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Rebbaa A. Targeting senescence pathways to reverse drug resistance in cancer. Cancer Lett 2005; 219:1-13. [PMID: 15694659 DOI: 10.1016/j.canlet.2004.08.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2004] [Accepted: 08/08/2004] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Irreversible proliferation arrest (also called senescence) has emerged recently as a drug-responsive program able to influence the outcome of cancer chemotherapy. Since the drug amounts required for induction of proliferation arrest are much lower than those necessitated for induction of cell death, forcing cancer cells to undergo senescence may represent a less aggressive approach to control tumor progression. However, to achieve a long-standing control of proliferation, the ability of cancer cells to escape senescence and become drug resistant must be inhibited. Therefore, a clear understanding of the mechanisms that govern drug-induced senescence is critical and can lead to discovery of novel approaches to suppress drug resistance. The present review discusses the relevance of senescence in response to chemotherapy and the onset of drug resistance development. Particular emphasis is directed toward the utilization of findings from the field of research on aging, that can be applied to induction of senescence in cancer cells and reversal of their drug resistance phenotype. Proof of principle for this relationship is represented by the identification of inhibitors of aging associated proteases such as the proteasome and cathepsin L as novel and potent cancer drug resistance reversing agents.
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- Abdelhadi Rebbaa
- Children's Memorial Research Center, M/C 224, Children's Memorial Hospital, and Department of Pediatrics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 2300 Children's Plaza, Chicago, IL 60614, USA.
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Postreplicative mismatch repair (MMR) increases the fidelity of DNA replication by up to three orders of magnitude, through correcting DNA polymerase errors that escaped proofreading. MMR also controls homologous recombination (HR) by aborting strand exchange between divergent DNA sequences. In recent years, MMR has also been implicated in the response of mammalian cells to DNA damaging agents. Thus, MMR-deficient cells were shown to be around 100-fold more resistant to killing by methylating agents of the S(N)1type than cells with functional MMR. In the case of cisplatin, the sensitivity difference was lower, typically two- to three-fold, but was observed in all matched MMR-proficient and -deficient cell pairs. More controversial is the role of MMR in cellular response to other DNA damaging agents, such as ionizing radiation (IR), topoisomerase poisons, antimetabolites, UV radiation and DNA intercalators. The MMR-dependent DNA damage signalling pathways activated by the above agents are also ill-defined. To date, signalling cascades involving the Ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM), ATM- and Rad3-related (ATR), as well as the stress-activated kinases JNK/SAPK and p38alpha have been linked with methylating agent and 6-thioguanine (TG) treatments, while cisplatin damage was reported to activate the c-Abl and JNK/SAPK kinases in MMR-dependent manner. MMR defects are found in several different cancer types, both familiar and sporadic, and it is possible that the involvement of the MMR system in DNA damage signalling play an important role in transformation. The scope of this article is to provide a brief overview of the recent literature on this subject and to raise questions that could be addressed in future studies.
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- Lovorka Stojic
- Institute of Molecular Cancer Research, University of Zurich, August Forel-Strasse 7, 8008 Zurich, Switzerland
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Functional analysis of the XRCC genes continues to make an important contribution to the understanding of mammalian DNA double-strand break repair processes and mechanisms of genetic instability leading to cancer. New data implicate XRCC genes in long-standing questions, such as how homologous recombination (HR) intermediates are resolved and how DNA replication slows in the presence of damage (intra-S checkpoint). Examining the functions of XRCC genes involved in non-homologous end joining (NHEJ), paradoxical roles in repair fidelity and telomere maintenance have been found. Thus, XRCC5-7 (DNA-PK)-dependent NHEJ commonly occurs with fidelity, perhaps by aligning ends accurately in the absence of sequence microhomologies, but NHEJ-deficient mice show reduced frequencies of mutation. NHEJ activity seems to be involved in both mitigating and mediating telomere fusions; however, defective NHEJ can lead to telomere elongation, while loss of HR activity leads to telomere shortening. The correct functioning of XRCC genes involved in both HR and NHEJ is important for genetic stability, but loss of each pathway leads to different consequences, with defects in HR additionally leading to mitotic disruption and aneuploidy. Confirmation that these responses are likely to contribute to cancer induction and/or progression, is given by studies of humans and mice with XRCC gene disruptions: those affecting NHEJ show increased lymphoid tumours, while those affecting HR lead to breast cancer and perhaps to gynaecological tumours.
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- John Thacker
- Medical Research Council, Radiation and Genome Stability Unit, Harwell, Oxfordshire OX11 0RD, UK.
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Genomic Instability:Signaling Pathways Orchestrating the Responsesto Ionizing Radiation and Cisplatin. Genome Integr 2005. [DOI: 10.1007/7050_010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Shima N, Munroe RJ, Schimenti JC. The mouse genomic instability mutation chaos1 is an allele of Polq that exhibits genetic interaction with Atm. Mol Cell Biol 2004; 24:10381-9. [PMID: 15542845 PMCID: PMC529050 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.24.23.10381-10389.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 115] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2004] [Revised: 08/10/2004] [Accepted: 08/19/2004] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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chaos1 (for chromosome aberrations occurring spontaneously 1) is a recessive mutation that was originally identified in a phenotype-based screen for chromosome instability mutants in mice. Mutant animals exhibit significantly higher frequencies of spontaneous and radiation- or mitomycin C-induced micronucleated erythrocytes, indicating a potential defect in homologous recombination or interstrand cross-link repair. The chaos1 allele was genetically associated with a missense mutation in Polq, which encodes DNA polymerase theta;. We demonstrate here that chaos1 is a mutant allele of Polq by using two genetic approaches: chaos1 mutant phenotype correction by a bacterial artificial chromosome carrying wild-type Polq and a failed complementation test between chaos1 and a Polq-disrupted allele generated by gene targeting. To investigate the potential involvement of Polq in DNA double-strand break repair, we introduced chaos1 into an Atm (for ataxia telangiectasia mutated)-deficient background. The majority ( approximately 90%) of double-homozygous mice died during the neonatal period. Surviving double mutants exhibited synergistic phenotypes such as severe growth retardation and enhanced chromosome instability. However, remarkably, double mutants had delayed onset of thymic lymphoma, significantly increasing life span. These data suggest a unique role of Polq in maintaining genomic integrity, which is probably distinctive from the major homologous recombination pathway regulated by ATM.
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- Naoko Shima
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, 9th Fl. Vet. Research Tower, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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Lumsden JM, McCarty T, Petiniot LK, Shen R, Barlow C, Wynn TA, Morse HC, Gearhart PJ, Wynshaw-Boris A, Max EE, Hodes RJ. Immunoglobulin class switch recombination is impaired in Atm-deficient mice. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 200:1111-21. [PMID: 15504820 PMCID: PMC2211853 DOI: 10.1084/jem.20041074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 134] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/02/2022]
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Immunoglobulin class switch recombination (Ig CSR) involves DNA double strand breaks (DSBs) at recombining switch regions and repair of these breaks by nonhomologous end-joining. Because the protein kinase ataxia telengiectasia (AT) mutated (ATM) plays a critical role in DSB repair and AT patients show abnormalities of Ig isotype expression, we assessed the role of ATM in CSR by examining ATM-deficient mice. In response to T cell–dependent antigen (Ag), Atm−/− mice secreted substantially less Ag-specific IgA, IgG1, IgG2b, and IgG3, and less total IgE than Atm+/+ controls. To determine whether Atm−/− B cells have an intrinsic defect in their ability to undergo CSR, we analyzed in vitro responses of purified B cells. Atm−/− cells secreted substantially less IgA, IgG1, IgG2a, IgG3, and IgE than wild-type (WT) controls in response to stimulation with lipopolysaccharide, CD40 ligand, or anti-IgD plus appropriate cytokines. Molecular analysis of in vitro responses indicated that WT and Atm−/− B cells produced equivalent amounts of germline IgG1 and IgE transcripts, whereas Atm−/− B cells produced markedly reduced productive IgG1 and IgE transcripts. The reduction in isotype switching by Atm−/− B cells occurs at the level of genomic DNA recombination as measured by digestion–circularization PCR. Analysis of sequences at CSR sites indicated that there is greater microhomology at the μ–γ1 switch junctions in ATM B cells than in wild-type B cells, suggesting that ATM function affects the need or preference for sequence homology in the CSR process. These findings suggest a role of ATM in DNA DSB recognition and/or repair during CSR.
