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Fagbemi AF, Orelli B, Schärer OD. Regulation of endonuclease activity in human nucleotide excision repair. DNA Repair (Amst) 2011; 10:722-9. [PMID: 21592868 PMCID: PMC3139800 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2011.04.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 115] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Nucleotide excision repair (NER) is a DNA repair pathway that is responsible for removing a variety of lesions caused by harmful UV light, chemical carcinogens, and environmental mutagens from DNA. NER involves the concerted action of over 30 proteins that sequentially recognize a lesion, excise it in the form of an oligonucleotide, and fill in the resulting gap by repair synthesis. ERCC1-XPF and XPG are structure-specific endonucleases responsible for carrying out the incisions 5' and 3' to the damage respectively, culminating in the release of the damaged oligonucleotide. This review focuses on the recent work that led to a greater understanding of how the activities of ERCC1-XPF and XPG are regulated in NER to prevent unwanted cuts in DNA or the persistence of gaps after incision that could result in harmful, cytotoxic DNA structures.
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- Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3400
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- Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3400
- Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3400
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Clement FC, Kaczmarek N, Mathieu N, Tomas M, Leitenstorfer A, Ferrando-May E, Naegeli H. Dissection of the xeroderma pigmentosum group C protein function by site-directed mutagenesis. Antioxid Redox Signal 2011; 14:2479-90. [PMID: 20649465 DOI: 10.1089/ars.2010.3399] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Xeroderma pigmentosum group C (XPC) protein is a sensor of helix-distorting DNA lesions, the function of which is to trigger the global genome repair (GGR) pathway. Previous studies demonstrated that XPC protein operates by detecting the single-stranded character of non-hydrogen-bonded bases opposing lesion sites. This mode of action is supported by structural analyses of the yeast Rad4 homologue that identified critical side chains making close contacts with a pair of extrahelical nucleotides. Here, alanine substitutions of the respective conserved residues (N754, F756, F797, F799) in human XPC were tested for DNA-binding activity, accumulation in tracks and foci of DNA lesions, nuclear protein mobility, and the induction of downstream GGR reactions. This study discloses a dynamic interplay between XPC protein and DNA, whereby the association with one displaced nucleotide in the undamaged strand mediates the initial encounter with lesion sites. The additional flipping-out of an adjacent nucleotide is necessary to hand over the damaged site to the next GGR player. Surprisingly, this mutagenesis analysis also reveals that the rapid intranuclear trafficking of XPC protein depends on constitutive interactions with native DNA, implying that the search for base damage takes place in living cells by a facilitated diffusion process.
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- Flurina C Clement
- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zürich-Vetsuisse, Winterthurerstrasse 260, Zürich, Switzerland
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Overmeer RM, Moser J, Volker M, Kool H, Tomkinson AE, van Zeeland AA, Mullenders LHF, Fousteri M. Replication protein A safeguards genome integrity by controlling NER incision events. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011; 192:401-15. [PMID: 21282463 PMCID: PMC3101093 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201006011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Continued association of RPA with sites of incomplete nucleotide excision repair averts further incision events until repair is completed. Single-stranded DNA gaps that might arise by futile repair processes can lead to mutagenic events and challenge genome integrity. Nucleotide excision repair (NER) is an evolutionarily conserved repair mechanism, essential for removal of helix-distorting DNA lesions. In the currently prevailing model, NER operates through coordinated assembly of repair factors into pre- and post-incision complexes; however, its regulation in vivo is poorly understood. Notably, the transition from dual incision to repair synthesis should be rigidly synchronized as it might lead to accumulation of unprocessed repair intermediates. We monitored NER regulatory events in vivo using sequential UV irradiations. Under conditions that allow incision yet prevent completion of repair synthesis or ligation, preincision factors can reassociate with new damage sites. In contrast, replication protein A remains at the incomplete NER sites and regulates a feedback loop from completion of DNA repair synthesis to subsequent damage recognition, independently of ATR signaling. Our data reveal an important function for replication protein A in averting further generation of DNA strand breaks that could lead to mutagenic and recombinogenic events.
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- René M Overmeer
- Department of Toxicogenetics, Leiden University Medical Center, 2333 RC Leiden, Netherlands
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Goosen N. Scanning the DNA for damage by the nucleotide excision repair machinery. DNA Repair (Amst) 2010; 9:593-6. [PMID: 20335079 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2010.02.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2010] [Revised: 02/12/2010] [Accepted: 02/24/2010] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Damage detection during nucleotide excision repair requires the action of multiple proteins that probe the DNA for different parameters like disruption of basepairing, DNA bendability and presence of chemical modifications. In a recent study it has been shown that two of these probing events can be spatially separated on the DNA. Upon initial binding of the XPC protein to a region with disrupted basepairing a complex of XPC, TFIIH and XPA is translocated to a CPD lesion even when this chemical modification is located up to 160 nucleotides from the mispaired region.
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- Nora Goosen
- Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Gorlaeus Laboratories, Leiden University, Einsteinweg 55, 2333 CC Leiden, The Netherlands.
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Rechkunova NI, Lavrik OI. Nucleotide excision repair in higher eukaryotes: mechanism of primary damage recognition in global genome repair. Subcell Biochem 2010; 50:251-277. [PMID: 20012586 DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3471-7_13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Nucleotide excision repair (NER) is one of the major DNA repair pathways in eukaryotic cells that counteract the formation of genetic damage. NER removes structurally diverse lesions such as pyrimidine dimers, arising upon UV irradiation, and bulky chemical adducts, arising upon exposure to carcinogens and some chemotherapeutic drugs. NER defects lead to severe diseases, including some forms of cancer. In view of the broad substrate specificity of NER, it is of interest to understand how a certain set of proteins recognizes various DNA lesions in the contest of a large excess of intact DNA. This review focuses on DNA damage recognition, the key and, as yet, most questionable step of NER. Understanding of mechanism of this step of NER may give a key contribution to study of similar processes of DNA damage recognition (base excision repair, mismatch repair) and regulation of assembly of various DNA repair machines. The major models of primary damage recognition and pre-incision complex assembly are considered. The model of a sequential loading of repair proteins on damaged DNA seems most reasonable in the light of the available data. The possible contribution of affinity labeling technique in study of this process is discussed.
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- N I Rechkunova
- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630090 Russia
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Kemp MG, Mason AC, Carreira A, Reardon JT, Haring SJ, Borgstahl GEO, Kowalczykowski SC, Sancar A, Wold MS. An alternative form of replication protein a expressed in normal human tissues supports DNA repair. J Biol Chem 2009; 285:4788-97. [PMID: 19996105 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m109.079418] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Replication protein A (RPA) is a heterotrimeric protein complex required for a large number of DNA metabolic processes, including DNA replication and repair. An alternative form of RPA (aRPA) has been described in which the RPA2 subunit (the 32-kDa subunit of RPA and product of the RPA2 gene) of canonical RPA is replaced by a homologous subunit, RPA4. The normal function of aRPA is not known; however, previous studies have shown that it does not support DNA replication in vitro or S-phase progression in vivo. In this work, we show that the RPA4 gene is expressed in normal human tissues and that its expression is decreased in cancerous tissues. To determine whether aRPA plays a role in cellular physiology, we investigated its role in DNA repair. aRPA interacted with both Rad52 and Rad51 and stimulated Rad51 strand exchange. We also showed that, by using a reconstituted reaction, aRPA can support the dual incision/excision reaction of nucleotide excision repair. aRPA is less efficient in nucleotide excision repair than canonical RPA, showing reduced interactions with the repair factor XPA and no stimulation of XPF-ERCC1 endonuclease activity. In contrast, aRPA exhibits higher affinity for damaged DNA than canonical RPA, which may explain its ability to substitute for RPA in the excision step of nucleotide excision repair. Our findings provide the first direct evidence for the function of aRPA in human DNA metabolism and support a model for aRPA functioning in chromosome maintenance functions in nonproliferating cells.
