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Piguet B, Houseley J. Transcription as source of genetic heterogeneity in budding yeast. Yeast 2024; 41:171-185. [PMID: 38196235 DOI: 10.1002/yea.3926] [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: 10/07/2023] [Revised: 12/10/2023] [Accepted: 12/20/2023] [Indexed: 01/11/2024] Open
Abstract
Transcription presents challenges to genome stability both directly, by altering genome topology and exposing single-stranded DNA to chemical insults and nucleases, and indirectly by introducing obstacles to the DNA replication machinery. Such obstacles include the RNA polymerase holoenzyme itself, DNA-bound regulatory factors, G-quadruplexes and RNA-DNA hybrid structures known as R-loops. Here, we review the detrimental impacts of transcription on genome stability in budding yeast, as well as the mitigating effects of transcription-coupled nucleotide excision repair and of systems that maintain DNA replication fork processivity and integrity. Interactions between DNA replication and transcription have particular potential to induce mutation and structural variation, but we conclude that such interactions must have only minor effects on DNA replication by the replisome with little if any direct mutagenic outcome. However, transcription can significantly impair the fidelity of replication fork rescue mechanisms, particularly Break Induced Replication, which is used to restart collapsed replication forks when other means fail. This leads to de novo mutations, structural variation and extrachromosomal circular DNA formation that contribute to genetic heterogeneity, but only under particular conditions and in particular genetic contexts, ensuring that the bulk of the genome remains extremely stable despite the seemingly frequent interactions between transcription and DNA replication.
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Siler J, Guo N, Liu Z, Qin Y, Bi X. γH2A/γH2AX Mediates DNA Damage-Specific Control of Checkpoint Signaling in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Int J Mol Sci 2024; 25:2462. [PMID: 38473708 DOI: 10.3390/ijms25052462] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/01/2024] [Revised: 02/13/2024] [Accepted: 02/16/2024] [Indexed: 03/14/2024] Open
Abstract
DNA lesions trigger DNA damage checkpoint (DDC) signaling which arrests cell cycle progression and promotes DNA damage repair. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, phosphorylation of histone H2A (γH2A, equivalent to γH2AX in mammals) is an early chromatin mark induced by DNA damage that is recognized by a group of DDC and DNA repair factors. We find that γH2A negatively regulates the G2/M checkpoint in response to the genotoxin camptothecin, which is a DNA topoisomerase I poison. γH2A also suppresses DDC signaling induced by the DNA alkylating agent methyl methanesulfonate. These results differ from prior findings, which demonstrate positive or no roles of γH2A in DDC in response to other DNA damaging agents such as phleomycin and ionizing radiation, which suggest that γH2A has DNA damage-specific effects on DDC signaling. We also find evidence supporting the notion that γH2A regulates DDC signaling by mediating the competitive recruitment of the DDC mediator Rad9 and the DNA repair factor Rtt107 to DNA lesions. We propose that γH2A/γH2AX serves to create a dynamic balance between DDC and DNA repair that is influenced by the nature of DNA damage.
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- Jasmine Siler
- Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA
- College of Food Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
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- Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA
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de Alteriis E, Incerti G, Cartenì F, Chiusano ML, Colantuono C, Palomba E, Termolino P, Monticolo F, Esposito A, Bonanomi G, Capparelli R, Iannaccone M, Foscari A, Landi C, Parascandola P, Sanchez M, Tirelli V, de Falco B, Lanzotti V, Mazzoleni S. Extracellular DNA secreted in yeast cultures is metabolism-specific and inhibits cell proliferation. MICROBIAL CELL (GRAZ, AUSTRIA) 2023; 10:292-295. [PMID: 38053574 PMCID: PMC10695634 DOI: 10.15698/mic2023.12.810] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2023] [Revised: 10/20/2023] [Accepted: 11/03/2023] [Indexed: 12/07/2023]
Abstract
Extracellular DNA (exDNA) can be actively released by living cells and different putative functions have been attributed to it. Further, homologous exDNA has been reported to exert species-specific inhibitory effects on several organisms. Here, we demonstrate by different experimental evidence, including 1H-NMR metabolomic fingerprint, that the growth rate decline in Saccharomyces cerevisiae fed-batch cultures is determined by the accumulation of exDNA in the medium. Sequencing of such secreted exDNA represents a portion of the entire genome, showing a great similarity with extrachromosomal circular DNA (eccDNA) already reported inside yeast cells. The recovered DNA molecules were mostly single strands and specifically associated to the yeast metabolism displayed during cell growth. Flow cytometric analysis showed that the observed growth inhibition by exDNA corresponded to an arrest in the S phase of the cell cycle. These unprecedented findings open a new scenario on the functional role of exDNA produced by living cells.
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- Elisabetta de Alteriis
- Department of Biology, University of Naples “Federico II”, Via Cinthia 26, 80126 Naples, Italy
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- Department of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, University of Udine, via delle Scienze 206, 33100 Udine, Italy
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- Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples “Federico II”, via Università 100, 80055 Portici (NA), Italy
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- Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples “Federico II”, via Università 100, 80055 Portici (NA), Italy
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- Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples “Federico II”, via Università 100, 80055 Portici (NA), Italy
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- Institute of Biosciences and Bioresources CNR, Via Università 133, 80055 Portici (NA), Italy
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- Institute of Biosciences and Bioresources CNR, Via Università 133, 80055 Portici (NA), Italy
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- Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples “Federico II”, via Università 100, 80055 Portici (NA), Italy
- Cutaneous Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples “Federico II”, via Università 100, 80055 Portici (NA), Italy
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- Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples “Federico II”, via Università 100, 80055 Portici (NA), Italy
- Task Force Microbiome - University of Naples “Federico II“
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- Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples “Federico II”, via Università 100, 80055 Portici (NA), Italy
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- Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples “Federico II”, via Università 100, 80055 Portici (NA), Italy
- Laboratory of Biotechnological Processes for Energy and Industry, ENEA, Via Anguillarese, 301, - 00123 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, University of Udine, via delle Scienze 206, 33100 Udine, Italy
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- Department of Industrial Engineering, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Via Giovanni Paolo II 132, 84084 Fisciano, SA, Italy-
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- Department of Industrial Engineering, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Via Giovanni Paolo II 132, 84084 Fisciano, SA, Italy-
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- Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS) Core Facilities, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161 Rome, Italy
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- Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS) Core Facilities, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples “Federico II”, via Università 100, 80055 Portici (NA), Italy
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- Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples “Federico II”, via Università 100, 80055 Portici (NA), Italy
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- Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples “Federico II”, via Università 100, 80055 Portici (NA), Italy
- Task Force Microbiome - University of Naples “Federico II“
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Ghaddar N, Luciano P, Géli V, Corda Y. Chromatin assembly factor-1 preserves genome stability in ctf4Δ cells by promoting sister chromatid cohesion. Cell Stress 2023; 7:69-89. [PMID: 37662646 PMCID: PMC10468696 DOI: 10.15698/cst2023.09.289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2023] [Revised: 07/31/2023] [Accepted: 08/01/2023] [Indexed: 09/05/2023] Open
Abstract
Chromatin assembly and the establishment of sister chromatid cohesion are intimately connected to the progression of DNA replication forks. Here we examined the genetic interaction between the heterotrimeric chromatin assembly factor-1 (CAF-1), a central component of chromatin assembly during replication, and the core replisome component Ctf4. We find that CAF-1 deficient cells as well as cells affected in newly-synthesized H3-H4 histones deposition during DNA replication exhibit a severe negative growth with ctf4Δ mutant. We dissected the role of CAF-1 in the maintenance of genome stability in ctf4Δ yeast cells. In the absence of CTF4, CAF-1 is essential for viability in cells experiencing replication problems, in cells lacking functional S-phase checkpoint or functional spindle checkpoint, and in cells lacking DNA repair pathways involving homologous recombination. We present evidence that CAF-1 affects cohesin association to chromatin in a DNA-damage-dependent manner and is essential to maintain cohesion in the absence of CTF4. We also show that Eco1-catalyzed Smc3 acetylation is reduced in absence of CAF-1. Furthermore, we describe genetic interactions between CAF-1 and essential genes involved in cohesin loading, cohesin stabilization, and cohesin component indicating that CAF-1 is crucial for viability when sister chromatid cohesion is affected. Finally, our data indicate that the CAF-1-dependent pathway required for cohesion is functionally distinct from the Rtt101-Mms1-Mms22 pathway which functions in replicated chromatin assembly. Collectively, our results suggest that the deposition by CAF-1 of newly-synthesized H3-H4 histones during DNA replication creates a chromatin environment that favors sister chromatid cohesion and maintains genome integrity.
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- Nagham Ghaddar
- Marseille Cancer Research Centre (CRCM), U1068 INSERM, UMR7258 CNRS, UM105 Aix Marseille Univ, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, Marseille, France. Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer (Labeled Equip)
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- Marseille Cancer Research Centre (CRCM), U1068 INSERM, UMR7258 CNRS, UM105 Aix Marseille Univ, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, Marseille, France. Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer (Labeled Equip)
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- Marseille Cancer Research Centre (CRCM), U1068 INSERM, UMR7258 CNRS, UM105 Aix Marseille Univ, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, Marseille, France. Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer (Labeled Equip)
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- Marseille Cancer Research Centre (CRCM), U1068 INSERM, UMR7258 CNRS, UM105 Aix Marseille Univ, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, Marseille, France. Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer (Labeled Equip)
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Hadjicharalambous A, Whale AJ, Can G, Skehel JM, Houseley JM, Zegerman P. Checkpoint kinase interaction with DNA polymerase alpha regulates replication progression during stress. Wellcome Open Res 2023; 8:327. [PMID: 37766847 PMCID: PMC10521137 DOI: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.19617.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/06/2023] [Indexed: 09/29/2023] Open
Abstract
Background: In eukaryotes, replication stress activates a checkpoint response, which facilitates genome duplication by stabilising the replisome. How the checkpoint kinases regulate the replisome remains poorly understood. The aim of this study is to identify new targets of checkpoint kinases within the replisome during replication stress. Methods: Here we use an unbiased biotin proximity-ligation approach in Saccharomyces cerevisiae to identify new interactors and substrates of the checkpoint kinase Rad53 in vivo. Results: From this screen, we identified the replication initiation factor Sld7 as a Rad53 substrate, and Pol1, the catalytic subunit of polymerase a, as a Rad53-interactor. We showed that CDK phosphorylation of Pol1 mediates its interaction with Rad53. Combined with other interactions between Rad53 and the replisome, this Rad53-Pol1 interaction is important for viability and replisome progression during replication stress. Conclusions: Together, we explain how the interactions of Rad53 with the replisome are controlled by both replication stress and the cell cycle, and why these interactions might be important for coordinating the stabilisation of both the leading and lagging strand machineries.
