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Letavayová L, Vlasáková D, Spallholz JE, Brozmanová J, Chovanec M. Toxicity and mutagenicity of selenium compounds in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mutat Res 2008; 638:1-10. [PMID: 17900630 DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2007.08.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2007] [Revised: 08/02/2007] [Accepted: 08/16/2007] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Selenium (Se) is an essential trace element for humans, animals and some bacteria which is important for many cellular processes. Se's bio-activity is mainly influenced by its chemical form and dose. The use of Se supplements in the human diet emphasizes the need to establish both the beneficial and detrimental doses of each Se compound. We have evaluated three different Se compounds, sodium selenite (SeL), selenomethionine (SeM) and Se-methylselenocysteine (SeMC), with respect to their potential DNA damaging effects. The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae was used as a model system to test the toxic and mutagenic effects as well as the DNA double-strand breakage potency of these Se compounds in both exponentially growing and stationary yeast cells. Only SeL manifested any significant toxic effects in the yeast which were more pronounced in the exponentially growing cells than in those cells in the stationary phase of growth. The toxic effects of SeL were however accompanied with the pro-mutagenic effects in the stationary cell phase of growth. The toxic and mutagenic effects of SeL are likely associated with the ability of this compound to generate DNA double-strand breaks (DSB). We also show that SeL significantly increased frame-shift mutations, especially 1-4 bp deletions, in the CAN1 mutational spectrum of the yeast genome when compared to untreated control. We propose that SeL is acting as an oxidizing agent in S. cerevisiae producing superoxide and oxidative damage to DNA accounting for the observed DSB and cell death.
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- Lucia Letavayová
- Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Cancer Research Institute, Vlárska 7, 833 91 Bratislava 37, Slovak Republic
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MORI EIICHIRO, TAKAHASHI AKIHISA, OHNISHI TAKEO. The Biology of Heat-induced DNA Double-Strand Breaks. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008. [DOI: 10.3191/thermalmed.24.39] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Vlček D, Ševčovičová A, Sviežená B, Gálová E, Miadoková E. Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: a convenient model system for the study of DNA repair in photoautotrophic eukaryotes. Curr Genet 2007; 53:1-22. [DOI: 10.1007/s00294-007-0163-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2007] [Revised: 10/08/2007] [Accepted: 10/20/2007] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Foresti M, Avallone B. Only complete rejoining of DNA strand breaks after UVC allows K562 cell proliferation and DMSO induction of erythropoiesis. JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY B-BIOLOGY 2007; 90:8-16. [PMID: 18032060 DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2007.05.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2006] [Revised: 05/10/2007] [Accepted: 05/17/2007] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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DNA strand breaks are early intermediates of the repair of UVC-induced DNA damage, however, since they severely impair cellular activities, their presence should be limited in time. In this study, the effects of incomplete repair of UVC-induced DNA strand breaks are investigated on K562 cell growth and the induction of erythroid differentiation by addition of DMSO to the cell culture medium. The kinetics were followed after UV irradiation by single cell gel electrophoresis, and in total cell population by alkaline or neutral agarose gel electrophoresis. Shortly after exposure, an extensive fragmentation occurred in DNA; DNA double strand breaks were negatively correlated with recovery time for DNA integrity. DNA damage induced by UVC 9J/m2 rapidly triggered necrosis in a large fraction of irradiated K562 cells, and only 40% of treated cells resumed growth at a very low rate within 24h of culture. The addition of DMSO to the culture medium of cells 15min after UVC, when DNA strand break repair was not yet complete, produced apoptosis in >70% of surviving cells, as determined by TUNEL assay. Conversely, if DMSO was added when the resealing of DNA strand breaks was complete, surviving K562 cells retained full growth capacity, and their progeny underwent erythroid differentiation with normal levels of erythroid proteins, delta-aminolevulinic acid dehydrase and hemoglobin. This study shows that the extent of DNA strand break repair influences cell proliferation and the DMSO induced erythroid program, and the same UVC dose can have opposite effects depending on cellular status.
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- Magda Foresti
- University of Naples Federico II, Department of Biological Sciences, Section of Genetics and Molecular Biology, via Mezzocannone 8, 80134 Naples, Italy.
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Markmann-Mulisch U, Wendeler E, Zobell O, Schween G, Steinbiss HH, Reiss B. Differential requirements for RAD51 in Physcomitrella patens and Arabidopsis thaliana development and DNA damage repair. THE PLANT CELL 2007; 19:3080-9. [PMID: 17921313 PMCID: PMC2174717 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.107.054049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2007] [Revised: 09/10/2007] [Accepted: 09/14/2007] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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RAD51, the eukaryotic homolog of the bacterial RecA recombinase, plays a central role in homologous recombination (HR) in yeast and animals. Loss of RAD51 function causes lethality in vertebrates but not in other animals or in the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana, suggesting that RAD51 is vital for highly developed organisms but not for others. Here, we found that loss of RAD51 function in the moss Physcomitrella patens, a plant of less complexity, caused a significant vegetative phenotype, indicating an important function for RAD51 in this organism. Moreover, loss of RAD51 caused marked hypersensitivity to the double-strand break-inducing agent bleomycin in P. patens but not in Arabidopsis. Therefore, HR is used for somatic DNA damage repair in P. patens but not in Arabidopsis. These data imply fundamental differences in the use of recombination pathways between plants. Moreover, these data demonstrate that the importance of RAD51 for viability is independent of taxonomic position or complexity of an organism. The involvement of HR in DNA damage repair in the slowly evolving species P. patens but not in fast-evolving Arabidopsis suggests that the choice of the recombination pathway is related to the speed of evolution in plants.
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- Ulrich Markmann-Mulisch
- Department of Plant Developmental Biology, Max-Planck-Institut für Züchtungsforschung, D-50829 Cologne, Germany
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Vignard J, Siwiec T, Chelysheva L, Vrielynck N, Gonord F, Armstrong SJ, Schlögelhofer P, Mercier R. The interplay of RecA-related proteins and the MND1-HOP2 complex during meiosis in Arabidopsis thaliana. PLoS Genet 2007; 3:1894-906. [PMID: 17937504 PMCID: PMC2014788 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0030176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2007] [Accepted: 08/29/2007] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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During meiosis, homologous chromosomes recognize each other, align, and exchange genetic information. This process requires the action of RecA-related proteins Rad51 and Dmc1 to catalyze DNA strand exchanges. The Mnd1-Hop2 complex has been shown to assist in Dmc1-dependent processes. Furthermore, higher eukaryotes possess additional RecA-related proteins, like XRCC3, which are involved in meiotic recombination. However, little is known about the functional interplay between these proteins during meiosis. We investigated the functional relationship between AtMND1, AtDMC1, AtRAD51, and AtXRCC3 during meiosis in Arabidopsis thaliana. We demonstrate the localization of AtMND1 to meiotic chromosomes, even in the absence of recombination, and show that AtMND1 loading depends exclusively on AHP2, the Arabidopsis Hop2 homolog. We provide evidence of genetic interaction between AtMND1, AtDMC1, AtRAD51, and AtXRCC3. In vitro assays suggest that this functional link is due to direct interaction of the AtMND1-AHP2 complex with AtRAD51 and AtDMC1. We show that AtDMC1 foci accumulate in the Atmnd1 mutant, but are reduced in number in Atrad51 and Atxrcc3 mutants. This study provides the first insights into the functional differences of AtRAD51 and AtXRCC3 during meiosis, demonstrating that AtXRCC3 is dispensable for AtDMC1 focus formation in an Atmnd1 mutant background, whereas AtRAD51 is not. These results clarify the functional interactions between key players in the strand exchange processes during meiotic recombination. Furthermore, they highlight a direct interaction between MND1 and RAD51 and show a functional divergence between RAD51 and XRCC3.
