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Nucleosome positioning, nucleotide excision repair and photoreactivation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. DNA Repair (Amst) 2015; 36:98-104. [PMID: 26429065 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2015.09.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The position of nucleosomes on DNA participates in gene regulation and DNA replication. Nucleosomes can be repressors by limiting access of factors to regulatory sequences, or activators by facilitating binding of factors to exposed DNA sequences on the surface of the core histones. The formation of UV induced DNA lesions, like cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPDs), is modulated by DNA bending around the core histones. Since CPDs are removed by nucleotide excision repair (NER) and photolyase repair, it is of paramount importance to understand how DNA damage and repair are tempered by the position of nucleosomes. In vitro, nucleosomes inhibit NER and photolyase repair. In vivo, nucleosomes slow down NER and considerably obstruct photoreactivation of CPDs. However, over-expression of photolyase allows repair of nucleosomal DNA in a second time scale. It is proposed that the intrinsic abilities of nucleosomes to move and transiently unwrap could facilitate damage recognition and repair in nucleosomal DNA.
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Charton R, Guintini L, Peyresaubes F, Conconi A. Repair of UV induced DNA lesions in ribosomal gene chromatin and the role of "Odd" RNA polymerases (I and III). DNA Repair (Amst) 2015; 36:49-58. [PMID: 26411875 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2015.09.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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In fast growing eukaryotic cells, a subset of rRNA genes are transcribed at very high rates by RNA polymerase I (RNAPI). Nuclease digestion-assays and psoralen crosslinking have shown that they are open; that is, largely devoid of nucleosomes. In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisae, nucleotide excision repair (NER) and photolyase remove UV photoproducts faster from open rRNA genes than from closed and nucleosome-loaded inactive rRNA genes. After UV irradiation, rRNA transcription declines because RNAPI halt at UV photoproducts and are then displaced from the transcribed strand. When the DNA lesion is quickly recognized by NER, it is the sub-pathway transcription-coupled TC-NER that removes the UV photoproduct. If dislodged RNAPI are replaced by nucleosomes before NER recognizes the lesion, then it is the sub-pathway global genome GG-NER that removes the UV photoproducts from the transcribed strand. Also, GG-NER maneuvers in the non-transcribed strand of open genes and in both strands of closed rRNA genes. After repair, transcription resumes and elongating RNAPI reopen the rRNA gene. In higher eukaryotes, NER in rRNA genes is inefficient and there is no evidence for TC-NER. Moreover, TC-NER does not occur in RNA polymerase III transcribed genes of both, yeast and human fibroblast.
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- Romain Charton
- Département de Microbiologie et Infectiologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1E 4K8, Canada
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- Département de Microbiologie et Infectiologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1E 4K8, Canada
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- Département de Microbiologie et Infectiologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1E 4K8, Canada
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- Département de Microbiologie et Infectiologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1E 4K8, Canada.
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Tremblay M, Toussaint M, D'Amours A, Conconi A. Nucleotide excision repair and photolyase repair of UV photoproducts in nucleosomes: assessing the existence of nucleosome and non-nucleosome rDNA chromatin in vivo. Biochem Cell Biol 2009; 87:337-46. [PMID: 19234545 DOI: 10.1139/o08-128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The genome is organized into nuclear domains, which create microenvironments that favor distinct chromatin structures and functions (e.g., highly repetitive sequences, centromeres, telomeres, noncoding sequences, inactive genes, RNA polymerase II and III transcribed genes, and the nucleolus). Correlations have been drawn between gene silencing and proximity to a heterochromatic compartment. At the other end of the scale are ribosomal genes, which are transcribed at a very high rate by RNA polymerase I (~60% of total transcription), have a loose chromatin structure, and are clustered in the nucleolus. The rDNA sequences have 2 distinct structures: active rRNA genes, which have no nucleosomes; and inactive rRNA genes, which have nucleosomes. Like DNA transcription and replication, DNA repair is modulated by the structure of chromatin, and the kinetics of DNA repair vary among the nuclear domains. Although research on DNA repair in all chromosomal contexts is important to understand the mechanisms of genome maintenance, this review focuses on nucleotide excision repair and photolyase repair of UV photoproducts in the first-order packing of DNA in chromatin: the nucleosome. In addition, it summarizes the studies that have demonstrated the existence of the 2 rDNA chromatins, and the way this feature of the rDNA locus allows for direct comparison of DNA repair in 2 very different structures: nucleosome and non-nucleosome DNA.