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- Michael G Kemp
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
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Orelli B, McClendon TB, Tsodikov OV, Ellenberger T, Niedernhofer LJ, Schärer OD. The XPA-binding domain of ERCC1 is required for nucleotide excision repair but not other DNA repair pathways. J Biol Chem 2009; 285:3705-3712. [PMID: 19940136 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m109.067538] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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The endonuclease ERCC1-XPF incises the damaged strand of DNA 5' to a lesion during nucleotide excision repair (NER) and has additional, poorly characterized functions in interstrand cross-link repair, double-strand break repair, and homologous recombination. XPA, another key factor in NER, interacts with ERCC1 and recruits it to sites of damage. We identified ERCC1 residues that are critical for the interaction with XPA and assessed their importance for NER in vitro and in vivo. Mutation of two conserved residues (Asn-110 and Tyr-145) located in the XPA-binding site of ERCC1 dramatically affected NER but not nuclease activity on model DNA substrates. In ERCC1-deficient cells expressing ERCC1(N110A/Y145A), the nuclease was not recruited to sites of UV damage. The repair of UV-induced (6-4)photoproducts was severely impaired in these cells, and they were hypersensitive to UV irradiation. Remarkably, the ERCC1(N110A/Y145A) protein rescues the sensitivity of ERCC1-deficient cells to cross-linking agents. Our studies suggest that ERCC1-XPF engages in different repair pathways through specific protein-protein interactions and that these functions can be separated through the selective disruption of these interactions. We discuss the impact of these findings for understanding how ERCC1 contributes to resistance of tumor cells to therapeutic agents such as cisplatin.
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- Barbara Orelli
- From the Department of Pharmacological Sciences and Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3400
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- the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics and Cancer Institute, Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213-1863
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- the Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2676, and
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- the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110
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- the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics and Cancer Institute, Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213-1863
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- From the Department of Pharmacological Sciences and Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3400.
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Ting APL, Low GKM, Gopalakrishnan K, Hande MP. Telomere attrition and genomic instability in xeroderma pigmentosum type-b deficient fibroblasts under oxidative stress. J Cell Mol Med 2009; 14:403-16. [PMID: 19840190 PMCID: PMC3837611 DOI: 10.1111/j.1582-4934.2009.00945.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Xeroderma pigmentosum B (XPB/ERCC3/p89) is an ATP-dependent 3′→5′ directed DNA helicase involved in basal RNA transcription and the nucleotide excision repair (NER) pathway. While the role of NER in alleviating oxidative DNA damage has been acknowledged it remains poorly understood. To study the involvement of XPB in repair of oxidative DNA damage, we utilized primary fibroblasts from a patient suffering from XP with Cockayne syndrome and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) to induce oxidative stress. Mutant cells retained higher viability and cell cycle dysfunction after H2O2 exposure. Cytokinesis blocked micronucleus assay revealed increased genome instability induced by H2O2. Single cell gel electrophoresis (comet) assay showed that the missense mutation caused a reduced repair capacity for oxidative DNA damage. Mutant fibroblasts also displayed decreased population doubling rate, increased telomere attrition rate and early emergence of senescent characteristics under chronic low dose exposure to H2O2. Fibroblasts from a heterozygous individual displayed intermediate traits in some assays and normal traits in others, indicating possible copy number dependence. The results show that a deficiency in functional XPB paradoxically renders cells more sensitive to the genotoxic effects of oxidative stress while reducing the cytotoxic effects. These findings have implications in the mechanisms of DNA repair, mutagenesis and carcinogenesis and ageing in normal physiological systems.
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- Aloysius Poh Leong Ting
- Department of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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Disorders of nucleotide excision repair: the genetic and molecular basis of heterogeneity. Nat Rev Genet 2009; 10:756-68. [PMID: 19809470 DOI: 10.1038/nrg2663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 276] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Mutations in genes on the nucleotide excision repair pathway are associated with diseases, such as xeroderma pigmentosum, Cockayne syndrome and trichothiodystrophy, that involve skin cancer and developmental and neurological symptoms. These mutations cause the defective repair of damaged DNA and increased transcription arrest but, except for skin cancer, the links between repair and disease have not been obvious. Widely different clinical syndromes seem to result from mutations in the same gene, even when the mutations result in complete loss of function. The mapping of mutations in recently solved protein structures has begun to clarify the links between the molecular defects and phenotypes, but the identification of additional sources of clinical variability is still necessary.
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Vlachostergios PJ, Patrikidou A, Daliani DD, Papandreou CN. The ubiquitin-proteasome system in cancer, a major player in DNA repair. Part 1: post-translational regulation. J Cell Mol Med 2009; 13:3006-18. [PMID: 19522845 PMCID: PMC4516461 DOI: 10.1111/j.1582-4934.2009.00824.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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DNA repair is a fundamental cellular function, indispensable for cell survival, especially in conditions of exposure to environmental or pharmacological effectors of DNA damage. The regulation of this function requires a flexible machinery to orchestrate the reversal of harmful DNA lesions by making use of existing proteins as well as inducible gene products. The accumulation of evidence for the involvement of ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) in DNA repair pathways, that is reviewed here, has expanded its role from a cellular waste disposal basket to a multi-dimensional regulatory system. This review is the first of two that attempt to illustrate the nature and interactions of all different DNA repair pathways where UPS is demonstrated to be involved, with special focus on cancer- and chemotherapy-related DNA-damage repair. In this first review, we will be presenting the proteolytic and non-proteolytic roles of UPS in the post-translational regulation of DNA repair proteins, while the second review will focus on the UPS-dependent transcriptional response of DNA repair after DNA damage and stress.
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Coordination of dual incision and repair synthesis in human nucleotide excision repair. EMBO J 2009; 28:1111-20. [PMID: 19279666 DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2009.49] [Citation(s) in RCA: 195] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2008] [Accepted: 01/30/2009] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Nucleotide excision repair (NER) requires the coordinated sequential assembly and actions of the involved proteins at sites of DNA damage. Following damage recognition, dual incision 5' to the lesion by ERCC1-XPF and 3' to the lesion by XPG leads to the removal of a lesion-containing oligonucleotide of about 30 nucleotides. The resulting single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) gap on the undamaged strand is filled in by DNA repair synthesis. Here, we have asked how dual incision and repair synthesis are coordinated in human cells to avoid the exposure of potentially harmful ssDNA intermediates. Using catalytically inactive mutants of ERCC1-XPF and XPG, we show that the 5' incision by ERCC1-XPF precedes the 3' incision by XPG and that the initiation of repair synthesis does not require the catalytic activity of XPG. We propose that a defined order of dual incision and repair synthesis exists in human cells in the form of a 'cut-patch-cut-patch' mechanism. This mechanism may aid the smooth progression through the NER pathway and contribute to genome integrity.
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The nucleotide excision repair of DNA in human cells and its association with xeroderma pigmentosum. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2009; 637:113-9. [PMID: 19181116 DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-09599-8_12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/19/2023]
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Kropachev K, Kolbanovskii M, Cai Y, Rodríguez F, Kolbanovskii A, Liu Y, Zhang L, Amin S, Patel D, Broyde S, Geacintov NE. The sequence dependence of human nucleotide excision repair efficiencies of benzo[a]pyrene-derived DNA lesions: insights into the structural factors that favor dual incisions. J Mol Biol 2009; 386:1193-203. [PMID: 19162041 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2008.12.082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2008] [Revised: 12/17/2008] [Accepted: 12/22/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Nucleotide excision repair (NER) is a vital cellular defense system against carcinogen-DNA adducts, which, if not repaired, can initiate cancer development. The structural features of bulky DNA lesions that account for differences in NER efficiencies in mammalian cells are not well understood. In vivo, the predominant DNA adduct derived from metabolically activated benzo[a]pyrene (BP), a prominent environmental carcinogen, is the 10S (+)-trans-anti-[BP]-N(2)-dG adduct (G*), which resides in the B-DNA minor groove 5'-oriented along the modified strand. We have compared the structural distortions in double-stranded DNA, imposed by this adduct, in the different sequence contexts 5'-...CGG*C..., 5'-...CG*GC..., 5'-...CIG*C... (I is 2'-deoxyinosine), and 5'-...CG*C.... On the basis of electrophoretic mobilities, all duplexes manifest moderate bends, except the 5'-...CGG*C...duplex, which exhibits an anomalous, slow mobility attributed to a pronounced flexible kink at the site of the lesion. This kink, resulting from steric hindrance between the 5'-flanking guanine amino group and the BP aromatic rings, both positioned in the minor groove, is abolished in the 5'-...CIG*C...duplex (the 2'-deoxyinosine group, I, lacks this amino group). In contrast, the sequence-isomeric 5'-...CG*GC...duplex exhibits only a moderate bend, but displays a remarkably increased opening rate at the 5'-flanking base pair of G*, indicating a significant destabilization of Watson-Crick hydrogen bonding. The NER dual incision product yields were compared for these different sequences embedded in otherwise identical 135-mer duplexes in cell-free human HeLa extracts. The yields of excision products varied by a factor of as much as approximately 4 in the order 5'-...CG*GC...>5'...CGG*C...>or=5'...CIG*C...>or=5'-...CG*C.... Overall, destabilized Watson-Crick hydrogen bonding, manifested in the 5'-...CG*GC...duplex, elicits the most significant NER response, while the flexible kink displayed in the sequence-isomeric 5'-...CGG*C...duplex represents a less significant signal in this series of substrates. These results demonstrate that the identical lesion can be repaired with markedly variable efficiency in different local sequence contexts that differentially alter the structural features of the DNA duplex around the lesion site.