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- Julien Vignard
- Station de Génétique et d'Amélioration des Plantes, INRA, Versailles, France
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Lanzov VA. RecA homologous DNA transferase: Functional activities and a search for homology by recombining DNA molecules. Mol Biol 2007. [DOI: 10.1134/s0026893307030077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Joubert A, Foray N. Radiosensibilité intrinsèque et cassures double–brin de l'ADN dans les cellules humaines. Cancer Radiother 2007; 11:129-42. [PMID: 17321185 DOI: 10.1016/j.canrad.2007.01.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2006] [Revised: 01/11/2007] [Accepted: 01/19/2007] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Among the large spectrum of DNA damage induced by radiation, DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are considered, to date, as the key-lesions responsible for the cell killing. However, although it was always intuitive to radiobiologists, such a conclusion has only been reached after technical developments and conceptual advances and remains consensual rather than demonstrated formally. In this article, we have reviewed the results that have lead to the conclusion that the assessment of successful DSB repair can be the basis of reliable assays predictive of the clinical response to radiotherapy and some chemotherapeutic treatments. We have discussed a number of technical artifacts, the biases due to the extrapolation of data obtained in yeast and rodent model systems to the human situation and the variety of phenotypes observed in human cells and in particular: 1) the most recent techniques developed, based on immunofluorescence, which have revolutionized our understanding of the molecular events occurring early after irradiation but have also raised the crucial questions about the choice of techniques to assess DSB repair and their specificity for different steps of the repair process; 2) While the homologous recombination repair pathway is predominant in yeasts, its importance in human cells appears less obvious, and raises the problem that the existence of randomized repair events may produce many more errors in human cells than in small genome organisms; 3) the impairment of DSB repair is observed in a plethora of genetic diseases, leading to radiosensitivity, immunodeficiency and sometimes cancer-proneness, but the low frequency and the pleiotropism of such diseases makes difficult the development of a single predictive assay. Therefore, although complete DSB repair appears to be crucial for cell survival, further research is still needed to provide innovative techniques fro measuring repair which can be successfully transferred to the clinic and used to ensure the avoidance of deleterious side-effects to cancer therapies.
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- A Joubert
- Inserm U647, ID17, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, 38043, Grenoble, France
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Costantini S, Woodbine L, Andreoli L, Jeggo PA, Vindigni A. Interaction of the Ku heterodimer with the DNA ligase IV/Xrcc4 complex and its regulation by DNA-PK. DNA Repair (Amst) 2007; 6:712-22. [PMID: 17241822 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2006.12.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2006] [Revised: 11/30/2006] [Accepted: 12/06/2006] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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DNA non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ) is a major mechanism for repairing DNA double-stranded (ds) breaks in mammalian cells. Here, we characterize the interaction between two key components of the NHEJ machinery, the Ku heterodimer and the DNA ligase IV/Xrcc4 complex. Our results demonstrate that Ku interacts with DNA ligase IV via its tandem BRCT domain and that this interaction is enhanced in the presence of Xrcc4 and dsDNA. Moreover, residues 644-748 of DNA ligase IV encompassing the first BRCT motif are necessary for binding. We show that Ku needs to be in its heterodimeric form to bind DNA ligase IV and that the C-terminal tail of Ku80, which mediates binding to DNA-PKcs, is dispensable for DNA ligase IV recognition. Although the interaction between Ku and DNA ligase IV/Xrcc4 occurs in the absence of DNA-PKcs, the presence of the catalytic subunit of DNA-PK kinase enhances complex formation. Previous studies have shown that DNA-PK kinase activity causes disassembly of DNA-PKcs from Ku at the DNA end. Here, we show that DNA-PK kinase activity also results in disassembly of the Ku/DNA ligase IV/Xrcc4 complex. Collectively, our findings provide novel information on the protein-protein interactions that regulate NHEJ in cells.
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- Silvia Costantini
- International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Padriciano 99, I-34012 Trieste, Italy
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Ataian Y, Krebs JE. Five repair pathways in one context: chromatin modification during DNA repair. Biochem Cell Biol 2007; 84:490-504. [PMID: 16936822 DOI: 10.1139/o06-075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The eukaryotic cell is faced with more than 10 000 various kinds of DNA lesions per day. Failure to repair such lesions can lead to mutations, genomic instability, or cell death. Therefore, cells have developed 5 major repair pathways in which different kinds of DNA damage can be detected and repaired: homologous recombination, nonhomologous end joining, nucleotide excision repair, base excision repair, and mismatch repair. However, the efficient repair of DNA damage is complicated by the fact that the genomic DNA is packaged through histone and nonhistone proteins into chromatin, a highly condensed structure that hinders DNA accessibility and its subsequent repair. Therefore, the cellular repair machinery has to circumvent this natural barrier to gain access to the damaged site in a timely manner. Repair of DNA lesions in the context of chromatin occurs with the assistance of ATP-dependent chromatin-remodeling enzymes and histone-modifying enzymes, which allow access of the necessary repair factors to the lesion. Here we review recent studies that elucidate the interplay between chromatin modifiers / remodelers and the major DNA repair pathways.
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- Yeganeh Ataian
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of AK Anchorage, 3211 Providence Drive, Anchorage, AK 99508, USA
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Posttranslational modifications of histones, both in the tails and in the globular cores, alter the functional landscape of chromatin by modulating DNA accessibility and chromatin stability, and by providing an enormous variety of alternative interaction surfaces for trans-acting factors. Complex patterns of acetylation, methylation, phosphorylation, ubiquitylation (and others) result in spatial domains of meaningful chromatin modifications, often referred to as the histone code. Whole genome studies have uncovered striking genome-wide patterns of specific modifications, and individual modifications have been linked to a variety of functional consequences for transcription, replication and repair. A key aspect of the role of histone modifications, however, is their dynamic nature-the precise timing of the addition and removal of specific marks is an essential part of the histone code. This review will highlight examples from budding yeast that illustrate the importance of these dynamic modifications in controlling transcription and repair.
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- Jocelyn E Krebs
- University of Alaska Anchorage, 3211 Providence Drive, Anchorage, AK 99508, USA.
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Zhang Y, Zhou J, Cao X, Zhang Q, Lim CUK, Ullrich RL, Bailey SM, Liber HL. Partial deficiency of DNA-PKcs increases ionizing radiation-induced mutagenesis and telomere instability in human cells. Cancer Lett 2006; 250:63-73. [PMID: 17095151 DOI: 10.1016/j.canlet.2006.09.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2006] [Revised: 09/14/2006] [Accepted: 09/22/2006] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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The correct repair of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) is essential to maintaining the integrity of the genome. Misrepair of DSBs is detrimental to cells and organisms, leading to gene mutation, chromosomal aberration, and cancer development. Nonhomologous end-joining (NHEJ) is one of the principal rejoining processes in most higher eukaryotic cells. NHEJ is facilitated by DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK), which is composed of a catalytic subunit, DNA-PKcs, and the heterodimeric DNA binding regulatory complex Ku70/86. Null mutation of DNA-PKcs leads to immunodeficiency, chromosomal aberration, gene mutation, telomeric end-capping failure, and cancer predisposition in animals and cells. However, it is unknown whether partial deficiency of DNA-PKcs as might occur in a fraction of the population (e.g., heterozygotes), influences cellular function. Using small interfering RNA (siRNA) transfection, we established partial deficiency of DNA-PKcs in human cells, ranging from 4 to 85% of control levels. Our results reveal for the first time, that partial deficiency of DNA-PKcs leads to increased ionizing radiation (IR)-induced mutagenesis, cell killing, and telomere dysfunction. Radiation mutagenesis was increased inversely with DNA-PKcs protein level, with the most pronounced effect being observed in cells with protein levels below 50% of controls. A small but statistically significant increase in IR-induced cell killing was observed as DNA-PKcs levels decreased, over the entire range of protein levels. Frequencies of IR-induced telomere-DSB fusion was increased at levels of DNA-PKcs as low as approximately 50%, similar to what would be expected in heterozygous individuals. Taken together, our results suggest that even partial deficiency of DNA repair proteins may represent a considerable risk to genomic stability.
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- Ying Zhang
- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80521, USA.
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Lehoczký P, McHugh PJ, Chovanec M. DNA interstrand cross-link repair in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2006; 31:109-33. [PMID: 17096663 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2006.00046.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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DNA interstrand cross-links (ICL) present a formidable challenge to the cellular DNA repair apparatus. For Escherichia coli, a pathway which combines nucleotide excision repair (NER) and homologous recombination repair (HRR) to eliminate ICL has been characterized in detail, both genetically and biochemically. Mechanisms of ICL repair in eukaryotes have proved more difficult to define, primarily as a result of the fact that several pathways appear compete for ICL repair intermediates, and also because these competing activities are regulated in the cell cycle. The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has proven a powerful tool for dissecting ICL repair. Important roles for NER, HRR and postreplication/translesion synthesis pathways have all been identified. Here we review, with reference to similarities and differences in higher eukaryotes, what has been discovered to date concerning ICL repair in this simple eukaryote.