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- Epigenetics Programme, Babraham Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, CB22 3AT, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, CB2 1GA, UK
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- Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, London, England, CB2 0QH, UK
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- Epigenetics Programme, Babraham Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, CB22 3AT, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, CB2 1GA, UK
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Wang X, Wang P, Li W, Zhu C, Fan D. Effect and mechanism of signal peptide and maltose on recombinant type III collagen production in Pichia pastoris. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2023:10.1007/s00253-023-12579-0. [PMID: 37199749 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-023-12579-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2023] [Revised: 05/04/2023] [Accepted: 05/09/2023] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Recombinant type III collagen plays an important role in cosmetics, wound healing, and tissue engineering. Thus, increasing its production is necessary. After an initial increase in output by modifying the signal peptide, we showed that adding 1% maltose directly to the medium increased the yield and reduced the degradation of recombinant type III collagen. We initially verified that Pichia pastoris GS115 can metabolize and utilize maltose. Interestingly, maltose metabolism-associated proteins in Pichia pastoris GS115 have not yet been identified. RNA sequencing and transmission electron microscopy were performed to clarify the specific mechanism of maltose influence. The results showed that maltose significantly improved the metabolism of methanol, thiamine, riboflavin, arginine, and proline. After adding maltose, the cell microstructures tended more toward the normal. Adding maltose also contributed to yeast homeostasis and methanol tolerance. Finally, adding maltose resulted in the downregulation of aspartic protease YPS1 and a decrease in yeast mortality, thereby slowing down recombinant type III collagen degradation. KEY POINTS: • Co-feeding of maltose improves recombinant type III collagen production. • Maltose incorporation enhances methanol metabolism and antioxidant capacity. • Maltose addition contributes to Pichia pastoris GS115 homeostasis.
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- Xingyin Wang
- Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Degradable Biomedical Materials, School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University, Xi'an, 710069, Shaanxi, China
- Shaanxi R&D Center of Biomaterials and Fermentation Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University, Xi'an, 710069, Shaanxi, China
- Biotech. & Biomed. Research Institute, Northwest University, Xi'an, 710069, Shaanxi, China
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- Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Degradable Biomedical Materials, School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University, Xi'an, 710069, Shaanxi, China
- Shaanxi R&D Center of Biomaterials and Fermentation Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University, Xi'an, 710069, Shaanxi, China
- Biotech. & Biomed. Research Institute, Northwest University, Xi'an, 710069, Shaanxi, China
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- Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Degradable Biomedical Materials, School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University, Xi'an, 710069, Shaanxi, China
- Shaanxi R&D Center of Biomaterials and Fermentation Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University, Xi'an, 710069, Shaanxi, China
- Biotech. & Biomed. Research Institute, Northwest University, Xi'an, 710069, Shaanxi, China
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- Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Degradable Biomedical Materials, School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University, Xi'an, 710069, Shaanxi, China
- Shaanxi R&D Center of Biomaterials and Fermentation Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University, Xi'an, 710069, Shaanxi, China
- Biotech. & Biomed. Research Institute, Northwest University, Xi'an, 710069, Shaanxi, China
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- Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Degradable Biomedical Materials, School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University, Xi'an, 710069, Shaanxi, China.
- Shaanxi R&D Center of Biomaterials and Fermentation Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University, Xi'an, 710069, Shaanxi, China.
- Biotech. & Biomed. Research Institute, Northwest University, Xi'an, 710069, Shaanxi, China.
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Natalino M, Fumasoni M. Experimental approaches to study evolutionary cell biology using yeasts. Yeast 2023; 40:123-133. [PMID: 36896914 DOI: 10.1002/yea.3848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2022] [Revised: 02/16/2023] [Accepted: 03/07/2023] [Indexed: 03/11/2023] Open
Abstract
The past century has witnessed tremendous advances in understanding how cells function. Nevertheless, how cellular processes have evolved is still poorly understood. Many studies have highlighted surprising molecular diversity in how cells from diverse species execute the same processes, and advances in comparative genomics are likely to reveal much more molecular diversity than was believed possible until recently. Extant cells remain therefore the product of an evolutionary history that we vastly ignore. Evolutionary cell biology has emerged as a discipline aiming to address this knowledge gap by combining evolutionary, molecular, and cellular biology thinking. Recent studies have shown how even essential molecular processes, such as DNA replication, can undergo fast adaptive evolution under certain laboratory conditions. These developments open new lines of research where the evolution of cellular processes can be investigated experimentally. Yeasts naturally find themselves at the forefront of this research line. Not only do they allow the observation of fast evolutionary adaptation, but they also provide numerous genomic, synthetic, and cellular biology tools already developed by a large community. Here we propose that yeasts can serve as an "evolutionary cell lab" to test hypotheses, principles, and ideas in evolutionary cell biology. We discuss various experimental approaches available for this purpose, and how biology at large can benefit from them.
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Minden S, Aniolek M, Noorman H, Takors R. Performing in spite of starvation: How Saccharomyces cerevisiae maintains robust growth when facing famine zones in industrial bioreactors. Microb Biotechnol 2022; 16:148-168. [PMID: 36479922 PMCID: PMC9803336 DOI: 10.1111/1751-7915.14188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2022] [Revised: 11/08/2022] [Accepted: 11/13/2022] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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In fed-batch operated industrial bioreactors, glucose-limited feeding is commonly applied for optimal control of cell growth and product formation. Still, microbial cells such as yeasts and bacteria are frequently exposed to glucose starvation conditions in poorly mixed zones or far away from the feedstock inlet point. Despite its commonness, studies mimicking related stimuli are still underrepresented in scale-up/scale-down considerations. This may surprise as the transition from glucose limitation to starvation has the potential to provoke regulatory responses with negative consequences for production performance. In order to shed more light, we performed gene-expression analysis of Saccharomyces cerevisiae grown in intermittently fed chemostat cultures to study the effect of limitation-starvation transitions. The resulting glucose concentration gradient was representative for the commercial scale and compelled cells to tolerate about 76 s with sub-optimal substrate supply. Special attention was paid to the adaptation status of the population by discriminating between first time and repeated entry into the starvation regime. Unprepared cells reacted with a transiently reduced growth rate governed by the general stress response. Yeasts adapted to the dynamic environment by increasing internal growth capacities at the cost of rising maintenance demands by 2.7%. Evidence was found that multiple protein kinase A (PKA) and Snf1-mediated regulatory circuits were initiated and ramped down still keeping the cells in an adapted trade-off between growth optimization and down-regulation of stress response. From this finding, primary engineering guidelines are deduced to optimize both the production host's genetic background and the design of scale-down experiments.
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- Steven Minden
- Institute of Biochemical EngineeringUniversity of StuttgartStuttgartGermany
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- Institute of Biochemical EngineeringUniversity of StuttgartStuttgartGermany
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- Royal DSMDelftThe Netherlands,Department of BiotechnologyDelft University of TechnologyDelftThe Netherlands
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- Institute of Biochemical EngineeringUniversity of StuttgartStuttgartGermany
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He R, Zhang Z. Rad53 arrests leading and lagging strand DNA synthesis via distinct mechanisms in response to DNA replication stress. Bioessays 2022; 44:e2200061. [PMID: 35778827 DOI: 10.1002/bies.202200061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2022] [Revised: 06/19/2022] [Accepted: 06/22/2022] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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DNA replication stress threatens ordinary DNA synthesis. The evolutionarily conserved DNA replication stress response pathway involves sensor kinase Mec1/ATR, adaptor protein Mrc1/Claspin, and effector kinase Rad53/Chk1, which spurs a host of changes to stabilize replication forks and maintain genome integrity. DNA replication forks consist of largely distinct sets of proteins at leading and lagging strands that function autonomously in DNA synthesis in vitro. In this article, we discuss eSPAN and BrdU-IP-ssSeq, strand-specific sequencing technologies that permit analysis of protein localization and DNA synthesis at individual strands in budding yeast. Using these approaches, we show that under replication stress Rad53 stalls DNA synthesis on both leading and lagging strands. On lagging strands, it stimulates PCNA unloading, and on leading strands, it attenuates the replication function of Mrc1-Tof1. We propose that in doing so, Rad53 couples leading and lagging strand DNA synthesis during replication stress, thereby preventing the emergence of harmful ssDNA.
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- Richard He
- Institute for Cancer Genetics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA.,Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA.,Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA.,Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
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- Institute for Cancer Genetics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA.,Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA.,Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA.,Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
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Pezzotti G, Kobara M, Nakaya T, Imamura H, Asai T, Miyamoto N, Adachi T, Yamamoto T, Kanamura N, Ohgitani E, Marin E, Zhu W, Nishimura I, Mazda O, Nakata T, Makimura K. Raman Study of Pathogenic Candida auris: Imaging Metabolic Machineries in Reaction to Antifungal Drugs. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:896359. [PMID: 35694304 PMCID: PMC9175029 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.896359] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2022] [Accepted: 04/25/2022] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
Abstract
The multidrug-resistant Candida auris often defies treatments and presently represents a worldwide public health threat. Currently, the ergosterol-targeting Amphotericin B (AmB) and the DNA/RNA-synthesis inhibitor 5-flucytosine (5-FC) are the two main drugs available for first-line defense against life-threatening Candida auris infections. However, important aspects of their mechanisms of action require further clarification, especially regarding metabolic reactions of yeast cells. Here, we applied Raman spectroscopy empowered with specifically tailored machine-learning algorithms to monitor and to image in situ the susceptibility of two Candida auris clades to different antifungal drugs (LSEM 0643 or JCM15448T, belonging to the East Asian Clade II; and, LSEM 3673 belonging to the South African Clade III). Raman characterizations provided new details on the mechanisms of action against Candida auris Clades II and III, while also unfolding differences in their metabolic reactions to different drugs. AmB treatment induced biofilm formation in both clades, but the formed biofilms showed different structures: a dense and continuous biofilm structure in Clade II, and an extra-cellular matrix with a “fluffy” and discontinuous structure in Clade III. Treatment with 5-FC caused no biofilm formation but yeast-to-hyphal or pseudo-hyphal morphogenesis in both clades. Clade III showed a superior capacity in reducing membrane permeability to the drug through chemically tailoring chitin structure with a high degree of acetylation and fatty acids networks with significantly elongated chains. This study shows the suitability of the in situ Raman method in characterizing susceptibility and stress response of different C. auris clades to antifungal drugs, thus opening a path to identifying novel clinical solutions counteracting the spread of these alarming pathogens.