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- Joanne M Lumsden
- Experimental Immunology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bldg. 10, Room 4B10, 10 Center Dr., Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
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Drexler GA, Wilde S, Beisker W, Ellwart J, Eckardt-Schupp F, Fritz E. The rate of extrachromosomal homologous recombination within a novel reporter plasmid is elevated in cells lacking functional ATM protein. DNA Repair (Amst) 2004; 3:1345-53. [PMID: 15336629 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2004.05.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2003] [Revised: 05/03/2004] [Accepted: 05/05/2004] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Homologous recombination between identical stretches of DNA depends on the coordinated action of many tightly regulated proteins. Cellular defects in homologous recombination are strongly associated with increased genomic instability and tumorigenesis. In cells of the cancer-prone syndrome ataxia telangiectasia (A-T), increased intrachromosomal recombination has been demonstrated, while extrachromosomal recombination has been discussed controversially. We constructed a novel, episomally replicating pGrec recombination vector containing two mutated alleles of the enhanced green fluorescent protein (eGFP) gene. Homologous recombination can reconstitute functional wildtype eGFP, thus allowing detection of recombination events based on cellular eGFP fluorescence. Using an isogenic cell pair of A-T fibroblasts and derivatives complemented by an ATM expression vector, we were able to demonstrate in A-T cells high extrachromosomal recombination rates, which are suppressed upon ectopic ATM expression. We thus found that ATM deficiency increases spontaneous recombination not only in intrachromosomal but also in extrachromosomal substrates, suggesting that lack of ATM increases homologous recombination independent of the chromatin structure.
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- Guido A Drexler
- Institute of Molecular Radiobiology, D-85758 Neuherberg, Germany
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Wang H, Wang H, Powell SN, Iliakis G, Wang Y. ATR Affecting Cell Radiosensitivity Is Dependent on Homologous Recombination Repair but Independent of Nonhomologous End Joining. Cancer Res 2004; 64:7139-43. [PMID: 15466211 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-04-1289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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ATR is one of the most important checkpoint proteins in mammalian cells responding to DNA damage. Cells defective in normal ATR activity are sensitive to ionizing radiation (IR). The mechanism by which ATR protects the cells from IR-induced killing remains unclear. DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) induced by IR are critical lesions for cell survival. Two major DNA DSB repair pathways exist in mammalian cells: homologous recombination repair (HRR) and nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ). We show that the doxycycline (dox)-induced ATR kinase dead (ATRkd) cells have the similar inductions and rejoining rates of DNA DSBs compared with cells without dox induction, although the dox-induced ATRkd cells are more sensitive to IR and have the deficient S and G(2) checkpoints. We also show that the dox-induced ATRkd cells have a lower HRR efficiency compared with the cells without dox induction. These results indicate that the effects of ATR on cell radiosensitivity are independent of NHEJ but are linked to HRR that may be affected by the deficient S and G(2) checkpoints.
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- Hongyan Wang
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Kimmel Cancer Center of Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, USA
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Bolderson E, Scorah J, Helleday T, Smythe C, Meuth M. ATM is required for the cellular response to thymidine induced replication fork stress. Hum Mol Genet 2004; 13:2937-45. [PMID: 15459181 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddh316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Genetically distinct checkpoints, activated as a consequence of either DNA replication arrest or ionizing radiation-induced DNA damage, integrate DNA repair responses into the cell cycle programme. The ataxia-telangiectasia mutated (ATM) protein kinase blocks cell cycle progression in response to DNA double strand breaks, whereas the related ATR is important in maintaining the integrity of the DNA replication apparatus. Here, we show that thymidine, which slows the progression of replication forks by depleting cellular pools of dCTP, induces a novel DNA damage response that, uniquely, depends on both ATM and ATR. Thymidine induces ATM-mediated phosphorylation of Chk2 and NBS1 and an ATM-independent phosphorylation of Chk1 and SMC1. AT cells exposed to thymidine showed decreased viability and failed to induce homologous recombination repair (HRR). Taken together, our results implicate ATM in the HRR-mediated rescue of replication forks impaired by thymidine treatment.
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- Emma Bolderson
- Institute for Cancer Studies, School of Medicine, University of Sheffield, UK
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Freie BW, Ciccone SLM, Li X, Plett PA, Orschell CM, Srour EF, Hanenberg H, Schindler D, Lee SH, Clapp DW. A role for the Fanconi anemia C protein in maintaining the DNA damage-induced G2 checkpoint. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:50986-93. [PMID: 15377654 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m407160200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Fanconi anemia (FA) is a complex, heterogeneous genetic disorder composed of at least 11 complementation groups. The FA proteins have recently been found to functionally interact with the cell cycle regulatory proteins ATM and BRCA1; however, the function of the FA proteins in cell cycle control remains incompletely understood. Here we show that the Fanconi anemia complementation group C protein (Fancc) is necessary for proper function of the DNA damage-induced G2/M checkpoint in vitro and in vivo. Despite apparently normal induction of the G2/M checkpoint after ionizing radiation, murine and human cells lacking functional FANCC did not maintain the G2 checkpoint as compared with wild-type cells. The increased rate of mitotic entry seen in Fancc-/-mouse embryo fibroblasts correlated with decreased inhibitory phosphorylation of cdc2 kinase on tyrosine 15. An increased inability to maintain the DNA damage-induced G2 checkpoint was observed in Fancc -/-; Trp53 -/-cells compared with Fancc -/-cells, indicating that Fancc and p53 cooperated to maintain the G2 checkpoint. In contrast, genetic disruption of both Fancc and Atm did not cooperate in the G2 checkpoint. These data indicate that Fancc and p53 in separate pathways converge to regulate the G2 checkpoint. Finally, fibroblasts lacking FANCD2 were found to have a G2 checkpoint phenotype similar to FANCC-deficient cells, indicating that FANCD2, which is activated by the FA complex, was also required to maintain the G2 checkpoint. Because a proper checkpoint function is critical for the maintenance of genomic stability and is intricately related to the function and integrity of the DNA repair process, these data have implications in understanding both the function of FA proteins and the mechanism of genomic instability in FA.
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- Brian W Freie
- Herman B. Wells Center for Pediatric Research, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, USA
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Dodson H, Bourke E, Jeffers LJ, Vagnarelli P, Sonoda E, Takeda S, Earnshaw WC, Merdes A, Morrison C. Centrosome amplification induced by DNA damage occurs during a prolonged G2 phase and involves ATM. EMBO J 2004; 23:3864-73. [PMID: 15359281 PMCID: PMC522792 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7600393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 149] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2004] [Accepted: 08/11/2004] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Centrosomes are the principal microtubule organising centres in somatic cells. Abnormal centrosome number is common in tumours and occurs after gamma-irradiation and in cells with mutations in DNA repair genes. To investigate how DNA damage causes centrosome amplification, we examined cells that conditionally lack the Rad51 recombinase and thereby incur high levels of spontaneous DNA damage. Rad51-deficient cells arrested in G2 phase and formed supernumerary functional centrosomes, as assessed by light and serial section electron microscopy. This centrosome amplification occurred without an additional DNA replication round and was not the result of cytokinesis failure. G2-to-M checkpoint over-ride by caffeine or wortmannin treatment strongly reduced DNA damage-induced centrosome amplification. Radiation-induced centrosome amplification was potentiated by Rad54 disruption. Gene targeting of ATM reduced, but did not abrogate, centrosome amplification induced by DNA damage in both the Rad51 and Rad54 knockout models, demonstrating ATM-dependent and -independent components of DNA damage-inducible G2-phase centrosome amplification. Our data suggest DNA damage-induced centrosome amplification as a mechanism for ensuring death of cells that evade the DNA damage or spindle assembly checkpoints.
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- Helen Dodson
- Department of Biochemistry and NCBES, National University of Ireland-Galway, Galway, Ireland
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, ICMB, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry and NCBES, National University of Ireland-Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Department of Biochemistry and NCBES, National University of Ireland-Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, ICMB, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Radiation Genetics, Kyoto University Medical School, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Radiation Genetics, Kyoto University Medical School, Kyoto, Japan
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, ICMB, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, ICMB, University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JR, UK. Tel.: +44 131 650 7101; Fax: +44 131 650 7100; E-mail:
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, ICMB, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry and NCBES, National University of Ireland-Galway, Galway, Ireland
- Department of Biochemistry and NCBES, National University of Ireland-Galway, University Road, Galway, Ireland. Tel.: +353 91 512 334; Fax: +353 91 512 504; E-mail:
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Pawlik TM, Keyomarsi K. Role of cell cycle in mediating sensitivity to radiotherapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2004; 59:928-42. [PMID: 15234026 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2004.03.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 739] [Impact Index Per Article: 37.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2003] [Revised: 03/01/2004] [Accepted: 03/08/2004] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
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Multiple pathways are involved in maintaining the genetic integrity of a cell after its exposure to ionizing radiation. Although repair mechanisms such as homologous recombination and nonhomologous end-joining are important mammalian responses to double-strand DNA damage, cell cycle regulation is perhaps the most important determinant of ionizing radiation sensitivity. A common cellular response to DNA-damaging agents is the activation of cell cycle checkpoints. The DNA damage induced by ionizing radiation initiates signals that can ultimately activate either temporary checkpoints that permit time for genetic repair or irreversible growth arrest that results in cell death (necrosis or apoptosis). Such checkpoint activation constitutes an integrated response that involves sensor (RAD, BRCA, NBS1), transducer (ATM, CHK), and effector (p53, p21, CDK) genes. One of the key proteins in the checkpoint pathways is the tumor suppressor gene p53, which coordinates DNA repair with cell cycle progression and apoptosis. Specifically, in addition to other mediators of the checkpoint response (CHK kinases, p21), p53 mediates the two major DNA damage-dependent cellular checkpoints, one at the G(1)-S transition and the other at the G(2)-M transition, although the influence on the former process is more direct and significant. The cell cycle phase also determines a cell's relative radiosensitivity, with cells being most radiosensitive in the G(2)-M phase, less sensitive in the G(1) phase, and least sensitive during the latter part of the S phase. This understanding has, therefore, led to the realization that one way in which chemotherapy and fractionated radiotherapy may work better is by partial synchronization of cells in the most radiosensitive phase of the cell cycle. We describe how cell cycle and DNA damage checkpoint control relates to exposure to ionizing radiation.
