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Yilmaz S, Batuman O. Development of a reverse transcription recombinase polymerase amplification combined with lateral flow assay for equipment-free on-site field detection of tomato chlorotic spot virus. Virol J 2023; 20:136. [PMID: 37349823 PMCID: PMC10288760 DOI: 10.1186/s12985-023-02097-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2023] [Accepted: 06/11/2023] [Indexed: 06/24/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Tomato chlorotic spot virus (TCSV) is an economically important, thrips-transmitted, emerging member of the Orthotospovirus genus that causes significant yield loss mainly in tomatoes, but also in other vegetable and ornamental crops. Disease management of this pathogen is often challenging due to the limited availability of natural host resistance genes, the broad host range of TCSV, and the wide distribution of its thrips vector. Point-of-care detection of TCSV with a rapid, equipment-free, portable, sensitive, and species-specific diagnostic technique can provide prompt response outside the laboratory, which is critical for preventing disease progression and further spread of the pathogen. Current diagnostic techniques require either laboratory-dependent or portable electronic equipment and are relatively time-consuming and costly. RESULTS In this study, we developed a novel technique for reverse-transcription recombinase polymerase amplification combined with lateral flow assay (RT-RPA-LFA) to achieve a faster and equipment-free point-of-care detection of TCSV. The RPA reaction tubes containing crude RNA are incubated in the hand palm to obtain sufficient heat (∼36 °C) for the amplification without the need for equipment. Body-heat mediated RT-RPA-LFA is highly TCSV-specific with a detection limit as low as ∼6 pg/μl of total RNA from TCSV-infected tomato plants. The assay can be performed in 15 min in the field. CONCLUSION To the best of our knowledge, this is the first equipment-free, body-heat-mediated RT-RPA-LFA technique developed to detect TCSV. Our new system offers a time-saving advantage for the sensitive and specific diagnostic of TCSV that local growers and small nurseries in low-resource settings can use without skilled personnel.
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- Salih Yilmaz
- Department of Plant Pathology, Southwest Florida Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Immokalee, FL, 34142, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Southwest Florida Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Immokalee, FL, 34142, USA.
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Ivanov AV, Safenkova IV, Zherdev AV, Dzantiev BB. Recombinase Polymerase Amplification Assay with and without Nuclease-Dependent-Labeled Oligonucleotide Probe. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:11885. [PMID: 34769313 PMCID: PMC8584857 DOI: 10.3390/ijms222111885] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2021] [Revised: 10/28/2021] [Accepted: 10/29/2021] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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The combination of recombinase polymerase amplification (RPA) and lateral flow test (LFT) is a strong diagnostic tool for rapid pathogen detection in resource-limited conditions. Here, we compared two methods generating labeled RPA amplicons following their detection by LFT: (1) the basic one with primers modified with different tags at the terminals and (2) the nuclease-dependent one with the primers and labeled oligonucleotide probe for nuclease digestion that was recommended for the high specificity of the assay. Using both methods, we developed an RPA-LFT assay for the detection of worldwide distributed phytopathogen-alfalfa mosaic virus (AMV). A forward primer modified with fluorescein and a reverse primer with biotin and fluorescein-labeled oligonucleotide probe were designed and verified by RPA. Both labeling approaches and their related assays were characterized using the in vitro-transcribed mRNA of AMV and reverse transcription reaction. The results demonstrated that the RPA-LFT assay based on primers-labeling detected 103 copies of RNA in reaction during 30 min and had a half-maximal binding concentration 22 times lower than probe-dependent RPA-LFT. The developed RPA-LFT was successfully applied for the detection of AMV-infected plants. The results can be the main reason for choosing simple labeling with primers for RPA-LFT for the detection of other pathogens.
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- A.N. Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Research Centre of Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky Prospect 33, 119071 Moscow, Russia; (A.V.I.); (I.V.S.); (A.V.Z.)
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Kozmin SG, Eot-Houllier G, Reynaud-Angelin A, Gasparutto D, Sage E. Dissecting Highly Mutagenic Processing of Complex Clustered DNA Damage in Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Cells 2021; 10:cells10092309. [PMID: 34571958 PMCID: PMC8471780 DOI: 10.3390/cells10092309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2021] [Revised: 08/30/2021] [Accepted: 08/31/2021] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Clusters of DNA damage, also called multiply damaged sites (MDS), are a signature of ionizing radiation exposure. They are defined as two or more lesions within one or two helix turns, which are created by the passage of a single radiation track. It has been shown that the clustering of DNA damage compromises their repair. Unresolved repair may lead to the formation of double-strand breaks (DSB) or the induction of mutation. We engineered three complex MDS, comprised of oxidatively damaged bases and a one-nucleotide (1 nt) gap (or not), in order to investigate the processing and the outcome of these MDS in yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Such MDS could be caused by high linear energy transfer (LET) radiation. Using a whole-cell extract, deficient (or not) in base excision repair (BER), and a plasmid-based assay, we investigated in vitro excision/incision at the damaged bases and the mutations generated at MDS in wild-type, BER, and translesion synthesis-deficient cells. The processing of the studied MDS did not give rise to DSB (previously published). Our major finding is the extremely high mutation frequency that occurs at the MDS. The proposed processing of MDS is rather complex, and it largely depends on the nature and the distribution of the damaged bases relative to the 1 nt gap. Our results emphasize the deleterious consequences of MDS in eukaryotic cells.
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- Stanislav G. Kozmin
- Institut Curie, PSL Research University Orsay, F-91405 Orsay, France; (G.E.-H.); (A.R.-A.)
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710, USA
- Correspondence: (S.G.K.); (E.S.)
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- Institut Curie, PSL Research University Orsay, F-91405 Orsay, France; (G.E.-H.); (A.R.-A.)
- Institut de Génétique et Développement de Rennes, CNRS-UR1 UMR6290, Université Rennes-1, F-35043 Rennes, France
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- Institut Curie, PSL Research University Orsay, F-91405 Orsay, France; (G.E.-H.); (A.R.-A.)
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- CEA, CNRS IRIG/SyMMES-UMR5819, Université Grenoble Alpes, F-38054 Grenoble, France;
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- Institut Curie, PSL Research University Orsay, F-91405 Orsay, France; (G.E.-H.); (A.R.-A.)
- CNRS UMR3347, INSERM U1021, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91405 Orsay, France
- Correspondence: (S.G.K.); (E.S.)
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Szewczuk M, Boguszewska K, Kaźmierczak-Barańska J, Karwowski BT. The Influence of 5' R and 5' S cdA and cdG on the Activity of BsmAI and SspI Restriction Enzymes. Molecules 2021; 26:molecules26123750. [PMID: 34205449 PMCID: PMC8234751 DOI: 10.3390/molecules26123750] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2021] [Revised: 06/11/2021] [Accepted: 06/15/2021] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Restriction endonucleases (REs) are intra-bacterial scissors that are considered tools in the fight against foreign genetic material. SspI and BsmAI, examined in this study, cleave dsDNA at their site of recognition or within a short distance of it. Both enzymes are representatives of type II REs, which have played an extremely important role in research on the genetics of organisms and molecular biology. Therefore, the study of agents affecting their activity has become highly important. Ionizing radiation may damage basic cellular mechanisms by inducing lesions in the genome, with 5',8-cyclo-2'-deoxypurines (cdPus) as a model example. Since cdPus may become components of clustered DNA lesions (CDLs), which are unfavorable for DNA repair pathways, their impact on other cellular mechanisms is worthy of attention. This study investigated the influence of cdPus on the elements of the bacterial restriction-modification system. In this study, it was shown that cdPus present in DNA affect the activity of REs. SspI was blocked by any cdPu lesion present at the enzyme's recognition site. When lesions were placed near the recognition sequence, the SspI was inhibited up to 46%. Moreover, (5'S)-5',8-cyclo-2'-deoxyadenosine (ScdA) present in the oligonucleotide sequence lowered BsmAI activity more than (5'R)-5',8-cyclo-2'-deoxyadenosine (RcdA). Interestingly, in the case of 5',8-cyclo-2'-deoxyguanosine (cdG), both 5'S and 5'R diastereomers inhibited BsmAI activity (up to 55% more than cdA). The inhibition was weaker when cdG was present at the recognition site rather than the cleavage site.
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Sassa A, Odagiri M. Understanding the sequence and structural context effects in oxidative DNA damage repair. DNA Repair (Amst) 2021; 93:102906. [PMID: 33087272 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2020.102906] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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8-Oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine (8-oxoG) is the major base damage in the genomic DNA by exposure to reactive oxygen species. Organisms have evolved various DNA repair mechanisms, such as base excision repair (BER) and nucleotide excision repair (NER), to protect the cellular genome from these mutagenic DNA lesions. The efficiency and capacity of BER and NER mechanisms can be modulated by the local sequence and structural contexts in which 8-oxoG is located. This graphical review summarizes the biochemical and structural studies that have provided insights into the impact of the microenvironment around the site of the lesion on oxidative DNA damage repair.
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- Akira Sassa
- Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Chiba University, Chiba 263-8522, Japan.