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- Giuseppe Pezzotti
- Ceramic Physics Laboratory, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan
- Department of Immunology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
- Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
- Department of Dental Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
- The Center for Advanced Medical Engineering and Informatics, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
- *Correspondence: Giuseppe Pezzotti
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- Division of Pathological Science, Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Kyoto Pharmaceutical University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Ceramic Physics Laboratory, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan
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- Ceramic Physics Laboratory, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan
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- Ceramic Physics Laboratory, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Dental Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Dental Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Dental Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Dental Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Immunology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Ceramic Physics Laboratory, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan
- Department of Dental Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Ceramic Physics Laboratory, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan
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- Division of Advanced Prosthodontics, The Jane and Jerry Weintraub Center for Reconstructive Biotechnology, UCLA School of Dentistry, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Immunology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Division of Pathological Science, Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Kyoto Pharmaceutical University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Medical Mycology, Graduate School of Medicine, Teikyo University, Tokyo, Japan
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Jonas F, Yaakov G, Barkai N. Rtt109 promotes nucleosome replacement ahead of the replication fork. Genome Res 2022; 32:1089-1098. [PMID: 35609993 DOI: 10.1101/gr.276674.122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2022] [Accepted: 05/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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DNA replication perturbs chromatin by triggering the eviction, replacement, and incorporation of nucleosomes. How this dynamic is orchestrated in time and space is poorly understood. Here, we apply a genetically encoded sensor for histone exchange to follow the time-resolved histone H3 exchange profile in budding yeast cells undergoing slow synchronous replication in nucleotide-limiting conditions. We find that new histones are incorporated not only behind, but also ahead of the replication fork. We provide evidence that Rtt109, the S-phase-induced acetyltransferase, stabilizes nucleosomes behind the fork but promotes H3 replacement ahead of the fork. Increased replacement ahead of the fork is independent of the primary Rtt109 acetylation target H3K56 and rather results from Vps75-dependent Rtt109 activity toward the H3 N terminus. Our results suggest that, at least under nucleotide-limiting conditions, selective incorporation of differentially modified H3s behind and ahead of the replication fork results in opposing effects on histone exchange, likely reflecting the distinct challenges for genome stability at these different regions.
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- Felix Jonas
- Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
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Mechanisms of loading and release of the 9-1-1 checkpoint clamp. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2022; 29:369-375. [PMID: 35314831 DOI: 10.1038/s41594-022-00741-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2021] [Accepted: 02/09/2022] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Single-stranded or double-stranded DNA junctions with recessed 5' ends serve as loading sites for the checkpoint clamp, 9-1-1, which mediates activation of the apical checkpoint kinase, ATRMec1. However, the basis for 9-1-1's recruitment to 5' junctions is unclear. Here, we present structures of the yeast checkpoint clamp loader, Rad24-replication factor C (RFC), in complex with 9-1-1 and a 5' junction and in a post-ATP-hydrolysis state. Unexpectedly, 9-1-1 adopts both closed and planar open states in the presence of Rad24-RFC and DNA. Moreover, Rad24-RFC associates with the DNA junction in the opposite orientation of processivity clamp loaders with Rad24 exclusively coordinating the double-stranded region. ATP hydrolysis stimulates conformational changes in Rad24-RFC, leading to disengagement of DNA-loaded 9-1-1. Together, these structures explain 9-1-1's recruitment to 5' junctions and reveal new principles of sliding clamp loading.
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Disbennett WM, Hawk TM, Rollins PD, Nelakurti DD, Lucas BE, McPherson MT, Hylton HM, Petreaca RC. Genetic interaction of the histone chaperone hip1 + with double strand break repair genes in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. MICROPUBLICATION BIOLOGY 2022; 2022:10.17912/micropub.biology.000545. [PMID: 35622511 PMCID: PMC9005195 DOI: 10.17912/micropub.biology.000545] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2022] [Revised: 03/15/2022] [Accepted: 03/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Schizosaccharomyces pombe hip1 + (human HIRA) is a histone chaperone and transcription factor involved in establishment of the centromeric chromatin and chromosome segregation, regulation of histone transcription, and cellular response to stress. We carried out a double mutant genetic screen of Δhip1 and mutations in double strand break repair pathway. We find that hip1 + functions after the MRN complex which initiates resection of blunt double strand break ends but before recruitment of the DNA damage repair machinery. Further, deletion of hip1 + partially suppresses sensitivity to DNA damaging agents of mutations in genes involved in Break Induced Replication (BIR), one mechanism of rescue of stalled or collapses replication forks ( rad51 + , cdc27 + ). Δhip1 also suppresses mutations in two checkpoint genes ( cds1 + , rad3 + ) on hydroxyurea a drug that stalls replication forks. Our results show that hip1 + forms complex interactions with the DNA double strand break repair genes and may be involved in facilitating communication between damage sensors and downstream factors.
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- James Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
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- Molecular Genetics Undergraduate Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
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- Biomedical Science Undergraduate Program, The Ohio State University Medical School, Columbus, OH
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- James Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
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- Biology Undergraduate Program, The Ohio State University, Marion, OH
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University, Marion, OH
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Yeast Stn1 promotes MCM to circumvent Rad53 control of the S phase checkpoint. Curr Genet 2022; 68:165-179. [PMID: 35150303 PMCID: PMC8976814 DOI: 10.1007/s00294-022-01228-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2021] [Revised: 12/06/2021] [Accepted: 12/16/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Treating yeast cells with the replication inhibitor hydroxyurea activates the S phase checkpoint kinase Rad53, eliciting responses that block DNA replication origin firing, stabilize replication forks, and prevent premature extension of the mitotic spindle. We previously found overproduction of Stn1, a subunit of the telomere-binding Cdc13–Stn1–Ten1 complex, circumvents Rad53 checkpoint functions in hydroxyurea, inducing late origin firing and premature spindle extension even though Rad53 is activated normally. Here, we show Stn1 overproduction acts through remarkably similar pathways compared to loss of RAD53, converging on the MCM complex that initiates origin firing and forms the catalytic core of the replicative DNA helicase. First, mutations affecting Mcm2 and Mcm5 block the ability of Stn1 overproduction to disrupt the S phase checkpoint. Second, loss of function stn1 mutations compensate rad53 S phase checkpoint defects. Third Stn1 overproduction suppresses a mutation in Mcm7. Fourth, stn1 mutants accumulate single-stranded DNA at non-telomeric genome locations, imposing a requirement for post-replication DNA repair. We discuss these interactions in terms of a model in which Stn1 acts as an accessory replication factor that facilitates MCM activation at ORIs and potentially also maintains MCM activity at replication forks advancing through challenging templates.
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Batté A, van der Horst SC, Tittel-Elmer M, Sun SM, Sharma S, van Leeuwen J, Chabes A, van Attikum H. Chl1 helicase controls replication fork progression by regulating dNTP pools. Life Sci Alliance 2022; 5:5/4/e202101153. [PMID: 35017203 PMCID: PMC8761496 DOI: 10.26508/lsa.202101153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2021] [Revised: 12/23/2021] [Accepted: 12/28/2021] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Chl1 helicase affects RPA-dependent checkpoint activation after replication fork arrest by ensuring proper dNTP levels, thereby controlling replication fork progression under stress conditions. Eukaryotic cells have evolved a replication stress response that helps to overcome stalled/collapsed replication forks and ensure proper DNA replication. The replication checkpoint protein Mrc1 plays important roles in these processes, although its functional interactions are not fully understood. Here, we show that MRC1 negatively interacts with CHL1, which encodes the helicase protein Chl1, suggesting distinct roles for these factors during the replication stress response. Indeed, whereas Mrc1 is known to facilitate the restart of stalled replication forks, we uncovered that Chl1 controls replication fork rate under replication stress conditions. Chl1 loss leads to increased RNR1 gene expression and dNTP levels at the onset of S phase likely without activating the DNA damage response. This in turn impairs the formation of RPA-coated ssDNA and subsequent checkpoint activation. Thus, the Chl1 helicase affects RPA-dependent checkpoint activation in response to replication fork arrest by ensuring proper intracellular dNTP levels, thereby controlling replication fork progression under replication stress conditions.
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- Amandine Batté
- Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands
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- Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.,Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
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- Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Center for Integrative Genomics, Université de Lausanne, Lausanne-Dorigny, Switzerland
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands
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Sheu YJ, Kawaguchi RK, Gillis J, Stillman B. Prevalent and dynamic binding of the cell cycle checkpoint kinase Rad53 to gene promoters. eLife 2022; 11:84320. [PMID: 36520028 PMCID: PMC9797190 DOI: 10.7554/elife.84320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2022] [Accepted: 11/29/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Replication of the genome must be coordinated with gene transcription and cellular metabolism, especially following replication stress in the presence of limiting deoxyribonucleotides. The Saccharomyces cerevisiae Rad53 (CHEK2 in mammals) checkpoint kinase plays a major role in cellular responses to DNA replication stress. Cell cycle regulated, genome-wide binding of Rad53 to chromatin was examined. Under replication stress, the kinase bound to sites of active DNA replication initiation and fork progression, but unexpectedly to the promoters of about 20% of genes encoding proteins involved in multiple cellular functions. Rad53 promoter binding correlated with changes in expression of a subset of genes. Rad53 promoter binding to certain genes was influenced by sequence-specific transcription factors and less by checkpoint signaling. However, in checkpoint mutants, untimely activation of late-replicating origins reduces the transcription of nearby genes, with concomitant localization of Rad53 to their gene bodies. We suggest that the Rad53 checkpoint kinase coordinates genome-wide replication and transcription under replication stress conditions.
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- Yi-Jun Sheu
- Cold Spring Harbor LaboratoryCold Spring HarborUnited States
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- Cold Spring Harbor LaboratoryCold Spring HarborUnited States
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- Cold Spring Harbor LaboratoryCold Spring HarborUnited States
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Grabarczyk DB. The Fork Protection Complex: A Regulatory Hub at the Head of the Replisome. Subcell Biochem 2022; 99:83-107. [PMID: 36151374 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-00793-4_3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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As well as accurately duplicating DNA, the eukaryotic replisome performs a variety of other crucial tasks to maintain genomic stability. For example, organizational elements, like cohesin, must be transferred from the front of the fork to the new strands, and when there is replication stress, forks need to be protected and checkpoint signalling activated. The Tof1-Csm3 (or Timeless-Tipin in humans) Fork Protection Complex (FPC) ensures efficient replisome progression and is required for a range of replication-associated activities. Recent studies have begun to reveal the structure of this complex, and how it functions within the replisome to perform its diverse roles. The core of the FPC acts as a DNA grip on the front of the replisome to regulate fork progression. Other flexibly linked domains and motifs mediate interactions with proteins and specific DNA structures, enabling the FPC to act as a hub at the head of the replication fork.
