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Chen X, Zhao R, Glick GG, Cortez D. Function of the ATR N-terminal domain revealed by an ATM/ATR chimera. Exp Cell Res 2007; 313:1667-74. [PMID: 17376433 PMCID: PMC1855264 DOI: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2007.02.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2007] [Revised: 02/20/2007] [Accepted: 02/22/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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The ATM and ATR kinases function at the apex of checkpoint signaling pathways. These kinases share significant sequence similarity, phosphorylate many of the same substrates, and have overlapping roles in initiating cell cycle checkpoints. However, they sense DNA damage through distinct mechanisms. ATR primarily senses single stranded DNA (ssDNA) through its interaction with ATRIP, and ATM senses double strand breaks through its interaction with Nbs1. We determined that the N-terminus of ATR contains a domain that binds ATRIP. Attaching this domain to ATM allowed the fusion protein (ATM*) to bind ATRIP and associate with RPA-coated ssDNA. ATM* also gained the ability to localize efficiently to stalled replication forks as well as double strand breaks. Despite having normal kinase activity when tested in vitro and being phosphorylated on S1981 in vivo, ATM* is defective in checkpoint signaling and does not complement cellular deficiencies in either ATM or ATR. These data indicate that the N-terminus of ATR is sufficient to bind ATRIP and to promote localization to sites of replication stress.
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- *Correspondence should be addressed to: David Cortez, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University, 613 Light Hall, 23rd @ Pierce Ave. Nashville, TN 37232, Phone: 615-322-8547, Fax: 615-343-0704,
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Bogliolo M, Lyakhovich A, Callén E, Castellà M, Cappelli E, Ramírez MJ, Creus A, Marcos R, Kalb R, Neveling K, Schindler D, Surrallés J. Histone H2AX and Fanconi anemia FANCD2 function in the same pathway to maintain chromosome stability. EMBO J 2007; 26:1340-51. [PMID: 17304220 PMCID: PMC1817623 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7601574] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2006] [Accepted: 01/03/2007] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Fanconi anemia (FA) is a chromosome fragility syndrome characterized by bone marrow failure and cancer susceptibility. The central FA protein FANCD2 is known to relocate to chromatin upon DNA damage in a poorly understood process. Here, we have induced subnuclear accumulation of DNA damage to prove that histone H2AX is a novel component of the FA/BRCA pathway in response to stalled replication forks. Analyses of cells from H2AX knockout mice or expressing a nonphosphorylable H2AX (H2AX(S136A/S139A)) indicate that phosphorylated H2AX (gammaH2AX) is required for recruiting FANCD2 to chromatin at stalled replication forks. FANCD2 binding to gammaH2AX is BRCA1-dependent and cells deficient or depleted of H2AX show an FA-like phenotype, including an excess of chromatid-type chromosomal aberrations and hypersensitivity to MMC. This MMC hypersensitivity of H2AX-deficient cells is not further increased by depleting FANCD2, indicating that H2AX and FANCD2 function in the same pathway in response to DNA damage-induced replication blockage. Consequently, histone H2AX is functionally connected to the FA/BRCA pathway to resolve stalled replication forks and prevent chromosome instability.
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- Massimo Bogliolo
- Group of Mutagenesis, Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Group of Mutagenesis, Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Group of Mutagenesis, Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Group of Mutagenesis, Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Group of Mutagenesis, Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Group of Mutagenesis, Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Group of Mutagenesis, Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Group of Mutagenesis, Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Wurzburg, Wurzburg, Germany
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Wurzburg, Wurzburg, Germany
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Wurzburg, Wurzburg, Germany
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- Group of Mutagenesis, Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
- Centre for Biomedical Research on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
- Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Campus de Bellaterra, Bellaterra, Barcelona 08193, Spain. Tel.: + 34 93 581 18 30; Fax: + 34 93 581 23 87; E-mail:
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Reinhardt HC, Aslanian AS, Lees JA, Yaffe MB. p53-deficient cells rely on ATM- and ATR-mediated checkpoint signaling through the p38MAPK/MK2 pathway for survival after DNA damage. Cancer Cell 2007; 11:175-89. [PMID: 17292828 PMCID: PMC2742175 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2006.11.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 456] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2006] [Revised: 11/02/2006] [Accepted: 11/16/2006] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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In response to DNA damage, eukaryotic cells activate ATM-Chk2 and/or ATR-Chk1 to arrest the cell cycle and initiate DNA repair. We show that, in the absence of p53, cells depend on a third cell-cycle checkpoint pathway involving p38MAPK/MK2 for cell-cycle arrest and survival after DNA damage. MK2 depletion in p53-deficient cells, but not in p53 wild-type cells, caused abrogation of the Cdc25A-mediated S phase checkpoint after cisplatin exposure and loss of the Cdc25B-mediated G2/M checkpoint following doxorubicin treatment, resulting in mitotic catastrophe and pronounced regression of murine tumors in vivo. We show that the Chk1 inhibitor UCN-01 also potently inhibits MK2, suggesting that its clinical efficacy results from the simultaneous disruption of two critical checkpoint pathways in p53-defective cells.
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- H. Christian Reinhardt
- Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, E18-580, Cambridge, MA, 02139 USA
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- Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, E18-580, Cambridge, MA, 02139 USA
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- Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, E18-580, Cambridge, MA, 02139 USA
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- Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, E18-580, Cambridge, MA, 02139 USA
- Division of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, E18-580, Cambridge, MA, 02139 USA
- Address correspondence to: Michael B. Yaffe, Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, E18-570, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, Ph: 617-452-2103, Fax: 617-452-4978, E-mail:
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Dimitrova N, de Lange T. MDC1 accelerates nonhomologous end-joining of dysfunctional telomeres. Genes Dev 2007; 20:3238-43. [PMID: 17158742 PMCID: PMC1686600 DOI: 10.1101/gad.1496606] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Here we document the role of MDC1 (mediator of DNA damage checkpoint 1) in the detection and repair of human and mouse telomeres rendered dysfunctional through inhibition of TRF2. Consistent with its role in promoting DNA damage foci, MDC1 knockdown affected the formation of telomere dysfunction-induced foci (TIFs), diminishing the accumulation of phosphorylated ATM, 53BP1, Nbs1, and to a lesser extent, gamma-H2AX. In addition to this effect on TIFs, the rate of nonhomologous end-joining (NHEJ) of dysfunctional telomeres was significantly decreased when MDC1 itself or its recruitment to chromatin was inhibited. MDC1 appeared to promote a step in the NHEJ pathway after the removal of the 3' telomeric overhang. The acceleration of NHEJ was unlikely to be due to increased presence of 53BP1 and Mre11 in TIFs, since knockdown of neither factor affected telomere fusions. Furthermore, relevant cell cycle effectors (Chk2, p53, and p21) of the ATM kinase pathway were unaffected and there was no change in the rate of cell cycle progression. We propose that the binding of MDC1 to gamma-H2AX directly affects NHEJ in a manner that is independent of the ATM-dependent cell cycle arrest pathway.
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- Nadya Dimitrova
- Laboratory for Cell Biology and Genetics, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10021, USA
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Déry U, Masson JY. Twists and turns in the function of DNA damage signaling and repair proteins by post-translational modifications. DNA Repair (Amst) 2007; 6:561-77. [PMID: 17258515 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2006.12.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2006] [Accepted: 12/13/2006] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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When the human genome was sequenced, it was surprising to find that it contains approximately 30,000 genes and not 100,000 as most textbooks had predicted. Since then, it became clear that evolution has favored the existence of only a limited number of genes with inducible functions over multiple genes each having specific roles. Many genes products can be modified by post-translational modifications therefore fine-tuning the roles of the corresponding proteins. DNA damage signaling and repair proteins are not an exception to this rule, and they are subject to a wide range of post-translational modifications to orchestrate the DNA damage response. In this review, we will give a comprehensive view of the recent sophisticated mechanisms of DNA damage signal modifications at the nexus of double-strand break DNA damage signaling and repair.
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- Ugo Déry
- Genome Stability Laboratory, Laval University Cancer Research Center, Hôtel-Dieu de Québec, 9 McMahon, Québec City (Qc), Québec G1R 2J6, Canada
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Levitt PS, Zhu M, Cassano A, Yazinski SA, Liu H, Darfler J, Peters RM, Weiss RS. Genome maintenance defects in cultured cells and mice following partial inactivation of the essential cell cycle checkpoint gene Hus1. Mol Cell Biol 2007; 27:2189-201. [PMID: 17220276 PMCID: PMC1820507 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.01763-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Cell cycle checkpoints are evolutionarily conserved signaling pathways that uphold genomic integrity. Complete inactivation of the mouse checkpoint gene Hus1 results in chromosomal instability, genotoxin hypersensitivity, and embryonic lethality. To determine the functional consequences of partial Hus1 impairment, we generated an allelic series in which Hus1 expression was incrementally reduced by combining a hypomorphic Hus1 allele, Hus1(neo), with either wild-type or null (Hus1(Delta1)) alleles. Primary Hus1(neo/Delta1) embryonic fibroblasts exhibited spontaneous chromosomal abnormalities and underwent premature senescence, while higher Hus1 expression in Hus1(neo/neo) cells allowed for normal proliferation. Antioxidant treatment almost fully suppressed premature senescence in Hus1(neo/Delta1) cultures, suggesting a critical role for Hus1 in oxidative stress responses. Treatment of Hus1(neo/neo) and Hus1(neo/Delta1) cells with the DNA adducting agent benzo(a)pyrene dihydrodriol epoxide resulted in a loss of cell viability that was associated with S-phase DNA damage checkpoint failure. Likewise, the DNA polymerase inhibitor aphidicolin triggered increased cell death, chromosomal aberrations, and H2AX phosphorylation, a marker for double-stranded DNA breaks, in Hus1(neo/neo) and Hus1(neo/Delta1) cultures compared to controls. Despite these pronounced genome maintenance defects in cultured Hus1(neo/Delta1) and Hus1(neo/neo) cells, mice of the same genotypes were born at expected frequencies and appeared grossly normal. A significant increase in micronucleus formation was observed in peripheral blood cells from Hus1(neo/Delta1) mice, but reduced Hus1 expression did not cause an elevated predisposition to spontaneous tumor development or accelerate tumorigenesis in p53-deficient mice. These results identify differential effects of altered Hus1 gene dosage on genome maintenance during in vitro culture, genotoxic stress responses, embryonic development, and adult homeostasis.
