks (ICLs) requires multiple-strand incisions to separate the two covalently attached strands of DNA. It is unclear how these incisions are generated. DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) have been identified as intermediates in ICL repair, but enzymes responsible for producing these intermediates are unknown. Here we show that Mus81, a component of the Mus81-Eme1 structure-specific endonuclease, is involved in generating the ICL-induced DSBs in mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells in S phase. Given the DNA junction cleavage specificity of Mus81-Eme1 in vitro, DNA damage-stalled replication forks are suitable in vivo substrates. Interestingly, generation of DSBs from replication forks stalled due to DNA damage that affects only one of the two DNA strands did not require Mus81. Furthermore, in addition to a physical interaction between Mus81 and the homologous recombination protein Rad54, we show that Mus81(-/-) Rad54(-/-) ES cells were as hypersensitive to ICL agents as Mus81(-/-) cells. We propose that Mus81-Eme1- and Rad54-mediated homologous recombination are involved in the same DNA replication-dependent ICL repair pathway.
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- Katsuhiro Hanada
- Department of Cell Biology & Genetics, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cell Biology & Genetics, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cell Biology & Genetics, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cell Biology & Genetics, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cell Biology & Genetics, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cell Biology & Genetics, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cell Biology & Genetics, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Tripsianes K, Folkers G, Ab E, Das D, Odijk H, Jaspers NGJ, Hoeijmakers JHJ, Kaptein R, Boelens R. The structure of the human ERCC1/XPF interaction domains reveals a complementary role for the two proteins in nucleotide excision repair. Structure 2006; 13:1849-58. [PMID: 16338413 DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2005.08.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2005] [Revised: 08/26/2005] [Accepted: 08/28/2005] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The human ERCC1/XPF complex is a structure-specific endonuclease with defined polarity that participates in multiple DNA repair pathways. We report the heterodimeric structure of the C-terminal domains of both proteins responsible for ERCC1/XPF complex formation. Both domains exhibit the double helix-hairpin-helix motif (HhH)2, and they are related by a pseudo-2-fold symmetry axis. In the XPF domain, the hairpin of the second motif is replaced by a short turn. The ERCC1 domain folds properly only in the presence of the XPF domain, which implies a role for XPF as a scaffold for the folding of ERCC1. The intersubunit interactions are largely hydrophobic in nature. NMR titration data show that only the ERCC1 domain of the ERCC1/XPF complex is involved in DNA binding. On the basis of these findings, we propose a model for the targeting of XPF nuclease via ERCC1-mediated interactions in the context of nucleotide excision repair.
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- Konstantinos Tripsianes
- Department of NMR Spectroscopy, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Lainé JP, Egly JM. Initiation of DNA repair mediated by a stalled RNA polymerase IIO. EMBO J 2006; 25:387-97. [PMID: 16407975 PMCID: PMC1383516 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7600933] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2005] [Accepted: 12/02/2005] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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The transcription-coupled repair (TCR) pathway preferentially repairs DNA damage located in the transcribed strand of an active gene. To gain insight into the coupling mechanism between transcription and repair, we have set up an in vitro system in which we isolate an elongating RNA pol IIO, which is stalled in front of a cisplatin adduct. This immobilized RNA pol IIO is used as 'bait' to sequentially recruit TFIIH, XPA, RPA, XPG and XPF repair factors in an ATP-dependent manner. This RNA pol IIO/repair complex allows the ATP-dependent removal of the lesion only in the presence of CSB, while the latter does not promote dual incision in an XPC-dependent nucleotide excision repair reaction. In parallel to the dual incision, the repair factors also allow the partial release of RNA pol IIO. In this 'minimal TCR system', the RNA pol IIO can effectively act as a loading point for all the repair factors required to eliminate a transcription-blocking lesion.
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- Jean-Philippe Lainé
- Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS/INSERM/ULP, Illkirch Cedex, CU Strasbourg, France
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- Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS/INSERM/ULP, Illkirch Cedex, CU Strasbourg, France
- Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS/INSERM/ULP, BP 163, 67404 Illkirch Cedex, CU Strasbourg, France. Tel.: +33 388 65 34 47; Fax: +33 388 65 32 01; E-mail:
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Wijeratne AJ, Chen C, Zhang W, Timofejeva L, Ma H. The Arabidopsis thaliana PARTING DANCERS gene encoding a novel protein is required for normal meiotic homologous recombination. Mol Biol Cell 2006; 17:1331-43. [PMID: 16394097 PMCID: PMC1382321 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e05-09-0902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Recent studies of meiotic recombination in the budding yeast and the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana indicate that meiotic crossovers (COs) occur through two genetic pathways: the interference-sensitive pathway and the interference-insensitive pathway. However, few genes have been identified in either pathway. Here, we describe the identification of the PARTING DANCERS (PTD) gene, as a gene with an elevated expression level in meiocytes. Analysis of two independently generated transferred DNA insertional lines in PTD showed that the mutants had reduced fertility. Further cytological analysis of male meiosis in the ptd mutants revealed defects in meiosis, including reduced formation of chiasmata, the cytological appearance of COs. The residual chiasmata in the mutants were distributed randomly, indicating that the ptd mutants are defective for CO formation in the interference-sensitive pathway. In addition, transmission electron microscopic analysis of the mutants detected no obvious abnormality of synaptonemal complexes and apparently normal late recombination nodules at the pachytene stage, suggesting that the mutant's defects in bivalent formation were postsynaptic. Comparison to other genes with limited sequence similarity raises the possibility that PTD may present a previously unknown function conserved in divergent eukaryotic organisms.
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- Asela J Wijeratne
- Intercollege Graduate Program in Plant Physiology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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Roberts JA, White MF. DNA end-directed and processive nuclease activities of the archaeal XPF enzyme. Nucleic Acids Res 2005; 33:6662-70. [PMID: 16314325 PMCID: PMC1298930 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki974] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The XPF/Mus81 family of structure-specific nucleases cleaves branched or nicked DNA substrates and are implicated in a wide range of DNA repair and recombination processes. The structure of the crenarchaeal XPF bound to a DNA duplex has revealed a plausible mechanism for DNA binding, involving DNA distortion into upstream and downstream duplexes engaged by the two helix–hairpin–helix domains that form a dimeric structure at the C-terminus of the enzyme. A flexible linker joins these to the dimeric nuclease domain, and a C-terminal motif interacts with the sliding clamp, which is essential for the activity of the enzyme. Here, we demonstrate the importance of the downstream duplex in directing the endonuclease activity of crenarchaeal XPF, which is similar to that of Mus81-Eme1, and suggest a mechanistic basis for this control. Furthermore, our data reveal that the enzyme can digest a nicked DNA strand processively over at least 60 nt in a 3′–5′ direction and can remove varied types of DNA lesions and blocked DNA termini. This in vitro activity suggests a potential role for crenarchaeal XPF in a variety of repair processes for which there are no clear pathways in archaea.