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Gaudreault M, Gingras ME, Lessard M, Leclerc S, Guérin SL. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays for the analysis of DNA-protein interactions. Methods Mol Biol 2009; 543:15-35. [PMID: 19378156 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60327-015-1_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Electromobility shift assay is a simple, efficient, and rapid method for the study of specific DNA-protein interactions. It relies on the reduction in the electrophoretic mobility conferred to a DNA fragment by an interacting protein. The technique is suitable to qualitative, quantitative, and kinetic analyses. It can also be used to analyze conformational changes.
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- Manon Gaudreault
- Oncology and Molecular Endocrinology Research Center, CHUL, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec and Laval University, 2705 Laurier Blvd, Québec, QC, Canada, G1V 4G2
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Tremblay M, Teng Y, Paquette M, Waters R, Conconi A. Complementary roles of yeast Rad4p and Rad34p in nucleotide excision repair of active and inactive rRNA gene chromatin. Mol Cell Biol 2008; 28:7504-13. [PMID: 18936173 PMCID: PMC2593431 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.00137-08] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2008] [Revised: 02/26/2008] [Accepted: 10/08/2008] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Nucleotide excision repair (NER) removes a plethora of DNA lesions. It is performed by a large multisubunit protein complex that finds and repairs damaged DNA in different chromatin contexts and nuclear domains. The nucleolus is the most transcriptionally active domain, and in yeast, transcription-coupled NER occurs in RNA polymerase I-transcribed genes (rDNA). Here we have analyzed the roles of two members of the xeroderma pigmentosum group C family of proteins, Rad4p and Rad34p, during NER in the active and inactive rDNA. We report that Rad4p is essential for repair in the intergenic spacer, the inactive rDNA coding region, and for strand-specific repair at the transcription initiation site, whereas Rad34p is not. Rad34p is necessary for transcription-coupled NER that starts about 40 nucleotides downstream of the transcription initiation site of the active rDNA, whereas Rad4p is not. Thus, although Rad4p and Rad34p share sequence homology, their roles in NER in the rDNA locus are almost entirely distinct and complementary. These results provide evidences that transcription-coupled NER and global genome NER participate in the removal of UV-induced DNA lesions from the transcribed strand of active rDNA. Furthermore, nonnucleosome rDNA is repaired faster than nucleosome rDNA, indicating that an open chromatin structure facilitates NER in vivo.
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- Maxime Tremblay
- Département de Microbiologie et Infectiologie, Faculté de Médecine, Poste 7446, Université de Sherbrooke, 3001 12th Ave. Nord, Sherbrooke, QC J1H 5N4, Canada
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Schärer OD. XPG: its products and biological roles. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2008; 637:83-92. [PMID: 19181113 DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-09599-8_9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Xeroderma pigmetosum patients of the complementation group G are rare. One group of XP-G patients displays a rather mild and typical XP phenotype. Mutations in these patients interfere with the function of XPG in the nucleotide excision repair, where it has a structural role in the assembly of the preincision complex and a catalytic role in making the incision 3' to the damaged site in DNA. Another set of XP-G patient is much more severely affected, displaying combined symptoms of xeroderma pigmentosum and Cockayne syndrome, referred to as XP/CS complex. Although the molecular basis leading to the XP/CS complex has not yet been fully established, current evidence suggests that these patients suffer from a mild defect in transcription in addition to a repair defect. Here, the history of how the XPG gene was discovered, the biochemical properties of the XPG protein and the molecular defects found in XP-G patients and mouse models are reviewed.
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- Orlando D Schärer
- Department of Pharmacological Sciences and Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11974-3400, USA.
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Guthrie OW. Preincision complex-I from the excision nuclease reaction among cochlear spiral limbus and outer hair cells. J Mol Histol 2008; 39:617-25. [DOI: 10.1007/s10735-008-9202-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2008] [Accepted: 10/14/2008] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Hoogstraten D, Bergink S, Ng JMY, Verbiest VHM, Luijsterburg MS, Geverts B, Raams A, Dinant C, Hoeijmakers JHJ, Vermeulen W, Houtsmuller AB. Versatile DNA damage detection by the global genome nucleotide excision repair protein XPC. J Cell Sci 2008; 121:2850-9. [PMID: 18682493 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.031708] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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To investigate how the nucleotide excision repair initiator XPC locates DNA damage in mammalian cell nuclei we analyzed the dynamics of GFP-tagged XPC. Photobleaching experiments showed that XPC constantly associates with and dissociates from chromatin in the absence of DNA damage. DNA-damaging agents retard the mobility of XPC, and UV damage has the most pronounced effect on the mobility of XPC-GFP. XPC exhibited a surprising distinct dynamic behavior and subnuclear distribution compared with other NER factors. Moreover, we uncovered a novel regulatory mechanism for XPC. Under unchallenged conditions, XPC is continuously exported from and imported into the nucleus, which is impeded when NER lesions are present. XPC is omnipresent in the nucleus, allowing a quick response to genotoxic stress. To avoid excessive DNA probing by the low specificity of the protein, the steady-state level in the nucleus is controlled by nucleus-cytoplasm shuttling, allowing temporally higher concentrations of XPC in the nucleus under genotoxic stress conditions.
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- Deborah Hoogstraten
- Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Erasmus MC Rotterdam, P.O. Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Schärer OD. A molecular basis for damage recognition in eukaryotic nucleotide excision repair. Chembiochem 2008; 9:21-3. [PMID: 18033706 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200700619] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Orlando D Schärer
- Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11974-3400, USA.
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Maillard O, Camenisch U, Blagoev KB, Naegeli H. Versatile protection from mutagenic DNA lesions conferred by bipartite recognition in nucleotide excision repair. Mutat Res 2008; 658:271-86. [PMID: 18321768 DOI: 10.1016/j.mrrev.2008.01.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2007] [Revised: 01/11/2008] [Accepted: 01/14/2008] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Nucleotide excision repair is a cut-and-patch pathway that eliminates potentially mutagenic DNA lesions caused by ultraviolet light, electrophilic chemicals, oxygen radicals and many other genetic insults. Unlike antigen recognition by the immune system, which employs billions of immunoglobulins and T-cell receptors, the nucleotide excision repair complex relies on just a few generic factors to detect an extremely wide range of DNA adducts. This molecular versatility is achieved by a bipartite strategy initiated by the detection of abnormal strand fluctuations, followed by the localization of injured residues through an enzymatic scanning process coupled to DNA unwinding. The early recognition subunits are able to probe the thermodynamic properties of nucleic acid substrates but avoid direct contacts with chemically altered bases. Only downstream subunits of the bipartite recognition process interact more closely with damaged bases to delineate the sites of DNA incision. Thus, consecutive factors expand the spectrum of deleterious genetic lesions conveyed to DNA repair by detecting distinct molecular features of target substrates.
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- Olivier Maillard
- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zürich-Vetsuisse, Winterthurerstrasse 260, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland
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Schärer OD. Achieving broad substrate specificity in damage recognition by binding accessible nondamaged DNA. Mol Cell 2008; 28:184-6. [PMID: 17964258 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2007.10.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The structure of the Rad4/Rad23 protein, shown in a recent issue of Nature (Min and Pavletich, 2007), reveals how structurally diverse lesions are recognized in eukaryotic nucleotide excision repair: by probing for accessible nondamaged DNA opposite the lesion.