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- Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Chiba University, Chiba 263-8522, Japan
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Mohan M, Akula D, Dhillon A, Goyal A, Anindya R. Human RAD51 paralogue RAD51C fosters repair of alkylated DNA by interacting with the ALKBH3 demethylase. Nucleic Acids Res 2020; 47:11729-11745. [PMID: 31642493 PMCID: PMC7145530 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkz938] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2019] [Revised: 10/02/2019] [Accepted: 10/09/2019] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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The integrity of our DNA is challenged daily by a variety of chemicals that cause DNA base alkylation. DNA alkylation repair is an essential cellular defence mechanism to prevent the cytotoxicity or mutagenesis from DNA alkylating chemicals. Human oxidative demethylase ALKBH3 is a central component of alkylation repair, especially from single-stranded DNA. However, the molecular mechanism of ALKBH3-mediated damage recognition and repair is less understood. We report that ALKBH3 has a direct protein-protein interaction with human RAD51 paralogue RAD51C. We also provide evidence that RAD51C–ALKBH3 interaction stimulates ALKBH3-mediated repair of methyl-adduct located within 3′-tailed DNA, which serves as a substrate for the RAD51 recombinase. We further show that the lack of RAD51C–ALKBH3 interaction affects ALKBH3 function in vitro and in vivo. Our data provide a molecular mechanism underlying upstream events of alkyl adduct recognition and repair by ALKBH3.
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- Monisha Mohan
- Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Kandi, Sangareddy 502285, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Kandi, Sangareddy 502285, India
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- Carbohydrate Enzyme Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati 781039, India
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- Carbohydrate Enzyme Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati 781039, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Kandi, Sangareddy 502285, India
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Kim BW, Jeong YE, Wong M, Martin LJ. DNA damage accumulates and responses are engaged in human ALS brain and spinal motor neurons and DNA repair is activatable in iPSC-derived motor neurons with SOD1 mutations. Acta Neuropathol Commun 2020; 8:7. [PMID: 32005289 PMCID: PMC6995159 DOI: 10.1186/s40478-019-0874-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2019] [Accepted: 12/17/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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DNA damage is implicated in the pathogenesis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). However, relationships between DNA damage accumulation, DNA damage response (DDR), and upper and lower motor neuron vulnerability in human ALS are unclear; furthermore, it is unknown whether epigenetic silencing of DNA repair pathways contributes to ALS pathogenesis. We tested the hypotheses that DNA damage accumulates in ALS motor neurons along with diminished DDR, and that DNA repair genes undergo hypermethylation. Human postmortem CNS tissue was obtained from ALS cases (N = 34) and age-matched controls without neurologic disease (N = 15). Compared to age-matched controls, abasic sites accumulated in genomic DNA of ALS motor cortex and laser capture microdissection-acquired spinal motor neurons but not in motor neuron mitochondrial DNA. By immunohistochemistry, DNA damage accumulated significantly in upper and lower motor neurons in ALS cases as single-stranded DNA and 8-hydroxy-deoxyguanosine (OHdG) compared to age-matched controls. Significant DDR was engaged in ALS motor neurons as evidenced by accumulation of c-Abl, nuclear BRCA1, and ATM activation. DNA damage and DDR were present in motor neurons at pre-attritional stages and throughout the somatodendritic attritional stages of neurodegeneration. Motor neurons with DNA damage were also positive for activated p53 and cleaved caspase-3. Gene-specific promoter DNA methylation pyrosequencing identified the DNA repair genes Ogg1, Apex1, Pnkp and Aptx as hypomethylated in ALS. In human induced-pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived motor neurons with familial ALS SOD1 mutations, DNA repair capacity was similar to isogenic control motor neurons. Our results show that vulnerable neurons in human ALS accumulate DNA damage, and contrary to our hypothesis, strongly activate and mobilize response effectors and DNA repair genes. This DDR in ALS motor neurons involves recruitment of c-Abl and BRCA1 to the nucleus in vivo, and repair of DNA double-strand breaks in human ALS motor neurons with SOD1 mutations in cell culture.
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- Byung Woo Kim
- Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 558 Ross Building, 720 Rutland Avenue, Baltimore, MD, 21205-2196, USA
- Division of Neuropathology, the Pathobiology Graduate Training Program, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Division of Neuropathology, the Pathobiology Graduate Training Program, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 558 Ross Building, 720 Rutland Avenue, Baltimore, MD, 21205-2196, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 558 Ross Building, 720 Rutland Avenue, Baltimore, MD, 21205-2196, USA.
- Division of Neuropathology, the Pathobiology Graduate Training Program, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
- Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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Laverty DJ, Greenberg MM. Expanded Substrate Scope of DNA Polymerase θ and DNA Polymerase β: Lyase Activity on 5'-Overhangs and Clustered Lesions. Biochemistry 2018; 57:6119-6127. [PMID: 30299084 PMCID: PMC6200648 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.8b00911] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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DNA polymerase θ (Pol θ) is a multifunctional enzyme with double-strand break (DSB) repair, translesion synthesis, and lyase activities. Pol θ lyase activity on ternary substrates containing a 5'-dRP that are produced during base excision repair of abasic sites (AP) is weak compared to that of DNA polymerase β (Pol β), a polymerase integrally involved in base excision repair. This led us to explore whether Pol θ utilizes its lyase activity to remove 5'-dRP and incise abasic sites from alternative substrates that might be produced during DNA damage and repair. We found that Pol θ exhibited lyase activity on abasic lesions near DSB termini and on clustered lesions. To calibrate the Pol θ activity, Pol β reactivity was examined with the same substrates. Pol β excised 5'-dRP from within a 5'-overhang 80 times faster than did Pol θ. Pol θ and Pol β also incised AP within clustered lesions but showed opposite preferences with respect to the polarity of the lesions. AP lesions in 5'-overhangs were typically excised by Pol β 35-50 times faster than those in a duplex substrate but 15-20-fold more slowly than 5'-dRP in a ternary complex. This is the first report of Pol θ exhibiting lyase activity within an unincised strand. These results suggest that bifunctional polymerases may exhibit lyase activity on a greater variety of substrates than previously recognized. A role in DSB repair could potentially be beneficial, while the aberrant activity exhibited on clustered lesions may be deleterious because of their conversion to DSBs.
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- Daniel J. Laverty
- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218
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- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218
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Shikazono N, Akamatsu K. Mutagenic potential of 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine (8-oxoG) is influenced by nearby clustered lesions. Mutat Res 2018; 810:6-12. [PMID: 29870902 DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2018.05.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2018] [Revised: 04/13/2018] [Accepted: 05/24/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Ionizing radiation causes various different types of DNA damage. If not repaired, DNA damage can have detrimental effects. Previous studies indicate that the spatial distribution of DNA lesions induced by ionizing radiation is highly relevant to the ensuing biological effects. Clustered DNA damage, consisting of DNA lesions in close proximity, has been studied in detail, and has enhanced mutagenic potential depending on the configuration of the lesions. However, it is not known whether clustered DNA damage affects the mutagenic potential of a sufficiently separated, isolated lesion. Using synthetic damage constructs, we investigated the mutagenic potential of an isolated 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine (8-oxoG) separated by at least 7 bp from other lesions. Under the spatial distribution of DNA lesions tested in the present study, neighboring clustered DNA lesions likely retarded the processing of the isolated 8-oxoG and resulted in enhanced mutation frequency. However, the enhanced mutagenic potential was dependent on which strand the isolated 8-oxoG was located. Our results indicate that the processing of a bi-stranded cluster could affect the mutagenic outcome of a nearby isolated lesion, separated up to ∼20 bp.
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- Naoya Shikazono
- Department of Quantum life Science, Quantum Beam Science Research Directorate, National Institutes of Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, 8-1-7 Umemidai, Kizugawa-shi, Kyoto, 619-0215 Japan.
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- Department of Quantum life Science, Quantum Beam Science Research Directorate, National Institutes of Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, 8-1-7 Umemidai, Kizugawa-shi, Kyoto, 619-0215 Japan.
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Frick A, Khare V, Paul G, Lang M, Ferk F, Knasmüller S, Beer A, Oberhuber G, Gasche C. Overt Increase of Oxidative Stress and DNA Damage in Murine and Human Colitis and Colitis-Associated Neoplasia. Mol Cancer Res 2018; 16:634-642. [PMID: 29378905 DOI: 10.1158/1541-7786.mcr-17-0451] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2017] [Revised: 11/17/2017] [Accepted: 01/02/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have a higher risk of developing colitis-associated-cancer (CAC); however, the underlying processes of disease progression are not completely understood. Here, the molecular processes of inflammation-driven colon carcinogenesis were investigated using IL10-deficient mice (IL10 KO). IL10 KO mice were euthanized after development of colitis and dysplasia. IHC was performed for markers of colitis-induced DNA damage (CIDD): oxidative DNA lesions (8-oxoG), double-strand breaks (DSB; γH2AX). and DSB repair. MSI, LOH (Trp53, Apc), and global methylation (CIMP) were assessed on microdissected tissue. Comet assay for DNA damage, immunofluorescence, and immunoblotting were performed on intestinal organoids from wild-type (WT) and IL10 KO mice. Sequential biopsies and surgical specimens from IBD and CAC patients were used for IHC analysis. Severity of inflammation correlated with number of dysplasia. 8-oxoG and γH2AX-positive cells were significantly increased in inflamed and dysplastic areas along with activation of DSB repair. The amount of positively stained cells strongly correlated with degree of inflammation (8-oxoG: R = 0.923; γH2AX: R = 0.858). Neither CIMP, MSI nor LOH was observed. Enhanced DSBs in IL10 KO organoids were confirmed by comet assay and increased expression of γH2AX. Human clinical specimens exhibited significantly higher γH2AX and 8-oxoG in IBD, dysplasia, and CAC compared with normal mucosa. These data indicate that inflammation-driven colon carcinogenesis in IL10 KO mice and IBD patients is associated with oxidative DNA damage and overt presence of DSB. Mol Cancer Res; 16(4); 634-42. ©2018 AACR.