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- Daniel B Grabarczyk
- Rudolf Virchow Center for Integrative and Translational Bioimaging, Institute for Structural Biology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
- Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna BioCenter, Vienna, Austria.
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Liakopoulos D. Coupling DNA Replication and Spindle Function in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Cells 2021; 10:cells10123359. [PMID: 34943867 PMCID: PMC8699587 DOI: 10.3390/cells10123359] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2021] [Revised: 11/24/2021] [Accepted: 11/27/2021] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA replication and spindle assembly can overlap. Therefore, signaling mechanisms modulate spindle dynamics in order to ensure correct timing of chromosome segregation relative to genome duplication, especially when replication is incomplete or the DNA becomes damaged. This review focuses on the molecular mechanisms that coordinate DNA replication and spindle dynamics, as well as on the role of spindle-dependent forces in DNA repair. Understanding the coupling between genome duplication and spindle function in yeast cells can provide important insights into similar processes operating in other eukaryotic organisms, including humans.
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- Dimitris Liakopoulos
- CRBM, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, 1919 Route de Mende, 34293 Montpellier, France;
- Laboratory of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ioannina, 45110 Ioannina, Greece
- University Research Center of loannina, University of Ioannina, 45110 Ioannina, Greece
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Yao S, Feng Y, Zhang Y, Feng J. DNA damage checkpoint and repair: From the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae to the pathogenic fungus Candida albicans. Comput Struct Biotechnol J 2021; 19:6343-6354. [PMID: 34938410 PMCID: PMC8645783 DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2021.11.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2021] [Revised: 11/16/2021] [Accepted: 11/20/2021] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Cells are constantly challenged by internal or external genotoxic assaults, which may induce a high frequency of DNA lesions, leading to genome instability. Accumulation of damaged DNA is severe or even lethal to cells and can result in abnormal proliferation that can cause cancer in multicellular organisms, aging or cell death. Eukaryotic cells have evolved a comprehensive defence system termed the DNA damage response (DDR) to monitor and remove lesions in their DNA. The DDR has been extensively studied in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Emerging evidence indicates that DDR genes in the pathogenic fungus Candida albicans show functional consistency with their orthologs in S. cerevisiae, but may act through distinct mechanisms. In particular, the DDR in C. albicans appears critical for resisting DNA damage stress induced by reactive oxygen species (ROS) produced from immune cells, and this plays a vital role in pathogenicity. Therefore, DDR genes could be considered as potential targets for clinical therapies. This review summarizes the identified DNA damage checkpoint and repair genes in C. albicans based on their orthologs in S. cerevisiae, and discusses their contribution to pathogenicity in C. albicans.
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- Shuangyan Yao
- Department of Pathogen Biology, School of Medicine, Nantong University, Nantong 226001, Jiangsu, China
- Nantong Health College of Jiangsu Province, Nantong 226016, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Pathogen Biology, School of Medicine, Nantong University, Nantong 226001, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Pathogen Biology, School of Medicine, Nantong University, Nantong 226001, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Pathogen Biology, School of Medicine, Nantong University, Nantong 226001, Jiangsu, China
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PCNA Loaders and Unloaders-One Ring That Rules Them All. Genes (Basel) 2021; 12:genes12111812. [PMID: 34828416 PMCID: PMC8618651 DOI: 10.3390/genes12111812] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2021] [Revised: 11/15/2021] [Accepted: 11/17/2021] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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During each cell duplication, the entirety of the genomic DNA in every cell must be accurately and quickly copied. Given the short time available for the chore, the requirement of many proteins, and the daunting amount of DNA present, DNA replication poses a serious challenge to the cell. A high level of coordination between polymerases and other DNA and chromatin-interacting proteins is vital to complete this task. One of the most important proteins for maintaining such coordination is PCNA. PCNA is a multitasking protein that forms a homotrimeric ring that encircles the DNA. It serves as a processivity factor for DNA polymerases and acts as a landing platform for different proteins interacting with DNA and chromatin. Therefore, PCNA is a signaling hub that influences the rate and accuracy of DNA replication, regulates DNA damage repair, controls chromatin formation during the replication, and the proper segregation of the sister chromatids. With so many essential roles, PCNA recruitment and turnover on the chromatin is of utmost importance. Three different, conserved protein complexes are in charge of loading/unloading PCNA onto DNA. Replication factor C (RFC) is the canonical complex in charge of loading PCNA during the S-phase. The Ctf18 and Elg1 (ATAD5 in mammalian) proteins form complexes similar to RFC, with particular functions in the cell’s nucleus. Here we summarize our current knowledge about the roles of these important factors in yeast and mammals.
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Brink DP, Borgström C, Persson VC, Ofuji Osiro K, Gorwa-Grauslund MF. D-Xylose Sensing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Insights from D-Glucose Signaling and Native D-Xylose Utilizers. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:12410. [PMID: 34830296 PMCID: PMC8625115 DOI: 10.3390/ijms222212410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2021] [Revised: 11/11/2021] [Accepted: 11/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Extension of the substrate range is among one of the metabolic engineering goals for microorganisms used in biotechnological processes because it enables the use of a wide range of raw materials as substrates. One of the most prominent examples is the engineering of baker's yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae for the utilization of d-xylose, a five-carbon sugar found in high abundance in lignocellulosic biomass and a key substrate to achieve good process economy in chemical production from renewable and non-edible plant feedstocks. Despite many excellent engineering strategies that have allowed recombinant S. cerevisiae to ferment d-xylose to ethanol at high yields, the consumption rate of d-xylose is still significantly lower than that of its preferred sugar d-glucose. In mixed d-glucose/d-xylose cultivations, d-xylose is only utilized after d-glucose depletion, which leads to prolonged process times and added costs. Due to this limitation, the response on d-xylose in the native sugar signaling pathways has emerged as a promising next-level engineering target. Here we review the current status of the knowledge of the response of S. cerevisiae signaling pathways to d-xylose. To do this, we first summarize the response of the native sensing and signaling pathways in S. cerevisiae to d-glucose (the preferred sugar of the yeast). Using the d-glucose case as a point of reference, we then proceed to discuss the known signaling response to d-xylose in S. cerevisiae and current attempts of improving the response by signaling engineering using native targets and synthetic (non-native) regulatory circuits.
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- Daniel P. Brink
- Applied Microbiology, Department of Chemistry, Lund University, P.O. Box 124, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden; (C.B.); (V.C.P.); (K.O.O.)
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- Applied Microbiology, Department of Chemistry, Lund University, P.O. Box 124, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden; (C.B.); (V.C.P.); (K.O.O.)
- BioZone Centre for Applied Bioscience and Bioengineering, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, 200 College St., Toronto, ON M5S 3E5, Canada
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- Applied Microbiology, Department of Chemistry, Lund University, P.O. Box 124, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden; (C.B.); (V.C.P.); (K.O.O.)
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- Applied Microbiology, Department of Chemistry, Lund University, P.O. Box 124, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden; (C.B.); (V.C.P.); (K.O.O.)
- Genetics and Biotechnology Laboratory, Embrapa Agroenergy, Brasília 70770-901, DF, Brazil
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- Applied Microbiology, Department of Chemistry, Lund University, P.O. Box 124, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden; (C.B.); (V.C.P.); (K.O.O.)
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Hurst V, Challa K, Jonas F, Forey R, Sack R, Seebacher J, Schmid CD, Barkai N, Shimada K, Gasser SM, Poli J. A regulatory phosphorylation site on Mec1 controls chromatin occupancy of RNA polymerases during replication stress. EMBO J 2021; 40:e108439. [PMID: 34569643 PMCID: PMC8561635 DOI: 10.15252/embj.2021108439] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2021] [Revised: 09/08/2021] [Accepted: 09/10/2021] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Upon replication stress, budding yeast checkpoint kinase Mec1ATR triggers the downregulation of transcription, thereby reducing the level of RNA polymerase (RNAP) on chromatin to facilitate replication fork progression. Here, we identify a hydroxyurea-induced phosphorylation site on Mec1, Mec1-S1991, that contributes to the eviction of RNAPII and RNAPIII during replication stress. The expression of the non-phosphorylatable mec1-S1991A mutant reduces replication fork progression genome-wide and compromises survival on hydroxyurea. This defect can be suppressed by destabilizing chromatin-bound RNAPII through a TAP fusion to its Rpb3 subunit, suggesting that lethality in mec1-S1991A mutants arises from replication-transcription conflicts. Coincident with a failure to repress gene expression on hydroxyurea in mec1-S1991A cells, highly transcribed genes such as GAL1 remain bound at nuclear pores. Consistently, we find that nuclear pore proteins and factors controlling RNAPII and RNAPIII are phosphorylated in a Mec1-dependent manner on hydroxyurea. Moreover, we show that Mec1 kinase also contributes to reduced RNAPII occupancy on chromatin during an unperturbed S phase by promoting degradation of the Rpb1 subunit.
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- Verena Hurst
- Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland.,Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
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- Departments of Molecular Genetics and Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Institut de Génétique Humaine, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, Equipe labélisée Ligue contre le Cancer, Montpellier, France
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- Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
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- Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
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- Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
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- Departments of Molecular Genetics and Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
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- Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland.,Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland.,Institut de Génétique Humaine, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, Equipe labélisée Ligue contre le Cancer, Montpellier, France
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Hoffman RA, MacAlpine HK, MacAlpine DM. Disruption of origin chromatin structure by helicase activation in the absence of DNA replication. Genes Dev 2021; 35:1339-1355. [PMID: 34556529 PMCID: PMC8494203 DOI: 10.1101/gad.348517.121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2021] [Accepted: 08/23/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Prior to initiation of DNA replication, the eukaryotic helicase, Mcm2-7, must be activated to unwind DNA at replication start sites in early S phase. To study helicase activation within origin chromatin, we constructed a conditional mutant of the polymerase α subunit Cdc17 (or Pol1) to prevent priming and block replication. Recovery of these cells at permissive conditions resulted in the generation of unreplicated gaps at origins, likely due to helicase activation prior to replication initiation. We used micrococcal nuclease (MNase)-based chromatin occupancy profiling under restrictive conditions to study chromatin dynamics associated with helicase activation. Helicase activation in the absence of DNA replication resulted in the disruption and disorganization of chromatin, which extends up to 1 kb from early, efficient replication origins. The CMG holohelicase complex also moves the same distance out from the origin, producing single-stranded DNA that activates the intra-S-phase checkpoint. Loss of the checkpoint did not regulate the progression and stalling of the CMG complex but rather resulted in the disruption of chromatin at both early and late origins. Finally, we found that the local sequence context regulates helicase progression in the absence of DNA replication, suggesting that the helicase is intrinsically less processive when uncoupled from replication.
