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Gaul L, Svejstrup JQ. Transcription-coupled repair and the transcriptional response to UV-Irradiation. DNA Repair (Amst) 2021; 107:103208. [PMID: 34416541 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2021.103208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2021] [Revised: 08/06/2021] [Accepted: 08/07/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Lesions in genes that result in RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) stalling or arrest are particularly toxic as they are a focal point of genome instability and potently block further transcription of the affected gene. Thus, cells have evolved the transcription-coupled nucleotide excision repair (TC-NER) pathway to identify damage-stalled RNAPIIs, so that the lesion can be rapidly repaired and transcription can continue. However, despite the identification of several factors required for TC-NER, how RNAPII is remodelled, modified, removed, or whether this is even necessary for repair remains enigmatic, and theories are intensely contested. Recent studies have further detailed the cellular response to UV-induced ubiquitylation and degradation of RNAPII and its consequences for transcription and repair. These advances make it pertinent to revisit the TC-NER process in general and with specific discussion of the fate of RNAPII stalled at DNA lesions.
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- Liam Gaul
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Panum Institute, Blegdamsvej 3B, University of Copenhagen, 2200, Copenhagen N, Denmark
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Panum Institute, Blegdamsvej 3B, University of Copenhagen, 2200, Copenhagen N, Denmark.
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Duan M, Speer RM, Ulibarri J, Liu KJ, Mao P. Transcription-coupled nucleotide excision repair: New insights revealed by genomic approaches. DNA Repair (Amst) 2021; 103:103126. [PMID: 33894524 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2021.103126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2021] [Revised: 03/29/2021] [Accepted: 04/12/2021] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Elongation of RNA polymerase II (Pol II) is affected by many factors including DNA damage. Bulky damage, such as lesions caused by ultraviolet (UV) radiation, arrests Pol II and inhibits gene transcription, and may lead to genome instability and cell death. Cells activate transcription-coupled nucleotide excision repair (TC-NER) to remove Pol II-impeding damage and allow transcription resumption. TC-NER initiation in humans is mediated by Cockayne syndrome group B (CSB) protein, which binds to the stalled Pol II and promotes assembly of the repair machinery. Given the complex nature of the TC-NER pathway and its unique function at the interface between transcription and repair, new approaches are required to gain in-depth understanding of the mechanism. Advances in genomic approaches provide an important opportunity to investigate how TC-NER is initiated upon damage-induced Pol II stalling and what factors are involved in this process. In this Review, we discuss new mechanisms of TC-NER revealed by genome-wide DNA damage mapping and new TC-NER factors identified by high-throughput screening. As TC-NER conducts strand-specific repair of mutagenic damage, we also discuss how this repair pathway causes mutational strand asymmetry in the cancer genome.
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- Mingrui Duan
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, USA.
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Feltrin RDS, Segatto ALA, de Souza TA, Schuch AP. Open gaps in the evolution of the eukaryotic nucleotide excision repair. DNA Repair (Amst) 2020; 95:102955. [DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2020.102955] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2020] [Revised: 08/06/2020] [Accepted: 08/16/2020] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Genome-wide role of Rad26 in promoting transcription-coupled nucleotide excision repair in yeast chromatin. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020; 117:18608-18616. [PMID: 32690696 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2003868117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Transcription-coupled nucleotide excision repair (TC-NER) is an important DNA repair mechanism that removes RNA polymerase (RNAP)-stalling DNA damage from the transcribed strand (TS) of active genes. TC-NER deficiency in humans is associated with the severe neurological disorder Cockayne syndrome. Initiation of TC-NER is mediated by specific factors such as the human Cockayne syndrome group B (CSB) protein or its yeast homolog Rad26. However, the genome-wide role of CSB/Rad26 in TC-NER, particularly in the context of the chromatin organization, is unclear. Here, we used single-nucleotide resolution UV damage mapping data to show that Rad26 and its ATPase activity is critical for TC-NER downstream of the first (+1) nucleosome in gene coding regions. However, TC-NER on the transcription start site (TSS)-proximal half of the +1 nucleosome is largely independent of Rad26, likely due to high occupancy of the transcription initiation/repair factor TFIIH in this nucleosome. Downstream of the +1 nucleosome, the combination of low TFIIH occupancy and high occupancy of the transcription elongation factor Spt4/Spt5 suppresses TC-NER in Rad26-deficient cells. We show that deletion of SPT4 significantly restores TC-NER across the genome in a rad26∆ mutant, particularly in the downstream nucleosomes. These data demonstrate that the requirement for Rad26 in TC-NER is modulated by the distribution of TFIIH and Spt4/Spt5 in transcribed chromatin and Rad26 mainly functions downstream of the +1 nucleosome to remove TC-NER suppression by Spt4/Spt5.
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Transcription coupled nucleotide excision repair in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae: The ambiguous role of Rad26. DNA Repair (Amst) 2015; 36:43-48. [DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2015.09.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Andrade-Lima LC, Veloso A, Paulsen MT, Menck CFM, Ljungman M. DNA repair and recovery of RNA synthesis following exposure to ultraviolet light are delayed in long genes. Nucleic Acids Res 2015; 43:2744-56. [PMID: 25722371 PMCID: PMC4357734 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The kinetics of DNA repair and RNA synthesis recovery in human cells following UV-irradiation were assessed using nascent RNA Bru-seq and quantitative long PCR. It was found that UV light inhibited transcription elongation and that recovery of RNA synthesis occurred as a wave in the 5′-3′ direction with slow recovery and TC-NER at the 3′ end of long genes. RNA synthesis resumed fully at the 3′-end of genes after a 24 h recovery in wild-type fibroblasts, but not in cells deficient in transcription-coupled nucleotide excision repair (TC-NER) or global genomic NER (GG-NER). Different transcription recovery profiles were found for individual genes but these differences did not fully correlate to differences in DNA repair of these genes. Our study gives the first genome-wide view of how UV-induced lesions affect transcription and how the recovery of RNA synthesis of large genes are particularly delayed by the apparent lack of resumption of transcription by arrested polymerases.