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- Timothy M Pawlik
- Department of Surgical Oncology, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Box 66, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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Haghnazari E, Heyer WD. The DNA damage checkpoint pathways exert multiple controls on the efficiency and outcome of the repair of a double-stranded DNA gap. Nucleic Acids Res 2004; 32:4257-68. [PMID: 15304563 PMCID: PMC514360 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh717] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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A DNA gap repair assay was used to determine the effect of mutations in the DNA damage checkpoint system on the efficiency and outcome (crossover/non-crossover) of recombinational DNA repair. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae gap repair is largely achieved by homologous recombination. As a result the plasmid either integrates into the chromosome (indicative of a crossover outcome) or remains extrachromosomal (indicative of a non-crossover outcome). Deletion mutants of the MEC1 and RAD53 checkpoint kinase genes exhibited a 5-fold decrease in gap repair efficiency, showing that 80% of the gap repair events depended on functional DNA damage checkpoints. Epistasis analysis suggests that the DNA damage checkpoints affect gap repair by modulating Rad51 protein-mediated homologous recombination. While in wild-type cells only approximately 25% of the gap repair events were associated with a crossover outcome, Mec1-deficient cells exhibited a >80% crossover association. Also mutations in the effector kinases Rad53, Chk1 and Dun1 were found to affect crossover association of DNA gap repair to various degrees. The data suggest that the DNA damage checkpoints are important for the optimal functioning of recombinational DNA repair with multiple terminal targets to modulate the efficiency and outcome of homologous recombination.
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- Edwin Haghnazari
- Division of Biological Sciences and Section of Microbiology, Section of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Center for Genetics and Development, University of California, Davis, CA 95616-8665, USA
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Yamazoe M, Sonoda E, Hochegger H, Takeda S. Reverse genetic studies of the DNA damage response in the chicken B lymphocyte line DT40. DNA Repair (Amst) 2004; 3:1175-85. [PMID: 15279806 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2004.03.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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In the 'post-genome' era, reverse genetics is one of the most informative and powerful means to investigate protein function. The chicken B lymphocyte line DT40 is widely used for reverse genetics because the cells have a number of advantages, including efficient gene targeting as well as a remarkably stable phenotype. Furthermore, the absence of functional p53 in DT40 cells enables identification of DNA damage using chromosome analysis by suppressing damage-induced apoptosis during interphase. This review summarizes the contribution of DT40 cells to reverse genetic studies of DNA damage response pathways in higher eukaryotic cells.
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- Mitsuyoshi Yamazoe
- CRESTO, The Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Radiation Genetics, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Yoshida Konoe, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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Mills KD, Ferguson DO, Essers J, Eckersdorff M, Kanaar R, Alt FW. Rad54 and DNA Ligase IV cooperate to maintain mammalian chromatid stability. Genes Dev 2004; 18:1283-92. [PMID: 15175260 PMCID: PMC420354 DOI: 10.1101/gad.1204304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ) and homologous recombination (HR) represent the two major pathways of DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair in eukaryotic cells. NHEJ repairs DSBs by ligation of cognate broken ends irrespective of homologous flanking sequences, whereas HR repairs DSBs using an undamaged homologous template. Although both NHEJ and HR have been clearly implicated in the maintenance of genome stability, how these apparently independent and mechanistically distinct pathways are coordinated remains largely unexplored. To investigate the relationship between HR and NHEJ modes of DSB repair, we generated cells doubly deficient for the NHEJ factor DNA Ligase IV (Lig4) and the HR factor Rad54. We show that Lig4 and Rad54 cooperate to support cellular proliferation, repair spontaneous DSBs, and prevent chromosome and single chromatid aberrations. These findings demonstrate a role for NHEJ in the repair of DSBs that occur spontaneously during or after DNA replication, and reveal overlapping functions for NHEJ and Rad54-dependent HR in the repair of such DSBs.
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- Kevin D Mills
- CBR Institute for Biomedical Research, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Baroni E, Viscardi V, Cartagena-Lirola H, Lucchini G, Longhese MP. The functions of budding yeast Sae2 in the DNA damage response require Mec1- and Tel1-dependent phosphorylation. Mol Cell Biol 2004; 24:4151-65. [PMID: 15121837 PMCID: PMC400471 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.24.10.4151-4165.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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DNA damage checkpoint pathways sense DNA lesions and transduce the signals into appropriate biological responses, including cell cycle arrest, induction of transcriptional programs, and modification or activation of repair factors. Here we show that the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Sae2 protein, known to be involved in processing meiotic and mitotic double-strand breaks, is required for proper recovery from checkpoint-mediated cell cycle arrest after DNA damage and is phosphorylated periodically during the unperturbed cell cycle and in response to DNA damage. Both cell cycle- and DNA damage-dependent Sae2 phosphorylation requires the main checkpoint kinase, Mec1, and the upstream components of its pathway, Ddc1, Rad17, Rad24, and Mec3. Another pathway, involving Tel1 and the MRX complex, is also required for full DNA damage-induced Sae2 phosphorylation, that is instead independent of the downstream checkpoint transducers Rad53 and Chk1, as well as of their mediators Rad9 and Mrc1. Mutations altering all the favored ATM/ATR phosphorylation sites of Sae2 not only abolish its in vivo phosphorylation after DNA damage but also cause hypersensitivity to methyl methanesulfonate treatment, synthetic lethality with RAD27 deletion, and decreased rates of mitotic recombination between inverted Alu repeats, suggesting that checkpoint-mediated phosphorylation of Sae2 is important to support its repair and recombination functions.
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- Enrico Baroni
- Dipartimento di Biotecnologie e Bioscienze, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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Karlsson KH, Stenerlöw B. Focus formation of DNA repair proteins in normal and repair-deficient cells irradiated with high-LET ions. Radiat Res 2004; 161:517-27. [PMID: 15161372 DOI: 10.1667/rr3171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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To investigate the repair of clustered lesions within the DNA/chromatin, the focus formation and persistence of foci of the phosphorylated histone protein H2AX and the repair protein MRE11 were studied in normal cells and in cells lacking DNA-PKcs (M059J) or ATM (GM2052D) after irradiation with high-LET nitrogen ions or low-LET photons. There was a rapid formation of MRE11 and gamma-H2AX foci, and 0.5 h after high-LET irradiation, the number of foci in normal cells correlated well with the number of particle hits per cell nucleus. After 8 h of repair, there were significantly more gamma-H2AX foci than MRE11 foci remaining in the normal cells, independent of radiation quality. The difficulty in repairing clustered breaks was detected as slower rejoining of DSBs (measured by DNA fragmentation analysis), as quantification of the amount of gamma-H2AX over time, and as a larger fraction of repair foci remaining after 24 h in cells irradiated with high- LET ions. These data indicate that clustered lesions are repaired by a pathway involving the same proteins that repair sparsely distributed breaks. Further, for both low- and high- LET radiation, no reduction of the initial number of gamma-H2AX and MRE11 foci was detected in M059J cells up to 21 h after irradiation, which was in accordance with a complete absence of DSB rejoining in these cells. In the GM2052D cells there was also a higher level of foci remaining after 21 h; however, this was not accompanied by unrejoined DSBs, indicating that these foci not only represent DSBs but also may be a sign of persistent problems even when breaks are rejoined.
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- Karin H Karlsson
- Division of Biomedical Radiation Sciences, Rudbeck Laboratory, Uppsala University, SE-75185 Uppsala, Sweden.
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Heitzeberg F, Chen IP, Hartung F, Orel N, Angelis KJ, Puchta H. The Rad17 homologue of Arabidopsis is involved in the regulation of DNA damage repair and homologous recombination. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2004; 38:954-68. [PMID: 15165187 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2004.02097.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Rad17 is involved in DNA checkpoint control in yeast and human cells. A homologue of this gene as well as other genes of the pathway (the 9-1-1 complex) are present in Arabidopsis and share conserved sequence domains with their yeast and human counterparts. DNA-damaging agents induce AtRAD17 transcriptionally. AtRAD17 mutants show increased sensitivity to the DNA-damaging chemicals bleomycin and mitomycin C (MMC), which can be reversed by complementation, suggesting that the loss of function of Rad17 disturbs DNA repair in plant cells. Our results are further confirmed by the phenotype of a mutant of the 9-1-1 complex (Rad9), which is also sensitive to the same chemicals. AtRAD9 and AtRAD17 seem to be epistatic as the double mutant is not more sensitive to the chemicals than the single mutants. The mutants show a delay in the general repair of double-strand breaks (DSBs). However, frequencies of intrachromosomal homologous recombination (HR) are enhanced. Nevertheless, the mutants are proficient for a further induction of HR by genotoxic stresses. Our results indicate that a mutant Rad17 pathway is associated with a general deregulation of DNA repair, which seems to be correlated with a deficiency in non-homologous DSB repair.