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- To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +44 1334 463432; Fax +44 1334 462595;
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Stavnezer J, Schrader CE. Mismatch repair converts AID-instigated nicks to double-strand breaks for antibody class-switch recombination. Trends Genet 2005; 22:23-8. [PMID: 16309779 DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2005.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2005] [Revised: 09/30/2005] [Accepted: 11/09/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Mismatch repair (MMR) proteins are important for antibody class-switch recombination (CSR), but their roles are unknown. We propose a model for the function of MMR in CSR in which MMR proteins convert single-strand nicks instigated by activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) into the double-strand breaks (DSBs) that are required for CSR. This model does not invoke any novel functions for MMR but simply posits that, owing to numerous single-strand nicks in the switch (S) regions of both DNA strands, when MMR proteins are recruited by U:G mismatches, they excise one strand of DNA and soon reach a nick on the opposite strand. This halts excision activity and creates a DSB. This model explains why B cells that lack either S mu and MSH2 or UNG and MSH2 cannot undergo CSR.
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- Janet Stavnezer
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Program in Immunology and Virology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655-0122, USA.
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Kavli B, Andersen S, Otterlei M, Liabakk NB, Imai K, Fischer A, Durandy A, Krokan HE, Slupphaug G. B cells from hyper-IgM patients carrying UNG mutations lack ability to remove uracil from ssDNA and have elevated genomic uracil. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005; 201:2011-21. [PMID: 15967827 PMCID: PMC2212036 DOI: 10.1084/jem.20050042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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The generation of high-affinity antibodies requires somatic hypermutation (SHM) and class switch recombination (CSR) at the immunoglobulin (Ig) locus. Both processes are triggered by activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) and require UNG-encoded uracil-DNA glycosylase. AID has been suggested to function as an mRNA editing deaminase or as a single-strand DNA deaminase. In the latter model, SHM may result from replicative incorporation of dAMP opposite U or from error-prone repair of U, whereas CSR may be triggered by strand breaks at abasic sites. Here, we demonstrate that extracts of UNG-proficient human B cell lines efficiently remove U from single-stranded DNA. In B cell lines from hyper-IgM patients carrying UNG mutations, the single-strand–specific uracil-DNA glycosylase, SMUG1, cannot complement this function. Moreover, the UNG mutations lead to increased accumulation of genomic uracil. One mutation results in an F251S substitution in the UNG catalytic domain. Although this UNG form was fully active and stable when expressed in Escherichia coli, it was mistargeted to mitochondria and degraded in mammalian cells. Our results may explain why SMUG1 cannot compensate the UNG2 deficiency in human B cells, and are fully consistent with the DNA deamination model that requires active nuclear UNG2. Based on our findings and recent information in the literature, we present an integrated model for the initiating steps in CSR.
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- Bodil Kavli
- Department of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, N-7489 Trondheim, Norway
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Tsodikov OV, Enzlin JH, Schärer OD, Ellenberger T. Crystal structure and DNA binding functions of ERCC1, a subunit of the DNA structure-specific endonuclease XPF-ERCC1. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2005; 102:11236-41. [PMID: 16076955 PMCID: PMC1183572 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0504341102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 134] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2005] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Human XPF-ERCC1 is a DNA endonuclease that incises a damaged DNA strand on the 5' side of a lesion during nucleotide excision repair and has additional role(s) in homologous recombination and DNA interstrand crosslink repair. We show that a truncated form of XPF lacking the N-terminal helicase-like domain in complex with ERCC1 exhibits a structure-specific endonuclease activity with similar specificity to that of full-length XPF-ERCC1. Two domains of ERCC1, a central domain and a C-terminal tandem helix-hairpin-helix (HhH2) dimerization domain, bind to ssDNA. The central domain of ERCC1 binds ssDNA/dsDNA junctions with a defined polarity, preferring a 5' single-stranded overhang. The XPF-ERCC1 HhH2 domain heterodimer contains two independent ssDNA-binding surfaces, which are revealed by a crystal structure of the protein complex. A crystal structure of the central domain of ERCC1 shows its fold is strikingly similar to that of the nuclease domains of the archaeal Mus81/XPF homologs, despite very low sequence homology. A groove lined with basic and aromatic residues on the surface of ERCC1 has apparently been adapted to interact with ssDNA. On the basis of these crystallographic and biochemical studies, we propose a model in which XPF-ERCC1 recognizes a branched DNA substrate by binding the two ssDNA arms with the two HhH2 domains of XPF and ERCC1 and by binding the 5'-ssDNA arm with the central domain of ERCC1.
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- Oleg V Tsodikov
- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Choi YJ, Ryu KS, Ko YM, Chae YK, Pelton JG, Wemmer DE, Choi BS. Biophysical Characterization of the Interaction Domains and Mapping of the Contact Residues in the XPF-ERCC1 Complex. J Biol Chem 2005; 280:28644-52. [PMID: 15932882 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m501083200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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XPF and ERCC1 exist as a heterodimer to be stable and active in cells and catalyze DNA cleavage on the 5'-side of a lesion during nucleotide excision repair. To characterize the specific interaction between XPF and ERCC1, we expressed the human ERCC1 binding domain of XPF (XPF-EB) and the XPF binding domain of ERCC1 (ERCC1-FB) in Escherichia coli. Milligram quantities of a heterodimer were characterized with gel filtration chromatography, an Ni(2+)-NTA binding assay, and analytical ultracentrifugation. Cross-linking experiments at high salt concentrations revealed that XPF interacts with ERCC1 mainly through hydrophobic interactions. XPF-EB was also shown to homodimerize in the absence of ERCC1. NMR cross-saturation methods were applied to map the residues involved in formation of the XPF-EB.XPF-EB homodimer and the XPF-EB.ERCC1-FB heterodimer. Helix H3 and the C-terminal region of XPF-EB were either within or in close proximity to the homodimer interface, whereas the ERCC1-FB binding site of XPF-EB was distributed across helix H1, a small part of H2, H3, and the C-terminal region, most of which exhibited large changes in chemical shift upon ERCC1 binding. The XPF-EB heterodimeric interface is larger than the XPF-EB homodimeric one, which could explain why XPF has a stronger affinity for ERCC1 than for a second molecule of XPF. The XPF binding sites of ERCC1 were located in helices H1 and H3 and in the C-terminal region, similar to the involved surface of XPF. We used cross-saturation data and the crystal structure of related proteins to model the two complexes.
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- Yun-Jeong Choi
- Department of Chemistry and National Creative Research Initiative Center, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 373-1 Guseong-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejon 305-701, Korea
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Panigrahi GB, Lau R, Montgomery SE, Leonard MR, Pearson CE. Slipped (CTG)*(CAG) repeats can be correctly repaired, escape repair or undergo error-prone repair. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2005; 12:654-62. [PMID: 16025129 DOI: 10.1038/nsmb959] [Citation(s) in RCA: 122] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2005] [Accepted: 06/06/2005] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Expansion of (CTG)*(CAG) repeats, the cause of 14 or more diseases, is presumed to arise through escaped repair of slipped DNAs. We report the fidelity of slipped-DNA repair using human cell extracts and DNAs with slip-outs of (CAG)(20) or (CTG)(20). Three outcomes occurred: correct repair, escaped repair and error-prone repair. The choice of repair path depended on nick location and slip-out composition (CAG or CTG). A new form of error-prone repair was detected whereby excess repeats were incompletely excised, constituting a previously unknown path to generate expansions but not deletions. Neuron-like cell extracts yielded each of the three repair outcomes, supporting a role for these processes in (CTG)*(CAG) instability in patient post-mitotic brain cells. Mismatch repair (MMR) and nucleotide excision repair (NER) proteins hMSH2, hMSH3, hMLH1, XPF, XPG or polymerase beta were not required-indicating that their role in instability may precede that of slip-out processing. Differential processing of slipped repeats may explain the differences in mutation patterns between various disease loci or tissues.