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- Leonardo C Andrade-Lima
- Department of Radiation Oncology and Translational Oncology Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA Department of Microbiology, Biomedical Sciences Institute, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Radiation Oncology and Translational Oncology Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology and Translational Oncology Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Biomedical Sciences Institute, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Radiation Oncology and Translational Oncology Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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Li W, Giles C, Li S. Insights into how Spt5 functions in transcription elongation and repressing transcription coupled DNA repair. Nucleic Acids Res 2014; 42:7069-83. [PMID: 24813444 PMCID: PMC4066765 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Spt5, a transcription elongation factor, and Rpb4, a subunit of RNA polymerase II (RNAP II) that forms a subcomplex with Rpb7, play important roles in transcription elongation and repression of transcription coupled DNA repair (TCR) in eukaryotic cells. How Spt5 physically interacts with RNAP II, and if and/or how Spt5 and Rpb4/7 coordinate to achieve the distinctive functions have been enigmatic. By site-specific incorporation of the unnatural amino acid p-benzoyl-L-phenylalanine, a photoreactive cross-linker, we mapped interactions between Spt5 and RNAP II in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Through its KOW4-5 domains, Spt5 extensively interacts with Rpb4/7. Spt5 also interacts with Rpb1 and Rpb2, two largest subunits of RNAP II, at the clamp, protrusion and wall domains. These interactions may lock the clamp to the closed conformation and enclose the DNA being transcribed in the central cleft of RNAP II. Deletion of Spt5 KOW4-5 domains decreases transcription elongation and derepresses TCR. Our findings suggest that Spt5 is a key coordinator for holding the RNAP II complex in a closed conformation that is highly competent for transcription elongation but repressive to TCR.
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- Wentao Li
- Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
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- Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
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Rad26, the transcription-coupled repair factor in yeast, is required for removal of stalled RNA polymerase-II following UV irradiation. PLoS One 2013; 8:e72090. [PMID: 23991048 PMCID: PMC3749123 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2013] [Accepted: 07/07/2013] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Transcription coupled nucleotide excision repair (TCR) is a major pathway responsible for removal of helix distorting DNA lesions from transcriptionally active regions of the genome. Rad26, a key factor of the TCR pathway, is known to play a role during early steps of TCR. Here, we show that Rad26-mediated TCR is not absolutely dependent on active transcription elongation in budding yeast. As per our results, RAD26-deleted cells show enhanced UV sensitivity compared to wild type cells under conditions where transcription elongation is inhibited. The increased UV sensitivity observed in RAD26-deleted cells, however, is not due to reduced expression of the major NER-responsive genes. Interestingly, transcription of the constitutively expressed RPB2 gene is adversely affected in RAD26-deleted cells during UV-induced DNA damage repair. In consonance, chromatin immunoprecipitation analysis showed that unlike in wild type, in RAD26-deleted cells no significant reduction in RNA polymerase II occupancy occurs during nucleotide excision repair in the transcriptionally active loci like, RPB2, PYK1 and RPL2B. These results collectively indicate that removal of RNAPII during DNA damage repair following UV irradiation is dependent on Rad26.
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Gaillard H, Aguilera A. Transcription coupled repair at the interface between transcription elongation and mRNP biogenesis. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENE REGULATORY MECHANISMS 2012; 1829:141-50. [PMID: 23046879 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2012.09.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2012] [Revised: 09/19/2012] [Accepted: 09/22/2012] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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During transcription, the nascent pre-mRNA associates with mRNA-binding proteins and undergoes a series of processing steps, resulting in export competent mRNA ribonucleoprotein complexes (mRNPs) that are transported into the cytoplasm. Throughout transcription elongation, RNA polymerases frequently deal with a number of obstacles that need to be removed for transcription resumption. One important type of hindrance consists of helix-distorting DNA lesions. Transcription-coupled repair (TC-NER), a specific sub-pathway of nucleotide excision repair, ensures a fast repair of such transcription-blocking lesions. While the nucleotide excision repair reaction is fairly well understood, its regulation and the way it deals with DNA transcription remains largely unknown. In this review, we update our current understanding of the factors involved in TC-NER and discuss their functional interplay with the processes of transcription elongation and mRNP biogenesis. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: RNA polymerase II Transcript Elongation.
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Lettieri T, Kraehenbuehl R, Capiaghi C, Livingstone-Zatchej M, Thoma F. Functionally distinct nucleosome-free regions in yeast require Rad7 and Rad16 for nucleotide excision repair. DNA Repair (Amst) 2008; 7:734-43. [PMID: 18329964 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2008.01.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2008] [Accepted: 01/23/2008] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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In yeast, Rad7 and Rad16 are two proteins required for nucleotide excision repair (NER) of non-transcribed chromatin. They have roles in damage recognition, in the postincision steps of NER, and in ultraviolet-light-dependent histone H3 acetylation. Moreover, Rad16 is an ATP-ase of the SNF2 superfamily and therefore might facilitate chromatin repair by nucleosome remodelling. Here, we used yeast rad7 Delta rad16 Delta mutants and show that Rad7-Rad16 is also required for NER of UV-lesions in three functionally distinct nucleosome-free regions (NFRs), the promoter and 3'-end of the URA3 gene and the ARS1 origin of replication. Moreover, rapid repair of UV-lesions by photolyase confirmed that nucleosomes were absent and that neither UV-damage formation nor rad7 Delta rad16 Delta mutations altered chromatin accessibility in NFRs. The data are consistent with a role of Rad7-Rad16 in damage recognition and processing in absence of nucleosomes. An additional role in nucleosome remodelling is discussed.
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- Teresa Lettieri
- Institute of Cell Biology, ETH Zurich, Schafmattstrasse 18, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland.
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Ding B, Ruggiero C, Chen X, Li S. Tfb5 is partially dispensable for Rad26 mediated transcription coupled nucleotide excision repair in yeast. DNA Repair (Amst) 2007; 6:1661-9. [PMID: 17644494 PMCID: PMC2096704 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2007.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2007] [Accepted: 06/08/2007] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Nucleotide excision repair (NER) is a conserved DNA repair mechanism capable of removing a variety of helix-distorting DNA lesions. A specialized NER pathway, called transcription coupled NER (TC-NER), refers to preferential repair in the transcribed strand of an actively transcribed gene. To be distinguished from TCR-NER, the genome-wide NER process is termed as global genomic NER (GG-NER). In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, GG-NER is dependent on Rad7, whereas TC-NER is mediated by Rad26, the homolog of the human Cockayne syndrome group B protein, and by Rpb9, a non-essential subunit of RNA polymerase II. Tfb5, the tenth subunit of the transcription/repair factor TFIIH, is implicated in one group of the human syndrome trichothiodystrophy. Here, we show that Tfb5 plays different roles in different NER pathways in yeast. No repair takes place in the non-transcribed strand of a gene in tfb5 cells, or in both strands of a gene in rad26 rpb9 tfb5 cells, indicating that Tfb5 is essential for GG-NER. However, residual repair occurs in the transcribed strand of a gene in tfb5 cells, suggesting that Tfb5 is important, but not absolutely required for TC-NER. Interestingly, substantial repair occurs in the transcribed strand of a gene in rad7 tfb5 and rad7 rpb9 tfb5 cells, indicating that, in the absence of GG-NER, Tfb5 is largely dispensable for Rad26 mediated TC-NER. Furthermore, we show that no repair takes place in the transcribed strand of a gene in rad7 rad26 tfb5 cells, suggesting that Tfb5 is required for Rpb9 mediated TC-NER. Taken together, our results indicate that Tfb5 is partially dispensable for Rad26 mediated TC-NER, especially in GG-NER deficient cells. However, this TFIIH subunit is required for other NER pathways.