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- Orlando D Schärer
- Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11974-3400, USA.
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Wang QE, Prætorius-Ibba M, Zhu Q, El-Mahdy MA, Wani G, Zhao Q, Qin S, Patnaik S, Wani AA. Ubiquitylation-independent degradation of Xeroderma pigmentosum group C protein is required for efficient nucleotide excision repair. Nucleic Acids Res 2007; 35:5338-50. [PMID: 17693435 PMCID: PMC2018625 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm550] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The Xeroderma Pigmentosum group C (XPC) protein is indispensable to global genomic repair (GGR), a subpathway of nucleotide excision repair (NER), and plays an important role in the initial damage recognition. XPC can be modified by both ubiquitin and SUMO in response to UV irradiation of cells. Here, we show that XPC undergoes degradation upon UV irradiation, and this is independent of protein ubiquitylation. The subunits of DDB-Cul4A E3 ligase differentially regulate UV-induced XPC degradation, e.g DDB2 is required and promotes, whereas DDB1 and Cul4A protect the protein degradation. Mutation of XPC K655 to alanine abolishes both UV-induced XPC modification and degradation. XPC degradation is necessary for recruiting XPG and efficient NER. The overall results provide crucial insights regarding the fate and role of XPC protein in the initiation of excision repair.
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- Qi-En Wang
- Department of Radiology, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry and Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, 460 W. 12th Ave, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
- *To whom correspondence should be addressed. +1 614 292 9015+1 614 293 0802;
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- Department of Radiology, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry and Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, 460 W. 12th Ave, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry and Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, 460 W. 12th Ave, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry and Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, 460 W. 12th Ave, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry and Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, 460 W. 12th Ave, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry and Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, 460 W. 12th Ave, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry and Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, 460 W. 12th Ave, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry and Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, 460 W. 12th Ave, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry and Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, 460 W. 12th Ave, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
- *To whom correspondence should be addressed. +1 614 292 9015+1 614 293 0802;
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Kesseler KJ, Kaufmann WK, Reardon JT, Elston T, Sancar A. A mathematical model for human nucleotide excision repair: damage recognition by random order assembly and kinetic proofreading. J Theor Biol 2007; 249:361-75. [PMID: 17869273 PMCID: PMC2702209 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2007.07.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2007] [Revised: 07/08/2007] [Accepted: 07/23/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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A mathematical model of human nucleotide excision repair was constructed and validated. The model incorporates cooperative damage recognition by RPA, XPA, and XPC followed by three kinetic proofreading steps by the TFIIH transcription/repair factor. The model yields results consistent with experimental data regarding excision rates of UV photoproducts by the reconstituted human excision nuclease system as well as the excision of oligonucleotides from undamaged DNA. The model predicts the effect that changes in the initial concentrations of repair factors have on the excision rate of damaged DNA and provides a testable hypothesis on the biochemical mechanism of cooperativity in protein assembly, suggesting experiments to determine if cooperativity in protein assembly results from an increased association rate or a decreased dissociation rate. Finally, a comparison between the random order assembly with kinetic proofreading model and a sequential assembly model is made. This investigation reveals the advantages of the random order assembly/kinetic proofreading model.
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- Kevin J. Kesseler
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7255, U.S.A.,
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7255, U.S.A.,
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7260, U.S.A., joyce
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7260, U.S.A.,
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7260, U.S.A., aziz
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Francis MA, Bagga P, Athwal R, Rainbow AJ. Partial Complementation of the DNA Repair Defects in Cells from Xeroderma Pigmentosum Groups A, C, D and F but not G by the denV Gene from Bacteriophage T4 ¶. Photochem Photobiol 2007. [DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2000)0720365pcotdr2.0.co2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Bunick CG, Miller MR, Fuller BE, Fanning E, Chazin WJ. Biochemical and structural domain analysis of xeroderma pigmentosum complementation group C protein. Biochemistry 2007; 45:14965-79. [PMID: 17154534 PMCID: PMC2579963 DOI: 10.1021/bi061370o] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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XPC is a 940-residue multidomain protein critical for the sensing of aberrant DNA and initiation of global genome nucleotide excision repair. The C-terminal portion of XPC (residues 492-940; XPC-C) has critical interactions with DNA, RAD23B, CETN2, and TFIIH, whereas functional roles have not yet been assigned to the N-terminal portion (residues 1-491; XPC-N). In order to analyze the molecular basis for XPC function and mutational defects associated with xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) disease, a series of stable bacterially expressed N- and C-terminal fragments were designed on the basis of sequence analysis and produced for biochemical characterization. Limited proteolysis experiments combined with mass spectrometry revealed that the full XPC-C is stable but XPC-N is not. However, a previously unrecognized folded helical structural domain was found within XPC-N, XPC(156-325). Pull-down and protease protection assays demonstrated that XPC(156-325) physically interacts with the DNA repair factor XPA, establishing the first functional role for XPC-N. XPC-C exhibits binding characteristics of the full-length protein, including stimulation of DNA binding by physical interaction with RAD23B and CETN2. Analysis of an XPC missense mutation (Trp690Ser) found in certain patients with XP disease revealed that this mutation is associated with a diminished ability to bind DNA. Evidence of contributions to protein interactions from regions in both XPC-N and XPC-C along with recently recognized homologies to yeast PNGase prompted construction of a structural model of a folded XPC core. This model offers key insights into how domains from the two portions of the protein may cooperate in generating specific XPC functions.
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- Christopher G. Bunick
- Departments of Biochemistry and Physics and Center for Structural Biology, 5140 BIOSCI/MRBIII, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232-8725
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- Departments of Biochemistry and Physics and Center for Structural Biology, 5140 BIOSCI/MRBIII, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232-8725
- Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232-8725
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- Departments of Biochemistry and Physics and Center for Structural Biology, 5140 BIOSCI/MRBIII, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232-8725
- Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232-8725
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232-8725
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- Departments of Biochemistry and Physics and Center for Structural Biology, 5140 BIOSCI/MRBIII, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232-8725
- Address correspondence to: Walter J. Chazin, Center for Structural Biology, 465 21 Ave South, 5140 BIOSCI/MRBIII, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232-8725, Tel. 615-936-2210; Fax. 615-936-2211; E-mail:
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Zotter A, Luijsterburg MS, Warmerdam DO, Ibrahim S, Nigg A, van Cappellen WA, Hoeijmakers JHJ, van Driel R, Vermeulen W, Houtsmuller AB. Recruitment of the nucleotide excision repair endonuclease XPG to sites of UV-induced dna damage depends on functional TFIIH. Mol Cell Biol 2006; 26:8868-79. [PMID: 17000769 PMCID: PMC1636808 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.00695-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2006] [Revised: 09/01/2006] [Accepted: 09/14/2006] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The structure-specific endonuclease XPG is an indispensable core protein of the nucleotide excision repair (NER) machinery. XPG cleaves the DNA strand at the 3' side of the DNA damage. XPG binding stabilizes the NER preincision complex and is essential for the 5' incision by the ERCC1/XPF endonuclease. We have studied the dynamic role of XPG in its different cellular functions in living cells. We have created mammalian cell lines that lack functional endogenous XPG and stably express enhanced green fluorescent protein (eGFP)-tagged XPG. Life cell imaging shows that in undamaged cells XPG-eGFP is uniformly distributed throughout the cell nucleus, diffuses freely, and is not stably associated with other nuclear proteins. XPG is recruited to UV-damaged DNA with a half-life of 200 s and is bound for 4 min in NER complexes. Recruitment requires functional TFIIH, although some TFIIH mutants allow slow XPG recruitment. Remarkably, binding of XPG to damaged DNA does not require the DDB2 protein, which is thought to enhance damage recognition by NER factor XPC. Together, our data present a comprehensive view of the in vivo behavior of a protein that is involved in a complex chromatin-associated process.