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- Peter S Levitt
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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Seckel syndrome is a very rare form of primordial dwarfism characterized by antenatal and postnatal growth delay, proportionate extreme short stature, a prominent beak-like nose, hypoplasia of the malar area, small chin, microcephaly, deformed ears lacking lobules, skeletal malformations, mental retardation, and developmental delay. This syndrome has been described with associated disorders of orthopedic, neurologic, hematologic, cardiac, and ocular systems; however, only a few reports mention dermatologic involvement. We describe a 5-year-old girl with classic Seckel syndrome who presented with moderately severe atopic dermatitis and diffuse hypopigmented macules and papules.
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- Amy Brackeen
- Texas Tech Health Sciences Center, Department of Dermatology, 3601 4th Street STOP 9400, Lubbock, TX 79430, USA
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Lachman RS. S. TAYBI AND LACHMAN'S RADIOLOGY OF SYNDROMES, METABOLIC DISORDERS AND SKELETAL DYSPLASIAS 2007. [PMCID: PMC7315357 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-323-01931-6.50027-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Marsh A, Healey S, Lewis A, Spurdle AB, Kedda MA, Khanna KK, Mann GJ, Pupo GM, Lakhani SR, Chenevix-Trench G. Mutation analysis of five candidate genes in familial breast cancer. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2006; 105:377-89. [PMID: 17187232 DOI: 10.1007/s10549-006-9461-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2006] [Accepted: 11/16/2006] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Most of the known breast cancer susceptibility genes (BRCA1, BRCA2, CHEK2 and ATM) are involved in the damage response pathway. Other members of this pathway are therefore good candidates for additional breast cancer susceptibility genes. ATR, along with ATM, plays a central role in DNA damage recognition and Chk1 relays checkpoint signals from both ATR and ATM. PPP2R1B and PPP2R5B code for subunits of protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A), which regulates autophosphorylation of ATM. In addition, EIF2S6/Int-6, which was originally identified as a common integration site for the mouse mammary tumour virus in virally induced mouse mammary tumours, is a candidate breast cancer susceptibility gene because of its putative role in maintaining chromosome stability. To investigate the role of ATR, CHK1, PPP2R1B, PPP2R5B and EIF2S6/Int-6, we carried out mutation analysis of these genes in the index cases from non-BRCA1/BRCA2 breast cancer families. We also screened sporadic breast tumours for somatic mutations in PPP2R1B and PPP2R5B. Although we identified many novel variants, we found no evidence that highly penetrant germline mutations in these five genes contribute to familial breast cancer susceptibility.
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- Anna Marsh
- Cancer and Cell Biology, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, c/o RBH Post Office, Herston, Brisbane, QLD , 4029 , Australia
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Dellaire G, Ching RW, Ahmed K, Jalali F, Tse KCK, Bristow RG, Bazett-Jones DP. Promyelocytic leukemia nuclear bodies behave as DNA damage sensors whose response to DNA double-strand breaks is regulated by NBS1 and the kinases ATM, Chk2, and ATR. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006; 175:55-66. [PMID: 17030982 PMCID: PMC2064496 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200604009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 130] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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The promyelocytic leukemia (PML) nuclear body (NB) is a dynamic subnuclear compartment that is implicated in tumor suppression, as well as in the transcription, replication, and repair of DNA. PML NB number can change during the cell cycle, increasing in S phase and in response to cellular stress, including DNA damage. Although topological changes in chromatin after DNA damage may affect the integrity of PML NBs, the molecular or structural basis for an increase in PML NB number has not been elucidated. We demonstrate that after DNA double-strand break induction, the increase in PML NB number is based on a biophysical process, as well as ongoing cell cycle progression and DNA repair. PML NBs increase in number by a supramolecular fission mechanism similar to that observed in S-phase cells, and which is delayed or inhibited by the loss of function of NBS1, ATM, Chk2, and ATR kinase. Therefore, an increase in PML NB number is an intrinsic element of the cellular response to DNA damage.
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- Graham Dellaire
- The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada
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Stiff T, Walker SA, Cerosaletti K, Goodarzi AA, Petermann E, Concannon P, O'Driscoll M, Jeggo PA. ATR-dependent phosphorylation and activation of ATM in response to UV treatment or replication fork stalling. EMBO J 2006; 25:5775-82. [PMID: 17124492 PMCID: PMC1698893 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7601446] [Citation(s) in RCA: 272] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2006] [Accepted: 10/23/2006] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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The phosphatidyl inositol 3-kinase-like kinases (PIKKs), ataxia-telangiectasia mutated (ATM) and ATM- and Rad3-related (ATR) regulate parallel damage response signalling pathways. ATM is reported to be activated by DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs), whereas ATR is recruited to single-stranded regions of DNA. Although the two pathways were considered to function independently, recent studies have demonstrated that ATM functions upstream of ATR following exposure to ionising radiation (IR) in S/G2. Here, we show that ATM phosphorylation at Ser1981, a characterised autophosphorylation site, is ATR-dependent and ATM-independent following replication fork stalling or UV treatment. In contrast to IR-induced ATM-S1981 phosphorylation, UV-induced ATM-S1981 phosphorylation does not require the Nbs1 C-terminus or Mre11. ATR-dependent phosphorylation of ATM activates ATM phosphorylation of Chk2, which has an overlapping function with Chk1 in regulating G2/M checkpoint arrest. Our findings provide insight into the interplay between the PIKK damage response pathways.
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- Thomas Stiff
- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Sussex, UK
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- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Sussex, UK
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- Molecular Genetics Program, Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Sussex, UK
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- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Sussex, UK
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- Molecular Genetics Program, Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Sussex, UK
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- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Sussex, UK
- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, UK-East Sussex BN1 9RQ, UK. Tel.: +44 1273 678482; Fax: +44 1273 678121; E-mail:
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Unterberger A, Andrews SD, Weaver ICG, Szyf M. DNA methyltransferase 1 knockdown activates a replication stress checkpoint. Mol Cell Biol 2006; 26:7575-86. [PMID: 17015478 PMCID: PMC1636877 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.01887-05] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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DNA methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1) is an important component of the epigenetic machinery and is responsible for copying DNA methylation patterns during cell division. Coordination of DNA methylation and DNA replication is critical for maintaining epigenetic programming. Knockdown of DNMT1 leads to inhibition of DNA replication, but the mechanism has been unclear. Here we show that depletion of DNMT1 with either antisense or small interfering RNA (siRNA) specific to DNMT1 activates a cascade of genotoxic stress checkpoint proteins, resulting in phosphorylation of checkpoint kinases 1 and 2 (Chk1 and -2), gammaH2AX focus formation, and cell division control protein 25a (CDC25a) degradation, in an ataxia telangiectasia mutated-Rad3-related (ATR)-dependent manner. siRNA knockdown of ATR blocks the response to DNMT1 depletion; DNA synthesis continues in the absence of DNMT1, resulting in global hypomethylation. Similarly, the response to DNMT1 knockdown is significantly attenuated in human mutant ATR fibroblast cells from a Seckel syndrome patient. This response is sensitive to DNMT1 depletion, independent of the catalytic domain of DNMT1, as indicated by abolition of the response with ectopic expression of either DNMT1 or DNMT1 with the catalytic domain deleted. There is no response to short-term treatment with 5-aza-deoxycytidine (5-aza-CdR), which causes demethylation by trapping DNMT1 in 5-aza-CdR-containing DNA but does not cause disappearance of DNMT1 from the nucleus. Our data are consistent with the hypothesis that removal of DNMT1 from replication forks is the trigger for this response.