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- Maxime Tremblay
- Departement de Microbiologie et Infectiologie, Faculte de Medecine, Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QCJ1H5N4, Canada
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Al-Moghrabi NM, Al-Sharif IS, Aboussekhra A. The RAD9-dependent gene trans-activation is required for excision repair of active genes but not for repair of non-transcribed DNA. Mutat Res 2009; 663:60-8. [PMID: 19428371 DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2009.01.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2008] [Revised: 01/20/2009] [Accepted: 01/26/2009] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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The Saccharomyces cerevisiae RAD9 and RAD24 are two cell cycle checkpoint genes required for UV-dependent up-regulation of a battery of genes involved in different metabolic pathways. RAD9 is also implicated in nucleotide excision repair (NER); however, its precise role is still unclear. For the present study, we made use of the high-resolution primer extension technique to show that the RAD9-deleted cells are deficient in the repair of both strands of the URA3 gene. Interestingly, this defect was suppressed by over-expressing the RAD24 gene, suggesting that the role of RAD9 in NER is indirect probably through the UV-dependent trans-activation of some NER factors. Accordingly, we present evidence that the inhibition of UV-related de novo protein synthesis by cycloheximide has no effect on the rad9Delta mutant while it suppresses the correcting effect of RAD24 over-expression. Importantly, we have also shown that RAD9 has no role in repair of transcriptionally inactive DNA sequences (URA3 promoter and transcriptionally silent GAL10 gene). Furthermore, de novo protein synthesis was not required for NER in the absence of transcription-coupled NER. This implies that RAD9-dependent gene up-regulation is required for NER only when this process is coupled to transcription.
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- Nisreen M Al-Moghrabi
- King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, Department of Biological and Medical Research, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Thoma F. Repair of UV lesions in nucleosomes--intrinsic properties and remodeling. DNA Repair (Amst) 2007; 4:855-69. [PMID: 15925550 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2005.04.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/18/2005] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Nucleotide excision repair and reversal of pyrimidine dimers by photolyase (photoreactivation) are two major pathways to remove UV-lesions from DNA. Here, it is discussed how lesions are recognized and removed when the DNA is condensed into nucleosomes. During the recent years it was shown that nucleosomes inhibit photolyase and excision repair in vitro and slow down repair in vivo. The correlation of DNA-repair rates with nucleosome positions in yeast suggests that intrinsic properties of nucleosomes such as mobility and transient unwrapping of nucleosomal DNA facilitate damage recognition. Moreover, it was shown that nucleosome remodeling activities can act on UV-damaged DNA in vitro and facilitate repair suggesting that random remodeling of chromatin might contribute to damage recognition in vivo. Recent work on nucleosome structure and mobility is included to evaluate how nucleosomes accommodate DNA lesions and how nucleosome mobility and remodeling can take place on damaged DNA.
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- Fritz Thoma
- Institut für Zellbiologie, ETH-Hönggerberg, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
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Ataian Y, Krebs JE. Five repair pathways in one context: chromatin modification during DNA repair. Biochem Cell Biol 2007; 84:490-504. [PMID: 16936822 DOI: 10.1139/o06-075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The eukaryotic cell is faced with more than 10 000 various kinds of DNA lesions per day. Failure to repair such lesions can lead to mutations, genomic instability, or cell death. Therefore, cells have developed 5 major repair pathways in which different kinds of DNA damage can be detected and repaired: homologous recombination, nonhomologous end joining, nucleotide excision repair, base excision repair, and mismatch repair. However, the efficient repair of DNA damage is complicated by the fact that the genomic DNA is packaged through histone and nonhistone proteins into chromatin, a highly condensed structure that hinders DNA accessibility and its subsequent repair. Therefore, the cellular repair machinery has to circumvent this natural barrier to gain access to the damaged site in a timely manner. Repair of DNA lesions in the context of chromatin occurs with the assistance of ATP-dependent chromatin-remodeling enzymes and histone-modifying enzymes, which allow access of the necessary repair factors to the lesion. Here we review recent studies that elucidate the interplay between chromatin modifiers / remodelers and the major DNA repair pathways.