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- Fabian Heitzeberg
- Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Corrensstrasse 3, D-06466 Gatersleben, Germany
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Stiff T, O'Driscoll M, Rief N, Iwabuchi K, Löbrich M, Jeggo PA. ATM and DNA-PK function redundantly to phosphorylate H2AX after exposure to ionizing radiation. Cancer Res 2004; 64:2390-6. [PMID: 15059890 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-03-3207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 765] [Impact Index Per Article: 38.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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H2AX phosphorylation is an early step in the response to DNA damage. It is widely accepted that ATM (ataxia telangiectasia mutated protein) phosphorylates H2AX in response to DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs). Whether DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK) plays any role in this response is unclear. Here, we show that H2AX phosphorylation after exposure to ionizing radiation (IR) occurs to similar extents in human fibroblasts and in mouse embryo fibroblasts lacking either DNA-PK or ATM but is ablated in ATM-deficient cells treated with LY294002, a drug that specifically inhibits DNA-PK. Additionally, we show that inactivation of both DNA-PK and ATM is required to ablate IR-induced H2AX phosphorylation in chicken cells. We confirm that H2AX phosphorylation induced by DSBs in nonreplicating cells is ATR (ataxia telangiectasia and Rad3-related protein) independent. Taken together, we conclude that under most normal growth conditions, IR-induced H2AX phosphorylation can be carried out by ATM and DNA-PK in a redundant, overlapping manner. In contrast, DNA-PK cannot phosphorylate other proteins involved in the checkpoint response, including chromatin-associated Rad17. However, by phosphorylating H2AX, DNA-PK can contribute to the presence of the damage response proteins MDC1 and 53BP1 at the site of the DSB.
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- Tom Stiff
- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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Wang W, Seki M, Otsuki M, Tada S, Takao N, Yamamoto KI, Hayashi M, Honma M, Enomoto T. The absence of a functional relationship between ATM and BLM, the components of BASC, in DT40 cells. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Basis Dis 2004; 1688:137-44. [PMID: 14990344 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2003.11.008] [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: 05/03/2002] [Revised: 11/11/2003] [Accepted: 11/12/2003] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Bloom syndrome (BS) and ataxia-telangiectasia (A-T) are rare autosomal recessive diseases associated with chromosomal instability. The genes responsible for BS and A-T have been identified as BLM and ATM, respectively, whose products were recently found to be components of BRCA1-associated genome surveillance complex (BASC), a supercomplex possibly involved in the recognition and repair of aberrant DNA structures. Based on experiments using BLM(-/-) DT40 cells and BLM(-/-)/RAD54(-/-) DT40 cells, we previously suggested that BLM functions to reduce the formation of double-strand breaks (DSBs) during DNA replication. To examine whether ATM is involved in the recognition and/or repair of DSBs generated in BLM(-/-) DT40 cells and to address the functional relationship between the two BASC components, we generated BLM(-/-)/ATM(-/-) DT40 cells and characterized their properties as well as those of ATM(-/-) and BLM(-/-) DT40 cells. BLM(-/-)/ATM(-/-) cells proliferated slightly more slowly than either BLM(-/-) or ATM(-/-) cells. The sensitivity of BLM(-/-)/ATM(-/-) cells to gamma-irradiation was similar to that of ATM(-/-) cells, while BLM(-/-) cells were slightly resistant to gamma-irradiation compared with wild-type cells. BLM(-/-) cells showed sensitivity to methyl methanesulfonate (MMS) and UV irradiation while ATM(-/-) cells did not show sensitivity to either agent. The sensitivity of BLM(-/-)/ATM(-/-) cells to MMS and UV was similar to that of BLM(-/-) cells. Disrupting the function of ATM reduced the targeted integration frequency in BLM(-/-) DT40 cells. However, a defect in ATM only slightly reduced the increased sister chromatid exchanges (SCEs) in BLM(-/-) DT40 cells.
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- Wensheng Wang
- Molecular Cell Biology Laboratory, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan
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Kobayashi M, Hirano A, Kumano T, Xiang SL, Mihara K, Haseda Y, Matsui O, Shimizu H, Yamamoto KI. Critical role for chicken Rad17 and Rad9 in the cellular response to DNA damage and stalled DNA replication. Genes Cells 2004; 9:291-303. [PMID: 15066121 DOI: 10.1111/j.1356-9597.2004.00728.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The Rad17-replication factor C (Rad17-RFC) and Rad9-Rad1-Hus1 complexes are thought to function in the early phase of cell-cycle checkpoint control as sensors for genome damage and genome replication errors. However, genetic analysis of the functions of these complexes in vertebrates is complicated by the lethality of these gene disruptions in embryonic mouse cells. We disrupted the Rad17 and Rad9 loci by gene targeting in the chicken B lymphocyte line DT40. Rad17-/- and Rad9-/- DT40 cells are viable, and are highly sensitive to UV irradiation, alkylating agents, and DNA replication inhibitors, such as hydroxyurea. We further found that Rad17-/- and Rad9-/- but not ATM-/- cells are defective in S-phase DNA damage checkpoint controls and in the cellular response to stalled DNA replication. These results indicate a critical role for chicken Rad17 and Rad9 in the cellular response to stalled DNA replication and DNA damage.
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- Masahiko Kobayashi
- Department of Molecular Pathology, Cancer Research Institute, Kanazawa University, Ishikawa 920-0934, Japan
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Debiak M, Nikolova T, Kaina B. Loss of ATM sensitizes against O6-methylguanine triggered apoptosis, SCEs and chromosomal aberrations. DNA Repair (Amst) 2004; 3:359-68. [PMID: 15010311 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2003.11.013] [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] [Accepted: 11/30/2003] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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A critical pre-cytotoxic and -apoptotic DNA lesion induced by methylating carcinogens and chemotherapeutic drugs is O6-methylguanine (O6MeG). The mechanism by which O6MeG causes cell death via apoptosis is only partially understood. The current model ascribes a role to DNA replication and mismatch repair, which converts O6MeG into a critical distal lesion (presumably a DNA double-strand break) that is finally responsible for genotoxicity and apoptosis. Here we analysed whether the PI3-like kinase ATM is involved in this process. ATM is a major player in recognizing and signaling DNA breaks, but most reports are limited to ionizing radiation. Comparing mouse ATM knockout fibroblasts (ATM-/-) with the corresponding wild-type (ATM+/+) we show that ATM-/- cells are hypersensitive to the cytotoxic and apoptosis-inducing effect of N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (MNNG). Inhibition of O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) activity by O6-benzylguanine enhanced cell killing whereas the increase of MGMT activity by transfection with an expression vector provoked MNNG resistance. This was more pronounced in ATM-/- than in ATM+/+ cells, suggesting that O6MeG is responsible, at least in part, for increased MNNG sensitivity of ATM-/- cells. Cytogenetic studies showed that MNNG-induced sister-chromatid exchange frequencies were the same in ATM-/- and ATM+/+ cells in the first mitoses following treatment, but higher in ATM-/- cells than in the wild-type in the second post-treatment mitoses, when MGMT was depleted. Also, a significant higher frequency of MNNG-induced chromosomal aberrations was observed in ATM-/- than in ATM+/+ cells when analysed at a late recovery time, which is consistent with O6MeG being the inducing lesion. In summary, we conclude that ATM is not only involved in resistance to ionizing radiation but also to methylating agents, playing a role in the repair of secondary DNA damage generated from O6MeG lesions. The data also show that ATM is not required for activating the apoptotic pathway in response to O6MeG since ATM-/- cells are able to undergo apoptosis with high frequency.
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- Malgorzata Debiak
- Division of Applied Toxicology, Institute of Toxicology, University of Mainz, Obere Zahlbacher Street 67, D-55131 Mainz, Germany
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Fukao T, Chen P, Ren J, Kaneko H, Zhang GX, Kondo M, Yamamoto KI, Furuichi Y, Takeda S, Kondo N, Lavin MF. Disruption of the BLM gene in ATM-null DT40 cells does not exacerbate either phenotype. Oncogene 2004; 23:1498-506. [PMID: 14985700 DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1207276] [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] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Bloom syndrome and ataxia-telangiectasia are autosomal recessive human disorders characterized by immunodeficiency, genome instability and predisposition to develop cancer. Recent data reveal that the products of these two genes, BLM and ATM, interact and function together in recognizing abnormal DNA structures. To investigate the function of these two molecules in DNA damage recognition, we generated double knockouts of ATM(-/-) BLM(-/-) in the DT40 chicken B-lymphocyte cell line. The double mutant cells were viable and exhibited a variety of characteristics of both ATM(-/-) and BLM(-/-) cells. There was no evidence for exacerbation of either phenotype; however, the more extreme radiosensitivity seen in ATM(-/-) and the elevated sister chromatid exchange seen in BLM(-/-) cells were retained in the double mutants. These results suggest that ATM and BLM have largely distinct roles in recognizing different forms of damage in DNA, but are also compatible with partially overlapping functions in recognizing breaks in radiation-damaged DNA.