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- Angelika Zotter
- Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Erasmus Medical Center, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Hu GM, Liu LM, Zhang JX, Hu XD, Duan HJ, Deng H, He M, Luo ZJ, Liu JM, Luo J. The role of XPB in cell apoptosis and viability and its relationship with p53, p21(waf1/cip1) and c-myc in hepatoma cells. Dig Liver Dis 2006; 38:755-61. [PMID: 16914395 DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2006.06.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2006] [Revised: 04/22/2006] [Accepted: 06/08/2006] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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BACKGROUND Accumulation of DNA damage has been implicated in hepatocarcinogenesis. XPB plays a pivotal part in repairing damaged DNA. However, up to now, the biological effect of XPB on hepatoma cells remains elusive. MATERIALS AND METHODS Here, we investigated the role of XPB in the apoptosis and the viability of hepatoma cells by using the terminal deoxynucleotidyltransferase-mediated dUTP-biotin nick end-labelling and cell viability assay; we also investigated their relationship with p53, p21(waf1/cip1) and c-myc by using the RT-PCR and Western blot. RESULTS Compared with the control cells HepG2/pcDNA3.1 or HepG2, XPB-transfected HepG2 cells (HepG2/pcDNA3.1-XPB) displayed lower viability, weaker activity and higher apoptosis index. At the same time, an increased expression of p21(waf1/cip1) mRNA, protein and p53 protein in addition to a decreased expression of c-myc mRNA and protein were detected in HepG2/pcDNA3.1-XPB cells. CONCLUSIONS Our results indicated that XPB could inhibit the proliferation of hepatoma cells and had a positive effect on the expression of p53 and p21(waf1/cip1) but a negative effect on c-myc.
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- G-M Hu
- Department of Gastroenterology, Second Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University, Nanchang City (330006), Jiangxi Province, China
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Park CJ, Choi BS. The protein shuffle. Sequential interactions among components of the human nucleotide excision repair pathway. FEBS J 2006; 273:1600-8. [PMID: 16623697 DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2006.05189.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) is an inherited disease in which cells from patients exhibit defects in nucleotide excision repair (NER). XP proteins A-G are crucial in the processes of DNA damage recognition and incision, and patients with XP can carry mutations in any of the genes that specify these proteins. In mammalian cells, NER is a dynamic process in which a variety of proteins interact with one another, via modular domains, to carry out their functions. XP proteins are key players in several steps of the NER process, including DNA strand discrimination (XPA, in complex with replication protein A), repair complex formation (XPC, in complex with hHR23B; XPF, in complex with ERCC1) and repair factor recruitment (transcription factor IIH, in complex with XPG). Through these protein-protein interactions, various types of bulky DNA adducts can be recognized and repaired. Communication between the NER system and other cellular pathways is also achieved by selected binding of the various structural domains. Here, we summarize recent studies on the domain structures of human NER components and the regulatory networks that utilize these proteins. Data provided by these studies have helped to illuminate the complex molecular interactions among NER factors in the context of DNA repair.
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- Chin-Ju Park
- Department of Chemistry, National Creative Initiative Center, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Guseong-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejon
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Gillet LCJ, Schärer OD. Molecular mechanisms of mammalian global genome nucleotide excision repair. Chem Rev 2006; 106:253-76. [PMID: 16464005 DOI: 10.1021/cr040483f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 466] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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- Ludovic C J Gillet
- Institute for Molecular Cancer Research, University of Zürich, Switzerland
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Conconi A, Paquette M, Fahy D, Bespalov VA, Smerdon MJ. Repair-independent chromatin assembly onto active ribosomal genes in yeast after UV irradiation. Mol Cell Biol 2005; 25:9773-83. [PMID: 16260595 PMCID: PMC1280247 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.25.22.9773-9783.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Chromatin rearrangements occur during repair of cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPDs) by nucleotide excision repair (NER). Thereafter, the original structure must be restored to retain normal genomic functions. How NER proceeds through nonnucleosomal chromatin and how open chromatin is reestablished after repair are unknown. We analyzed NER in ribosomal genes (rDNA), which are present in multiple copies but only a fraction are actively transcribed and nonnucleosomal. We show that removal of CPDs is fast in the active rDNA and that chromatin reorganization occurs during NER. Furthermore, chromatin assembles on nonnucleosomal rDNA during the early events of NER but in the absence of DNA repair. The resumption of transcription after removal of CPDs correlates with the reappearance of nonnucleosomal chromatin. To date, only the passage of replication machinery was thought to package ribosomal genes in nucleosomes. In this report, we show that early events after formation of UV photoproducts in DNA also promote chromatin assembly.
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- Antonio Conconi
- Département de Microbiologie et d'Infectiologie, Faculté de Médecine, Poste 7446, Université de Sherbrooke, 3001 12th Ave. Nord, Sherbrooke, QC J1H 5N4, Canada.
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Politi A, Moné MJ, Houtsmuller AB, Hoogstraten D, Vermeulen W, Heinrich R, van Driel R. Mathematical modeling of nucleotide excision repair reveals efficiency of sequential assembly strategies. Mol Cell 2005; 19:679-90. [PMID: 16137623 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2005.06.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2004] [Revised: 02/16/2005] [Accepted: 06/30/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Nucleotide excision repair (NER) requires the concerted action of many different proteins that assemble at sites of damaged DNA in a sequential fashion. We have constructed a mathematical model delineating hallmarks and general characteristics for NER. We measured the assembly kinetics of the putative damage-recognition factor XPC-HR23B at sites of DNA damage in the nuclei of living cells. These and other in vivo kinetic data allowed us to scrutinize the dynamic behavior of the nucleotide excision repair process in detail. A sequential assembly mechanism appears remarkably advantageous in terms of repair efficiency. Alternative mechanisms for repairosome formation, including random assembly and preassembly, can readily become kinetically unfavorable. Based on the model, new experiments can be defined to gain further insight into this complex process and to critically test model predictions. Our work provides a kinetic framework for NER and rationalizes why many multiprotein processes within the cell nucleus show sequential assembly strategy.
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- Antonio Politi
- Department of Theoretical Biophysics, Institute of Biology, Humboldt University, Invalidenstrasse 42, 10115 Berlin, Germany
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Wang QE, Zhu Q, Wani G, El-Mahdy MA, Li J, Wani AA. DNA repair factor XPC is modified by SUMO-1 and ubiquitin following UV irradiation. Nucleic Acids Res 2005; 33:4023-34. [PMID: 16030353 PMCID: PMC1178000 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki684] [Citation(s) in RCA: 132] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Nucleotide excision repair (NER) is the major DNA repair process that removes diverse DNA lesions including UV-induced photoproducts. There are more than 20 proteins involved in NER. Among them, XPC is thought to be one of the first proteins to recognize DNA damage during global genomic repair (GGR), a sub-pathway of NER. In order to study the mechanism through which XPC participates in GGR, we investigated the possible modifications of XPC protein upon UV irradiation in mammalian cells. Western blot analysis of cell lysates from UV-irradiated normal human fibroblast, prepared by direct boiling in an SDS lysis buffer, showed several anti-XPC antibody-reactive bands with molecular weight higher than the original XPC protein. The reciprocal immunoprecipitation and siRNA transfection analysis demonstrated that XPC protein is modified by SUMO-1 and ubiquitin. By using several NER-deficient cell lines, we found that DDB2 and XPA are required for UV-induced XPC modifications. Interestingly, both the inactivation of ubiquitylation and the treatment of proteasome inhibitors quantitatively inhibited the UV-induced XPC modifications. Furthermore, XPC protein is degraded significantly following UV irradiation in XP-A cells in which sumoylation of XPC does not occur. Taken together, we conclude that XPC protein is modified by SUMO-1 and ubiquitin following UV irradiation and these modifications require the functions of DDB2 and XPA, as well as the ubiquitin-proteasome system. Our results also suggest that at least one function of UV-induced XPC sumoylation is related to the stabilization of XPC protein.