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- Yeganeh Ataian
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of AK Anchorage, 3211 Providence Drive, Anchorage, AK 99508, USA
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Romano V, Napoli A, Salerno V, Valenti A, Rossi M, Ciaramella M. Lack of strand-specific repair of UV-induced DNA lesions in three genes of the archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus. J Mol Biol 2006; 365:921-9. [PMID: 17113105 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2006.10.045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2006] [Revised: 10/11/2006] [Accepted: 10/16/2006] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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In all organisms, specialized systems are devoted to repair of DNA lesions induced by exposure to UV light. In both Eucarya and Bacteria, UV-induced pyrimidine dimers in the transcribed strand of active genes are repaired at a faster rate compared to the non-transcribed strand and the rest of the genome. Preferential repair of transcribed strands requires the Transcription-Repair Coupling Factor in Escherichia coli and the CSA and CSB proteins in humans. These factors are needed for coupling of transcription to nucleotide excision repair (NER), a major pathway for repair of UV-induced lesions. Whereas transcription-coupled NER (TC-NER) is an evolutionary conserved process, not all active genes show preferential repair of transcribed strands. The existence of a NER pathway in the Archaea has not been demonstrated directly, yet it is suggested by the presence and properties of homologues of NER nucleases and helicases. However, none of the proteins responsible for the lesion recognition steps or for TC-NER has been found in archaeal genomes. Moreover, the kinetics of gene or strand-specific repair has never been investigated in any organism of this domain. We have analysed the kinetics of repair of UV-induced DNA damage in the transcribed and non-transcribed strands of three genes of the hyperthermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus. We found that in all three genes the two strands are repaired with the same efficiency with each other and with the genome in general, thus providing no evidence of strand bias or transcription coupling of the repair process in the genes analysed. Further studies will be required to test the existence of a transcription-coupled repair pathway in other archaeal genes and to elucidate the mechanism of UV lesion recognition and repair in Archaea.
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- Vincenza Romano
- Institute of Protein Biochemistry, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via P. Castellino 111, 80131 Naples, Italy
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Aboussekhra A, Al-Sharif IS. Homologous recombination is involved in transcription-coupled repair of UV damage in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. EMBO J 2005; 24:1999-2010. [PMID: 15902273 PMCID: PMC1142603 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7600665] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2004] [Accepted: 04/08/2005] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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To efficiently protect the integrity of genetic information, transcription is connected to nucleotide excision repair (NER), which allows preferential repair of the transcribed DNA strands (TS). As yet, the molecular basis of this connection remains elusive in eukaryotic cells. Here we show that, in haploids, the RAD26 gene is essential for the preferential repair of the TS during G1. However, in G2/M phase there is an additional RAD51-dependent process that enhances repair of TS. Importantly, the simultaneous deletion of both RAD26 and RAD51 led to complete abolishment of strand-specific repair during G2/M, indicating that these genes act through two independent but complementary subpathways. In diploids, however, RAD51 is involved in repair of the TS even in G1 phase, which unveils the implication of homologous recombination in the preferential repair of the TS. Importantly, the abolishment of NER, by abrogation of RAD1 or RAD14, completely stopped repair of UV damage even during G2/M phase. These results show the existence of functional cross-talk between transcription, homologous recombination and NER.
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- Abdelilah Aboussekhra
- Department of Biological and Medical Research, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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Capiaghi C, Ho TV, Thoma F. Kinetochores prevent repair of UV damage in Saccharomyces cerevisiae centromeres. Mol Cell Biol 2004; 24:6907-18. [PMID: 15282293 PMCID: PMC479735 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.24.16.6907-6918.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Centromeres form specialized chromatin structures termed kinetochores which are required for accurate segregation of chromosomes. DNA lesions might disrupt protein-DNA interactions, thereby compromising segregation and genome stability. We show that yeast centromeres are heavily resistant to removal of UV-induced DNA lesions by two different repair systems, photolyase and nucleotide excision repair. Repair resistance persists in G(1)- and G(2)/M-arrested cells. Efficient repair was obtained only by disruption of the kinetochore structure in a ndc10-1 mutant, but not in cse4-1 and cbf1 Delta mutants. Moreover, UV photofootprinting and DNA repair footprinting showed that centromere proteins cover about 120 bp of the centromere elements CDEII and CDEIII, including 20 bp of flanking CDEIII. Thus, DNA lesions do not appear to disrupt protein-DNA interactions in the centromere. Maintaining a stable kinetochore structure seems to be more important for the cell than immediate removal of DNA lesions. It is conceivable that centromeres are repaired by postreplication repair pathways.