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- Gagan B Panigrahi
- Program of Genetics & Genomic Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Avenue, Elm Wing 11-135, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada
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Langston LD, Symington LS. Opposing roles for DNA structure-specific proteins Rad1, Msh2, Msh3, and Sgs1 in yeast gene targeting. EMBO J 2005; 24:2214-23. [PMID: 15920474 PMCID: PMC1150892 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7600698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2005] [Accepted: 05/06/2005] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Targeted gene replacement (TGR) in yeast and mammalian cells is initiated by the two free ends of the linear targeting molecule, which invade their respective homologous sequences in the chromosome, leading to replacement of the targeted locus with a selectable gene from the targeting DNA. To study the postinvasion steps in recombination, we examined the effects of DNA structure-specific proteins on TGR frequency and heteroduplex DNA formation. In strains deleted of RAD1, MSH2, or MSH3, we find that the frequency of TGR is reduced and the mechanism of TGR is altered while the reverse is true for deletion of SGS1, suggesting that Rad1 and Msh2:Msh3 facilitate TGR while Sgs1 opposes it. The altered mechanism of TGR in the absence of Msh2:Msh3 and Rad1 reveals a separate role for these proteins in suppressing an alternate gene replacement pathway in which incorporation of both homology regions from a single strand of targeting DNA into heteroduplex with the targeted locus creates a mismatch between the selectable gene on the targeting DNA and the targeted gene in the chromosome.
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- Lance D Langston
- Integrated Program in Cellular, Molecular, and Biophysical Studies, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Institute of Cancer Research, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Microbiology and Institute of Cancer Research, Columbia University Medical Center, 701 W 168th Street, New York, NY 10032, USA. Tel.: +1 212 305 4793; Fax: +1 212 305 1741; E-mail:
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Deng C, Brown JA, You D, Brown JM. Multiple endonucleases function to repair covalent topoisomerase I complexes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics 2005; 170:591-600. [PMID: 15834151 PMCID: PMC1450417 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.104.028795] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Topoisomerase I plays a vital role in relieving tension on DNA strands generated during replication. However if trapped by camptothecin or other DNA damage, topoisomerase protein complexes may stall replication forks producing DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs). Previous work has demonstrated that two structure-specific nucleases, Rad1 and Mus81, protect cells from camptothecin toxicity. In this study, we used a yeast deletion pool to identify genes that are important for growth in the presence of camptothecin. In addition to genes involved in DSB repair and recombination, we identified four genes with known or implicated nuclease activity, SLX1, SLX4, SAE2, and RAD27, that were also important for protection against camptothecin. Genetic analysis revealed that the flap endonucleases Slx4 and Sae2 represent new pathways parallel to Tdp1, Rad1, and Mus81 that protect cells from camptothecin toxicity. We show further that the function of Sae2 is likely due to its interaction with the endonuclease Mre11 and that the latter acts on an independent branch to repair camptothecin-induced damage. These results suggest that Mre11 (with Sae2) and Slx4 represent two new structure-specific endonucleases that protect cells from trapped topoisomerase by removing topoisomerase-DNA adducts.
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- Changchun Deng
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University School of Medicine, California 94305-5152, USA
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Dip R, Camenisch U, Naegeli H. Mechanisms of DNA damage recognition and strand discrimination in human nucleotide excision repair. DNA Repair (Amst) 2005; 3:1409-23. [PMID: 15380097 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2004.05.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2004] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Using only a limited repertoire of recognition subunits, the nucleotide excision repair (NER) system is able to detect a nearly infinite variety of bulky DNA lesions. This extraordinary substrate versatility has generally been ascribed to an indirect readout mechanism, whereby particular distortions of the double helix, induced by a damaged nucleotide, provide the molecular determinants not only for lesion recognition but also for subsequent verification or demarcation processes. Here, we discuss the evidence in support of a bipartite mechanism of substrate discrimination that is initiated by the detection of thermodynamically unstable base pairs followed by direct localization of the lesion through an enzymatic proofreading activity. This bipartite discrimination mechanism is part of a dynamic reaction cycle that confers high levels of selectivity to avoid futile repair events on undamaged DNA and also protect the intact complementary strand from inappropriate cleavage.
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- Ramiro Dip
- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zürich-Vetsuisse, Winterthurerstrasse 260, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland
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Newman M, Murray-Rust J, Lally J, Rudolf J, Fadden A, Knowles PP, White MF, McDonald NQ. Structure of an XPF endonuclease with and without DNA suggests a model for substrate recognition. EMBO J 2005; 24:895-905. [PMID: 15719018 PMCID: PMC554130 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7600581] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2004] [Accepted: 01/19/2005] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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The XPF/Mus81 structure-specific endonucleases cleave double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) within asymmetric branched DNA substrates and play an essential role in nucleotide excision repair, recombination and genome integrity. We report the structure of an archaeal XPF homodimer alone and bound to dsDNA. Superposition of these structures reveals a large domain movement upon binding DNA, indicating how the (HhH)(2) domain and the nuclease domain are coupled to allow the recognition of double-stranded/single-stranded DNA junctions. We identify two nonequivalent DNA-binding sites and propose a model in which XPF distorts the 3' flap substrate in order to engage both binding sites and promote strand cleavage. The model rationalises published biochemical data and implies a novel role for the ERCC1 subunit of eukaryotic XPF complexes.
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- Matthew Newman
- Structural Biology Laboratory, London Research Institute, Cancer Research UK, London, UK
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- Structural Biology Laboratory, London Research Institute, Cancer Research UK, London, UK
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- Structural Biology Laboratory, London Research Institute, Cancer Research UK, London, UK
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- Centre for Biomolecular Sciences, University of St Andrews, Fife, UK
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- Structural Biology Laboratory, London Research Institute, Cancer Research UK, London, UK
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- Structural Biology Laboratory, London Research Institute, Cancer Research UK, London, UK
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- Centre for Biomolecular Sciences, University of St Andrews, Fife, UK
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- Structural Biology Laboratory, London Research Institute, Cancer Research UK, London, UK
- School of Crystallography, Birkbeck College, London, UK
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Zindy P, Andrieux L, Bonnier D, Musso O, Langouët S, Campion JP, Turlin B, Clément B, Théret N. Upregulation of DNA repair genes in active cirrhosis associated with hepatocellular carcinoma. FEBS Lett 2005; 579:95-9. [PMID: 15620696 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2004.09.092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2004] [Revised: 09/02/2004] [Accepted: 09/07/2004] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Phenotypic changes in injured livers involve complex network of genes whose interplays may lead to fibrosis and cirrhosis, a major risk of hepatocellular carcinoma. Gene expression profiles in fibrotic livers were analyzed by using cDNA microarray, hierarchical clustering and gene ontology. Analyses of a major cluster of upregulated genes in cirrhosis identified a new set of genes involved in DNA repair and damage. The upregulation of DNA repair genes was confirmed by real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction and associated with necroinflammatory activity (P<0.001). Increased DNA repair activity in cirrhosis with inflammatory activity may reflect increased DNA damages as a consequence of chronic liver injury.
