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Marsden CG, Das L, Nottoli TP, Kathe SD, Doublié S, Wallace SS, Sweasy JB. Mouse Embryonic Fibroblasts Isolated From Nthl1 D227Y Knockin Mice Exhibit Defective DNA Repair and Increased Genome Instability. DNA Repair (Amst) 2022; 109:103247. [PMID: 34826736 PMCID: PMC8787541 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2021.103247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2021] [Revised: 11/10/2021] [Accepted: 11/11/2021] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
Abstract
Oxidative DNA damage as a result of normal cellular metabolism, inflammation, or exposure to exogenous DNA damaging agents if left unrepaired, can result in genomic instability, a precursor to cancer and other diseases. Nth-like DNA glycosylase 1 (NTHL1) is an evolutionarily conserved bifunctional DNA glycosylase that primarily removes oxidized pyrimidine lesions. NTHL1 D239Y is a germline variant identified in both heterozygous and homozygous state in the human population. Here, we have generated a knockin mouse model carrying Nthl1 D227Y (mouse homologue of D239Y) using CRISPR-cas9 genome editing technology and investigated the cellular effects of the variant in the heterozygous (Y/+) and homozygous (Y/Y) state using murine embryonic fibroblasts. We identified a significant increase in double stranded breaks, genomic instability, replication stress and impaired proliferation in both the Nthl1 D227Y heterozygous Y/+ and homozygous mutant Y/Y MEFs. Importantly, we identified that the presence of the D227Y variant interferes with repair by the WT protein, possibly by binding and shielding the lesions. The cellular phenotypes observed in D227Y mutant MEFs suggest that both the heterozygous and homozygous carriers of this NTHL1 germline mutation may be at increased risk for the development of DNA damage-associated diseases, including cancer.
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- Carolyn G. Marsden
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The Markey Center for Molecular Genetics, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405-0068
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- Present address: Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Arizona Cancer Center, Tucson, AZ 85724-5024, USA
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- Section of Comparative Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The Markey Center for Molecular Genetics, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405-0068
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The Markey Center for Molecular Genetics, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405-0068
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The Markey Center for Molecular Genetics, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405-0068
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The Markey Center for Molecular Genetics, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405-0068,Department of Therapeutic Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510,Present address: Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Arizona Cancer Center, Tucson, AZ 85724-5024, USA,Corresponding author contact information: Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Arizona Cancer Center, 1515 N Campbell Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85724-5024, USA,
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Tsai CL, Tsai CW, Chang WS, Lin JC, Hsia TC, Bau DAT. Protective Effects of Baicalin on Arsenic Trioxide-induced Oxidative Damage and Apoptosis in Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells. In Vivo 2021; 35:155-162. [PMID: 33402461 DOI: 10.21873/invivo.12243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2020] [Revised: 11/23/2020] [Accepted: 11/24/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND/AIM Arsenic trioxide (As2O3) is an environmental pollutant. However, the detailed mechanisms about As2O3-induced loss of endothelial integrity are unknown. This study aimed at investigating how As2O3 causes endothelial dysfunction and whether baicalin can reverse such dysfunction. MATERIALS AND METHODS Human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) were used to examine As2O3-induced oxidative stress, and apoptosis. The influence of baicalin on As2O3-induced endothelial dysfunction were investigated. RESULTS The viability of HUVECs was inhibited by As2O3 and cells underwent apoptosis. As2O3 treatment increased NADPH oxidase activity, and elevated the level of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Formamidopyrimidine DNA-glycosylase- and endonuclease III-digestible adducts were accumulated. Baicalin reversed As2O3-induced apoptosis and As2O3-suppressed cell viability. Baicalin caused a decrease in NADPH oxidase activity, and re-balanced the ROS level. As2O3-induced formamidopyrimidine DNA-glycosylase- and endonuclease III-digestible adducts were down-regulated. CONCLUSION Baicalin was found to have the potential capacity to protect endothelial cells from As2O3-induced cytotoxicity.
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- Chung-Lin Tsai
- Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Science, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C.,Division of Cardiac and Vascular Surgery, Cardiovascular Center, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C
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- Terry Fox Cancer Research Laboratory, Department of Medical Research, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C
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- Terry Fox Cancer Research Laboratory, Department of Medical Research, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital Chiayi Branch, Chiayi, Taiwan, R.O.C
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- Terry Fox Cancer Research Laboratory, Department of Medical Research, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C
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- Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Science, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C.; .,Terry Fox Cancer Research Laboratory, Department of Medical Research, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C.,Department of Bioinformatics and Medical Engineering, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C
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Marsden CG, Jaruga P, Coskun E, Maher RL, Pederson DS, Dizdaroglu M, Sweasy JB. Expression of a germline variant in the N-terminal domain of the human DNA glycosylase NTHL1 induces cellular transformation without impairing enzymatic function or substrate specificity. Oncotarget 2020; 11:2262-2272. [PMID: 32595826 PMCID: PMC7299534 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.27548] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2020] [Accepted: 03/14/2020] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Oxidatively-induced DNA damage, widely accepted as a key player in the onset of cancer, is predominantly repaired by base excision repair (BER). BER is initiated by DNA glycosylases, which locate and remove damaged bases from DNA. NTHL1 is a bifunctional DNA glycosylase in mammalian cells that predominantly removes oxidized pyrimidines. In this study, we investigated a germline variant in the N-terminal domain of NTHL1, R33K. Expression of NTHL1 R33K in human MCF10A cells resulted in increased proliferation and anchorage-independent growth compared to NTHL1 WT-expressing cells. However, wt-NTHL1 and R33K-NTHL1 exhibited similar substrate specificity, excision kinetics, and enzyme turnover in vitro and in vivo. The results of this study indicate an important function of R33 in BER that is disrupted by the R33K mutation. Furthermore, the cellular transformation induced by R33K-NTHL1 expression suggests that humans harboring this germline variant may be at increased risk for cancer incidence.
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- Carolyn G Marsden
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The Markey Center for Molecular Genetics, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA.,Present address: Saint Michael's College, Colchester, VT 05439, USA
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- Biomolecular Measurement Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA
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- Biomolecular Measurement Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA.,Present address: Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research, University of Maryland, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The Markey Center for Molecular Genetics, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The Markey Center for Molecular Genetics, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA
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- Biomolecular Measurement Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Arizona Cancer Center, Tucson, AZ 85724, USA
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Boldinova EO, Khairullin RF, Makarova AV, Zharkov DO. Isoforms of Base Excision Repair Enzymes Produced by Alternative Splicing. Int J Mol Sci 2019; 20:ijms20133279. [PMID: 31277343 PMCID: PMC6651865 DOI: 10.3390/ijms20133279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2019] [Revised: 06/29/2019] [Accepted: 07/02/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Transcripts of many enzymes involved in base excision repair (BER) undergo extensive alternative splicing, but functions of the corresponding alternative splice variants remain largely unexplored. In this review, we cover the studies describing the common alternatively spliced isoforms and disease-associated variants of DNA glycosylases, AP-endonuclease 1, and DNA polymerase beta. We also discuss the roles of alternative splicing in the regulation of their expression, catalytic activities, and intracellular transport.
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- Institute of Fundamental Medicine and Biology, Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University, 9 Parizhskoy Kommuny Str., 420012 Kazan, Russia
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- RAS Institute of Molecular Genetics, 2 Kurchatova Sq., 123182 Moscow, Russia.
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- Novosibirsk State University, 1 Pirogova St., 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia.
- SB RAS Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, 8 Lavrentieva Ave., 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia.
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Ormeño F, Barrientos C, Ramirez S, Ponce I, Valenzuela L, Sepúlveda S, Bitar M, Kemmerling U, Machado CR, Cabrera G, Galanti N. Expression and the Peculiar Enzymatic Behavior of the Trypanosoma cruzi NTH1 DNA Glycosylase. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0157270. [PMID: 27284968 PMCID: PMC4902261 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0157270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2016] [Accepted: 05/26/2016] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiological agent of Chagas’ disease, presents three cellular forms (trypomastigotes, epimastigotes and amastigotes), all of which are submitted to oxidative species in its hosts. However, T. cruzi is able to resist oxidative stress suggesting a high efficiency of its DNA repair machinery.The Base Excision Repair (BER) pathway is one of the main DNA repair mechanisms in other eukaryotes and in T. cruzi as well. DNA glycosylases are enzymes involved in the recognition of oxidative DNA damage and in the removal of oxidized bases, constituting the first step of the BER pathway. Here, we describe the presence and activity of TcNTH1, a nuclear T. cruzi DNA glycosylase. Surprisingly, purified recombinant TcNTH1 does not remove the thymine glycol base, but catalyzes the cleavage of a probe showing an AP site. The same activity was found in epimastigote and trypomastigote homogenates suggesting that the BER pathway is not involved in thymine glycol DNA repair. TcNTH1 DNA-binding properties assayed in silico are in agreement with the absence of a thymine glycol removing function of that parasite enzyme. Over expression of TcNTH1 decrease parasite viability when transfected epimastigotes are submitted to a sustained production of H2O2.Therefore, TcNTH1 is the only known NTH1 orthologous unable to eliminate thymine glycol derivatives but that recognizes and cuts an AP site, most probably by a beta-elimination mechanism. We cannot discard that TcNTH1 presents DNA glycosylase activity on other DNA base lesions. Accordingly, a different DNA repair mechanism should be expected leading to eliminate thymine glycol from oxidized parasite DNA. Furthermore, TcNTH1 may play a role in the AP site recognition and processing.