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- Toshiyuki Fukao
- Department of Pediatrics, Gifu University School of Medicine, Gifu 500-8076, Japan
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Golding SE, Rosenberg E, Khalil A, McEwen A, Holmes M, Neill S, Povirk LF, Valerie K. Double strand break repair by homologous recombination is regulated by cell cycle-independent signaling via ATM in human glioma cells. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:15402-10. [PMID: 14744854 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m314191200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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To investigate double strand break (DSB) repair and signaling in human glioma cells, we stably transfected human U87 (ATM(+), p53(+)) glioma cells with a plasmid having a single I-SceI site within an inactive green fluorescent protein (GFP) expression cassette, allowing for the detection of homologous recombination repair (HRR) by GFP expression. HRR and nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ) were also determined by PCR. DSB repair was first detected at 12 h postinfection with an adenovirus expressing I-SceI with repair reaching plateau levels between 24 and 48 h. Within this time frame, NHEJ predominated over HRR in the range of 3-50-fold. To assess the involvement of ATM in DSB repair, we first examined whether ATM was associated with the DSB. Chromatin immunoprecipitation showed that ATM was present at the site of the DSB as early as 18 h postinfection. In cells treated with caffeine, an inhibitor of ATM, HRR was reduced, whereas NHEJ was not. In support of this finding, GFP flow cytometry demonstrated that caffeine reduced HRR by 90% under conditions when ATM kinase activity was inhibited. Dominant-negative ATM expressed from adenovirus inhibited HRR by 45%, also having little to no effect on NHEJ. Furthermore, HRR was inhibited by caffeine in serum-starved cells arrested in G(0)/G(1), suggesting that ATM is also important for HRR outside of the S and G(2) cell cycle phases. Altogether, these results demonstrate that HRR contributes substantially to DSB repair in human glioma cells, and, importantly, ATM plays a critical role in regulating HRR but not NHEJ throughout the cell cycle.
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- Sarah E Golding
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Pharmacology & Toxicology, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia 23298, USA
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Henning W, Stürzbecher HW. Homologous recombination and cell cycle checkpoints: Rad51 in tumour progression and therapy resistance. Toxicology 2003; 193:91-109. [PMID: 14599770 DOI: 10.1016/s0300-483x(03)00291-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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We provide an overview of the functional interrelationship between genes and proteins related to DNA repair by homologous recombination and cell cycle regulation in relation to the progression and therapy resistance of human tumours. To ensure the high-fidelity transmission of genetic information from one generation to the next, cells have evolved mechanisms to monitor genome integrity. Upon DNA damage, cells initiate complex response pathways including cell cycle arrest, activation of genes and gene products involved in DNA repair, and under some circumstances, the triggering of programmed cell death. Deregulation of this co-ordinated response leads to genetic instability and is fundamental to the aetiology of human cancer. Homologous recombination involved in DNA repair is induced by environmental damage as well as misreplication during the normal cell cycle. However, when not regulated properly, it can result in the loss of heterozygocity or genetic rearrangements, central to the process of carcinogenesis. The central step of homologous recombination is the DNA strand exchange reaction catalysed by the eukaryotic Rad51 protein. Here, we describe the recent progress in our understanding of how Rad51 is involved in the signalling and repair of DNA damage and how tumour suppressors, such as p53, ATM, BRCA1, BRCA2, BLM and FANCD2 are linked to Rad51-dependent pathways. An increased knowledge of the role of Rad51 in DNA repair by homologous recombination and its effects on cell cycle progression, tumour development and tumour resistance may provide opportunities for identifying improved diagnostic markers and developing more effective treatments for cancer.
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- Wilhelm Henning
- Institute of Pathology, University Clinic Schleswig-Holstein, Ratzeburger Allee 160, D-23538 Lübeck, Germany
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Böhm L, Roos WP, Serafin AM. Inhibition of DNA repair by Pentoxifylline and related methylxanthine derivatives. Toxicology 2003; 193:153-60. [PMID: 14599774 DOI: 10.1016/s0300-483x(03)00294-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The methylxanthine drug Pentoxifylline is reviewed for new properties which have emerged only relatively recently and for which clinical applications can be expected. After a summary on the established systemic effects of Pentoxifylline on the microcirculation and reduction of tumour anoxia, the role of the drug in the treatment of vasoocclusive disorders, cerebral ischemia, infectious diseases, septic shock and acute respiratory distress, the review focuses on another level of drug action which is based on in vitro observations in a variety of cell lines. Pentoxifylline and the related drug Caffeine are known radiosensitizers especially in p53 mutant cells. The explanation that the drug abrogates the G2 block and shortens repair in G2 by promoting early entry into mitosis is not anymore tenable because enhancement of radiotoxicity requires presence of the drug during irradiation and fails when the drug is added after irradiation at the G2 maximum. Repair assays by measurement of recovery ratios and by delayed plating experiments indeed strongly suggested a role in repair which is now confirmed for Pentoxifylline by constant field gel electrophoresis (CFGE) measurements and for Pentoxifylline and for Caffeine by use of a variety of repair mutants. The picture now emerging shows that Caffeine and Pentoxifylline inhibit homologous recombination by targeting members of the PIK kinase family (ATM and ATR) which facilitate repair in G2. Pentoxifylline induced repair inhibition between irradiation dose fractions to counter interfraction repair has been successfully applied in a model for stereotactic surgery. Another realistic avenue of application of Pentoxifylline in tumour therapy comes from experiments which show that repair events in G2 can be targeted directly by addition of cytotoxic drugs and Pentoxifylline at the G2 maximum. Under these conditions massive dose enhancement factors of up to 80 have been observed suggesting that it may be possible to realise dramatic improvements to tumour growth control in the clinic.
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- Lothar Böhm
- Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Stellenbosch, P.O. Box 19063, 7505 Tygerberg, South Africa.
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- T S Lin
- Division of Hematology and Oncology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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Furuno-Fukushi I, Masumura KI, Furuse T, Noda Y, Takahagi M, Saito T, Hoki Y, Suzuki H, Wynshaw-Boris A, Nohmi T, Tatsumi K. Effect ofAtmDisruption on Spontaneously Arising and Radiation-Induced Deletion Mutations in Mouse Liver. Radiat Res 2003; 160:549-58. [PMID: 14565827 DOI: 10.1667/rr3073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Deletion mutations were efficiently recovered in mouse liver after total-body irradiation with X rays by using a transgenic mouse "gpt-delta" system that harbored a lambda EG10 shuttle vector with the red and gam genes for Spi- (sensitive to P2 lysogen interference) selection. We incorporated this system into homozygous Atm-knockout mice as a model of the radiosensitive hereditary disease ataxia telangiectasia (AT). Lambda phages recovered from the livers of X-irradiated mice with the Atm+/+ genotype showed a dose-dependent increase in the Spi- mutant frequency up to sixfold at 50 Gy over the unirradiated control of 2.8x10(-6). The livers from Atm-/- mice yielded a virtually identical dose-response curve for X rays with a background fraction of 2.4x10(-6). Structural analyses revealed no significant difference in the proportion of -1 frameshifts and larger deletions between Atm+/+ and Atm-/- mice, although larger deletions prevailed in X-ray-induced Spi- mutants irrespective of Atm status. While a possible defect in DNA repair after irradiation has been strongly indicated in the literature for nondividing cultured cells in vitro from AT patients, the Atm disruption does not significantly affect radiation mutagenesis in the stationary mouse liver in vivo.
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- Ikuko Furuno-Fukushi
- Research Center for Radiation Safety, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8555, Japan
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The double-strand break (DSB) is believed to be one of the most severe types of DNA damage, and if left unrepaired is lethal to the cell. Several different types of repair act on the DSB. The most important in mammalian cells are nonhomologous end-joining (NHEJ) and homologous recombination repair (HRR). NHEJ is the predominant type of DSB repair in mammalian cells, as opposed to lower eucaryotes, but HRR has recently been implicated in critical cell signaling and regulatory functions that are essential for cell viability. Whereas NHEJ repair appears constitutive, HRR is regulated by the cell cycle and inducible signal transduction pathways. More is known about the molecular details of NHEJ than HRR in mammalian cells. This review focuses on the mechanisms and regulation of DSB repair in mammalian cells, the signaling pathways that regulate these processes and the potential crosstalk between NHEJ and HRR, and between repair and other stress-induced pathways with emphasis on the regulatory circuitry associated with the ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM) protein.
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- Kristoffer Valerie
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Medical College of Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298-0058, USA.