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- Pierre Zindy
- INSERM U620, Détoxication et Réparation Tissulaire, Facultés de Médecine et Pharmacie, Université de Rennes I, 2 Av. Léon Bernard, 35043 Rennes Cedex, France
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Prasher JM, Lalai AS, Heijmans-Antonissen C, Ploemacher RE, Hoeijmakers JHJ, Touw IP, Niedernhofer LJ. Reduced hematopoietic reserves in DNA interstrand crosslink repair-deficient Ercc1-/- mice. EMBO J 2005; 24:861-71. [PMID: 15692571 PMCID: PMC549615 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7600542] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2004] [Accepted: 12/10/2004] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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The ERCC1-XPF heterodimer is a structure-specific endonuclease involved in both nucleotide excision repair and interstrand crosslink repair. Mice carrying a genetic defect in Ercc1 display symptoms suggestive of a progressive, segmental progeria, indicating that disruption of one or both of these DNA damage repair pathways accelerates aging. In the hematopoietic system, there are defined age-associated changes for which the cause is unknown. To determine if DNA repair is critical to prolonged hematopoietic function, hematopoiesis in Ercc1-/- mice was compared to that in young and old wild-type mice. Ercc1-/- mice (3-week-old) exhibited multilineage cytopenia and fatty replacement of bone marrow, similar to old wild-type mice. In addition, the proliferative reserves of hematopoietic progenitors and stress erythropoiesis were significantly reduced in Ercc1-/- mice compared to age-matched controls. These features were not seen in nucleotide excision repair-deficient Xpa-/- mice, but are characteristic of Fanconi anemia, a human cancer syndrome caused by defects in interstrand crosslink repair. These data support the hypothesis that spontaneous interstrand crosslink damage contributes to the functional decline of the hematopoietic system associated with aging.
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- Joanna M Prasher
- Department of Hematology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Hematology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Hematology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Hematology, Erasmus Medical Center, PO Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Tel.: +31 1040 87837; Fax: +31 1040 89470; E-mail:
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- Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Yildiz O, Kearney H, Kramer BC, Sekelsky JJ. Mutational analysis of the Drosophila DNA repair and recombination gene mei-9. Genetics 2005; 167:263-73. [PMID: 15166153 PMCID: PMC1470841 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.167.1.263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Drosophila mei-9 is essential for several DNA repair and recombination pathways, including nucleotide excision repair (NER), interstrand crosslink repair, and meiotic recombination. To better understand the role of MEI-9 in these processes, we characterized 10 unique mutant alleles of mei-9. These include a P-element insertion that disrupts repair functions but not the meiotic function; three nonsense mutations, one of which has nearly wild-type levels of protein; three missense mutations, one of which disrupts the meiotic function but not repair functions; two small in-frame deletions; and one frameshift.
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- Ozlem Yildiz
- Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
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Reardon JT, Sancar A. Nucleotide Excision Repair. PROGRESS IN NUCLEIC ACID RESEARCH AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2005; 79:183-235. [PMID: 16096029 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6603(04)79004-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 230] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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- Joyce T Reardon
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
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Etzkorn C, Horton NC. Mechanistic insights from the structures of HincII bound to cognate DNA cleaved from addition of Mg2+ and Mn2+. J Mol Biol 2004; 343:833-49. [PMID: 15476804 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2004.08.082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2004] [Revised: 08/24/2004] [Accepted: 08/27/2004] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The three-dimensional X-ray crystal structures of HincII bound to cognate DNA containing GTCGAC and Mn(2+) or Mg(2+), at 2.50A and 2.95A resolution, respectively, are presented. In both structures, the DNA is found cleaved, and the positions of the active-site groups, cleaved phosphate group, and 3' oxygen atom of the leaving group are in very similar positions. Two highly occupied Mn(2+) positions are found in each active site of the four crystallographically independent subunit copies in the HincII/DNA/Mn(2+) structure. The manganese ion closest to the previously identified single Ca(2+) position of HincII is shifted 1.7A and has lost direct ligation to the active-site aspartate residue, Asp127. A Mn(2+)-ligated water molecule in a position analogous to that seen in the HincII/DNA/Ca(2+) structure, and proposed to be the attacking nucleophile, is beyond hydrogen bonding distance from the active-site lysine residue, Lys129, but remains within hydrogen bonding distance from the proRp oxygen atom of the phosphate group 3' to the scissile phosphate group. In addition, the position of the cleaved phosphate group is on the opposite side of the axis connecting the two metal ions relative to that found in the BamHI/product DNA/Mn(2+) structure. Mechanistic implications are discussed, and a model for the two-metal-ion mechanism of DNA cleavage by HincII is proposed.
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- Christopher Etzkorn
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
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Roberts JA, White MF. An archaeal endonuclease displays key properties of both eukaryal XPF-ERCC1 and Mus81. J Biol Chem 2004; 280:5924-8. [PMID: 15591065 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m412766200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Structure-specific nucleases of the XPF/Mus81 family function in several DNA recombination and repair pathways in eukaryotes, cleaving a variety of flap and branched DNA substrates. Mus81 and XPF are clearly related evolutionarily but differ markedly in their substrate specificity and protein partners. We demonstrate that the XPF endonuclease from Sulfolobus solfataricus, which is dependent on the sliding clamp proliferating cell nuclear antigen for activity, represents an ancestral form of the XPF/Mus81 family, with key properties in common with both enzymes. The archaeal XPF has a domain organization and sequence preference very similar to eukaryal XPF-ERCC1. However, the archaeal enzyme has a pronounced preference for Mus81-type substrates such as D loops, nicked four-way junctions, and 3' flaps. These all have in common a 5'-DNA end next to the cleavage site. The availability of the sliding clamp proliferating cell nuclear antigen may dictate the activity of Sulfolobus XPF in vivo.
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- Jennifer A Roberts
- Centre for Biomolecular Sciences, University of St. Andrews, KY16 9ST, Scotland, UK
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Etzkorn C, Horton NC. Ca2+ binding in the active site of HincII: implications for the catalytic mechanism. Biochemistry 2004; 43:13256-70. [PMID: 15491133 DOI: 10.1021/bi0490082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The 2.8 A crystal structure of the type II restriction endonuclease HincII bound to Ca(2+) and cognate DNA containing GTCGAC is presented. The DNA is uncleaved, and one calcium ion is bound per active site, in a position previously described as site I in the related blunt cutting type II restriction endonuclease EcoRV [Horton, N. C., Newberry, K. J., and Perona, J. J. (1998) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 95 (23), 13489-13494], as well as that found in other related enzymes. Unlike the site I metal in EcoRV, but similar to that of PvuII, NgoMIV, BamHI, BglII, and BglI, the observed calcium cation is directly ligated to the pro-S(p) oxygen of the scissile phosphate. A calcium ion-ligated water molecule is well positioned to act as the nucleophile in the phosphodiester bond cleavage reaction, and is within hydrogen bonding distance of the conserved active site lysine (Lys 129), as well as the pro-R(p) oxygen of the phosphate group 3' of the scissile phosphate, suggesting possible roles for these groups in the catalytic mechanism. Kinetic data consistent with an important role for the 3'-phosphate group in DNA cleavage by HincII are presented. The previously observed sodium ion [Horton, N. C., Dorner, L. F., and Perona, J. J. (2002) Nat. Struct. Biol. 9, 42-47] persists in the active sites of the Ca(2+)-bound structure; however, kinetic data show little effect on the single-turnover rate of DNA cleavage in the absence of Na(+) ions.