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- Rachel A Hoffman
- Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
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A mechanism for Rad53 to couple leading- and lagging-strand DNA synthesis under replication stress in budding yeast. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2021; 118:2109334118. [PMID: 34531325 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2109334118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/09/2021] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
Abstract
In response to DNA replication stress, DNA replication checkpoint kinase Mec1 phosphorylates Mrc1, which in turn activates Rad53 to prevent the generation of deleterious single-stranded DNA, a process that remains poorly understood. We previously reported that lagging-strand DNA synthesis proceeds farther than leading strand in rad53-1 mutant cells defective in replication checkpoint under replication stress, resulting in the exposure of long stretches of the leading-strand templates. Here, we show that asymmetric DNA synthesis is also observed in mec1-100 and mrc1-AQ cells defective in replication checkpoint but, surprisingly, not in mrc1∆ cells in which both DNA replication and checkpoint functions of Mrc1 are missing. Furthermore, depletion of either Mrc1 or its partner, Tof1, suppresses the asymmetric DNA synthesis in rad53-1 mutant cells. Thus, the DNA replication checkpoint pathway couples leading- and lagging-strand DNA synthesis by attenuating the replication function of Mrc1-Tof1 under replication stress.
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Kumar C, Batra S, Griffith JD, Remus D. The interplay of RNA:DNA hybrid structure and G-quadruplexes determines the outcome of R-loop-replisome collisions. eLife 2021; 10:72286. [PMID: 34494544 PMCID: PMC8479836 DOI: 10.7554/elife.72286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2021] [Accepted: 09/07/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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R-loops are a major source of genome instability associated with transcription-induced replication stress. However, how R-loops inherently impact replication fork progression is not understood. Here, we characterize R-loop-replisome collisions using a fully reconstituted eukaryotic DNA replication system. We find that RNA:DNA hybrids and G-quadruplexes at both co-directional and head-on R-loops can impact fork progression by inducing fork stalling, uncoupling of leading strand synthesis from replisome progression, and nascent strand gaps. RNase H1 and Pif1 suppress replication defects by resolving RNA:DNA hybrids and G-quadruplexes, respectively. We also identify an intrinsic capacity of replisomes to maintain fork progression at certain R-loops by unwinding RNA:DNA hybrids, repriming leading strand synthesis downstream of G-quadruplexes, or utilizing R-loop transcripts to prime leading strand restart during co-directional R-loop-replisome collisions. Collectively, the data demonstrates that the outcome of R-loop-replisome collisions is modulated by R-loop structure, providing a mechanistic basis for the distinction of deleterious from non-deleterious R-loops.
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- Charanya Kumar
- Molecular Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, United States
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- Molecular Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, United States
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- Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and Departments of Microbiology and Immunology, and Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States
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- Molecular Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, United States
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Corda Y, Maestroni L, Luciano P, Najem MY, Géli V. Genome stability is guarded by yeast Rtt105 through multiple mechanisms. Genetics 2021; 217:6126811. [PMID: 33724421 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/iyaa035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2020] [Accepted: 02/03/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Ty1 mobile DNA element is the most abundant and mutagenic retrotransposon present in the genome of the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Protein regulator of Ty1 transposition 105 (Rtt105) associates with large subunit of RPA and facilitates its loading onto a single-stranded DNA at replication forks. Here, we dissect the role of RTT105 in the maintenance of genome stability under normal conditions and upon various replication stresses through multiple genetic analyses. RTT105 is essential for viability in cells experiencing replication problems and in cells lacking functional S-phase checkpoints and DNA repair pathways involving homologous recombination. Our genetic analyses also indicate that RTT105 is crucial when cohesion is affected and is required for the establishment of normal heterochromatic structures. Moreover, RTT105 plays a role in telomere maintenance as its function is important for the telomere elongation phenotype resulting from the Est1 tethering to telomeres. Genetic analyses indicate that rtt105Δ affects the growth of several rfa1 mutants but does not aggravate their telomere length defects. Analysis of the phenotypes of rtt105Δ cells expressing NLS-Rfa1 fusion protein reveals that RTT105 safeguards genome stability through its role in RPA nuclear import but also by directly affecting RPA function in genome stability maintenance during replication.
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- Yves Corda
- CNRS UMR7258, INSERM U1068, Aix-Marseille Université UM105, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, CRCM, Marseille, France.,Equipe Labellisée Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer, Paris, France
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- CNRS UMR7258, INSERM U1068, Aix-Marseille Université UM105, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, CRCM, Marseille, France.,Equipe Labellisée Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer, Paris, France
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- CNRS UMR7258, INSERM U1068, Aix-Marseille Université UM105, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, CRCM, Marseille, France.,Equipe Labellisée Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer, Paris, France
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- CNRS UMR7258, INSERM U1068, Aix-Marseille Université UM105, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, CRCM, Marseille, France.,Equipe Labellisée Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer, Paris, France
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- CNRS UMR7258, INSERM U1068, Aix-Marseille Université UM105, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, CRCM, Marseille, France.,Equipe Labellisée Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer, Paris, France
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McClure AW, Diffley JF. Rad53 checkpoint kinase regulation of DNA replication fork rate via Mrc1 phosphorylation. eLife 2021; 10:69726. [PMID: 34387546 PMCID: PMC8387023 DOI: 10.7554/elife.69726] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2021] [Accepted: 08/12/2021] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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The Rad53 DNA checkpoint protein kinase plays multiple roles in the budding yeast cell response to DNA replication stress. Key amongst these is its enigmatic role in safeguarding DNA replication forks. Using DNA replication reactions reconstituted with purified proteins, we show Rad53 phosphorylation of Sld3/7 or Dbf4-dependent kinase blocks replication initiation whilst phosphorylation of Mrc1 or Mcm10 slows elongation. Mrc1 phosphorylation is necessary and sufficient to slow replication forks in complete reactions; Mcm10 phosphorylation can also slow replication forks, but only in the absence of unphosphorylated Mrc1. Mrc1 stimulates the unwinding rate of the replicative helicase, CMG, and Rad53 phosphorylation of Mrc1 prevents this. We show that a phosphorylation-mimicking Mrc1 mutant cannot stimulate replication in vitro and partially rescues the sensitivity of a rad53 null mutant to genotoxic stress in vivo. Our results show that Rad53 protects replication forks in part by antagonising Mrc1 stimulation of CMG unwinding.
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- Allison W McClure
- Chromosome Replication Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom
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- Chromosome Replication Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom
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Topoisomerase II deficiency leads to a postreplicative structural shift in all Saccharomyces cerevisiae chromosomes. Sci Rep 2021; 11:14940. [PMID: 34294749 PMCID: PMC8298500 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-93875-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2021] [Accepted: 07/01/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The key role of Topoisomerase II (Top2) is the removal of topological intertwines between sister chromatids. In yeast, inactivation of Top2 brings about distinct cell cycle responses. In the case of the conditional top2-5 allele, interphase and mitosis progress on schedule but cells suffer from a chromosome segregation catastrophe. We here show that top2-5 chromosomes fail to enter a Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis (PFGE) in the first cell cycle, a behavior traditionally linked to the presence of replication and recombination intermediates. We distinguished two classes of affected chromosomes: the rDNA-bearing chromosome XII, which fails to enter a PFGE at the beginning of S-phase, and all the other chromosomes, which fail at a postreplicative stage. In synchronously cycling cells, this late PFGE retention is observed in anaphase; however, we demonstrate that this behavior is independent of cytokinesis, stabilization of anaphase bridges, spindle pulling forces and, probably, anaphase onset. Strikingly, once the PFGE retention has occurred it becomes refractory to Top2 re-activation. DNA combing, two-dimensional electrophoresis, genetic analyses, and GFP-tagged DNA damage markers suggest that neither recombination intermediates nor unfinished replication account for the postreplicative PFGE shift, which is further supported by the fact that the shift does not trigger the G2/M checkpoint. We propose that the absence of Top2 activity leads to a general chromosome structural/topological change in mitosis.
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Guilliam TA. Mechanisms for Maintaining Eukaryotic Replisome Progression in the Presence of DNA Damage. Front Mol Biosci 2021; 8:712971. [PMID: 34295925 PMCID: PMC8290200 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2021.712971] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2021] [Accepted: 06/25/2021] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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The eukaryotic replisome coordinates template unwinding and nascent-strand synthesis to drive DNA replication fork progression and complete efficient genome duplication. During its advancement along the parental template, each replisome may encounter an array of obstacles including damaged and structured DNA that impede its progression and threaten genome stability. A number of mechanisms exist to permit replisomes to overcome such obstacles, maintain their progression, and prevent fork collapse. A combination of recent advances in structural, biochemical, and single-molecule approaches have illuminated the architecture of the replisome during unperturbed replication, rationalised the impact of impediments to fork progression, and enhanced our understanding of DNA damage tolerance mechanisms and their regulation. This review focusses on these studies to provide an updated overview of the mechanisms that support replisomes to maintain their progression on an imperfect template.
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- Thomas A. Guilliam
- Division of Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry, Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Técher H, Pasero P. The Replication Stress Response on a Narrow Path Between Genomic Instability and Inflammation. Front Cell Dev Biol 2021; 9:702584. [PMID: 34249949 PMCID: PMC8270677 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2021.702584] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2021] [Accepted: 06/03/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The genome of eukaryotic cells is particularly at risk during the S phase of the cell cycle, when megabases of chromosomal DNA are unwound to generate two identical copies of the genome. This daunting task is executed by thousands of micro-machines called replisomes, acting at fragile structures called replication forks. The correct execution of this replication program depends on the coordinated action of hundreds of different enzymes, from the licensing of replication origins to the termination of DNA replication. This review focuses on the mechanisms that ensure the completion of DNA replication under challenging conditions of endogenous or exogenous origin. It also covers new findings connecting the processing of stalled forks to the release of small DNA fragments into the cytoplasm, activating the cGAS-STING pathway. DNA damage and fork repair comes therefore at a price, which is the activation of an inflammatory response that has both positive and negative impacts on the fate of stressed cells. These new findings have broad implications for the etiology of interferonopathies and for cancer treatment.