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Al-Moghrabi NM, Al-Sharif IS, Aboussekhra A. UV-induced de novo protein synthesis enhances nucleotide excision repair efficiency in a transcription-dependent manner in S. cerevisiae. DNA Repair (Amst) 2004; 2:1185-97. [PMID: 14599741 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2003.07.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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DNA damage results in the up-regulation of several genes involved in different cellular physiological processes, such as the nucleotide excision repair (NER) mechanism that copes with a broad range of DNA alterations, including the carcinogenic ultraviolet (UV) light-induced pyrimidine dimers (PDs). There are two NER sub-pathways: transcription coupled repair (TCR) that is specific for the transcribed strands (TS) of active genes and global genomic repair (GGR) that repairs non-transcribed DNA sequences (NTD) and the non-transcribed strands (NTS) of expressed genes. To elucidate the role of UV-dependent de novo protein synthesis in nucleotide excision repair in the budding yeast, we investigated the effect of the protein synthesis inhibitor, cycloheximide, on the removal of PDs. Log phase as well as G(1)-synchronized cells were treated with the drug shortly before UV irradiation and immediately thereafter, and the repair of damaged DNA was assessed with the high resolution primer extension technique. The results show that in both cellular conditions, the inhibition of UV-dependent de novo protein synthesis by cycloheximide impairs the excision repair of the transcriptionally active GAL10 and URA3 genes, with a greater effect on the non-transcribed strands. This indicates that UV-mediated de novo protein synthesis is required for efficient nucleotide excision repair, but not for the preferential repair of the TSs. On the other hand, cycloheximide did not affect the repair of either strand of the repressed GAL10 gene or the non-transcribed promoter region of the URA3 gene, showing that UV-induced de novo protein synthesis is not required for PD removal from transcriptionally inactive DNA sequences. Together, these data show that despite the fact that NTD and NTSs are normally repaired by the GGR sub-pathway, their requirement for UV-dependent de novo protein synthesis is different, which may suggest a difference in the processing of UV lesions in these non-transcribed sequences of the genome.
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- Nisreen M Al-Moghrabi
- Department of Biological and Medical Research, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, MBC #03, PO Box 3354, Riyadh 11211, Saudi Arabia
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Livingstone-Zatchej M, Marcionelli R, Möller K, de Pril R, Thoma F. Repair of UV lesions in silenced chromatin provides in vivo evidence for a compact chromatin structure. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:37471-9. [PMID: 12882973 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m306335200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Genes positioned close to telomeres in yeast are silenced by a heterochromatin-like structure containing Sir proteins. To investigate whether silencing also affects DNA repair, we studied removal of UV lesions by photolyase and nucleotide excision repair (NER) in strains containing the URA3 gene inserted 2 kilobases from a telomere. URA3 was transcriptionally active in sir3delta mutants, partially silenced in SIR3 cells, or completely silenced by overexpression of SIR3 or deletion of RPD3. The active URA3 showed efficient repair by both pathways. Fast repair of the promoter and 3' end by photolyase reflected a non-nucleosomal structure. Partial silencing had no remarkable effect on photolyase but reduced repair by NER, indicating differential accessibility for the two repair reactions. Complete silencing inhibits NER and photolyase in the coding region as well as in the promoter and the 3'-end. Conventional nuclease footprinting analyses revealed subtle changes in the promoter proximal nucleosome under partially silenced conditions but a pronounced reorganization of chromatin extending over the whole gene in silenced chromatin. Thus, both repair systems are sensitive to chromatin changes associated with silencing and provide direct evidence for a compact structure of heterochromatin.