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- Adrian Frick
- Department of Internal Medicine III, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Internal Medicine III, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Internal Medicine III, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Internal Medicine III, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Cancer Research, Department of Medicine I, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Cancer Research, Department of Medicine I, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Clinical Institute of Pathology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna Austria
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- Pathologie Soleiman, A.ö. Landeskrankenhaus-Universitäts-Kliniken Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Internal Medicine III, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
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Kumari B, Jha P, Sinha KK, Das P. Vicinal abasic site impaired processing of a Tg:G mismatch and 8-oxoguanine lesions in three-component bistranded clustered DNA damage. RSC Adv 2018; 8:17921-17926. [PMID: 35542077 PMCID: PMC9080475 DOI: 10.1039/c8ra01992d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2018] [Accepted: 05/03/2018] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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The occurrence of 7,8-dihydro-8-oxo-2′deoxyguanosine (8-oxodG), thymine glycol:guanine (Tg:G) mismatch and abasic site DNA damage lesions in close proximity induce repair refractive multicomponent clustered DNA damage. Herein, the influence of abasic sites in the processing of 8-oxodG lesion and Tg:G mismatch bistranded cluster is evaluated. Abasic sites are found to impart conformational destabilization that appreciably hinders the repair activity of the other lesions whenever present in a cluster combination. The repair process reduces the formation of double strand breaks (DSBs) and renders this three-lesion combination a non-DSB forming cluster. The stability of the DNA duplex harbouring these three lesions is highly compromised due to altered base helicity and base stacking phenomena leading to impaired repair. The occurrence of 7,8-dihydro-8-oxo-2′deoxyguanosine (8-oxodG), thymine glycol:guanine (Tg:G) mismatch and abasic site DNA damage lesions in close proximity induce repair refractive non-DSB cluster.![]()
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- Department of Biotechnology
- NIPER Hajipur
- India
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- Department of Chemistry
- IIT Patna
- Patna-801103
- India
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Morris LP, Conley AB, Degtyareva N, Jordan IK, Doetsch PW. Genome-wide map of Apn1 binding sites under oxidative stress in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Yeast 2017; 34:447-458. [PMID: 28752642 DOI: 10.1002/yea.3247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2017] [Accepted: 07/19/2017] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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The DNA is cells is continuously exposed to reactive oxygen species resulting in toxic and mutagenic DNA damage. Although the repair of oxidative DNA damage occurs primarily through the base excision repair (BER) pathway, the nucleotide excision repair (NER) pathway processes some of the same lesions. In addition, damage tolerance mechanisms, such as recombination and translesion synthesis, enable cells to tolerate oxidative DNA damage, especially when BER and NER capacities are exceeded. Thus, disruption of BER alone or disruption of BER and NER in Saccharomyces cerevisiae leads to increased mutations as well as large-scale genomic rearrangements. Previous studies demonstrated that a particular region of chromosome II is susceptible to chronic oxidative stress-induced chromosomal rearrangements, suggesting the existence of DNA damage and/or DNA repair hotspots. Here we investigated the relationship between oxidative damage and genomic instability utilizing chromatin immunoprecipitation combined with DNA microarray technology to profile DNA repair sites along yeast chromosomes under different oxidative stress conditions. We targeted the major yeast AP endonuclease Apn1 as a representative BER protein. Our results indicate that Apn1 target sequences are enriched for cytosine and guanine nucleotides. We predict that BER protects these sites in the genome because guanines and cytosines are thought to be especially susceptible to oxidative attack, thereby preventing large-scale genome destabilization from chronic accumulation of DNA damage. Information from our studies should provide insight into how regional deployment of oxidative DNA damage management systems along chromosomes protects against large-scale rearrangements. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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- Lydia P Morris
- Program in Genetics and Molecular Biology, Emory University Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA.,Department of Biochemistry, Emory University Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA.,WebbWrites, LLC, Durham, NC, USA
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- School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA.,Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA
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- Program in Genetics and Molecular Biology, Emory University Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA.,Department of Biochemistry, Emory University Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA.,Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA.,Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
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Ströbel T, Madlener S, Tuna S, Vose S, Lagerweij T, Wurdinger T, Vierlinger K, Wöhrer A, Price BD, Demple B, Saydam O, Saydam N. Ape1 guides DNA repair pathway choice that is associated with drug tolerance in glioblastoma. Sci Rep 2017; 7:9674. [PMID: 28852018 PMCID: PMC5574897 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-10013-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2017] [Accepted: 08/02/2017] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Ape1 is the major apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) endonuclease activity in mammalian cells, and a key factor in base-excision repair of DNA. High expression or aberrant subcellular distribution of Ape1 has been detected in many cancer types, correlated with drug response, tumor prognosis, or patient survival. Here we present evidence that Ape1 facilitates BRCA1-mediated homologous recombination repair (HR), while counteracting error-prone non-homologous end joining of DNA double-strand breaks. Furthermore, Ape1, coordinated with checkpoint kinase Chk2, regulates drug response of glioblastoma cells. Suppression of Ape1/Chk2 signaling in glioblastoma cells facilitates alternative means of damage site recruitment of HR proteins as part of a genomic defense system. Through targeting "HR-addicted" temozolomide-resistant glioblastoma cells via a chemical inhibitor of Rad51, we demonstrated that targeting HR is a promising strategy for glioblastoma therapy. Our study uncovers a critical role for Ape1 in DNA repair pathway choice, and provides a mechanistic understanding of DNA repair-supported chemoresistance in glioblastoma cells.
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- Thomas Ströbel
- Institute of Neurology, Medical University of Vienna, A-1090, Vienna, Austria
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- Molecular Neuro-Oncology Research Unit, Department of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, A-1090, Vienna, Austria
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- Molecular Neuro-Oncology Research Unit, Department of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, A-1090, Vienna, Austria
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- Vermont Department of Public Health, 108 Cherry St., Burlington, VT, 05402, USA
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- Neuro-Oncology Research Group, Department of Neurosurgery, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Neuro-Oncology Research Group, Department of Neurosurgery, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.,Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, 02129, USA
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- Molecular Diagnostics, AIT - Austrian Institute of Technology, A-1190, Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Neurology, Medical University of Vienna, A-1090, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Division of Genomic Instability and DNA Repair, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Stony Brook University, School of Medicine, Stony Brook, NY, 11794-8651, USA
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- Molecular Neuro-Oncology Research Unit, Department of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, A-1090, Vienna, Austria.,Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, 02129, USA
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- Molecular Neuro-Oncology Research Unit, Department of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, A-1090, Vienna, Austria. .,Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, 02129, USA.
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Zálešák J, Constant JF, Jourdan M. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Solution Structure of DNA Featuring Clustered 2'-Deoxyribonolactone and 8-Oxoguanine Lesions. Biochemistry 2016; 55:3899-906. [PMID: 27322640 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.6b00396] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Ionizing radiation, free radicals, and reactive oxygen species produce hundreds of different DNA lesions. Clustered lesions are typical for ionizing radiation. They compromise the efficiency of the base excision repair (BER) pathway, and as a consequence, they are much more toxic and mutagenic than isolated lesions. Despite their biological relevance, e.g., in cancer radiotherapy and accidental exposure, they are not very well studied from a structural point of view, and while insights provided by structural studies contribute to the understanding of the repair process, only three nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) studies of DNA containing clusters of lesions were reported. Herein, we report the first NMR solution structure of two DNAs containing a bistranded cluster with the 2'-deoxyribonolactone and 8-oxoguanine lesions. Both DNA duplexes feature a 2'-deoxyribonolactone site in the middle of the sequence of one strand and differ by the relative position of the 8-oxoguanine, staggered 3' or 5' side on the complementary strand at a three-nucleotide distance. Depending on its relative position, the repair of the 8-oxoguanine lesion by the base excision repair protein Fpg is either almost complete or inhibited. We found that the structures of the two DNAs containing a bistranded cluster of two lesions are similar and do not deviate very much from the standard B-form. As no obvious structural deformations were observed between the two duplexes, we concluded that the differences in Fpg activity are not due to differences in their global conformation.
