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Fazilaty H, Mehdipour P. Genetics of breast cancer bone metastasis: a sequential multistep pattern. Clin Exp Metastasis 2014; 31:595-612. [PMID: 24493024 DOI: 10.1007/s10585-014-9642-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2013] [Accepted: 01/26/2014] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Bone metastasis accounts for the vast majority of breast cancer (BC) metastases, and is related to a high rate of morbidity and mortality. A number of seminal studies have uncovered gene expression signatures involved in BC development and bone metastasis; each of them points at a distinct step of the 'invasion-metastasis cascade'. In this review, we provide most recently discovered functions of sets of genes that are selected from widely accepted gene signatures that are implicate in BC progression and bone metastasis. We propose a possible sequential pattern of gene expression that may lead a benign primary breast tumor to get aggressiveness and progress toward bone metastasis. A panel of genes which primarily deal with features like DNA replication, survival, proliferation, then, angiogenesis, migration, and invasion has been identified. TGF-β, FGF, NFκB, WNT, PI3K, and JAK-STAT signaling pathways, as the key pathways involved in breast cancer development and metastasis, are evidently regulated by several genes in all three signatures. Epithelial to mesenchymal transition that is also an important mechanism in cancer stem cell generation and metastasis is evidently regulated by these genes. This review provides a comprehensive insight regarding breast cancer bone metastasis that may lead to a better understanding of the disease and take step toward better treatments.
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- Hassan Fazilaty
- Department of Medical Genetics, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Pour Sina Street, P.O. Box: 14176-13151, Keshavarz Boulevard, Tehran, Iran
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Tapia-Alveal C, Lin SJ, Yeoh A, Jabado OJ, O'Connell MJ. H2A.Z-dependent regulation of cohesin dynamics on chromosome arms. Mol Cell Biol 2014; 34:2092-104. [PMID: 24687850 PMCID: PMC4019066 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.00193-14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2014] [Revised: 02/25/2014] [Accepted: 03/21/2014] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) complexes and DNA topoisomerases are major determinants of chromosome structure and dynamics. The cohesin complex embraces sister chromatids throughout interphase, but during mitosis most cohesin is stripped from chromosome arms by early prophase, while the remaining cohesin at kinetochores is cleaved at anaphase. This two-step removal of cohesin is required for sister chromatids to separate. The cohesin-related Smc5/6 complex has been studied mostly as a determinant of DNA repair via homologous recombination. However, chromosome segregation fails in Smc5/6 null mutants or cells treated with small interfering RNAs. This also occurs in Smc5/6 hypomorphs in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe following genotoxic and replication stress, or topoisomerase II dysfunction, and these mitotic defects are due to the postanaphase retention of cohesin on chromosome arms. Here we show that mitotic and repair roles for Smc5/6 are genetically separable in S. pombe. Further, we identified the histone variant H2A.Z as a critical factor to modulate cohesin dynamics, and cells lacking H2A.Z suppress the mitotic defects conferred by Smc5/6 dysfunction. Together, H2A.Z and the SMC complexes ensure genome integrity through accurate chromosome segregation.
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- Claudia Tapia-Alveal
- Department of Oncological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Oncological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Oncological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Oncological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
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Solomon DA, Kim JS, Waldman T. Cohesin gene mutations in tumorigenesis: from discovery to clinical significance. BMB Rep 2014; 47:299-310. [PMID: 24856830 PMCID: PMC4163871 DOI: 10.5483/bmbrep.2014.47.6.092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2014] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Cohesin is a multi-protein complex composed of four core subunits (SMC1A, SMC3, RAD21, and either STAG1 or STAG2) that is responsible for the cohesion of sister chromatids following DNA replication until its cleavage during mitosis thereby enabling faithful segregation of sister chromatids into two daughter cells. Recent cancer genomics analyses have discovered a high frequency of somatic mutations in the genes encoding the core cohesin subunits as well as cohesin regulatory factors (e.g. NIPBL, PDS5B, ESPL1) in a select subset of human tumors including glioblastoma, Ewing sarcoma, urothelial carcinoma, acute myeloid leukemia, and acute megakaryoblastic leukemia. Herein we review these studies including discussion of the functional significance of cohesin inactivation in tumorigenesis and potential therapeutic mechanisms to selectively target cancers harboring cohesin mutations.
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MESH Headings
- Carcinogenesis
- Cell Cycle Proteins/genetics
- Cell Cycle Proteins/metabolism
- Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone/genetics
- Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone/metabolism
- Humans
- Leukemia, Megakaryoblastic, Acute/genetics
- Leukemia, Megakaryoblastic, Acute/metabolism
- Leukemia, Megakaryoblastic, Acute/pathology
- Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute/genetics
- Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute/metabolism
- Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute/pathology
- Mutation
- Neoplasms/genetics
- Neoplasms/metabolism
- Neoplasms/pathology
- Protein Subunits/genetics
- Protein Subunits/metabolism
- Urologic Neoplasms/genetics
- Urologic Neoplasms/metabolism
- Urologic Neoplasms/pathology
- Cohesins
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- David A. Solomon
- Department of Pathology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, United States
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- Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC 20057, United States
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- Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC 20057, United States
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Gene conversion (conversion), the unidirectional transfer of DNA sequence information, occurs as a byproduct of recombinational repair of broken or damaged DNA molecules. Whereas excision repair processes replace damaged DNA by copying the complementary sequence from the undamaged strand of duplex DNA, recombinational mechanisms copy similar sequence, usually in another molecule, to replace the damaged sequence. In mitotic cells the other molecule is usually a sister chromatid, and the repair does not lead to genetic change. Less often a homologous chromosome or homologous sequence in an ectopic position is used. Conversion results from repair in two ways. First, if there was a double-strand gap at the site of a break, homologous sequence will be used as the template for synthesis to fill the gap, thus transferring sequence information in both strands. Second, recombinational repair uses complementary base pairing, and the heteroduplex molecule so formed is a source of conversion, both as heteroduplex and when donor (undamaged template) information is retained after correction of mismatched bases in heteroduplex. There are mechanisms that favour the use of sister molecules that must fail before ectopic homology can be used. Meiotic recombination events lead to the formation of crossovers required in meiosis for orderly segregation of pairs of homologous chromosomes. These events result from recombinational repair of programmed double-strand breaks, but in contrast with mitotic recombination, meiotic recombinational events occur predominantly between homologous chromosomes, so that transfer of sequence differences by conversion is very frequent. Transient recombination events that do not form crossovers form both between homologous chromosomes and between regions of ectopic homology, and leave their mark in the occurrence of frequent non-crossover conversion, including ectopic conversion.
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RAD21 cohesin overexpression is a prognostic and predictive marker exacerbating poor prognosis in KRAS mutant colorectal carcinomas. Br J Cancer 2014; 110:1606-13. [PMID: 24548858 PMCID: PMC3960611 DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2014.31] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2013] [Revised: 12/26/2013] [Accepted: 01/07/2014] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Background: RAD21 is a component of the cohesion complex and is integral to chromosome segregation and error-free DNA repair. RAD21 is functionally important in tumour progression but its role in colorectal carcinoma (CRC) is unclear. We therefore assessed its clinicopathological and prognostic significance in CRC, as well as its effect on chemosensitivity. Methods: A retrospective observation study examined RAD21 expression in 652 CRCs using a tissue microarray approach. Correlation with clinicopathological factors including gender, tumour grade, mucinous subtype, TNM stage, disease-specific survival (DSS), BRAF and KRAS mutation status, tumour p53 immunostaining, tumour microsatellite instability and tumour CpG island methylator phenotype was performed. Colorectal cancer cell clones with stable RAD21 knockdown were generated and tested for cellular sensitivity to conventional chemotherapeutic drugs. Results: RAD21 expression was significantly correlated with male gender (56.7% vs 43.3%, P=0.02), well-differentiated histology (14.4% vs 4.0%, P=0.0001), higher T-stage (36.1% vs 27.0%, P=0.01), presence of metastasis (18.8% vs 12.6%, P=0.03), and shorter DSS (hazard ratio (HR) 1.4, 95% CI 1.1 to 1.9, P=0.01) in both univariate and multivariate analysis. RAD21 expression was associated with shorter DSS in patients with KRAS mutant tumours (HR:2.6, 95% CI:1.4–4.3, P=0.001) and in patients receiving adjuvant chemoradiotherapy (HR:1.9, 95% CI:1.2–3.0, P=0.008). Colorectal cancer cells with RAD21 knockdown exhibited enhanced sensitivity to 5-fluorouracil, either alone or in combination with oxaliplatin. Conclusions: RAD21 expression in CRC is associated with aggressive disease especially in KRAS mutant tumours and resistance to chemoradiotherapy. RAD21 may be an important novel therapeutic target.
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Murayama Y, Uhlmann F. Biochemical reconstitution of topological DNA binding by the cohesin ring. Nature 2014; 505:367-71. [PMID: 24291789 PMCID: PMC3907785 DOI: 10.1038/nature12867] [Citation(s) in RCA: 212] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2013] [Accepted: 11/13/2013] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Cohesion between sister chromatids, mediated by the chromosomal cohesin complex, is a prerequisite for faithful chromosome segregation in mitosis. Cohesin also has vital roles in DNA repair and transcriptional regulation. The ring-shaped cohesin complex is thought to encircle sister DNA strands, but its molecular mechanism of action is poorly understood and the biochemical reconstitution of cohesin activity in vitro has remained an unattained goal. Here we reconstitute cohesin loading onto DNA using purified fission yeast cohesin and its loader complex, Mis4(Scc2)-Ssl3(Scc4) (Schizosaccharomyces pombe gene names appear throughout with their more commonly known Saccharomyces cerevisiae counterparts added in superscript). Incubation of cohesin with DNA leads to spontaneous topological loading, but this remains inefficient. The loader contacts cohesin at multiple sites around the ring circumference, including the hitherto enigmatic Psc3(Scc3) subunit, and stimulates cohesin's ATPase, resulting in efficient topological loading. The in vitro reconstitution of cohesin loading onto DNA provides mechanistic insight into the initial steps of the establishment of sister chromatid cohesion and other chromosomal processes mediated by cohesin.