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- Qi-En Wang
- Department of Radiology, The Ohio State University103 Wiseman Hall, 400 W. 12th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Department of Radiology, The Ohio State University103 Wiseman Hall, 400 W. 12th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Department of Radiology, The Ohio State University103 Wiseman Hall, 400 W. 12th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Department of Radiology, The Ohio State University103 Wiseman Hall, 400 W. 12th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Department of Radiology, The Ohio State University103 Wiseman Hall, 400 W. 12th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Department of Radiology, The Ohio State University103 Wiseman Hall, 400 W. 12th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, The Ohio State University103 Wiseman Hall, 400 W. 12th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
- James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute, The Ohio State University103 Wiseman Hall, 400 W. 12th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
- To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +1 614 293 0865; Fax: +1 614 293 0802;
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Aparicio AM, Elkhouiery AB, Quinn DI. The Current and Future Application of Adjuvant Systemic Chemotherapy in Patients with Bladder Cancer Following Cystectomy. Urol Clin North Am 2005; 32:217-30, vii. [PMID: 15862619 DOI: 10.1016/j.ucl.2005.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Urothelial transitional cell cancer has a high rate of response to combination cytotoxic therapy. Approximately 50% of patients with high-grade bladder cancer and deep muscle invasion ultimately die of disseminated disease. Translating the high response seen in locally advanced disease into long-term survival in the metastatic setting and to improved survival in the advanced setting has proved difficult. This article reviews the use of adjuvant chemotherapy in localized or locally advanced transitional cell cancer. The chemotherapy of urological malignancies, including bladder cancer, has recently been reviewed in detail; this article does not contain an extensive review of the drugs used.
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- Ana M Aparicio
- Division of Medical Oncology and Kenneth J. Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, 1441 Eastlake Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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Dip R, Camenisch U, Naegeli H. Mechanisms of DNA damage recognition and strand discrimination in human nucleotide excision repair. DNA Repair (Amst) 2005; 3:1409-23. [PMID: 15380097 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2004.05.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2004] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Using only a limited repertoire of recognition subunits, the nucleotide excision repair (NER) system is able to detect a nearly infinite variety of bulky DNA lesions. This extraordinary substrate versatility has generally been ascribed to an indirect readout mechanism, whereby particular distortions of the double helix, induced by a damaged nucleotide, provide the molecular determinants not only for lesion recognition but also for subsequent verification or demarcation processes. Here, we discuss the evidence in support of a bipartite mechanism of substrate discrimination that is initiated by the detection of thermodynamically unstable base pairs followed by direct localization of the lesion through an enzymatic proofreading activity. This bipartite discrimination mechanism is part of a dynamic reaction cycle that confers high levels of selectivity to avoid futile repair events on undamaged DNA and also protect the intact complementary strand from inappropriate cleavage.
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- Ramiro Dip
- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zürich-Vetsuisse, Winterthurerstrasse 260, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland
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Reardon JT, Sancar A. Nucleotide Excision Repair. PROGRESS IN NUCLEIC ACID RESEARCH AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2005; 79:183-235. [PMID: 16096029 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6603(04)79004-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 224] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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- Joyce T Reardon
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
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Coin F, Auriol J, Tapias A, Clivio P, Vermeulen W, Egly JM. Phosphorylation of XPB helicase regulates TFIIH nucleotide excision repair activity. EMBO J 2004; 23:4835-46. [PMID: 15549133 PMCID: PMC535092 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7600480] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2004] [Accepted: 10/20/2004] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Nucleotide excision repair (NER) removes damage from DNA in a tightly regulated multiprotein process. The xeroderma pigmentosum group B (XPB) helicase subunit of TFIIH functions in NER and transcription. The serine 751 (S751) residue of XPB was found to be phosphorylated in vivo. This phosphorylation inhibits NER and the microinjection of a phosphomimicking XPB-S751E mutant is unable to correct the NER defect of XP-B cells. Conversely, XPB-S751 dephosphorylation or its substitution with alanine (S751A) restores NER both in vivo and in vitro. Surprisingly, phospho/dephosphorylation of S751 spares TFIIH-dependent transcription. Finally, the phosphorylation of XPB-S751 does not impair the TFIIH unwinding of the DNA around the lesion, but rather prevents the 5' incision triggered by the ERCC1-XPF endonuclease. These data support an additional role for XPB in promoting the incision of the damaged fragment and reveal a point of NER regulation on TFIIH without interference in its transcription activity.
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- Frédéric Coin
- Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS/INSERM/ULP, Illkirch, CU Strasbourg, France
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- Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS/INSERM/ULP, Illkirch, CU Strasbourg, France
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- Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS/INSERM/ULP, Illkirch, CU Strasbourg, France
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- Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles du CNRS, ICSN-CNRS, Gif sur Yvette, France
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- Department of Genetics, Medical Genetic Cluster, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS/INSERM/ULP, Illkirch, CU Strasbourg, France
- Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS/INSERM/ULP, BP 163, 67404 Illkirch Cedex, CU de Strasbourg, France. Tel.: +33 388 65 34 47; Fax: +33 388 65 32 01; E-mail:
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Sancar A, Lindsey-Boltz LA, Unsal-Kaçmaz K, Linn S. Molecular Mechanisms of Mammalian DNA Repair and the DNA Damage Checkpoints. Annu Rev Biochem 2004; 73:39-85. [PMID: 15189136 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biochem.73.011303.073723] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2333] [Impact Index Per Article: 116.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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DNA damage is a relatively common event in the life of a cell and may lead to mutation, cancer, and cellular or organismic death. Damage to DNA induces several cellular responses that enable the cell either to eliminate or cope with the damage or to activate a programmed cell death process, presumably to eliminate cells with potentially catastrophic mutations. These DNA damage response reactions include: (a) removal of DNA damage and restoration of the continuity of the DNA duplex; (b) activation of a DNA damage checkpoint, which arrests cell cycle progression so as to allow for repair and prevention of the transmission of damaged or incompletely replicated chromosomes; (c) transcriptional response, which causes changes in the transcription profile that may be beneficial to the cell; and (d) apoptosis, which eliminates heavily damaged or seriously deregulated cells. DNA repair mechanisms include direct repair, base excision repair, nucleotide excision repair, double-strand break repair, and cross-link repair. The DNA damage checkpoints employ damage sensor proteins, such as ATM, ATR, the Rad17-RFC complex, and the 9-1-1 complex, to detect DNA damage and to initiate signal transduction cascades that employ Chk1 and Chk2 Ser/Thr kinases and Cdc25 phosphatases. The signal transducers activate p53 and inactivate cyclin-dependent kinases to inhibit cell cycle progression from G1 to S (the G1/S checkpoint), DNA replication (the intra-S checkpoint), or G2 to mitosis (the G2/M checkpoint). In this review the molecular mechanisms of DNA repair and the DNA damage checkpoints in mammalian cells are analyzed.
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- Aziz Sancar
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-7260, USA.
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Guillonneau F, Guieysse AL, Nocentini S, Giovannangeli C, Praseuth D. Psoralen interstrand cross-link repair is specifically altered by an adjacent triple-stranded structure. Nucleic Acids Res 2004; 32:1143-53. [PMID: 14966263 PMCID: PMC373402 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2003] [Revised: 01/16/2004] [Accepted: 01/16/2004] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Targeting DNA-damaging agents to specific DNA sites by using sequence-specific DNA ligands has been successful in directing genomic modifications. The understanding of repair processing of such targeted damage and the influence of the adjacent complex is largely unknown. In this way, directed interstrand cross-links (ICLs) have already been generated by psoralen targeting. The mechanisms responsible for ICL removal are far from being understood in mammalian cells, with the proposed involvement of both mutagenic and recombinogenic pathways. Here, a unique ICL was introduced at a selected site by photoactivation of a psoralen moiety with the use of psoralen conjugates of triplex-forming oligonucleotides. The processing of psoralen ICL was evaluated in vitro and in cells for two types of cross-linked substrates, either containing a psoralen ICL alone or with an adjacent triple-stranded structure. We show that the presence of a neighbouring triplex structure interferes with different stages of psoralen ICL processing: (i) the ICL-induced DNA repair synthesis in HeLa cell extracts is inhibited by the triplex structure, as measured by the efficiency of 'true' and futile repair synthesis, stopping at the ICL site; (ii) in HeLa cells, the ICL removal via a nucleotide excision repair (NER) pathway is delayed in the presence of a neighbouring triplex; and (iii) the binding to ICL of recombinant xeroderma pigmentosum A protein, which is involved in pre-incision recruitment of NER factors is impaired by the presence of the third DNA strand. These data characterize triplex-induced modulation of ICL repair pathways at specific steps, which might have implications for the controlled induction of targeted genomic modifications and for the associated cellular responses.