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- Peter Lehoczký
- Department of Molecular Genetics, Cancer Research Institute, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
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Bhatti P, Church DM, Rutter JL, Struewing JP, Sigurdson AJ. Candidate single nucleotide polymorphism selection using publicly available tools: a guide for epidemiologists. Am J Epidemiol 2006; 164:794-804. [PMID: 16923772 DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwj269] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are the most common form of human genetic variation, with millions present in the human genome. Because only 1% might be expected to confer more than modest individual effects in association studies, the selection of predictive candidate variants for complex disease analyses is formidable. Technologic advances in SNP discovery and the ever-changing annotation of the genome have led to massive informational resources that can be difficult to master across disciplines. A simplified guide is needed. Although methods for evaluating nonsynonymous coding SNPs are known, several other publicly available computational tools can be utilized to assess polymorphic variants in noncoding regions. As an example, the authors applied multiple methods to select SNPs in DNA double-strand break repair genes. They chose to evaluate SNPs that occurred among a preexisting set of 57 validated assays and to justify new assay development for 83 potential SNPs in the DNA-dependent protein kinase catalytic subunit. Of the 140 SNPs, the authors eliminated 119 variants with low or neutral predictions. The existing computational methods they used and the semiquantitative relative ranking strategy they developed can be adapted to a priori SNP selection or post hoc evaluation of variants identified in whole genome scans or within haplotype blocks associated with disease. The authors show a "real world" application of some existing bioinformatics tools for use in large epidemiologic studies and genetic analyses. They also reviewed alternative approaches that provide related information.
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- Parveen Bhatti
- Radiation Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD 20892-7238, USA
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Moore JD, Yazgan O, Ataian Y, Krebs JE. Diverse roles for histone H2A modifications in DNA damage response pathways in yeast. Genetics 2006; 176:15-25. [PMID: 17028320 PMCID: PMC1893062 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.106.063792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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There are many types of DNA damage that are repaired by a multiplicity of different repair pathways. All damage and repair occur in the context of chromatin, and histone modifications are involved in many repair processes. We have analyzed the roles of H2A and its modifications in repair by mutagenizing modifiable residues in the N- and C-terminal tails of yeast H2A and by testing strains containing these mutations in multiple DNA repair assays. We show that residues in both tails are important for homologous recombination and nonhomologous end-joining pathways of double-strand break repair, as well as for survival of UV irradiation and oxidative damage. We show that H2A serine 122 is important for repair and/or survival in each of these assays. We also observe a complex pattern of H2A phosphorylation at residues S122, T126, and S129 in response to different damage conditions. We find that overlapping but nonidentical groups of H2A residues in both tails are involved in different pathways of repair. These data suggest the presence of a set of H2A "damage codes" in which distinct patterns of modifications on both tails of H2A may be used to identify specific types of damage or to promote specific repair pathways.
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- John D Moore
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska 99508, USA
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Letavayová L, Vlcková V, Brozmanová J. Selenium: From cancer prevention to DNA damage. Toxicology 2006; 227:1-14. [PMID: 16935405 DOI: 10.1016/j.tox.2006.07.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 263] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2006] [Revised: 06/28/2006] [Accepted: 07/19/2006] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Selenium (Se) is a dietary essential trace element with important biological roles. Accumulating evidence indicates that Se compounds possess anticancer properties. Se is specifically incorporated into proteins in the form of selenocysteine and non-specifically incorporated as selenomethionine in place of methionine. The effects of Se compounds on cells are strictly compositional and concentration-dependent. At supranutritional dietary levels, Se can prevent the development of many types of cancer. At higher concentrations, Se compounds can be either cytotoxic or possibly carcinogenic. The cytotoxicity of Se is suggested to be associated with oxidative stress. Accordingly, sodium selenite, an inorganic Se compound, was reported to induce DNA damage, particularly DNA strand breaks and base damage. In this review we summarize the various activities of Se compounds and focus on their relation to DNA damage and repair. We discuss the use of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for identification of the genes involved in Se toxicity and resistance.
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- Lucia Letavayová
- Laboratory of Molecular Genetic, Cancer Research Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 833 91 Bratislava, Slovak Republic
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Kovalenko OV, Wiese C, Schild D. RAD51AP2, a novel vertebrate- and meiotic-specific protein, shares a conserved RAD51-interacting C-terminal domain with RAD51AP1/PIR51. Nucleic Acids Res 2006; 34:5081-92. [PMID: 16990250 PMCID: PMC1636435 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl665] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Many interacting proteins regulate and/or assist the activities of RAD51, a recombinase which plays a critical role in both DNA repair and meiotic recombination. Yeast two-hybrid screening of a human testis cDNA library revealed a new protein, RAD51AP2 (RAD51 Associated Protein 2), that interacts strongly with RAD51. A full-length cDNA clone predicts a novel vertebrate-specific protein of 1159 residues, and the RAD51AP2 transcript was observed only in meiotic tissue (i.e. adult testis and fetal ovary), suggesting a meiotic-specific function for RAD51AP2. In HEK293 cells the interaction of RAD51 with an ectopically-expressed recombinant large fragment of RAD51AP2 requires the C-terminal 57 residues of RAD51AP2. This RAD51-binding region shows 81% homology to the C-terminus of RAD51AP1/PIR51, an otherwise totally unrelated RAD51-binding partner that is ubiquitously expressed. Analyses using truncations and point mutations in both RAD51AP1 and RAD51AP2 demonstrate that these proteins use the same structural motif for RAD51 binding. RAD54 shares some homology with this RAD51-binding motif, but this homologous region plays only an accessory role to the adjacent main RAD51-interacting region, which has been narrowed here to 40 amino acids. A novel protein, RAD51AP2, has been discovered that interacts with RAD51 through a C-terminal motif also present in RAD51AP1.
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- Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryBerkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryBerkeley, CA 94720, USA
- To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +1 510 486 6013; Fax: +1 510 486 6816;
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Recombination and mutation have traditionally been regarded as independent evolutionary processes: the latter generates variation, which the former reshuffles. Recent studies, however, have suggested that allelic recombination influences the underlying mutation rate, as high mutation rates are inferred in regions of high recombination. Furthermore, recombination between duplicated sequences introduces structural variation into the human genome and facilitates the formation of clustered gene families. Comparisons of wholegenome sequences reveal the expansion of gene family clusters to be an important mode of genome evolution. The negative aspect of this genomic dynamism is the contribution of these rearrangements to genetic diseases.
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- Matthew Hurles
- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Genome Campus, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK.
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Translocations are genetic aberrations that occur when a broken fragment of a chromosome is erroneously rejoined to another chromosome. The initial event in the creation of a translocation is the formation of a DNA double-strand break (DSB), which can be induced both under physiological situations, such as during the development of the immune system, or by exogenous DNA damaging agents. Two major repair pathways exist in cells that repair DSBs as they arise, namely homologous recombination, and non-homologous end-joining. In some situations these pathways can function inappropriately and rejoin ends incorrectly to produce genomic rearrangements, including translocations. Translocations have been implicated in cancer because of their ability to activate oncogenes. Due to selection at the level of the DNA, the cell, and the tissue certain forms of cancer are associated with specific translocations that can be used as a tool for diagnosis and prognosis of these cancers.