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- Yasuto Murayama
- Chromosome Segregation Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY, UK
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- Chromosome Segregation Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY, UK
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Tang D, Miao C, Li Y, Wang H, Liu X, Yu H, Cheng Z. OsRAD51C is essential for double-strand break repair in rice meiosis. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2014; 5:167. [PMID: 24847337 PMCID: PMC4019848 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2014] [Accepted: 04/08/2014] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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RAD51C is one of the RAD51 paralogs that plays an important role in DNA double-strand break repair by homologous recombination. Here, we identified and characterized OsRAD51C, the rice homolog of human RAD51C. The Osrad51c mutant plant is normal in vegetative growth but exhibits complete male and female sterility. Cytological investigation revealed that homologous pairing and synapsis were severely disrupted. Massive chromosome fragmentation occurred during metaphase I in Osrad51c meiocytes, and was fully suppressed by the CRC1 mutation. Immunofluorescence analysis showed that OsRAD51C localized onto the chromosomes from leptotene to early pachytene during prophase I, and that normal loading of OsRAD51C was dependent on OsREC8, PAIR2, and PAIR3. Additionally, ZEP1 did not localize properly in Osrad51c, indicating that OsRAD51C is required for synaptonemal complex assembly. Our study also provided evidence in support of a functional divergence in RAD51C among organisms.
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- Ding Tang
- State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics and Center for Plant Gene Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics and Center for Plant Gene Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics and Center for Plant Gene Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics and Center for Plant Gene Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics and Center for Plant Gene Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics of Ministry of Education, Yangzhou UniversityYangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics and Center for Plant Gene Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing, China
- *Correspondence: Zhukuan Cheng, State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics and Center for Plant Gene Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Datun Road, Chaoyang Distict, Beijing 100101, China e-mail:
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Minor A, Shinawi M, Hogue JS, Vineyard M, Hamlin DR, Tan C, Donato K, Wysinger L, Botes S, Das S, Del Gaudio D. Two novel RAD21 mutations in patients with mild Cornelia de Lange syndrome-like presentation and report of the first familial case. Gene 2013; 537:279-84. [PMID: 24378232 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2013.12.045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2013] [Revised: 12/05/2013] [Accepted: 12/17/2013] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Cornelia de Lange syndrome (CdLS) is a developmental disorder characterized by limb reduction defects, characteristic facial features and impaired cognitive development. Mutations in the NIPBL gene predominate; however, mutations in other cohesin complex genes have also been implicated, particularly in atypical and mild CdLS cases. Missense mutations and whole gene deletions in RAD21 have been identified in children with growth retardation, minor skeletal anomalies and facial features that overlap findings in individuals with CdLS. We report the first intragenic deletion and frameshift mutations identified in RAD21 in two patients presenting with atypical CdLS. One patient had an in-frame deletion of exon 13, while the second patient had a c.592_593dup frameshift mutation. The first patient presented with developmental delay, hypospadias, inguinal hernia and dysmorphic features while, the second patient presented with developmental delay, characteristic facial features, hirsutism, and hand and feet anomalies, with the first patient being milder than the second. The in-frame deletion mutation was found to be inherited from the mother who had a history of melanoma and other unspecified medical problems. This study expands the spectrum of RAD21 mutations and emphasizes the clinical utility of performing RAD21 mutation analysis in patients presenting with atypical forms of CdLS. Moreover, the variability of clinical presentation within families and low penetrance of mutations as well as the significance of performing molecular genetic testing in mildly affected patients are discussed.
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- Agata Minor
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division Genetics and Genomic Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, San Antonio Military Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division Genetics and Genomic Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, San Antonio Military Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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Mehta GD, Kumar R, Srivastava S, Ghosh SK. Cohesin: functions beyond sister chromatid cohesion. FEBS Lett 2013; 587:2299-312. [PMID: 23831059 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2013.06.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2013] [Revised: 06/23/2013] [Accepted: 06/24/2013] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Faithful segregation of chromosomes during mitosis and meiosis is the cornerstone process of life. Cohesin, a multi-protein complex conserved from yeast to human, plays a crucial role in this process by keeping the sister chromatids together from S-phase to anaphase onset during mitosis and meiosis. Technological advancements have discovered myriad functions of cohesin beyond its role in sister chromatid cohesion (SCC), such as transcription regulation, DNA repair, chromosome condensation, homolog pairing, monoorientation of sister kinetochore, etc. Here, we have focused on such functions of cohesin that are either independent of or dependent on its canonical role of sister chromatid cohesion. At the end, human diseases associated with malfunctioning of cohesin, albeit with mostly unperturbed sister chromatid cohesion, have been discussed.
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- Gunjan D Mehta
- Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Wadhwani Research Centre for Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, Mumbai 400076, India
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Strunnikov A. Cohesin complexes with a potential to link mammalian meiosis to cancer. CELL REGENERATION 2013; 2:4. [PMID: 25408876 PMCID: PMC4230521 DOI: 10.1186/2045-9769-2-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2013] [Accepted: 05/16/2013] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Among multiple genes aberrantly activated in cancers, invariably, there is a group related to the capacity of cell to self-renewal. Some of these genes are related to the normal process of development, including the establishment of a germline. This group, a part of growing family of Cancer/Testis (CT) genes, now includes the meiosis specific subunits of cohesin complex. The first reports characterizing the SMC1 and RAD21 genes, encoding subunits of cohesin, were published 20 years ago; however the exact molecular mechanics of cohesin molecular machine in vivo remains rather obscure notwithstanding ample elegant experiments. The matters are complicated by the fact that the evolution of cohesin function, which is served by just two basic types of protein complexes in budding yeast, took an explosive turn in Metazoa. The recent characterization of a new set of genes encoding cohesin subunits specific for meiosis in vertebrates adds several levels of complexity to the task of structure-function analysis of specific cohesin pathways, even more so in relation to their aberrant functionality in cancers. These three proteins, SMC1β, RAD21L and STAG3 are likely involved in a specific function in the first meiotic prophase, genetic recombination, and segregation of homologues. However, at present, it is rather challenging to pinpoint the molecular role of these proteins, particularly in synaptonemal complex or centromere function, due to the multiplicity of different cohesins in meiosis. The roles of these proteins in cancer cell physiology, upon their aberrant activation in tumors, also remain to be elucidated. Nevertheless, as the existence of Cancer/Testis cohesin complexes in tumor cells appears to be all but certain, this brings a promise of a new target for cancer therapy and/or diagnostics.
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- Alexander Strunnikov
- Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Molecular Epigenetics Laboratory, 190 Kai Yuan Avenue, Science Park, Guangzhou, 510530 China
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Aure MR, Steinfeld I, Baumbusch LO, Liestøl K, Lipson D, Nyberg S, Naume B, Sahlberg KK, Kristensen VN, Børresen-Dale AL, Lingjærde OC, Yakhini Z. Identifying in-trans process associated genes in breast cancer by integrated analysis of copy number and expression data. PLoS One 2013; 8:e53014. [PMID: 23382830 PMCID: PMC3559658 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2012] [Accepted: 11/22/2012] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Genomic copy number alterations are common in cancer. Finding the genes causally implicated in oncogenesis is challenging because the gain or loss of a chromosomal region may affect a few key driver genes and many passengers. Integrative analyses have opened new vistas for addressing this issue. One approach is to identify genes with frequent copy number alterations and corresponding changes in expression. Several methods also analyse effects of transcriptional changes on known pathways. Here, we propose a method that analyses in-cis correlated genes for evidence of in-trans association to biological processes, with no bias towards processes of a particular type or function. The method aims to identify cis-regulated genes for which the expression correlation to other genes provides further evidence of a network-perturbing role in cancer. The proposed unsupervised approach involves a sequence of statistical tests to systematically narrow down the list of relevant genes, based on integrative analysis of copy number and gene expression data. A novel adjustment method handles confounding effects of co-occurring copy number aberrations, potentially a large source of false positives in such studies. Applying the method to whole-genome copy number and expression data from 100 primary breast carcinomas, 6373 genes were identified as commonly aberrant, 578 were highly in-cis correlated, and 56 were in addition associated in-trans to biological processes. Among these in-trans process associated and cis-correlated (iPAC) genes, 28% have previously been reported as breast cancer associated, and 64% as cancer associated. By combining statistical evidence from three separate subanalyses that focus respectively on copy number, gene expression and the combination of the two, the proposed method identifies several known and novel cancer driver candidates. Validation in an independent data set supports the conclusion that the method identifies genes implicated in cancer.
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- Miriam Ragle Aure
- Department of Genetics, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital Radiumhospitalet, Oslo, Norway
- K. G. Jebsen Centre for Breast Cancer Research, Institute for Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Laboratory of Computational Biology, Computer Science Department, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Genetics, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital Radiumhospitalet, Oslo, Norway
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- Biomedical Informatics Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Centre for Cancer Biomedicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Laboratory of Computational Biology, Computer Science Department, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Genetics, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital Radiumhospitalet, Oslo, Norway
- K. G. Jebsen Centre for Breast Cancer Research, Institute for Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Division of Cancer Medicine and Radiotherapy, Department of Oncology, Oslo University Hospital Radiumhospitalet, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Genetics, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital Radiumhospitalet, Oslo, Norway
- K. G. Jebsen Centre for Breast Cancer Research, Institute for Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Genetics, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital Radiumhospitalet, Oslo, Norway
- K. G. Jebsen Centre for Breast Cancer Research, Institute for Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Institute for Clinical Epidemiology and Molecular Biology (EpiGen) Akershus University Hospital, Akershus, Norway
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- Department of Genetics, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital Radiumhospitalet, Oslo, Norway
- K. G. Jebsen Centre for Breast Cancer Research, Institute for Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- K. G. Jebsen Centre for Breast Cancer Research, Institute for Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Biomedical Informatics Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Centre for Cancer Biomedicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- * E-mail: (OCL); (ZY)
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- Laboratory of Computational Biology, Computer Science Department, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
- Agilent Laboratories, Tel Aviv, Israel
- * E-mail: (OCL); (ZY)
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Yasuhira S, Saito T, Maesawa C, Masuda T. Sensor and effector kinases in DNA damage checkpoint regulate capacity for homologous recombination repair of fission yeast in G2 phase. DNA Repair (Amst) 2012; 11:666-75. [DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2012.05.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2012] [Revised: 05/09/2012] [Accepted: 05/20/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Haering CH, Jessberger R. Cohesin in determining chromosome architecture. Exp Cell Res 2012; 318:1386-93. [PMID: 22472347 DOI: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2012.03.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2012] [Revised: 03/16/2012] [Accepted: 03/16/2012] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Cells use ring-like structured protein complexes for various tasks in DNA dynamics. The tripartite cohesin ring is particularly suited to determine chromosome architecture, for it is large and dynamic, may acquire different forms, and is involved in several distinct nuclear processes. This review focuses on cohesin's role in structuring chromosomes during mitotic and meiotic cell divisions and during interphase.