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- Fernando Ormeño
- Programa de Biología Celular y Molecular, Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Programa de Biología Celular y Molecular, Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Programa de Biología Celular y Molecular, Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Programa de Biología Celular y Molecular, Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Programa de Biología Celular y Molecular, Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Programa de Biología Celular y Molecular, Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Departamento de Bioquímica e Imunologia, ICB, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
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- Programa de Anatomía y Biología del Desarrollo, Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Departamento de Bioquímica e Imunologia, ICB, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
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- Programa de Biología Celular y Molecular, Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
- * E-mail: (GC); (NG)
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- Programa de Biología Celular y Molecular, Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
- * E-mail: (GC); (NG)
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Tokuyama Y, Furusawa Y, Ide H, Yasui A, Terato H. Role of isolated and clustered DNA damage and the post-irradiating repair process in the effects of heavy ion beam irradiation. JOURNAL OF RADIATION RESEARCH 2015; 56:446-55. [PMID: 25717060 PMCID: PMC4426916 DOI: 10.1093/jrr/rru122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2014] [Accepted: 12/17/2014] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Clustered DNA damage is a specific type of DNA damage induced by ionizing radiation. Any type of ionizing radiation traverses the target DNA molecule as a beam, inducing damage along its track. Our previous study showed that clustered DNA damage yields decreased with increased linear energy transfer (LET), leading us to investigate the importance of clustered DNA damage in the biological effects of heavy ion beam radiation. In this study, we analyzed the yield of clustered base damage (comprising multiple base lesions) in cultured cells irradiated with various heavy ion beams, and investigated isolated base damage and the repair process in post-irradiation cultured cells. Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells were irradiated by carbon, silicon, argon and iron ion beams with LETs of 13, 55, 90 and 200 keV µm(-1), respectively. Agarose gel electrophoresis of the cells with enzymatic treatments indicated that clustered base damage yields decreased as the LET increased. The aldehyde reactive probe procedure showed that isolated base damage yields in the irradiated cells followed the same pattern. To analyze the cellular base damage process, clustered DNA damage repair was investigated using DNA repair mutant cells. DNA double-strand breaks accumulated in CHO mutant cells lacking Xrcc1 after irradiation, and the cell viability decreased. On the other hand, mouse embryonic fibroblast (Mef) cells lacking both Nth1 and Ogg1 became more resistant than the wild type Mef. Thus, clustered base damage seems to be involved in the expression of heavy ion beam biological effects via the repair process.
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- Yuka Tokuyama
- Analytical Research Center for Experimental Sciences, Saga University, 5-1-1 Nabeshima, Saga 849-8501, Japan
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- Heavy Ion Radiobiology Research Group, Research Center for Charged Particle Therapy, National Institute of Radiobiological Sciences, 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage Ward, Chiba 263-8555, Japan
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- Department of Mathematical and Life Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, 1-3-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan
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- Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, 4-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba Ward, Sendai 980-8575, Japan
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- Analytical Research Center for Experimental Sciences, Saga University, 5-1-1 Nabeshima, Saga 849-8501, Japan
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Sarker AH, Chatterjee A, Williams M, Lin S, Havel C, Jacob III P, Boldogh I, Hazra TK, Talbot P, Hang B. NEIL2 protects against oxidative DNA damage induced by sidestream smoke in human cells. PLoS One 2014; 9:e90261. [PMID: 24595271 PMCID: PMC3945017 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090261] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2013] [Accepted: 01/26/2014] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Secondhand smoke (SHS) is a confirmed lung carcinogen that introduces thousands of toxic chemicals into the lungs. SHS contains chemicals that have been implicated in causing oxidative DNA damage in the airway epithelium. Although DNA repair is considered a key defensive mechanism against various environmental attacks, such as cigarette smoking, the associations of individual repair enzymes with susceptibility to lung cancer are largely unknown. This study investigated the role of NEIL2, a DNA glycosylase excising oxidative base lesions, in human lung cells treated with sidestream smoke (SSS), the main component of SHS. To do so, we generated NEIL2 knockdown cells using siRNA-technology and exposed them to SSS-laden medium. Representative SSS chemical compounds in the medium were analyzed by mass spectrometry. An increased production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in SSS-exposed cells was detected through the fluorescent detection and the induction of HIF-1α. The long amplicon–quantitative PCR (LA-QPCR) assay detected significant dose-dependent increases of oxidative DNA damage in the HPRT gene of cultured human pulmonary fibroblasts (hPF) and BEAS-2B epithelial cells exposed to SSS for 24 h. These data suggest that SSS exposure increased oxidative stress, which could contribute to SSS-mediated toxicity. siRNA knockdown of NEIL2 in hPF and HEK 293 cells exposed to SSS for 24 h resulted in significantly more oxidative DNA damage in HPRT and POLB than in cells with control siRNA. Taken together, our data strongly suggest that decreased repair of oxidative DNA base lesions due to an impaired NEIL2 expression in non-smokers exposed to SSS would lead to accumulation of mutations in genomic DNA of lung cells over time, thus contributing to the onset of SSS-induced lung cancer.
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- Altaf H. Sarker
- Department of Cancer & DNA Damage Responses, Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America
- * E-mail: (AHS); (BH)
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- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America
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- Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America
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- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America
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- Department of Cancer & DNA Damage Responses, Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America
- * E-mail: (AHS); (BH)
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Kidane D, Chae WJ, Czochor J, Eckert KA, Glazer PM, Bothwell ALM, Sweasy JB. Interplay between DNA repair and inflammation, and the link to cancer. Crit Rev Biochem Mol Biol 2014; 49:116-39. [PMID: 24410153 DOI: 10.3109/10409238.2013.875514] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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DNA damage and repair are linked to cancer. DNA damage that is induced endogenously or from exogenous sources has the potential to result in mutations and genomic instability if not properly repaired, eventually leading to cancer. Inflammation is also linked to cancer. Reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (RONs) produced by inflammatory cells at sites of infection can induce DNA damage. RONs can also amplify inflammatory responses, leading to increased DNA damage. Here, we focus on the links between DNA damage, repair, and inflammation, as they relate to cancer. We examine the interplay between chronic inflammation, DNA damage and repair and review recent findings in this rapidly emerging field, including the links between DNA damage and the innate immune system, and the roles of inflammation in altering the microbiome, which subsequently leads to the induction of DNA damage in the colon. Mouse models of defective DNA repair and inflammatory control are extensively reviewed, including treatment of mouse models with pathogens, which leads to DNA damage. The roles of microRNAs in regulating inflammation and DNA repair are discussed. Importantly, DNA repair and inflammation are linked in many important ways, and in some cases balance each other to maintain homeostasis. The failure to repair DNA damage or to control inflammatory responses has the potential to lead to cancer.
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- Dawit Kidane
- Departments of Therapeutic Radiology and Genetics
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Wallace SS. DNA glycosylases search for and remove oxidized DNA bases. ENVIRONMENTAL AND MOLECULAR MUTAGENESIS 2013; 54:691-704. [PMID: 24123395 PMCID: PMC3997179 DOI: 10.1002/em.21820] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2013] [Revised: 09/04/2013] [Accepted: 09/05/2013] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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This review article presents, an overview of the DNA glycosylases that recognize oxidized DNA bases using the Fpg/Nei family of DNA glycosylases as models for how structure can inform function. For example, even though human NEIL1 and the plant and fungal orthologs lack the zinc finger shown to be required for binding, DNA crystal structures revealed a "zincless finger" with the same properties. Moreover, the "lesion recognition loop" is not involved in lesion recognition, rather, it stabilizes 8-oxoG in the active site pocket. Unlike the other Fpg/Nei family members, Neil3 lacks two of the three void-filling residues that stabilize the DNA duplex and interact with the opposite strand to the damage which may account for its preference for lesions in single-stranded DNA. Also single-molecule approaches show that DNA glycosylases search for their substrates in a sea of undamaged DNA by using a wedge residue that is inserted into the DNA helix to probe for the presence of damage.
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- Susan S. Wallace
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics The Markey Center for Molecular Genetics The University of Vermont Stafford Hall, 95 Carrigan Drive Burlington, VT 05405-0068, USA Tel: (802) 656-2164; Fax: (802) 656-8749
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Wu L, Zheng Q. Active demethylation of the IL-2 Promoter in CD4+ T cells is mediated by an inducible DNA glycosylase, Myh. Mol Immunol 2013; 58:38-49. [PMID: 24291244 DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2013.10.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2013] [Revised: 10/23/2013] [Accepted: 10/29/2013] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Epigenetic control of tissue-specific gene expression is often achieved by active demethylation of promoter regions; however, the nature of all the enzymes mediating this remodeling process is not fully clear. Here we describe a 5-methylcytosine glycosylase activity for the murine DNA base excision repair enzyme Myh and show that it is critically involved in remodeling the IL-2 Promoter for transcription. The enzyme is not expressed in naïve CD4(+) T cells, but can be transiently induced following T cell activation. T cells deficient in Myh had blunted demethylation of the promoter and impaired IL-2 secretion but not IFN-γ. An in vitro assay for the glycosylase activity revealed the enzyme to be sequence specific for certain CpG sites in the IL-2 Promoter. These results suggest that DNA demethylation is being selectively used to orchestrate a part of the naïve CD4(+) T cell differentiation program.