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- Alexander Unterberger
- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, McGill University, 3655 Sir William Osler Promenade, Montréal, Québec, Canada H3G 1Y6
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Marini F, Nardo T, Giannattasio M, Minuzzo M, Stefanini M, Plevani P, Falconi MM. DNA nucleotide excision repair-dependent signaling to checkpoint activation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2006; 103:17325-30. [PMID: 17088560 PMCID: PMC1859929 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0605446103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Eukaryotic cells respond to a variety of DNA insults by triggering a common signal transduction cascade, known as checkpoint response, which temporarily halts cell-cycle progression. Although the main players involved in the cascade have been identified, there is still uncertainty about the nature of the structures that activate these surveillance mechanisms. To understand the role of nucleotide excision repair (NER) in checkpoint activation, we analyzed the UV-induced phosphorylation of the key checkpoint proteins Chk1 and p53, in primary fibroblasts from patients with xeroderma pigmentosum (XP), Cockayne syndrome (CS), trichothiodystrophy (TTD), or UV light-sensitive syndrome. These disorders are due to defects in transcription-coupled NER (TC-NER) and/or global genome NER (GG-NER), the NER subpathways repairing the transcribed strand of active genes or the rest of the genome, respectively. We show here that in G0/G1 and G2/M phases of the cell cycle, triggering of the DNA damage cascade requires recognition and processing of the lesions by the GG-NER. Loss of TC-NER does not affect checkpoint activation. Mutations in XPD, XPB, and in TTDA, encoding subunits of the TFIIH complex, involved in both transcription and NER, impair checkpoint triggering. The only exception is represented by mutations in XPD, resulting in combined features of XP and CS (XP/CS) that lead to activation of the checkpoint cascade after UV radiation. Inhibition of RNA polymerase II transcription significantly reduces the phosphorylation of key checkpoint factors in XP/CS fibroblasts on exposure to UV damage.
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- Federica Marini
- *Dipartimento di Scienze Biomolecolari e Biotecnologie, Universitá degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 26, 20133 Milano, Italy; and
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- Istituto di Genetica Molecolare, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Abbiategrasso 207, 27100 Pavia, Italy
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- *Dipartimento di Scienze Biomolecolari e Biotecnologie, Universitá degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 26, 20133 Milano, Italy; and
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- *Dipartimento di Scienze Biomolecolari e Biotecnologie, Universitá degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 26, 20133 Milano, Italy; and
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- Istituto di Genetica Molecolare, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Abbiategrasso 207, 27100 Pavia, Italy
- To whom correspondence may be addressed. E-mail:
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- *Dipartimento di Scienze Biomolecolari e Biotecnologie, Universitá degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 26, 20133 Milano, Italy; and
- To whom correspondence may be addressed. E-mail:
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- *Dipartimento di Scienze Biomolecolari e Biotecnologie, Universitá degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 26, 20133 Milano, Italy; and
- To whom correspondence may be addressed. E-mail:
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Hurley PJ, Wilsker D, Bunz F. Human cancer cells require ATR for cell cycle progression following exposure to ionizing radiation. Oncogene 2006; 26:2535-42. [PMID: 17043640 DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1210049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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The vast majority of cancer cells have defective checkpoints that permit the cell cycle to progress in the presence of double-strand DNA breaks (DSBs) caused by ionizing radiation (IR) and radiomimetic drugs. ATR (ataxia telangiectasia-mutated and Rad3-related) has recently been shown to be activated by DSBs, although the consequences of this activity are largely unknown. In this report, we use advanced gene targeting methods to generate biallelic hypomorphic ATR mutations in human colorectal cancer cells and demonstrate that progression of the cancer cell cycle after IR treatment requires ATR. Cells with mutant ATR accumulated at a defined point at the beginning of the S phase after IR treatment and were unable to progress beyond that point, whereas cells at later stages of the S phase during the time of irradiation progressed and completed DNA replication. The prolonged arrest of ATR mutant cancer cells did not involve the ataxia telangiectasia mutated-dependent S-phase checkpoint, but rather closely resembled a previously characterized form of cell cycle arrest termed S-phase stasis. As ATR strongly contributed to clonogenic survival after IR treatment, these data suggest that blocking ATR activity might be a useful strategy for inducing S-phase stasis and promoting the radiosensitization of checkpoint-deficient cancer cells.
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- P J Hurley
- Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Cells continuously encounter DNA damage caused either by damaging agents, including oxygen radicals and DNA replication errors caused by stalled replication forks, or by extracellular environments such as ultraviolet or ionizing irradiation. Such DNA damage poses a great threat to genome stability, potentially leading to loss or amplification of chromosome activity, which may result in cellular senescence, cancer or apoptosis. The DNA damage checkpoints coordinate an arrest in cell cycle progression with the DNA repair process, suppressing either mitotic catastrophe or proliferation of cells with damaged DNA. Numerous key players have been identified in terms of damage sensor proteins, transducer kinases and effectors, but their coordination and interconnectedness in damage control have only recently become evident. In this review, we discuss changes in chromatin structure, recruitment of mediator proteins and activation of transducer kinases in response to DNA damage. These cellular responses are important for determining the potential effects of current cancer therapies in terms of toxicity and efficacy.
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- Makoto Nakanishi
- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya City University Medical School, Kawasumi, Nagoya, Japan.
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Durocher F, Labrie Y, Soucy P, Sinilnikova O, Labuda D, Bessette P, Chiquette J, Laframboise R, Lépine J, Lespérance B, Ouellette G, Pichette R, Plante M, Tavtigian SV, Simard J. Mutation analysis and characterization of ATR sequence variants in breast cancer cases from high-risk French Canadian breast/ovarian cancer families. BMC Cancer 2006; 6:230. [PMID: 17010193 PMCID: PMC1599749 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-6-230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2006] [Accepted: 09/29/2006] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Background Ataxia telangiectasia-mutated and Rad3-related (ATR) is a member of the PIK-related family which plays, along with ATM, a central role in cell-cycle regulation. ATR has been shown to phosphorylate several tumor suppressors like BRCA1, CHEK1 and TP53. ATR appears as a good candidate breast cancer susceptibility gene and the current study was designed to screen for ATR germline mutations potentially involved in breast cancer predisposition. Methods ATR direct sequencing was performed using a fluorescent method while widely available programs were used for linkage disequilibrium (LD), haplotype analyses, and tagging SNP (tSNP) identification. Expression analyses were carried out using real-time PCR. Results The complete sequence of all exons and flanking intronic sequences were analyzed in DNA samples from 54 individuals affected with breast cancer from non-BRCA1/2 high-risk French Canadian breast/ovarian families. Although no germline mutation has been identified in the coding region, we identified 41 sequence variants, including 16 coding variants, 3 of which are not reported in public databases. SNP haplotypes were established and tSNPs were identified in 73 healthy unrelated French Canadians, providing a valuable tool for further association studies involving the ATR gene, using large cohorts. Our analyses led to the identification of two novel alternative splice transcripts. In contrast to the transcript generated by an alternative splicing site in the intron 41, the one resulting from a deletion of 121 nucleotides in exon 33 is widely expressed, at significant but relatively low levels, in both normal and tumoral cells including normal breast and ovarian tissue. Conclusion Although no deleterious mutations were identified in the ATR gene, the current study provides an haplotype analysis of the ATR gene polymorphisms, which allowed the identification of a set of SNPs that could be used as tSNPs for large-scale association studies. In addition, our study led to the characterization of a novel Δ33 splice form, which could generate a putative truncated protein lacking several functional domains. Additional studies in large cohorts and other populations will be needed to further evaluate if common and/or rare ATR sequence variants can be associated with a modest or intermediate breast cancer risk.
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- Francine Durocher
- Cancer Genomics Laboratory, Oncology and Molecular Endocrinology Research Centre, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec and Laval University, Québec, G1V 4G2, Canada
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- Cancer Genomics Laboratory, Oncology and Molecular Endocrinology Research Centre, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec and Laval University, Québec, G1V 4G2, Canada
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- Cancer Genomics Laboratory, Oncology and Molecular Endocrinology Research Centre, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec and Laval University, Québec, G1V 4G2, Canada
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- Unité Mixte de Génétique Constitutionnelle des Cancers Fréquents, Hospices Civils de Lyon/Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon, France
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- Centre de cancérologie Charles Bruneau, Ste-Justine Hospital, Montréal, Canada
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- Service de gynécologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke, Fleurimont, Canada
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- Clinique des maladies du sein Deschênes-Fabia, Hôpital du Saint-Sacrement, Québec, G1S 4L8, Canada
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- Service de médecine génétique, CHUQ, Pavillon CHUL, Québec, G1V 4G2, Canada
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- Centre hospitalier régional de Rimouski, Rimouski, G5L 5T1, Canada
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- Cancer Genomics Laboratory, Oncology and Molecular Endocrinology Research Centre, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec and Laval University, Québec, G1V 4G2, Canada
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- Service d'hémato-oncologie, Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur, Montréal, Canada
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- Service de gynécologie, CHUQ, L'Hôtel-Dieu de Québec, Québec, G1R 2J6, Canada
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- Unit of Genetic Cancer Susceptibility, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France
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- Cancer Genomics Laboratory, Oncology and Molecular Endocrinology Research Centre, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec and Laval University, Québec, G1V 4G2, Canada
- Canada Research Chair in Oncogenetics, Department of Anatomy and Physiology, Laval University, Québec, Canada
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Joe Y, Jeong JH, Yang S, Kang H, Motoyama N, Pandolfi PP, Chung JH, Kim MK. ATR, PML, and CHK2 Play a Role in Arsenic Trioxide-induced Apoptosis. J Biol Chem 2006; 281:28764-71. [PMID: 16891316 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m604392200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Arsenic trioxide (ATO) is a potent anti-leukemic chemotherapeutic agent for acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) that results from a t (15, 17) chromosomal translocation that produces PML-RARalpha, a fusion protein between a tumor suppressor PML and the retinoic acid receptor RARalpha. APL patients are initially treated with retinoic acid, but most develop resistance and relapse. In contrast, ATO induces prolonged remissions even in the relapsed cases. However, the molecular mechanisms by which ATO kills the leukemic cells are not fully understood. We find that ATO induces apoptosis, at least in part, by activating proapoptotic kinase Chk2. ATO does this by stimulating ATR (ataxia telangiectasia mutated and Rad3-related) kinase, a Chk2-activating kinase. In conjunction, ATO degrades PML-RARalpha, resulting in the restoration of PML, which is required for autophosphorylation and full activation of Chk2. As a result, the p53-dependent apoptosis pathway is activated. Based on this, we propose that a pathway composed of ATR, PML, Chk2, and p53 plays a role in ATO-mediated apoptosis, a notion that is consistent with the observation that Chk2 is genetically intact and mutations in the p53 gene are extremely rare in APL.