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- Christopher Etzkorn
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
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Middleton CL, Parker JL, Richard DJ, White MF, Bond CS. Substrate recognition and catalysis by the Holliday junction resolving enzyme Hje. Nucleic Acids Res 2004; 32:5442-51. [PMID: 15479781 PMCID: PMC524281 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Two archaeal Holliday junction resolving enzymes, Holliday junction cleavage (Hjc) and Holliday junction endonuclease (Hje), have been characterized. Both are members of a nuclease superfamily that includes the type II restriction enzymes, although their DNA cleaving activity is highly specific for four-way junction structure and not nucleic acid sequence. Despite 28% sequence identity, Hje and Hjc cleave junctions with distinct cutting patterns--they cut different strands of a four-way junction, at different distances from the junction centre. We report the high-resolution crystal structure of Hje from Sulfolobus solfataricus. The structure provides a basis to explain the differences in substrate specificity of Hje and Hjc, which result from changes in dimer organization, and suggests a viral origin for the Hje gene. Structural and biochemical data support the modelling of an Hje:DNA junction complex, highlighting a flexible loop that interacts intimately with the junction centre. A highly conserved serine residue on this loop is shown to be essential for the enzyme's activity, suggesting a novel variation of the nuclease active site. The loop may act as a conformational switch, ensuring that the active site is completed only on binding a four-way junction, thus explaining the exquisite specificity of these enzymes.
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- Claire L Middleton
- Division of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 5EH, UK
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Dubest S, Gallego ME, White CI. Roles of the AtErcc1 protein in recombination. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2004; 39:334-342. [PMID: 15255863 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2004.02136.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Summary Atercc1, the recently characterized Arabidopsis homologue of the Ercc1 (Rad10) protein, is a key component of nucleotide excision repair as part of a structure-specific endonuclease which cleaves 5' to UV photoproducts in DNA. This endonuclease also acts in removing overhanging non-homologous DNA 'tails' in synapsed recombination intermediates. We have previously demonstrated this recombination function of the Arabidopsis thaliana Xpf homologue, AtRad1p, and show here that recombination between plasmid DNA substrates containing non-homologous tails is specifically reduced 12-fold in atercc1 mutant plants compared with the wild type. Furthermore, using chromosomal tandem-repeat recombination substrates, we show that AtErcc1p is required for bleomycin induction of mitotic recombination in the chromosomal context. This work thus confirms both the specific and general recombination roles of the Atercc1 protein in recombination in Arabidopsis.
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- Sandra Dubest
- UMR 6547 CNRS, Université Blaise Pascal, 24, ave. des Landais, 63177 Aubière, France
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Schrader CE, Vardo J, Linehan E, Twarog MZ, Niedernhofer LJ, Hoeijmakers JHJ, Stavnezer J. Deletion of the nucleotide excision repair gene Ercc1 reduces immunoglobulin class switching and alters mutations near switch recombination junctions. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 200:321-30. [PMID: 15280420 PMCID: PMC2211985 DOI: 10.1084/jem.20040052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The structure-specific endonuclease ERCC1-XPF is an essential component of the nucleotide excision DNA repair pathway. ERCC1-XPF nicks double-stranded DNA immediately adjacent to 3′ single-strand regions. Substrates include DNA bubbles and flaps. Furthermore, ERCC1 interacts with Msh2, a mismatch repair (MMR) protein involved in class switch recombination (CSR). Therefore, ERCC1-XPF has abilities that might be useful for antibody CSR. We tested whether ERCC1 is involved in CSR and found that Ercc1−/− splenic B cells show moderately reduced CSR in vitro, demonstrating that ERCC1-XPF participates in, but is not required for, CSR. To investigate the role of ERCC1 in CSR, the nucleotide sequences of switch (S) regions were determined. The mutation frequency in germline Sμ segments and recombined Sμ-Sγ3 segments cloned from Ercc1−/− splenic B cells induced to switch in culture was identical to that of wild-type (WT) littermates. However, Ercc1−/− cells show increased targeting of the mutations to G:C bp in RGYW/WRCY hotspots and mutations occur at sites more distant from the S–S junctions compared with WT mice. The results indicate that ERCC1 is not epistatic with MMR and suggest that ERCC1 might be involved in processing or repair of DNA lesions in S regions during CSR.
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- Carol E Schrader
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 55 Lake Ave. North, Worcester, MA 01655, USA
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Niedernhofer LJ, Odijk H, Budzowska M, van Drunen E, Maas A, Theil AF, de Wit J, Jaspers NGJ, Beverloo HB, Hoeijmakers JHJ, Kanaar R. The structure-specific endonuclease Ercc1-Xpf is required to resolve DNA interstrand cross-link-induced double-strand breaks. Mol Cell Biol 2004; 24:5776-87. [PMID: 15199134 PMCID: PMC480908 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.24.13.5776-5787.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 391] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2003] [Revised: 01/07/2004] [Accepted: 04/06/2004] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Interstrand cross-links (ICLs) are an extremely toxic class of DNA damage incurred during normal metabolism or cancer chemotherapy. ICLs covalently tether both strands of duplex DNA, preventing the strand unwinding that is essential for polymerase access. The mechanism of ICL repair in mammalian cells is poorly understood. However, genetic data implicate the Ercc1-Xpf endonuclease and proteins required for homologous recombination-mediated double-strand break (DSB) repair. To examine the role of Ercc1-Xpf in ICL repair, we monitored the phosphorylation of histone variant H2AX (gamma-H2AX). The phosphoprotein accumulates at DSBs, forming foci that can be detected by immunostaining. Treatment of wild-type cells with mitomycin C (MMC) induced gamma-H2AX foci and increased the amount of DSBs detected by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. Surprisingly, gamma-H2AX foci were also induced in Ercc1(-/-) cells by MMC treatment. Thus, DSBs occur after cross-link damage via an Ercc1-independent mechanism. Instead, ICL-induced DSB formation required cell cycle progression into S phase, suggesting that DSBs are an intermediate of ICL repair that form during DNA replication. In Ercc1(-/-) cells, MMC-induced gamma-H2AX foci persisted at least 48 h longer than in wild-type cells, demonstrating that Ercc1 is required for the resolution of cross-link-induced DSBs. MMC triggered sister chromatid exchanges in wild-type cells but chromatid fusions in Ercc1(-/-) and Xpf mutant cells, indicating that in their absence, repair of DSBs is prevented. Collectively, these data support a role for Ercc1-Xpf in processing ICL-induced DSBs so that these cytotoxic intermediates can be repaired by homologous recombination.