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- Liangtang Wu
- Kelly Services, Inc., 1 Church Street, Suite 304, Rockville, MD 20850, USA; Department of Pharmacology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 835 S. Wolcott Street, Chicago, IL 60616, USA.
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- Kelly Services, Inc., 1 Church Street, Suite 304, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
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Loss of Neil3, the major DNA glycosylase activity for removal of hydantoins in single stranded DNA, reduces cellular proliferation and sensitizes cells to genotoxic stress. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH 2013; 1833:1157-64. [PMID: 23305905 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2012.12.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2012] [Revised: 12/13/2012] [Accepted: 12/26/2012] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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7,8-Dihydro-8-oxoguanine (8-oxoG) is one of the most common oxidative base lesions in normal tissues induced by a variety of endogenous and exogenous agents. Hydantoins are products of 8-oxoG oxidation and as 8-oxoG, they have been shown to be mutagenic lesions. Oxidative DNA damage has been implicated in the etiology of various age-associated pathologies, such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases, arthritis, and several neurodegenerative diseases. The mammalian endonuclease VIII-like 3 (Neil3) is one of the four DNA glycosylases found to recognize and remove hydantoins in the first step of base excision repair (BER) pathway. We have generated mice lacking Neil3 and by using total cell extracts we demonstrate that Neil3 is the main DNA glycosylase that incises hydantoins in single stranded DNA in tissues. Using the neurosphere culture system as a model to study neural stem/progenitor (NSPC) cells we found that lack of Neil3 impaired self renewal but did not affect differentiation capacity. Proliferation was also reduced in mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) derived from Neil3(-/-) embryos and these cells were sensitive to both the oxidative toxicant paraquat and interstrand cross-link (ICL)-inducing agent cisplatin. Our data support the involvement of Neil3 in removal of replication blocks in proliferating cells.
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Hegde ML, Mantha AK, Hazra TK, Bhakat KK, Mitra S, Szczesny B. Oxidative genome damage and its repair: implications in aging and neurodegenerative diseases. Mech Ageing Dev 2012; 133:157-68. [PMID: 22313689 DOI: 10.1016/j.mad.2012.01.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2011] [Revised: 01/03/2012] [Accepted: 01/13/2012] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Reactive oxygen species (ROS), generated endogenously during respiration or exogenously by genotoxic agents, induce oxidized bases and single-strand breaks (SSBs) in DNA that are repaired via the base excision/SSB repair (BER/SSBR) pathway in both the nucleus and mitochondria. Tightly regulated BER/SSBR with multiple sub-pathways is highly complex, and is linked to the replication and transcription. The repair-initiating DNA glycosylases (DGs) or AP-endonuclease (APE1) control the sub-pathway by stably interacting with downstream proteins usually via their common interacting domain (CID). A nonconserved CID with disordered structure usually located at one of the termini includes the sequences for covalent modifications and/or organelle targeting. While the DGs are individually dispensable, the SSBR-initiating APE1 and polynucleotide kinase 3' phosphatase (PNKP) are essential. BER/SSBR of mammalian nuclear and mitochondrial genomes share the same early enzymes. Accumulation of oxidative damage in nuclear and mitochondrial genomes has been implicated in aging and various neurological disorders. While defects in BER/SSBR proteins have been linked to hereditary neurodegenerative diseases, our recent studies implicated transition metal-induced inhibition of NEIL family DGs in sporadic diseases. This review focuses on the recent advances in repair of oxidatively damages in mammalian genomes and their linkage to aging and neurological disorders.
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- Muralidhar L Hegde
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555-1079, USA
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Yamamoto R, Yamamoto M, Kusaka H, Masatsugu H, Matsuyama S, Tajima T, Ide H, Kubo K. NEIL1 mRNA splicing variants are expressed in normal mouse organs. JOURNAL OF RADIATION RESEARCH 2012; 53:234-241. [PMID: 22510596 DOI: 10.1269/jrr.11029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Oxidized pyrimidines are mainly repaired by base excision repair, which is initiated by damage-specific DNA glycosylases. NEIL1, the mammalian homolog of Escherichia coli endonuclease VIII and a major DNA glycosylase, initiates repair of oxidized pyrimidines. Here, we investigated the expression of two putative variant mouse NEIL1 (mNEIL1) mRNAs--variant 1 ("Neil1 protein" mRNA; BC043297 in the NCBI database) and variant 2 ("unnamed protein" mRNA; AK040802 in the NCBI database)--in normal mouse organs. Reverse transcription-PCR showed that both mRNAs were expressed in total RNA samples from 9 organs. Immunoblot analysis of a nuclear extract from normal mouse liver revealed three bands corresponding to full-length mNEIL1 protein and the two predicted variant proteins. However, neither variant protein, which included an N-terminal enzymatic activity domain deduced from the mRNA variants, were enzymatically active under multiple reaction conditions when expressed as his-tagged recombinant proteins. Nevertheless, recombinant variant 1 protein influenced mNEIL1 activity, while recombinant variant 2 protein had no influence. These results suggest that mNEIL1 mRNA variants are expressed in a variety of organs in normal mice and that variant 1 protein may regulate mNEIL1 activity.
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- Ryohei Yamamoto
- Department of Advanced Pathobiology, Graduate School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Izumisano, Osaka 598-8531, Japan.
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Nemec AA, Wallace SS, Sweasy JB. Variant base excision repair proteins: contributors to genomic instability. Semin Cancer Biol 2010; 20:320-8. [PMID: 20955798 DOI: 10.1016/j.semcancer.2010.10.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Cells sustain endogenous DNA damage at rates greater than 20,000 DNA lesions per cell per day. These damages occur largely as a result of the inherently unstable nature of DNA and the presence of reactive oxygen species within cells. The base excision repair system removes the majority of DNA lesions resulting from endogenous DNA damage. There are several enzymes that function during base excision repair. Importantly, there are over 100 germline single nucleotide polymorphisms in genes that function in base excision repair and that result in non-synonymous amino acid substitutions in the proteins they encode. Somatic variants of these enzymes are also found in human tumors. Variant repair enzymes catalyze aberrant base excision repair. Aberrant base excision repair combined with continuous endogenous DNA damage over time has the potential to lead to a mutator phenotype. Mutations that arise in key growth control genes, imbalances in chromosome number, chromosomal translocations, and loss of heterozygosity can result in the initiation of human cancer or its progression.
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- Antonia A Nemec
- Department of Therapeutic Radiology, 15 York Street, New Haven, CT 06510, United States
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Hegde ML, Hazra TK, Mitra S. Functions of disordered regions in mammalian early base excision repair proteins. Cell Mol Life Sci 2010; 67:3573-87. [PMID: 20714778 DOI: 10.1007/s00018-010-0485-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2010] [Accepted: 07/28/2010] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Reactive oxygen species, generated endogenously and induced as a toxic response, produce several dozen oxidized or modified bases and/or single-strand breaks in mammalian and other genomes. These lesions are predominantly repaired via the conserved base excision repair (BER) pathway. BER is initiated with excision of oxidized or modified bases by DNA glycosylases leading to formation of abasic (AP) site or strand break at the lesion site. Structural analysis by experimental and modeling approaches shows the presence of a disordered segment commonly localized at the N- or C-terminus as a characteristic signature of mammalian DNA glycosylases which is absent in their bacterial prototypes. Recent studies on unstructured regions in DNA metabolizing proteins have indicated their essential role in interaction with other proteins and target DNA recognition. In this review, we have discussed the unique presence of disordered segments in human DNA glycosylases, and AP endonuclease involved in the processing of glycosylase products, and their critical role in regulating repair functions. These disordered segments also include sites for posttranslational modifications and nuclear localization signal. The teleological basis for their structural flexibility is discussed.
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- Muralidhar L Hegde
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Blvd, Galveston, TX 77555-1079, USA
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Cui P, Lin Q, Xin C, Han L, An L, Wang Y, Hu Z, Ding F, Zhang L, Hu S, Hang H, Yu J. Hydroxyurea-induced global transcriptional suppression in mouse ES cells. Carcinogenesis 2010; 31:1661-8. [PMID: 20513671 DOI: 10.1093/carcin/bgq106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Hydroxyurea (HU), as a therapeutic medicine, has been extensively used clinically. To further survey molecular mechanisms of HU treatment, we analyzed global transcriptomic alteration of mouse ES cells in response to the treatment using high-throughput sequencing. We show that the global transcriptional activity is significantly suppressed as cells are exposed to HU treatment and alters multiple key cellular pathways, including cell cycle, apoptosis and DNAs. HU treatment also alters alternative splicing mechanisms and suppresses non-coding RNA expression. Our result provides novel clues for the understanding of how cells respond to HU and further suggests that high-throughput sequencing technology provides a powerful tool to study mechanisms of clinical drugs at the cellular level.
