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Masson JY, Stasiak AZ, Stasiak A, Benson FE, West SC. Complex formation by the human RAD51C and XRCC3 recombination repair proteins. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2001; 98:8440-6. [PMID: 11459987 PMCID: PMC37455 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.111005698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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In vertebrates, the RAD51 protein is required for genetic recombination, DNA repair, and cellular proliferation. Five paralogs of RAD51, known as RAD51B, RAD51C, RAD51D, XRCC2, and XRCC3, have been identified and also shown to be required for recombination and genome stability. At the present time, however, very little is known about their biochemical properties or precise biological functions. As a first step toward understanding the roles of the RAD51 paralogs in recombination, the human RAD51C and XRCC3 proteins were overexpressed and purified from baculovirus-infected insect cells. The two proteins copurify as a complex, a property that reflects their endogenous association observed in HeLa cells. Purified RAD51C--XRCC3 complex binds single-stranded, but not duplex DNA, to form protein--DNA networks that have been visualized by electron microscopy.
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- J Y Masson
- Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Clare Hall Laboratories, South Mimms, Hertfordshire EN6 3LD, United Kingdom
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O'Regan P, Wilson C, Townsend S, Thacker J. XRCC2 is a nuclear RAD51-like protein required for damage-dependent RAD51 focus formation without the need for ATP binding. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:22148-53. [PMID: 11301337 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m102396200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The human XRCC2 gene was recently identified by its ability to complement a hamster cell line, irs1, which is sensitive to DNA-damaging agents and shows genetic instability. The XRCC2 protein is highly conserved in mammalian species and has structural features, including a putative ATP-binding domain (P-loop), consistent with membership of the RecA/RAD51 family of recombination-repair proteins. We show that a hybrid XRCC2-green fluorescent protein, which was found to be functional by complementation, localizes to the nucleus. We have established a functional link between XRCC2 and RAD51 by looking at damage-dependent RAD51 focus formation in the irs1 cell line. Little or no formation of RAD51 foci occurred in irs1. This effect was specific to the loss of XRCC2 because transfection of the gene into irs1 restored normal levels of focus formation. Surprisingly, XRCC2 genes carrying site-specific mutations in P-loop residues were found to be able to complement the XRCC2-deficient irs1 line for a number of different end points. We conclude that XRCC2 is important in the early stages of homologous recombination in mammalian cells to facilitate RAD51-dependent recombination repair but that it does not make use of ATP binding to promote this function.
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- P O'Regan
- Radiation and Genome Stability Unit, Medical Research Council, Harwell, Oxfordshire OX11 0RD, United Kingdom
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The process of homologous recombinational repair (HRR) is a major DNA repair pathway that acts on double-strand breaks and interstrand crosslinks, and probably to a lesser extent on other kinds of DNA damage. HRR provides a mechanism for the error-free removal of damage present in DNA that has replicated (S and G2 phases). Thus, HRR acts in a critical way, in coordination with the S and G2 checkpoint machinery, to eliminate chromosomal breaks before the cell division occurs. Many of the human HRR genes, including five Rad51 paralogs, have been identified, and knockout mutants for most of these genes are available in chicken DT40 cells. In the mouse, most of the knockout mutations cause embryonic lethality. The Brca1 and Brca2 breast cancer susceptibility genes appear to be intimately involved in HRR, but the mechanistic basis is unknown. Biochemical studies with purified proteins and cell extracts, combined with cytological studies of nuclear foci, have begun to establish an outline of the steps in mammalian HRR. This pathway is subject to complex regulatory controls from the checkpoint machinery and other processes, and there is increasing evidence that loss of HRR gene function can contribute to tumor development. This review article is meant to be an update of our previous review [Biochimie 81 (1999) 87].