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- Laura J Niedernhofer
- Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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Horton NC, Perona JJ. DNA Cleavage byEcoRV Endonuclease: Two Metal Ions in Three Metal Ion Binding Sites†. Biochemistry 2004; 43:6841-57. [PMID: 15170321 DOI: 10.1021/bi0499056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Four crystal structures of EcoRV endonuclease mutants K92A and K38A provide new insight into the mechanism of DNA bending and the structural basis for metal-dependent phosphodiester bond cleavage. The removal of a key active site positive charge in the uncleaved K92A-DNA-M(2+) substrate complex results in binding of a sodium ion in the position of the amine nitrogen, suggesting a key role for a positive charge at this position in stabilizing the sharp DNA bend prior to cleavage. By contrast, two structures of K38A cocrystallized with DNA and Mn(2+) ions in different lattice environments reveal cleaved product complexes featuring a common, novel conformation of the scissile phosphate group as compared to all previous EcoRV structures. In these structures, the released 5'-phosphate and 3'-OH groups remain in close juxtaposition with each other and with two Mn(2+) ions that bridge the conserved active site carboxylates. The scissile phosphates are found midway between their positions in the prereactive substrate and postreactive product complexes of the wild-type enzyme. Mn(2+) ions occupy two of the three sites previously described in the prereactive complexes and are plausibly positioned to generate the nucleophilic hydroxide ion, to compensate for the incipient additional negative charge in the transition state, and to ionize a second water for protonation of the 3'-oxyanion. Reconciliation of these findings with earlier X-ray and fluorescence studies suggests a novel mechanism in which a single initially bound metal ion in a third distinct site undergoes a shift in position together with movement of the scissile phosphate deeper into the active site cleft. This reconfigures the local environment to permit binding of the second metal ion followed by movement toward the pentacovalent transition state. The new mechanism suggested here embodies key features of previously proposed two- and three-metal catalytic models, and offers a view of the stereochemical pathway that integrates much of the copious structural and functional data that are available from exhaustive studies in many laboratories.
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- Nancy C Horton
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Interdepartmental Program in Biomolecular Science and Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106-9510, USA
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Tapias A, Auriol J, Forget D, Enzlin JH, Schärer OD, Coin F, Coulombe B, Egly JM. Ordered conformational changes in damaged DNA induced by nucleotide excision repair factors. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:19074-83. [PMID: 14981083 PMCID: PMC4494833 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m312611200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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In response to genotoxic attacks, cells activate sophisticated DNA repair pathways such as nucleotide excision repair (NER), which consists of damage removal via dual incision and DNA resynthesis. Using permanganate footprinting as well as highly purified factors, we show that NER is a dynamic process that takes place in a number of successive steps during which the DNA is remodeled around the lesion in response to the various NER factors. XPC/HR23B first recognizes the damaged structure and initiates the opening of the helix from position -3 to +6. TFIIH is then recruited and, in the presence of ATP, extends the opening from position -6 to +6; it also displaces XPC downstream from the lesion, thereby providing the topological structure for recruiting XPA and RPA, which will enlarge the opening. Once targeted by XPG, the damaged DNA is further melted from position -19 to +8. XPG and XPF/ERCC1 endonucleases then cut the damaged DNA at the limit of the opened structure that was previously "labeled" by the positioning of XPC/HR23B and TFIIH.
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- Angels Tapias
- Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS/INSERM/ULP, BP 10142, 67404 Illkirch Cedex, Communauté Urbaine de Strasbourg, France
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- Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS/INSERM/ULP, BP 10142, 67404 Illkirch Cedex, Communauté Urbaine de Strasbourg, France
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- Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal, Montréal, H2W 1R7, Canada
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- Institute of Molecular Cancer Research, University of Zürich, August Forel Strasse 7, CH-8008 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Molecular Cancer Research, University of Zürich, August Forel Strasse 7, CH-8008 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS/INSERM/ULP, BP 10142, 67404 Illkirch Cedex, Communauté Urbaine de Strasbourg, France
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- Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal, Montréal, H2W 1R7, Canada
- To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel.: 33-38-865-3447; Fax: 33-38-865-3201; or
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- Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS/INSERM/ULP, BP 10142, 67404 Illkirch Cedex, Communauté Urbaine de Strasbourg, France
- To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel.: 33-38-865-3447; Fax: 33-38-865-3201; or
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Zhu XD, Niedernhofer L, Kuster B, Mann M, Hoeijmakers JHJ, de Lange T. ERCC1/XPF removes the 3' overhang from uncapped telomeres and represses formation of telomeric DNA-containing double minute chromosomes. Mol Cell 2004; 12:1489-98. [PMID: 14690602 DOI: 10.1016/s1097-2765(03)00478-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 294] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Human telomeres are protected by TRF2. Inhibition of this telomeric protein results in partial loss of the telomeric 3' overhang and chromosome end fusions formed through nonhomologous end-joining (NHEJ). Here we report that ERCC1/XPF-deficient cells retained the telomeric overhang after TRF2 inhibition, identifying this nucleotide excision repair endonuclease as the culprit in overhang removal. Furthermore, these cells did not accumulate telomere fusions, suggesting that overhang processing is a prerequisite for NHEJ of telomeres. ERCC1/XPF was also identified as a component of the telomeric TRF2 complex. ERCC1/XPF-deficient mouse cells had a novel telomere phenotype, characterized by Telomeric DNA-containing Double Minute chromosomes (TDMs). We speculate that TDMs are formed through the recombination of telomeres with interstitial telomere-related sequences and that ERCC1/XPF functions to repress this process. Collectively, these data reveal an unanticipated involvement of the ERCC1/XPF NER endonuclease in the regulation of telomere integrity and establish that TRF2 prevents NHEJ at telomeres through protection of the telomeric overhang from ERCC1/XPF.
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- Xu-Dong Zhu
- The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021, USA
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Motycka TA, Bessho T, Post SM, Sung P, Tomkinson AE. Physical and functional interaction between the XPF/ERCC1 endonuclease and hRad52. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:13634-9. [PMID: 14734547 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m313779200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The XPF/ERCC1 heterodimer is a DNA structure-specific endonuclease that participates in nucleotide excision repair and homology-dependent recombination reactions, including DNA single strand annealing and gene targeting. Here we show that XPF/ERCC1 is stably associated with hRad52, a recombinational repair protein, in human cell-free extracts and that these factors interact directly via the N-terminal domain of hRad52 and the XPF protein. Complex formation between hRad52 and XPF/ERCC1 concomitantly stimulates the DNA structure-specific endonuclease activity of XPF/ERCC1 and attenuates the DNA strand annealing activity of hRad52. Our results reveal a novel role for hRad52 as a subunit of a DNA structure-specific endonuclease and are congruent with evidence implicating both hRad52 and XPF/ERCC1 in a number of homologous recombination reactions. We propose that the ternary complex of hRad52 and XPF/ERCC1 is the active species that processes recombination intermediates generated during the repair of DNA double strand breaks and in homology-dependent gene targeting events.
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- Teresa A Motycka
- Molecular Medicine Graduate Program, Institute of Biotechnology, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas 78245, USA
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Heyer WD, Ehmsen KT, Solinger JA. Holliday junctions in the eukaryotic nucleus: resolution in sight? Trends Biochem Sci 2003; 28:548-57. [PMID: 14559184 DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2003.08.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The Holliday junction is a key recombination intermediate whose resolution generates crossovers. Interplay between recombination, repair and replication has moved the Holliday junction to the center stage of nuclear DNA metabolism. Holliday junction resolvases in the eukaryotic nucleus have long eluded identification. The endonucleases Mus81/Mms4-Eme1 and XPF-MEI-9/MUS312 are structurally related to the archaeal resolvase Hjc and were found to be involved in crossover formation in budding yeast and flies, respectively. Although these endonucleases might represent one class of eukaryotic resolvases, their substrate preference opens up the possibility that junctions other than classical Holliday junctions might contribute to crossovers. Holliday junction resolution to non-crossover products can also be achieved topologically, for example, by the action of RecQ-like DNA helicases combined with topoisomerase III.