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- Christian H Haering
- Cell Biology & Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.
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Supernat A, Lapińska-Szumczyk S, Sawicki S, Wydra D, Biernat W, Zaczek AJ. Deregulation of RAD21 and RUNX1 expression in endometrial cancer. Oncol Lett 2012. [PMID: 23205091 DOI: 10.3892/ol.2012.794] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Cohesins and cohesin-regulated genes are deregulated in numerous types of human cancer. However, data concerning their status and role in endometrial cancer are scarce. This study aimed to determine the clinical significance of double-strand-break repair protein rad21 homolog (RAD21) and runt-related transcription factor 1 (RUNX1) gene dosage and mRNA expression in endometrial cancer. RAD21 is a component of the cohesin complex, crucial for chromosome segregation and DNA repair. RUNX1 is the transcription factor implicated in RAD21 regulation. The study group included 144 endometrial cancer patients. RAD21 and RUNX1 expression profiles were measured by reverse-transcription quantitative PCR. RAD21 gene dosage was determined by quantitative PCR. RAD21 gene dosage was associated with RAD21 mRNA expression (ϱ=0.22; p=0.009). Furthermore, RAD21 expression strongly correlated with RUNX1 expression (ϱ=0.43; p<0.0000001). Increased RAD21 gene dosage correlated with more advanced tumor stage (p=0.021), higher grade (p=0.021), cervical involvement (p=0.01) and the absence of obesity (p=0.025), while RAD21 mRNA expression correlatd with cervical involvement (p=0.027). The mRNA expression of RAD21 and RUNX1 was found to be deregulated and co-dependent in endometrial cancer. RAD21 gene dosage is associated with unfavorable tumor characteristics. However, elucidating the role of these molecular markers in endometrial oncogenesis requires further investigation, including functional studies and survival analysis.
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- Anna Supernat
- Department of Medical Biotechnology, Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology,University of Gdańsk and Medical University of Gdańsk, 80-211 Gdańsk
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Deardorff M, Wilde J, Albrecht M, Dickinson E, Tennstedt S, Braunholz D, Mönnich M, Yan Y, Xu W, Gil-Rodríguez M, Clark D, Hakonarson H, Halbach S, Michelis L, Rampuria A, Rossier E, Spranger S, Van Maldergem L, Lynch S, Gillessen-Kaesbach G, Lüdecke HJ, Ramsay R, McKay M, Krantz I, Xu H, Horsfield J, Kaiser F. RAD21 mutations cause a human cohesinopathy. Am J Hum Genet 2012; 90:1014-27. [PMID: 22633399 PMCID: PMC3370273 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2012.04.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 216] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2012] [Revised: 04/03/2012] [Accepted: 04/23/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022] Open
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The evolutionarily conserved cohesin complex was originally described for its role in regulating sister-chromatid cohesion during mitosis and meiosis. Cohesin and its regulatory proteins have been implicated in several human developmental disorders, including Cornelia de Lange (CdLS) and Roberts syndromes. Here we show that human mutations in the integral cohesin structural protein RAD21 result in a congenital phenotype consistent with a "cohesinopathy." Children with RAD21 mutations display growth retardation, minor skeletal anomalies, and facial features that overlap findings in individuals with CdLS. Notably, unlike children with mutations in NIPBL, SMC1A, or SMC3, these individuals have much milder cognitive impairment than those with classical CdLS. Mechanistically, these mutations act at the RAD21 interface with the other cohesin proteins STAG2 and SMC1A, impair cellular DNA damage response, and disrupt transcription in a zebrafish model. Our data suggest that, compared to loss-of-function mutations, dominant missense mutations result in more severe functional defects and cause worse structural and cognitive clinical findings. These results underscore the essential role of RAD21 in eukaryotes and emphasize the need for further understanding of the role of cohesin in human development.
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- Matthew A. Deardorff
- Division of Genetics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 19104 USA
- The University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 19104 USA
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- Division of Genetics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 19104 USA
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- Institut für Humangenetik Lübeck, Universität zu Lübeck, 23538 Lübeck, Germany
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- Department of Pathology, Dunedin School of Medicine, The University of Otago, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
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- Institut für Humangenetik Lübeck, Universität zu Lübeck, 23538 Lübeck, Germany
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- Department of Pathology, Dunedin School of Medicine, The University of Otago, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
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- Research Division, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, East Melbourne 3002, Australia
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- Institut für Humangenetik Lübeck, Universität zu Lübeck, 23538 Lübeck, Germany
- Zhejiang Cancer Research Institute, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Institut für Humangenetik Lübeck, Universität zu Lübeck, 23538 Lübeck, Germany
- Unit of Clinical Genetics and Functional Genomics. Medical School, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza 50009, Spain
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- Division of Genetics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 19104 USA
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- Division of Genetics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 19104 USA
- The University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 19104 USA
- Center for Applied Genomics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Division of Genetics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 19104 USA
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- Division of Genetics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 19104 USA
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- Centre de Génétique Humaine, Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon 25030, France
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- Our Lady's Children's Hospital, National Centre for Medical Genetics, Dublin 12, Ireland
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- Research Division, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, East Melbourne 3002, Australia
- Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology and Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Dental Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Elizabeth Street, Parkville, Victoria 3000, Australia
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- North Coast Cancer Institute, Lismore, New South Wales 2480, Australia
- The University of Sydney Medical School, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
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- Division of Genetics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 19104 USA
- The University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 19104 USA
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- Research Division, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, East Melbourne 3002, Australia
- Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology and Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Dental Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Elizabeth Street, Parkville, Victoria 3000, Australia
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- Department of Pathology, Dunedin School of Medicine, The University of Otago, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
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- Institut für Humangenetik Lübeck, Universität zu Lübeck, 23538 Lübeck, Germany
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The cohesin complex, named for its key role in sister chromatid cohesion, also plays critical roles in gene regulation and DNA repair. It performs all three functions in single cell eukaryotes such as yeasts, and in higher organisms such as man. Minor disruption of cohesin function has significant consequences for human development, even in the absence of measurable effects on chromatid cohesion or chromosome segregation. Here we survey the roles of cohesin in gene regulation and DNA repair, and how these functions vary from yeast to man.
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- Dale Dorsett
- Edward A. Doisy Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO 63104, USA.
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Wu N, Yu H. The Smc complexes in DNA damage response. Cell Biosci 2012; 2:5. [PMID: 22369641 PMCID: PMC3329402 DOI: 10.1186/2045-3701-2-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2011] [Accepted: 02/27/2012] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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The structural maintenance of chromosomes (Smc) proteins regulate nearly all aspects of chromosome biology and are critical for genomic stability. In eukaryotes, six Smc proteins form three heterodimers--Smc1/3, Smc2/4, and Smc5/6--which together with non-Smc proteins form cohesin, condensin, and the Smc5/6 complex, respectively. Cohesin is required for proper chromosome segregation. It establishes and maintains sister-chromatid cohesion until all sister chromatids achieve bipolar attachment to the mitotic spindle. Condensin mediates chromosome condensation during mitosis. The Smc5/6 complex has multiple roles in DNA repair. In addition to their major functions in chromosome cohesion and condensation, cohesin and condensin also participate in the cellular DNA damage response. Here we review recent progress on the functions of all three Smc complexes in DNA repair and their cell cycle regulation by posttranslational modifications, such as acetylation, phosphorylation, and sumoylation. An in-depth understanding of the mechanisms by which these complexes promote DNA repair and genomic stability may help us to uncover the molecular basis of genomic instability in human cancers and devise ways that exploit this instability to treat cancers.
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- Nan Wu
- Department of Pharmacology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 6001 Forest Park Road, Dallas, TX 75390, USA.
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Panigrahi AK, Zhang N, Mao Q, Pati D. Calpain-1 cleaves Rad21 to promote sister chromatid separation. Mol Cell Biol 2011; 31:4335-47. [PMID: 21876002 PMCID: PMC3209327 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.06075-11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2011] [Accepted: 08/18/2011] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Defining the mechanisms of chromosomal cohesion and dissolution of the cohesin complex from chromatids is important for understanding the chromosomal missegregation seen in many tumor cells. Here we report the identification of a novel cohesin-resolving protease and describe its role in chromosomal segregation. Sister chromatids are held together by cohesin, a multiprotein ring-like complex comprised of Rad21, Smc1, Smc3, and SA2 (or SA1). Cohesin is known to be removed from vertebrate chromosomes by two distinct mechanisms, namely, the prophase and anaphase pathways. First, PLK1-mediated phosphorylation of SA2 in prophase leads to release of cohesin from chromosome arms, leaving behind centromeric cohesins that continue to hold the sisters together. Then, at the onset of anaphase, activated separase cleaves the centromeric cohesin Rad21, thereby opening the cohesin ring and allowing the sister chromatids to separate. We report here that the calcium-dependent cysteine endopeptidase calpain-1 is a Rad21 peptidase and normally localizes to the interphase nuclei and chromatin. Calpain-1 cleaves Rad21 at L192, in a calcium-dependent manner. We further show that Rad21 cleavage by calpain-1 promotes separation of chromosome arms, which coincides with a calcium-induced partial loss of cohesin at several chromosomal loci. Engineered cleavage of Rad21 at the calpain-cleavable site without activation of calpain-1 can lead to a loss of sister chromatid cohesion. Collectively, our work reveals a novel function of calpain-1 and describes an additional pathway for sister chromatid separation in humans.
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- Anil K Panigrahi
- Department of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Baylor College of Medicine, 1102 Bates Avenue, Suite 1220, Houston, TX 77030.