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Wang X, Khadpe J, Hu B, Iliakis G, Wang Y. An overactivated ATR/CHK1 pathway is responsible for the prolonged G2 accumulation in irradiated AT cells. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:30869-74. [PMID: 12791699 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m301876200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Induction of checkpoint responses in G1, S, and G2 phases of the cell cycle after exposure of cells to ionizing radiation (IR) is essential for maintaining genomic integrity. Ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM) plays a key role in initiating this response in all three phases of the cell cycle. However, cells lacking functional ATM exhibit a prolonged G2 arrest after IR, suggesting regulation by an ATM-independent checkpoint response. The mechanism for this ataxia telangiectasia (AT)-independent G2-checkpoint response remains unknown. We report here that the G2 checkpoint in irradiated human AT cells derives from an overactivation of the ATR/CHK1 pathway. Chk1 small interfering RNA abolishes the IR-induced prolonged G2 checkpoint and radiosensitizes AT cells to killing. These results link the activation of ATR/CHK1 with the prolonged G2 arrest in AT cells and show that activation of this G2 checkpoint contributes to the survival of AT cells.
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- Xiang Wang
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Kimmel Cancer Center of Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, USA
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Starczynski J, Simmons W, Flavell JR, Byrd PJ, Stewart GS, Kullar HS, Groom A, Crocker J, Moss PAH, Reynolds GM, Glavina-Durdov M, Taylor AMR, Fegan C, Stankovic T, Murray PG. Variations in ATM protein expression during normal lymphoid differentiation and among B-cell-derived neoplasias. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY 2003; 163:423-32. [PMID: 12875964 PMCID: PMC1868216 DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9440(10)63672-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM) protein plays a central role in the cellular response to DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs). Developmentally programmed DSBs are restricted to cellular subsets within lymphoid tissues and we asked whether ATM expression is differentially regulated during lymphoid differentiation. We showed that immature B cells in bone marrow and immature T cells of the thymic cortex were negative or weakly ATM-positive. T cells of thymic medulla and peripheral tissues strongly expressed ATM. High levels of ATM were present in the B lymphocytes of the mantle zone and in plasma cells, while the majority of germinal center B cells were negative or weakly labeled. Therefore, ATM expression appears to be down-regulated at those stages of lymphoid development where physiological DNA DSBs occur. In B-chronic lymphocytic leukemia and mantle cell lymphoma we observed two categories: ATM-negative tumors, most likely reflecting the presence of ATM mutation, and tumors with abundant ATM expression. Most follicular center-cell lymphomas and diffuse large B-cell lymphomas, which rarely show inactivation of the ATM gene, were negative or weakly ATM-positive. Tumor cells from most cases of Hodgkin's disease were ATM-negative. Therefore, unless ATM inactivation occurs, ATM expression in lymphoid tumors is likely to reflect their cellular origin. As a result, immunostaining to identify lymphoid neoplasias with ATM inactivation might only be feasible for tumors derived from the stages where ATM is constitutively highly expressed.
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- Jane Starczynski
- Department of Histopathology, Birmingham Heartland's Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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Nyberg KA, Michelson RJ, Putnam CW, Weinert TA. Toward maintaining the genome: DNA damage and replication checkpoints. Annu Rev Genet 2003; 36:617-56. [PMID: 12429704 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.36.060402.113540] [Citation(s) in RCA: 624] [Impact Index Per Article: 29.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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DNA checkpoints play a significant role in cancer pathology, perhaps most notably in maintaining genome stability. This review summarizes the genetic and molecular mechanisms of checkpoint activation in response to DNA damage. The major checkpoint proteins common to all eukaryotes are identified and discussed, together with how the checkpoint proteins interact to induce arrest within each cell cycle phase. Also discussed are the molecular signals that activate checkpoint responses, including single-strand DNA, double-strand breaks, and aberrant replication forks. We address the connection between checkpoint proteins and damage repair mechanisms, how cells recover from an arrest response, and additional roles that checkpoint proteins play in DNA metabolism. Finally, the connection between checkpoint gene mutation and genomic instability is considered.
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- Kara A Nyberg
- Molecular and Cellular Biology Department, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85721, USA.
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The prospect of specifically controlling gene activities in vivo has become a defining hallmark of many model organisms of biological research. Where once the aim was to gain control over gene activities using endogenous control elements, new technologies have emerged that owe their remarkable specificity to heterologous components derived from evolutionarily distant species. This review highlights inducible transcriptional systems and site-specific recombination. Their quantitative and qualitative characteristics are discussed, with examples of how recent developments have expanded the spectrum of cells and organisms that are now accessible to genetic dissection of unprecedented precision. Transgenesis has already converted the mouse into a prime model for mammalian genetics. Combined with the new approaches of conditional activation or inactivation of genes, this model has opened up new horizons for the analysis of gene function in mammals.
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- Manfred Gossen
- Max Delbrück Centrum, Robert-Rössle-Strasse 10, D-13125 Berlin, Germany.
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Ferguson DO, Sekiguchi JM, Frank KM, Gao Y, Sharpless NE, Gu Y, Manis J, DePinho RA, Alt FW. The interplay between nonhomologous end-joining and cell cycle checkpoint factors in development, genomic stability, and tumorigenesis. COLD SPRING HARBOR SYMPOSIA ON QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY 2003; 65:395-403. [PMID: 12760055 DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2000.65.395] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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- D O Ferguson
- Center for Blood Research, Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Hashimoto M, Rao S, Tokuno O, Yamamoto KI, Takata M, Takeda S, Utsumi H. DNA-PK: the major target for wortmannin-mediated radiosensitization by the inhibition of DSB repair via NHEJ pathway. JOURNAL OF RADIATION RESEARCH 2003; 44:151-159. [PMID: 13678345 DOI: 10.1269/jrr.44.151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The effect of wortmannin posttreatment was studied in cells derived from different species (hamster, mouse, chicken, and human) with normal and defective DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK) activity, cells with and without the ataxia telangiectasia (ATM) gene, and cells lacking other regulatory proteins involved in the DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair pathways. Clonogenic assays were used to obtain all results. Wortmannin radiosensitization was observed in Chinese hamster cells (V79-B310H , CHO-K1), mouse mammary carcinoma cells (SR-1), transformed human fibroblast (N2KYSV), chicken B lymphocyte wild-type cells (DT40), and chicken Rad54 knockout cells (Rad54-/-). However, mouse mammary carcinoma cells (SX9) with defects in the DNA-PK and chicken DNA-PK catalytic subunit (DNA-PKcs) knockout cells (DNA-PKcs-/-/-) failed to exhibit wortmannin radiosensitization. On the other hand, SCID mouse cells (SC3VA2) exposed to wortmannin exhibited significant increases in radiosensitivity, possibly because of some residual function of DNA-PKcs. Moreover, the transformed human cells derived from AT patients (AT2KYSV) and chicken ATM knockout cells (ATM-/-) showed pronounced wortmannin radiosensitization. These studies demonstrate confirm that the mechanism underlying wortmannin radiosensitization is the inhibition of DNA-PK, but not of ATM, thereby resulting in the inhibition of DSB repair via nonhomologous endjoining (NHEJ).
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- Mitsumasa Hashimoto
- Research Reactor Institute, Kyoto University, Kumatori, Sennan-gun, Osaka 590-0494, Japan
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Fedier A, Schlamminger M, Schwarz VA, Haller U, Howell SB, Fink D. Loss of atm sensitises p53-deficient cells to topoisomerase poisons and antimetabolites. Ann Oncol 2003; 14:938-45. [PMID: 12796033 DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdg240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Ataxia-telangiectasia is a pleiotropic autosomal recessive disorder caused by mutations in the ATM gene. In addition to a profound cancer predisposition, another hallmark of ataxia-telangiectasia is radiosensitivity. Recently, p53-null mouse fibroblasts have been reported to be radiosensitised by the concurrent loss of ATM. MATERIALS AND METHODS We compared the sensitivity of atm(+/+)/p53(-/-) and atm(-/-)/p53(-/-) mouse embryonic fibroblasts to different classes of chemotherapeutic agents using the MTT assay, Trypan Blue exclusion and fluorescence-activated cell sorting for cell cycle and apoptosis analyses. RESULTS Loss of ATM function in p53-deficient cells resulted in a 2- to 4-fold increase in sensitivity to the topoisomerase I poisons camptothecin and topotecan, to the topoisomerase II poisons doxorubicin, epirubicin and etoposide, and to the antimetabolites 5-fluorouracil and gemcitabine, but not to the platinum compounds cisplatin, carboplatin and oxaliplatin, the taxanes docetaxel and paclitaxel, or to busulfan. Loss of ATM function did not result in increased apoptosis, but resulted in increased Trypan Blue staining in response to epirubicin, suggesting that processes other than apoptosis may mediate cytotoxicity. ATM deficiency did not alter the extent of G(1)/S or G(2)/M cell cycle phase accumulation produced by epirubicin, suggesting that enhanced sensitivity was not due to failure of checkpoint activation. CONCLUSIONS We provide further evidence that ATM is involved in regulating cellular defences against some cytotoxic agents in the absence of p53. Tumour-targeted functional inhibition of ATM may be a valuable strategy for increasing the efficacy of anticancer agents in the treatment of p53-mutant cancers.