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Cellular DNA-repair pathways involve proteins that have roles in other DNA-metabolic processes, as well as those that are dedicated to damage removal. Several proteins, which have diverse functions and are not known to have roles in DNA repair, also associate with damaged DNA. These newly discovered interactions could either facilitate or hinder the recognition of DNA damage, and so they could have important effects on DNA repair and genetic integrity. The outcome for the cell, and ultimately for the organism, might depend on which proteins arrive first at sites of DNA damage.
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- Susan D Cline
- Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, 371 Serra Mall, Stanford, California 94305-5020, USA
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Morse NR, Meniel V, Waters R. Photoreactivation of UV-induced cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers in the MFA2 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Nucleic Acids Res 2002; 30:1799-807. [PMID: 11937634 PMCID: PMC113223 DOI: 10.1093/nar/30.8.1799] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Photoreactive repair (PR) of cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPDs) was mapped at nucleotide resolution in nucleotide excision repair (NER) proficient and deficient strains for the transcriptionally active and inactive MFA2 gene. Enhanced PR in the control region occurred in areas where no nucleosomes were present, particularly linker regions in the alpha mating type. The presence of excision plus transcriptional activation alleviated this preference, causing repair in the regions that were linker and core in the alpha mating type to be the same in this strain. Transcription had no effect on photoreactive repair in transcribed and downstream regions of MFA2, where similar rates were observed for specific CPDs in both strands. The presence of positioned nucleosomes in alpha mating types revealed slow repair in the nucleosome core, with faster repair occurring at the 3' and 5' edges. These data support the evidence that CPDs are repaired quicker in nucleosome-free regions and at edges of nucleosomes. CPDs in the linker regions are repaired more efficiently in the transcriptionally inactive strains, suggesting that nucleosome movement associated with transcription of MFA2 hampers PR irrespective of the strand. Proficient NER influenced PR in the TATA and Mcm1 binding sites by enhancing it, particularly when transcription was activated.
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- Nerys R Morse
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Wales Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK
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Meier A, Livingstone-Zatchej M, Thoma F. Repair of active and silenced rDNA in yeast: the contributions of photolyase and transcription-couples nucleotide excision repair. J Biol Chem 2002; 277:11845-52. [PMID: 11805105 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m110941200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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DNA repair by photolyase (photoreactivation) and nucleotide excision repair (NER) are the major pathways to remove UV-induced cyclobutane-pyrimidine dimers (CPDs). The nucleolus is a nuclear subcompartment containing the ribosomal RNA genes (rDNA) of which a fraction is transcribed by RNA polymerase I (RNAP-I), and the rest is silenced. Here yeast was used to investigate how photoreactivation and NER contribute to repair of active and inactive rDNA. Cells were irradiated with UV light and exposed to different repair conditions. Nuclei were isolated, and the active genes were separated from the inactive genes by restriction endonuclease digestion. CPDs were measured in total rDNA, in both fractions, and in the GAL10 gene. Repair in rDNA was as efficient as in GAL10 indicating that both pathways have unrestricted access to the nucleolus. Photoreactivation was much faster than NER and therefore was the predominant repair pathway. Active genes were faster repaired by photolyase than were silenced genes providing evidence for an open chromatin structure during repair. The transcribed strands of active genes, but not of inactive genes, were slightly faster repaired by NER providing evidence for transcription-coupled repair by RNAP-I. There was no pronounced inhibition of photoreactivation by RNAP-I in the transcribed strand, which is in contrast to genes transcribed by RNAP-II and suggests different stabilities of RNAP-I and RNAP-II stalled at CPDs.
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- Andreas Meier
- Institut für Zellbiologie, Departement Biologie, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH), Hönggerberg, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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Conconi A, Bespalov VA, Smerdon MJ. Transcription-coupled repair in RNA polymerase I-transcribed genes of yeast. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2002; 99:649-54. [PMID: 11782531 PMCID: PMC117360 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.022373099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Nucleotide excision repair (NER) of UV-induced cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPDs) was measured in the individual strands of transcriptionally active and inactive ribosomal genes of yeast. Ribosomal genes (rDNA) are present in multiple copies, but only a fraction of them is actively transcribed. Restriction enzyme digestion was used to specifically release the transcriptionally active fraction from yeast nuclei, and selective psoralen crosslinking was used to distinguish between active and inactive rDNA chromatin. Removal of CPDs was followed in both rDNA populations, and the data clearly show that strand-specific repair occurs in transcriptionally active rDNA while being absent in the inactive rDNA fraction. Thus, transcription-coupled repair occurs in RNA polymerase I-transcribed genes in yeast. Moreover, the nontranscribed strand of active rDNA is repaired faster than either strand of inactive rDNA, implying that NER has preferred access to the active, non-nucleosomal rDNA chromatin. Finally, restriction enzyme accessibility to active rDNA varies during NER, suggesting that there is a change in ribosomal gene chromatin structure during or soon after CPD removal.