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- F Guillonneau
- Laboratoire de Biophysique, INSERM U565, CNRS UMR5153, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 43 rue Cuvier, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
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Sancar A, Reardon JT. Nucleotide excision repair in E. coli and man. ADVANCES IN PROTEIN CHEMISTRY 2004; 69:43-71. [PMID: 15588839 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-3233(04)69002-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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- Aziz Sancar
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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Riedl T, Hanaoka F, Egly JM. The comings and goings of nucleotide excision repair factors on damaged DNA. EMBO J 2003; 22:5293-303. [PMID: 14517266 PMCID: PMC204472 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdg489] [Citation(s) in RCA: 337] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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To understand the mechanism of nucleotide excision repair (NER), one of the major human DNA repair pathways, we have set up a DNA repair system in which a linear damaged DNA substrate is immobilized by its terminus. By isolating functionally active intermediate complexes, our data dissect the ordered arrival and displacement of NER factors in the progress of the dual incision step. We describe (i) the role of ATP in remodelling the NER-initiating complex of XPC/TFIIH/damaged DNA as a prerequisite for the recruitment of the next NER factors; (ii) the coordination between damage removal and DNA resynthesis and the release of XPC-HR23B, TFIIH and XPA upon arrival of XPG and XPF-ERCC1, respectively; (iii) how RPA remains associated with the excised DNA initiating the assembly of resynthesis factors such as PCNA; (iv) the recycling of XPC-HR23B, TFIIH and XPA in the NER; and the shuttling of TFIIH between NER and transcription. Thus, our findings define multiple functions of NER factors to explain the molecular basis of human NER disorders.
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- Thilo Riedl
- Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS/INSERM/ULP, B.P. 10142, 67404 Illkirch, C.U. de Strasbourg, France
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Reardon JT, Sancar A. Recognition and repair of the cyclobutane thymine dimer, a major cause of skin cancers, by the human excision nuclease. Genes Dev 2003; 17:2539-51. [PMID: 14522951 PMCID: PMC218148 DOI: 10.1101/gad.1131003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 146] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The cyclobutane thymine dimer is the major DNA lesion induced in human skin by sunlight and is a primary cause of skin cancer, the most prevalent form of cancer in the Northern Hemisphere. In humans, the only known cellular repair mechanism for eliminating the dimer from DNA is nucleotide excision repair. Yet the mechanism by which the dimer is recognized and removed by this repair system is not known. Here we demonstrate that the six-factor human excision nuclease recognizes and removes the dimer at a rate consistent with the in vivo rate of removal of this lesion, even though none of the six factors alone is capable of efficiently discriminating the dimer from undamaged DNA. We propose a recognition mechanism by which the low-specificity recognition factors, RPA, XPA, and XPC, act in a cooperative manner to locate the lesion and, aided by the kinetic proofreading provided by TFIIH, form a high-specificity complex at the damage site that initiates removal of thymine dimers at a physiologically relevant rate and specificity.
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- Joyce T Reardon
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
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Quek ML, Quinn DI, Daneshmand S, Stein JP. Molecular prognostication in bladder cancer--a current perspective. Eur J Cancer 2003; 39:1501-10. [PMID: 12855255 DOI: 10.1016/s0959-8049(03)00300-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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The optimal management of bladder cancer depends on the accurate assessment of the tumour's biological potential. Advances in molecular biology and cytogenetics have spurred intense research in identifying and characterising prognostic markers for patients with transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) of the bladder. The molecular changes that occur can be categorised into (1) chromosomal alterations leading to carcinogenesis, (2) cellular proliferation as a result of dysregulation of cell cycle control, and (3) growth control processes such as angiogenesis leading to metastasis. The accumulation of these changes ultimately determines a tumour's clinical behaviour and response to therapy. As the understanding of bladder cancer evolves, novel molecular markers for prognostication will make their way from the research laboratory to the clinical setting with the promise to improve patient care and outcomes.
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- M L Quek
- Department of Urology, Kenneth Norris Jr. Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles 90089, USA.
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Christiansen M, Stevnsner T, Modin C, Martensen PM, Brosh RM, Bohr VA. Functional consequences of mutations in the conserved SF2 motifs and post-translational phosphorylation of the CSB protein. Nucleic Acids Res 2003; 31:963-73. [PMID: 12560492 PMCID: PMC149186 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The rare inherited human genetic disorder Cockayne syndrome (CS) is characterized by developmental abnormalities, UV sensitivity and premature aging. The cellular and molecular phenotypes of CS include increased sensitivity to UV-induced and oxidative DNA lesions. Two genes are involved: CSA and CSB. The CS group B (CSB) protein has roles in transcription, transcription-coupled repair, and base excision repair. It is a DNA stimulated ATPase and remodels chromatin in vitro. Here, we have analyzed wild-type (wt) and motif II, V and VI mutant CSB proteins. We find that the mutant proteins display different degrees of ATPase activity deficiency, and in contrast to the in vivo complementation studies, the motif II mutant is more defective than motif V and VI CSB mutants. Furthermore, CSB wt ATPase activity was studied with different biologically important DNA cofactors: DNA with different secondary structures and damaged DNA. The results indicate that the state of DNA secondary structure affects the level of CSB ATPase activity. We find that the CSB protein is phosphorylated in untreated cells and that UV irradiation leads to its dephosphorylation. Importantly, dephosphorylation of the protein in vitro results in increased ATPase activity of the protein, suggesting that the activity of the CSB protein is subject to phosphorylation control in vivo. These observations may have significant implications for the function of CSB in vivo.
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- Mette Christiansen
- Danish Center for Molecular Gerontology, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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Jaspers NGJ, Raams A, Kelner MJ, Ng JMY, Yamashita YM, Takeda S, McMorris TC, Hoeijmakers JHJ. Anti-tumour compounds illudin S and Irofulven induce DNA lesions ignored by global repair and exclusively processed by transcription- and replication-coupled repair pathways. DNA Repair (Amst) 2002; 1:1027-38. [PMID: 12531012 DOI: 10.1016/s1568-7864(02)00166-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Illudin S is a natural sesquiterpene drug with strong anti-tumour activity. Inside cells, unstable active metabolites of illudin cause the formation of as yet poorly characterised DNA lesions. In order to identify factors involved in their repair, we have performed a detailed genetic survey of repair-defective mutants for responses to the drug. We show that 90% of illudin's lethal effects in human fibroblasts can be prevented by an active nucleotide excision repair (NER) system. Core NER enzymes XPA, XPF, XPG, and TFIIH are essential for recovery. However, the presence of global NER initiators XPC, HR23A/HR23B and XPE is not required, whereas survival, repair and recovery from transcription inhibition critically depend on CSA, CSB and UVS, the factors specific for transcription-coupled NER. Base excision repair and non-homologous end-joining of DNA breaks do not play a major role in the processing of illudin lesions. However, active RAD18 is required for optimal cell survival, indicating that the lesions also block replication forks, eliciting post-replication-repair-like responses. However, the translesion-polymerase DNA pol eta is not involved. We conclude that illudin-induced lesions are exceptional in that they appear to be ignored by all of the known global repair systems, and can only be repaired when trapped in stalled replication or transcription complexes. We show that the semisynthetic illudin derivative hydroxymethylacylfulvene (HMAF, Irofulven), currently under clinical trial for anti-tumour therapy, acts via the same mechanism.
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- Nicolaas G J Jaspers
- Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Erasmus Medical Center, PO Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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Mouratou B, Rouyre S, Pauillac S, Guesdon JL. Development of nonradioactive microtiter plate assays for nuclease activity. Anal Biochem 2002; 309:40-7. [PMID: 12381360 DOI: 10.1016/s0003-2697(02)00272-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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We have developed two microtiter plate assays for the detection of DNA cleavage by nucleases, using 3'-biotinylated oligonucleotide substrates. In the covalently linked oligonucleotide nuclease assay (CLONA), the biotinylated substrates are phosphorylated at the 5' end to facilitate their covalent immobilization on CovaLink NH plates. The cleavage of the covalently immobilized substrate by nucleases results in biotin release. The uncleaved substrate molecules are detected with an enzyme-avidin conjugate. The affinity-linked oligonucleotide nuclease assay (ALONA) makes use of substrates with a digoxigenin on the 5' end of the 3'-biotinylated DNA strand. The substrate binds specifically to the wells of streptavidin-coated microtiter plates, in which the nuclease reaction takes place. Uncleaved substrate retains the digoxigenin label, which is detected with an enzyme-labeled anti-digoxigenin antibody. We assessed the efficiency of these two assays by measuring S1 nuclease and DNase I activities, and the inhibitory effect of EDTA and aurintricarboxylic acid on the reaction. Both methods are more convenient than the standard radioactive nuclease assay and are suitable for high-throughput screening of potential nuclease inhibitors, nucleases, and catalytic antibodies. The ALONA assay was found to be more sensitive than the CLONA assay, with a performance similar to that of the standard nuclease assay.