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- Jan Zálešák
- Universite Grenoble Alpes , DCM UMR 5250, F-38000 Grenoble, France.,CNRS , DCM UMR 5250, F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- Universite Grenoble Alpes , DCM UMR 5250, F-38000 Grenoble, France.,CNRS , DCM UMR 5250, F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- Universite Grenoble Alpes , DCM UMR 5250, F-38000 Grenoble, France.,CNRS , DCM UMR 5250, F-38000 Grenoble, France
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Yurenko YP, Novotný J, Nikolaienko TY, Marek R. Nucleotides containing variously modified sugars: energetics, structure, and mechanical properties. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 18:1615-28. [PMID: 26672740 DOI: 10.1039/c5cp05478h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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The influence of various sugar residue modifications on intrinsic energetic, conformational, and mechanical properties of 2'-deoxyribonucleotide-5'-monophosphates (dNs) was comprehensively investigated using modern quantum chemical approaches. In total, fourteen sugar modifications, including double bonds and heteroatoms (S and N) inside the sugar ring, as well as fluorination in various positions, were analyzed. Among hundreds of possible conformational states of dNs, only two - AI and BI, corresponding to the most biologically significant forms of a double-helical DNA, were considered for each dN. It was established that the most of the studied modifications tend to strongly stabilize either AI or BI conformation of dNs both in the gas phase and in aqueous solution (modelled by implicit solvent models). Therefore, some of these modifications can be used as a tool for reducing structural polymorphism of nucleic acids in solution as well as for designing oligonucleotides with specific structural features. The evaluation of relaxed force constants (RFC) for glycosidic bonds suggests that the majority of the studied modifications of the sugar residue yield increased strengths of glycosidic bonds in dNs, and can therefore be used for designing modified nucleic acids with an increased resistance to abasic lesions. The most significant reinforcement of the glycosidic bond occurs in dNs containing the CF2 group instead of the O4' oxygen and the fluorine atom at the 2'-α-position. The calculation of the RFC and vibrational root-mean-square (VRMS) deviations for conformational degrees of freedom revealed a strong dependence between mechanical properties of dNs and their energetic characteristics. In particular, electronic energies of AI and BI conformers of dNs calculated in vacuo are closely connected with the values of relaxed force constants (RFC) for the δ angle: the higher RFC(δ) values correspond to more energetically favorable conformers.
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- Yevgen P Yurenko
- CEITEC - Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, CZ-62500 Brno, Czech Republic.
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Akamatsu K, Shikazono N, Saito T. Localization estimation of ionizing radiation-induced abasic sites in DNA in the solid state using fluorescence resonance energy transfer. Radiat Res 2015; 183:105-13. [PMID: 25564720 DOI: 10.1667/rr13780.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Clustered DNA damage is considered an important factor in determining the biological consequences of ionizing radiation. In this study, we successfully estimated the localization of abasic sites (APs) in DNA exposed to ionizing radiation using fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) without any involvement of repair enzyme functions. A linearized plasmid (pUC19 digested by Sma I) was irradiated with: (60)Co γ rays; (4)He(2+) (2.0 MeV/u) particles; and the (12)C(5+) (0.37 MeV/u) particles in the solid state. A donor or acceptor fluorescent probe with a nucleophilic O-amino group was used to label APs. The results showed that the (12)C(5+) particle likely produced close APs within a track. The apparent distance calculated from the observed FRET efficiency (E) of around 0.10 was estimated to be approximately 17 base pairs. On the other hand, E values of (60)Co γ rays and the (4)He(2+) beam were less than those of the (12)C(5+) beam, increased with increasing AP density (the average number of APs per base pair), and were slightly greater than those of randomly distributed APs. We propose that the FRET method provides a degree of localization regardless of whether an AP cluster is single-stranded or bistranded DNA damage.
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- Ken Akamatsu
- a Irradiation Cell Analysis Group, Quantum Beam Science Directorate, Kansai Photon Science Institute, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Kizugawa, Kyoto 619-0215, Japan
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Cunniffe S, Walker A, Stabler R, O'Neill P, Lomax ME. Increased mutability and decreased repairability of a three-lesion clustered DNA-damaged site comprised of an AP site and bi-stranded 8-oxoG lesions. Int J Radiat Biol 2014; 90:468-79. [PMID: 24597750 PMCID: PMC4059193 DOI: 10.3109/09553002.2014.899449] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Purpose Ionizing radiation induces DNA damage, some of which are present in clusters, defined as two or more lesions within one to two helical turns of DNA by passage of a single radiation track. These clusters are thought to contribute to the detrimental effects of radiation, in part due to the compromised repair of clustered DNA damaged sites. Materials and methods The repair of three-lesion cluster present in oligonucleotides were determined in vitro using the hamster cell line CHO-K1 nuclear extract or purified proteins involved in base excision repair. The mutagenic potential of these clusters present in a plasmid was determined using an Escherichia coli reporter assay. Results We have shown that the repair of an abasic (AP) site within a three-lesion cluster, comprised of an AP site and bi-stranded 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine (8-oxoG) lesions, is retarded compared to that of an isolated AP site in an in vitro base excision repair (BER) assay. Further, the mutation frequency of the clustered damaged site is up to three times greater than that of an isolated 8-oxoG lesion. Conclusions As a consequence of enhanced mutagenic potential of clusters, non-double-strand break (DSB) DNA damage may contribute to the detrimental effects of radiation, in addition to the effects of DSB.
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- Siobhan Cunniffe
- Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology and Biology, Department of Oncology, University of Oxford , Oxford , UK
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Zálešák J, Lourdin M, Krejčί L, Constant JF, Jourdan M. Structure and dynamics of DNA duplexes containing a cluster of mutagenic 8-oxoguanine and abasic site lesions. J Mol Biol 2013; 426:1524-38. [PMID: 24384094 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2013.12.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2013] [Revised: 11/24/2013] [Accepted: 12/22/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Clustered DNA damage sites are caused by ionizing radiation. They are much more difficult to repair than are isolated single lesions, and their biological outcomes in terms of mutagenesis and repair inhibition are strongly dependent on the type, relative position and orientation of the lesions present in the cluster. To determine whether these effects on repair mechanism could be due to local structural properties within DNA, we used (1)H NMR spectroscopy and restrained molecular dynamics simulation to elucidate the structures of three DNA duplexes containing bistranded clusters of lesions. Each DNA sequence contained an abasic site in the middle of one strand and differed by the relative position of the 8-oxoguanine, staggered on either the 3' or the 5' side of the complementary strand. Their repair by base excision repair protein Fpg was either complete or inhibited. All the studied damaged DNA duplexes adopt an overall B-form conformation and the damaged residues remain intrahelical. No striking deformations of the DNA chain have been observed as a result of close proximity of the lesions. These results rule out the possibility that differential recognition of clustered DNA lesions by the Fpg protein could be due to changes in the DNA's structural features induced by those lesions and provide new insight into the Fpg recognition process.
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- Jan Zálešák
- Département de Chimie Moléculaire, CNRS UMR5250, ICMG FR2607, Université de Grenoble, 570 rue de la Chimie, BP 53, 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
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- Département de Chimie Moléculaire, CNRS UMR5250, ICMG FR2607, Université de Grenoble, 570 rue de la Chimie, BP 53, 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
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- National Centre for Biomolecular Research, Department of Biology, Masaryk University, 625 00 Brno, Czech Republic
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- Département de Chimie Moléculaire, CNRS UMR5250, ICMG FR2607, Université de Grenoble, 570 rue de la Chimie, BP 53, 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France.
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- Département de Chimie Moléculaire, CNRS UMR5250, ICMG FR2607, Université de Grenoble, 570 rue de la Chimie, BP 53, 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France.
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Shikazono N, Akamatsu K, Takahashi M, Noguchi M, Urushibara A, O'Neill P, Yokoya A. Significance of DNA polymerase I in in vivo processing of clustered DNA damage. Mutat Res 2013; 749:9-15. [PMID: 23958410 DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2013.07.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2013] [Revised: 07/11/2013] [Accepted: 07/31/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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We examined the biological consequences of bi-stranded clustered damage sites, consisting of a combination of DNA lesions, such as a 1-nucleotide gap (GAP), an apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) site, and an 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine (8-oxoG), using a bacterial plasmid-based assay. Following transformation with the plasmid containing bi-stranded clustered damage sites into the wild type strain of Escherichia coli, transformation frequencies were significantly lower for the bi-stranded clustered GAP/AP lesions (separated by 1bp) than for either a single GAP or a single AP site. When the two lesions were separated by 10-20bp, the transformation efficiencies were comparable with those of the single lesions. This recovery of transformation efficiency for separated lesions requires DNA polymerase I (Pol I) activity. Analogously, the mutation frequency was found to depend on the distance separating lesions in a bi-stranded cluster containing a GAP and an 8-oxoG, and Pol I was found to play an important role in minimising mutations induced as a result of clustered lesions. The mutagenic potential of 8-oxoG within the bi-stranded lesions does not depend on whether it is situated on the leading or lagging strand. These results indicate that the biological consequences of clustered DNA damage strongly depend on the extent of repair of the strand breaks as well as the DNA polymerase in lesion-avoidance pathways during replication.
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- Naoya Shikazono
- Quantum Beam Science Directorate, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 2-4 Shirakata-Shirane, Tokai-mura, Ibaraki 319-1195, Japan; Advanced Research Science Centre, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 2-4 Shirakata-Shirane, Tokai-mura, Ibaraki 319-1195, Japan.
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Sedletska Y, Radicella JP, Sage E. Replication fork collapse is a major cause of the high mutation frequency at three-base lesion clusters. Nucleic Acids Res 2013; 41:9339-48. [PMID: 23945941 PMCID: PMC3814351 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt731] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Unresolved repair of clustered DNA lesions can lead to the formation of deleterious double strand breaks (DSB) or to mutation induction. Here, we investigated the outcome of clusters composed of base lesions for which base excision repair enzymes have different kinetics of excision/incision. We designed multiply damaged sites (MDS) composed of a rapidly excised uracil (U) and two oxidized bases, 5-hydroxyuracil (hU) and 8-oxoguanine (oG), excised more slowly. Plasmids harboring these U-oG/hU MDS-carrying duplexes were introduced into Escherichia coli cells either wild type or deficient for DNA n-glycosylases. Induction of DSB was estimated from plasmid survival and mutagenesis determined by sequencing of surviving clones. We show that a large majority of MDS is converted to DSB, whereas almost all surviving clones are mutated at hU. We demonstrate that mutagenesis at hU is correlated with excision of the U placed on the opposite strand. We propose that excision of U by Ung initiates the loss of U-oG-carrying strand, resulting in enhanced mutagenesis at the lesion present on the opposite strand. Our results highlight the importance of the kinetics of excision by base excision repair DNA n-glycosylases in the processing and fate of MDS and provide evidence for the role of strand loss/replication fork collapse during the processing of MDS on their mutational consequences.