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- Yeonsoo Joe
- Laboratory of Biochemical Genetics, NHLBI, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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Andressoo JO, Mitchell JR, de Wit J, Hoogstraten D, Volker M, Toussaint W, Speksnijder E, Beems RB, van Steeg H, Jans J, de Zeeuw CI, Jaspers NGJ, Raams A, Lehmann AR, Vermeulen W, Hoeijmakers JHJ, van der Horst GTJ. An Xpd mouse model for the combined xeroderma pigmentosum/Cockayne syndrome exhibiting both cancer predisposition and segmental progeria. Cancer Cell 2006; 10:121-32. [PMID: 16904611 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2006.05.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2005] [Revised: 04/05/2006] [Accepted: 05/17/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Inborn defects in nucleotide excision DNA repair (NER) can paradoxically result in elevated cancer incidence (xeroderma pigmentosum [XP]) or segmental progeria without cancer predisposition (Cockayne syndrome [CS] and trichothiodystrophy [TTD]). We report generation of a knockin mouse model for the combined disorder XPCS with a G602D-encoding mutation in the Xpd helicase gene. XPCS mice are the most skin cancer-prone NER model to date, and we postulate an unusual NER dysfunction that is likely responsible for this susceptibility. XPCS mice also displayed symptoms of segmental progeria, including cachexia and progressive loss of germinal epithelium. Like CS fibroblasts, XPCS and TTD fibroblasts from human and mouse showed evidence of defective repair of oxidative DNA lesions that may underlie these segmental progeroid symptoms.
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- Jaan-Olle Andressoo
- Medical Genetics Center, Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Center of Biomedical Genetics, Cancer Genomics Center, Erasmus Medical Center, Dr. Molewaterplein 50, 3015 GE, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Through its roles in cell cycle control and DNA damage response, microcephalin (also known as BRIT1 or MCPH1) has been implicated in fundamental biological processes, including regulation of brain size and maintenance of genomic integrity. Two new reports in Nature Cell Biology and this issue of Cancer Cell provide further insights into the functions of microcephalin in DNA damage checkpoints and timing of mitosis. Depletion or disease-associated mutations of microcephalin resulted in centrosomal abnormalities and chromosomal instability. These findings and aberrantly reduced expression in human carcinomas identify microcephalin as a candidate novel tumor suppressor.
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- Jiri Bartek
- Institute of Cancer Biology and Centre for Genotoxic Stress Research, Strandboulevarden 49, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Wu X, Shell SM, Liu Y, Zou AY. ATR-dependent checkpoint modulates XPA nuclear import in response to UV irradiation. Oncogene 2006; 26:757-64. [PMID: 16862173 PMCID: PMC3106104 DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1209828] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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In response to DNA damage, mammalian cells activate various DNA repair pathways to remove DNA lesions and, meanwhile, halt cell cycle progressions to allow sufficient time for repair. The nucleotide excision repair (NER) and the ATR-dependent cell cycle checkpoint activation are two major cellular responses to DNA damage induced by UV irradiation. However, how these two processes are coordinated in the response is poorly understood. Here we showed that the essential NER factor XPA (xeroderma pigmentosum group A) underwent nuclear accumulation upon UV irradiation, and strikingly, such an event occurred in an ATR (Ataxia-Telangiectasia mutated and RAD3-related)-dependent manner. Either treatment of cells with ATR kinase inhibitors or transfection of cells with small interfering RNA targeting ATR compromised the UV-induced XPA nuclear translocation. Consistently, the ATR-deficient cells displayed no substantial XPA nuclear translocation while the translocation remained intact in ATM (Ataxia-Telangiectasia mutated)-deficient cells in response to UV irradiation. Moreover, we found that ATR is required for the UV-induced nuclear focus formation of XPA. Taken together, our results suggested that the ATR checkpoint pathway may modulate NER activity through the regulation of XPA redistribution in human cells upon UV irradiation.
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- To whom correspondences should be addressed: Yue Zou East Tennessee State University James H. Quillen College of Medicine Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Johnson City, TN 37614 Phone: (423) 439-2124 FAX: (423) 439-2030
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Buratti E, Baralle M, Baralle FE. Defective splicing, disease and therapy: searching for master checkpoints in exon definition. Nucleic Acids Res 2006; 34:3494-510. [PMID: 16855287 PMCID: PMC1524908 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl498] [Citation(s) in RCA: 164] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2006] [Revised: 06/27/2006] [Accepted: 06/28/2006] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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The number of aberrant splicing processes causing human disease is growing exponentially and many recent studies have uncovered some aspects of the unexpectedly complex network of interactions involved in these dysfunctions. As a consequence, our knowledge of the various cis- and trans-acting factors playing a role on both normal and aberrant splicing pathways has been enhanced greatly. However, the resulting information explosion has also uncovered the fact that many splicing systems are not easy to model. In fact we are still unable, with certainty, to predict the outcome of a given genomic variation. Nonetheless, in the midst of all this complexity some hard won lessons have been learned and in this survey we will focus on the importance of the wide sequence context when trying to understand why apparently similar mutations can give rise to different effects. The examples discussed in this summary will highlight the fine 'balance of power' that is often present between all the various regulatory elements that define exon boundaries. In the final part, we shall then discuss possible therapeutic targets and strategies to rescue genetic defects of complex splicing systems.
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- Emanuele Buratti
- International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Padriciano 9934012 Trieste, Italy
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- International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Padriciano 9934012 Trieste, Italy
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- International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Padriciano 9934012 Trieste, Italy
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Shimada M, Nakanishi M. DNA damage checkpoints and cancer. J Mol Histol 2006; 37:253-60. [PMID: 16841236 DOI: 10.1007/s10735-006-9039-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2006] [Accepted: 06/06/2006] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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DNA damage checkpoint is one of the surveillance systems to maintain genomic integrity. Checkpoint systems sense the DNA damage and execute cell cycle arrest through inhibiting the activity of cell cycle regulators. This pathway is essential for the maintenance of genome stability and prevention of tumor development. Recent studies have showed that the cellular responses towards DNA damage, such as cell cycle arrest, DNA repair, chromatin remodeling, and apoptosis are well coordinated. Here we describe the molecular mechanisms of checkpoint activation in response to DNA damage and the correlation between checkpoint gene mutation and genomic instability.
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- Midori Shimada
- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya City University, 1 Kawasumi, Mizuho-ku, Mizuho-cho, Nagoya 467-8601, Japan
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Cox J, Jackson AP, Bond J, Woods CG. What primary microcephaly can tell us about brain growth. Trends Mol Med 2006; 12:358-66. [PMID: 16829198 DOI: 10.1016/j.molmed.2006.06.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 130] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2006] [Revised: 06/08/2006] [Accepted: 06/27/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Autosomal recessive primary microcephaly (MCPH) is a neuro-developmental disorder that causes a great reduction in brain growth in utero. MCPH is hypothesized to be a primary disorder of neurogenic mitosis, leading to reduced neuron number. Hence, MCPH proteins are likely to be important components of cellular pathways regulating human brain size. At least six genes can cause this disorder and four of these have recently been identified: autosomal recessive primary microcephaly 1 (MCPH1), abnormal spindle-like, microcephaly associated (ASPM), cyclin-dependent kinase 5 regulatory subunit-associated protein 2 (CDK5RAP2) and centromere protein J (CENPJ). Whereas aberration of ASPM is the most common cause of MCPH, MCPH1 patients can be more readily diagnosed by the finding of increased numbers of "prophase-like cells" on routine cytogenetic investigation. Three MCPH proteins are centrosomal components but have apparently diverse roles that affect mitosis. There is accumulating evidence that evolutionary changes to the MCPH genes have contributed to the large brain size seen in primates, particularly humans. The aim of this article is to review what has been learnt about the rare condition primary microcephaly and the information this provides about normal brain growth.