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- A Fedier
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Division of Gynaecology, University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland
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Ha L, Ceryak S, Patierno SR. Chromium (VI) activates ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM) protein. Requirement of ATM for both apoptosis and recovery from terminal growth arrest. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:17885-94. [PMID: 12637545 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m210560200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM) protein plays a central role in early stages of DNA double strand break (DSB) detection and controls cellular responses to this damage. Although hypersensitive to ionizing radiation-induced clonogenic lethality, ataxia telangiectasia cells are paradoxically deficient in their ability to undergo ionizing radiation-induced apoptosis. This contradiction illustrates the complexity of the central role of ATM in DNA damage response and the need for further understanding. Certain hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI)) compounds are implicated as occupational respiratory carcinogens at doses that are both genotoxic and cytotoxic. Cr(VI) induces a broad spectrum of DNA damage, but Cr(VI)-induced DSBs have not been reported. Here, we examined the role of ATM in the cellular response to Cr(VI) and found that Cr(VI) activates ATM. We also show that physiological targets of ATM, p53 Ser-15 and Chk2 Thr-68, were phosphorylated by Cr(VI) exposure in an ATM-dependent fashion. We found that ATM-/- cells were markedly resistant to Cr(VI)-induced apoptosis but considerably more sensitive to Cr(VI)-induced clonogenic lethality than wild type cells, indicating that resistance to Cr(VI)-induced apoptosis did not confer a selective survival advantage. However, analysis of long term growth arrest revealed a striking difference: ATM-/- cells were markedly less able to recover from Cr(VI)-induced growth arrest. This indicates that terminal growth arrest is the fate of these apoptosis-resistant cells. In summary, ATM is involved in cellular response to a complex genotoxin that may not directly induce DSBs. Our data suggest that ATM is a major signal initiator for genotoxin-induced apoptosis but, paradoxically, also contributes to maintenance of cell survival by facilitating recovery/escape from terminal growth arrest. The results also strongly suggest that terminal growth arrest is not merely an extended or even irreversible form of checkpoint arrest, but instead an independent and unique cell fate pathway.
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- Linan Ha
- Department of Pharmacology, Program in Molecular and Cellular Oncology, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, D. C. 20037, USA
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Yuan SSF, Chang HL, Lee EYHP. Ionizing radiation-induced Rad51 nuclear focus formation is cell cycle-regulated and defective in both ATM(-/-) and c-Abl(-/-) cells. Mutat Res 2003; 525:85-92. [PMID: 12650908 DOI: 10.1016/s0027-5107(03)00009-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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In eukaryotes, DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) can be repaired by either non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ) or homologous recombination (HR) pathways. Rad50 protein is a component of the Rad50/NBS1/Mre11 nuclease complex that functions in both the NHEJ and recombinational repair of DNA DSBs. On the other hand, Rad51 protein, a homolog of bacterial RecA and a member of the Rad52 epistasis group, plays a crucial role exclusively in the recombinational repair pathway. We analyzed the effects of cell cycle progression and genetic background on the ionizing radiation (IR)-induced Rad51 and Rad50 repair focus formation. Herein, we demonstrated that IR-induced Rad51, but not Rad50, nuclear focus formation was cell cycle-dependent. Furthermore, IR-induced Rad51 focus formation was defective in AT and c-Abl(-/-) cells, but not wild type or NBS cells. A decreased and delayed formation of Rad51 foci-containing nuclei was observed in AT cells upon IR, whereas in c-Abl(-/-) cells a decreased but not delayed formation of Rad51 foci-containing nuclei was observed. In conclusion, effective and prompt IR-induced Rad51 focus formation is cell cycle-regulated and requires both ATM and c-Abl.
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- Shyng-Shiou F Yuan
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan, ROC.
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Cancer develops when cells no longer follow their normal pattern of controlled growth. In the absence or disregard of such regulation, resulting from changes in their genetic makeup, these errant cells acquire a growth advantage, expanding into precancerous clones. Over the past decade many studies have revealed the relevance of genomic mutation in this process, be it by misreplication, environmental damage, or a deficiency in repairing endogenous and exogenous damage. Here we discuss the possibility of homologous recombination as an errant DNA repair mechanism that can result in loss of heterozygosity or genetic rearrangements. Some of these genetic alterations may play a primary role in carcinogenesis, but they are more likely to be involved in secondary and subsequent steps of carcinogenesis by which recessive oncogenic mutations are revealed. Patients, whose cells display an increased frequency of recombination, also have an elevated frequency of cancer, further supporting the link between recombination and carcinogenesis.
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Pan-Hammarström Q, Dai S, Zhao Y, van Dijk-Härd IF, Gatti RA, Børresen-Dale AL, Hammarström L. ATM is not required in somatic hypermutation of VH, but is involved in the introduction of mutations in the switch mu region. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2003; 170:3707-16. [PMID: 12646636 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.170.7.3707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Class switch recombination (CSR) and somatic hypermutation (SHM) are mechanistically related processes that share common key factors such as activation-induced cytidine deaminase. We have previously shown a role for ATM (mutated in ataxia-telangiectasia) in CSR. In this paper we show that the frequency, distribution, and nature of base pair substitutions in the Ig variable (V) heavy chain genes in ataxia-telangiectasia patients are largely similar to those in normal donors, suggesting a normal SHM process. Characterization of the third complementarity-determining region in B cells from ataxia-telangiectasia patients also shows a normal V(D)J recombination process. SHM-like mutations could be identified in the switch (S) mu region (up to several hundred base pairs upstream of the S mu -S(alpha) breakpoints) in normal in vivo switched human B cells. In the absence of ATM, mutations can still be found in this region, but at less than half the frequency of that in normal donors. The latter mutations are mainly due to transitions (86% compared with 58% in controls) and are biased to A or T nucleotides. An ATM-dependent mechanism, different from that generating SHM in V genes, is therefore likely to be involved in introducing SHM-like mutations in the S region. ATM may thus be one of the factors that is not shared by the CSR and SHM processes.
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- Qiang Pan-Hammarström
- Division of Clinical Immunology, IMPI, Karolinska Institute at Huddinge Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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Wang X, Wang H, Iliakis G, Wang Y. Caffeine-induced radiosensitization is independent of nonhomologous end joining of DNA double-strand breaks. Radiat Res 2003; 159:426-32. [PMID: 12600246 DOI: 10.1667/0033-7587(2003)159[0426:ciriio]2.0.co;2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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After exposure to ionizing radiation, proliferating cells actively slow down progression through the cell cycle through the activation of checkpoints to provide time for repair. Two major complementary DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair pathways exist in mammalian cells, homologous recombination repair (HRR) and nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ). The relationship between checkpoint activation and these two types of DNA DSB repair pathways is not clear. Caffeine, as a nonspecific inhibitor of ATM and ATR, abolishes multi-checkpoint responses and sensitizes cells to radiation-induced killing. However, it remains unknown which DNA repair process, NHEJ or HRR, or both, is affected by caffeine-abolished checkpoint responses. We report here that caffeine abolishes the radiation-induced G(2)-phase checkpoint and efficiently sensitizes both NHEJ-proficient and NHEJ-deficient mammalian cells to radiation-induced killing without affecting NHEJ. Our results indicate that caffeine-induced radiosensitization occurs by affecting an NHEJ-independent process, possibly HRR.
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- Xiang Wang
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Kimmel Cancer Center of Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, USA
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Wang H, Wang X, Iliakis G, Wang Y. Caffeine could not efficiently sensitize homologous recombination repair-deficient cells to ionizing radiation-induced killing. Radiat Res 2003; 159:420-5. [PMID: 12600245 DOI: 10.1667/0033-7587(2003)159[0420:ccnesh]2.0.co;2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Caffeine inhibits ATM and ATR, two important checkpoint regulators, abolishes ionizing radiation-induced checkpoint response, and radiosensitizes cells. Radiation-induced DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are repaired by two major processes, homologous recombination repair (HRR) and nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ). It remains unclear which repair process, HRR or NHEJ, is affected when the checkpoint responses are abolished by caffeine. In this study we observed the effect of caffeine on gene-targeted DT40 chicken lymphoblast cells. We show that caffeine efficiently abolishes S- and G(2)-phase checkpoint responses after irradiation in all cell lines tested and greatly radiosensitizes wild-type and ATM(-/-) cells, the partially checkpoint-deficient cells. However, caffeine has a much smaller radiosensitizing effect on RAD54(-/-) cells and has no effect on RAD51-deficient cells. RAD51 and RAD54 are the important factors for HRR. Our results indicate that the checkpoint responses abolished by caffeine (S and G(2)) mainly affect HRR, which results in cell radiosensitization.