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- Antonio Conconi
- Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Molecular Biosciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-4660, USA
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Ghavidel A, Schultz MC. TATA binding protein-associated CK2 transduces DNA damage signals to the RNA polymerase III transcriptional machinery. Cell 2001; 106:575-84. [PMID: 11551505 DOI: 10.1016/s0092-8674(01)00473-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Here we report that RNA polymerase (pol) III transcription is repressed in response to DNA damage by downregulation of TFIIIB, the core component of the pol III transcriptional machinery. Protein kinase CK2 transduces this stress signal to TFIIIB. CK2 associates with and normally activates the TATA binding protein (TBP) subunit of TFIIIB. The beta regulatory subunit of CK2 binds to TBP and is required for high TBP-associated CK2 activity and pol III transcription in unstressed cells. Transcriptional repression induced by DNA damage requires CK2 and coincides with downregulation of TBP-associated CK2 and dissociation of catalytic subunits from TBP-CK2 complexes. Therefore, CK2 is the terminal effector in a signaling pathway that represses pol III transcription when genome integrity is compromised.
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- A Ghavidel
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2H7
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Al-Moghrabi NM, Al-Sharif IS, Aboussekhra A. The Saccharomyces cerevisiae RAD9 cell cycle checkpoint gene is required for optimal repair of UV-induced pyrimidine dimers in both G(1) and G(2)/M phases of the cell cycle. Nucleic Acids Res 2001; 29:2020-5. [PMID: 11353070 PMCID: PMC55462 DOI: 10.1093/nar/29.10.2020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Cells respond to DNA damage by activating both cellular growth arrest and DNA repair processes. In Saccharomyces cerevesiae the RAD9 gene controls DNA damage-mediated cell cycle arrest that is known to allow efficient repair. To ascertain whether RAD9 plays a role in DNA repair per se, the removal of UV-induced photolesions was assessed in synchronized isogenic normal and rad9 cells using the high resolution primer extension technique. The results show that RAD9 is indeed involved in the removal of photolesions from both the transcribed and the non-transcribed strands of the reporter GAL10 gene, in G(1)- as well as G(2)/M-arrested cells. Interestingly, these data also reveal that in both normal and rad9 mutant, the repair strand bias towards the transcribed stand is more pronounced in G(2)/M- than in G(1)-arrested cells. These data indicate that RAD9 coordinate the cellular response to DNA damage by activating both cell cycle checkpoint and excision repair.
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- N M Al-Moghrabi
- King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Department of Biological and Medical Research, MBC-03, PO Box 3354, Riyadh 11211, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Suter B, Schnappauf G, Thoma F. Poly(dA.dT) sequences exist as rigid DNA structures in nucleosome-free yeast promoters in vivo. Nucleic Acids Res 2000; 28:4083-9. [PMID: 11058103 PMCID: PMC113125 DOI: 10.1093/nar/28.21.4083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Poly(dA.dT) sequences (T-tracts) are abundant genomic DNA elements with unusual properties in vitro and an established role in transcriptional regulation of yeast genes. In vitro T-tracts are rigid, contribute to DNA bending, affect assembly in nucleosomes and generate a characteristic pattern of CPDs (cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers) upon irradiation with UV light (UV photofootprint). In eukaryotic cells, where DNA is packaged in chromatin, the DNA structure of T-tracts is unknown. Here we have used in vivo UV photofootprinting and DNA repair by photolyase to investigate the structure and accessibility of T-tracts in yeast promoters (HIS3, URA3 and ILV1). The same characteristic photofootprints were obtained in yeast and in naked DNA, demonstrating that the unusual T-tract structure exists in living cells. Rapid repair of CPDs in the T-tracts demonstrates that these T-tracts were not folded in nucleosomes. Moreover, neither datin, a T-tract binding protein, nor Gcn5p, a histone acetyltransferase involved in nucleosome remodelling, showed an influence on the structure and accessibility of T-tracts. The data support a contribution of this unusual DNA structure to transcriptional regulation.