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Tapia-Alveal C, O'Connell MJ. Nse1-dependent recruitment of Smc5/6 to lesion-containing loci contributes to the repair defects of mutant complexes. Mol Biol Cell 2011; 22:4669-82. [PMID: 21976700 PMCID: PMC3226483 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e11-03-0272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The Smc5/6 complex is widely believed to be required for homologous recombination. It is shown that repair defects of Smc5/6 mutants are due to the Nse1-dependent recruitment of dysfunctional complexes to lesions. Of the three structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) complexes, Smc5/6 remains the most poorly understood. Genetic studies have shown that Smc5/6 mutants are defective in homologous recombination (HR), and consistent with this, Smc5/6 is enriched at lesions. However, Smc5/6 is essential for viability, but HR is not, and the terminal phenotype of null Smc5/6 mutants is mitotic failure. Here we analyze the function of Nse1, which contains a variant RING domain that is characteristic of ubiquitin ligases. Whereas deletion of this domain causes DNA damage sensitivity and mitotic failure, serine mutations in conserved cysteines do not. However, these mutations suppress the DNA damage sensitivity of Smc5/6 hypomorphs but not that of HR mutants and remarkably decrease the recruitment of Smc5/6 to loci containing lesions marked for HR-mediated repair. Analysis of DNA repair pathways in suppressed double mutants suggests that lesions are channeled into recombination-dependent and error-free postreplication repair. Thus the HR defect in Smc5/6 mutants appears to be due to the presence of dysfunctional complexes at lesions rather than to reflect an absolute requirement for Smc5/6 to complete HR.
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- Claudia Tapia-Alveal
- Department of Oncological Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
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Cohesin is a conserved multisubunit protein complex with diverse cellular roles, making key contributions to the coordination of chromosome segregation, the DNA damage response and chromatin regulation by epigenetic mechanisms. Much has been learned in recent years about the roles of cohesin in a physiological context, whereas its potential and emerging role in tumour initiation and/or progression has received relatively little attention. In this Opinion article we examine how cohesin deregulation could contribute to cancer development on the basis of its physiological roles.
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- Huiling Xu
- Research Division, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria 8006, Australia
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Dheur S, Saupe SJ, Genier S, Vazquez S, Javerzat JP. Role for cohesin in the formation of a heterochromatic domain at fission yeast subtelomeres. Mol Cell Biol 2011; 31:1088-97. [PMID: 21189291 PMCID: PMC3067812 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.01290-10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2010] [Accepted: 12/15/2010] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Increasing evidence implicates cohesin in the control of gene expression. Here we report the first analysis of cohesin-dependent gene regulation in fission yeast. Global expression profiling of the mis4-367 cohesin loader mutant identified a small number of upregulated and downregulated genes within subtelomeric domains (SD). These 20- to 40-kb regions between chromosome arm euchromatin and telomere-proximal heterochromatin are characterized by a combination of euchromatin (methylated lysine 4 on histone H3/methylated Tysine 9 on histone H3 [H3K4me]) and heterochromatin (H3K9me) marks. We focused our analysis on the chromosome 1 right SD, which contains several upregulated genes and is bordered on the telomere-distal side by a pair of downregulated genes. We find that the expression changes in the SD also occur in a mutant of the cohesin core component Rad21. Remarkably, mutation of Rad21 results in the depletion of Swi6 binding in the SD. In fact, the Rad21 mutation phenocopied Swi6 loss of function: both mutations led to reduced cohesin binding, reduced H3K9me, and similar gene expression changes in the SD. In particular, expression of the gene pair bordering the SD was dependent both on cohesin and on Swi6. Our data indicate that cohesin participates in the setup of a subtelomeric heterochromatin domain and controls the expression of the genes residing in that domain.
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- Sonia Dheur
- CNRS, Institut de Biochimie et Génétique Cellulaires, UMR5095, and Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2, Bordeaux F-33077, France
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- CNRS, Institut de Biochimie et Génétique Cellulaires, UMR5095, and Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2, Bordeaux F-33077, France
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- CNRS, Institut de Biochimie et Génétique Cellulaires, UMR5095, and Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2, Bordeaux F-33077, France
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- CNRS, Institut de Biochimie et Génétique Cellulaires, UMR5095, and Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2, Bordeaux F-33077, France
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- CNRS, Institut de Biochimie et Génétique Cellulaires, UMR5095, and Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2, Bordeaux F-33077, France
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Xu H, Yan M, Patra J, Natrajan R, Yan Y, Swagemakers S, Tomaszewski JM, Verschoor S, Millar EK, van der Spek P, Reis-Filho JS, Ramsay RG, O'Toole SA, McNeil CM, Sutherland RL, McKay MJ, Fox SB. Enhanced RAD21 cohesin expression confers poor prognosis and resistance to chemotherapy in high grade luminal, basal and HER2 breast cancers. Breast Cancer Res 2011; 13:R9. [PMID: 21255398 PMCID: PMC3109576 DOI: 10.1186/bcr2814] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2010] [Revised: 08/11/2010] [Accepted: 01/21/2011] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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INTRODUCTION RAD21 is a component of the cohesin complex, which is essential for chromosome segregation and error-free DNA repair. We assessed its prognostic and predictive power in a cohort of in situ and invasive breast cancers, and its effect on chemosensitivity in vitro. METHODS RAD21 immunohistochemistry was performed on 345 invasive and 60 pure in situ carcinomas. Integrated genomic and transcriptomic analyses were performed on a further 48 grade 3 invasive cancers. Chemosensitivity was assessed in breast cancer cell lines with an engineered spectrum of RAD21 expression. RESULTS RAD21 expression correlated with early relapse in all patients (hazard ratio (HR) 1.74, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.06 to 2.86, P = 0.029). This was due to the effect of grade 3 tumors (but not grade 1 or 2) in which RAD21 expression correlated with early relapse in luminal (P = 0.040), basal (P = 0.018) and HER2 (P = 0.039) groups. In patients treated with chemotherapy, RAD21 expression was associated with shorter overall survival (P = 0.020). RAD21 mRNA expression correlated with DNA copy number, with amplification present in 32% (7/22) of luminal, 31% (4/13) of basal and 22% (2/9) of HER2 grade 3 cancers. Variations in RAD21 mRNA expression in the clinical samples were reflected in the gene expression data from 36 breast cancer cell lines. Knockdown of RAD21 in the MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cell line significantly enhanced sensitivity to cyclophosphamide, 5-fluorouracil and etoposide. The findings for the former two drugs recapitulated the clinical findings. CONCLUSIONS RAD21 expression confers poor prognosis and resistance to chemotherapy in high grade luminal, basal and HER2 breast cancers. RAD21 may be a novel therapeutic target.
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- Huiling Xu
- Research Division, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Locked Bag 1, A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, Vic 8006, Australia
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Gong C, Li T, Li Q, Yan L, Wang T. Rice OsRAD21-2 is expressed in actively dividing tissues and its ectopic expression in yeast results in aberrant cell division and growth. JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE PLANT BIOLOGY 2011; 53:14-24. [PMID: 21205177 DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7909.2010.01009.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Rad21 and its meiotic counterpart Rec8, the key components of the cohesin complex, are essential for sister chromatid cohesion and chromosome segregation in mitosis and meiosis, respectively. In contrast to yeast and vertebrates, which have only two RAD21/REC8 genes, the rice genome encodes four Rad21/Rec8 proteins. Here, we report on the cloning and characterization of OsRAD21-2 from rice (Oryza sativa L.). Phylogenetic analysis of the full-length amino acids showed that OsRad21-2 was grouped into the plant-specific Rad21 subfamily. Semi-quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction revealed OsRAD21-2 preferentially expressed in premeiotic flowers. Further RNA in situ hybridization analysis and promoter::β-glucuronidase staining indicated that OsRAD21-2 was mainly expressed in actively dividing tissues including premeiotic stamen, stem intercalary meristem, leaf meristem, and root pericycle. Ectopic expression of OsRAD21-2 in fission yeast resulted in cell growth delay and morphological abnormality. Flow cytometric analysis revealed that the OsRAD21-2-expressed cells were arrested in G2 phase. Our results suggest that OsRad21-2 functions in regulation of cell division and growth.
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- Chunyan Gong
- Research Center for Molecular & Development Biology, Key Laborartory of Photosynthesis & Environmental Molecular Physiology, Insitute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Center for Plant Gene Research, Beijing , China
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Chavez A, Agrawal V, Johnson FB. Homologous recombination-dependent rescue of deficiency in the structural maintenance of chromosomes (Smc) 5/6 complex. J Biol Chem 2010; 286:5119-25. [PMID: 21138837 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m110.201608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The essential and evolutionarily conserved Smc5-Smc6 complex (Smc5/6) is critical for the maintenance of genome stability. Partial loss of Smc5/6 function yields several defects in DNA repair, which are rescued by inactivation of the homologous recombination (HR) machinery. Thus HR is thought to be toxic to cells with defective Smc5/6. Recent work has highlighted a role for Smc5/6 and the Sgs1 DNA helicase in preventing the accumulation of unresolved HR intermediates. Here we investigate how deletion of MPH1, encoding the orthologue of the human FANCM DNA helicase, rescues the DNA damage sensitivity of smc5/6 but not sgs1Δ mutants. We find that MPH1 deletion diminishes accumulation of HR intermediates within both smc5/6 and sgs1Δ cells, suggesting that MPH1 deletion is sufficient to decrease the use of template switch recombination (TSR) to bypass DNA lesions. We further explain how avoidance of TSR is nonetheless insufficient to rescue defects in sgs1Δ mutants, by demonstrating a requirement for Sgs1, along with the post-replicative repair (PRR) and HR machinery, in a pathway that operates in mph1Δ mutants. In addition, we map the region of Mph1 that binds Smc5, and describe a novel allele of MPH1 encoding a protein unable to bind Smc5 (mph1-Δ60). Remarkably, mph1-Δ60 supports normal growth and responses to DNA damaging agents, indicating that Smc5/6 does not simply restrain the recombinogenic activity of Mph1 via direct binding. These data as a whole highlight a role for Smc5/6 and Sgs1 in the resolution of Mph1-dependent HR intermediates.