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- Barbara Mouratou
- Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Anticorps, Institut Pasteur, 25 rue du Dr. Roux, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France.
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Hara R, Sancar A. The SWI/SNF chromatin-remodeling factor stimulates repair by human excision nuclease in the mononucleosome core particle. Mol Cell Biol 2002; 22:6779-87. [PMID: 12215535 PMCID: PMC134043 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.22.19.6779-6787.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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To investigate the role of chromatin remodeling in nucleotide excision repair, we prepared mononucleosomes with a 200-bp duplex containing an acetylaminofluorene-guanine (AAF-G) adduct at a single site. DNase I footprinting revealed a well-phased nucleosome structure with the AAF-G adduct near the center of twofold symmetry of the nucleosome core. This mononucleosome substrate was used to examine the effect of the SWI/SNF remodeling complex on the activity of human excision nuclease reconstituted from six purified excision repair factors. We found that the three repair factors implicated in damage recognition, RPA, XPA, and XPC, stimulate the remodeling activity of SWI/SNF, which in turn stimulates the removal of the AAF-G adduct from the nucleosome core by the excision nuclease. This is the first demonstration of the stimulation of nucleotide excision repair of a lesion in the nucleosome core by a chromatin-remodeling factor and contrasts with the ACF remodeling factor, which stimulates the removal of lesions from internucleosomal linker regions but not from the nucleosome core.
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- Ryujiro Hara
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 27599, USA
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Reardon JT, Sancar A. Molecular anatomy of the human excision nuclease assembled at sites of DNA damage. Mol Cell Biol 2002; 22:5938-45. [PMID: 12138203 PMCID: PMC133982 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.22.16.5938-5945.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2002] [Revised: 05/20/2002] [Accepted: 05/23/2002] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Human nucleotide excision repair is initiated by six repair factors (XPA, RPA, XPC-HR23B, TFIIH, XPF-ERCC1, and XPG) which sequentially assemble at sites of DNA damage and effect excision of damage-containing oligonucleotides. We here describe the molecular anatomy of the human excision nuclease assembled at the site of a psoralen-adducted thymine. Three polypeptides, primarily positioned 5' to the damage, are in close physical proximity to the psoralen lesion and thus are cross-linked to the damaged DNA: these proteins are RPA70, RPA32, and the XPD subunit of TFIIH. While both XPA and XPC bind damaged DNA and are required for XPD cross-linking to the psoralen-adducted base, neither XPA nor XPC is cross-linked to the psoralen adduct. The presence of other repair factors, in particular TFIIH, alters the mode of RPA binding and the position of its subunits relative to the psoralen lesion. Based on these results, we propose that RPA70 makes the initial contact with psoralen-damaged DNA but that within preincision complexes, it is RPA32 and XPD that are in close contact with the lesion.
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- Joyce T Reardon
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599,USA
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Uchida A, Sugasawa K, Masutani C, Dohmae N, Araki M, Yokoi M, Ohkuma Y, Hanaoka F. The carboxy-terminal domain of the XPC protein plays a crucial role in nucleotide excision repair through interactions with transcription factor IIH. DNA Repair (Amst) 2002; 1:449-61. [PMID: 12509233 DOI: 10.1016/s1568-7864(02)00031-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The xeroderma pigmentosum group C (XPC) protein specifically involved in genome-wide damage recognition for nucleotide excision repair (NER) was purified as a tight complex with HR23B, one of the two mammalian homologs of RAD23 in budding yeast. This XPC-HR23B complex exhibits strong binding affinity for single-stranded DNA, as well as preferential binding to various types of damaged DNA. To examine the structure-function relationship of XPC, a series of truncated mutant proteins were generated and assayed for various binding activities. The two domains participating in binding to HR23B and damaged DNA, respectively, were mapped within the carboxy-terminal half of XPC, which also contains an evolutionary conserved amino acid sequence homologous to the yeast RAD4 protein. We established that the carboxy-terminal 125 amino acids are dispensable for both HR23B and damaged DNA binding, while interactions with transcription factor IIH (TFIIH) are significantly impaired by truncation of this domain. Furthermore, deletion of the extreme carboxy-terminal domain totally abolished XPC activity in the cell-free NER reaction. These results suggest that following initial damage recognition, the carboxy terminus of XPC may be essential for the recruitment of TFIIH, and that most truncation mutations identified in XP-C patients result in non-functional proteins.
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- Akio Uchida
- Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Osaka University, 1-3 Yamada-oka, Suita, 565-0871, Osaka, Japan
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Patrick SM, Turchi JJ. Xeroderma pigmentosum complementation group A protein (XPA) modulates RPA-DNA interactions via enhanced complex stability and inhibition of strand separation activity. J Biol Chem 2002; 277:16096-101. [PMID: 11859086 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m200816200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Replication protein A (RPA) participates in many cellular functions including DNA replication and nucleotide excision repair. A direct interaction between RPA and the xeroderma pigmentosum group A protein (XPA) facilitates the assembly of a preincision complex during the processing of DNA damage by the nucleotide excision repair pathway. We demonstrate here the formation of a ternary RPA, XPA, and duplex cisplatin-damaged DNA complex as is evident by electrophoretic supershift analysis. The RPA-XPA complex displays modest specificity for damaged versus undamaged duplex DNA, and the RPA-XPA complex displays a greater affinity for binding duplex cisplatin-damaged DNA when compared with the RPA or XPA proteins alone, consistent with previous results. Using DNA denaturation assays, we demonstrate that the role of XPA is in the stabilization of the duplex DNA structure via inhibition of the strand separation activity of RPA. Rapid kinetic analysis indicates that the bimolecular k(on) of the RPA-XPA complex is 2.5-fold faster than RPA alone for binding a duplex cisplatin-damaged DNA. The dissociation rate, k(off), of the RPA-XPA complex is slower than that of the RPA protein alone, suggesting that the XPA protein stabilizes the initial binding of RPA to duplex DNA as well as maintaining the integrity of the duplex DNA. Interestingly, XPA has no effect on the k(on) of RPA for a single-stranded 40-mer DNA.
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- Steve M Patrick
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, Ohio 45435, USA
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Sugasawa K, Shimizu Y, Iwai S, Hanaoka F. A molecular mechanism for DNA damage recognition by the xeroderma pigmentosum group C protein complex. DNA Repair (Amst) 2002; 1:95-107. [PMID: 12509299 DOI: 10.1016/s1568-7864(01)00008-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 147] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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The XPC-HR23B complex is involved in DNA damage recognition and the initiation of global genomic nucleotide excision repair (GG-NER). Our previous studies demonstrate that XPC-HR23B recognizes and binds DNA containing a helix distortion, regardless of the presence or absence of damaged bases. Here, we describe an extended analysis of the DNA binding specificity of XPC-HR23B using various defined DNA substrates. Although XPC-HR23B showed significantly higher affinity for single-stranded DNA than double-stranded DNA, specific secondary structures of DNA, involving a single- and double-strand junction, were strongly preferred by the complex. This indicates that the presence of bases, which cannot form normal Watson-Crick base pairs in double-stranded DNA, is a critical factor in determining the specificity of XPC-HR23B binding. A DNase I footprint analysis, using a looped DNA substrate, revealed that a single XPC-HR23B complex protected a distorted site in an asymmetrical manner, consistent with the preferred secondary structure. The specific binding of XPC-HR23B is undoubtedly an important molecular process, based on which NER machinery detects a wide variety of lesions that vary in terms of chemical structure during DNA repair.
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- Kaoru Sugasawa
- Cellular Physiology Laboratory, RIKEN, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, 351-0198, Saitama, Japan.
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