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- James Cox
- Department of Medical Genetics, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Hospital, CB2 2XY Cambridge, UK
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Yoo SK, Onishi N, Kato N, Yoda A, Minami Y. [Relationship between abnormalities of genes involved in DNA damage responses and malignant tumors/autoimmune diseases]. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006; 29:136-47. [PMID: 16819262 DOI: 10.2177/jsci.29.136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The maintenance of genomic stability is an essential cellular function for a variety of well-coordinated regulation of biological activities of organisms, and a failure in its function results in the accumulation of mutations and/or abnormality in the induction of apoptosis, eventually leading to onsets of various diseases, including malignant tumors. DNA damage responses, in particular cell-cycle checkpoint regulation, play important roles in maintaining genomic integrity. In response to DNA damages induced by gamma-irradiation, ultraviolet irradiation, various chemicals, or reactive oxygen species (ROS), intrinsic cell-cycle checkpoint machinery is rapidly activated to arrest cells at particular cell-cycle points, and during cell-cycle checkpoint arrest cells may try to repair damaged DNAs, and then re-start cell-cycle upon the completion of DNA repair. Alternatively, if the extents of DNA damage overwhelm the capacity of the cellular repair machinery, cells may undergo apoptosis to prevent the accumulation of mutations within the organisms. In this article, we will first explain about our current view of DNA damage responses, in particular cell-cycle checkpoint regulation, and summarize our knowledge of the relationships between abnormalities of genes involved in DNA damage responses and malignant tumors, including hematopoietic malignancies. We will also discuss a possible implication of DNA damage responses in autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis.
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- Sa Kan Yoo
- Division of Biomedical Regulation, Department of Genome Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe University
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Bergink S, Salomons FA, Hoogstraten D, Groothuis TAM, de Waard H, Wu J, Yuan L, Citterio E, Houtsmuller AB, Neefjes J, Hoeijmakers JHJ, Vermeulen W, Dantuma NP. DNA damage triggers nucleotide excision repair-dependent monoubiquitylation of histone H2A. Genes Dev 2006; 20:1343-52. [PMID: 16702407 PMCID: PMC1472908 DOI: 10.1101/gad.373706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 188] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Chromatin changes within the context of DNA repair remain largely obscure. Here we show that DNA damage induces monoubiquitylation of histone H2A in the vicinity of DNA lesions. Ultraviolet (UV)-induced monoubiquitylation of H2A is dependent on functional nucleotide excision repair and occurs after incision of the damaged strand. The ubiquitin ligase Ring2 is required for the DNA damage-induced H2A ubiquitylation. UV-induced ubiquitylation of H2A is dependent on the DNA damage signaling kinase ATR (ATM- and Rad3-related) but not the related kinase ATM (ataxia telangiectasia-mutated). Although the response coincides with phosphorylation of variant histone H2AX, H2AX was not required for H2A ubiquitylation. Together our data show that monoubiquitylation of H2A forms part of the cellular response to UV damage and suggest a role of this modification in DNA repair-induced chromatin remodeling.
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- Steven Bergink
- MGC Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Center for Biomedical Genetics, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Shiloh Y. The ATM-mediated DNA-damage response: taking shape. Trends Biochem Sci 2006; 31:402-10. [PMID: 16774833 DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2006.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 420] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2006] [Revised: 05/03/2006] [Accepted: 05/25/2006] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Cellular responses to DNA damage are crucial for maintaining homeostasis and preventing the development of cancer. Our understanding of the DNA-damage response has evolved: whereas previously the focus was on DNA repair, we now appreciate that the response to DNA lesions involves a complex, highly branched signaling network. Defects in this response lead to severely debilitating, cancer-predisposing "genomic instability syndromes". Double strand breaks (DSBs) in DNA are potent triggers of the DNA-damage response, which is why they are used to study this pathway. The chief transducer of the DSB signal is the nuclear protein kinase ataxia-telangiectasia mutated (ATM). Genetic, biochemical and structural studies have recently provided insights into the ATM-mediated DSB response, reshaping our view of this signaling pathway while raising new questions.
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- Yosef Shiloh
- The David and Inez Myers Laboratory for Genetic Research, Department of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.
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Liu A, Takakuwa T, Luo WJ, Fujita S, Aozasa K. Alterations in ATR in nasal NK/T-cell lymphoma and chronic active Epstein-Barr virus infection. Cancer Sci 2006; 97:605-10. [PMID: 16827800 PMCID: PMC11159954 DOI: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.2006.00226.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Nasal natural killer (NK)/T-cell lymphoma (NKTCL) and chronic active Epstein-Barr virus infection (CAEBV) are relatively frequent, especially in Asia, and are poor in prognosis. Both diseases are proliferative diseases of NK/T cells that show highly complicated karyotypes, suggesting the involvement of chromosomal instability. ATR is an important gene for DNA damage response and chromosomal stability. To evaluate the role of ATR gene alterations in the pathogenesis of NKTCL and CAEBV, the whole coding region of the ATR gene was examined in cell lines derived from NKTCL and CAEBV, as well as tumor samples from patients. ATR alterations were detected in two of eight NKTCL and in one of three CAEBV lines. Most aberrant transcripts observed were deletions resulting from aberrant splicing. ATR alterations were also detected in four of 10 NKTCL clinical samples. Both NKTCL and CAEBV cell lines with ATR alterations showed a delay or abrogation in repair of ionizing radiation-induced DNA double-strand breaks and ultraviolet-induced DNA single-strand breaks, and both exhibited a defect in p53 accumulation. These findings show that alterations in the ATR gene result in an abnormal response to DNA double-strand break and single-strand break repair, suggesting a role for ATR gene alterations in NKTCL lymphomagenesis.
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- Angen Liu
- Department of Pathology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-2 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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Alderton GK, Galbiati L, Griffith E, Surinya KH, Neitzel H, Jackson AP, Jeggo PA, O'Driscoll M. Regulation of mitotic entry by microcephalin and its overlap with ATR signalling. Nat Cell Biol 2006; 8:725-33. [PMID: 16783362 DOI: 10.1038/ncb1431] [Citation(s) in RCA: 138] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2006] [Accepted: 05/30/2006] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Ataxia-telangiectasia mutated and Rad3 related (ATR)-Seckel syndrome and autosomal recessive primary microcephaly (MCPH) syndrome share clinical features. RNA interference (RNAi) of MCPH1 have implicated the protein it encodes as a DNA-damage response protein that regulates the transcription of Chk1 and BRCA1, two genes involved in the response to DNA damage. Here, we report that truncating mutations observed in MCPH-syndrome patients do not impact on Chk1 or BRCA1 expression or early ATR-dependent damage-induced phosphorylation events. However, like ATR-Seckel syndrome cells, MCPH1-mutant cell lines show defective G2-M checkpoint arrest and nuclear fragmentation after DNA damage, and contain supernumerary mitotic centrosomes. MCPH1-mutant and ATR-Seckel cells also show impaired degradation of Cdc25A and fail to inhibit Cdc45 loading onto chromatin after replication arrest. Additionally, microcephalin interacts with Chk1. We conclude that MCPH1 has a function downstream of Chk1 in the ATR-signalling pathway. In contrast with ATR-Seckel syndrome cells, MCPH1-mutant cells have low levels of Tyr 15-phosphorylated Cdk1 (pY15-Cdk1) in S and G2 phases, which correlates with an elevated frequency of G2-like cells displaying premature chromosome condensation (PCC). Thus, MCPH1 also has an ATR-independent role in maintaining inhibitory Cdk1 phosphorylation, which prevents premature entry into mitosis.
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- Gemma K Alderton
- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, East Sussex, BN1 9RQ, UK
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Manju K, Muralikrishna B, Parnaik VK. Expression of disease-causing lamin A mutants impairs the formation of DNA repair foci. J Cell Sci 2006; 119:2704-14. [PMID: 16772334 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.03009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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A-type lamins are components of the nuclear lamina. Mutations in the gene encoding lamin A are associated with a range of highly degenerative diseases termed laminopathies. To evaluate sensitivity to DNA damage, GFP-tagged lamin A cDNAs with disease-causing mutations were expressed in HeLa cells. The inner nuclear membrane protein emerin was mislocalised upon expression of the muscular dystrophy mutants G232E, Q294P or R386K, which aberrantly assembled into nuclear aggregates, or upon expression of mutants causing progeria syndromes in vivo (lamin A del50, R471C, R527C and L530P). The ability of cells expressing these mutants to form DNA repair foci comprising phosphorylated H2AX in response to mild doses of cisplatin or UV irradiation was markedly diminished, unlike the nearly normal response of cells expressing wild-type GFP-lamin A or disease-causing H222P and R482L mutants. Interestingly, mutants that impaired the formation of DNA repair foci mislocalised ATR (for ;ataxia telangiectasia-mutated and Rad3-related') kinase, which is a key sensor in the response to DNA damage. Our results suggest that a subset of lamin A mutants might hinder the response of components of the DNA repair machinery to DNA damage by altering interactions with chromatin.
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- Kaliyaperumal Manju
- Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad 500007, India
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Smith JA, Daniel R. Following the path of the virus: the exploitation of host DNA repair mechanisms by retroviruses. ACS Chem Biol 2006; 1:217-26. [PMID: 17163676 DOI: 10.1021/cb600131q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Numerous host cellular cofactors are involved in the life cycle of retroviruses. Importantly, DNA repair machinery of infected cells is activated by retroviruses and retroviral vectors during the process of integration and host cell DNA repair proteins are employed to create a fully integrated provirus. The full delineation of these repair mechanisms that are triggered by retroviruses also has implications outside of the field of retrovirology. It will undoubtedly be of interest to developers of gene therapy and will also further facilitate our understanding of DNA repair and cancer. This review gives a brief summary of the accomplishments in the field of DNA repair and retroviral integration and the opportunities that this area of science provides with regards to the elucidation of repair mechanisms, in the context of retroviral infection.