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- Peng Cui
- CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.7 Beitucheng West Road, Chaoyang, 100029 Beijing, China
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Gredilla R, Bohr VA, Stevnsner T. Mitochondrial DNA repair and association with aging--an update. Exp Gerontol 2010; 45:478-88. [PMID: 20096766 DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2010.01.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2009] [Revised: 01/10/2010] [Accepted: 01/14/2010] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Mitochondrial DNA is constantly exposed to oxidative injury. Due to its location close to the main site of reactive oxygen species, the inner mitochondrial membrane, mtDNA is more susceptible than nuclear DNA to oxidative damage. The accumulation of DNA damage is thought to play a critical role in the aging process and to be particularly deleterious in post-mitotic cells. Thus, DNA repair is an important mechanism for maintenance of genomic integrity. Despite the importance of mitochondria in the aging process, it was thought for many years that mitochondria lacked an enzymatic DNA repair system comparable to that in the nuclear compartment. However, it is now well established that DNA repair actively takes place in mitochondria. Oxidative DNA damage processing, base excision repair mechanisms were the first to be described in these organelles, and consequently the best understood. However, new proteins and novel DNA repair pathways, thought to be exclusively present in the nucleus, have recently been described also to be present in mitochondria. Here we review the main mitochondrial DNA repair pathways and their association with the aging process.
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- Ricardo Gredilla
- Danish Center for Molecular Gerontology, Department of Molecular Biology, Aarhus University, C.F. Moellers allé 3, Aarhus C, Denmark
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Brown KL, Roginskaya M, Zou Y, Altamirano A, Basu AK, Stone MP. Binding of the human nucleotide excision repair proteins XPA and XPC/HR23B to the 5R-thymine glycol lesion and structure of the cis-(5R,6S) thymine glycol epimer in the 5'-GTgG-3' sequence: destabilization of two base pairs at the lesion site. Nucleic Acids Res 2009; 38:428-40. [PMID: 19892827 PMCID: PMC2811006 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp844] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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The 5R thymine glycol (5R-Tg) DNA lesion exists as a mixture of cis-(5R,6S) and trans-(5R,6R) epimers; these modulate base excision repair. We examine the 7:3 cis-(5R,6S):trans-(5R,6R) mixture of epimers paired opposite adenine in the 5′-GTgG-3′ sequence with regard to nucleotide excision repair. Human XPA recognizes the lesion comparably to the C8-dG acetylaminoflourene (AAF) adduct, whereas XPC/HR23B recognition of Tg is superior. 5R-Tg is processed by the Escherichia coli UvrA and UvrABC proteins less efficiently than the C8-dG AAF adduct. For the cis-(5R, 6S) epimer Tg and A are inserted into the helix, remaining in the Watson–Crick alignment. The Tg N3H imine and A N6 amine protons undergo increased solvent exchange. Stacking between Tg and the 3′-neighbor G•C base pair is disrupted. The solvent accessible surface and T2 relaxation of Tg increases. Molecular dynamics calculations predict that the axial conformation of the Tg CH3 group is favored; propeller twisting of the Tg•A pair and hydrogen bonding between Tg OH6 and the N7 atom of the 3′-neighbor guanine alleviate steric clash with the 5′-neighbor base pair. Tg also destabilizes the 5′-neighbor G•C base pair. This may facilitate flipping both base pairs from the helix, enabling XPC/HR23B recognition prior to recruitment of XPA.
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- Kyle L Brown
- Department of Chemistry and Center in Molecular Toxicology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA
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Brown KL, Basu AK, Stone MP. The cis-(5R,6S)-thymine glycol lesion occupies the wobble position when mismatched with deoxyguanosine in DNA. Biochemistry 2009; 48:9722-33. [PMID: 19772348 PMCID: PMC2761728 DOI: 10.1021/bi900695e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Oxidative damage to 5-methylcytosine in DNA, followed by deamination, yields thymine glycol (Tg), 5,6-dihydroxy-5,6-dihydrothymine, mispaired with deoxyguanosine. The structure of the 5R Tg·G mismatch pair has been refined using a combination of simulated annealing and isothermal molecular dynamics calculations restrained by NMR-derived distance restraints and torsion angle restraints in 5′-d(G1T2G3C4G5Tg6G7T8T9T10G11T12)-3′·5′-d(A13C14A15A16A17C18G19C20G21C22A23C24)-3′; Tg = 5R Tg. In this duplex the cis-5R,6S:trans-5R,6R equilibrium favors the cis-5R,6S epimer [Brown, K. L., Adams, T., Jasti, V. P., Basu, A. K., and Stone, M. P. (2008) J. Am. Chem. Soc. 130, 11701−11710]. The cis-5R,6S Tg lesion is in the wobble orientation such that Tg6O2 is proximate to G19 N1H and Tg6 N3H is proximate to G19O6. Both Tg6 and the mismatched nucleotide G19 remain stacked in the helix. The Tg6 nucleotide shifts toward the major groove and stacks below the 5′-neighbor base G5, while its complement G19 stacks below the 5′-neighbor C20. In the 3′-direction, stacking between Tg6 and the G7·C18 base pair is disrupted. The solvent-accessible surface area of the Tg nucleotide increases as compared to the native Watson−Crick hydrogen-bonded T·A base pair. An increase in T2 relaxation rates for the Tg6 base protons is attributed to puckering of the Tg base, accompanied by increased disorder at the Tg·G mismatch pair. The axial vs equatorial conformation of the Tg6 CH3 group cannot be determined with certainty from the NMR data. The rMD trajectories suggest that in either the axial or equatorial conformations the cis-5R,6S Tg lesion does not form strong intrastrand hydrogen bonds with the imidazole N7 atom of the 3′-neighbor purine G7. The wobble pairing and disorder of the Tg·G mismatch correlate with the reduced thermodynamic stability of the mismatch and likely modulate its recognition by DNA base excision repair systems.
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- Kyle L Brown
- Department of Chemistry, Center in Molecular Toxicology, and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, USA
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Torisu K, Tsuchimoto D, Ohnishi Y, Nakabeppu Y. Hematopoietic tissue-specific expression of mouse Neil3 for endonuclease VIII-like protein. J Biochem 2009; 138:763-72. [PMID: 16428305 DOI: 10.1093/jb/mvi168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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We cloned cDNA and genomic DNA containing exon 1 of mouse Neil3. Neil3 spans 52.4 kb and consists of 10 exons. Northern blot analysis revealed that Neil3 mRNA was selectively expressed in thymus, spleen and bone marrow. High levels of Neil3 mRNA were also detected in various mouse B cell lines by RT-PCR. Immunofluorescence microscopy using anti-NEIL3 revealed that recombinant mouse NEIL3 is localized in the nuclei. In mouse splenocytes, the level of Neil3 mRNA significantly increased after mitogen stimulation in vitro. We established NEIL3-null mice, which are viable and fertile. We found candidate sequences for NEIL3 orthologues in a DNA database from dog and zebrafish in addition to human and mouse, but not invertebrates. NEIL3 may function exclusively in vertebrates, such as mammals.
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- Kumiko Torisu
- Division of Neurofunctional Genomics, Department of Immunobiology and Neuroscience, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582
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Baute J, Depicker A. Base excision repair and its role in maintaining genome stability. Crit Rev Biochem Mol Biol 2008; 43:239-76. [PMID: 18756381 DOI: 10.1080/10409230802309905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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For all living organisms, genome stability is important, but is also under constant threat because various environmental and endogenous damaging agents can modify the structural properties of DNA bases. As a defense, organisms have developed different DNA repair pathways. Base excision repair (BER) is the predominant pathway for coping with a broad range of small lesions resulting from oxidation, alkylation, and deamination, which modify individual bases without large effect on the double helix structure. As, in mammalian cells, this damage is estimated to account daily for 10(4) events per cell, the need for BER pathways is unquestionable. The damage-specific removal is carried out by a considerable group of enzymes, designated as DNA glycosylases. Each DNA glycosylase has its unique specificity and many of them are ubiquitous in microorganisms, mammals, and plants. Here, we review the importance of the BER pathway and we focus on the different roles of DNA glycosylases in various organisms.
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- Joke Baute
- Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology, Gent, Belgium
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Brown KL, Adams T, Jasti VP, Basu AK, Stone MP. Interconversion of the cis-5R,6S- and trans-5R,6R-thymine glycol lesions in duplex DNA. J Am Chem Soc 2008; 130:11701-10. [PMID: 18681438 PMCID: PMC2646635 DOI: 10.1021/ja8016544] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Thymine glycol (Tg), 5,6-dihydroxy-5,6-dihydrothymine, is formed in DNA by the reaction of thymine with reactive oxygen species. The 5R Tg lesion was incorporated site-specifically into 5'-d(G(1)T(2)G(3)C(4)G(5)Tg(6)G(7)T(8)T(9)T(10)G(11)T(12))-3'; Tg = 5R Tg. The Tg-modified oligodeoxynucleotide was annealed with either 5'-d(A(13)C(14)A(15)A(16)A(17)C(18)A(19)C(20)G(21)C(22)A(23)C(24))-3', forming the Tg(6) x A(19) base pair, corresponding to the oxidative damage of thymine in DNA, or 5'-d(A(13)C(14)A(15)A(16)A(17)C(18)G(19)C(20)G(21)C(22)A(23)C(24))-3', forming the mismatched Tg(6) x G(19) base pair, corresponding to the formation of Tg following oxidative damage and deamination of 5-methylcytosine in DNA. At 30 degrees C, the equilibrium ratio of cis-5R,6S:trans-5R,6R epimers was 7:3 for the duplex containing the Tg(6) x A (19) base pair. In contrast, for the duplex containing the Tg(6) x G(19) base pair, the cis-5R,6S:trans-5R,6R equilibrium favored the cis-5R,6S epimer; the level of the trans-5R,6R epimer remained below the level of detection by NMR. The data suggested that Tg disrupted hydrogen bonding interactions, either when placed opposite to A(19) or G(19). Thermodynamic measurements indicated a 13 degrees C reduction of T(m) regardless of whether Tg was placed opposite dG or dA in the complementary strand. Although both pairings increased the free energy of melting by 3 kcal/mol, the melting of the Tg x G pair was more enthalpically favored than was the melting of the Tg x A pair. The observation that the position of the equilibrium between the cis-5R,6S and trans-5R,6R thymine glycol epimers in duplex DNA was affected by the identity of the complementary base extends upon observations that this equilibrium modulates the base excision repair of Tg [Ocampo-Hafalla, M. T.; Altamirano, A.; Basu, A. K.; Chan, M. K.; Ocampo, J. E.; Cummings, A., Jr.; Boorstein, R. J.; Cunningham, R. P.; Teebor, G. W. DNA Repair (Amst) 2006, 5, 444-454].