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- Yuliya Sedletska
- Institut Curie, Centre de Recherche, F-91405 Orsay, France; CNRS UMR3348, F-91405 Orsay, France and CEA, Institut de Radiobiologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, 18 route du Panorama, F-92265 Fontenay aux Roses, France
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Biological consequences of radiation-induced DNA damage: relevance to radiotherapy. Clin Oncol (R Coll Radiol) 2013; 25:578-85. [PMID: 23849504 DOI: 10.1016/j.clon.2013.06.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 416] [Impact Index Per Article: 37.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2013] [Accepted: 06/12/2013] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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DNA damage of exposed tumour tissue leading to cell death is one of the detrimental effects of ionising radiation that is exploited, with beneficial consequences, for radiotherapy. The pattern of the discrete energy depositions during passage of the ionising track of radiation defines the spatial distribution of lesions induced in DNA with a fraction of the DNA damage sites containing clusters of lesions, formed over a few nanometres, against a background of endogenously induced individual lesions. These clustered DNA damage sites, which may be considered as a signature of ionising radiation, underlie the deleterious biological consequences of ionising radiation. The concepts developed rely in part on the fact that ionising radiation creates significant levels of clustered DNA damage, including complex double-strand breaks (DSB), to kill tumour cells as clustered damage sites are difficult to repair. This reduced repairability of clustered DNA damage using specific repair pathways is exploitable in radiotherapy for the treatment of cancer. We discuss some potential strategies to enhance radiosensitivity by targeting the repair pathways of radiation-induced clustered damage and complex DNA DSB, through inhibition of specific proteins that are not required in the repair pathways for endogenous damage. The variety and severity of DNA damage from ionising radiation is also influenced by the tumour microenvironment, being especially sensitive to the oxygen status of the cells. For instance, nitric oxide is known to influence the types of damage induced by radiation under hypoxic conditions. A potential strategy based on bioreductive activation of pro-drugs to release nitric oxide is discussed as an approach to deliver nitric oxide to hypoxic tumours during radiotherapy. The ultimate aim of this review is to stimulate thinking on how knowledge of the complexity of radiation-induced DNA damage may contribute to the development of adjuncts to radiotherapy.
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Georgakilas AG, O'Neill P, Stewart RD. Induction and Repair of Clustered DNA Lesions: What Do We Know So Far? Radiat Res 2013; 180:100-109. [DOI: 10.1667/rr3041.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 213] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/30/2023]
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Malyarchuk S, Castore R, Shi R, Harrison L. Artemis is required to improve the accuracy of repair of double-strand breaks with 5'-blocked termini generated from non-DSB-clustered lesions. Mutagenesis 2013; 28:357-66. [PMID: 23448902 DOI: 10.1093/mutage/get009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Clustered DNA lesions are defined as ≥2 damage events within 20 bp. Oxidised bases, abasic (AP) sites, single-strand breaks and double-strand breaks (DSBs) exist in radiation-induced clusters, and these lesions are more difficult to repair and can be more mutagenic than single lesions. Understanding clustered lesion repair is therefore important for the design of complementary treatments to enhance radiotherapy. Non-DSB-clustered lesions consisting of opposing AP sites can be converted to DSBs by base excision repair, and non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ) plays a role in repairing these DSBs. Artemis is an endonuclease that removes blocking groups from DSB termini during NHEJ. Hence, we hypothesised that Artemis plays a role in the processing of DSBs or complex DSBs generated from non-DSB-clustered lesions. We examined the repair of clusters containing two or three lesions in wild-type (WT) or Artemis-deficient (ART(-/-)) mouse fibroblasts using a reporter plasmid. Each cluster contained two opposing tetrahydrofurans (an AP site analogue), which AP endonuclease can convert to a DSB with blocked 5' termini. Loss of Artemis did not decrease plasmid survival, but did result in more mutagenic repair with plasmids containing larger deletions. This increase in deletions did not occur with ClaI-linearised plasmid. Since Mre11 has been implicated in deletional NHEJ, we used small interfering RNA to reduce Mre11 in WT and ART(-/-) cells, but decreasing Mre11 did not change the size of deletions in the repair products. This work implicates Artemis in limiting the deletions introduced during repair of 5'-blocked termini DSBs generated from non-DSB-clustered lesions. Decreasing repair accuracy without decreasing repair capacity could result in mutated cells surviving irradiation. Inhibiting Artemis in normal cells could promote carcinogenesis, while in tumour cells enhanced mutagenic repair following irradiation could promote tumour recurrence.
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- Svitlana Malyarchuk
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Louisiana Health Sciences Center, 1501 Kings Highway, Shreveport, LA 71130, USA
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Magnander K, Elmroth K. Biological consequences of formation and repair of complex DNA damage. Cancer Lett 2012; 327:90-6. [PMID: 22353687 DOI: 10.1016/j.canlet.2012.02.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2011] [Revised: 02/11/2012] [Accepted: 02/13/2012] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Endogenous processes or genotoxic agents can induce many types of single DNA damage (single-strand breaks, oxidized bases and abasic sites). In addition, ionizing radiation induces complex lesions such as double-strand breaks and clustered damage. To preserve the genomic stability and prevent carcinogenesis, distinct repair pathways have evolved. Despite this, complex DNA damage can cause severe problems and is believed to contribute to the biological consequences observed in cells exposed to genotoxic stress. In this review, the current knowledge of formation and repair of complex DNA damage is summarized and the risks and biological consequences associated with their repair are discussed.
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- Karin Magnander
- Department of Oncology, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Göteborg, Sweden.
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The mutagenic potential of 8-oxoG/single strand break-containing clusters depends on their relative positions. Mutat Res 2012; 732:34-42. [PMID: 22261346 DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2011.12.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2011] [Revised: 12/12/2011] [Accepted: 12/22/2011] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The biological consequences of clusters containing a single strand break and base lesion(s) remain largely unknown. In the present study we determined the mutagenicities of two- and three-lesion clustered damage sites containing a 1-nucleotide gap (GAP) and 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine(s) (8-oxoG(s)) in Escherichia coli. The mutation frequencies (MFs) of bi-stranded two-lesion clusters (GAP/8-oxoG), especially in mutY-deficient strains, were high and were similar to those for bi-stranded clusters with 8-oxoG and base lesions/AP sites, suggesting that the GAP is processed with an efficiency similar to the efficiency of processing a base lesion or an AP site within a cluster. The MFs of tandem two-lesion clusters comprised of a GAP and an 8-oxoG on the same strand were comparable to or less than the MF of a single 8-oxoG. The mutagenic potential of three-lesion clusters, which were comprised of a tandem lesion (a GAP and an 8-oxoG) and an opposing single 8-oxoG, was higher than that of a single 8-oxoG, but was no more than that of a bi-stranded 8-oxoGs. We suggest that incorporation of a nucleotide opposite 8-oxoG is less mutagenic when a GAP is present in a cluster than when a GAP is absent. Our observations indicate that the repair of a GAP is retarded by an opposing 8-oxoG, but not by a tandem 8-oxoG, and that the extent of GAP repair determines the biological consequences.
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Gomes MR, Guimarães ACR, de Miranda AB. Specific and nonhomologous isofunctional enzymes of the genetic information processing pathways as potential therapeutical targets for tritryps. Enzyme Res 2011; 2011:543912. [PMID: 21808726 PMCID: PMC3145330 DOI: 10.4061/2011/543912] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2011] [Revised: 03/22/2011] [Accepted: 05/05/2011] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Leishmania major, Trypanosoma brucei, and Trypanosoma cruzi (Tritryps) are unicellular protozoa that cause leishmaniasis, sleeping sickness and Chagas' disease, respectively. Most drugs against them were discovered through the screening of large numbers of compounds against whole parasites. Nonhomologous isofunctional enzymes (NISEs) may present good opportunities for the identification of new putative drug targets because, though sharing the same enzymatic activity, they possess different three-dimensional structures thus allowing the development of molecules against one or other isoform. From public data of the Tritryps' genomes, we reconstructed the Genetic Information Processing Pathways (GIPPs). We then used AnEnPi to look for the presence of these enzymes between Homo sapiens and Tritryps, as well as specific enzymes of the parasites. We identified three candidates (ECs 3.1.11.2 and 6.1.1.-) in these pathways that may be further studied as new therapeutic targets for drug development against these parasites.