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- Sheba Agarwal
- Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Erasmus MC, PO Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Khanahmad H, Noori Daloii MR, Shokrgozar MA, Azadmanesh K, Niavarani AR, Karimi M, Rabbani B, Khalili M, Bagheri R, Maryami F, Zeinali S. A novel single step double positive double negative selection strategy for β-globin gene replacement. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2006; 345:14-20. [PMID: 16674923 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.04.060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2006] [Accepted: 04/07/2006] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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beta-Thalassemias are a heterogeneous group of autosomal recessive disorders, characterized by reduced or absence of the beta-globin chain production by the affected alleles. Transplantation of genetically corrected autologous hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) is an attractive approach for treatment of these disorders. Gene targeting (homologous recombination) has many desirable features for gene therapy due to its ability to target the mutant genes and restore their normal expression. In the present study, a specific gene construct for beta-globin gene replacement was constructed consisting of: two homologous stems including, upstream and downstream regions of beta-globin gene, beta-globin gene lying between hygromycin and neomycin resistant genes as positive selection markers and thymidine kinase expression cassettes at both termini as negative selection marker. All segments were subcloned into pBGGT vector. The final plasmid was checked by sequencing and named as pFBGGT. Mammalian cell line COS-7 was transfected with linear plasmid by lipofection followed by positive and negative selection. DNA of the selected cells was analyzed by PCR and sequencing to confirm the occurrence of homologous recombination. In this novel strategy gene replacement was achieved in one step and by a single construct.
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- H Khanahmad
- Biotechnology Research Centre, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran
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Dere R, Wells RD. DM2 CCTG•CAGG Repeats are Crossover Hotspots that are More Prone to Expansions than the DM1 CTG•CAG Repeats in Escherichia coli. J Mol Biol 2006; 360:21-36. [PMID: 16753177 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2006.05.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2006] [Revised: 04/27/2006] [Accepted: 05/04/2006] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Myotonic dystrophy type 2 (DM2) is caused by the extreme expansion of the repeating tetranucleotide CCTG*CAGG sequence from <30 repeats in normal individuals to approximately 11,000 for the full mutation in certain patients. This repeat is in intron 1 of the zinc finger protein 9 gene on chromosome 3q21. Since prior work demonstrated that CTG*CAG and GAA*TTC triplet repeats (responsible for DM1 and Friedreich's ataxia, respectively) can expand by genetic recombination, we investigated the capacity of the DM2 tetranucleotide repeats to also expand during this process. Both gene conversion and unequal crossing over are attractive mechanisms to effect these very large expansions. (CCTG*CAGG)n (where n=30, 75, 114 or 160) repeats showed high recombination crossover frequencies (up to 27-fold higher than the non-repeating control) in an intramolecular plasmid system in Escherichia coli. Furthermore, a distinct orientation effect was observed where orientation II (CAGG on the leading strand template) was more prone to recombine. Expansions of up to double the length of the tetranucleotide repeats were found. Also, the repeating tetranucleotide sequence was more prone to expansions (to give lengths longer than a single repeating tract) than deletions as observed for the CTG*CAG and GAA*TTC repeats. We determined that the DM2 tetranucleotide repeats showed a lower thermodynamic stability when compared to the DM1 trinucleotide repeats, which could make them better targets for DNA repair events, thus explaining their expansion-prone behavior. Genetic studies in SOS-repair mutants revealed high frequencies of recombination crossovers although the SOS-response itself was not induced. Thus, the genetic instabilities of the CCTG*CAGG repeats may be mediated by a recombination-repair mechanism that is influenced by DNA structure.
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- Ruhee Dere
- Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Center for Genome Research, Texas A&M University System Health Science Center, Texas Medical Center, 2121 W. Holcombe Blvd., Houston, TX 77030-3303, USA
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Letavayová L, Marková E, Hermanská K, Vlcková V, Vlasáková D, Chovanec M, Brozmanová J. Relative contribution of homologous recombination and non-homologous end-joining to DNA double-strand break repair after oxidative stress in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. DNA Repair (Amst) 2006; 5:602-10. [PMID: 16515894 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2006.01.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2005] [Revised: 01/17/2006] [Accepted: 01/23/2006] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Oxidative damage to DNA seems to be an important factor in developing many human diseases including cancer. It involves base and sugar damage, base-free sites, DNA-protein cross-links and DNA single-strand (SSB) and double-strand (DSB) breaks. Oxidative DSB can be formed in various ways such as their direct induction by the drug or their generation either through attempted and aborted repair of primary DNA lesions or through DNA replication-dependent conversion of SSB. In general, two main pathways are responsible for repairing DSB, homologous recombination (HR) and non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ), with both of them being potential candidates for the repair of oxidative DSB. We have examined relative contribution of HR and NHEJ to cellular response after oxidative stress in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Therefore, cell survival, mutagenesis and DSB induction and repair in the rad52, yku70 and rad52 yku70 mutants after hydrogen peroxide (H(2)O(2)), menadione (MD) or bleomycin (BLM) exposure were compared to those obtained for the corresponding wild type. We show that MD exposure does not lead to observable DSB induction in yeast, suggesting that the toxic effects of this agent are mediated by other types of DNA damage. Although H(2)O(2) treatment generates some DSB, their yield is relatively low and hence DSB may only partially be responsible for toxicity of H(2)O(2), particularly at high doses of the agent. On the other hand, the basis of the BLM toxicity resides primarily in DSB induction. Both HR and NHEJ act on BLM-induced DSB, although their relative participation in the process is not equal. Based on our results we suggest that the complexity and/or the quality of the BLM-induced DSB might represent an obstacle for the NHEJ pathway.
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- Lucia Letavayová
- Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Cancer Research Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Vlárska 7, 833 91 Bratislava, Slovak Republic
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Yakisich JS, Kapler GM. Deletion of the Tetrahymena thermophila rDNA replication fork barrier region disrupts macronuclear rDNA excision and creates a fragile site in the micronuclear genome. Nucleic Acids Res 2006; 34:620-34. [PMID: 16449202 PMCID: PMC1356531 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkj466] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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During macronuclear development the Tetrahymena thermophila ribosomal RNA gene is excised from micronuclear chromosome 1 by site-specific cleavage at chromosome breakage sequence (Cbs) elements, rearranged into a ‘palindromic’ 21 kb minichromosome and extensively amplified. Gene amplification initiates from origins in the 5′ non-transcribed spacer, and forks moving toward the center of the palindrome arrest at a developmentally regulated replication fork barrier (RFB). The RFB is inactive during vegetative cell divisions, suggesting a role in the formation or amplification of macronuclear rDNA. Using micronuclear (germline) transformation, we show that the RFB region facilitates Cbs-mediated excision. Deletion of the RFB inhibits chromosome breakage in a sub-population of developing macronuclei and promotes alternative processing by a Cbs-independent mechanism. Remarkably, the RFB region prevents spontaneous breakage of chromosome 1 in the diploid micronucleus. Strains heterozygous for ΔRFB and wild-type rDNA lose the ΔRFB allele and distal left arm of chromosome 1 during vegetative propagation. The wild-type chromosome is subsequently fragmented near the rDNA locus, and both homologs are progressively eroded, suggesting that broken micronuclear chromosomes are not ‘healed’ by telomerase. Deletion of this 363 bp segment effectively creates a fragile site in the micronuclear genome, providing the first evidence for a non-telomere cis-acting determinant that functions to maintain the structural integrity of a mitotic eukaryotic chromosome.
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- To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +1 979 847 8690; Fax: +1 979 847 9481;
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Sasaki S, Sato M, Katsura Y, Kurimasa A, Chen DJ, Takeda S, Kuwano H, Yokota J, Kohno T. Rapid assessment of two major repair activities against DNA double-strand breaks in vertebrate cells. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2006; 339:583-90. [PMID: 16310168 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.11.052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2005] [Accepted: 11/10/2005] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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A linearized plasmid DNA, in which tandem repeats of 400bp flank the breakpoints, was transfected into vertebrate cells, and breakpoint junctions of plasmid DNA circularized in the cells were analyzed to assess the repair activities against DNA double-strand break (DSB) by non-homologous end joining and homology-directed repair (i.e., homologous recombinational repair and single-strand annealing). The circularization by non-homologous end joining repair of the breakpoints depended on the expression of DNA-PKcs, while that by homology-directed repair through the repeats depended on the length of the repeats, indicating that these two DSB repair activities can be rapidly assessed by this assay. Predominance in circularization by either non-homologous end joining or homology-directed repair differed among cells examined, and circularization was exclusively undertaken by homology-directed repair in DT40 cells known to show a high homologous recombination rate against gene-targeting vectors. Thus, this assay will be helpful in studies on mechanisms and inter-cellular variations of DSB repair.