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- Kyle L Brown
- Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, USA
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Yamamoto R, Akiyama M, Ide H, Yamamoto K, Matsuyama S, Kubo K. A novel monofunctional DNA glycosylase activity against thymine glycol in mouse cell nuclei. JOURNAL OF RADIATION RESEARCH 2008; 49:249-259. [PMID: 18360100 DOI: 10.1269/jrr.07100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Reactive oxygen species continuously oxidize DNA bases and threaten the genetic integrity. Thymine glycol (TG), one of the representative oxidized products, is repaired mainly by base excision repair (BER). In Escherichia coli, endonuclease III (Nth) and endonuclease VIII (Nei) are known to actively remove TG from DNA, and the homologs are well conserved in various organisms. These are bifunctional glycosylases, also associated with apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) lyase activity. In the present study, a monofunctional TG-DNA glycosylase activity is shown to be one of the predominant nuclear activities present in some mouse tissues. By combining hypertonic extraction and column chromatography, we successfully separated the novel activity from majority of the bifunctional activities. Since it has been reported that mNTH1 may not be a dominant nuclear activity, the monofunctional glycosylase activity, together with mNEIL1, may be the major TG-DNA glycosylases in the mouse nucleus. The optimal reaction conditions for the monofunctional activity were found to be pH 7-8 and 100-150 mM KCl, and the activity was resistant to 20 mM EDTA. High monofunctional activity was detected in the spleen and stomach, while the level was significantly lower in the liver, suggesting that the contribution of the monofunctional activity is variable among organs.
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- Ryohei Yamamoto
- Department of Advanced Pathobiology, Graduate School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka, Japan.
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Hegde ML, Hazra TK, Mitra S. Early steps in the DNA base excision/single-strand interruption repair pathway in mammalian cells. Cell Res 2008; 18:27-47. [PMID: 18166975 DOI: 10.1038/cr.2008.8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 461] [Impact Index Per Article: 28.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Base excision repair (BER) is an evolutionarily conserved process for maintaining genomic integrity by eliminating several dozen damaged (oxidized or alkylated) or inappropriate bases that are generated endogenously or induced by genotoxicants, predominantly, reactive oxygen species (ROS). BER involves 4-5 steps starting with base excision by a DNA glycosylase, followed by a common pathway usually involving an AP-endonuclease (APE) to generate 3' OH terminus at the damage site, followed by repair synthesis with a DNA polymerase and nick sealing by a DNA ligase. This pathway is also responsible for repairing DNA single-strand breaks with blocked termini directly generated by ROS. Nearly all glycosylases, far fewer than their substrate lesions particularly for oxidized bases, have broad and overlapping substrate range, and could serve as back-up enzymes in vivo. In contrast, mammalian cells encode only one APE, APE1, unlike two APEs in lower organisms. In spite of overall similarity, BER with distinct subpathways in the mammals is more complex than in E. coli. The glycosylases form complexes with downstream proteins to carry out efficient repair via distinct subpathways one of which, responsible for repair of strand breaks with 3' phosphate termini generated by the NEIL family glycosylases or by ROS, requires the phosphatase activity of polynucleotide kinase instead of APE1. Different complexes may utilize distinct DNA polymerases and ligases. Mammalian glycosylases have nonconserved extensions at one of the termini, dispensable for enzymatic activity but needed for interaction with other BER and non-BER proteins for complex formation and organelle targeting. The mammalian enzymes are sometimes covalently modified which may affect activity and complex formation. The focus of this review is on the early steps in mammalian BER for oxidized damage.
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- Muralidhar L Hegde
- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555-1079, USA
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Larsen E, Meza TJ, Kleppa L, Klungland A. Organ and cell specificity of base excision repair mutants in mice. Mutat Res 2007; 614:56-68. [PMID: 16765995 DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2006.01.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2005] [Revised: 01/17/2006] [Accepted: 01/21/2006] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Genetically modified mouse models are a powerful approach to study the relation of a single gene-deletion to processes such as mutagenesis and carcinogenesis. The generation of base excision repair (BER) deficient mouse models has resulted in a re-examination of the cellular defence mechanisms that exist to counteract DNA base damage. This review discusses novel insights into the relation between specific gene-deletions and the organ and cell specificity of visible and molecular phenotypes, including accumulation of base lesions in genomic DNA and carcinogenesis. Although promising models exist, there is still a need for new models. These models should comprise combined deficiencies of DNA glycosylases which initiate the BER pathway, to elaborate on the repair redundancy, as well as conditional models of the intermediate steps of BER.
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- Elisabeth Larsen
- Centre for Molecular Biology and Neuroscience, Institute of Medical Microbiology, Rikshospitalet-Radiumhospitalet HF, 0027 Oslo, Norway.
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Parsons JL, Preston BD, O'Connor TR, Dianov GL. DNA polymerase delta-dependent repair of DNA single strand breaks containing 3'-end proximal lesions. Nucleic Acids Res 2007; 35:1054-63. [PMID: 17264132 PMCID: PMC1851633 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl1115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Base excision repair (BER) is the major pathway for the repair of simple, non-bulky lesions in DNA that is initiated by a damage-specific DNA glycosylase. Several human DNA glycosylases exist that efficiently excise numerous types of lesions, although the close proximity of a single strand break (SSB) to a DNA adduct can have a profound effect on both BER and SSB repair. We recently reported that DNA lesions located as a second nucleotide 5′-upstream to a DNA SSB are resistant to DNA glycosylase activity and this study further examines the processing of these ‘complex’ lesions. We first demonstrated that the damaged base should be excised before SSB repair can occur, since it impaired processing of the SSB by the BER enzymes, DNA ligase IIIα and DNA polymerase β. Using human whole cell extracts, we next isolated the major activity against DNA lesions located as a second nucleotide 5′-upstream to a DNA SSB and identified it as DNA polymerase δ (Pol δ). Using recombinant protein we confirmed that the 3′-5′-exonuclease activity of Pol δ can efficiently remove these DNA lesions. Furthermore, we demonstrated that mouse embryonic fibroblasts, deficient in the exonuclease activity of Pol δ are partially deficient in the repair of these ‘complex’ lesions, demonstrating the importance of Pol δ during the repair of DNA lesions in close proximity to a DNA SSB, typical of those induced by ionizing radiation.
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- Jason L. Parsons
- MRC Radiation and Genome Stability Unit, Harwell, Oxfordshire, UK, Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA and Department of Biology, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, California 91010, USA
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- MRC Radiation and Genome Stability Unit, Harwell, Oxfordshire, UK, Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA and Department of Biology, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, California 91010, USA
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- MRC Radiation and Genome Stability Unit, Harwell, Oxfordshire, UK, Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA and Department of Biology, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, California 91010, USA
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- MRC Radiation and Genome Stability Unit, Harwell, Oxfordshire, UK, Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA and Department of Biology, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, California 91010, USA
- *To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: (44) 1235 841 134; Fax: (44) 1235 841 200; E-mail:
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Hazra TK, Das A, Das S, Choudhury S, Kow YW, Roy R. Oxidative DNA damage repair in mammalian cells: a new perspective. DNA Repair (Amst) 2006; 6:470-80. [PMID: 17116430 PMCID: PMC2702509 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2006.10.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 208] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Oxidatively induced DNA lesions have been implicated in the etiology of many diseases (including cancer) and in aging. Repair of oxidatively damaged bases in all organisms occurs primarily via the DNA base excision repair (BER) pathway, initiated with their excision by DNA glycosylases. Only two mammalian DNA glycosylases, OGG1 and NTH1 of E. coli Nth family, were previously characterized, which excise majority of the oxidatively damaged base lesions. We recently discovered and characterized two human orthologs of E. coli Nei, the prototype of the second family of oxidized base-specific glycosylases and named them NEIL (Nei-like)-1 and 2. NEILs are distinct from NTH1 and OGG1 in structural features and reaction mechanism but act on many of the same substrates. Nth-type DNA glycosylases after base excision, cleave the DNA strand at the resulting AP-site to produce a 3'-alphabeta unsaturated aldehyde whereas Nei-type enzymes produce 3'-phosphate terminus. E. coli APEs efficiently remove both types of termini in addition to cleaving AP sites to generate 3'-OH, the primer terminus for subsequent DNA repair synthesis. In contrast, the mammalian APE, APE1, which has an essential role in NTH1/OGG1-initiated BER, has negligible 3'-phosphatase activity and is dispensable for NEIL-initiated BER. Polynucleotide kinase (PNK), present in mammalian cells but not in E. coli, removes the 3' phosphate, and is involved in NEIL-initiated BER. NEILs show a unique preference for excising lesions from a DNA bubble, while most DNA glycosylases, including OGG1 and NTH1, are active only with duplex DNA. The dichotomy in the preference of NEILs and NTH1/OGG1 for bubble versus duplex DNA substrates suggests that NEILs function preferentially in repair of base lesions during replication and/or transcription and hence play a unique role in maintaining the functional integrity of mammalian genomes.