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- Alejandro Chavez
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine., University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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Quesenberry PJ, Dooner GJ, Tatto MD, Colvin GA, Johnson K, Dooner MS. Expression of cell cycle-related genes with cytokine-induced cell cycle progression of primitive hematopoietic stem cells. Stem Cells Dev 2010; 19:453-60. [PMID: 19788373 DOI: 10.1089/scd.2009.0283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Primitive marrow lineage-negative rhodamine low and Hoechst low (LRH) stem cells isolated on the basis of quiescence respond to the cytokines thrombopoietin, FLT3L, and steel factor by synchronously progressing through cell cycle. We have now profiled the mRNA expression, as determined by real-time RT-PCR, of 47 hematopoietic or cell cycle-related genes, focusing on the variations in the cell cycle regulators with cycle transit. LRH stem cells, at isolation, showed expression of all interrogated genes, but at relatively low levels. In our studies, there was a good deal of consistency with regard to cell cycle regulatory genes involved in the G1/S progression point of LRH murine stem cells. The observed pattern of expression of cyclin A2 is consistent with actions at these phases of cell cycle. Minimal elevations were seen at 16 h with higher elevations at 24, 32, 40, and 48 h times encompassing S, G2, and M phases. CDK2 expression pattern was also consistent with a role in G1/S transition with a modest elevation at 24 h and more substantial elevation at 32 h. The observed pattern of expression of cyclin F mRNA with marked elevations at 16-40 h was also consistent with actions in S and G2 phases. Cyclin D1 expression pattern was less consistent with its known role in G1 progression. The alterations in multiple other cell cycle regulators were consistent with previous information obtained in other cell systems. The cycle regulatory mechanics appears to be preserved across broad ranges of cell types.
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- Peter J Quesenberry
- Rhode Island Hospital and the Brown Medical School, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Providence, Rhode Island 02903, USA.
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Xu H, Balakrishnan K, Malaterre J, Beasley M, Yan Y, Essers J, Appeldoorn E, Thomaszewski JM, Vazquez M, Verschoor S, Lavin MF, Bertonchello I, Ramsay RG, McKay MJ. Rad21-cohesin haploinsufficiency impedes DNA repair and enhances gastrointestinal radiosensitivity in mice. PLoS One 2010; 5:e12112. [PMID: 20711430 PMCID: PMC2920816 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2010] [Accepted: 07/09/2010] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Approximately half of cancer-affected patients receive radiotherapy (RT). The doses delivered have been determined upon empirical experience based upon average radiation responses. Ideally higher curative radiation doses might be employed in patients with genuinely normal radiation responses and importantly radiation hypersensitive patients would be spared the consequences of excessive tissue damage if they were identified before treatment. Rad21 is an integral subunit of the cohesin complex, which regulates chromosome segregation and DNA damage responses in eukaryotes. We show here, by targeted inactivation of this key cohesin component in mice, that Rad21 is a DNA-damage response gene that markedly affects animal and cell survival. Biallelic deletion of Rad21 results in early embryonic death. Rad21 heterozygous mutant cells are defective in homologous recombination (HR)-mediated gene targeting and sister chromatid exchanges. Rad21+/- animals exhibited sensitivity considerably greater than control littermates when challenged with whole body irradiation (WBI). Importantly, Rad21+/- animals are significantly more sensitive to WBI than Atm heterozygous mutant mice. Since supralethal WBI of mammals most typically leads to death via damage to the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) or the haematopoietic system, we determined the functional status of these organs in the irradiated animals. We found evidence for GIT hypersensitivity of the Rad21 mutants and impaired bone marrow stem cell clonogenic regeneration. These data indicate that Rad21 gene dosage is critical for the ionising radiation (IR) response. Rad21 mutant mice thus represent a new mammalian model for understanding the molecular basis of irradiation effects on normal tissues and have important implications in the understanding of acute radiation toxicity in normal tissues.
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- Huiling Xu
- Research Division, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Dental Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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- Research Division, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Research Division, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Research Division, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Department of Radiobiology, Department of Vascular Surgery, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Research Division, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Research Division, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Radiation Biology and Oncology, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Pharmacology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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- Research Division, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Dental Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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- Research Division, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Division of Radiation Oncology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Griese JJ, Witte G, Hopfner KP. Structure and DNA binding activity of the mouse condensin hinge domain highlight common and diverse features of SMC proteins. Nucleic Acids Res 2010; 38:3454-65. [PMID: 20139420 PMCID: PMC2879519 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2009] [Revised: 01/14/2010] [Accepted: 01/14/2010] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Structural Maintenance of Chromosomes (SMC) proteins are vital for a wide range of processes including chromosome structure and dynamics, gene regulation and DNA repair. Eukaryotes have three SMC complexes, consisting of heterodimeric pairs of six different SMC proteins along with several specific regulatory subunits. In addition to their other functions, all three SMC complexes play distinct roles in DNA repair. Cohesin (SMC1-SMC3) is involved in DNA double-strand break repair, condensin (SMC2-SMC4) participates in single-strand break (SSB) repair, and the SMC5-SMC6 complex functions in various DNA repair pathways. SMC proteins consist of N- and C-terminal domains that fold back onto each other to create an ATPase 'head' domain, connected to a central 'hinge' domain via long coiled-coils. The hinge domain mediates dimerization of SMC proteins and binds DNA, but it is not clear to what purpose this activity serves. We studied the structure and function of the condensin hinge domain from mouse. While the SMC hinge domain structure is largely conserved from prokaryotes to eukaryotes, its function seems to have diversified throughout the course of evolution. The condensin hinge domain preferentially binds single-stranded DNA. We propose that this activity plays a role in the SSB repair function of the condensin complex.
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- Department of Biochemistry, Gene Center, Center for Integrated Protein Sciences and Munich Center for Advanced Photonics, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Feodor-Lynen-Str. 25, D-81377 Munich, Germany
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Mannini L, Menga S, Musio A. The expanding universe of cohesin functions: a new genome stability caretaker involved in human disease and cancer. Hum Mutat 2010; 31:623-30. [PMID: 20513141 DOI: 10.1002/humu.21252] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Cohesin is responsible for sister chromatid cohesion, ensuring the correct chromosome segregation. Beyond this role, cohesin and regulatory cohesin genes seem to play a role in preserving genome stability and gene transcription regulation. DNA damage is thought to be a major culprit for many human diseases, including cancer. Our present knowledge of the molecular basis underlying genome instability is extremely limited. Mutations in cohesin genes cause human diseases such as Cornelia de Lange syndrome and Roberts syndrome/SC phocomelia, and all the cell lines derived from affected patients show genome instability. Cohesin mutations have also been identified in colorectal cancer. Here, we will discuss the human disorders caused by alterations of cohesin function, with emphasis on the emerging role of cohesin as a genome stability caretaker.
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- Linda Mannini
- Istituto di Tecnologie Biomediche, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, Italy
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Sjögren C, Ström L. S-phase and DNA damage activated establishment of sister chromatid cohesion--importance for DNA repair. Exp Cell Res 2010; 316:1445-53. [PMID: 20043905 DOI: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2009.12.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2009] [Revised: 12/17/2009] [Accepted: 12/21/2009] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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By holding sister chromatids together from the moment of their formation until their separation at anaphase, the multi subunit protein complex Cohesin guarantees correct chromosome segregation. This S-phase established chromatid cohesion is also essential for repair of DNA double strand breaks (DSB) in postreplicative cells. In addition, Cohesin has to be recruited to a DSB, and new cohesion has to form in response to the damage for repair. When it became clear that cohesion is created de novo in response to DNA breaks, the term "damage induced cohesion" (DI-cohesion) was coined. It is now established that certain factors are needed for establishment of both S-phase and DI-cohesion, while others have been found to be unique for respective process. In addition, post-translational modifications of Cohesin components that are functionally important for cohesion formation, either during S-phase or in response to damage, have recently been identified. Here, we present and discuss the current models for establishment of S-phase and DI-cohesion in the context of their involvement in DSB repair.
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- Camilla Sjögren
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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Takahashi N, Quimbaya M, Schubert V, Lammens T, Vandepoele K, Schubert I, Matsui M, Inzé D, Berx G, De Veylder L. The MCM-binding protein ETG1 aids sister chromatid cohesion required for postreplicative homologous recombination repair. PLoS Genet 2010; 6:e1000817. [PMID: 20090939 PMCID: PMC2806904 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000817] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2009] [Accepted: 12/16/2009] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The DNA replication process represents a source of DNA stress that causes potentially spontaneous genome damage. This effect might be strengthened by mutations in crucial replication factors, requiring the activation of DNA damage checkpoints to enable DNA repair before anaphase onset. Here, we demonstrate that depletion of the evolutionarily conserved minichromosome maintenance helicase-binding protein ETG1 of Arabidopsis thaliana resulted in a stringent late G2 cell cycle arrest. This arrest correlated with a partial loss of sister chromatid cohesion. The lack-of-cohesion phenotype was intensified in plants without functional CTF18, a replication fork factor needed for cohesion establishment. The synergistic effect of the etg1 and ctf18 mutants on sister chromatid cohesion strengthened the impact on plant growth of the replication stress caused by ETG1 deficiency because of inefficient DNA repair. We conclude that the ETG1 replication factor is required for efficient cohesion and that cohesion establishment is essential for proper development of plants suffering from endogenous DNA stress. Cohesion defects observed upon knockdown of its human counterpart suggest an equally important developmental role for the orthologous mammalian ETG1 protein. DNA replication is a highly complex process and the source of potential DNA damage. It is of utmost importance that the damaged DNA is repaired before cells proceed through mitosis, because the genome holds all the information required for correct development. DNA replication results in two identical sister chromatids. A trick applied by cells to overcome damaged DNA is homologous recombination, using the undamaged copy of the sister chromatid as a template to repair the damaged one. This process is aided by keeping the two sister chromatids in close proximity after the replication process by the deposition of a molecular glue, called cohesin. In the present work, we identified the Arabidopsis thaliana ETG1 protein as a novel evolutionarily conserved replication factor that is needed for maintaining the sister chromatids physically aligned. In plants without ETG1, DNA damage builds up due to inefficient DNA repair. As a consequence, cell division is impaired with a huge impact on plant growth, highlighting the importance of cohesin for the correct development of eukaryotic organisms. Cohesion phenotypes observed upon the depletion of the orthologous human ETG1 protein indicate equally prominent roles for this particular factor during mammalian development.