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- Monete Rajão Gomes
- Laboratório de Biologia Computacional e Sistemas, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz/FIOCRUZ, 21045-900 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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Sage E, Harrison L. Clustered DNA lesion repair in eukaryotes: relevance to mutagenesis and cell survival. Mutat Res 2011; 711:123-33. [PMID: 21185841 PMCID: PMC3101299 DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2010.12.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 167] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2010] [Revised: 12/10/2010] [Accepted: 12/17/2010] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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A clustered DNA lesion, also known as a multiply damaged site, is defined as ≥ 2 damages in the DNA within 1-2 helical turns. Only ionizing radiation and certain chemicals introduce DNA damage in the genome in this non-random way. What is now clear is that the lethality of a damaging agent is not just related to the types of DNA lesions introduced, but also to how the damage is distributed in the DNA. Clustered DNA lesions were first hypothesized to exist in the 1990s, and work has progressed where these complex lesions have been characterized and measured in irradiated as well as in non-irradiated cells. A clustered lesion can consist of single as well as double strand breaks, base damage and abasic sites, and the damages can be situated on the same strand or opposing strands. They include tandem lesions, double strand break (DSB) clusters and non-DSB clusters, and base excision repair as well as the DSB repair pathways can be required to remove these complex lesions. Due to the plethora of oxidative damage induced by ionizing radiation, and the repair proteins involved in their removal from the DNA, it has been necessary to study how repair systems handle these lesions using synthetic DNA damage. This review focuses on the repair process and mutagenic consequences of clustered lesions in yeast and mammalian cells. By examining the studies on synthetic clustered lesions, and the effects of low vs high LET radiation on mammalian cells or tissues, it is possible to extrapolate the potential biological relevance of these clustered lesions to the killing of tumor cells by radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and to the risk of cancer in non-tumor cells, and this will be discussed.
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- Evelyne Sage
- Institut Curie, Bât. 110, Centre Universitaire, 91405 Orsay, France
- CNRS UMR3348, Bât. 110, Centre Universitaire, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, LSUHSC-S, Shreveport, LA
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Eccles LJ, O'Neill P, Lomax ME. Delayed repair of radiation induced clustered DNA damage: friend or foe? Mutat Res 2010; 711:134-41. [PMID: 21130102 PMCID: PMC3112496 DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2010.11.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 178] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2010] [Revised: 11/18/2010] [Accepted: 11/25/2010] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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A signature of ionizing radiation exposure is the induction of DNA clustered damaged sites, defined as two or more lesions within one to two helical turns of DNA by passage of a single radiation track. Clustered damage is made up of double strand breaks (DSB) with associated base lesions or abasic (AP) sites, and non-DSB clusters comprised of base lesions, AP sites and single strand breaks. This review will concentrate on the experimental findings of the processing of non-DSB clustered damaged sites. It has been shown that non-DSB clustered damaged sites compromise the base excision repair pathway leading to the lifetime extension of the lesions within the cluster, compared to isolated lesions, thus the likelihood that the lesions persist to replication and induce mutation is increased. In addition certain non-DSB clustered damaged sites are processed within the cell to form additional DSB. The use of E. coli to demonstrate that clustering of DNA lesions is the major cause of the detrimental consequences of ionizing radiation is also discussed. The delayed repair of non-DSB clustered damaged sites in humans can be seen as a “friend”, leading to cell killing in tumour cells or as a “foe”, resulting in the formation of mutations and genetic instability in normal tissue.
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- Laura J Eccles
- DNA Damage Group, Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology and Biology, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus Research Building, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7DQ, UK.
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Anderson JA, Harper JV, Cucinotta FA, O'Neill P. Participation of DNA-PKcs in DSB repair after exposure to high- and low-LET radiation. Radiat Res 2010; 174:195-205. [PMID: 20681786 DOI: 10.1667/rr2071.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Cellular lesions (e.g. DSBs) are induced into DNA upon exposure to radiation, with DSB complexity increasing with radiation ionization density. Using M059K and M059J human glioblastoma cells (proficient and deficient in DNA-PKcs activity, respectively), we investigated the repair of DNA damage, including DSBs, induced by high- and low-LET radiation [gamma rays, alpha particles and high-charge and energy (HZE) ions]. In the absence of DNA-PKcs activity, less DSB repair and increased recruitment of RAD51 was seen at 24 h. After exposure to (56)Fe heavy ions, the number of cells with RAD51 tracks was less than the number of cells with gamma-H2AX at 24 h with both cell lines. Using alpha particles, comparable numbers of cells with visible gamma-H2AX and RAD51 were seen at 24 h in both cell lines. M059J cells irradiated with alpha particles accumulated in S phase, with a greater number of cyclin A and RAD51 co-stained cells seen at 24 h compared with M059K cells, where an S-phase block is absent. It is proposed that DNA-PKcs plays a role in the repair of some frank DSBs, which are longer-lived in NHEJ-deficient cells, and some non-DSB clustered damage sites that are converted into DSBs at replication as the cell cycles through to S phase.
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- Jennifer A Anderson
- DNA Damage Group, Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology and Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7DQ, United Kingdom
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Clauson CL, Saxowsky TT, Doetsch PW. Dynamic flexibility of DNA repair pathways in growth arrested Escherichia coli. DNA Repair (Amst) 2010; 9:842-7. [PMID: 20462807 PMCID: PMC2893249 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2010.04.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2010] [Accepted: 04/06/2010] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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The DNA of all organisms is constantly damaged by exogenous and endogenous agents. Base excision repair (BER) is important for the removal of several non-bulky lesions from the DNA, however not much is known about the contributions of other DNA repair pathways to the processing of non-bulky lesions. Here we utilized a luciferase reporter system to assess the contributions of transcription-coupled repair (TCR), BER and nucleotide excision repair (NER) to the repair of two non-bulky lesions, 8-oxoguanine (8OG) and uracil (U), in vivo under non-growth conditions. We demonstrate that both TCR and NER are utilized by Escherichia coli to repair 8OG and U. Additionally, the relative level of recognition of these lesions by BER and NER suggests that TCR can utilize components of either pathway for lesion removal, depending upon their availability. These findings indicate a dynamic flexibility of DNA repair pathways in the removal of non-bulky DNA lesions in prokaryotes, and reveal their respective contributions to the repair of 8OG and U in vivo.
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- Cheryl L. Clauson
- Department of Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine, 1510 Clifton Rd. NE, Atlanta, GA 30322 U.S.A
- Graduate Program in Genetics and Molecular Biology
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- Department of Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine, 1510 Clifton Rd. NE, Atlanta, GA 30322 U.S.A
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- Department of Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine, 1510 Clifton Rd. NE, Atlanta, GA 30322 U.S.A
- Division of Cancer Biology, Department of Radiation Oncology, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology and Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University School of Medicine
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Abasic sites and strand breaks in DNA cause transcriptional mutagenesis in Escherichia coli. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2010; 107:3657-62. [PMID: 20142484 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0913191107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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DNA damage occurs continuously, and faithful replication and transcription are essential for maintaining cell viability. Cells in nature are not dividing and replicating DNA often; therefore it is important to consider the outcome of RNA polymerase (RNAP) encounters with DNA damage. Base damage in the DNA can affect transcriptional fidelity, leading to production of mutant mRNA and protein in a process termed transcriptional mutagenesis (TM). Abasic (AP) sites and strand breaks are frequently occurring, spontaneous damages that are also base excision repair (BER) intermediates. In vitro studies have demonstrated that these lesions can be bypassed by RNAP; however this has never been assessed in vivo. This study demonstrates that RNAP is capable of bypassing AP sites and strand breaks in Escherichia coli and results in TM through adenine incorporation in nascent mRNA. Elimination of the enzymes that process these lesions further increases TM; however, such mutants can still complete repair by other downstream pathways. These results show that AP sites and strand breaks can result in mutagenic RNAP bypass and have important implications for the biologic endpoints of DNA damage.
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Eccles LJ, Lomax ME, O'Neill P. Hierarchy of lesion processing governs the repair, double-strand break formation and mutability of three-lesion clustered DNA damage. Nucleic Acids Res 2009; 38:1123-34. [PMID: 19965771 PMCID: PMC2831305 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp1070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Ionising radiation induces clustered DNA damage sites which pose a severe challenge to the cell’s repair machinery, particularly base excision repair. To date, most studies have focussed on two-lesion clusters. We have designed synthetic oligonucleotides to give a variety of three-lesion clusters containing abasic sites and 8-oxo-7, 8-dihydroguanine to investigate if the hierarchy of lesion processing dictates whether the cluster is cytotoxic or mutagenic. Clusters containing two tandem 8-oxoG lesions opposing an AP site showed retardation of repair of the AP site with nuclear extract and an elevated mutation frequency after transformation into wild-type or mutY Escherichia coli. Clusters containing bistranded AP sites with a vicinal 8-oxoG form DSBs with nuclear extract, as confirmed in vivo by transformation into wild-type E. coli. Using ung1 E. coli, we propose that DSBs arise via lesion processing rather than stalled replication in cycling cells. This study provides evidence that it is not only the prompt formation of DSBs that has implications on cell survival but also the conversion of non-DSB clusters into DSBs during processing and attempted repair. The inaccurate repair of such clusters has biological significance due to the ultimate risk of tumourigenesis or as potential cytotoxic lesions in tumour cells.