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- *Corresponding Author [225-578-9102(Phone)/225-578-9895(FAX)/ ]
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Gong F, Kwon Y, Smerdon MJ. Nucleotide excision repair in chromatin and the right of entry. DNA Repair (Amst) 2007; 4:884-96. [PMID: 15961354 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2005.04.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/18/2005] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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DNA is packaged with histones and other accessory proteins into chromatin in eukaryotic cells. It is well established that the assembly of DNA into chromatin affects induction of DNA damage as well as repair of the damage. How the DNA repair machinery detects a lesion and 'fixes it' in chromatin has been an intriguing question since the dawn of understanding DNA packaging in chromatin. Direct recognition/binding by damaged DNA binding proteins is one obvious tactic to detect a lesion. Rearrangement of chromatin structure during DNA repair was reported more than two decades ago. This early observation suggests that unfolding of chromatin structure may be required to facilitate DNA repair after lesions are detected. Cells can also exploit DNA processing events to assist DNA repair. Transcription coupled repair (TCR) is such an example. During TCR, an RNA polymerase blocked by a lesion, may act as a signal to recruit DNA repair machinery. Possible roles of histone modification enzymes, ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling complexes and chromatin assembly factors in DNA repair are discussed.
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- Feng Gong
- Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Molecular Biosciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-4660, USA
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Teng Y, Yu Y, Ferreiro JA, Waters R. Histone acetylation, chromatin remodelling, transcription and nucleotide excision repair in S. cerevisiae: studies with two model genes. DNA Repair (Amst) 2007; 4:870-83. [PMID: 15950549 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2005.04.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/18/2005] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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We describe the technology and two model systems in yeast designed to study nucleotide excision repair (NER) in relation to transcription and chromatin modifications. We employed the MFA2 and MET16 genes as models. How transcription-coupled (TCR) and global genome repair (GGR) operate at the transcriptionally active and/or repressed S. cerevisiae MFA2 locus, and how this relates to nucleosome positioning are considered. We discuss the role of the Gcn5p histone acetyltransferase, also associated with MFA2's transcriptional activation, in facilitating efficient NER at the transcriptionally active and inactive genes. The effect of Gcn5p's absence in reducing NER was local and UV stimulates Gcn5p-mediated histone acetylation at the repressed MFA2 promoter. After UV irradiation Swi2p is partly responsible for facilitating access to restriction of DNA in the cores of the nucleosomes at the MFA2 promoter. The data suggest similarities between chromatin remodelling for NER and transcription, yet differences must exist to ensure this gene remains repressed in alpha cells during NER. For MET16, we consider experiments examining chromatin structure, transcription and repair in wild type and cbf1Delta cells under repressing or derepressing conditions. Cbf1p is a sequence specific DNA binding protein required for MET16 chromatin remodelling and transcription.
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- Yumin Teng
- Department of Pathology, University Wales College of Medicine, Heath Park, Cardiff CF14 4XN, UK
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Li S, Chen X, Ruggiero C, Ding B, Smerdon MJ. Modulation of Rad26- and Rpb9-mediated DNA repair by different promoter elements. J Biol Chem 2006; 281:36643-51. [PMID: 17023424 PMCID: PMC1913475 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m604885200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Rad26, the yeast homologue of human Cockayne syndrome group B protein, and Rpb9, a nonessential subunit of RNA polymerase II, have been shown to mediate two subpathways of transcription-coupled DNA repair in yeast. Here we show that Rad26- and Rpb9-mediated repair in the yeast GAL1 gene is differently modulated by different promoter elements. The initiation site and efficiency of Rad26-mediated repair in the transcribed strand are determined by the upstream activating sequence (UAS) but not by the TATA or local sequences. The role of UAS in determining the Rad26-mediated repair is not through loading of RNA polymerase II or the transcriptional regulatory complex SAGA. However, both the UAS and the TATA sequences are essential for confining Rad26-mediated repair to the transcribed strand. Mutation of the TATA sequence, which greatly reduces transcription, or deletion of the TATA or mutation of the UAS, which completely abolishes transcription, causes Rad26-mediated repair to occur in both strands. Rpb9-mediated repair only occurs in the transcribed strand and is efficient only in the presence of both TATA and UAS sequences. Also, the efficiency of Rpb9-mediated repair is dependent on the SAGA complex. Our results suggest that Rad26-mediated repair can be either transcription-coupled, provided that a substantial level of transcription is present, or transcription-independent, if the transcription is too low or absent. In contrast, Rpb9-mediated repair is strictly transcription-coupled and is efficient only when the transcription level is high.
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- Shisheng Li
- Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA.
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Sarker AH, Tsutakawa SE, Kostek S, Ng C, Shin DS, Peris M, Campeau E, Tainer JA, Nogales E, Cooper PK. Recognition of RNA polymerase II and transcription bubbles by XPG, CSB, and TFIIH: insights for transcription-coupled repair and Cockayne Syndrome. Mol Cell 2006; 20:187-98. [PMID: 16246722 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2005.09.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 151] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2005] [Revised: 08/08/2005] [Accepted: 09/30/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Loss of a nonenzymatic function of XPG results in defective transcription-coupled repair (TCR), Cockayne syndrome (CS), and early death, but the molecular basis for these phenotypes is unknown. Mutation of CSB, CSA, or the TFIIH helicases XPB and XPD can also cause defective TCR and CS. We show that XPG interacts with elongating RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) in the cell and binds stalled RNAPII ternary complexes in vitro both independently and cooperatively with CSB. XPG binds transcription-sized DNA bubbles through two domains not required for incision and functionally interacts with CSB on these bubbles to stimulate its ATPase activity. Bound RNAPII blocks bubble incision by XPG, but an ATP hydrolysis-dependent process involving TFIIH creates access to the junction, allowing incision. Together, these results implicate coordinated recognition of stalled transcription by XPG and CSB in TCR initiation and suggest that TFIIH-dependent remodeling of stalled RNAPII without release may be sufficient to allow repair.