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- Johanna A Smith
- Division of Infectious Diseases--Center for Human Virology, Thomas Jefferson University, 1020 Locust Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, USA
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Chamary JV, Parmley JL, Hurst LD. Hearing silence: non-neutral evolution at synonymous sites in mammals. Nat Rev Genet 2006; 7:98-108. [PMID: 16418745 DOI: 10.1038/nrg1770] [Citation(s) in RCA: 590] [Impact Index Per Article: 32.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Although the assumption of the neutral theory of molecular evolution - that some classes of mutation have too small an effect on fitness to be affected by natural selection - seems intuitively reasonable, over the past few decades the theory has been in retreat. At least in species with large populations, even synonymous mutations in exons are not neutral. By contrast, in mammals, neutrality of these mutations is still commonly assumed. However, new evidence indicates that even some synonymous mutations are subject to constraint, often because they affect splicing and/or mRNA stability. This has implications for understanding disease, optimizing transgene design, detecting positive selection and estimating the mutation rate.
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- J V Chamary
- Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Bomgarden RD, Lupardus PJ, Soni DV, Yee MC, Ford JM, Cimprich KA. Opposing effects of the UV lesion repair protein XPA and UV bypass polymerase eta on ATR checkpoint signaling. EMBO J 2006; 25:2605-14. [PMID: 16675950 PMCID: PMC1478198 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7601123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2005] [Accepted: 04/07/2006] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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An essential component of the ATR (ataxia telangiectasia-mutated and Rad3-related)-activating structure is single-stranded DNA. It has been suggested that nucleotide excision repair (NER) can lead to activation of ATR by generating such a signal, and in yeast, DNA damage processing through the NER pathway is necessary for checkpoint activation during G1. We show here that ultraviolet (UV) radiation-induced ATR signaling is compromised in XPA-deficient human cells during S phase, as shown by defects in ATRIP (ATR-interacting protein) translocation to sites of UV damage, UV-induced phosphorylation of Chk1 and UV-induced replication protein A phosphorylation and chromatin binding. However, ATR signaling was not compromised in XPC-, CSB-, XPF- and XPG-deficient cells. These results indicate that damage processing is not necessary for ATR-mediated S-phase checkpoint activation and that the lesion recognition function of XPA may be sufficient. In contrast, XP-V cells deficient in the UV bypass polymerase eta exhibited enhanced ATR signaling. Taken together, these results suggest that lesion bypass and not lesion repair may raise the level of UV damage that can be tolerated before checkpoint activation, and that XPA plays a critical role in this activation.
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- Ryan D Bomgarden
- Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Departments of Medicine and Genetics, Division of Oncology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Department of Molecular Pharmacology, CCSR, Stanford University School of Medicine, 269 Campus Drive, Rm 3215a Stanford, CA 94305-5174, USA. Tel.: +1 650 498 4720; Fax: +1 650 725 4665; E-mail:
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Wu X, Shell SM, Yang Z, Zou Y. Phosphorylation of nucleotide excision repair factor xeroderma pigmentosum group A by ataxia telangiectasia mutated and Rad3-related-dependent checkpoint pathway promotes cell survival in response to UV irradiation. Cancer Res 2006; 66:2997-3005. [PMID: 16540648 PMCID: PMC1450106 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-05-3403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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DNA damage triggers complex cellular responses in eukaryotic cells, including initiation of DNA repair and activation of cell cycle checkpoints. In addition to inducing cell cycle arrest, checkpoint also has been suggested to modulate a variety of other cellular processes in response to DNA damage. In this study, we present evidence showing that the cellular function of xeroderma pigmentosum group A (XPA), a major nucleotide excision repair (NER) factor, could be modulated by checkpoint kinase ataxia-telangiectasia mutated and Rad3-related (ATR) in response to UV irradiation. We observed the apparent interaction and colocalization of XPA with ATR in response to UV irradiation. We showed that XPA was a substrate for in vitro phosphorylation by phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase-related kinase family kinases whereas in cells XPA was phosphorylated in an ATR-dependent manner and stimulated by UV irradiation. The Ser196 of XPA was identified as a biologically significant residue to be phosphorylated in vivo. The XPA-deficient cells complemented with XPA-S196A mutant, in which Ser196 was substituted with an alanine, displayed significantly higher UV sensitivity compared with the XPA cells complemented with wild-type XPA. Moreover, substitution of Ser196 with aspartic acid for mimicking the phosphorylation of XPA increased the cell survival to UV irradiation. Taken together, our results revealed a potential physical and functional link between NER and the ATR-dependent checkpoint pathway in human cells and suggested that the ATR checkpoint pathway could modulate the cellular activity of NER through phosphorylation of XPA at Ser196 on UV irradiation.
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- Xiaoming Wu
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, James H. Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee 37614, USA
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Trenz K, Smith E, Smith S, Costanzo V. ATM and ATR promote Mre11 dependent restart of collapsed replication forks and prevent accumulation of DNA breaks. EMBO J 2006; 25:1764-74. [PMID: 16601701 PMCID: PMC1440833 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7601045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 164] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2005] [Accepted: 02/22/2006] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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Ataxia-telangiectasia mutated (ATM), ataxia-telangiectasia Rad3-related (ATR) and the Mre11/Rad50/Nbs1 complex ensure genome stability in response to DNA damage. However, their essential role in DNA metabolism remains unknown. Here we show that ATM and ATR prevent accumulation of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) during chromosomal replication. Replicating chromosomes accumulate DSBs in Xenopus laevis egg extracts depleted of ATM and ATR. Addition of ATM and ATR proteins to depleted extracts prevents DSB accumulation by promoting restart of collapsed replication forks that arise during DNA replication. We show that collapsed forks maintain MCM complex but lose Pol epsilon, and that Pol epsilon reloading requires ATM and ATR. Replication fork restart is abolished in Mre11 depleted extracts and is restored by supplementation with recombinant human Mre11/Rad50/Nbs1 complex. Using a novel fluorescence resonance energy transfer-based technique, we demonstrate that ATM and ATR induce Mre11/Rad50/Nbs1 complex redistribution to restarting forks. This study provides direct biochemical evidence that ATM and ATR prevent accumulation of chromosomal abnormalities by promoting Mre11/Rad50/Nbs1 dependent recovery of collapsed replication forks.
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- Kristina Trenz
- Genome Stability Unit, London Research Institute, Clare Hall Laboratories, South Mimms, London, UK
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- Genome Stability Unit, London Research Institute, Clare Hall Laboratories, South Mimms, London, UK
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- Genome Stability Unit, London Research Institute, Clare Hall Laboratories, South Mimms, London, UK
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- Genome Stability Unit, London Research Institute, Clare Hall Laboratories, South Mimms, London, UK
- Genome Stability Unit, London Research Institute, Clare Hall Laboratories, Blanch Lane, South Mimms, EN6 3LD London, UK. Tel.: +44 1707 625548; Fax: +44 1707 625546; E-mail:
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Temtamy SA, Aglan MS, Ashour AM, Ramzy MI, Hosny LA, Mostafa MI. 3-M syndrome: a report of three Egyptian cases with review of the literature. Clin Dysmorphol 2006; 15:55-64. [PMID: 16531729 DOI: 10.1097/01.mcd.0000198926.01706.33] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The 3-M syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive disorder. It is characterized by prenatal and postnatal growth retardation associated with characteristic features. In this study, we report on three patients from two unrelated families, including two male sibs, with the characteristic features and radiological findings of the 3-M syndrome. The main features in our cases were low birth weight, short stature, malar hypoplasia, anteverted nostrils with a fleshy nasal tip, long philtrum, pointed full chin, short broad neck, broad chest with transverse grooves of anterior thorax and hyperlordosis. An orodental examination revealed characteristic findings, some of which were not reported before. Prominent premaxilla, hypoplastic maxilla, thick patulous lips, high-arched palate, median fissured tongue, delayed eruption of teeth with enamel hypocalcification and malocclusion were present in our three studied cases. Radiographic studies showed slender long bones and ribs, a narrow pelvis and foreshortened vertebral bodies. Our reported cases are the offspring of healthy consanguineous parents, confirming the autosomal recessive pattern of inheritance in the syndrome. Cases were reported from different countries all over the world. To our knowledge, these are the first reported Egyptian patients with this rare disorder. This syndrome may be underreported because of the phenotypic overlap with other low birth dwarfism syndromes. Recent identification of a gene mutated in some cases of 3-M syndrome will aid diagnosis.
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- Samia A Temtamy
- Clinical Genetics Department, Division of Human Genetics and Genome Research, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt.