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- Laura J Eccles
- CRUK-MRC Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology and Biology, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus Research Building, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford, OX3 7DQ, UK
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Shikazono N, O'Neill P. Biological consequences of potential repair intermediates of clustered base damage site in Escherichia coli. Mutat Res 2009; 669:162-168. [PMID: 19540248 DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2009.06.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2009] [Revised: 06/01/2009] [Accepted: 06/11/2009] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Clustered DNA damage induced by a single radiation track is a unique feature of ionizing radiation. Using a plasmid-based assay in Escherichia coli, we previously found significantly higher mutation frequencies for bistranded clusters containing 7,8-dihydro-8-oxoguanine (8-oxoG) and 5,6-dihydrothymine (DHT) than for either a single 8-oxoG or a single DHT in wild type and in glycosylase-deficient strains of E. coli. This indicates that the removal of an 8-oxoG from a clustered damage site is most likely retarded compared to the removal of a single 8-oxoG. To gain further insights into the processing of bistranded base lesions, several potential repair intermediates following 8-oxoG removal were assessed. Clusters, such as DHT+apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) and DHT+GAP have relatively low mutation frequencies, whereas clusters, such as AP+AP or GAP+AP, significantly reduce the number of transformed colonies, most probably through formation of a lethal double strand break (DSB). Bistranded AP sites placed 3' to each other with various interlesion distances also blocked replication. These results suggest that bistranded base lesions, i.e., single base lesions on each strand, but not clusters containing only AP sites and strand breaks, are repaired in a coordinated manner so that the formation of DSBs is avoided. We propose that, when either base lesion is initially excised from a bistranded base damage site, the remaining base lesion will only rarely be converted into an AP site or a single strand break in vivo.
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- Naoya Shikazono
- Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Advanced Research Science Center, Naka-gun, Ibaraki, Japan.
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Malyarchuk S, Castore R, Harrison L. Apex1 can cleave complex clustered DNA lesions in cells. DNA Repair (Amst) 2009; 8:1343-54. [PMID: 19800300 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2009.08.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2009] [Revised: 08/28/2009] [Accepted: 08/31/2009] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Current data indicate that clustered DNA damage generated by ionizing radiation contains 2-5 damages within 20 bps. The complexity of clustered damage is also believed to increase as the linear energy transfer of the radiation increases. Complex lesions are therefore biologically relevant especially with the use of carbon ion beam therapy to treat cancer. Since two closely opposed AP site analogs (furans) are converted to a double strand break (DSB) in cells, we hypothesized that breakage could be compromised by increasing the complexity of the cluster. We have examined the repair of clusters containing three and four lesions in mouse fibroblasts using a luciferase reporter plasmid. The addition of a third furan did reduce but not eliminate cleavage, while a tandem 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine (8oxoG) immediately 5' to one furan in a two or three furan cluster decreased DSB formation by a small amount. In vitro studies using nuclear extracts demonstrated that the tandem 8oxoG was not removed under conditions where the furan was cleaved, but the presence of the 8oxoG reduced cleavage at the furan. Interestingly, a cluster of an 8oxoG opposite a furan did not form a DSB in cells. We have shown that Apex1 can cleave these complex clustered lesions in cells. This therefore indicates that Apex1 can generate complex DSBs from clustered lesions consisting of base damage and AP sites. Repair of these complex DSBs may be compromised by the nearby oxidative damage resulting in potentially lethal and biologically relevant damage.
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- Svitlana Malyarchuk
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Louisiana Health Sciences Center, 1501 Kings Highway, Shreveport, LA 71130, USA
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Bellon S, Shikazono N, Cunniffe S, Lomax M, O'Neill P. Processing of thymine glycol in a clustered DNA damage site: mutagenic or cytotoxic. Nucleic Acids Res 2009; 37:4430-40. [PMID: 19468043 PMCID: PMC2715253 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Localized clustering of damage is a hallmark of certain DNA-damaging agents, particularly ionizing radiation. The potential for genetic change arising from the effects of clustered damage sites containing combinations of AP sites, 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine (8-oxoG) or 5,6-dihydrothymine is high. To date clusters containing a DNA base lesion that is a strong block to replicative polymerases, have not been explored. Since thymine glycol (Tg) is non-mutagenic but a strong block to replicative polymerases, we have investigated whether clusters containing Tg are highly mutagenic or lead to potentially cytotoxic lesions, when closely opposed to either 8-oxoG or an AP site. Using a bacterial plasmid-based assay and repair assays using cell extracts or purified proteins, we have shown that DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) arise when Tg is opposite to an AP site, either through attempted base excision repair or at replication. In contrast, 8-oxoG opposite to Tg in a cluster ‘protects’ against DSB formation but does enhance the mutation frequency at the site of 8-oxoG relative to that at a single 8-oxoG, due to the decisive role of endonucleases in the initial stages of processing Tg/8-oxoG clusters, removing Tg to give an intermediate with an abasic site or single-strand break.
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- Sophie Bellon
- DNA Damage Group, Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology and Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7DQ, UK
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Kozmin SG, Sedletska Y, Reynaud-Angelin A, Gasparutto D, Sage E. The formation of double-strand breaks at multiply damaged sites is driven by the kinetics of excision/incision at base damage in eukaryotic cells. Nucleic Acids Res 2009; 37:1767-77. [PMID: 19174565 PMCID: PMC2665211 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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It has been stipulated that repair of clustered DNA lesions may be compromised, possibly leading to the formation of double-strand breaks (DSB) and, thus, to deleterious events. Using a variety of model multiply damaged sites (MDS), we investigated parameters that govern the formation of DSB during the processing of MDS. Duplexes carrying MDS were inserted into replicative or integrative vectors, and used to transform yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Formation of DSB was assessed by a relevant plasmid survival assay. Kinetics of excision/incision and DSB formation at MDS was explored using yeast cell extracts. We show that MDS composed of two uracils or abasic sites, were rapidly incised and readily converted into DSB in yeast cells. In marked contrast, none of the MDS carrying opposed oG and hU separated by 3–8 bp gave rise to DSB, despite the fact that some of them contained preexisting single-strand break (a 1-nt gap). Interestingly, the absence of DSB formation in this case correlated with slow excision/incision rates of lesions. We propose that the kinetics of the initial repair steps at MDS is a major parameter that direct towards the conversion of MDS into DSB. Data provides clues to the biological consequences of MDS in eukaryotic cells.
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Shikazono N, Noguchi M, Fujii K, Urushibara A, Yokoya A. The yield, processing, and biological consequences of clustered DNA damage induced by ionizing radiation. JOURNAL OF RADIATION RESEARCH 2009; 50:27-36. [PMID: 19218779 DOI: 10.1269/jrr.08086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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After living cells are exposed to ionizing radiation, a variety of chemical modifications of DNA are induced either directly by ionization of DNA or indirectly through interactions with water-derived radicals. The DNA lesions include single strand breaks (SSB), base lesions, sugar damage, and apurinic/apyrimidinic sites (AP sites). Clustered DNA damage, which is defined as two or more of such lesions within one to two helical turns of DNA induced by a single radiation track, is considered to be a unique feature of ionizing radiation. A double strand break (DSB) is a type of clustered DNA damage, in which single strand breaks are formed on opposite strands in close proximity. Formation and repair of DSBs have been studied in great detail over the years as they have been linked to important biological endpoints, such as cell death, loss of genetic material, chromosome aberration. Although non-DSB clustered DNA damage has received less attention, there is growing evidence of its biological significance. This review focuses on the current understanding of (1) the yield of non-DSB clustered damage induced by ionizing radiation (2) the processing, and (3) biological consequences of non-DSB clustered DNA damage.
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- Naoya Shikazono
- Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Advanced Research Science Center, 2-4 Shirakata-Shirane, Tokai-mura, Ibaraki 319-1195, Japan.
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Hori A, Yoshida M, Shibata T, Ling F. Reactive oxygen species regulate DNA copy number in isolated yeast mitochondria by triggering recombination-mediated replication. Nucleic Acids Res 2008; 37:749-61. [PMID: 19074198 PMCID: PMC2647299 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) encodes proteins that are essential for cellular ATP production. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are respiratory byproducts that damage mtDNA and other cellular components. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the oxidized base excision-repair enzyme Ntg1 introduces a double-stranded break (DSB) at the mtDNA replication origin ori5; this DSB initiates the rolling-circle mtDNA replication mediated by the homologous DNA pairing protein Mhr1. Thus, ROS may play a role in the regulation of mtDNA copy number. Here, we show that the treatment of isolated mitochondria with low concentrations of hydrogen peroxide increased mtDNA copy number in an Ntg1- and Mhr1-dependent manner. This treatment elevated the DSB levels at ori5 of hypersuppressive [rho–] mtDNA only if Ntg1 was active. In vitro Ntg1-treatment of hypersuppressive [rho–] mtDNA extracted from hydrogen peroxide-treated mitochondria revealed increased oxidative modifications at ori5 loci. We also observed that purified Ntg1 created breaks in single-stranded DNA harboring oxidized bases, and that ori5 loci have single-stranded character. Furthermore, chronic low levels of hydrogen peroxide increased in vivo mtDNA copy number. We therefore propose that ROS act as a regulator of mtDNA copy number, acting through the Mhr1-dependent initiation of rolling-circle replication promoted by Ntg1-induced DSB in the single-stranded regions at ori5.