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- Altaf H Sarker
- Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Mail Stop 74R157, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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Li S, Smerdon MJ. Dissecting transcription-coupled and global genomic repair in the chromatin of yeast GAL1-10 genes. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:14418-26. [PMID: 14734564 PMCID: PMC1343541 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m312004200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Transcription-coupled repair (TCR) and global genomic repair (GGR) of UV-induced cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers were investigated in the yeast GAL1-10 genes. Both Rpb9- and Rad26-mediated TCR are confined to the transcribed strands, initiating at upstream sites approximately 100 nucleotides from the upstream activating sequence shared by the two genes. However, TCR initiation sites do not correlate with either transcription start sites or TATA boxes. Rad16-mediated GGR tightly correlates with nucleosome positioning when the genes are repressed and are slow in the nucleosome core and fast in linker DNA. Induction of transcription enhanced GGR in nucleosome core DNA, especially in the nucleosomes around and upstream of the transcription start sites. Furthermore, when the genes were induced, GGR was slower in the transcribed regions than in the upstream regions. Finally, simultaneous deletion of RAD16, RAD26, and RPB9 resulted in no detectable repair in all sites along the region analyzed. Our results suggest that (a). TCR may be initiated by a transcription activator, presumably through the loading of RNA polymerase II, rather than by transcription initiation or elongation per se; (b). TCR and nucleosome disruption-enhanced GGR are the major causes of rapid repair in regions around and upstream of transcription start sites; (c). transcription machinery may hinder access of NER factors to a DNA lesion in the absence of a transcription-repair coupling factor; and (d). other than GGR mediated by Rad16 and TCR mediated by Rad26 and Rpb9, no other nucleotide excision repair pathway exists in these RNA polymerase II-transcribed genes.
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- ‡ To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel.: 509-335-6853; Fax: 509-335-9688; E-mail:
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García-Rubio M, Huertas P, González-Barrera S, Aguilera A. Recombinogenic Effects of DNA-Damaging Agents Are Synergistically Increased by Transcription inSaccharomyces cerevisiae: New Insights Into Transcription-Associated Recombination. Genetics 2003; 165:457-66. [PMID: 14573461 PMCID: PMC1462770 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/165.2.457] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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AbstractHomologous recombination of a particular DNA sequence is strongly stimulated by transcription, a phenomenon observed from bacteria to mammals, which we refer to as transcription-associated recombination (TAR). TAR might be an accidental feature of DNA chemistry with important consequences for genetic stability. However, it is also essential for developmentally regulated processes such as class switching of immunoglobulin genes. Consequently, it is likely that TAR embraces more than one mechanism. In this study we tested the possibility that transcription induces recombination by making DNA more susceptible to recombinogenic DNA damage. Using different plasmid-chromosome and direct-repeat recombination constructs in which transcription is driven from either the PGAL1- or the Ptet-regulated promoters, we haveshown that either 4-nitroquinoline-N-oxide (4-NQO) or methyl methanesulfonate (MMS) produces a synergistic increase of recombination when combined with transcription. 4-NQO and MMS stimulated recombination of a transcriptionally active DNA sequence up to 12,800- and 130-fold above the spontaneous levels observed in the absence of transcription, whereas 4-NQO and MMS alone increased recombination 193- and 4.5-fold, respectively. Our results provide evidence that TAR is due, at least in part, to the ability of transcription to enhance the accessibility of DNA to exogenous chemicals and internal metabolites responsible for recombinogenic lesions. We discuss possible parallelisms between the mechanisms of induction of recombination and mutation by transcription.
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- M García-Rubio
- Departamento de Genética, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, 41012 Sevilla, Spain
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Tsutakawa SE, Cooper PK. Transcription-coupled repair of oxidative DNA damage in human cells: mechanisms and consequences. COLD SPRING HARBOR SYMPOSIA ON QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY 2003; 65:201-15. [PMID: 12760034 DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2000.65.201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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- S E Tsutakawa
- Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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In the past few months, several discoveries relating to the mechanism underlying transcription-coupled DNA repair (TCR) have been reported. These results make it timely to propose a hypothesis for how eukaryotic cells might deal with arrested RNA polymerase II (Pol II) complexes. In this model, the transcription-repair coupling factor Cockayne Syndrome B (or the yeast equivalent Rad26) uses DNA translocase activity to remodel the Pol II-DNA interface, possibly to push the polymerase past the obstruction or to remove it from the DNA so that repair can take place if the obstacle is a DNA lesion. However, when this action is not possible and Pol II is left irreversibly trapped on DNA, the polymerase is instead ubiquitylated and eventually removed by proteolysis.
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- Jesper Q Svejstrup
- Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, Clare Hall Laboratories, South Mimms, Hertfordshire EN6 3LD, UK.
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Li S, Smerdon MJ. Rpb4 and Rpb9 mediate subpathways of transcription-coupled DNA repair in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. EMBO J 2002; 21:5921-9. [PMID: 12411509 PMCID: PMC131086 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdf589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2002] [Revised: 09/17/2002] [Accepted: 09/18/2002] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Rpb9, a non-essential subunit of RNA polymerase II, mediates a transcription-coupled repair (TCR) subpathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. This subpathway initiates at the same upstream site as the previously identified Rad26 subpathway. However, the Rpb9 subpathway operates more effectively in the coding region than in the region upstream of the transcription start site, whereas the Rad26 subpathway operates equally in the two regions. Rpb4, another non-essential subunit of RNA polymerase II, plays a dual role in regulating the two subpathways, suppressing the Rpb9 subpathway and facilitating the Rad26 subpathway. Simultaneous deletion of RPB9 and RAD26 genes completely abolishes TCR in both the coding and upstream regions, indicating that no other TCR subpathway exists in RNA polymerase II-transcribed genes.
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- Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Molecular Biosciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-4660, USA
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Fukumoto Y, Hiyama H, Yokoi M, Nakaseko Y, Yanagida M, Hanaoka F. Two budding yeast RAD4 homologs in fission yeast play different roles in the repair of UV-induced DNA damage. DNA Repair (Amst) 2002; 1:833-45. [PMID: 12531030 DOI: 10.1016/s1568-7864(02)00108-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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We have identified two fission yeast homologs of budding yeast Rad4 and human xeroderma pigmentosum complementation group C (XP-C) correcting protein, designated Rhp4A and Rhp4B. Here we show that the rhp4 genes encode NER factors that are required for UV-induced DNA damage repair in fission yeast. The rhp4A-deficient cells but not the rhp4B-deficient cells are sensitive to UV irradiation. However, the disruption of both rhp4A and rhp4B resulted in UV sensitivity that was greater than that of the rhp4A-deficient cells, revealing that Rhp4B plays a role in DNA repair on its own. Fission yeast has two pathways to repair photolesions on DNA, namely, nucleotide excision repair (NER) and UV-damaged DNA endonuclease-dependent excision repair (UVER). Studies with the NER-deficient rad13 and the UVER-deficient (Delta)uvde mutants showed the two rhp4 genes are involved in NER and not UVER. Assessment of the ability of the various mutants to remove cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPDs) from the rbp2 gene locus indicated that Rhp4A is involved in the preferential repair of lesions on the transcribed DNA strand and plays the major role in fission yeast NER. Rhp4B in contrast acts as an accessory protein in non-transcribed strand (NTS) repair.