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- Naoki Takahashi
- Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Gent, Belgium
- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Genetics, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
- Plant Functional Genomics Research Group, RIKEN Plant Science Center, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Gent, Belgium
- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Genetics, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
- Department for Molecular Biomedical Research, Molecular and Cellular Oncology Unit, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Gent, Belgium
- Department of Biomedical Molecular Biology, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany
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- Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Gent, Belgium
- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Genetics, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Gent, Belgium
- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Genetics, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany
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- Plant Functional Genomics Research Group, RIKEN Plant Science Center, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Gent, Belgium
- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Genetics, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
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- Department for Molecular Biomedical Research, Molecular and Cellular Oncology Unit, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Gent, Belgium
- Department of Biomedical Molecular Biology, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Gent, Belgium
- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Genetics, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
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Bauerschmidt C, Arrichiello C, Burdak-Rothkamm S, Woodcock M, Hill MA, Stevens DL, Rothkamm K. Cohesin promotes the repair of ionizing radiation-induced DNA double-strand breaks in replicated chromatin. Nucleic Acids Res 2010; 38:477-87. [PMID: 19906707 PMCID: PMC2811025 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp976] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2009] [Revised: 09/21/2009] [Accepted: 10/14/2009] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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The cohesin protein complex holds sister chromatids together after synthesis until mitosis. It also contributes to post-replicative DNA repair in yeast and higher eukaryotes and accumulates at sites of laser-induced damage in human cells. Our goal was to determine whether the cohesin subunits SMC1 and Rad21 contribute to DNA double-strand break repair in X-irradiated human cells in the G2 phase of the cell cycle. RNA interference-mediated depletion of SMC1 sensitized HeLa cells to X-rays. Repair of radiation-induced DNA double-strand breaks, measured by gammaH2AX/53BP1 foci analysis, was slower in SMC1- or Rad21-depleted cells than in controls in G2 but not in G1. Inhibition of the DNA damage kinase DNA-PK, but not ATM, further inhibited foci loss in cohesin-depleted cells in G2. SMC1 depletion had no effect on DNA single-strand break repair in either G1 or late S/G2. Rad21 and SMC1 were recruited to sites of X-ray-induced DNA damage in G2-phase cells, but not in G1, and only when DNA damage was concentrated in subnuclear stripes, generated by partially shielded ultrasoft X-rays. Our results suggest that the cohesin complex contributes to cell survival by promoting the repair of radiation-induced DNA double-strand breaks in G2-phase cells in an ATM-dependent pathway.
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- Christina Bauerschmidt
- Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology and Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7DQ, Gray Cancer Institute, Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood, Middlesex HA6 2JR and Health Protection Agency, Radiation Protection Division, Chilton, Didcot, OX11 0RQ, UK
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- Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology and Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7DQ, Gray Cancer Institute, Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood, Middlesex HA6 2JR and Health Protection Agency, Radiation Protection Division, Chilton, Didcot, OX11 0RQ, UK
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- Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology and Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7DQ, Gray Cancer Institute, Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood, Middlesex HA6 2JR and Health Protection Agency, Radiation Protection Division, Chilton, Didcot, OX11 0RQ, UK
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- Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology and Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7DQ, Gray Cancer Institute, Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood, Middlesex HA6 2JR and Health Protection Agency, Radiation Protection Division, Chilton, Didcot, OX11 0RQ, UK
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- Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology and Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7DQ, Gray Cancer Institute, Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood, Middlesex HA6 2JR and Health Protection Agency, Radiation Protection Division, Chilton, Didcot, OX11 0RQ, UK
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- Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology and Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7DQ, Gray Cancer Institute, Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood, Middlesex HA6 2JR and Health Protection Agency, Radiation Protection Division, Chilton, Didcot, OX11 0RQ, UK
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- Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology and Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7DQ, Gray Cancer Institute, Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood, Middlesex HA6 2JR and Health Protection Agency, Radiation Protection Division, Chilton, Didcot, OX11 0RQ, UK
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Watrin E, Peters JM. The cohesin complex is required for the DNA damage-induced G2/M checkpoint in mammalian cells. EMBO J 2009; 28:2625-35. [PMID: 19629043 PMCID: PMC2738698 DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2009.202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2009] [Accepted: 06/22/2009] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Cohesin complexes mediate sister chromatid cohesion. Cohesin also becomes enriched at DNA double-strand break sites and facilitates recombinational DNA repair. Here, we report that cohesin is essential for the DNA damage-induced G2/M checkpoint. In contrast to cohesin's role in DNA repair, the checkpoint function of cohesin is independent of its ability to mediate cohesion. After RNAi-mediated depletion of cohesin, cells fail to properly activate the checkpoint kinase Chk2 and have defects in recruiting the mediator protein 53BP1 to DNA damage sites. Earlier work has shown that phosphorylation of the cohesin subunits Smc1 and Smc3 is required for the intra-S checkpoint, but Smc1/Smc3 are also subunits of a distinct recombination complex, RC-1. It was, therefore, unknown whether Smc1/Smc3 function in the intra-S checkpoint as part of cohesin. We show that Smc1/Smc3 are phosphorylated as part of cohesin and that cohesin is required for the intra-S checkpoint. We propose that accumulation of cohesin at DNA break sites is not only needed to mediate DNA repair, but also facilitates the recruitment of checkpoint proteins, which activate the intra-S and G2/M checkpoints.
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- Erwan Watrin
- Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (I.M.P.), Vienna, Austria
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Outwin EA, Irmisch A, Murray JM, O'Connell MJ. Smc5-Smc6-dependent removal of cohesin from mitotic chromosomes. Mol Cell Biol 2009; 29:4363-75. [PMID: 19528228 PMCID: PMC2725735 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.00377-09] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2009] [Revised: 05/14/2009] [Accepted: 06/03/2009] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The function of the essential cohesin-related Smc5-Smc6 complex has remained elusive, though hypomorphic mutants have defects late in recombination, in checkpoint maintenance, and in chromosome segregation. Recombination and checkpoints are not essential for viability, and Smc5-Smc6-null mutants die in lethal mitoses. This suggests that the chromosome segregation defects may be the source of lethality in irradiated Smc5-Smc6 hypomorphs. We show that in smc6 mutants, following DNA damage in interphase, chromosome arm segregation fails due to an aberrant persistence of cohesin, which is normally removed by the Separase-independent pathway. This postanaphase persistence of cohesin is not dependent on DNA damage, since the synthetic lethality of smc6 hypomorphs with a topoisomerase II mutant, defective in mitotic chromosome structure, is also due to the retention of cohesin on undamaged chromosome arms. In both cases, Separase overexpression bypasses the defect and restores cell viability, showing that defective cohesin removal is a major determinant of the mitotic lethality of Smc5-Smc6 mutants.
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- Emily A Outwin
- Department of Oncological Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
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In interphase, chromosomes are associated with proteins and RNAs that participate in many processes, such as DNA replication, transcription, recombination and repair of DNA damage. These components (for example, cohesin) might have to be removed during mitosis, as they might become obstacles that inhibit chromosome segregation or reduce its fidelity. Such a clearing mechanism that operates along mitotic chromosomes might require proteins that are implicated in chromosome segregation. I propose that condensin and DNA topoisomerase II (TOP2), as well as separase, help to clear the way for mitosis.
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- Mitsuhiro Yanagida
- Mitsuhiro Yanagida is at the CREST Research Program, Japan Science Technology Corporation, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan.
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Perera F, Tang WY, Herbstman J, Tang D, Levin L, Miller R, Ho SM. Relation of DNA methylation of 5'-CpG island of ACSL3 to transplacental exposure to airborne polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and childhood asthma. PLoS One 2009; 4:e4488. [PMID: 19221603 PMCID: PMC2637989 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004488] [Citation(s) in RCA: 306] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2008] [Accepted: 12/19/2008] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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In a longitudinal cohort of approximately 700 children in New York City, the prevalence of asthma (>25%) is among the highest in the US. This high risk may in part be caused by transplacental exposure to traffic-related polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) but biomarkers informative of PAH-asthma relationships is lacking. We here hypothesized that epigenetic marks associated with transplacental PAH exposure and/or childhood asthma risk could be identified in fetal tissues. Mothers completed personal prenatal air monitoring for PAH exposure determination. Methylation sensitive restriction fingerprinting was used to analyze umbilical cord white blood cell (UCWBC) DNA of 20 cohort children. Over 30 DNA sequences were identified whose methylation status was dependent on the level of maternal PAH exposure. Six sequences were found to be homologous to known genes having one or more 5'-CpG island(s) (5'-CGI). Of these, acyl-CoA synthetase long-chain family member 3 (ACSL3) exhibited the highest concordance between the extent of methylation of its 5'-CGI in UCWBCs and the level of gene expression in matched fetal placental tissues in the initial 20 cohort children. ACSL3 was therefore chosen for further investigation in a larger sample of 56 cohort children. Methylation of the ACSL3 5'-CGI was found to be significantly associated with maternal airborne PAH exposure exceeding 2.41 ng/m(3) (OR = 13.8; p<0.001; sensitivity = 75%; specificity = 82%) and with a parental report of asthma symptoms in children prior to age 5 (OR = 3.9; p<0.05). Thus, if validated, methylated ACSL3 5'CGI in UCWBC DNA may be a surrogate endpoint for transplacental PAH exposure and/or a potential biomarker for environmentally-related asthma. This exploratory report provides a new blueprint for the discovery of epigenetic biomarkers relevant to other exposure assessments and/or investigations of exposure-disease relationships in birth cohorts. The results support the emerging theory of early origins of later life disease development.