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- Hervé Técher
- Institut de Génétique Humaine, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, Equipe Labellisée Ligue Contre le Cancer, Montpellier, France
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- Institut de Génétique Humaine, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, Equipe Labellisée Ligue Contre le Cancer, Montpellier, France
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Duan X, Chen X, Wang K, Chen L, Glomb O, Johnsson N, Feng L, Zhou XQ, Bi E. Essential role of the endocytic site-associated protein Ecm25 in stress-induced cell elongation. Cell Rep 2021; 35:109122. [PMID: 34010635 PMCID: PMC8202958 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2020] [Revised: 02/16/2021] [Accepted: 04/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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How cells adopt a different morphology to cope with stress is not well understood. Here, we show that budding yeast Ecm25 associates with polarized endocytic sites and interacts with the polarity regulator Cdc42 and several late-stage endocytic proteins via distinct regions, including an actin filament-binding motif. Deletion of ECM25 does not affect Cdc42 activity or cause any strong defects in fluid-phase and clathrin-mediated endocytosis but completely abolishes hydroxyurea-induced cell elongation. This phenotype is accompanied by depolarization of the spatiotemporally coupled exo-endocytosis in the bud cortex while maintaining the overall mother-bud polarity. These data suggest that Ecm25 provides an essential link between the polarization signal and the endocytic machinery to enable adaptive morphogenesis under stress conditions. How cells adopt a different morphology to cope with stress is not well understood. Duan et al. report that the budding yeast protein Ecm25 plays an essential role in stress-induced cell elongation by linking the polarity regulator Cdc42 to the late-stage endocytic machinery.
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- Xudong Duan
- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6058, USA; Animal Nutrition Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, 611130 Sichuan, China; Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chongqing 400714, China
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6058, USA
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6058, USA
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6058, USA
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- Institut für Molekulare Genetik und Zellbiologie, Universität Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany
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- Institut für Molekulare Genetik und Zellbiologie, Universität Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany
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- Animal Nutrition Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, 611130 Sichuan, China
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- Animal Nutrition Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, 611130 Sichuan, China.
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6058, USA.
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Alekseeva EA, Korolev VG. DNA Damage Tolerance in the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. RUSS J GENET+ 2021. [DOI: 10.1134/s1022795421040025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Gershon L, Kupiec M. Histones on fire: the effect of Dun1 and Mrc1 on origin firing and replication of hyper-acetylated genomes. Curr Genet 2021; 67:501-510. [PMID: 33715066 DOI: 10.1007/s00294-021-01175-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2021] [Revised: 02/28/2021] [Accepted: 03/03/2021] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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As cells replicate their DNA, there is a need to synthesize new histones with which to wrap it. Newly synthesized H3 histones that are incorporated into the assembling chromatin behind the replication fork are acetylated at lysine 56. The acetylation is removed by two deacetylases, Hst3 and Hst4. This process is tightly regulated and any perturbation leads to genomic instability and replicative stress. We recently showed that Dun1, a kinase implicated mainly in the regulation of dNTPs, is vital in cells with hyper-acetylation, to counteract Rad53's inhibition on late-firing origins of replication. Our work showed that ∆hst3 ∆hst4 cells depend on late origin firing for survival, and are unable to prevent Rad53's inhibition when Dun1 is inactive. Thus, our work describes a role for Dun1 that is independent on its known function as a regulator of dNTP levels. Here we show that Mrc1 (Claspin in mammals), a protein that moves with the replicating fork and participates in both replication and checkpoint functions, plays also an essential role in the absence of H3K56Ac deacetylation. The sum of the results shown here and in our recent publication suggests that dormant origins are also utilized in these cells, making Mrc1, which regulates firing from these origins, also essential when histone H3 is hyper-acetylated. Thus, cells suffering from hyper-acetylation of H3K56 experience replication stress caused by a combination of prone-to-collapse forks and limited replication tracts. This combination makes both Dun1 and Mrc1, each acting on different targets, essential for viability.
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- Lihi Gershon
- The Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, 69978, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- The Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, 69978, Tel Aviv, Israel.
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The Amazing Acrobat: Yeast's Histone H3K56 Juggles Several Important Roles While Maintaining Perfect Balance. Genes (Basel) 2021; 12:genes12030342. [PMID: 33668997 PMCID: PMC7996553 DOI: 10.3390/genes12030342] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2021] [Revised: 02/22/2021] [Accepted: 02/23/2021] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Acetylation on lysine 56 of histone H3 of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been implicated in many cellular processes that affect genome stability. Despite being the object of much research, the complete scope of the roles played by K56 acetylation is not fully understood even today. The acetylation is put in place at the S-phase of the cell cycle, in order to flag newly synthesized histones that are incorporated during DNA replication. The signal is removed by two redundant deacetylases, Hst3 and Hst4, at the entry to G2/M phase. Its crucial location, at the entry and exit points of the DNA into and out of the nucleosome, makes this a central modification, and dictates that if acetylation and deacetylation are not well concerted and executed in a timely fashion, severe genomic instability arises. In this review, we explore the wealth of information available on the many roles played by H3K56 acetylation and the deacetylases Hst3 and Hst4 in DNA replication and repair.
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RPA-mediated recruitment of Bre1 couples histone H2B ubiquitination to DNA replication and repair. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2021; 118:2017497118. [PMID: 33602814 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2017497118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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The ubiquitin E3 ligase Bre1-mediated H2B monoubiquitination (H2Bub) is essential for proper DNA replication and repair in eukaryotes. Deficiency in H2Bub causes genome instability and cancer. How the Bre1-H2Bub pathway is evoked in response to DNA replication or repair remains unknown. Here, we identify that the single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) binding factor RPA acts as a key mediator that couples Bre1-mediated H2Bub to DNA replication and repair in yeast. We found that RPA interacts with Bre1 in vitro and in vivo, and this interaction is stimulated by ssDNA. This association ensures the recruitment of Bre1 to replication forks or DNA breaks but does not affect its E3 ligase activity. Disruption of the interaction abolishes the local enrichment of H2Bub, resulting in impaired DNA replication, response to replication stress, and repair by homologous recombination, accompanied by increased genome instability and DNA damage sensitivity. Notably, we found that RNF20, the human homolog of Bre1, interacts with RPA70 in a conserved mode. Thus, RPA functions as a master regulator for the spatial-temporal control of H2Bub chromatin landscape during DNA replication and recombination, extending the versatile roles of RPA in guarding genome stability.
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Xing P, Dong Y, Zhao J, Zhou Z, Li Z, Wang Y, Li M, Zhang X, Chen X. Mrc1-Dependent Chromatin Compaction Represses DNA Double-Stranded Break Repair by Homologous Recombination Upon Replication Stress. Front Cell Dev Biol 2021; 9:630777. [PMID: 33681209 PMCID: PMC7928320 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2021.630777] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2020] [Accepted: 01/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The coordination of DNA replication and repair is critical for the maintenance of genome stability. It has been shown that the Mrc1-mediated S phase checkpoint inhibits DNA double-stranded break (DSB) repair through homologous recombination (HR). How the replication checkpoint inhibits HR remains only partially understood. Here we show that replication stress induces the suppression of both Sgs1/Dna2- and Exo1-mediated resection pathways in an Mrc1-dependent manner. As a result, the loading of the single-stranded DNA binding factor replication protein A (RPA) and Rad51 and DSB repair by HR were severely impaired under replication stress. Notably, the deletion of MRC1 partially restored the recruitment of resection enzymes, DSB end resection, and the loading of RPA and Rad51. The role of Mrc1 in inhibiting DSB end resection is independent of Csm3, Tof1, or Ctf4. Mechanistically, we reveal that replication stress induces global chromatin compaction in a manner partially dependent on Mrc1, and this chromatin compaction limits the access of chromatin remodeling factors and HR proteins, leading to the suppression of HR. Our study reveals a critical role of the Mrc1-dependent chromatin structure change in coordinating DNA replication and recombination under replication stress.
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- Poyuan Xing
- Hubei Key Laboratory of Cell Homeostasis and the Institute for Advanced Studies, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Hubei Key Laboratory of Cell Homeostasis and the Institute for Advanced Studies, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Hubei Key Laboratory of Cell Homeostasis and the Institute for Advanced Studies, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Hubei Key Laboratory of Cell Homeostasis and the Institute for Advanced Studies, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Hubei Key Laboratory of Cell Homeostasis and the Institute for Advanced Studies, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Hubei Key Laboratory of Cell Homeostasis and the Institute for Advanced Studies, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Hubei Key Laboratory of Cell Homeostasis and the Institute for Advanced Studies, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Hubei Key Laboratory of Cell Homeostasis and the Institute for Advanced Studies, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Hubei Key Laboratory of Cell Homeostasis and the Institute for Advanced Studies, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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Lanz MC, Yugandhar K, Gupta S, Sanford EJ, Faça VM, Vega S, Joiner AMN, Fromme JC, Yu H, Smolka MB. In-depth and 3-dimensional exploration of the budding yeast phosphoproteome. EMBO Rep 2021; 22:e51121. [PMID: 33491328 PMCID: PMC7857435 DOI: 10.15252/embr.202051121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2020] [Revised: 11/30/2020] [Accepted: 12/03/2020] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Phosphorylation is one of the most dynamic and widespread post-translational modifications regulating virtually every aspect of eukaryotic cell biology. Here, we assemble a dataset from 75 independent phosphoproteomic experiments performed in our laboratory using Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We report 30,902 phosphosites identified from cells cultured in a range of DNA damage conditions and/or arrested in distinct cell cycle stages. To generate a comprehensive resource for the budding yeast community, we aggregate our dataset with the Saccharomyces Genome Database and another recently published study, resulting in over 46,000 budding yeast phosphosites. With the goal of enhancing the identification of functional phosphorylation events, we perform computational positioning of phosphorylation sites on available 3D protein structures and systematically identify events predicted to regulate protein complex architecture. Results reveal hundreds of phosphorylation sites mapping to or near protein interaction interfaces, many of which result in steric or electrostatic "clashes" predicted to disrupt the interaction. With the advancement of Cryo-EM and the increasing number of available structures, our approach should help drive the functional and spatial exploration of the phosphoproteome.