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- Shigeru Sasaki
- Biology Division, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan
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Sankaranarayanan K. Estimation of the genetic risks of exposure to ionizing radiation in humans: current status and emerging perspectives. JOURNAL OF RADIATION RESEARCH 2006; 47 Suppl B:B57-66. [PMID: 17019053 DOI: 10.1269/jrr.47.b57] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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The 2001 report of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) on ;Hereditary effects of radiation' incorporates two important concepts that have emerged from advances in radiation genetics and molecular biology: (a) most radiation-induced mutations are DNA deletions, often encompassing multiple genes; however, because of structural and functional constraints, only a proportion of induced deletions may be compatible with viability and hence recoverable in the progeny and (b) viability-compatible DNA deletions induced in human germ cells are more likely to cause multi-system developmental abnormalities rather than single-gene diseases. The work reported in this paper pursues these concepts further: it examines how mechanistic insights gained from studies of repair of radiation-induced DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) in mammalian somatic cells and from those on the origin of deletions in human genomic disorders can be extended to germ cells the aim being the development of a framework to predict regions of the human genome that may be susceptible to radiation-induced deletions. A critical analysis of the available information permits the hypothesis that in stem cell spermatogonia, most induced deletions may arise via the non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) mechanism of DSB repair whereas in irradiated oocytes, the main mechanism is likely to be non-allelic homologous recombination (NAHR) between misaligned region-specific segmental duplications that are present in the genome (NAHR is an error-prone form of homologous recombination repair). Should this hypothesis turn out to be valid, then it is possible to build on the structural and functional aspects of genomic knowledge to devise strategies to predict where in the genome deletions may be induced by radiation, their extent and their potential phenotypes.
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- K Sankaranarayanan
- Department of Toxicogenetics, Leiden University Medical Centre, Einthovenweg 20, Leiden, The Netherlands.
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Madhusudan S, Middleton MR. The emerging role of DNA repair proteins as predictive, prognostic and therapeutic targets in cancer. Cancer Treat Rev 2005; 31:603-17. [PMID: 16298073 DOI: 10.1016/j.ctrv.2005.09.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 138] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Advanced cancer is the second leading cause of death in the western world. Chemotherapy and radiation are the two main treatment modalities currently available to improve patient outcomes, but treatment related toxicity and the emergence of resistance limit their effectiveness. Hence there is an urgent need to develop novel treatment strategies. Rapid advances in cancer biology have identified key pathways involved in the repair of DNA damage induced by chemotherapeutic agents and irradiation. Efficient DNA repair in the cancer cell is an important mechanism for therapeutic resistance. Up to 130 genes have been identified that are associated with human DNA repair. Several of these proteins are emerging as important predictive and prognostic factors in solid tumours. Inhibition of DNA repair has the potential to enhance the efficacy of currently available DNA damaging agents. In recent years, several promising drug targets have been identified and novel drugs synthesised that target specific DNA repair proteins. These agents have shown impressive anti-cancer effects in preclinical studies in combination with chemotherapy or irradiation. Their role in human cancer is now being investigated in early phase clinical trials in combination with chemotherapy. MGMT inhibitors, PARP inhibitors and methoxyamine are currently in early stages of clinical development. Innovative clinical trial designs are essential to evaluate the potential of DNA repair inhibitor in cancer therapy.
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- Srinivasan Madhusudan
- Cancer Research UK, Medical Oncology Unit, University of Oxford, The Churchill, Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals, Oxford OX3 7LJ, United Kingdom
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Exposure of living cells to intracellular or external mutagens results in DNA damage. Accumulation of DNA damage can lead to serious consequences because of the deleterious mutation rate resulting in genomic instability, cellular senescence, and cell death. To counteract genotoxic stress, cells have developed several strategies to detect defects in DNA structure. The eukaryotic genomic DNA is packaged through histone and nonhistone proteins into a highly condensed structure termed chromatin. Therefore the cellular enzymatic machineries responsible for DNA replication, recombination, and repair must circumvent this natural barrier in order to gain access to the DNA. Several studies have demonstrated that histone/chromatin modifications such as acetylation, methylation, and phosphorylation play crucial roles in DNA repair processes. This review will summarize the recent data that suggest a regulatory role of the epigenetic code in DNA repair processes. We will mainly focus on different covalent reversible modifications of histones as an initial step in early response to DNA damage and subsequent DNA repair. Special focus on a potential epigenetic histone code for these processes will be given in the last section. We also discuss new technologies and strategies to elucidate the putative epigenetic code for each of the DNA repair processes discussed.
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- Paul O Hassa
- Institute of Veterinary Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
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Madhusudan S, Hickson ID. DNA repair inhibition: a selective tumour targeting strategy. Trends Mol Med 2005; 11:503-11. [PMID: 16214418 DOI: 10.1016/j.molmed.2005.09.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2005] [Revised: 09/07/2005] [Accepted: 09/19/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Advanced cancer is a leading cause of death in the developed world. Chemotherapy and radiation are the two main treatment modalities currently available. The cytotoxicity of many of these agents is directly related to their propensity to induce DNA damage. However, the ability of cancer cells to recognize this damage and initiate DNA repair is an important mechanism for therapeutic resistance and has a negative impact upon therapeutic efficacy. Pharmacological inhibition of DNA repair, therefore, has the potential to enhance the cytotoxicity of a diverse range of anticancer agents. Moreover, the use of inhibitors of DNA repair or DNA damage signalling pathways appears to provide an exciting opportunity to target the genetic differences that exist between normal and tumour tissue.
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- Srinivasan Madhusudan
- Cancer Research UK Laboratories, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DS, UK
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Bleuyard JY, Gallego ME, White CI. Recent advances in understanding of the DNA double-strand break repair machinery of plants. DNA Repair (Amst) 2005; 5:1-12. [PMID: 16202663 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2005.08.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2005] [Revised: 08/22/2005] [Accepted: 08/22/2005] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Living cells suffer numerous and varied alterations of their genetic material. Of these, the DNA double-strand break (DSB) is both particularly threatening and common. Double-strand breaks arise from exposure to DNA damaging agents, but also from cell metabolism-in a fortuitous manner during DNA replication or repair of other kinds of lesions and in a programmed manner, for example during meiosis or V(D)J gene rearrangement. Cells possess several overlapping repair pathways to deal with these breaks, generally designated as genetic recombination. Genetic and biochemical studies have provided considerable amounts of data about the proteins involved in recombination processes and their functions within these processes. Although they have long played a key role in building understanding of genetics, relatively little is known at the molecular level of the genetic recombination processes in plants. The use of reverse genetic approaches and the public availability of sequence tagged mutants in Arabidopsis thaliana have led to increasingly rapid progress in this field over recent years. The rapid progress of studies of recombination in plants is obviously not limited to the DSB repair machinery as such and we ask readers to understand that in order to maintain the focus and to rest within a reasonable length, we present only limited discussion of the exciting advances in the of plant meiosis field, which require a full review in their own right . We thus present here an update on recent advances in understanding of the DSB repair machinery of plants, focussing on Arabidopsis and making a particular effort to place these in the context of more general of understanding of these processes.
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- Jean-Yves Bleuyard
- Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute, Clare Hall Laboratories, South Mimms, Herts EN6 3LD, UK.
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Foray N, Charvet AM, Duchemin D, Favaudon V, Lavalette D. The repair rate of radiation-induced DNA damage: A stochastic interpretation based on the Gamma function. J Theor Biol 2005; 236:448-58. [PMID: 15975603 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2005.03.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2005] [Revised: 03/21/2005] [Accepted: 03/22/2005] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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There is a large body of evidence that stress-induced DNA damage may be responsible for cell lethality, cancer proneness and/or immune reaction. However, statistical features of their repair rate remain poorly documented. In order to interpret the shape of the radiation-induced DNA damage repair curves with a minimum of biological assumptions, we introduced the concept of repair probability, specific to any individual radiation-induced DNA damage, whatever its biochemical type. We strengthened the apparent paradox that the repair rate of a population of DNA damage is time-dependent even if the repair rate of the individual DNA damage is constant. Hence, the existing models, based on a dual approach of the DNA repair may be insufficient for describing the DNA repair rate over a large range of repair times. Since the repair probability of DNA damage cannot be assessed individually, the measurement of the DNA repair rate is assumed to consist in determining the instantaneous mean of all repair probabilities. The relevance of this model was examined with different endpoints: cell species, genotypes, radiation type and chromatin condensation. The Euler's Gamma function was shown to provide the distribution the most consistent with such hypotheses. Furthermore, formulas, deduced from the Gamma distribution, were found to be compatible with our previous model, empirically defined but based on a variable repair half-time.