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- Frederica Perera
- The Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
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- The Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, United States of America
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- The Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
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- The Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, United States of America
- Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
- Center for Environmental Genetics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
- Cancer Center, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
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Revenkova E, Focarelli ML, Susani L, Paulis M, Bassi MT, Mannini L, Frattini A, Delia D, Krantz I, Vezzoni P, Jessberger R, Musio A. Cornelia de Lange syndrome mutations in SMC1A or SMC3 affect binding to DNA. Hum Mol Genet 2009; 18:418-27. [PMID: 18996922 PMCID: PMC2722190 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddn369] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2008] [Accepted: 11/04/2008] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Cornelia de Lange syndrome (CdLS) is a clinically heterogeneous developmental disorder characterized by facial dysmorphia, upper limb malformations, growth and cognitive retardation. Mutations in the sister chromatid cohesion factor genes NIPBL, SMC1A and SMC3 are present in approximately 65% of CdLS patients. In addition to their canonical roles in chromosome segregation, the cohesin proteins are involved in other biological processes such as regulation of gene expression, DNA repair and maintenance of genome stability. To gain insights into the molecular basis of CdLS, we analyzed the affinity of mutated SMC1A and SMC3 hinge domains for DNA. Mutated hinge dimers bind DNA with higher affinity than wild-type proteins. SMC1A- and SMC3-mutated CdLS cell lines display genomic instability and sensitivity to ionizing radiation and interstrand crosslinking agents. We propose that SMC1A and SMC3 CdLS mutations affect the dynamic association between SMC proteins and DNA, providing new clues to the underlying molecular cause of CdLS.
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- Ekaterina Revenkova
- Department of Gene and Cell Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA
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- Istituto di Tecnologie Biomediche, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Segrate (MI), Italy
- Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Rozzano (MI), Italy
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- Istituto di Tecnologie Biomediche, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Segrate (MI), Italy
- Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Rozzano (MI), Italy
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- Istituto di Tecnologie Biomediche, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Segrate (MI), Italy
- Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Rozzano (MI), Italy
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- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, E. Medea Scientific Institute, Bosisio Parini (LC), Italy
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- Istituto di Tecnologie Biomediche, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, Italy
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- Istituto di Tecnologie Biomediche, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Segrate (MI), Italy
- Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Rozzano (MI), Italy
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- Division of Human Genetics and Molecular Biology, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA
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- Istituto di Tecnologie Biomediche, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Segrate (MI), Italy
- Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Rozzano (MI), Italy
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- Institute of Physiological Chemistry, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany
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- Istituto di Tecnologie Biomediche, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, Italy
- Istituto Toscano Tumori, Florence, Italy
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Kozak J, West CE, White C, da Costa-Nunes JA, Angelis KJ. Rapid repair of DNA double strand breaks in Arabidopsis thaliana is dependent on proteins involved in chromosome structure maintenance. DNA Repair (Amst) 2008; 8:413-9. [PMID: 19070688 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2008.11.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2008] [Revised: 11/05/2008] [Accepted: 11/09/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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DNA double strand breaks (DSBs) are one of the most cytotoxic forms of DNA damage and must be repaired by recombination, predominantly via non-homologous joining of DNA ends (NHEJ) in higher eukaryotes. However, analysis of DSB repair kinetics of plant NHEJ mutants atlig4-4 and atku80 with the neutral comet assay shows that alternative DSB repair pathways are active. Surprisingly, these kinetic measurements show that DSB repair was faster in the NHEJ mutant lines than in wild-type Arabidopsis. Here we provide the first characterization of this KU-independent, rapid DSB repair pathway operating in Arabidopsis. The alternate pathway that rapidly removes the majority of DSBs present in nuclear DNA depends upon structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) complex proteins, namely MIM/AtRAD18 and AtRAD21.1. An absolute requirement for SMC proteins and kleisin for rapid repair of DSBs in Arabidopsis opens new insight into the mechanism of DSB removal in plants.
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- Jaroslav Kozak
- Institute of Experimental Botany AS CR, Praha 6, Czech Republic
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Cohesin is a chromosome-associated multisubunit protein complex that is highly conserved in eukaryotes and has close homologs in bacteria. Cohesin mediates cohesion between replicated sister chromatids and is therefore essential for chromosome segregation in dividing cells. Cohesin is also required for efficient repair of damaged DNA and has important functions in regulating gene expression in both proliferating and post-mitotic cells. Here we discuss how cohesin associates with DNA, how these interactions are controlled during the cell cycle; how binding of cohesin to DNA may mediate sister chromatid cohesion, DNA repair, and gene regulation; and how defects in these processes can lead to human disease.
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- Jan-Michael Peters
- Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), A-1030 Vienna, Austria.
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Microarray based analysis of temperature and oxidative stress induced messenger RNA in Schistosoma mansoni. Mol Biochem Parasitol 2008; 162:134-41. [PMID: 18775750 DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2008.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2008] [Revised: 08/10/2008] [Accepted: 08/11/2008] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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The body's defense against schistosome infection can take many forms. For example, upon developing acute schistosomiasis, patients often have fever coinciding with larval maturation, migration and early oviposition. As the infection becomes established, the parasite comes under oxidative stress generated by the host immune system. The most common treatment for schistosomiasis is the anti-helminthic drug praziquantel. Its effectiveness, however, is limited due to its inability to kill schistosomes 2-4 weeks post-infection. Clearly there is a need for new anti-schistosomal drugs. We hypothesize that gene products expressed as part of a protective response against heat and/or oxidative stress are potential therapeutic targets for future drug development. Using a 12,166 element oligonucleotide microarray to characterize Schistosoma mansoni genes induced by heat and oxidative stress we found that 1878 S. mansoni elements were significantly induced by heat stress. These included previously reported heat-shock genes expressing homologs of HSP40, HSP70 and HSP86. One thousand and one elements were induced by oxidative stress including those expressing homologs of superoxide dismutase, glutathione peroxidase and aldehyde dehydrogenase. Seventy-two elements were common to both stressors and could potentially be exploited in the development of novel anti-schistosomal therapeutics.
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Yang H, Ren Q, Zhang Z. Cleavage of Mcd1 by caspase-like protease Esp1 promotes apoptosis in budding yeast. Mol Biol Cell 2008; 19:2127-34. [PMID: 18321989 PMCID: PMC2366870 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e07-11-1113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2007] [Revised: 01/29/2008] [Accepted: 02/27/2008] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Over the last decade, yeast has been used successfully as a model system for studying the molecular mechanism of apoptotic cell death. Here, we report that Mcd1, the yeast homology of human cohesin Rad21, plays an important role in hydrogen peroxide-induced apoptosis in yeast. On induction of cell death, Mcd1 is cleaved and the C-terminal fragment is translocated from nucleus into mitochondria, causing the decrease of mitochondrial membrane potential and the amplification of cell death in a cytochrome c-dependent manner. We further demonstrate that the caspase-like protease Esp1 has dual functions and that it is responsible for the cleavage of Mcd1 during the hydrogen peroxide-induced apoptosis. When apoptosis is induced, Esp1 is released from the anaphase inhibitor Pds1. The activated Esp1 acts as caspase-like protease for the cleavage of Mcd1, which enhances the cell death via its translocation from nucleus to mitochondria.
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- Hui Yang
- Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071
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- Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071
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- Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071
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Luo H, Li Y, Mu JJ, Zhang J, Tonaka T, Hamamori Y, Jung SY, Wang Y, Qin J. Regulation of intra-S phase checkpoint by ionizing radiation (IR)-dependent and IR-independent phosphorylation of SMC3. J Biol Chem 2008; 283:19176-83. [PMID: 18442975 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m802299200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Structure maintenance of chromosome 1 (SMC1) is phosphorylated by ataxia telangiectasia-mutated (ATM) in response to ionizing radiation (IR) to activate intra-S phase checkpoint. A role of CK2 in DNA damage response has been implicated in many previous works, but the molecular mechanism for its activation is not clear. In the present work, we report that SMC3 is phosphorylated at Ser-1067 and Ser-1083 in vivo. Ser-1083 phosphorylation is IR-inducible, depends on ATM and Nijmegen breakage syndrome 1 (NBS1), and is required for intra-S phase checkpoint. Interestingly, Ser-1067 phosphorylation is constitutive and is not induced by IR but also affects intra-S phase checkpoint. Phosphorylation of Ser-1083 is weakened in cells expressing S1067A mutant, suggesting interplay between Ser-1067 and Ser-1083 phosphorylation in DNA damage response. Consistently, small interfering RNA knockdown of CK2 leads to attenuated phosphorylation of Ser-1067 as well as intra-S phase checkpoint defect. Our data provide evidence that phosphorylation of a core cohesin subunit SMC3 by ATM plays an important role in DNA damage response and suggest that a constitutive phosphorylation by CK2 may affect intra-S phase checkpoint by modulating SMC3 phosphorylation by ATM.
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- Hao Luo
- Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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Onn I, Heidinger-Pauli JM, Guacci V, Unal E, Koshland DE. Sister chromatid cohesion: a simple concept with a complex reality. Annu Rev Cell Dev Biol 2008; 24:105-29. [PMID: 18616427 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.cellbio.24.110707.175350] [Citation(s) in RCA: 248] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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In eukaryotes, the process of sister chromatid cohesion holds the two sister chromatids (the replicated chromosomes) together from DNA replication to the onset of chromosome segregation. Cohesion is mediated by cohesin, a four-subunit SMC (structural maintenance of chromosome) complex. Cohesin and cohesion are required for proper chromosome segregation, DNA repair, and gene expression. To carry out these functions, cohesion is regulated by elaborate mechanisms involving a growing list of cohesin auxiliary factors. These factors control the timing and position of cohesin binding to chromatin, activate chromatin-bound cohesin to become cohesive, and orchestrate the orderly dissolution of cohesion. The 45-nm ringlike architecture of soluble cohesin is compatible with dramatically different mechanisms for both chromatin binding and cohesion generation. Solving the mechanism of cohesion and its complex regulation presents significant challenges but offers the potential to provide important insights into higher-order chromosome organization and chromosome biology.
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- Itay Onn
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Carnegie Institution, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA.