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Jiang G, Sancar A. Recruitment of DNA damage checkpoint proteins to damage in transcribed and nontranscribed sequences. Mol Cell Biol 2006; 26:39-49. [PMID: 16354678 PMCID: PMC1317637 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.26.1.39-49.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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We developed a chromatin immunoprecipitation method for analyzing the binding of repair and checkpoint proteins to DNA base lesions in any region of the human genome. Using this method, we investigated the recruitment of DNA damage checkpoint proteins RPA, Rad9, and ATR to base damage induced by UV and acetoxyacetylaminofluorene in transcribed and nontranscribed regions in wild-type and excision repair-deficient human cells in G1 and S phases of the cell cycle. We find that all 3 damage sensors tested assemble at the site or in the vicinity of damage in the absence of DNA replication or repair and that transcription enhances recruitment of checkpoint proteins to the damage site. Furthermore, we find that UV irradiation of human cells defective in excision repair leads to phosphorylation of Chk1 kinase in both G1 and S phase of the cell cycle, suggesting that primary DNA lesions as well as stalled transcription complexes may act as signals to initiate the DNA damage checkpoint response.
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- Guochun Jiang
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Mary Ellen Jones Building CB 7260, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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Zhou J, Lim CUK, Li JJ, Cai L, Zhang Y. The role of NBS1 in the modulation of PIKK family proteins ATM and ATR in the cellular response to DNA damage. Cancer Lett 2006; 243:9-15. [PMID: 16530324 PMCID: PMC3658610 DOI: 10.1016/j.canlet.2006.01.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2005] [Revised: 01/23/2006] [Accepted: 01/24/2006] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM) and ataxia telangiectasia and Rad3-related (ATR) kinases have been considered the primary activators of the cellular response to DNA damage. They belong to the protein kinase family, phosphoinositide 3-kinase-related kinase (PIKKs). In human beings, deficiency of these kinases leads to hereditary diseases, namely ataxia telangiectasia (AT) with ATM deficiency and ATR-Seckel with ATR deficiency. NBS1, a component of MRE11/RAD50/NBS1 (MRN) complex, is another important player in DNA damage response (DDR). Mutations of NBS1 are responsible for Nijmegen breakage syndrome (NBS), a human hereditary disease with the characteristics that almost encompassed those of AT and ATR-Seckel. NBS1 has been conventionally thought to be a downstream substrate of ATM and ATR in DDR; however, recent studies suggest that NBS1/MRN functions upstream of both ATM and ATR by recruiting them to the proximity of DNA damage sites and activating their functions. In this mini-review, we would emphasize the requirement of NBS1 as an upstream mediator for the modulation of PIKK family proteins ATM and ATR.
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- Junqing Zhou
- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80521, USA
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- Cancer Center, Ordway Research Institute, 150 New Scotland Avenue Rm 4133, Albany, NY 12208, USA
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- Division of Molecular Radiobiology, Purdue University School of Health Sciences, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
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- Department of Medicine and Radiation Oncology, University of Louisville, School of Medicine, Louisville, KT 40202, USA
- Corresponding authors. Tel.: +1 970 491 0574; fax: +1 970 491 0623. (Y. Zhang). * Tel.: +1 502 852 5215; fax: +1 502 852 6904 (L. Cai). (Y. Zhang), (L. Cai)
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- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80521, USA
- Corresponding authors. Tel.: +1 970 491 0574; fax: +1 970 491 0623. (Y. Zhang). * Tel.: +1 502 852 5215; fax: +1 502 852 6904 (L. Cai). (Y. Zhang), (L. Cai)
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Ho CC, Siu WY, Lau A, Chan WM, Arooz T, Poon RYC. Stalled replication induces p53 accumulation through distinct mechanisms from DNA damage checkpoint pathways. Cancer Res 2006; 66:2233-41. [PMID: 16489026 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-05-1790] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Stalled replication forks induce p53, which is required to maintain the replication checkpoint. In contrast to the well-established mechanisms of DNA damage-activated p53, the downstream effectors and upstream regulators of p53 during replication blockade remain to be deciphered. Hydroxyurea triggered accumulation of p53 through an increase in protein stability. The requirement of p53 accumulation for the replication checkpoint was not due to p21(CIP1/WAF1) as its down-regulation with short-hairpin RNA did not affect the checkpoint. Similar to DNA damage, stalled replication triggered the activation of the MRN-ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM)/ATM and Rad3-related-CHK1/CHK2 axis. Down-regulation of CHK1 or CHK2, however, reduced p53 basal expression but not the hydroxyurea-dependent induction. Moreover, p53 was still stabilized in ataxia telangiectasia cells or in cells treated with caffeine, suggesting that ATM was not a critical determinant. These data also suggest that the functions of ATM, CHK1, and CHK2 in the replication checkpoint were not through the p53-p21(CIP1/WAF1) pathway. In contrast, induction of p53 by hydroxyurea was defective in cells lacking NBS1 and BLM. In this connection, the impaired replication checkpoint in several other genetic disorders has little correlation with the ability to stabilize p53. These data highlighted the different mechanisms involved in the stabilization of p53 after DNA damage and stalled replication forks.
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- Chui Chui Ho
- Department of Biochemistry, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong
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Adams KE, Medhurst AL, Dart DA, Lakin ND. Recruitment of ATR to sites of ionising radiation-induced DNA damage requires ATM and components of the MRN protein complex. Oncogene 2006; 25:3894-904. [PMID: 16474843 PMCID: PMC1852851 DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1209426] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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ATM and ATR are two related kinases essential for signalling DNA damage. Although ATM is thought to be the principle kinase responsible for signalling ionising radiation (IR)-induced DNA damage, ATR also contributes to signalling this form of genotoxic stress. However, the molecular basis of differential ATM and ATR activation in response to IR remains unclear. Here, we report that ATR is recruited to sites of IR-induced DNA damage significantly later than activation of ATM. We show that ATR is recruited to IR-induced nuclear foci in G(1) and S phase of the cell cycle, supporting a role for ATR in detecting DNA damage outside of S phase. In addition, we report that recruitment of ATR to sites of IR-induced DNA damage is concomitant with appearance of large tracts of single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) and that this event is dependent on ATM and components of the Mre11/Rad50/Nbs1 (MRN) protein complex.
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- K E Adams
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, UK
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O'Driscoll M, Jeggo PA. The role of double-strand break repair - insights from human genetics. Nat Rev Genet 2006; 7:45-54. [PMID: 16369571 DOI: 10.1038/nrg1746] [Citation(s) in RCA: 394] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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The efficient repair of DNA double-strand breaks is crucial in safeguarding the genomic integrity of organisms. Responses to double-strand breaks include complex signal-transduction, cell-cycle-checkpoint and repair pathways. Defects in these pathways lead to several human disorders with pleiotropic clinical features. Dissection of the molecular basis that underlies the diverse clinical features is enhancing our understanding of the damage-response mechanisms and their role in development, and might ultimately facilitate treatment.
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- Mark O'Driscoll
- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, East Sussex BN1 9RQ, UK.
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Cuadrado M, Martinez-Pastor B, Murga M, Toledo LI, Gutierrez-Martinez P, Lopez E, Fernandez-Capetillo O. ATM regulates ATR chromatin loading in response to DNA double-strand breaks. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006; 203:297-303. [PMID: 16461339 PMCID: PMC2118201 DOI: 10.1084/jem.20051923] [Citation(s) in RCA: 178] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are among the most deleterious lesions that can challenge genomic integrity. Concomitant to the repair of the breaks, a rapid signaling cascade must be coordinated at the lesion site that leads to the activation of cell cycle checkpoints and/or apoptosis. In this context, ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM) and ATM and Rad-3-related (ATR) protein kinases are the earliest signaling molecules that are known to initiate the transduction cascade at damage sites. The current model places ATM and ATR in separate molecular routes that orchestrate distinct pathways of the checkpoint responses. Whereas ATM signals DSBs arising from ionizing radiation (IR) through a Chk2-dependent pathway, ATR is activated in a variety of replication-linked DSBs and leads to activation of the checkpoints in a Chk1 kinase-dependent manner. However, activation of the G2/M checkpoint in response to IR escapes this accepted paradigm because it is dependent on both ATM and ATR but independent of Chk2. Our data provides an explanation for this observation and places ATM activity upstream of ATR recruitment to IR-damaged chromatin. These data provide experimental evidence of an active cross talk between ATM and ATR signaling pathways in response to DNA damage.
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- Myriam Cuadrado
- Genomic Instability Group, Spanish National Cancer Center, Madrid 28029, Spain
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Mammalian DNA damage response pathway. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2006; 570:425-55. [PMID: 18727510 DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3764-3_15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Pan-Hammarström Q, Lähdesmäki A, Zhao Y, Du L, Zhao Z, Wen S, Ruiz-Perez VL, Dunn-Walters DK, Goodship JA, Hammarström L. Disparate roles of ATR and ATM in immunoglobulin class switch recombination and somatic hypermutation. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006; 203:99-110. [PMID: 16390936 PMCID: PMC2118080 DOI: 10.1084/jem.20050595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Class switch recombination (CSR) and somatic hypermutation (SHM) are mechanistically related processes initiated by activation-induced cytidine deaminase. Here, we have studied the role of ataxia telangiectasia and Rad3-related protein (ATR) in CSR by analyzing the recombinational junctions, resulting from in vivo switching, in cells from patients with mutations in the ATR gene. The proportion of cells that have switched to immunoglobulin (Ig)A and IgG in the peripheral blood seems to be normal in ATR-deficient (ATRD) patients and the recombined S regions show a normal “blunt end-joining,” but impaired end joining with partially complementary (1–3 bp) DNA ends. There was also an increased usage of microhomology at the μ-α switch junctions, but only up to 9 bp, suggesting that the end-joining pathway requiring longer microhomologies (≥10 bp) may be ATR dependent. The SHM pattern in the Ig variable heavy chain genes is altered, with fewer mutations occurring at A and more mutations at T residues and thus a loss of strand bias in targeting A/T pairs within certain hotspots. These data suggest that the role of ATR is partially overlapping with that of ataxia telangiectasia–mutated protein, but that the former is also endowed with unique functional properties in the repair processes during CSR and SHM.