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- Nicolas Foray
- U647 INSERM-ID17-European Synchrotron Research Facility, 38043 Grenoble, France.
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Hebert ML, Wells RD. Roles of double-strand breaks, nicks, and gaps in stimulating deletions of CTG.CAG repeats by intramolecular DNA repair. J Mol Biol 2005; 353:961-79. [PMID: 16213518 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2005.09.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2005] [Revised: 08/30/2005] [Accepted: 09/09/2005] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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A series of plasmids harboring CTG.CAG repeats with double-strand breaks (DSB), single-strand nicks, or single-strand gaps (15 or 30 nucleotides) within the repeat regions were used to determine their capacity to induce genetic instabilities. These plasmids were introduced into Escherichia coli in the presence of a second plasmid containing a sequence that could support homologous recombination repair between the two plasmids. The transfer of a point mutation from the second to the first plasmid was used to monitor homologous recombination (gene conversion). Only DSBs increased the overall genetic instability. This instability took place by intramolecular repair, which was not dependent on RuvA. Double-strand break-induced instabilities were partially stabilized by a mutation in recF. Gaps of 30 nt formed a distinct 30 nt deletion product, whereas single strand nicks and gaps of 15 nt did not induce expansions or deletions. Formation of this deletion product required the CTG.CAG repeats to be present in the single-stranded region and was stimulated by E.coli DNA ligase, but was not dependent upon the RecFOR pathway. Models are presented to explain the intramolecular repair-induced instabilities and the formation of the 30 nt deletion product.
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- Micheal L Hebert
- Center for Genome Research, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A and M University System Health Science Center, 2121 W. Holcombe Blvd., Houston, TX 77030-3303, USA
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Linger J, Tyler JK. The yeast histone chaperone chromatin assembly factor 1 protects against double-strand DNA-damaging agents. Genetics 2005; 171:1513-22. [PMID: 16143623 PMCID: PMC1456080 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.105.043000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The removal of histones from DNA and their subsequent replacement is likely to be necessary for all processes that require access to the DNA sequence in eukaryotic cells. The histone chaperone chromatin assembly factor 1 (CAF-1) mediates histone H3-H4 assembly during DNA replication and nucleotide excision repair in vitro. We have found that budding yeast deleted for the genes encoding CAF-1 are highly sensitive to double-strand DNA-damaging agents. Our genetic analyses indicate that CAF-1 plays a role in both homologous recombination and nonhomologous end-joining pathways and that the function of CAF-1 during double-strand repair is distinct from that of another histone H3-H4 chaperone, anti-silencing function 1 (ASF1). CAF-1 does not protect the genome by assembling it into a damage-resistant chromatin structure, because induction of CAF-1 after DNA damage is sufficient to restore viability. Furthermore, CAF-1 is not required for repair of the DNA per se or for DNA damage checkpoint function. CAF-1-mediated resistance to DNA damage is dependent on the ability of CAF-1 to bind PCNA, indicating that PCNA may recruit CAF-1 to sites of double-strand DNA repair. We propose that CAF-1 has an essential role in assembling chromatin during double-strand-DNA repair.
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- Jeffrey Linger
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center at Fitzsimons, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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de Vries FAT, Zonneveld JBM, van Duijn-Goedhart A, Roodbergen M, Boei J, van Buul PPW, Essers J, van Steeg H, van Zeeland AA, van Benthem J, Pastink A. Inactivation of RAD52 aggravates RAD54 defects in mice but not in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. DNA Repair (Amst) 2005; 4:1121-8. [PMID: 16009599 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2005.06.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2005] [Revised: 05/12/2005] [Accepted: 06/02/2005] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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RAD52 and RAD54 genes from Saccharomyces cerevisiae are required for double-strand break repair through homologous recombination and show epistatic interactions i.e., single and double mutant strains are equally sensitive to DNA damaging agents. In here we combined mutations in RAD52 and RAD54 homologs in Schizosaccharomyces pombe and mice. The analysis of mutant strains in S. pombe demonstrated nearly identical sensitivities of rhp54, rad22A and rad22B double and triple mutants to X-rays, cis-diamminedichloroplatinum and hydroxyurea. In this respect, the fission yeast homologs of RAD54 and RAD52 closely resemble their counterparts in S. cerevisiae. To verify if inactivation of RAD52 affects the DNA damage sensitivities of RAD54 deficient mice, several endpoints were studied in double mutant mice and in bone marrow cells derived from these animals. Haemopoietic depression in bone marrow and the formation of micronuclei after in vivo exposure to mitomycine C (MMC) was not increased in either single or double mutant mice in comparison to wildtype animals. The induction of sister chromatid exchanges in splenocytes was slightly reduced in the RAD54 mutant. A similar reduction was detected in the double mutant. However, a deficiency of RAD52 exacerbates the MMC survival of RAD54 mutant mice and also has a distinct effect on the survival of bone marrow cells after exposure to ionizing radiation. These findings may be explained by additive defects in HR in the double mutant but may also indicate a more prominent role for single-strand annealing in the absence of Rad54.
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- Femke A T de Vries
- Department of Toxicogenetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Wassenaarseweg 72, 2333 AL, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Cotsaftis O, Guiderdoni E. Enhancing gene targeting efficiency in higher plants: rice is on the move. Transgenic Res 2005; 14:1-14. [PMID: 15865044 DOI: 10.1007/s11248-004-4066-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Meeting the challenge of routine gene targeting (GT) in higher plants is of crucial interest to researchers and plant breeders who are currently in need of a powerful tool to specifically modify a given locus in a genome. Higher plants have long been considered the last lineage resistant to targeting technology. However, a recent report described an efficient method of T-DNA-mediated targeted disruption of a non-selectable locus in rice [Terada et al., Nat Biotechnol 20: 1030-1034 (2002)]. Though this study was an obvious breakthrough, further improvement of GT frequencies may derive from a better understanding of the natural mechanisms that control homologous recombination (HR) processes. In this review, we will focus on what is known about HR and the factors which may hamper the development of routine GT by HR in higher plants. We will also present the current strategies envisaged to overcome these limitations, such as expression of recombination proteins and refinements in the design of the transformation vector.
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- Olivier Cotsaftis
- UMR1096 PIA, Biotrop Program, Cirad-Amis, Avenue Agropolis, F-34398 Montpellier Cedex 5, France.
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Stern MC, Siegmund KD, Corral R, Haile RW. XRCC1 and XRCC3 polymorphisms and their role as effect modifiers of unsaturated fatty acids and antioxidant intake on colorectal adenomas risk. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2005; 14:609-15. [PMID: 15767338 DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-04-0189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Whereas animal and in vitro studies support a role of unsaturated fatty acids in colon carcinogenesis, the epidemiologic evidence is inconclusive. Using a large sigmoidoscopy-based case-control study (753 cases and 799 controls) in Los Angeles County, we investigated possible associations between single-nucleotide polymorphisms in the XRCC1 (codons 194 Arg/Trp and codon 399 Arg/Gln) and XRCC3 (codon 241 Thr/Met) genes and colorectal adenoma risk and their possible role as modifiers of the effect of monounsaturated fatty acid, the ratio of omega-6/omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, and antioxidant intake. We found no evidence of associations between the XRCC1 codon 194 Arg/Trp or Trp/Trp genotypes and the XRCC3 codon 241 Thr/Met or Met/Met genotypes. Subjects with the XRCC1 Gln/Gln genotype were inversely associated with adenoma risk (odds ratio, 0.6; 95% confidence interval, 0.4-0.9; P = 0.01) when compared with subjects with Arg/Arg and Arg/Gln genotypes combined. We found no evidence of gene-dietary fat interactions for the XRCC3 codon 241 polymorphism. However, our data suggest an XRCC1-unsaturated fat interaction. High monounsaturated fatty acid intake was associated with adenoma risk only among subjects with the XRCC1 codon 194 Arg/Arg and codon 399 Gln/Gln combined genotypes (P for interaction = 0.018). High omega-6/omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid ratios were associated with adenoma risk among subjects with the XRCC1 codon 194 Arg/Arg and codon 399 Gln/Gln or the codon 194 Arg/Trp or Trp/Trp and codon 399 Arg/Arg or Arg/Gln combined genotypes (P for interaction = 0.026). These interactions were not modified by antioxidant intake. However, low antioxidant intake was associated with an inverse association only among subjects with the XRCC1 codon 194 Arg/Trp or Trp/Trp and codon 399 Arg/Arg or Arg/Gln combined genotypes (P for interaction = 0.022), which was independent of unsaturated fat intake. Our data suggest that the XRCC1 codon 194 and codon 399 single nucleotide polymorphisms may modify the effect of unsaturated fatty acid and antioxidant intake and that this XRCC1 effect modification may explain, in part, previously reported inconsistencies on the role of unsaturated fatty acids and adenoma risk.