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Shiomi Y, Masutani C, Hanaoka F, Kimura H, Tsurimoto T. A Second Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen Loader Complex, Ctf18-Replication Factor C, Stimulates DNA Polymerase η Activity. J Biol Chem 2007; 282:20906-14. [PMID: 17545166 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m610102200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Replication factor C (RFC) loads the clamp protein PCNA onto DNA structures. Ctf18-RFC, which consists of the chromosome cohesion factors Ctf18, Dcc1, and Ctf8 and four small RFC subunits, functions as a second proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) loader. To identify potential targets of Ctf18-RFC, human cell extracts were assayed for DNA polymerase activity specifically stimulated by Ctf18-RFC in conjunction with PCNA. After several chromatography steps, an activity stimulated by Ctf18-RFC but not by RFC was identified. Liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS) analysis revealed the presence of two DNA polymerases, eta and lambda, in the most purified fraction, but experiments with purified recombinant proteins demonstrated that only polymerase (pol) eta was responsible for activity. Ctf18-RFC alone stimulated pol eta, and the addition of PCNA cooperatively increased stimulation. Furthermore, Ctf18-RFC interacted physically with pol eta, as indicated by co-precipitation in human cells. We propose that this novel loader-DNA polymerase interaction allows DNA replication forks to overcome interference by various template structures, including damaged DNA and DNA-protein complexes that maintain chromosome cohesion.
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- Yasushi Shiomi
- Department of Biology, School of Sciences, Kyushu University, 6-10-1 Hakozaki, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan
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Jiang L, Xia M, Strittmatter LI, Makaroff CA. The Arabidopsis cohesin protein SYN3 localizes to the nucleolus and is essential for gametogenesis. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2007; 50:1020-34. [PMID: 17488242 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2007.03106.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Alpha-kleisins are core components of meiotic and mitotic cohesin complexes. Arabidopsis contains genes for four alpha-kleisin proteins encoded by SYN genes. SYN1, a REC8 ortholog, is essential for meiosis, while SYN2 and SYN4 appear to be SCC1 orthologs and function in mitosis. Our analysis of AtSYN3 shows that it localizes primarily in the nucleolus of both meiotic and mitotic cells. Furthermore, analysis of plants containing an AtSYN3 T-DNA knockout mutation demonstrated that it is essential for megagametogenesis and plays an important role in pollen. These results suggest that SYN3 may not function as part of a typical cohesin complex; rather it may have evolved a specialized role in controlling rDNA structure, transcription or rRNA processing.
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- Ling Jiang
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056, USA
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Lee KM, Nizza S, Hayes T, Bass KL, Irmisch A, Murray JM, O'Connell MJ. Brc1-mediated rescue of Smc5/6 deficiency: requirement for multiple nucleases and a novel Rad18 function. Genetics 2007; 175:1585-95. [PMID: 17277362 PMCID: PMC1855136 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.106.067801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Smc5/6 is a structural maintenance of chromosomes complex, related to the cohesin and condensin complexes. Recent studies implicate Smc5/6 as being essential for homologous recombination. Each gene is essential, but hypomorphic alleles are defective in the repair of a diverse array of lesions. A particular allele of smc6 (smc6-74) is suppressed by overexpression of Brc1, a six-BRCT domain protein that is required for DNA repair during S-phase. This suppression requires the postreplication repair (PRR) protein Rhp18 and the structure-specific endonucleases Slx1/4 and Mus81/Eme1. However, we show here that the contribution of Rhp18 is via a novel pathway that is independent of PCNA ubiquitination and PRR. Moreover, we identify Exo1 as an additional nuclease required for Brc1-mediated suppression of smc6-74, independent of mismatch repair. Further, the Apn2 endonuclease is required for the viability of smc6 mutants without extrinsic DNA damage, although this is not due to a defect in base excision repair. Several nucleotide excision repair genes are similarly shown to ensure viability of smc6 mutants. The requirement for excision factors for the viability of smc6 mutants is consistent with an inability to respond to spontaneous lesions by Smc5/6-dependent recombination.
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- Karen M Lee
- Department of Oncological Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA
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Kitagawa R, Kastan MB. The ATM-dependent DNA damage signaling pathway. COLD SPRING HARBOR SYMPOSIA ON QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY 2006; 70:99-109. [PMID: 16869743 DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2005.70.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 135] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Many of the insights that we have gained into the mechanisms involved in cellular DNA damage response pathways have come from studies of human cancer susceptibility syndromes that are altered in DNA damage responses. ATM, the gene mutated in the disorder, ataxia-telangiectasia, is a protein kinase that is a central mediator of responses to DNA double-strand breaks in cells. Recent studies have elucidated the mechanism by which DNA damage activates the ATM kinase and initiates these critical cellular signaling pathways. The SMC1 protein appears to be a particularly important target of the ATM kinase, playing critical roles in controlling DNA replication forks and DNA repair after the damage. A major role for the NBS1 and BRCA1 proteins appears to be in the recruitment of an activated ATM kinase molecule to the sites of DNA breaks so that ATM can phosphorylate SMC1. Generation of mice and cells that are unable to phosphorylate SMC1 demonstrated the importance of SMC1 phosphorylation in the DNA-damage-induced S-phase checkpoint, in determining rates of repair of chromosomal breaks, and in determining cell survival after DNA damage. Focusing on ATM and SMC1, the molecular controls of these pathways is discussed.
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- R Kitagawa
- Department of Hematology-Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105, USA
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Replicated DNA molecules are physically connected by cohesin complexes from the time of their synthesis in S-phase until they are segregated during anaphase of the subsequent mitosis or meiosis. This sister chromatid cohesion is essential for the biorientation of chromosomes on the mitotic or meiotic spindle. In addition, cohesion is also essential during G2-phase of the cell cycle to allow repair of DNA double-strand breaks by homologous recombination. Although cohesion can normally only be established during S-phase, recent work in yeast has shown that DNA double-strand breaks induce the recruitment of cohesin to the damage site and lead to the de novo formation of cohesion at this site. It is unknown if similar mechanisms operate in higher eukaryotes, but in mammalian cells phosphorylation of the cohesin subunit Smc1 by the protein kinase Atm has been shown to be important for DNA repair. We discuss how cohesin and sister chromatid cohesion might facilitate the repair of damaged DNA.
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- Erwan Watrin
- Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna, Austria
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Potts PR, Porteus MH, Yu H. Human SMC5/6 complex promotes sister chromatid homologous recombination by recruiting the SMC1/3 cohesin complex to double-strand breaks. EMBO J 2006; 25:3377-88. [PMID: 16810316 PMCID: PMC1523187 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7601218] [Citation(s) in RCA: 199] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2006] [Accepted: 06/07/2006] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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The structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) family of proteins has been implicated in the repair of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) by homologous recombination (HR). The SMC1/3 cohesin complex is thought to promote HR by maintaining the close proximity of sister chromatids at DSBs. The SMC5/6 complex is also required for DNA repair, but the mechanism by which it accomplishes this is unclear. Here, we show that RNAi-mediated knockdown of the SMC5/6 complex components in human cells increases the efficiency of gene targeting due to a specific requirement for hSMC5/6 in sister chromatid HR. Knockdown of the hSMC5/6 complex decreases sister chromatid HR, but does not reduce nonhomologous end-joining (NHEJ) or intra-chromatid, homologue, or extrachromosomal HR. The hSMC5/6 complex is itself recruited to nuclease-induced DSBs and is required for the recruitment of cohesin to DSBs. Our results establish a mechanism by which the hSMC5/6 complex promotes DNA repair and suggest a novel strategy to improve the efficiency of gene targeting in mammalian somatic cells.
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- Patrick Ryan Potts
- Department of Pharmacology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
- Department of Biochemistry, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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Ho AY, Atencio DP, Peters S, Stock RG, Formenti SC, Cesaretti JA, Green S, Haffty B, Drumea K, Leitzin L, Kuten A, Azria D, Ozsahin M, Overgaard J, Andreassen CN, Trop CS, Park J, Rosenstein BS. Genetic predictors of adverse radiotherapy effects: the Gene-PARE project. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2006; 65:646-55. [PMID: 16751059 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2006.03.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2005] [Revised: 02/27/2006] [Accepted: 03/01/2006] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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PURPOSE The development of adverse effects resulting from the radiotherapy of cancer limits the use of this treatment modality. The validation of a test capable of predicting which patients would be most likely to develop adverse responses to radiation treatment, based on the possession of specific genetic variants, would therefore be of value. The purpose of the Genetic Predictors of Adverse Radiotherapy Effects (Gene-PARE) project is to help achieve this goal. METHODS AND MATERIALS A continuously expanding biorepository has been created consisting of frozen lymphocytes and DNA isolated from patients treated with radiotherapy. In conjunction with this biorepository, a database is maintained with detailed clinical information pertaining to diagnosis, treatment, and outcome. The DNA samples are screened using denaturing high performance liquid chromatography (DHPLC) and the Surveyor nuclease assay for variants in ATM, TGFB1, XRCC1, XRCC3, SOD2, and hHR21. It is anticipated that additional genes that control the biologic response to radiation will be screened in future work. RESULTS Evidence has been obtained that possession of variants in genes, the products of which play a role in radiation response, is predictive for the development of adverse effects after radiotherapy. CONCLUSIONS It is anticipated that the Gene-PARE project will yield information that will allow radiation oncologists to use genetic data to optimize treatment on an individual basis.
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- Alice Y Ho
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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Nagao K, Yanagida M. Securin can have a separase cleavage site by substitution mutations in the domain required for stabilization and inhibition of separase. Genes Cells 2006; 11:247-60. [PMID: 16483313 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2443.2006.00941.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Securin-separase complex is required for sister chromatid separation. Securin degrades in an APC/cyclosome dependent manner. Separase is activated on the destruction of securin and cleaves cohesin. Fission yeast securin/Cut2 required for proper separase localization has the motifs for destruction and separase-binding at the N- and C-termini, respectively. We report here the third essential domain, which becomes toxic when the 76-amino acid fragment (81-156) in the middle is overproduced. The fragment inhibits separase, while separase is recruited normally and securin is destroyed. It may interfere with separase activation after destruction of securin. If the 127DIE129 stretch is substituted for AIA, the fragment toxicity and the full-length function are abolished. Interestingly, Cut2 is cleaved in a separase dependent manner if the cleavage consensus is introduced following the DIE sequence. This finding is consistent with the proposed model that the DIE region may mimic the cleavage site of separase and inhibit the activation of separase. Evidence for physical interaction between the fragment and separase is provided. A temperature sensitive mutation cut1-K73 isolated by its specific resistance to the fragment toxicity resides in the superhelical region of separase, suggesting that the catalytic site and the helical region in separase may cooperate for activation.
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- Koji Nagao
- Initial Research Project, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Suzaki 12-22, Uruma, Okinawa, 904-2234, Japan
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