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- Yasunori Fukumoto
- Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Suita, Japan
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Jansen LET, Belo AI, Hulsker R, Brouwer J. Transcription elongation factor Spt4 mediates loss of phosphorylated RNA polymerase II transcription in response to DNA damage. Nucleic Acids Res 2002; 30:3532-9. [PMID: 12177294 PMCID: PMC134242 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkf475] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Previously, we found that Rad26, the yeast Cockayne syndrome B homolog and the transcription elongation factor Spt4 mediate transcription-coupled repair of UV-induced DNA damage. Here we studied the effect of DNA damage on transcription by directly analyzing the RNA polymerase II localization at active genes in vivo. A rad26 defect leads to loss of Ser5 phosphorylated RNA polymerase II localization to active genes, while localization is only transiently diminished in wild type cells. In contrast, loss of Ser5-P RNAP II localization is suppressed in spt4 cells. Interestingly, even when DNA damage is persistent the absence of Spt4 leads to a delayed loss of transcription suggesting that Spt4 is directly involved in mediating transcription shutdown. Comparative analysis of phosphorylated and non-phosphorylated RNA polymerase II localization revealed that Ser5-P RNAP II is preferentially lost in the presence of DNA damage. In addition, we found evidence for a transient Rad26 localization to active genes in response to DNA damage. These findings provide insight into the transcriptional response to DNA damage and the factors involved in communicating this response, which has direct implications for our understanding of transcription-repair coupling.
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- Lars E T Jansen
- MGC Department of Molecular Genetics, Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, PO Box 9502, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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González-Barrera S, Prado F, Verhage R, Brouwer J, Aguilera A. Defective nucleotide excision repair in yeast hpr1 and tho2 mutants. Nucleic Acids Res 2002; 30:2193-201. [PMID: 12000839 PMCID: PMC115280 DOI: 10.1093/nar/30.10.2193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Nucleotide excision repair (NER) and transcription are intimately related. First, TFIIH has a dual role in transcription initiation and NER and, secondly, transcription leads to more efficient repair of damage present in transcribed sequences. It is thought that elongating RNAPII, stalled at a DNA lesion, is used for the loading of the NER machinery in a process termed transcription-coupled repair (TCR). Non-transcribed regions are repaired by the so-called global genome repair (GGR). We have previously defined a number of yeast genes, whose deletions confer transcription-dependent hyper-recombination phenotypes. As these mutations cause impairment of transcription elongation we have assayed whether they also affect DNA repair. We show that null mutations of the HPR1 and THO2 genes, encoding two prominent proteins of the THO complex, increase UV sensitivity of yeast cells lacking GGR. Consistent with this result, molecular analyses of DNA repair of the RPB2 transcribed strand using T4 endo V show that hpr1 and tho2 do indeed impair TCR. However, this effect is not confined to TCR alone because the mutants are slightly affected in GGR. These results indicate that THO affects both transcription and NER. We discuss different alternatives to explain the effect of the THO complex on DNA repair.
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MESH Headings
- Blotting, Northern
- Cell Cycle Proteins
- DNA Repair/genetics
- DNA, Fungal/genetics
- DNA, Fungal/metabolism
- DNA, Fungal/radiation effects
- DNA-Binding Proteins
- Deoxyribonuclease (Pyrimidine Dimer)
- Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation
- Endodeoxyribonucleases/metabolism
- Fungal Proteins/genetics
- Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal/radiation effects
- Genotype
- Mating Factor
- Mutation
- Nuclear Proteins
- Peptides/genetics
- Protein Subunits
- RNA Polymerase II/genetics
- RNA, Fungal/genetics
- RNA, Fungal/metabolism
- RNA, Fungal/radiation effects
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genetics
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae/radiation effects
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins
- Schizosaccharomyces pombe Proteins
- Transcription Factors/genetics
- Transcription, Genetic
- UDPglucose-Hexose-1-Phosphate Uridylyltransferase/genetics
- Ultraviolet Rays
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- Sergio González-Barrera
- Departamento de Genética, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, Avd. Reina Mercedes 6, 41012 Sevilla, Spain
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Several types of helix-distorting DNA lesions block the passage of elongating RNA polymerase II. Surprisingly, such transcription-blocking lesions are usually repaired considerably faster than non-obstructive lesions in the non-transcribed strand or in the genome overall. In this review, our knowledge of eukaryotic transcription-coupled repair (TCR) will be considered from the point of view of transcription, and current models for the mechanism of TCR will be discussed.
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- Jesper Q Svejstrup
- Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Clare Hall Laboratories, Blanche Lane, South Mimms, Hertfordshire EN6 3LD, UK.
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Jansen LE, den Dulk H, Brouns RM, de Ruijter M, Brandsma JA, Brouwer J. Spt4 modulates Rad26 requirement in transcription-coupled nucleotide excision repair. EMBO J 2000; 19:6498-507. [PMID: 11101522 PMCID: PMC305866 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/19.23.6498] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The nucleotide excision repair machinery can be targeted preferentially to lesions in transcribed sequences. This mode of DNA repair is referred to as transcription-coupled repair (TCR). In yeast, the Rad26 protein, which is the counterpart of the human Cockayne syndrome B protein, is implicated specifically in TCR. In a yeast strain genetically deprived of global genome repair, a deletion of RAD26 renders cells UV sensitive and displays a defect in TCR. Using a genome-wide mutagenesis approach, we found that deletion of the SPT4 gene suppresses the rad26 defect. We show that suppression by the absence of Spt4 is specific for a rad26 defect and is caused by reactivation of TCR in a Rad26-independent manner. Spt4 is involved in the regulation of transcription elongation. The absence of this regulation leads to transcription that is intrinsically competent for TCR. Our findings suggest that Rad26 acts as an elongation factor rendering transcription TCR competent and that its requirement can be modulated by Spt4.