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- Wolf Dietrich Heyer
- Division of Biological Sciences, Section of Microbiology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616-8665, USA.
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Gaillard PHL, Noguchi E, Shanahan P, Russell P. The endogenous Mus81-Eme1 complex resolves Holliday junctions by a nick and counternick mechanism. Mol Cell 2003; 12:747-59. [PMID: 14527419 DOI: 10.1016/s1097-2765(03)00342-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 142] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Functional studies strongly suggest that the Mus81-Eme1 complex resolves Holliday junctions (HJs) in fission yeast, but in vitro it preferentially cleaves flexible three-way branched structures that model replication forks or 3' flaps. Here we report that a nicked HJ is the preferred substrate of endogenous and recombinant Mus81-Eme1. Cleavage occurs specifically on the strand that opposes the nick, resulting in resolution of the structure into linear duplex products. Resolving cuts made by the endogenous Mus81-Eme1 complex on an intact HJ are quasi-simultaneous, indicating that Mus81-Eme1 resolves HJs by a nick and counternick mechanism, with a large rate enhancement of the second cut arising from the flexible nature of the nicked HJ intermediate. Recombinant Mus81-Eme1 is ineffective at making the first cut. We also report that HJs accumulate in a DNA polymerase alpha mutant that lacks Mus81, providing further evidence that the Mus81-Eme1 complex targets HJs in vivo.
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- Pierre-Henri L Gaillard
- Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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Ciccia A, Constantinou A, West SC. Identification and characterization of the human mus81-eme1 endonuclease. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:25172-8. [PMID: 12721304 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m302882200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 165] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The faithful and complete replication of DNA is necessary for the maintenance of genome stability. It is known, however, that replication forks stall at lesions in the DNA template and need to be processed so that replication restart can occur. In fission yeast, the Mus81-Eme1 endonuclease complex (Mus81-Mms4 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae) has been implicated in the processing of aberrant replication intermediates. In this report, we identify the human homolog of the Schizosaccharomyces pombe EME1 gene and have purified the human Mus81-Eme1 heterodimer. We show that Mus81-Eme1 is an endonuclease that exhibits a high specificity for synthetic replication fork structures and 3'-flaps in vitro. The nuclease cleaves Holliday junctions inefficiently ( approximately 75-fold less than flap or fork structures), although cleavage can be increased 6-fold by the presence of homologous sequences previously shown to permit base pair "breathing." We conclude that human Mus81-Eme1 is a flap/fork endonuclease that is likely to play a role in the processing of stalled replication fork intermediates.
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- Alberto Ciccia
- Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute, Clare Hall Laboratories, South Mimms, Hertfordshire EN6 3LD, United Kingdom
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Bastin-Shanower SA, Fricke WM, Mullen JR, Brill SJ. The mechanism of Mus81-Mms4 cleavage site selection distinguishes it from the homologous endonuclease Rad1-Rad10. Mol Cell Biol 2003; 23:3487-96. [PMID: 12724407 PMCID: PMC164751 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.23.10.3487-3496.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 148] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Mus81-Mms4 and Rad1-Rad10 are homologous structure-specific endonucleases that cleave 3' branches from distinct substrates and are required for replication fork stability and nucleotide excision repair, respectively, in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We explored the basis of this biochemical and genetic specificity. The Mus81-Mms4 cleavage site, a nick 5 nucleotides (nt) 5' of the flap, is determined not by the branch point, like Rad1-Rad10, but by the 5' end of the DNA strand at the flap junction. As a result, the endonucleases show inverse substrate specificity; substrates lacking a 5' end within 4 nt of the flap are cleaved poorly by Mus81-Mms4 but are cleaved well by Rad1-10. Genetically, we show that both mus81 and sgs1 mutants are sensitive to camptothecin-induced DNA damage. Further, mus81 sgs1 synthetic lethality requires homologous recombination, as does suppression of mutant phenotypes by RusA expression. These data are most easily explained by a model in which the in vivo substrate of Mus81-Mms4 and Sgs1-Top3 is a 3' flap recombination intermediate downstream of replication fork collapse.
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- Suzanne A Bastin-Shanower
- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, CABM, Rutgers University, 679 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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Meservy JL, Sargent RG, Iyer RR, Chan F, McKenzie GJ, Wells RD, Wilson JH. Long CTG tracts from the myotonic dystrophy gene induce deletions and rearrangements during recombination at the APRT locus in CHO cells. Mol Cell Biol 2003; 23:3152-62. [PMID: 12697816 PMCID: PMC153196 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.23.9.3152-3162.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Expansion of CTG triplet repeats in the 3' untranslated region of the DMPK gene causes the autosomal dominant disorder myotonic dystrophy. Instability of CTG repeats is thought to arise from their capacity to form hairpin DNA structures. How these structures interact with various aspects of DNA metabolism has been studied intensely for Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae but is relatively uncharacterized in mammalian cells. To examine the stability of (CTG)(17), (CTG)(98), and (CTG)(183) repeats during homologous recombination, we placed them in the second intron of one copy of a tandemly duplicated pair of APRT genes. Cells selected for homologous recombination between the two copies of the APRT gene displayed distinctive patterns of change. Among recombinants from cells with (CTG)(98) and (CTG)(183), 5% had lost large numbers of repeats and 10% had suffered rearrangements, a frequency more than 50-fold above normal levels. Analysis of individual rearrangements confirmed the involvement of the CTG repeats. Similar changes were not observed in proliferating (CTG)(98) and (CTG)(183) cells that were not recombinant at APRT. Instead, they displayed high frequencies of small changes in repeat number. The (CTG)(17) repeats were stable in all assays. These studies indicate that homologous recombination strongly destabilizes long tracts of CTG repeats.
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- James L Meservy
- Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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Nishino T, Komori K, Ishino Y, Morikawa K. X-ray and biochemical anatomy of an archaeal XPF/Rad1/Mus81 family nuclease: similarity between its endonuclease domain and restriction enzymes. Structure 2003; 11:445-57. [PMID: 12679022 DOI: 10.1016/s0969-2126(03)00046-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The XPF/Rad1/Mus81-dependent nuclease family specifically cleaves branched structures generated during DNA repair, replication, and recombination, and is essential for maintaining genome stability. Here, we report the domain organization of an archaeal homolog (Hef) of this family and the X-ray crystal structure of the middle domain, with the nuclease activity. The nuclease domain architecture exhibits remarkable similarity to those of restriction endonucleases, including the correspondence of the GDX(n)ERKX(3)D signature motif in Hef to the PDX(n)(E/D)XK motif in restriction enzymes. This structural study also suggests that the XPF/Rad1/Mus81/ERCC1 proteins form a dimer through each interface of the nuclease domain and the helix-hairpin-helix domain. Simultaneous disruptions of both interfaces result in their dissociation into separate monomers, with strikingly reduced endonuclease activities.