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- L 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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Wang H, Zeng ZC, Bui TA, Sonoda E, Takata M, Takeda S, Iliakis G. Efficient rejoining of radiation-induced DNA double-strand breaks in vertebrate cells deficient in genes of the RAD52 epistasis group. Oncogene 2001; 20:2212-24. [PMID: 11402316 DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1204350] [Citation(s) in RCA: 130] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2000] [Revised: 02/01/2001] [Accepted: 02/05/2001] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Rejoining of ionizing radiation (IR) induced DNA DSBs usually follows biphasic kinetics with a fast (t(50): 5-30 min) component attributed to DNA-PK-dependent non-homologous endjoining (NHEJ) and a slow (t(50): 1-20 h), as of yet uncharacterized, component. To examine whether homologous recombination (HR) contributes to DNA DSB rejoining, a systematic genetic study was undertaken using the hyper-recombinogenic DT40 chicken cell line and a series of mutants defective in HR. We show that DT40 cells rejoin IR-induced DNA DSBs with half times of 13 min and 4.5 h and contributions by the fast (78%) and the slow (22%) components similar to those of other vertebrate cells with 1000-fold lower levels of HR. We also show that deletion of RAD51B, RAD52 and RAD54 leaves unchanged the rejoining half times and the contribution of the slow component, as does also a conditional knock out mutant of RAD51. A significant reduction (to 37%) in the contribution of the fast component is observed in Ku70(-/-) DT40 cells, but the slow component, operating with a half time of 18.4 h, is still able to rejoin the majority (63%) of DSBs. A double mutant Ku70(-/-)/RAD54(-/-) shows similar half times to Ku70(-/-) cells. Thus, variations in HR by several orders of magnitude leave unchanged the kinetics of rejoining of DNA DSBs, and fail to modify the contribution of the slow component in a way compatible with a dependence on HR. We propose that, in contrast to yeast, cells of vertebrates are 'hard-wired' in the utilization of NHEJ as the main pathway for rejoining of IR-induced DNA DSBs and speculate that the contribution of homologous recombination repair (HRR) is at a stage after the initial rejoining.
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- H Wang
- Department of Radiation Oncology of Kimmel Cancer Center, Jefferson Medical College, Thompson Building Room B-1, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, PA 19107, USA
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Homologous recombination can be divided into three key steps: strand exchange, branch migration and resolution. The identification of a protein complex that catalyses branch migration and Holliday junction resolution argues that the mechanism of homologous recombination is conserved from bacteria to man.
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- K Hiom
- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2QH, UK
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Takata M, Sasaki MS, Tachiiri S, Fukushima T, Sonoda E, Schild D, Thompson LH, Takeda S. Chromosome instability and defective recombinational repair in knockout mutants of the five Rad51 paralogs. Mol Cell Biol 2001; 21:2858-66. [PMID: 11283264 PMCID: PMC86915 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.21.8.2858-2866.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 428] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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The Rad51 protein, a eukaryotic homologue of Escherichia coli RecA, plays a central role in both mitotic and meiotic homologous DNA recombination (HR) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and is essential for the proliferation of vertebrate cells. Five vertebrate genes, RAD51B, -C, and -D and XRCC2 and -3, are implicated in HR on the basis of their sequence similarity to Rad51 (Rad51 paralogs). We generated mutants deficient in each of these proteins in the chicken B-lymphocyte DT40 cell line and report here the comparison of four new mutants and their complemented derivatives with our previously reported rad51b mutant. The Rad51 paralog mutations all impair HR, as measured by targeted integration and sister chromatid exchange. Remarkably, the mutant cell lines all exhibit very similar phenotypes: spontaneous chromosomal aberrations, high sensitivity to killing by cross-linking agents (mitomycin C and cisplatin), mild sensitivity to gamma rays, and significantly attenuated Rad51 focus formation during recombinational repair after exposure to gamma rays. Moreover, all mutants show partial correction of resistance to DNA damage by overexpression of human Rad51. We conclude that the Rad51 paralogs participate in repair as a functional unit that facilitates the action of Rad51 in HR.
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- M Takata
- CREST Research Project, Radiation Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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van Gent DC, Hoeijmakers JH, Kanaar R. Chromosomal stability and the DNA double-stranded break connection. Nat Rev Genet 2001; 2:196-206. [PMID: 11256071 DOI: 10.1038/35056049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 841] [Impact Index Per Article: 36.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Genome stability is of primary importance for the survival and proper functioning of all organisms. Double-stranded breaks in DNA are important threats to genome integrity because they can result in chromosomal aberrations that can affect, simultaneously, many genes, and lead to cell malfunctioning and cell death. These detrimental consequences are counteracted by two mechanistically distinct pathways of double-stranded break repair: homologous recombination and non-homologous end-joining. Recently, unexpected links between these double-stranded break-repair systems, and several human genome instability and cancer predisposition syndromes, have emerged. Now, interactions between both double-stranded break-repair pathways and other cellular processes, such as cell-cycle regulation and replication, are being unveiled.