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- Michael C Lanz
- Department of Molecular Biology and GeneticsWeill Institute for Cell and Molecular BiologyCornell UniversityIthacaNYUSA
- Present address:
Department of BiologyStanford UniversityStanfordCAUSA
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- Department of Computational BiologyWeill Institute for Cell and Molecular BiologyCornell UniversityIthacaNYUSA
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- Department of Computational BiologyWeill Institute for Cell and Molecular BiologyCornell UniversityIthacaNYUSA
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- Department of Molecular Biology and GeneticsWeill Institute for Cell and Molecular BiologyCornell UniversityIthacaNYUSA
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- Department of Molecular Biology and GeneticsWeill Institute for Cell and Molecular BiologyCornell UniversityIthacaNYUSA
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- Department of Molecular Biology and GeneticsWeill Institute for Cell and Molecular BiologyCornell UniversityIthacaNYUSA
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- Department of Molecular Biology and GeneticsWeill Institute for Cell and Molecular BiologyCornell UniversityIthacaNYUSA
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- Department of Molecular Biology and GeneticsWeill Institute for Cell and Molecular BiologyCornell UniversityIthacaNYUSA
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- Department of Computational BiologyWeill Institute for Cell and Molecular BiologyCornell UniversityIthacaNYUSA
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- Department of Molecular Biology and GeneticsWeill Institute for Cell and Molecular BiologyCornell UniversityIthacaNYUSA
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Westhorpe R, Keszthelyi A, Minchell NE, Jones D, Baxter J. Separable functions of Tof1/Timeless in intra-S-checkpoint signalling, replisome stability and DNA topological stress. Nucleic Acids Res 2020; 48:12169-12187. [PMID: 33166393 PMCID: PMC7708041 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkaa963] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2020] [Revised: 10/06/2020] [Accepted: 10/09/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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The highly conserved Tof1/Timeless proteins minimise replication stress and promote normal DNA replication. They are required to mediate the DNA replication checkpoint (DRC), the stable pausing of forks at protein fork blocks, the coupling of DNA helicase and polymerase functions during replication stress (RS) and the preferential resolution of DNA topological stress ahead of the fork. Here we demonstrate that the roles of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Timeless protein Tof1 in DRC signalling and resolution of DNA topological stress require distinct N and C terminal regions of the protein, whereas the other functions of Tof1 are closely linked to the stable interaction between Tof1 and its constitutive binding partner Csm3/Tipin. By separating the role of Tof1 in DRC from fork stabilisation and coupling, we show that Tof1 has distinct activities in checkpoint activation and replisome stability to ensure the viable completion of DNA replication following replication stress.
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- Rose Westhorpe
- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, School of Life Sciences, Science Park Road, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 9RQ, UK
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- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, School of Life Sciences, Science Park Road, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 9RQ, UK
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- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, School of Life Sciences, Science Park Road, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 9RQ, UK
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- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, School of Life Sciences, Science Park Road, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 9RQ, UK
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- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, School of Life Sciences, Science Park Road, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 9RQ, UK
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In order to preserve genome integrity, all cells must mount appropriate responses to DNA damage, including slowing down or arresting the cell cycle to give the cells time to repair the damage and changing gene expression, for example to induce genes involved in DNA repair. The Rad53 protein kinase is a conserved central mediator of these responses in eukaryotic cells, and its extensive phosphorylation upon DNA damage is necessary for its activation and subsequent activity. DNA damage checkpoints are key guardians of genome integrity. Eukaryotic cells respond to DNA damage by triggering extensive phosphorylation of Rad53/CHK2 effector kinase, whereupon activated Rad53/CHK2 mediates further aspects of checkpoint activation, including cell cycle arrest and transcriptional changes. Budding yeast Candida glabrata, closely related to model eukaryote Saccharomyces cerevisiae, is an opportunistic pathogen characterized by high genetic diversity and rapid emergence of drug-resistant mutants. However, the mechanisms underlying this genetic variability are unclear. We used Western blotting and mass spectrometry to show that, unlike S. cerevisiae, C. glabrata cells exposed to DNA damage did not induce C. glabrata Rad53 (CgRad53) phosphorylation. Furthermore, flow cytometry analysis showed that, unlike S. cerevisiae, C. glabrata cells did not accumulate in S phase upon DNA damage. Consistent with these observations, time-lapse microscopy showed C. glabrata cells continuing to divide in the presence of DNA damage, resulting in mitotic errors and cell death. Finally, transcriptome sequencing (RNAseq) analysis revealed transcriptional rewiring of the DNA damage response in C. glabrata and identified several key protectors of genome stability upregulated by DNA damage in S. cerevisiae but downregulated in C. glabrata, including proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA). Together, our results reveal a noncanonical fungal DNA damage response in C. glabrata, which may contribute to rapidly generating genetic change and drug resistance.
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Faca VM, Sanford EJ, Tieu J, Comstock W, Gupta S, Marshall S, Yu H, Smolka MB. Maximized quantitative phosphoproteomics allows high confidence dissection of the DNA damage signaling network. Sci Rep 2020; 10:18056. [PMID: 33093574 PMCID: PMC7582137 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-74939-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2020] [Accepted: 10/08/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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The maintenance of genomic stability relies on DNA damage sensor kinases that detect DNA lesions and phosphorylate an extensive network of substrates. The Mec1/ATR kinase is one of the primary sensor kinases responsible for orchestrating DNA damage responses. Despite the importance of Mec1/ATR, the current network of its identified substrates remains incomplete due, in part, to limitations in mass spectrometry-based quantitative phosphoproteomics. Phosphoproteomics suffers from lack of redundancy and statistical power for generating high confidence datasets, since information about phosphopeptide identity, site-localization, and quantitation must often be gleaned from a single peptide-spectrum match (PSM). Here we carefully analyzed the isotope label swapping strategy for phosphoproteomics, using data consistency among reciprocal labeling experiments as a central filtering rule for maximizing phosphopeptide identification and quantitation. We demonstrate that the approach allows drastic reduction of false positive quantitations and identifications even from phosphopeptides with a low number of spectral matches. Application of this approach identifies new Mec1/ATR-dependent signaling events, expanding our understanding of the DNA damage signaling network. Overall, the proposed quantitative phosphoproteomic approach should be generally applicable for investigating kinase signaling networks with high confidence and depth.
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- Vitor Marcel Faca
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
- Department of Biochemistry and Immunology and Cell-Based Therapy Center, Ribeirao Preto Medical School, University of Sao Paulo, Ribeirao Preto, SP, 14049-900, Brazil
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- Department of Computational Biology, Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- Department of Computational Biology, Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA.
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Tsirkas I, Dovrat D, Lei Y, Kalyva A, Lotysh D, Li Q, Aharoni A. Cac1 WHD and PIP domains have distinct roles in replisome progression and genomic stability. Curr Genet 2020; 67:129-139. [PMID: 33025160 DOI: 10.1007/s00294-020-01113-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2020] [Revised: 09/17/2020] [Accepted: 09/21/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Replication-coupled (RC) nucleosome assembly is an essential process in eukaryotic cells to maintain chromatin structure during DNA replication. The deposition of newly-synthesized H3/H4 histones during DNA replication is facilitated by specialized histone chaperones. CAF-1 is an important histone chaperone complex and its main subunit, Cac1p, contains a PIP and WHD domain for interaction with PCNA and the DNA, respectively. While Cac1p subunit was extensively studied in different systems much less is known regarding the importance of the PIP and WHD domains in replication fork progression and genome stability. By exploiting a time-lapse microscopy system for monitoring DNA replication in individual live cells, we examined how mutations in these Cac1p domains affect replication fork progression and post-replication characteristics. Our experiments revealed that mutations in the Cac1p WHD domain, which abolished the CAF-1-DNA interaction, slows down replication fork progression. In contrast, mutations in Cac1p PIP domain, abolishing Cac1p-PCNA interaction, lead to extended late-S/Anaphase duration, elevated number of RPA foci and increased spontaneous mutation rate. Our research shows that Cac1p WHD and PIP domains have distinct roles in high replisome progression and maintaining genome stability during cell cycle progression.
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- Ioannis Tsirkas
- Department of Life Sciences and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 84105, Be'er Sheva, Israel
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- Department of Life Sciences and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 84105, Be'er Sheva, Israel
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- State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, School of Life Sciences and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
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- Department of Life Sciences and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 84105, Be'er Sheva, Israel
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- Department of Life Sciences and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 84105, Be'er Sheva, Israel
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- State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, School of Life Sciences and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
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- Department of Life Sciences and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 84105, Be'er Sheva, Israel.
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Cerritelli SM, El Hage A. RNases H1 and H2: guardians of the stability of the nuclear genome when supply of dNTPs is limiting for DNA synthesis. Curr Genet 2020; 66:1073-1084. [PMID: 32886170 DOI: 10.1007/s00294-020-01086-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2020] [Revised: 05/30/2020] [Accepted: 06/01/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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RNA/DNA hybrids are processed by RNases H1 and H2, while single ribonucleoside-monophosphates (rNMPs) embedded in genomic DNA are removed by the error-free, RNase H2-dependent ribonucleotide excision repair (RER) pathway. In the absence of RER, however, topoisomerase 1 (Top1) can cleave single genomic rNMPs in a mutagenic manner. In RNase H2-deficient mice, the accumulation of genomic rNMPs above a threshold of tolerance leads to catastrophic genomic instability that causes embryonic lethality. In humans, deficiencies in RNase H2 induce the autoimmune disorders Aicardi-Goutières syndrome and systemic lupus erythematosus, and cause skin and intestinal cancers. Recently, we reported that in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the depletion of Rnr1, the major catalytic subunit of ribonucleotide reductase (RNR), which converts ribonucleotides to deoxyribonucleotides, leads to cell lethality in absence of RNases H1 and H2. We hypothesized that under replicative stress and compromised DNA repair that are elicited by an insufficient supply of deoxyribonucleoside-triphosphates (dNTPs), cells cannot survive the accumulation of persistent RNA/DNA hybrids. Remarkably, we found that cells lacking RNase H2 accumulate ~ 5-fold more genomic rNMPs in absence than in presence of Rnr1. When the load of genomic rNMPs is further increased in the presence of a replicative DNA polymerase variant that over-incorporates rNMPs in leading or lagging strand, cells missing both Rnr1 and RNase H2 suffer from severe growth defects. These are reversed in absence of Top1. Thus, in cells lacking RNase H2 and containing a limiting supply of dNTPs, there is a threshold of tolerance for the accumulation of genomic ribonucleotides that is tightly associated with Top1-mediated DNA damage. In this mini-review, we describe the implications of the loss of RNase H2, or RNases H1 and H2, on the integrity of the nuclear genome and viability of budding yeast cells that are challenged with a critically low supply of dNTPs. We further propose that our findings in budding yeast could pave the way for the study of the potential role of mammalian RNR in RNase H2-related diseases.
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- Susana M Cerritelli
- SFR, Division of Intramural Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- The Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
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Abd Wahab S, Remus D. Antagonistic control of DDK binding to licensed replication origins by Mcm2 and Rad53. eLife 2020; 9:58571. [PMID: 32701054 PMCID: PMC7398698 DOI: 10.7554/elife.58571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2020] [Accepted: 07/22/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Eukaryotic replication origins are licensed by the loading of the replicative DNA helicase, Mcm2-7, in inactive double hexameric form around DNA. Subsequent origin activation is under control of multiple protein kinases that either promote or inhibit origin activation, which is important for genome maintenance. Using the reconstituted budding yeast DNA replication system, we find that the flexible N-terminal extension (NTE) of Mcm2 promotes the stable recruitment of Dbf4-dependent kinase (DDK) to Mcm2-7 double hexamers, which in turn promotes DDK phosphorylation of Mcm4 and −6 and subsequent origin activation. Conversely, we demonstrate that the checkpoint kinase, Rad53, inhibits DDK binding to Mcm2-7 double hexamers. Unexpectedly, this function is not dependent on Rad53 kinase activity, suggesting steric inhibition of DDK by activated Rad53. These findings identify critical determinants of the origin activation reaction and uncover a novel mechanism for checkpoint-dependent origin inhibition.