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- Mariana C Stern
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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Yang YG, Herceg Z, Nakanishi K, Demuth I, Piccoli C, Michelon J, Hildebrand G, Jasin M, Digweed M, Wang ZQ. The Fanconi anemia group A protein modulates homologous repair of DNA double-strand breaks in mammalian cells. Carcinogenesis 2005; 26:1731-40. [PMID: 15905196 DOI: 10.1093/carcin/bgi134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Fanconi anemia (FA) cells exhibit hypersensitivity to DNA interstrand cross-links (ICLs) and high levels of chromosome instability. FA gene products have been shown to functionally or physically interact with BRCA1, RAD51 and the MRE11/RAD50/NBS1 complex, suggesting that the FA complex may be involved in the repair of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs). Here, we have investigated specifically the function of the FA group A protein (FANCA) in the repair of DSBs in mammalian cells. We show that the targeted deletion of Fanca exons 37-39 generates a null for Fanca in mice and abolishes ubiquitination of Fancd2, the downstream effector of the FA complex. Cells lacking Fanca exhibit increased chromosomal aberrations and attenuated accumulation of Brca1 and Rad51 foci in response to DNA damage. The absence of Fanca greatly reduces gene-targeting efficiency in mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells and compromises the survival of fibroblast cells in response to ICL agent treatment. Fanca-null cells exhibit compromised homology-directed repair (HDR) of DSBs, particularly affecting the single-strand annealing pathway. These data identify the Fanca protein as an integral component in the early step of HDR of DSBs and thereby minimizing the genomic instability.
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- Yun-Gui Yang
- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), 150 cours Albert Thomas, F-69008 Lyon, France
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Osakabe K, Abe K, Yamanouchi H, Takyuu T, Yoshioka T, Ito Y, Kato T, Tabata S, Kurei S, Yoshioka Y, Machida Y, Seki M, Kobayashi M, Shinozaki K, Ichikawa H, Toki S. Arabidopsis Rad51B is important for double-strand DNA breaks repair in somatic cells. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2005; 57:819-33. [PMID: 15952068 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-005-2187-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2004] [Accepted: 02/14/2005] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Rad51 paralogs belong to the Rad52 epistasis group of proteins and are involved in homologous recombination (HR), especially the assembly and stabilization of Rad51, which is a homolog of RecA in eukaryotes. We previously cloned and characterized two RAD51 paralogous genes in Arabidopsis, named AtRAD51C and AtXRCC3, which are considered the counterparts of human RAD51C and XRCC3, respectively. Here we describe the identification of RAD51B homologue in Arabidopsis, AtRAD51B. We found a higher expression of AtRAD51B in flower buds and roots. Expression of AtRAD51B was induced by genotoxic stresses such as ionizing irradiation and treatment with a cross-linking reagent, cisplatin. Yeast two-hybrid analysis showed that AtRad51B interacted with AtRad51C. We also found and characterized T-DNA insertion mutant lines. The mutant lines were devoid of AtRAD51B expression, viable and fertile. The mutants were moderately sensitive to gamma-ray and hypersensitive to cisplatin. Our results suggest that AtRAD51B gene product is involved in the repair of double-strand DNA breaks (DSBs) via HR.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Arabidopsis/cytology
- Arabidopsis/genetics
- Arabidopsis/metabolism
- Arabidopsis Proteins/genetics
- Arabidopsis Proteins/metabolism
- Base Sequence
- Blotting, Northern
- Cisplatin/pharmacology
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA/genetics
- DNA/metabolism
- DNA Damage
- DNA Repair
- DNA, Bacterial/genetics
- DNA, Complementary/chemistry
- DNA, Complementary/genetics
- Gamma Rays
- Gene Expression Profiling
- Gene Expression Regulation, Plant/drug effects
- Gene Expression Regulation, Plant/radiation effects
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutagenesis, Insertional
- Mutation
- Phylogeny
- Plants, Genetically Modified
- Protein Isoforms/genetics
- Protein Isoforms/metabolism
- Sequence Alignment
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Two-Hybrid System Techniques
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- Keishi Osakabe
- Department of Plant Biotechnology, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, 2-1-2 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8602, Japan
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Baldwin EL, Berger AC, Corbett AH, Osheroff N. Mms22p protects Saccharomyces cerevisiae from DNA damage induced by topoisomerase II. Nucleic Acids Res 2005; 33:1021-30. [PMID: 15718301 PMCID: PMC549411 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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The cleavage reaction of topoisomerase II, which creates double-stranded DNA breaks, plays a central role in both the cure and initiation of cancer. Therefore, it is important to understand the cellular processes that repair topoisomerase II-generated DNA damage. Using a genome-wide approach with Saccharomyces cerevisiae, we found that Δmre11, Δxrs2, Δrad50, Δrad51, Δrad52, Δrad54, Δrad55, Δrad57 and Δmms22 strains were hypersensitive to etoposide, a drug that specifically increases levels of topoisomerase II-mediated DNA breaks. These results confirm that the single-strand invasion pathway of homologous recombination is the major pathway that repairs topoisomerase II-induced DNA damage in yeast and also indicate an important role for Mms22p. Although Δmms22 strains are sensitive to several DNA-damaging agents, little is known about the function of Mms22p. Δmms22 cultures accumulate in G2/M, and display an abnormal cell cycle response to topoisomerase II-mediated DNA damage. MMS22 appears to function outside of the single-strand invasion pathway, but levels of etoposide-induced homologous recombination in Δmms22 cells are lower than wild-type. MMS22 is epistatic with RTT101 and RTT107, genes that encode its protein binding partners. Finally, consistent with a role in DNA processes, Mms22p localizes to discrete nuclear foci, even in the absence of etoposide or its binding partners.