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MESH Headings
- Acetyltransferases/genetics
- Acetyltransferases/metabolism
- Base Sequence
- Chromosomes, Fungal/chemistry
- Chromosomes, Fungal/genetics
- Chromosomes, Fungal/metabolism
- Chromosomes, Fungal/radiation effects
- DNA Damage/genetics
- DNA Damage/radiation effects
- DNA Footprinting
- DNA Repair/genetics
- DNA, Fungal/chemistry
- DNA, Fungal/genetics
- DNA, Fungal/metabolism
- DNA, Fungal/radiation effects
- DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics
- DNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism
- Deoxyribodipyrimidine Photo-Lyase/metabolism
- Dopamine Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins
- Fungal Proteins/genetics
- Fungal Proteins/metabolism
- Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal
- Genes, Fungal/genetics
- Genome, Fungal
- Histone Acetyltransferases
- Hydro-Lyases/genetics
- Membrane Glycoproteins
- Membrane Transport Proteins
- Nerve Tissue Proteins
- Nucleic Acid Conformation
- Nucleosomes/physiology
- Pliability
- Poly A/genetics
- Poly T/genetics
- Promoter Regions, Genetic/genetics
- Protein Kinases/genetics
- Protein Kinases/metabolism
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins
- Ultraviolet Rays
- Yeasts/enzymology
- Yeasts/genetics
- Yeasts/radiation effects
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Affiliation(s)
- B Suter
- Institut für Zellbiologie, ETH-Zürich, Hönggerberg, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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The discovery of enzymatic photoreactivation and of photolyase produced a paradigm shift in the way investigators thought about the cellular consequences of DNA damage and about how these consequences could be avoided. The in vitro photoreactivation system, which utilized crude extracts from Saccharomyces cerevisiae as the source of photolyase, not only provided information about the mechanism of photoreactivation, but also played an important role in the discovery of nucleotide excision repair (NER) and the identification of the pyrimidine dimer as the primary lethal lesion induced by 254 nm radiation. More recently, mechanistic studies using homogenous purified yeast photolyase have yielded insight into how DNA repair enzymes recognize specific structures in DNA, while investigations looking at the repair of lesions in chromatin have begun to elucidate how DNA repair enzymes deal with damage in the context of eukaryotic chromosomes. Additionally, genetic and molecular studies of PHR1, the S. cerevisiae gene encoding the apoenzyme of photolyase, have led to the identification of previously unknown damage-responsive transcriptional regulators.
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Affiliation(s)
- G B Sancar
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB# 7260, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7260, USA.
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Suter B, Livingstone-Zatchej M, Thoma F. Mapping cyclobutane-pyrimidine dimers in DNA and using DNA-repair by photolyase for chromatin analysis in yeast. Methods Enzymol 1999; 304:447-61. [PMID: 10372376 DOI: 10.1016/s0076-6879(99)04027-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/12/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- B Suter
- Institut für Zellbiologie, ETH-Zürich, Switzerland
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Conconi A, Liu X, Koriazova L, Ackerman EJ, Smerdon MJ. Tight correlation between inhibition of DNA repair in vitro and transcription factor IIIA binding in a 5S ribosomal RNA gene. EMBO J 1999; 18:1387-96. [PMID: 10064604 PMCID: PMC1171228 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/18.5.1387] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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UV-induced photoproducts (cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers, CPDs) in DNA are removed by nucleotide excision repair (NER), and the presence of transcription factors on DNA can restrict the accessibility of NER enzymes. We have investigatigated the modulation of NER in a gene promoter using the Xenopus transcription factor IIIA (TFIIIA)-5S rDNA complex and Xenopus oocyte nuclear extracts. TFIIIA alters CPD formation primarily in the transcribed strand of the 50 bp internal control region (ICR) of 5S rDNA. During NER in vitro, CPD removal is reduced at most sites in both strands of the ICR when TFIIIA is bound. Efficient repair occurs just outside the TFIIIA-binding site (within 10 bp), and in the absence of 5S rRNA transcription. Interestingly, three CPD sites within the ICR [+56, +75 (transcribed strand) and +73 (non-transcribed strand)] are repaired rapidly when TFIIIA is bound, while CPDs within approximately 5 bases of these sites are repaired much more slowly. CPDs at these three sites may partially displace TFIIIA, thereby enabling rapid repair. However, TFIIIA is not completely displaced during NER, at least at sites outside the ICR, even though the NER complex could be sterically hindered by TFIIIA. Such inefficient repair of transcription factor binding sites could increase mutation frequency in regulatory regions of genes.