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- Qiang Pan-Hammarström
- Division of Clinical Immunology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, SE-14186 Stockholm, Sweden.
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Jeggo P, Löbrich M. Radiation-induced DNA damage responses. RADIATION PROTECTION DOSIMETRY 2006; 122:124-7. [PMID: 17351270 DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncl495] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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The amazing feature of ionising radiation (IR) as a DNA damaging agent is the range of lesions it induces. Such lesions include base damage, single strand breaks (SSBs), double strand breaks (DSBs) of varying complexity and DNA cross links. A range of DNA damage response mechanisms operate to help maintain genomic stability in the face of such damage. Such mechanisms include pathways of DNA repair and signal transduction mechanisms. Increasing evidence suggests that these pathways operate co-operatively. In addition, the relative impact of one mechanism over another most probably depends upon the cell cycle phase and tissue type. Here, the distinct damage response pathways are reviewed and the current understanding of the interplay between them is considered. Since DNA DSBs are the major lethal lesion induced by IR, the focus lies in the mechanisms responding to direct or indirectly induced DSBs.
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- Penny Jeggo
- GDSC University of Sussex, Sussex BN1 9RQ, UK.
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Sapora O, Di Carlo B. Cell signalling mechanisms and the control of cell life and death. RADIATION PROTECTION DOSIMETRY 2006; 122:210-20. [PMID: 17283008 DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncl496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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- O Sapora
- Department of Environment and Primary Prevention, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161 Rome, Italy.
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Recent insights into the Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome. The Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome (SLOS) is an autosomal recessive multiple congenital anomaly/mental retardation disorder caused by an inborn error of post-squalene cholesterol biosynthesis. Deficient cholesterol synthesis in SLOS is caused by inherited mutations of 3beta-hydroxysterol-Delta7 reductase gene (DHCR7). DHCR7 deficiency impairs both cholesterol and desmosterol production, resulting in elevated 7DHC/8DHC levels, typically decreased cholesterol levels and, importantly, developmental dysmorphology. The discovery of SLOS has led to new questions regarding the role of the cholesterol biosynthesis pathway in human development. To date, a total of 121 different mutations have been identified in over 250 patients with SLOS who represent a continuum of clinical severity. Two genetic mouse models have been generated which recapitulate some of the developmental abnormalities of SLOS and have been useful in elucidating the pathogenesis. This mini review summarizes the recent insights into SLOS genetics, pathophysiology and potential therapeutic approaches for the treatment of SLOS.
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- H Yu
- Corresponding authors: Hongwei Yu, Shailesh Patel, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition, Medical College of Wisconsin, 9200 West, Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA, Tel.: +1 414 456 6801; fax: +1 414 456 6210; e-mail: ,
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- Corresponding authors: Hongwei Yu, Shailesh Patel, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition, Medical College of Wisconsin, 9200 West, Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA, Tel.: +1 414 456 6801; fax: +1 414 456 6210; e-mail: ,
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Jazayeri A, Falck J, Lukas C, Bartek J, Smith GCM, Lukas J, Jackson SP. ATM- and cell cycle-dependent regulation of ATR in response to DNA double-strand breaks. Nat Cell Biol 2005; 8:37-45. [PMID: 16327781 DOI: 10.1038/ncb1337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 801] [Impact Index Per Article: 42.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2005] [Accepted: 11/04/2005] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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It is generally thought that the DNA-damage checkpoint kinases, ataxia-telangiectasia mutated (ATM) and ATM- and Rad3-related (ATR), work independently of one another. Here, we show that ATM and the nuclease activity of meiotic recombination 11 (Mre11) are required for the processing of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) to generate the replication protein A (RPA)-coated ssDNA that is needed for ATR recruitment and the subsequent phosphorylation and activation of Chk1. Moreover, we show that efficient ATM-dependent ATR activation in response to DSBs is restricted to the S and G2 cell cycle phases and requires CDK kinase activity. Thus, in response to DSBs, ATR activation is regulated by ATM in a cell-cycle dependent manner.
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- Ali Jazayeri
- The Wellcome Trust and Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, and Department of Zoology, Cambridge University, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge, CB2 1QN, UK
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Fagundes MRVZK, Semighini CP, Malavazi I, Savoldi M, de Lima JF, de Souza Goldman MH, Harris SD, Goldman GH. Aspergillus nidulans uvsBATR and scaANBS1 genes show genetic interactions during recovery from replication stress and DNA damage. EUKARYOTIC CELL 2005; 4:1239-52. [PMID: 16002650 PMCID: PMC1168959 DOI: 10.1128/ec.4.7.1239-1252.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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The ATM/ATR kinases and the Mre11 (Mre11-Rad50-Nbs1) protein complex are central players in the cellular DNA damage response. Here we characterize possible interactions between Aspergillus nidulans uvsB(ATR) and the Mre11 complex (scaA(NBS1)). We demonstrate that there is an epistatic relationship between uvsB(ATR), the homolog of the ATR/MEC1 gene, and scaA(NBS1), the homolog of the NBS1/XRS2 gene, for both repair and checkpoint functions and that correct ScaA(NBS1) expression during recovery from replication stress depends on uvsB(ATR). In addition, we also show that the formation of UvsC foci during recovery from replication stress is dependent on both uvsB(ATR) and scaA(NBS1) function. Furthermore, ScaA(NBS1) is also dependent on uvsB(ATR) for nuclear focus formation upon the induction of DNA double-strand breaks by phleomycin. Our results highlight the extensive genetic interactions between UvsB and the Mre11 complex that are required for S-phase progression and recovery from DNA damage.
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- Marcia Regina von Zeska Kress Fagundes
- Departamento de Ciências Farmacêuticas, Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Av. do Café S/N, CEP 14040-903, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
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Garcia-Muse T, Boulton SJ. Distinct modes of ATR activation after replication stress and DNA double-strand breaks in Caenorhabditis elegans. EMBO J 2005; 24:4345-55. [PMID: 16319925 PMCID: PMC1356337 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7600896] [Citation(s) in RCA: 143] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2005] [Accepted: 11/10/2005] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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ATM and ATR are key components of the DNA damage checkpoint. ATR primarily responds to UV damage and replication stress, yet may also function with ATM in the checkpoint response to DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs), although this is less clear. Here, we show that atl-1 (Caenorhabditis elegans ATR) and rad-5/clk-2 prevent mitotic catastrophe, function in the S-phase checkpoint and also cooperate with atm-1 in the checkpoint response to DSBs after ionizing radiation (IR) to induce cell cycle arrest or apoptosis via the cep-1(p53)/egl-1 pathway. ATL-1 is recruited to stalled replication forks by RPA-1 and functions upstream of rad-5/clk-2 in the S-phase checkpoint. In contrast, mre-11 and atm-1 are dispensable for ATL-1 recruitment to stalled replication forks. However, mre-11 is required for RPA-1 association and ATL-1 recruitment to DSBs. Thus, DNA processing controlled by mre-11 is important for ATL-1 activation at DSBs but not following replication fork stalling. We propose that atl-1 and rad-5/clk-2 respond to single-stranded DNA generated by replication stress and function with atm-1 following DSB resection.
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- Tatiana Garcia-Muse
- DNA Damage Response Laboratory, Cancer Research UK, The London Research Institute, Clare Hall Laboratories, South Mimms, UK
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- DNA Damage Response Laboratory, Cancer Research UK, The London Research Institute, Clare Hall Laboratories, South Mimms, UK
- DNA Damage Response Laboratory, Cancer Research UK, The London Research Institute, Clare Hall Laboratories, Blanche Lane, South Mimms, Herts EN6 3LD, UK. Tel.: +44 1707 625774; Fax: +44 2072 693801; E-mail:
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DNA damage is a common event and probably leads to mutation or deletion within chromosomal DNA, which may cause cancer or premature aging. DNA damage induces several cellular responses including DNA repair, checkpoint activity and the triggering of apoptotic pathways. DNA damage checkpoints are associated with biochemical pathways that end delay or arrest of cell-cycle progression. These checkpoints engage damage sensor proteins, such as the Rad9-Rad1-Hus1 (9-1-1) complex, and the Rad17-RFC complex, in the detection of DNA damage and transduction of signals to ATM, ATR, Chk1 and Chk2 kinases. Chk1 and Chk2 kinases regulate Cdc25, Wee1 and p53 that ultimately inactivate cyclin-dependent kinases (Cdks) which inhibit cell-cycle progression. In this review, we discuss the molecular mechanisms by which DNA damage is recognized by sensor proteins and signals are transmitted to Cdks. We classify the genes involved in checkpoint signaling into four categories, namely sensors, mediators, transducers and effectors, although their proteins have the broad activity, and thus this classification is for convenience and is not definitive.
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- Hiroyuki Niida
- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya City University, 1 Kawasumi, Mizuho-cho, Mizuho-ku, Nagoya 467-8601, Japan
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