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- L E Jansen
- MGC Department of Molecular Genetics, Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, PO Box 9502, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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Tommasi S, Oxyzoglou AB, Pfeifer GP. Cell cycle-independent removal of UV-induced pyrimidine dimers from the promoter and the transcription initiation domain of the human CDC2 gene. Nucleic Acids Res 2000; 28:3991-8. [PMID: 11024179 PMCID: PMC110792 DOI: 10.1093/nar/28.20.3991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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To assess whether removal of UV-induced cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPDs) occurs with equal efficiency at different stages of the cell cycle in a cell cycle-regulated gene, we have analyzed repair of CPDs, following a single dose of UV, in normal human fibroblasts that were synchronized in either G(0) or S phase. Based on a single nucleotide resolution analysis, we established a detailed map of DNA repair rates along the promoter region and the transcription initiation area of the human CDC2 gene. The promoter of this gene is covered by an array of sequence-specific transcription factors located between nt -280 and -9 relative to the major transcription start site. In both quiescent and S phase-synchronized fibroblasts the majority of these sequences were poorly repaired even after 24 h, probably as a result of the constitutive binding of transcription factors throughout the cell cycle. A domain of fast repair was found at sequences surrounding the transcription initiation site and continuing downstream for approximately 80 nt. CPD removal from this domain was preferential in both quiescent and proliferating fibroblasts, despite lower levels of global genome repair and a lack of CDC2 transcription in quiescent cells. We suggest that sequences involved in transcription initiation may be book-marked for efficient repair throughout the cell cycle, even when the gene is temporarily not expressed.
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- S Tommasi
- Department of Biology, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA 91010, USA.
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In nucleotide excision repair (NER) in eukaryotes, DNA is incised on both sides of the lesion, resulting in the removal of a fragment approximately 25-30 nucleotides long. This is followed by repair synthesis and ligation. The proteins encoded by the various yeast NER genes have been purified, and the incision reaction reconstituted in vitro. This reaction requires the damage binding factors Rad14, RPA, and the Rad4-Rad23 complex, the transcription factor TFIIH which contains the two DNA helicases Rad3 and Rad25, essential for creating a bubble structure, and the two endonucleases, the Rad1-Rad10 complex and Rad2, which incise the damaged DNA strand on the 5'- and 3'-side of the lesion, respectively. Addition of the Rad7-Rad16 complex to this reconstituted system stimulates the incision reaction many fold. The various NER proteins exist in vivo as part of multiprotein subassemblies which have been named NEFs (nucleotide excision repair factors). Rad14 and Rad1-Rad10 form one subassembly called NEF1, the Rad4-Rad23 complex is named NEF2, Rad2 and TFIIH constitute NEF3, and the Rad7-Rad16 complex is called NEF4. Although much has been learned from yeast about the function of NER genes and proteins in eukaryotes, the underlying mechanisms by which damage is recognized, NEFs are assembled at the damage site, and the DNA is unwound and incised, remain to be elucidated.
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- S Prakash
- Sealy Center for Molecular Science, University of Texas Medical Branch, 6.103 Medical Research Building, Galveston, TX 77555-1061, USA
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Teng Y, Waters R. Excision repair at the level of the nucleotide in the upstream control region, the coding sequence and in the region where transcription terminates of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae MFA2 gene and the role of RAD26. Nucleic Acids Res 2000; 28:1114-9. [PMID: 10666451 PMCID: PMC102608 DOI: 10.1093/nar/28.5.1114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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RAD26, the yeast homologue of human CSB, has an essential role in transcription-coupled repair (TCR). We have mapped the requisite of Rad26 for nucleotide excision repair (NER) within the different regions of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae MFA2 gene at nucleotide resolution. Our results show that Rad26 is dispensable for enhanced NER in both the MFA2 upstream promoter, except in the TATA box region, and for enhanced NER in both strands of the active gene at a site close to the transcription termination region. As expected, it is not needed for repair of regions downstream of where transcription terminates. However, it is required for TCR in the transcription initiation and elongation regions. Our data support the hypothesis that Rad26 is required for the interchange between holo-TFIIH and a putative repairosome containing core TFIIH and other NER proteins. Close to the end of transcription, hotspots for the repair of CPDs in both the transcribed strand and the non-transcribed strand occur. This enhanced repair is independent of Rad26. Hence, TFIIH may take a form favourable for forming a repairosome without Rad26 assistance; here the organisation of the DNA during the termination of transcription may facilitate access of a repair complex to enable enhanced repair of both strands.
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- Y Teng
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Wales Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK
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Lombaerts M, Goeloe JI, den Dulk H, Brandsma JA, Brouwer J. Identification and characterization of the rhp23(+) DNA repair gene in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2000; 268:210-5. [PMID: 10652237 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2000.2100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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We have identified rhp23(+), the ortholog of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae RAD23 and human HHR23A and HHR23B genes, in Schizosaccharomyces pombe and examined its role in cell survival and DNA repair. In S. pombe two repair mechanisms are operative on UV-induced photoproducts, i.e., UV damage repair (UVDR) and nucleotide excision repair (NER). Here we show that Rhp23 is solely involved in NER and study its role in DNA repair in the absence of the UVDR pathway. S. pombe rhp23-deficient cells are sensitive toward UV irradiation, although not as sensitive as complete NER-deficient cells. Furthermore we demonstrate that the residual survival observed in rhp23-deficient cells is NER dependent. Despite this NER-dependent survival, uvde rhp23 double mutants are unable to repair cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers. The inability to remove these photolesions from both DNA strands clearly demonstrates that rhp23(+) is involved in transcription coupled repair as well as global genome repair.
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- M Lombaerts
- Medical Genetics Centre South-West Netherlands, Leiden University, Leiden, 2300 RA, The Netherlands
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Morey NJ, Greene CN, Jinks-Robertson S. Genetic analysis of transcription-associated mutation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics 2000; 154:109-20. [PMID: 10628973 PMCID: PMC1460922 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/154.1.109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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High levels of transcription are associated with elevated mutation rates in yeast, a phenomenon referred to as transcription-associated mutation (TAM). The transcription-associated increase in mutation rates was previously shown to be partially dependent on the Rev3p translesion bypass pathway, thus implicating DNA damage in TAM. In this study, we use reversion of a pGAL-driven lys2DeltaBgl allele to further examine the genetic requirements of TAM. We find that TAM is increased by disruption of the nucleotide excision repair or recombination pathways. In contrast, elimination of base excision repair components has only modest effects on TAM. In addition to the genetic studies, the lys2DeltaBgl reversion spectra of repair-proficient low and high transcription strains were obtained. In the low transcription spectrum, most of the frameshift events correspond to deletions of AT base pairs whereas in the high transcription strain, deletions of GC base pairs predominate. These results are discussed in terms of transcription and its role in DNA damage and repair.