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Affiliation(s)
- A Conconi
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-4660, USA
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Aboussekhra A, Thoma F. TATA-binding protein promotes the selective formation of UV-induced (6-4)-photoproducts and modulates DNA repair in the TATA box. EMBO J 1999; 18:433-43. [PMID: 9889199 PMCID: PMC1171137 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/18.2.433] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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DNA-damage formation and repair are coupled to the structure and accessibility of DNA in chromatin. DNA damage may compromise protein binding, thereby affecting function. We have studied the effect of TATA-binding protein (TBP) on damage formation by ultraviolet light and on DNA repair by photolyase and nucleotide excision repair in yeast and in vitro. In vivo, selective and enhanced formation of (6-4)-photoproducts (6-4PPs) was found within the TATA boxes of the active SNR6 and GAL10 genes, engaged in transcription initiation by RNA polymerase III and RNA polymerase II, respectively. Cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPDs) were generated at the edge and outside of the TATA boxes, and in the inactive promoters. The same selective and enhanced 6-4PP formation was observed in a TBP-TATA complex in vitro at sites where crystal structures revealed bent DNA. We conclude that similar DNA distortions occur in vivo when TBP is part of the initiation complexes. Repair analysis by photolyase revealed inhibition of CPD repair at the edge of the TATA box in the active SNR6 promoter in vitro, but not in the GAL10 TATA box or in the inactive SNR6 promoter. Nucleotide excision repair was not inhibited, but preferentially repaired the 6-4PPs. We conclude that TBP can remain bound to damaged promoters and that nucleotide excision repair is the predominant pathway to remove UV damage in active TATA boxes.
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- A Aboussekhra
- Institut für Zellbiologie, ETH-Zürich, Hönggerberg, CH-8093 Z urich, Switzerland
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Tijsterman M, Tasseron-de Jong JG, Verhage RA, Brouwer J. Defective Kin28, a subunit of yeast TFIIH, impairs transcription-coupled but not global genome nucleotide excision repair. Mutat Res 1998; 409:181-8. [PMID: 9875293 DOI: 10.1016/s0921-8777(98)00060-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The essential Saccharomyces cerevisiae KIN28 gene encodes a subunit of general transcription factor TFIIH, a multiprotein complex required for RNA polymerase II transcription initiation and nucleotide excision repair (NER). Kin28 is implicated in the transition from transcription initiation to transcription elongation by phosphorylation of the carboxy-terminal domain (CTD) of the largest subunit of the RNA polymerase II complex. Here, we explore the possibility that Kin28 like the other subunits of TFIIH is involved in NER in vivo, using yeast cells carrying either a wildtype or a thermosensitive KIN28 allele. The removal of UV induced cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPDs) was monitored at base resolution from both strands of the RNA polymerase II transcribed genes RPB2 and URA3. Cells carrying the thermosensitive KIN28 allele display a transcription-coupled repair (TCR) defect at the non-permissive temperature, which was most pronounced directly downstream of transcription initiation, probably as an indirect result of a general decrease in the level of RNA polymerase II transcription. The fact that CPD removal in non-transcribed DNA is completely unaffected in these cells indicates that Kin28 is not essential for general NER in vivo, providing the first example of a TFIIH subunit that is required for TCR but not for NER in general.
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- M Tijsterman
- Department of Molecular Genetics, Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Gorlaeus Laboratories, Leiden University, Netherlands
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