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- Tapas K Hazra
- Sealy Center for Molecular Science and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 6.136 Medical Research Building, Route 1079, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, USA.
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Wang SC, Chung JG, Chen CH, Chen SC. 2- and 4-Aminobiphenyls induce oxidative DNA damage in human hepatoma (Hep G2) cells via different mechanisms. Mutat Res 2006; 593:9-21. [PMID: 16112689 DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2005.06.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2004] [Revised: 06/13/2005] [Accepted: 06/15/2005] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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4-Aminobiphenyl (4-ABP) and its analogue, 2-aminobiphenyl (2-ABP), were examined for their ability to induce oxidative DNA damage in Hep G2 cells. Using the alkaline comet assay, we showed that 2-ABP and 4-ABP (25-200 microM) were able to induce the DNA damage in Hep G2 cells. With both compounds, formation of intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) was detected using flow cytometry analysis. Post-treatment of 2-ABP and 4-ABP-treated cells by endonuclease III (Endo III) or formamidopyrimidine-DNA glycosylase (Fpg) to determine the formation of oxidized pyrimidines or oxidized purines showed a significant increase of the extent of DNA migration. This indicated that oxidative DNA damage occurs in Hep G2 cells after exposure to 2-ABP and 4-ABP. This assumption was further substantiated by the fact that the spin traps, 5,5-dimethyl-pyrroline-N-oxide (DMPO) and N-tert-butyl-alpha-phenylnitrone (PBN), decreased DNA damage significantly. Furthermore, addition of the catalase (100 U/ml) caused a decrease in the DNA damage induced by 2-ABP or 4-ABP, indicating that H(2)O(2) is involved in ABP-induced DNA damage. Pre-incubation of the cells with the iron chelator desferrioxamine (DFO) (1mM) and with the copper chelator neocupronine (NC) (100 microM) also decreased DNA damage in cells treated with 200 microM 2-ABP or 200 microM 4-ABP, while the calcium chelator {1,2-bis(2-aminophenoxy)ethane-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid acetoxymethyl ester}(BAPTA/AM) (10 microM) decreased only DNA strand breaks in cells exposed to 4-ABP. This suggested that ions are involved in the formation of DNA strand breaks. Using RT-PCR and Western blotting, lower inhibition of the expression of the OGG1 gene and of the OGG1 protein was observed in cells treated with 4-ABP, and 2-ABP-treated cells showed a marked reduction in the expression of OGG1 gene and OGG1 protein. Taken together, our finding indicated the mechanisms of induced oxidative DNA damage in Hep G2 cell by 2-ABP and 4-ABP are different, although both tested compounds are isomers.
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- Shu Chi Wang
- Institute of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
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Emoto M, Miki M, Sarker AH, Nakamura T, Seki Y, Seki S, Ikeda S. Structure and transcription promoter activity of mouse flap endonuclease 1 gene: alternative splicing and bidirectional promoter. Gene 2005; 357:47-54. [PMID: 15967598 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2005.05.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2005] [Revised: 04/26/2005] [Accepted: 05/10/2005] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Flap endonuclease 1 (FEN1) is a structure-specific nuclease involved in DNA replication and repair. The mouse Fen1 gene, which has two exons, is located immediately adjacent to the gene corresponding to full-length cDNA of Riken 1810006K21 (1810006K21Rik) in a head-to-head orientation. Transcription initiation sites of each gene are 274 bp apart in the mouse genome. The spacer sequence between the bidirectional genes contains a CpG island, but lacks the typical TATA box. In the present study, transcription of the mFen1 gene was started from two initiation sites, and the first noncoding exon was spliced to the second exon using two different splicing donor sites, producing 3 kinds of mFen1 transcripts. A 594-bp fragment between the mFen1 and 1810006K21Rik genes, which contains two conserved sequence blocks (CSB) between mouse and human sequence, functions as a bidirectional promoter. The multiple cis-elements, including an Ets-binding site and E-box in the CSB, are involved in activation or repression of transcription in both directions. Interestingly, the E-box activates mFen1 transcription and simultaneously represses promoter activity in the opposite direction. Mutation of either splicing donor site of the mFen1 gene produced limiting alternative splicing products, but did not affect luciferase activity. In contrast, the splicing-defective mutation produced by disruption of the acceptor site completely lacked luciferase activity, indicating that the splicing has a significant effect on production of luciferase protein by shortening the 5'-untranslated region of the mRNA.
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- Miku Emoto
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Okayama University of Science, 1-1 Ridaicho, Okayama 700-0005, Japan
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Parsons JL, Zharkov DO, Dianov GL. NEIL1 excises 3' end proximal oxidative DNA lesions resistant to cleavage by NTH1 and OGG1. Nucleic Acids Res 2005; 33:4849-56. [PMID: 16129732 PMCID: PMC1196207 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki816] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Base excision repair is the major pathway for the repair of oxidative DNA damage in human cells that is initiated by a damage-specific DNA glycosylase. In human cells, the major DNA glycosylases for the excision of oxidative base damage are OGG1 and NTH1 that excise 8-oxoguanine and oxidative pyrimidines, respectively. We find that both enzymes have limited activity on DNA lesions located in the vicinity of the 3′ end of a DNA single-strand break, suggesting that other enzymes are involved in the processing of such lesions. In this study, we identify and characterize NEIL1 as a major DNA glycosylase that excises oxidative base damage located in close proximity to the 3′ end of a DNA single-strand break.
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- SB RAS Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental MedicineNovosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +44 1235 841 134; Fax: +44 1235 841 200;
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Watanabe T, Blaisdell JO, Wallace SS, Bond JP. Engineering functional changes in Escherichia coli endonuclease III based on phylogenetic and structural analyses. J Biol Chem 2005; 280:34378-84. [PMID: 16096281 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m504916200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Escherichia coli endonuclease III (EcoNth) plays an important cellular role by removing premutagenic pyrimidine damages produced by reactive oxygen species. EcoNth is a bifunctional enzyme that has DNA glycosylase and apurinic/apyrimidinic lyase activities. Using a phylogeny of natural sequences, we selected to study EcoNth serine 39, aspartate 44, and arginine 184, which are presumed to be in the vicinity of the damaged base in the glycosylase-substrate complex. These three amino acids are highly conserved among Nth orthologs, although not among homologous glycosylases, such as MutY, that have different base specificities and no lyase activity. To examine the role of these amino acids in catalysis, we constructed three mutants of EcoNth, in which Ser39 was replaced with leucine (S39L), Asp44 was replaced with valine (D44V), and Arg184 was replaced with alanine (R184A), which are the corresponding residues in EcoMutY. We showed that EcoNth S39L does not have significant glycosylase activity for oxidized pyrimidines, although it maintained AP lyase activity. In contrast, EcoNth D44V retained glycosylase activity against oxidized pyrimidines, but the apparent rate constant for the lyase activity of EcoNth D44V was significantly lower than that of EcoNth, indicating that Asp44 in EcoNth is required for beta-elimination. Finally, EcoNth R184A maintained lyase activity but exhibited glycosylase specificity different from that of EcoNth. The functional consequences of each of these three substitutions can be rationalized in the context of high resolution protein structures. Thus phylogeny-based scanning mutagenesis has allowed us to identify novel roles for amino acids in the substrate binding pocket of EcoNth in base recognition and/or catalysis.