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- N J Morey
- Graduate Program in Genetics and Molecular Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
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Yasuhira S, Morimyo M, Yasui A. Transcription dependence and the roles of two excision repair pathways for UV damage in fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:26822-7. [PMID: 10480889 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.38.26822] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Fission yeasts Schizosaccharomyces pombe possess two types of excision repair systems for UV-induced DNA damage, nucleotide excision repair (NER) and UV-damaged DNA endonuclease (UVDE)-dependent excision repair (UVER). Despite its high efficiency in damage removal, UVER defects have less effect on UV survival than NER defects. To understand the differential roles of two pathways, we examined strand-specific damage removal at the myo2 and rpb2 loci. Although NER removes cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers from the transcribed strand more rapidly than from the nontranscribed strand, UVER repairs cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers equally on both strands and at a much higher rate than NER. The low rate of damage removal from the nontranscribed strand in the absence of UVER indicates inefficient global genome repair (GGR) in this organism and a possible function of UVER as an alternative to GGR. Disruption of rhp26, the S. pombe homolog of CSB/RAD26, eliminated the strand bias of NER almost completely and resulted in a significant increase of UV sensitivity of cells in a uvdeDelta background. We suggest that the combination of transcription-coupled repair of NER and rapid UVER contributes to UV survival in growing S. pombe cells, which is accomplished by transcription-coupled repair and GGR in other organisms.
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- S Yasuhira
- Institute of Development, Aging, and Cancer, Tohoku University, Seiryomachi 4-1, Aoba-Ku, Sendai 980-8575, Japan.
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Li S, Livingstone-Zatchej M, Gupta R, Meijer M, Thoma F, Smerdon MJ. Nucleotide excision repair in a constitutive and inducible gene of a yeast minichromosome in intact cells. Nucleic Acids Res 1999; 27:3610-20. [PMID: 10446254 PMCID: PMC148608 DOI: 10.1093/nar/27.17.3610] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Repair of UV-induced cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPDs) was measured in a yeast minichromosome, having a galactose-inducible GAL1:URA3 fusion gene, a constitutively expressed HIS3 gene and varied regions of chromatin structure. Transcription of GAL1:URA3 increased >150-fold, while HIS3 expression decreased <2-fold when cells were switched from glucose to galactose medium. Following galactose induction, four nucleosomes were displaced or rearranged in the GAL3-GAL10 region. However, no change in nucleosome arrangement was observed in other regions of the minichromosome following induction, indicating that only a few plasmid molecules actively transcribe at any one time. Repair at 269 cis-syn CPD sites revealed moderate preferential repair of the transcribed strand of GAL1:URA3 in galactose, consistent with transcription-coupled repair in a fraction of these genes. Many sites upstream of the transcription start site in the transcribed strand were also repaired faster upon induction. There is remarkable repair heterogeneity in the HIS3 gene and preferential repair is seen only in a short sequence immediately downstream of the transcription start site. Finally, a mild correlation of repair heterogeneity with nucleosome positions was observed in the transcribed strand of the inactive GAL1:URA3 gene and this correlation was abolished upon galactose induction.
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MESH Headings
- Chromatin/metabolism
- Chromosomes, Fungal/genetics
- Chromosomes, Fungal/metabolism
- Chromosomes, Fungal/radiation effects
- DNA Repair
- DNA, Fungal/analysis
- DNA, Fungal/radiation effects
- Genes, Reporter/genetics
- Models, Genetic
- Plasmids
- Pyrimidine Dimers/metabolism
- RNA, Fungal/analysis
- RNA, Fungal/radiation effects
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genetics
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae/metabolism
- Time Factors
- Transcription, Genetic
- Ultraviolet Rays
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- S Li
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-4660, USA
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Day RS, Rasouli-Nia A, Meservy J, Lari SU, Dobler K, Tsunoda S, Miyakoshi J, Takebe H, Murray D. Decreased Host-Cell Reactivation of UV-lrradiated Adenovirus in Human Colon Tumor Cell Lines that Have Normal Post-UV Survival. Photochem Photobiol 1999. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1999.tb07992.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Recently, there has been a convergence of fields studying the processing of DNA, such as transcription, replication, and repair. This convergence has been centered around the packaging of DNA in chromatin. Chromatin structure affects all aspects of DNA processing because it modulates access of proteins to DNA. Therefore, a central theme has become the mechanism(s) for accessing DNA in chromatin. It seems likely that mechanisms involved in one of these processes may also be used in others. For example, the discovery of transcriptional coactivators with histone acetyltransferase activity and chromatin remodeling complexes has provided possible mechanisms required for efficient repair of DNA in chromatin.
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- M Meijer
- Department of Biochemistry and biophysics, Washington State University, Pullman, USA
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Tijsterman M, Brouwer J. Rad26, the yeast homolog of the cockayne syndrome B gene product, counteracts inhibition of DNA repair due to RNA polymerase II transcription. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:1199-202. [PMID: 9880486 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.3.1199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Transcription-coupled DNA repair (TCR) is responsible for the preferential removal of DNA lesions from the transcribed strands of RNA polymerase II transcribed genes. Saccharomyces cerevisiae rad26 mutants and cells from patients suffering from the hereditary disease Cockayne syndrome display a TCR defective phenotype. Whether this lack of preferential repair has to be explained by a defect in repair or in general transcription is unclear at present. To discriminate between both possibilities, we analyzed repair of UV-induced cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers at single base resolution in yeast cells lacking RAD26, the homolog of the Cockayne syndrome B gene. Disrupting RAD26 affects nucleotide excision repair of transcribed DNA irrespective of the chromatin context, resulting in similar rates of removal for individual cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers throughout the transcribed strand. Notably, repair of transcribed sequences in between core nucleosomal regions is less efficient compared with nontranscribed DNA at these positions, pointing to a nucleotide excision repair impediment caused by blocked RNA polymerase. Our in vivo data demonstrate that the TCR defect in rad26 mutant cells is not due to a general transcription deficiency but results from the inability to release the transcription complex trapped at sites of base damage.