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- Akiko Hori
- Chemical Genetics Laboratory, RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Hirosawa 2-1, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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Malyarchuk S, Castore R, Harrison L. DNA repair of clustered lesions in mammalian cells: involvement of non-homologous end-joining. Nucleic Acids Res 2008; 36:4872-82. [PMID: 18653525 PMCID: PMC2528178 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn450] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Clustered lesions are defined as >or=two lesions within 20 bps and are generated in DNA by ionizing radiation. In vitro studies and work in bacteria have shown that attempted repair of two closely opposed lesions can result in the formation of double strand breaks (DSBs). Since mammalian cells can repair DSBs by non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ), we hypothesized that NHEJ would repair DSBs formed during the removal of clustered tetrahydrofurans (furans). However, two opposing furans situated 2, 5 or 12 bps apart in a firefly luciferase reporter plasmid caused a decrease in luciferase activity in wild-type, Ku80 or DNA-PKcs-deficient cells, indicating the generation of DSBs. Loss of luciferase activity was maximal at 5 bps apart and studies using siRNA implicate the major AP endonuclease in the initial cleavage. Since NHEJ-deficient cells had equivalent luciferase activity to their isogenic wild-type cells, NHEJ was not involved in accurate repair of clustered lesions. However, quantitation and examination of re-isolated DNA showed that damage-containing plasmids were inaccurately repaired by Ku80-dependent, as well as Ku80-independent mechanisms. This work indicates that not even NHEJ can completely prevent the conversion of clustered lesions to potentially lethal DSBs, so demonstrating the biological relevance of ionizing radiation-induced clustered damage.
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- Svitlana Malyarchuk
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Louisiana Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA 71130, USA
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Paap B, Wilson DM, Sutherland BM. Human abasic endonuclease action on multilesion abasic clusters: implications for radiation-induced biological damage. Nucleic Acids Res 2008; 36:2717-27. [PMID: 18353858 PMCID: PMC2377450 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Clustered damages-two or more closely opposed abasic sites, oxidized bases or strand breaks-are induced in DNA by ionizing radiation and by some radiomimetic drugs. They are potentially mutagenic or lethal. High complexity, multilesion clusters (three or more lesions) are hypothesized as repair-resistant and responsible for the greater biological damage induced by high linear energy transfer radiation (e.g. charged particles) than by low linear energy transfer X- or gamma-rays. We tested this hypothesis by assessing human abasic endonuclease Ape1 activity on two- and multiple-lesion abasic clusters. We constructed cluster-containing oligonucleotides using a central variable cassette with abasic site(s) at specific locations, and 5' and 3' terminal segments tagged with visually distinctive fluorophores. The results indicate that in two- or multiple-lesion clusters, the spatial arrangement of uni-sided positive [in which the opposing strand lesion(s) is 3' to the base opposite the reference lesion)] or negative polarity [opposing strand lesion(s) 5' to the base opposite the reference lesion] abasic clusters is key in determining Ape1 cleavage efficiency. However, no bipolar clusters (minimally three-lesions) were good Ape1 substrates. The data suggest an underlying molecular mechanism for the higher levels of biological damage associated with agents producing complex clusters: the induction of highly repair-resistant bipolar clusters.
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- Brigitte Paap
- Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973-5000, USA
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Imoto S, Bransfield LA, Croteau DL, Van Houten B, Greenberg MM. DNA tandem lesion repair by strand displacement synthesis and nucleotide excision repair. Biochemistry 2008; 47:4306-16. [PMID: 18341293 DOI: 10.1021/bi7021427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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DNA tandem lesions are comprised of two contiguously damaged nucleotides. This subset of clustered lesions is produced by a variety of oxidizing agents, including ionizing radiation. Clustered lesions can inhibit base excision repair (BER). We report the effects of tandem lesions composed of a thymine glycol and a 5'-adjacent 2-deoxyribonolactone (LTg) or tetrahydrofuran abasic site (FTg). Some BER enzymes that act on the respective isolated lesions do not accept the tandem lesion as a substrate. For instance, endonuclease III (Nth) does not excise thymine glycol (Tg) when it is part of either tandem lesion. Similarly, endonuclease IV (Nfo) does not incise L or F when they are in tandem with Tg. Long-patch BER overcomes inhibition by the tandem lesion. DNA polymerase beta (Pol beta) carries out strand displacement synthesis, following APE1 incision of the abasic site. Pol beta activity is enhanced by flap endonuclease (FEN1), which cleaves the resulting flap. The tandem lesion is also incised by the bacterial nucleotide excision repair system UvrABC with almost the same efficiency as an isolated Tg. These data reveal two solutions that DNA repair systems can use to counteract the formation of tandem lesions.
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- Shuhei Imoto
- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA
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Centore RC, Lestini R, Sandler SJ. XthA (Exonuclease III) regulates loading of RecA onto DNA substrates in log phase Escherichia coli cells. Mol Microbiol 2007; 67:88-101. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.06026.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Georgakilas AG. Processing of DNA damage clusters in human cells: current status of knowledge. MOLECULAR BIOSYSTEMS 2007; 4:30-5. [PMID: 18075671 DOI: 10.1039/b713178j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Eukaryotic cells exposed to DNA damaging agents activate important defensive pathways by inducing multiple proteins involved in DNA repair, cell cycle checkpoint control and potentially apoptosis. After the acceptance of the hypothesis that oxidatively generated clustered DNA lesions (OCDL: closely spaced DNA lesions) can be induced even by low doses of ionizing radiation or even endogenously, and significant advances have been made in the understanding of the biochemistry underlying the repair of closely spaced DNA lesions, many questions still remain unanswered. The major questions that have to be answered in the near future are: 1) how human cells process these types of DNA damage if they repair them at all, 2) under what conditions a double strand break (DSB) may be created during the processing of two closely spaced DNA lesions and 3) what type of repair protein interactions govern the processing of complex DNA damage? The data existing so far on human cells and tissues are very limited and in some cases contradicting. All of them though agree however on the major importance of gaining mechanistic insights on the pathways used by the cell to confront and process complex DNA damage located in a small DNA volume and the need of more in depth analytical studies. We selectively review recently-obtained data on the processing of non-DSB DNA damage clusters in human cells and tissues and discuss the current status of knowledge in the field.
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- Alexandros G Georgakilas
- Department of Biology, Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences, East Carolina University, Greenville NC 27858, USA.
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Mourgues S, Lomax ME, O'Neill P. Base excision repair processing of abasic site/single-strand break lesions within clustered damage sites associated with XRCC1 deficiency. Nucleic Acids Res 2007; 35:7676-87. [PMID: 17982170 PMCID: PMC2190709 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm947] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Ionizing radiation induces clustered DNA damage, which presents a challenge to the cellular repair machinery. The repair efficiency of a single-strand break (SSB) is ∼4× less than that for repair of an abasic (AP) site when in a bistranded cluster containing 8-oxoG. To explore whether this difference in repair efficiency involves XRCC1 or other BER proteins, synthetic oligonucleotides containing either an AP site or HAP1-induced SSB (HAP1-SSB) 1 or 5 bp 5′ or 3′ to 8-oxoG on the opposite strand were synthesized and the repair investigated using either nuclear extracts from hamster cells proficient (AA8) or deficient (EM7) in XRCC1 or purified BER proteins. XRCC1 is important for efficient processing of an AP site in clustered damage containing 8-oxoG but does not affect the already low repair efficiency of a SSB. Ligase I partly compensates for the absence of the XRCC1/ligaseIII during short-patch BER of an AP site when in a cluster but only weakly if at all for a HAP1-SSB. The major difference between the repair of an AP site and a HAP1-SSB when in a 8-oxoG containing cluster is the greater efficiency of short-patch BER with the AP site compared with that for a HAP1-SSB.
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- Sophie Mourgues
- Medical Research Council, Radiation and Genome Stability Unit, Harwell, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 ORD, UK
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Shikazono N, Pearson C, O'Neill P, Thacker J. The roles of specific glycosylases in determining the mutagenic consequences of clustered DNA base damage. Nucleic Acids Res 2006; 34:3722-30. [PMID: 16893955 PMCID: PMC1557791 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The potential for genetic change arising from specific single types of DNA lesion has been thoroughly explored, but much less is known about the mutagenic effects of DNA lesions present in clustered damage sites. Localized clustering of damage is a hallmark of certain DNA-damaging agents, particularly ionizing radiation. We have investigated the potential of a non-mutagenic DNA base lesion, 5,6-dihydrothymine (DHT), to influence the mutagenicity of 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine (8-oxoG) when the two lesions are closely opposed. Using a bacterial plasmid-based assay we present the first report of a significantly higher mutation frequency for the clustered DHT and 8-oxoG lesions than for single 8-oxoG in wild-type and in glycosylase-deficient strains. We propose that endonuclease III has an important role in the initial stages of processing DHT/8-oxoG clusters, removing DHT to give an intermediate with an abasic site or single-strand break opposing 8-oxoG. We suggest that this mutagenic intermediate is common to several different combinations of base lesions forming clustered DNA damage sites. The MutY glycosylase, acting post-replication, is most important for reducing mutation formation. Recovered plasmids commonly gave rise to both wild-type and mutant progeny, suggesting that there is differential replication of the two DNA strands carrying specific forms of base damage.
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- Medical Research Council, Radiation and Genome Stability UnitHarwell, Oxfordshire OX11 0RD, UK
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- Medical Research Council, Radiation and Genome Stability UnitHarwell, Oxfordshire OX11 0RD, UK
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- Medical Research Council, Radiation and Genome Stability UnitHarwell, Oxfordshire OX11 0RD, UK
- To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +44 1235 241000; Fax: +44 1235 241200;
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