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- Takashi Watanabe
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont 05405, USA
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Ide H, Kotera M. Human DNA glycosylases involved in the repair of oxidatively damaged DNA. Biol Pharm Bull 2004; 27:480-5. [PMID: 15056851 DOI: 10.1248/bpb.27.480] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Reactive oxygen species from endogenous and environmental sources induce oxidative damage to DNA, and hence pose an enormous threat to the genetic integrity of cells. Such oxidative DNA damage is restored by the base excision repair (BER) pathway that is conserved from bacteria to humans and is initiated by DNA glycosylases, which simply remove the aberrant base from the DNA backbone by hydrolyzing the N-glycosidic bond (monofunctional DNA glycosylase), or further catalyze the incision of a resulting abasic site (bifunctional DNA glycosylase). In human cells, oxidative pyrimidine lesions are generally removed by hNTH1, hNEIL1, or hNEIL2, whereas oxidative purine lesions are removed by hOGG1. hSMUG1 excises a subset of oxidative base damage that is poorly recognized by the above enzymes. Unlike these enzymes, hMYH removes intact A misincorporated opposite template 8-oxoguanine during DNA replication. Although hNTH1, hOGG1, and hMYH account for major cellular glycosylase activity for inherent substrate lesions, mouse models deficient in the enzymes exhibit no overt phenotypes such as the development of cancer, implying backup mechanisms. Contrary to the mouse model, hMYH mutations have been shown to lead to a multiple colorectal adenoma syndrome and high colorectal cancer risk. For cleavage of the N-glycosidic bond, bifunctional DNA glycosylases (hNTH1, hNEIL1, hNEIL2, and hOGG1) use Lys or Pro for direct attack on sugar C1', whereas monofunctional DNA glycosylases (hSMUG1 and hMYH) use an activated water molecule. DNA glycosylases for oxidative damage, if not all, are covalently trapped by DNA containing 2-deoxyribonolactone or oxanine. Thus, the depletion of functional DNA glycosylases using covalent trapping may reduce the BER capacity of cancer cells, hence potentiating the efficacy of anticancer drugs or radiation therapy.
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- Hiroshi Ide
- Department of Mathematical and Life Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan.
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Evans MD, Dizdaroglu M, Cooke MS. Oxidative DNA damage and disease: induction, repair and significance. MUTATION RESEARCH/REVIEWS IN MUTATION RESEARCH 2004; 567:1-61. [PMID: 15341901 DOI: 10.1016/j.mrrev.2003.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 878] [Impact Index Per Article: 43.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2003] [Revised: 11/12/2003] [Accepted: 11/12/2003] [Indexed: 04/08/2023]
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The generation of reactive oxygen species may be both beneficial to cells, performing a function in inter- and intracellular signalling, and detrimental, modifying cellular biomolecules, accumulation of which has been associated with numerous diseases. Of the molecules subject to oxidative modification, DNA has received the greatest attention, with biomarkers of exposure and effect closest to validation. Despite nearly a quarter of a century of study, and a large number of base- and sugar-derived DNA lesions having been identified, the majority of studies have focussed upon the guanine modification, 7,8-dihydro-8-oxo-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-OH-dG). For the most part, the biological significance of other lesions has not, as yet, been investigated. In contrast, the description and characterisation of enzyme systems responsible for repairing oxidative DNA base damage is growing rapidly, being the subject of intense study. However, there remain notable gaps in our knowledge of which repair proteins remove which lesions, plus, as more lesions identified, new processes/substrates need to be determined. There are many reports describing elevated levels of oxidatively modified DNA lesions, in various biological matrices, in a plethora of diseases; however, for the majority of these the association could merely be coincidental, and more detailed studies are required. Nevertheless, even based simply upon reports of studies investigating the potential role of 8-OH-dG in disease, the weight of evidence strongly suggests a link between such damage and the pathogenesis of disease. However, exact roles remain to be elucidated.
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- Mark D Evans
- Oxidative Stress Group, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Leicester, Leicester Royal Infirmary, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, LE2 7LX, UK
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Miller H, Fernandes AS, Zaika E, McTigue MM, Torres MC, Wente M, Iden CR, Grollman AP. Stereoselective excision of thymine glycol from oxidatively damaged DNA. Nucleic Acids Res 2004; 32:338-45. [PMID: 14726482 PMCID: PMC373299 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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DNA damage created by reactive oxygen species includes the prototypic oxidized pyrimidine, thymine glycol (Tg), which exists in oxidatively damaged DNA as two diastereoisomeric pairs. In Escherichia coli, Saccharomyces cerevesiae and mice, Tg is preferentially excised by endonuclease III (Endo III) and endonuclease VIII (Endo VIII), yNTG1 and yNTG2, and mNTH and mNEIL1, respectively. We have explored the ability of these DNA glycosylases to discriminate between Tg stereoisomers. Oligonucleotides containing a single, chromatographically pure (5S,6R) or (5R,6S) stereoisomer of Tg were prepared by oxidation with osmium tetroxide. Steady-state kinetic analyses of the excision process revealed that Endo III, Endo VIII, yNTG1, mNTH and mNEIL1, but not yNTG2, excise Tg isomers from DNA in a stereoselective manner, as reflected in the parameter of catalytic efficiency (kcat/Km). When DNA glycosylases occur as complementary pairs, failure of one or both enzymes to excise their cognate Tg stereoisomer from oxidatively damaged DNA could have deleterious consequences for the cell.
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- Holly Miller
- Laboratory of Chemical Biology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY, USA.
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Liu X, Choudhury S, Roy R. In vitro and in vivo dimerization of human endonuclease III stimulates its activity. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:50061-9. [PMID: 14522981 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m309997200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Human endonuclease III (hNTH1), a DNA glycosylase with associated abasic lyase activity, repairs various mutagenic and toxic-oxidized DNA lesions, including thymine glycol. We demonstrate for the first time that the full-length hNTH1 positively cooperates in product formation as a function of enzyme concentration. The protein concentrations that caused cooperativity in turnover also exhibited dimerization, independent of DNA binding. Earlier we had found that the hNTH1 consists of two domains: a well conserved catalytic domain, and an inhibitory N-terminal tail. The N-terminal truncated proteins neither undergo dimerization, nor do they show cooperativity in turnover, indicating that the homodimerization of hNTH1 is specific and requires the N-terminal tail. Further kinetic analysis at transition states reveals that this homodimerization stimulates an 11-fold increase in the rate of release of the final product, an AP-site with a 3'-nick, and that it does not affect other intermediate reaction rates, including those of DNA N-glycosylase or AP lyase activities that are modulated by previously reported interacting proteins, YB-1, APE1, and XPG. Thus, the site of modulating action of the dimer on the hNTH1 reaction steps is unique. Moreover, the high intranuclear (2.3 microM) and cytosolic (0.65 microM) concentrations of hNTH1 determined here support the possibility of in vivo dimerization; indeed, in vivo protein cross-linking showed the presence of the dimer in the nucleus of HeLa cells. Therefore, it is likely that the dimerization of hNTH1 involving the N-terminal tail masks the inhibitory effect of this tail and plays a critical role in its catalytic turnover in the cell.
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- Xiang Liu
- DNA Repair Laboratory, Mechanism of Carcinogenesis Program, American Health Foundation Cancer Center, Institute for Cancer Prevention, Valhalla, New York 10595, USA
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Rogers PA, Eide L, Klungland A, Ding H. Reversible inactivation of E. coli endonuclease III via modification of its [4Fe-4S] cluster by nitric oxide. DNA Repair (Amst) 2003; 2:809-17. [PMID: 12826281 DOI: 10.1016/s1568-7864(03)00065-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Endonuclease III, a highly conserved enzyme initiating the base excision repair of oxidized DNA bases, hosts a [4Fe-4S] cluster. Unlike many other iron-sulfur clusters, the [4Fe-4S] cluster of endonuclease III is stable and resistant to both oxidation and reduction. Here we show that the [4Fe-4S] cluster of the E. coli endonuclease III can be readily modified by nitric oxide forming the protein-bound dinitrosyl iron complex in vitro and in vivo. Modification of the [4Fe-4S] cluster completely inhibits the DNA glycosylase activity of the endonuclease III. Remarkably, the enzymatic activity is restored when the [4Fe-4S] cluster is re-assembled in the endonuclease III dinitrosyl iron complex with L-cysteine, cysteine desulfurase (IscS) and ferrous iron in vitro. Furthermore, the nitric oxide-modified [4Fe-4S] cluster in endonuclease III is efficiently repaired in aerobically growing E. coli cells, and this repair does not require new protein synthesis. These results suggest that the E. coli endonuclease III can be reversibly inactivated by nitric oxide via modification of its [4Fe-4S] cluster.