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- D C van Gent
- Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, PO Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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Davies AA, Masson JY, McIlwraith MJ, Stasiak AZ, Stasiak A, Venkitaraman AR, West SC. Role of BRCA2 in control of the RAD51 recombination and DNA repair protein. Mol Cell 2001; 7:273-82. [PMID: 11239456 DOI: 10.1016/s1097-2765(01)00175-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 506] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Individuals carrying BRCA2 mutations are predisposed to breast and ovarian cancers. Here, we show that BRCA2 plays a dual role in regulating the actions of RAD51, a protein essential for homologous recombination and DNA repair. First, interactions between RAD51 and the BRC3 or BRC4 regions of BRCA2 block nucleoprotein filament formation by RAD51. Alterations to the BRC3 region that mimic cancer-associated BRCA2 mutations fail to exhibit this effect. Second, transport of RAD51 to the nucleus is defective in cells carrying a cancer-associated BRCA2 truncation. Thus, BRCA2 regulates both the intracellular localization and DNA binding ability of RAD51. Loss of these controls following BRCA2 inactivation may be a key event leading to genomic instability and tumorigenesis.
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- A A Davies
- Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Clare Hall Laboratories, Hertfordshire EN6 3LD, South Mimms, United Kingdom
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Sonoda E, Morrison C, Yamashita YM, Takata M, Takeda S. Reverse genetic studies of homologous DNA recombination using the chicken B-lymphocyte line, DT40. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2001; 356:111-7. [PMID: 11205323 PMCID: PMC1087698 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2000.0755] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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DT40 is an avian leucosis virus-transformed chicken B-lymphocyte line which exhibits high ratios of targeted to random integration of transfected DNA constructs. This efficient targeted integration may be related to the ongoing diversification of the variable segment of the immunoglobulin gene through homologous DNA recombination-controlled gene conversion. DT40s are a convenient model system for making gene-targeted mutants. Another advantage is the relative tractability of these cells, which makes it possible to disrupt multiple genes in a single cell and to generate conditionally gene-targeted mutants including temperature-sensitive mutants. There are strong phenotypic similarities between murine and DT40 mutants of various genes involved in DNA recombination. These similarities confirm that the DT40 cell line is a reasonable model for the analysis of vertebrate DNA recombination, despite obvious concerns associated with the use of a transformed cell line, which may have certain cell-line-specific characteristics. Here we describe our studies of homologous DNA recombination in vertebrate somatic cells using reverse genetics in DT40 cells.
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- E Sonoda
- Department of Radiation Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan
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Ronen A, Glickman BW. Human DNA repair genes. ENVIRONMENTAL AND MOLECULAR MUTAGENESIS 2001; 37:241-283. [PMID: 11317342 DOI: 10.1002/em.1033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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DNA repair systems are essential for the maintenance of genome integrity. Consequently, the disregulation of repair genes can be expected to be associated with significant, detrimental health effects, which can include an increased prevalence of birth defects, an enhancement of cancer risk, and an accelerated rate of aging. Although original insights into DNA repair and the genes responsible were largely derived from studies in bacteria and yeast, well over 125 genes directly involved in DNA repair have now been identified in humans, and their cDNA sequence established. These genes function in a diverse set of pathways that involve the recognition and removal of DNA lesions, tolerance to DNA damage, and protection from errors of incorporation made during DNA replication or DNA repair. Additional genes indirectly affect DNA repair, by regulating the cell cycle, ostensibly to provide an opportunity for repair or to direct the cell to apoptosis. For about 70 of the DNA repair genes listed in Table I, both the genomic DNA sequence and the cDNA sequence and chromosomal location have been elucidated. In 45 cases single-nucleotide polymorphisms have been identified and, in some cases, genetic variants have been associated with specific disorders. With the accelerating rate of gene discovery, the number of identified DNA repair genes and sequence variants is quickly rising. This report tabulates the current status of what is known about these genes. The report is limited to genes whose function is directly related to DNA repair.
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- A Ronen
- Centre for Environmental Health, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
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Morrison C, Takeda S. Genetic analysis of homologous DNA recombination in vertebrate somatic cells. Int J Biochem Cell Biol 2000; 32:817-31. [PMID: 10940640 DOI: 10.1016/s1357-2725(00)00033-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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The maintenance of genomic stability and the ability to repair induced DNA damage in vertebrate cells require homologues of the yeast RAD52 epistasis group genes. The homologous recombination carried out by the products of these genes is essential and appears to be closely linked to DNA replication. Defects in recombination and associated activities are implicated in human cancer. This review summarises recent biochemical and genetic findings on the roles played by the vertebrate RAD52 group gene products in recombination. We describe the phenotypic analysis of genetically engineered mammalian and chicken mutants of homologous recombination genes.
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- C Morrison
- Bayer Chair Department of Molecular Immunology and Allergology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan
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