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- E. L. Baldwin
- Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University School of MedicineNashville, TN 37232-0146, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Emory University School of MedicineAtlanta, GA 30322, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Emory University School of MedicineAtlanta, GA 30322, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University School of MedicineNashville, TN 37232-0146, USA
- Department of Medicine (Hematology/Oncology), Vanderbilt University School of MedicineNashville, TN 37232-0146, USA
- To whom correspondence should be addressed at Department of Biochemistry, 654 Robinson Research Building, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232-0146, USA. Tel: +615 322 4338; Fax: +615 343 1166;
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Srivastava S, Moraes CT. Double-strand breaks of mouse muscle mtDNA promote large deletions similar to multiple mtDNA deletions in humans. Hum Mol Genet 2005; 14:893-902. [PMID: 15703189 PMCID: PMC1242110 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddi082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) deletions are a common cause of mitochondrial disorders and have been found to accumulate during normal aging. Despite the fact that hundreds of deletions have been characterized at the molecular level, their mechanisms of genesis are unknown. We tested the effect of double-strand breaks of muscle mtDNA by developing a mouse model in which a mitochondrially targeted restriction endonuclease (PstI) was expressed in skeletal muscle of mice. Because mouse mtDNA harbors two PstI sites, transgenic founders developed a mitochondrial myopathy associated with mtDNA depletion. The founders showed a chimeric pattern of transgene expression and their residual level of wild-type mtDNA in muscle was approximately 40% of controls. We were able to identify the formation of large mtDNA deletions in muscle of transgenic mice. A family of mtDNA deletions was identified, and most of these rearrangements involved one of the PstI sites and the 3' end of the D-loop region. The deletions had no or small direct repeats at the breakpoint region. These features are essentially identical to the ones observed in humans with multiple mtDNA deletions in muscle, suggesting that double-strand DNA breaks mediate the formation of large mtDNA deletions.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Blotting, Southern
- DNA Damage
- DNA Primers/chemistry
- DNA, Mitochondrial/genetics
- DNA, Mitochondrial/metabolism
- Disease Models, Animal
- Electron Transport
- Gene Deletion
- Humans
- Immunohistochemistry
- Mice
- Mice, Transgenic
- Microscopy, Electron
- Mitochondria/metabolism
- Models, Genetic
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Muscle, Skeletal/metabolism
- Muscles/metabolism
- Muscular Diseases
- Phylogeny
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Protein Structure, Tertiary
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Transgenes
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- Departments of Cell Biology & Anatomy and
- Neurology, University of Miami School of Medicine
- *Correspondence to: Carlos T. Moraes, Ph.D., University of Miami School of Medicine, 1095 NW 14 Terrace. Miami, FL 33136, (305)243-5858 FAX: (305)243-3914,
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Bleuyard JY, Gallego ME, Savigny F, White CI. Differing requirements for the Arabidopsis Rad51 paralogs in meiosis and DNA repair. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2005; 41:533-45. [PMID: 15686518 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2004.02318.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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In addition to the recombinase Rad51, vertebrates have five paralogs of Rad51, all members of the Rad51-dependent recombination pathway. These paralogs form two complexes (Rad51C/Xrcc3 and Rad51B/C/D/Xrcc2), which play roles in somatic recombination, DNA repair and chromosome stability. However, little is known of their possible involvement in meiosis, due to the inviability of the corresponding knockout mice. We have recently reported that the Arabidopsis homolog of one of these Rad51 paralogs (AtXrcc3) is involved in DNA repair and meiotic recombination and present here Arabidopsis lines carrying mutations in three other Rad51 paralogs (AtRad51B, AtRad51C and AtXrcc2). Disruption of any one of these paralogs confers hypersensitivity to the DNA cross-linking agent Mitomycin C, but not to gamma-irradiation. Moreover, the atrad51c-1 mutant is the only one of these to show meiotic defects similar to those of the atxrcc3 mutant, and thus only the Rad51C/Xrcc3 complex is required to achieve meiosis. These results support conservation of functions of the Rad51 paralogs between vertebrates and plants and differing requirements for the Rad51 paralogs in meiosis and DNA repair.
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- Jean-Yves Bleuyard
- CNRS UMR6547, Université Blaise Pascal, 24, avenue des Landais, 63177 Aubière, France
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Dudásová Z, Dudás A, Chovanec M. Non-homologous end-joining factors of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2005; 28:581-601. [PMID: 15539075 DOI: 10.1016/j.femsre.2004.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2004] [Revised: 06/02/2004] [Accepted: 06/02/2004] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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DNA double-strand breaks (DSB) are considered to be a severe form of DNA damage, because if left unrepaired, they can cause a cell death and, if misrepaired, they can lead to genomic instability and, ultimately, the development of cancer in multicellular organisms. The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae repairs DSB primarily by homologous recombination (HR), despite the presence of the KU70, KU80, DNA ligase IV and XRCC4 homologues, essential factors of the mammalian non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ) machinery. S. cerevisiae, however, lacks clear DNA-PKcs and ARTEMIS homologues, two important additional components of mammalian NHEJ. On the other hand, S. cerevisiae is endowed with a regulatory NHEJ component, Nej1, which has not yet been found in other organisms. Furthermore, there is evidence in budding yeast for a requirement for the Mre11/Rad50/Xrs2 complex for NHEJ, which does not appear to be the case either in Schizosaccharomyces pombe or in mammals. Here, we comprehensively describe the functions of all the S. cerevisiae NHEJ components identified so far and present current knowledge about the NHEJ process in this organism. In addition, this review depicts S. cerevisiae as a powerful model system for investigating the utilization of either NHEJ or HR in DSB repair.
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- Zuzana Dudásová
- Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Cancer Research Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Vlárska 7, 833 91 Bratislava 37, Slovak Republic
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Hashem VI, Pytlos MJ, Klysik EA, Tsuji K, Khajavi M, Khajav M, Ashizawa T, Sinden RR. Chemotherapeutic deletion of CTG repeats in lymphoblast cells from DM1 patients. Nucleic Acids Res 2004; 32:6334-46. [PMID: 15576360 PMCID: PMC535684 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh976] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is caused by the expansion of a (CTG).(CAG) repeat in the DMPK gene on chromosome 19q13.3. At least 17 neurological diseases have similar genetic mutations, the expansion of DNA repeats. In most of these disorders, the disease severity is related to the length of the repeat expansion, and in DM1 the expanded repeat undergoes further elongation in somatic and germline tissues. At present, in this class of diseases, no therapeutic approach exists to prevent or slow the repeat expansion and thereby reduce disease severity or delay disease onset. We present initial results testing the hypothesis that repeat deletion may be mediated by various chemotherapeutic agents. Three lymphoblast cell lines derived from two DM1 patients treated with either ethylmethanesulfonate (EMS), mitomycin C, mitoxantrone or doxorubicin, at therapeutic concentrations, accumulated deletions following treatment. Treatment with EMS frequently prevented the repeat expansion observed during growth in culture. A significant reduction of CTG repeat length by 100-350 (CTG).(CAG) repeats often occurred in the cell population following treatment with these drugs. Potential mechanisms of drug-induced deletion are presented.
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- Vera I Hashem
- Center for Genome Research, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M University System Health Sciences Center, 2121 West Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, TX 77030-3303, USA
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Brozmanová J, Vlcková V, Chovanec M. How heterologously expressed Escherichia coli genes contribute to understanding DNA repair processes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Curr Genet 2004; 46:317-30. [PMID: 15614491 DOI: 10.1007/s00294-004-0536-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2004] [Revised: 09/13/2004] [Accepted: 09/18/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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DNA-damaging agents constantly challenge cellular DNA; and efficient DNA repair is therefore essential to maintain genome stability and cell viability. Several DNA repair mechanisms have evolved and these have been shown to be highly conserved from bacteria to man. DNA repair studies were originally initiated in very simple organisms such as Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae, bacteria being the best understood organism to date. As a consequence, bacterial DNA repair genes encoding proteins with well characterized functions have been transferred into higher organisms in order to increase repair capacity, or to complement repair defects, in heterologous cells. While indicating the contribution of these repair functions to protection against the genotoxic effects of DNA-damaging agents, heterologous expression studies also highlighted the role of the DNA lesions that are substrates for such processes. In addition, bacterial DNA repair-like functions could be identified in higher organisms using this approach. We heterologously expressed three well characterized E. coli repair genes in S. cerevisiae cells of different genetic backgrounds: (1) the ada gene encoding O(6)-methylguanine DNA-methyltransferase, a protein involved in the repair of alkylation damage to DNA, (2) the recA gene encoding the main recombinase in E. coli and (3) the nth gene, the product of which (endonuclease III) is responsible for the repair of oxidative base damage. Here, we summarize our results and indicate the possible implications they have for a better understanding of particular DNA repair processes in S. cerevisiae.
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- Jela Brozmanová
- Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Cancer Research Institute, Vlárska 7, 83391 Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
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Dudásová Z, Dudás A, Alemayehu A, Vlasáková D, Marková E, Chovanec M, Vlcková V, Brozmanová J. Disruption of theRAD51 gene sensitizesS. cerevisiae cells to the toxic and mutagenic effects of hydrogen peroxide. Folia Microbiol (Praha) 2004; 49:259-64. [PMID: 15259765 DOI: 10.1007/bf02931040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The RAD51 gene was disrupted in three different parental wild-type strains to yield three rad51 null strains with different genetic background. The rad51 mutation sensitizes yeast cells to the toxic and mutagenic effects of H2O2, suggesting that Rad51-mediated repair, similarly to that of RecA-mediated, is relevant to the repair of oxidative damage in S. cerevisiae. Moreover, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis analysis demonstrated that increased sensitivity of the rad51 mutant to H2O2 is accompanied by its decreased ability to repair double-strand breaks induced by this agent. Our results show that ScRad51 protects yeast cells from H2O2-induced DNA double-strand breakage.
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- Z Dudásová
- Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Cancer Research Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 833 91 Bratislava, Slovakia
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