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- Tatsuya Nishino
- Department of Structural Biology, Biomolecular Engineering Research Institute (BERI), 6-2-3 Furuedai, Suita, 565-0874, Osaka, Japan
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Archaea share many similarities with eukarya in their information processing pathways and have proven to be a useful model for studies of DNA replication and transcription, but DNA repair pathways are not well understood in archaea. Nucleotide Excision Repair (NER) deals with many bulky DNA lesions and involves over 30 proteins in eukarya. Archaeal NER has not been characterized biochemically, but homologues of the human repair nucleases XPF and XPG have been identified by homology searches. Crenarchaeal XPF proteins have a simplified domain structure, consisting of the C-terminal nuclease domain conserved in XPF and Mus81 but lacking the N-terminal 'helicase' domain that is found in eukaryal and euryarchaeal sequences. Unexpectedly, Sulfolobus XPF is only active in the presence of the sliding clamp PCNA, which is a heterotrimer in this organism. Interactions with two of the three subunits of PCNA are mediated via a C-terminal interaction motif. The PCNA-XPF complex acts as a structure-specific nuclease on a similar range of DNA flap, bubble and junction substrates as the human protein, suggesting a fundamental conservation through billions of years of evolution.
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- J A Roberts
- Centre for Biomolecular Science, St Andrews University, North Haugh, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9ST, UK
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Sridharan D, Brown M, Lambert WC, McMahon LW, Lambert MW. Nonerythroid alphaII spectrin is required for recruitment of FANCA and XPF to nuclear foci induced by DNA interstrand cross-links. J Cell Sci 2003; 116:823-35. [PMID: 12571280 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.00294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The events responsible for repair of DNA interstrand cross-links in mammalian cells, the proteins involved and their interactions with each other are poorly understood. The present study demonstrates that the structural protein nonerythroid alpha spectrin (alphaSpIISigma*), present in normal human cell nuclei, plays an important role in repair of DNA interstrand cross-links. These results show that alphaSpIISigma* relocalizes to nuclear foci after damage of normal human cells with the DNA interstrand cross-linking agent 8-methoxypsoralen plus ultraviolet A (UVA) light and that FANCA and the known DNA repair protein XPF localize to the same nuclear foci. That alphaSpIISigma* is essential for this re-localization is demonstrated by the finding that in cells from patients with Fanconi anemia complementation group A (FA-A), which have decreased ability to repair DNA interstrand cross-links and decreased levels of alphaSpIISigma*, there is a significant reduction in formation of damage-induced XPF as well as alphaSpIISigma* nuclear foci, even though levels of XPF are normal in these cells. In corrected FA-A cells, in which levels of alphaSpIISigma* are restored to normal, numbers of damage-induced nuclear foci are also returned to normal. Co-immunoprecipitation studies show that alphaSpIISigma*, FANCA and XPF co-immunoprecipitate with each other from normal human nuclear proteins. These results demonstrate that alphaSpIISigma*, FANCA and XPF interact with each other in the nucleus and indicate that there is a close functional relationship between these proteins. These studies suggest that an important role for alphaSpIISigma* in the nucleus is to act as a scaffold, aiding in recruitment and alignment of repair proteins at sites of damage.
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- Deepa Sridharan
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UMDNJ - New Jersey Medical School and the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Newark, NJ 07103, USA
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De Silva IU, McHugh PJ, Clingen PH, Hartley JA. Defects in interstrand cross-link uncoupling do not account for the extreme sensitivity of ERCC1 and XPF cells to cisplatin. Nucleic Acids Res 2002; 30:3848-56. [PMID: 12202770 PMCID: PMC137407 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkf479] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2002] [Revised: 07/01/2002] [Accepted: 07/01/2002] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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The anticancer drug cisplatin reacts with DNA leading to the formation of interstrand and intrastrand cross-links that are the critical cytotoxic lesions. In contrast to cells bearing mutations in other components of the nucleotide excision repair apparatus (XPB, XPD, XPG and CSB), cells defective for the ERCC1-XPF structure-specific nuclease are highly sensitive to cisplatin. To determine if the extreme sensitivity of XPF and ERCC1 cells to cisplatin results from specific defects in the repair of either intrastrand or interstrand cross-links we measured the elimination of both lesions in a range of nucleotide excision repair Chinese hamster mutant cell lines, including XPF- and ERCC1-defective cells. Compared to the parental, repair-proficient cell line all the mutants tested were defective in the elimination of both classes of adduct despite their very different levels of increased sensitivity. Consequently, there is no clear relationship between initial incisions at interstrand cross-links or removal of intrastrand adducts and cellular sensitivity. These results demonstrate that the high cisplatin sensitivity of ERCC1 and XPF cells likely results from a defect other than in excision repair. In contrast to other conventional DNA cross-linking agents, we found that the repair of cisplatin adducts does not involve the formation of DNA double-strand breaks. Surprisingly, XRCC2 and XRCC3 cells are defective in the uncoupling step of cisplatin interstrand cross-link repair, suggesting that homologous recombination might be initiated prior to excision of this type of cross-link.
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- Inusha U De Silva
- Cancer Research UK Drug-DNA Interactions Research Group, Department of Oncology, Royal Free and University College Medical School, 91 Riding House Street, London W1W 7BS, UK
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Komori K, Fujikane R, Shinagawa H, Ishino Y. Novel endonuclease in Archaea cleaving DNA with various branched structure. Genes Genet Syst 2002; 77:227-41. [PMID: 12419895 DOI: 10.1266/ggs.77.227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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We identified a novel structure-specific endonuclease in Pyrococcus furiosus. This nuclease contains two distinct domains, which are similar to the DEAH helicase family at the N-terminal two-third and the XPF endonuclease superfamily at the C-terminal one-third of the protein, respectively. The C-terminal domain has an endonuclease activity cleaving the DNA strand at the 5'-side of nicked or flapped positions in the duplex DNA. The nuclease also incises in the proximity of the 5'-side of a branch point in the template strand for leading synthesis in the fork-structured DNA. The N-terminal helicase may work cooperatively to change the fork structure suitable for cleavage by the C-terminal endonuclease. This protein, designated as Hef (helicase-associated endonuclease for fork-structured DNA), may be a prototypical enzyme for resolving stalled forks during DNA replication, as well as working at nucleotide excision repair.
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- Kayoko Komori
- Department of Molecular Biology, Biomolecular Engineering Research Institute, Suita, Osaka, Japan
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Chipchase MD, Melton DW. The formation of UV-induced chromosome aberrations involves ERCC1 and XPF but not other nucleotide excision repair genes. DNA Repair (Amst) 2002; 1:335-40. [PMID: 12509251 DOI: 10.1016/s1568-7864(02)00010-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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ERCC1-XPF, through its role in nucleotide excision repair (NER), is essential for the repair of DNA damage caused by UV light. ERCC1-XPF is also involved in recombinational repair processes distinct from NER. In rodent cells chromosome aberrations are a common consequence of UV irradiation. We have previously shown that ERCC1-deficient cells have a lower ratio of chromatid exchanges to breaks than wild type cells. We have now confirmed this result and have shown that XPF-deficient cells also have a lower ratio than wild type. However, cells deficient in the other NER genes, XPD, XPB and XPG, all have the same ratio of exchanges to breaks as wild type. This implies that ERCC1-XPF, but not other NER proteins, is involved in the formation of UV-induced chromosome aberrations, presumably through the role of ERCC1-XPF in recombinational repair pathways rather than NER. We suggest that ERCC1-XPF may be involved in the bypass/repair of DNA damage in replicating DNA by an exchange mechanism involving single strand annealing between non-homologous chromosomes. This mechanism would rely on the ability of ERCC1-XPF to trim non-homologous 3' tails.
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- Michael D Chipchase
- Sir Alastair Currie Cancer Research UK Laboratories, Molecular Medicine Centre, Western General Hospital, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, UK
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