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- Syafiq Abd Wahab
- Molecular Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, United States.,Weill-Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York, United States
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- Molecular Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, United States.,Weill-Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York, United States
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Sir2 takes affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity in replication origin licensing. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020; 117:16723-16725. [PMID: 32606246 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2010001117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Rad53 limits CMG helicase uncoupling from DNA synthesis at replication forks. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2020; 27:461-471. [PMID: 32341532 PMCID: PMC7225081 DOI: 10.1038/s41594-020-0407-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2019] [Accepted: 03/06/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The coordination of DNA unwinding and synthesis at replication forks promotes efficient and faithful replication of chromosomal DNA. Disruption of the balance between helicase and polymerase activities during replication stress leads to fork progression defects and activation of the Rad53 checkpoint kinase, which is essential for the functional maintenance of stalled replication forks. The mechanism of Rad53-dependent fork stabilization is not known. Using reconstituted budding yeast replisomes, we show that mutational inactivation of the leading strand DNA polymerase, Pol ε, dNTP depletion, and chemical inhibition of DNA polymerases cause excessive DNA unwinding by the replicative DNA helicase, CMG, demonstrating that budding yeast replisomes lack intrinsic mechanisms that control helicase-polymerase coupling at the fork. Importantly, we find that the Rad53 kinase restricts excessive DNA unwinding at replication forks by limiting CMG helicase activity, suggesting a mechanism for fork stabilization by the replication checkpoint.
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Pseudohyphal Growth of the Emerging Pathogen Candida auris Is Triggered by Genotoxic Stress through the S Phase Checkpoint. mSphere 2020; 5:5/2/e00151-20. [PMID: 32161147 PMCID: PMC7067593 DOI: 10.1128/msphere.00151-20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Candida auris is a newly emerged fungal pathogen of humans. This species was first reported in 2009 when it was identified in an ear infection of a patient in Japan. However, despite intense interest in this organism as an often multidrug-resistant fungus, there is little knowledge about its cellular biology. During infection of human patients, fungi are able to change cell shape from ellipsoidal yeast cells to elongated filaments to adapt to various conditions within the host organism. There are different types of filaments, which are triggered by reactions to different cues. Candida auris fails to form filaments when exposed to triggers that stimulate yeast filament morphogenesis in other fungi. Here, we show that it does form filaments when its DNA is damaged. These conditions might arise when Candida auris cells interact with host immune cells or during growth in certain host tissues (kidney or bladder) or during treatment with antifungal drugs. The morphogenetic switching between yeast cells and filaments (true hyphae and pseudohyphae) is a key cellular feature required for full virulence in many polymorphic fungal pathogens, such as Candida albicans. In the recently emerged yeast pathogen Candida auris, occasional elongation of cells has been reported. However, environmental conditions and genetic triggers for filament formation have remained elusive. Here, we report that induction of DNA damage and perturbation of replication forks by treatment with genotoxins, such as hydroxyurea, methyl methanesulfonate, and the clinically relevant fungistatic 5-fluorocytosine, cause filamentation in C. auris. The filaments formed were characteristic of pseudohyphae and not parallel-sided true hyphae. Pseudohyphal growth is apparently signaled through the S phase checkpoint and, interestingly, is Tup1 independent in C. auris. Intriguingly, the morphogenetic switching capability is strain specific in C. auris, highlighting the heterogenous nature of the species as a whole. IMPORTANCECandida auris is a newly emerged fungal pathogen of humans. This species was first reported in 2009 when it was identified in an ear infection of a patient in Japan. However, despite intense interest in this organism as an often multidrug-resistant fungus, there is little knowledge about its cellular biology. During infection of human patients, fungi are able to change cell shape from ellipsoidal yeast cells to elongated filaments to adapt to various conditions within the host organism. There are different types of filaments, which are triggered by reactions to different cues. Candida auris fails to form filaments when exposed to triggers that stimulate yeast filament morphogenesis in other fungi. Here, we show that it does form filaments when its DNA is damaged. These conditions might arise when Candida auris cells interact with host immune cells or during growth in certain host tissues (kidney or bladder) or during treatment with antifungal drugs.
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Sobolewska A, Halas A, Plachta M, McIntyre J, Sledziewska-Gojska E. Regulation of the abundance of Y-family polymerases in the cell cycle of budding yeast in response to DNA damage. Curr Genet 2020; 66:749-763. [PMID: 32076806 PMCID: PMC7363672 DOI: 10.1007/s00294-020-01061-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2019] [Revised: 01/21/2020] [Accepted: 02/04/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Y-family DNA polymerases mediate DNA damage tolerance via translesion synthesis (TLS). Because of the intrinsically error-prone nature of these enzymes, their activities are regulated at several levels. Here, we demonstrate the common regulation of the cellular abundance of Y-family polymerases, polymerase eta (Pol eta), and Rev1, in response to DNA damage at various stages of the cell cycle. UV radiation influenced polymerase abundance more when cells were exposed in S-phase than in G1- or G2-phases. We noticed two opposing effects of UV radiation in S-phase. On one hand, exposure to increasing doses of UV radiation at the beginning of this phase increasingly delayed S-phase progression. As a result, the accumulation of Pol eta and Rev1, which in nonirradiated yeast is initiated at the S/G2-phase boundary, was gradually shifted into the prolonged S-phase. On the other hand, the extent of polymerase accumulation was inversely proportional to the dose of irradiation, such that the accumulation was significantly lower after exposure to 80 J/m2 in S-phase than after exposure to 50 J/m2 or 10 J/m2. The limitation of polymerase accumulation in S-phase-arrested cells in response to high UV dose was suppressed upon RAD9 (but not MRC1) deletion. Additionally, hydroxyurea, which activates mainly the Mrc1-dependent checkpoint, did not limit Pol eta or Rev1 accumulation in S-phase-arrested cells. The results show that the accumulation of Y-family TLS polymerases is limited in S-phase-arrested cells due to high levels of DNA damage and suggest a role of the Rad9 checkpoint protein in this process.
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- Aleksandra Sobolewska
- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Pawinskiego 5A, 02-106, Warsaw, Poland
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Pawinskiego 5A, 02-106, Warsaw, Poland
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Pawinskiego 5A, 02-106, Warsaw, Poland
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Pawinskiego 5A, 02-106, Warsaw, Poland
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Pawinskiego 5A, 02-106, Warsaw, Poland.
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Matellán L, Monje-Casas F. Regulation of Mitotic Exit by Cell Cycle Checkpoints: Lessons From Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genes (Basel) 2020; 11:E195. [PMID: 32059558 PMCID: PMC7074328 DOI: 10.3390/genes11020195] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2020] [Revised: 02/07/2020] [Accepted: 02/11/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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In order to preserve genome integrity and their ploidy, cells must ensure that the duplicated genome has been faithfully replicated and evenly distributed before they complete their division by mitosis. To this end, cells have developed highly elaborated checkpoints that halt mitotic progression when problems in DNA integrity or chromosome segregation arise, providing them with time to fix these issues before advancing further into the cell cycle. Remarkably, exit from mitosis constitutes a key cell cycle transition that is targeted by the main mitotic checkpoints, despite these surveillance mechanisms being activated by specific intracellular signals and acting at different stages of cell division. Focusing primarily on research carried out using Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model organism, the aim of this review is to provide a general overview of the molecular mechanisms by which the major cell cycle checkpoints control mitotic exit and to highlight the importance of the proper regulation of this process for the maintenance of genome stability during the distribution of the duplicated chromosomes between the dividing cells.
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- Centro Andaluz de Biología Molecular y Medicina Regenerativa (CABIMER), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)—University of Seville—University Pablo de Olavide, Avda, Américo Vespucio, 24, 41092 Sevilla, Spain;
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Fumasoni M, Murray AW. The evolutionary plasticity of chromosome metabolism allows adaptation to constitutive DNA replication stress. eLife 2020; 9:e51963. [PMID: 32043971 PMCID: PMC7069727 DOI: 10.7554/elife.51963] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2019] [Accepted: 02/11/2020] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Many biological features are conserved and thus considered to be resistant to evolutionary change. While rapid genetic adaptation following the removal of conserved genes has been observed, we often lack a mechanistic understanding of how adaptation happens. We used the budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, to investigate the evolutionary plasticity of chromosome metabolism, a network of evolutionary conserved modules. We experimentally evolved cells constitutively experiencing DNA replication stress caused by the absence of Ctf4, a protein that coordinates the enzymatic activities at replication forks. Parallel populations adapted to replication stress, over 1000 generations, by acquiring multiple, concerted mutations. These mutations altered conserved features of two chromosome metabolism modules, DNA replication and sister chromatid cohesion, and inactivated a third, the DNA damage checkpoint. The selected mutations define a functionally reproducible evolutionary trajectory. We suggest that the evolutionary plasticity of chromosome metabolism has implications for genome evolution in natural populations and cancer.
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- Marco Fumasoni
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard UniversityCambridgeUnited States
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Distinct associations of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Rad9 protein link Mac1-regulated transcription to DNA repair. Curr Genet 2019; 66:531-548. [PMID: 31784768 DOI: 10.1007/s00294-019-01047-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2019] [Revised: 11/06/2019] [Accepted: 11/18/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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While it is known that ScRad9 DNA damage checkpoint protein is recruited to damaged DNA by recognizing specific histone modifications, here we report a different way of Rad9 recruitment on chromatin under non DNA damaging conditions. We found Rad9 to bind directly with the copper-modulated transcriptional activator Mac1, suppressing both its DNA binding and transactivation functions. Rad9 was recruited to active Mac1-target promoters (CTR1, FRE1) and along CTR1 coding region following the association pattern of RNA polymerase (Pol) II. Hir1 histone chaperone also interacted directly with Rad9 and was partly required for its localization throughout CTR1 gene. Moreover, Mac1-dependent transcriptional initiation was necessary and sufficient for Rad9 recruitment to the heterologous ACT1 coding region. In addition to Rad9, Rad53 kinase also localized to CTR1 coding region in a Rad9-dependent manner. Our data provide an example of a yeast DNA-binding transcriptional activator that interacts directly with a DNA damage checkpoint protein in vivo and is functionally restrained by this protein, suggesting a new role for Rad9 in connecting factors of the transcription machinery with the DNA repair pathway under unchallenged conditions.
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