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- Huichen Wang
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Kimmel Cancer Center of Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, USA
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Zenvirth D, Richler C, Bardhan A, Baudat F, Barzilai A, Wahrman J, Simchen G. Mammalian meiosis involves DNA double-strand breaks with 3' overhangs. Chromosoma 2003; 111:369-76. [PMID: 12644952 DOI: 10.1007/s00412-002-0223-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2002] [Revised: 10/10/2002] [Accepted: 10/29/2002] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Meiotic recombination in yeast is initiated at DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs), processed into 3' single-strand overhangs that are active in homology search, repair and formation of recombinant molecules. Are 3' overhangs recombination intermediaries in mouse germ cells too? To answer this question we developed a novel approach based on the properties of the Klenow enzyme. We carried out two different, successive in situ Klenow enzyme-based reactions on sectioned preparations of testicular tubules. Signals showing 3' overhangs were observed during wild-type mouse spermatogenesis, but not in Spo11(-/-) males, which lack meiotic DSBs. In Atm(-/-) mice, abundant positively stained spermatocytes were present, indicating an accumulation of non-repaired DSBs, suggesting the involvement of ATM in repair of meiotic DSBs. Thus the processing of DSBs into 3' overhangs is common to meiotic cells in mammals and yeast, and probably in all eukaryotes.
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- Drora Zenvirth
- Department of Genetics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
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Maintenance of genome stability is essential for avoiding the passage to neoplasia. The DNA-damage response--a cornerstone of genome stability--occurs by a swift transduction of the DNA-damage signal to many cellular pathways. A prime example is the cellular response to DNA double-strand breaks, which activate the ATM protein kinase that, in turn, modulates numerous signalling pathways. ATM mutations lead to the cancer-predisposing genetic disorder ataxia-telangiectasia (A-T). Understanding ATM's mode of action provides new insights into the association between defective responses to DNA damage and cancer, and brings us closer to resolving the issue of cancer predisposition in some A-T carriers.
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- Yosef Shiloh
- The David and Inez Myers Laboratory for Genetic Research, Department of Human Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.
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Brown WRA, Hubbard SJ, Tickle C, Wilson SA. The chicken as a model for large-scale analysis of vertebrate gene function. Nat Rev Genet 2003; 4:87-98. [PMID: 12560806 DOI: 10.1038/nrg998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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- William R A Brown
- Institute of Genetics, Nottingham University, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK
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Li Y, Shimizu H, Xiang SL, Maru Y, Takao N, Yamamoto KI. Arg tyrosine kinase is involved in homologous recombinational DNA repair. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2002; 299:697-702. [PMID: 12470634 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-291x(02)02692-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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c-Abl plays important roles in cellular response to DNA damage. However, possible roles for Arg (Abl-related gene) in DNA damage response are unknown. Here, we show that ionizing radiation (IR)-induced Rad51 focus formation is reduced in Arg-deficient cells generated from a chicken B cell line by targeted disruption. This is consistent with the findings that Arg-deficient cells display hypersensitivity to IR, elevated frequencies of IR-induced chromosomal aberrations, and reduced targeted integration frequencies. All of these abnormalities in DNA damage repair are also observed in ATM-deficient cells but not in c-Abl-deficient cells. Finally, we show that Arg interacts with and phosphorylates Rad51 in 293T cells. These results suggest that Arg plays a role in homologous recombinational (HR) DNA repair by phosphorylating Rad51.
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- Yingzhu Li
- Department of Molecular Pathology, Cancer Research Institute, Kanazawa University, 13-1 Takaramachi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920-0934, Japan
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Kitao H, Yuan ZM. Regulation of ionizing radiation-induced Rad52 nuclear foci formation by c-Abl-mediated phosphorylation. J Biol Chem 2002; 277:48944-8. [PMID: 12379650 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m208151200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The RAD52 epistasis group of proteins, including Rad51, Rad52, and Rad54, plays an important role in the homologous recombination repair of double strand breaks. A well characterized feature associated with the ability of these proteins to repair double strand breaks is inducible nuclear foci formation at the sites of damage. How the process is functionally regulated in response to DNA damage, however, remains elusive. We show here that c-Abl tyrosine kinase associates with and phosphorylates Rad52 on tyrosine 104. Importantly, the very same site of Rad52 is phosphorylated on exposure of cells to ionizing radiation (IR). The functional significance of c-Abl-dependent phosphorylation of Rad52 is underscored by our findings that cells that express the phosphorylation-resistant Rad52 mutant, in which tyrosine 104 is replaced by phenylalanine, exhibit compromised nuclear foci formation in response to IR. Furthermore, IR-induced Rad52 nuclear foci formation is markedly suppressed by the expression of dominant-negative c-Abl. Together our data support a mode of post-translational regulation of Rad52 mediated by the c-Abl tyrosine kinase.
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- Hiroyuki Kitao
- Department of Cancer Cell Biology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Belli M, Sapora O, Tabocchini MA. Molecular targets in cellular response to ionizing radiation and implications in space radiation protection. JOURNAL OF RADIATION RESEARCH 2002; 43 Suppl:S13-S19. [PMID: 12793724 DOI: 10.1269/jrr.43.s13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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DNA repair systems and cell cycle checkpoints closely co-operate in the attempt of maintaining the genomic integrity of cells damaged by ionizing radiation. DNA double-strand breaks (DSB) are considered as the most biologically important radiation-induced damage. Their spatial distribution and association with other types of damage depend on radiation quality. It is believed these features affect damage reparability, thus explaining the higher efficiency for cellular effects of densely ionizing radiation with respect to gamma-rays. DSB repair systems identified in mammalian cells are homologous recombination (HR), single-strand annealing (SSA) and non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ). Some enzymes may participate in more than one of these repair systems. DNA damage also triggers biochemical signals activating checkpoints responsible for delay in cell cycle progression that allows more time for repair. Those at G1/S and S phases prevent replication of damaged DNA and those at G2/M phase prevent segregation of changed chromosomes. Individuals with lack or alterations of genes involved in DNA DSB repair and cell cycle checkpoints exhibit syndromes characterized by genome instability and predisposition to cancer. Information reviewed in this paper on the basic mechanisms of cellular response to ionizing radiation indicates their importance for a number of issues relevant to protection of astronauts from space radiation.
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- Mauro Belli
- Physics Laboratory, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, 00161 Rome, Italy.
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We review the genes and proteins related to the homologous recombinational repair (HRR) pathway that are implicated in cancer through either genetic disorders that predispose to cancer through chromosome instability or the occurrence of somatic mutations that contribute to carcinogenesis. Ataxia telangiectasia (AT), Nijmegen breakage syndrome (NBS), and an ataxia-like disorder (ATLD), are chromosome instability disorders that are defective in the ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM), NBS, and Mre11 genes, respectively. These genes are critical in maintaining cellular resistance to ionizing radiation (IR), which kills largely by the production of double-strand breaks (DSBs). Bloom syndrome involves a defect in the BLM helicase, which seems to play a role in restarting DNA replication forks that are blocked at lesions, thereby promoting chromosome stability. The Werner syndrome gene (WRN) helicase, another member of the RecQ family like BLM, has very recently been found to help mediate homologous recombination. Fanconi anemia (FA) is a genetically complex chromosomal instability disorder involving seven or more genes, one of which is BRCA2. FA may be at least partially caused by the aberrant production of reactive oxidative species. The breast cancer-associated BRCA1 and BRCA2 proteins are strongly implicated in HRR; BRCA2 associates with Rad51 and appears to regulate its activity. We discuss in detail the phenotypes of the various mutant cell lines and the signaling pathways mediated by the ATM kinase. ATM's phosphorylation targets can be grouped into oxidative stress-mediated transcriptional changes, cell cycle checkpoints, and recombinational repair. We present the DNA damage response pathways by using the DSB as the prototype lesion, whose incorrect repair can initiate and augment karyotypic abnormalities.
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- Larry H Thompson
- Biology and Biotechnology Research Program, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory L-441, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, CA 94551-0808, USA.
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Kolomietz E, Meyn MS, Pandita A, Squire JA. The role of Alu repeat clusters as mediators of recurrent chromosomal aberrations in tumors. Genes Chromosomes Cancer 2002; 35:97-112. [PMID: 12203773 DOI: 10.1002/gcc.10111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 183] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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There is increasing evidence for the involvement of repetitive DNA sequences as facilitators of some of the recurrent chromosomal rearrangements observed in human tumors. The high densities of repetitive DNA, such as Alu elements, at some chromosomal translocation breakpoint regions has led to the suggestion that these sequences could provide hot spots for homologous recombination, and could mediate the translocation process and elevate the likelihood of other types of chromosomal rearrangements taking place. The Alu core sequence itself has been suggested to promote DNA strand exchange and genomic rearrangement, and it has striking sequence similarity to chi (which has been shown to stimulate recBCD-mediated recombination in Escherichia coli). Alu repeats have been shown to be involved in the generation of many constitutional gene mutations in meiotic cells, attributed to unequal homologous recombination and consequent deletions and/or duplication events. It has recently been demonstrated that similar deletion events can take place in neoplasia because several types of leukemia-associated chromosomal rearrangements frequently have submicroscopic deletions immediately adjacent to the translocation breakpoint regions. Significantly, these types of deletions appear to be more likely to take place when the regions subject to rearrangement contain a high density of Alu repeats. With the completion of the Human Genome Project, it will soon be possible to create more comprehensive maps of the distribution and densities of repetitive sequences, such as Alu, throughout the genome. Such maps will offer unique insights into the relative distribution of cancer translocation breakpoints and the localization of clusters of repetitive DNA.
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- Elena Kolomietz
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Princess Margaret Hospital and Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto, Canada
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