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- M Tijsterman
- Medical Genetic Centre, Department of Molecular Genetics, Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Gorlaeus Laboratories, Leiden University, P. O. Box 9502, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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Frit P, Bergmann E, Egly JM. Transcription factor IIH: a key player in the cellular response to DNA damage. Biochimie 1999; 81:27-38. [PMID: 10214907 DOI: 10.1016/s0300-9084(99)80035-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/16/2022]
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TFIIH (transcription factor IIH) is a multiprotein complex consisting of nine subunits initially characterized as a basal transcription factor required for initiation of protein-coding RNA synthesis. TFIIH was the first transcription factor shown to harbor several enzymatic activities, likely indicative of functional complexity. This intricacy was further emphasized with the cloning of the genes encoding the different subunits which disclosed direct connections between transcription, DNA repair and cell cycle regulation. In this review, we emphasize those functions of TFIIH involved in DNA repair, as well as their relationship to TFIIH's roles in transcription, cell cycle control and apoptosis. These connections may prove to be essential for the cellular response to DNA damage.
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- P Frit
- Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Université Louis-Pasteur, Strasbourg, Illkirch, France
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Some types of damage to cellular DNA have been shown to interfere with the essential transactions of replication and transcription. Not only may the translocation of the polymerase be arrested at the site of the lesion but the bound protein may encumber recognition of the lesion by repair enzymes. In the case of transcription a subpathway of excision repair, termed transcription-coupled repair (TCR) has been shown to operate on lesions in the transcribed strands of expressed genes in bacteria, yeast, mammalian cells and a number of other organisms. Certain genes in mammalian cells (e.g., CSA and CSB) have been uniquely implicated in TCR while others (e.g., XPC-HR23 and XPE) have been shown to operate in the global genomic pathway of nucleotide excision repair, but not in TCR. In order to understand the mechanism of TCR it is important to learn how an RNA polymerase elongation complex interacts with a damaged DNA template. That relationship is explored for different lesions and different RNA polymerase systems in this article.
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- S Tornaletti
- Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, CA 94305-5020, USA
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Tijsterman M, de Pril R, Tasseron-de Jong JG, Brouwer J. RNA polymerase II transcription suppresses nucleosomal modulation of UV-induced (6-4) photoproduct and cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer repair in yeast. Mol Cell Biol 1999; 19:934-40. [PMID: 9858617 PMCID: PMC83951 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.19.1.934] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The nucleotide excision repair (NER) pathway is able to remove a wide variety of structurally unrelated lesions from DNA. NER operates throughout the genome, but the efficiencies of lesion removal are not the same for different genomic regions. Even within a single gene or DNA strand repair rates vary, and this intragenic heterogeneity is of considerable interest with respect to the mutagenic potential of carcinogens. In this study, we have analyzed the removal of the two major types of genotoxic DNA adducts induced by UV light, i.e., the pyrimidine (6-4)-pyrimidone photoproduct (6-4PP) and the cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer (CPD), from the Saccharomyces cerevisiae URA3 gene at nucleotide resolution. In contrast to the fast and uniform removal of CPDs from the transcribed strand, removal of lesions from the nontranscribed strand is generally less efficient and is modulated by the chromatin environment of the damage. Removal of 6-4PPs from nontranscribed sequences is also profoundly influenced by positioned nucleosomes, but this type of lesion is repaired at a much higher rate. Still, the transcribed strand is repaired preferentially, indicating that, as in the removal of CPDs, transcription-coupled repair predominates in the removal of 6-4PPs from transcribed DNA. The hypothesis that transcription machinery operates as the rate-determining damage recognition entity in transcription-coupled repair is supported by the observation that this pathway removes both types of UV photoproducts at equal rates without being profoundly influenced by the sequence or chromatin context.
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- M Tijsterman
- Medical Genetic Centre, Department of Molecular Genetics, Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Gorlaeus Laboratories, Leiden University, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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You Z, Feaver WJ, Friedberg EC. Yeast RNA polymerase II transcription in vitro is inhibited in the presence of nucleotide excision repair: complementation of inhibition by Holo-TFIIH and requirement for RAD26. Mol Cell Biol 1998; 18:2668-76. [PMID: 9566886 PMCID: PMC110646 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.18.5.2668] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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The Saccharomyces cerevisiae transcription factor IIH (TFIIH) is essential both for transcription by RNA polymerase II (RNAP II) and for nucleotide excision repair (NER) of damaged DNA. We have established cell extracts which support RNAP II transcription from the yeast CYC1 promoter or NER of transcriptionally silent damaged DNA on independent plasmid templates and substrates. When plasmid templates and substrates for both processes are simultaneously incubated with these extracts, transcription is significantly inhibited. This inhibition is strictly dependent on active NER and can be complemented with purified holo-TFIIH. These results suggest that in the presence of active NER, TFIIH is preferentially mobilized from the basal transcription machinery for use in NER. Inhibition of transcription in the presence of active NER requires the RAD26 gene, the yeast homolog of the human Cockayne syndrome group B gene (CSB).
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- Z You
- Department of Pathology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas 75235, USA
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Nucleotide Excision Repair in Yeast: Recent Progress and Implications. DNA Repair (Amst) 1998. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-48770-5_6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Verhage RA, Tijsterman M, van de Putte P, Brouwer J. Transcription-Coupled and Global Genome Nucleotide Excision Repair. DNA Repair (Amst) 1998. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-48770-5_8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Lombaerts M, Tijsterman M, Verhage RA, Brouwer J. Saccharomyces cerevisiae mms19 mutants are deficient in transcription-coupled and global nucleotide excision repair. Nucleic Acids Res 1997; 25:3974-9. [PMID: 9321645 PMCID: PMC147023 DOI: 10.1093/nar/25.20.3974] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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The recently cloned Saccharomyces cerevisiae MMS19 gene appears to be involved in both nucleotide excision repair (NER) and transcription, which is also the case for components of the NER/transcription complex TFIIH. Unlike TFIIH however, the Mms19 protein does not affect NER in a highly purified in vitro system. In order to investigate the role of Mms19 in NER, we have analysed the repair capacity of the mms19 disruption mutant. We find that a cell-free extract of this mutant is deficient for NER in vitro. Since mms19 mutants are only moderately sensitive to irradiation with ultraviolet (UV) light, it is possible that such mutants are specifically deficient in one of the two modes of NER, i.e. transcription-coupled or global genome repair. To investigate this possibility, we have analysed the removal of cyclobutane-pyrimidine dimers (CPDs) at the nucleotide level in an mms19 mutant. Repair of CPDs was not detectable for both transcribed and non-transcribed sequences in this mutant, demonstrating a requirement for Mms19 in both transcription-coupled and global genome repair. Our data, combined with those obtained by others, suggest that Mms19 is required for NER in yeast, although it seems likely that the protein plays an indirect role in this process.
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- M Lombaerts
- Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, PO Box 9502, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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