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- Paul A Rogers
- Department of Biological Sciences, 202 Life Sciences Building, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA , USA
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Honda S, Kobayashi T, Kajino K, Urakami S, Igawa M, Hino O. Ets protein Elf-1 bidirectionally suppresses transcriptional activities of the tumor suppressor Tsc2 gene and the repair-related Nth1 gene. Mol Carcinog 2003; 37:122-9. [PMID: 12884363 DOI: 10.1002/mc.10123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Alterations in the rat tuberous sclerosis gene (Tsc2) cause renal cell carcinomas (RCCs) with complete penetrance. In this study, it was shown that the minimal core promoters of the rat Tsc2 and endonuclease III 1 (Nth1) genes, lying in a 5'-to-5' arrangement, were localized in a 0.11-kb region containing two Ets binding sites (EBSs). This region worked as a bidirectional promoter in a single reporter plasmid. Mutational inactivation of each of the two EBSs significantly reduced promoter activity. Moreover, gel shift assays revealed the presence of specific EBSs-protein complexes. These results demonstrate that some members of the Ets family positively regulate the promoter activities of the Tsc2/Nth1 genes by binding to the EBSs. We identified Elf-1 as a binding factor for EBSs through super-shift assays, and detected approximately 35 kDa bands with an EBSs-containing DNA probe by Southwestern blot analysis. Forced expression of Elf-1 in cells, however, bidirectionally suppressed the activities of the Tsc2/Nth1 promoters. Elf-1 may be a negative regulator of Tsc2/Nth1 gene expression and may compete against positive regulators for binding to the EBSs. Our observations suggest that mechanisms that inactivate Tsc2 gene expression, such as promoter suppression, may exist.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Blotting, Southwestern
- Carcinoma, Renal Cell/enzymology
- Carcinoma, Renal Cell/genetics
- Carcinoma, Renal Cell/metabolism
- DNA/genetics
- DNA/metabolism
- DNA Primers
- DNA Repair
- DNA-Binding Proteins/physiology
- Deoxyribonuclease (Pyrimidine Dimer)
- Down-Regulation
- Electrophoretic Mobility Shift Assay
- Endodeoxyribonucleases/genetics
- Escherichia coli Proteins
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic/physiology
- Genes, Tumor Suppressor
- Humans
- Kidney Neoplasms/enzymology
- Kidney Neoplasms/genetics
- Kidney Neoplasms/metabolism
- Luciferases/metabolism
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutagenesis, Site-Directed
- Mutation/genetics
- Plasmids
- Promoter Regions, Genetic
- Rats
- Repressor Proteins/genetics
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
- Transcription Factors/physiology
- Transcription, Genetic
- Transfection
- Tuberous Sclerosis/genetics
- Tuberous Sclerosis Complex 2 Protein
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
- Tumor Suppressor Proteins
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- Satoshi Honda
- Department of Urology, Shimane Medical University, Shimane, Japan
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Matsubara M, Masaoka A, Tanaka T, Miyano T, Kato N, Terato H, Ohyama Y, Iwai S, Ide H. Mammalian 5-formyluracil-DNA glycosylase. 1. Identification and characterization of a novel activity that releases 5-formyluracil from DNA. Biochemistry 2003; 42:4993-5002. [PMID: 12718542 DOI: 10.1021/bi027322v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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5-Formyluracil (fU) is a major oxidative thymine lesion produced by reactive oxygen species and exhibits genotoxic and cytotoxic effects via several mechanisms. In the present study, we have searched for and characterized mammalian fU-DNA glycosylase (FDG) using two approaches. In the first approach, the FDG activity was examined using purified base excision repair enzymes. Human and mouse endonuclease III homologues (NTH1) showed a very weak FDG activity, but the parameter analysis and NaBH(4) trapping assays of the Schiff base intermediate revealed that NTH1 was kinetically incompetent for repair of fU. In the second approach, FDG was partially purified (160-fold) from rat liver. The enzyme was a monofunctional DNA glycosylase and recognized fU in single-stranded (ss) and double-stranded (ds) DNA. The most purified FDG fraction also exhibited monofunctional DNA glycosylase activities for uracil (U), 5-hydroxyuracil (hoU), and 5-hydroxymethyluracil (hmU) in ssDNA and dsDNA. The fU-excising activity of FDG was competitively inhibited by dsDNA containing U.G, hoU.G, and hmU.A but not by intact dsDNA containing T.A. Furthermore, the activities of FDG for fU, hmU, hoU, and U in ssDNA and dsDNA were neutralized by the antibody raised against SMUG1 uracil-DNA glycosylase, showing that FDG is a rat homologue of SMUG1.
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- Mayumi Matsubara
- Department of Mathematical and Life Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan
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Olsen AK, Duale N, Bjørås M, Larsen CT, Wiger R, Holme JA, Seeberg EC, Brunborg G. Limited repair of 8-hydroxy-7,8-dihydroguanine residues in human testicular cells. Nucleic Acids Res 2003; 31:1351-63. [PMID: 12582255 PMCID: PMC150234 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Oxidative damage in testicular DNA is associated with poor semen quality, reduced fertility and increased risk of stillbirths and birth defects. These DNA lesions are predominantly removed by base excision repair. Cellular extracts from human and rat testicular cells and three enriched populations of rat male germ cells (primary spermatocytes, round spermatids and elongating/elongated spermatids) all showed proficient excision/incision of 5-hydroxycytosine, thymine glycol and 2,6-diamino-4-hydroxy-5-formamidopyrimidine. DNA containing 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine was excised poorly by human testicular cell extracts, although 8-oxoguanine-DNA glycosylase-1 (hOGG1) was present in human testicular cells, at levels that varied markedly between 13 individuals. This excision was as low as with human mononuclear blood cell extracts. The level of endonuclease III homologue-1 (NTH1), which excises oxidised pyrimidines, was higher in testicular than in somatic cells of both species. Cellular repair studies of lesions recognised by formamidopyrimidine-DNA glycosylase (Fpg) or endonuclease III (Nth) were assayed with alkaline elution and the Comet assay. Consistent with the enzymatic activities, human testicular cells showed poor removal of Fpg-sensitive lesions but efficient repair of Nth-sensitive lesions. Rat testicular cells efficiently repaired both Fpg- and Nth-sensitive lesions. In conclusion, human testicular cells have limited capacity to repair important oxidative DNA lesions, which could lead to impaired reproduction and de novo mutations.
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- Ann-Karin Olsen
- Department of Chemical Toxicology, Division of Environmental Medicine, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, PO Box 4404 Nydalen, N-0403 Oslo, Norway
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Elder RH, Dianov GL. Repair of dihydrouracil supported by base excision repair in mNTH1 knock-out cell extracts. J Biol Chem 2002; 277:50487-90. [PMID: 12401779 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m208153200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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In mammalian cells, thymine glycols and other oxidized pyrimidines such as 5,6-dihydrouracil are removed from DNA by the NTH1 protein, a bifunctional DNA-N-glycosylase. However, mNTH1 knock-out mice in common with other DNA glycosylase-deficient mice do not show any severe abnormalities associated with accumulation of DNA damage and mutations. In the present study we used an in vitro repair system to investigate the mechanism for the removal of 5,6-dihydrouracil from DNA by mNTH1-deficient cell-free extracts derived from testes of mNTH1 knock-out mice. We found that these extracts are able to support the removal of 5,6-dihydrouracil from DNA at about 20% of the efficiency of normal extracts. Furthermore, we also found that single-nucleotide patch base excision repair is the major pathway for removal of 5,6-dihydrouracil in mNTH1-deficient cell extracts, suggesting the involvement of other DNA glycosylase(s) in the removal of oxidized pyrimidines.
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- Rhoderick H Elder
- Medical Research Council Radiation and Genome Stability Unit, Harwell, Oxfordshire, OX11 0RD, United Kingdom
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Terato H, Masaoka A, Asagoshi K, Honsho A, Ohyama Y, Suzuki T, Yamada M, Makino K, Yamamoto K, Ide H. Novel repair activities of AlkA (3-methyladenine DNA glycosylase II) and endonuclease VIII for xanthine and oxanine, guanine lesions induced by nitric oxide and nitrous acid. Nucleic Acids Res 2002; 30:4975-84. [PMID: 12434002 PMCID: PMC137176 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkf630] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Nitrosation of guanine in DNA by nitrogen oxides such as nitric oxide (NO) and nitrous acid leads to formation of xanthine (Xan) and oxanine (Oxa), potentially cytotoxic and mutagenic lesions. In the present study, we have examined the repair capacity of DNA N-glycosylases from Escherichia coli for Xan and Oxa. The nicking assay with the defined substrates containing Xan and Oxa revealed that AlkA [in combination with endonuclease (Endo) IV] and Endo VIII recognized Xan in the tested enzymes. The activity (V(max)/K(m)) of AlkA for Xan was 5-fold lower than that for 7-methylguanine, and that of Endo VIII was 50-fold lower than that for thymine glycol. The activity of AlkA and Endo VIII for Xan was further substantiated by the release of [(3)H]Xan from the substrate. The treatment of E.coli with N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine increased the Xan-excising activity in the cell extract from alkA(+) but not alkA(-) strains. The alkA and nei (the Endo VIII gene) double mutant, but not the single mutants, exhibited increased sensitivity to nitrous acid relative to the wild type strain. AlkA and Endo VIII also exhibited excision activity for Oxa, but the activity was much lower than that for Xan.
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- Hiroaki Terato
- Department of Mathematical and Life Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan
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Morland I, Rolseth V, Luna L, Rognes T, Bjørås M, Seeberg E. Human DNA glycosylases of the bacterial Fpg/MutM superfamily: an alternative pathway for the repair of 8-oxoguanine and other oxidation products in DNA. Nucleic Acids Res 2002; 30:4926-36. [PMID: 12433996 PMCID: PMC137166 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkf618] [Citation(s) in RCA: 216] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The mild phenotype associated with targeted disruption of the mouse OGG1 and NTH1 genes has been attributed to the existence of back-up activities and/or alternative pathways for the removal of oxidised DNA bases. We have characterised two new genes in human cells that encode DNA glycosylases, homologous to the bacterial Fpg (MutM)/Nei class of enzymes, capable of removing lesions that are substrates for both hOGG1 and hNTH1. One gene, designated HFPG1, showed ubiquitous expression in all tissues examined whereas the second gene, HFPG2, was only expressed at detectable levels in the thymus and testis. Transient transfections of HeLa cells with fusions of the cDNAs to EGFP revealed intracellular sorting to the nucleus with accumulation in the nucleoli for hFPG1, while hFPG2 co-localised with the 30 kDa subunit of RPA. hFPG1 was purified and shown to act on DNA substrates containing 8-oxoguanine, 5-hydroxycytosine and abasic sites. Removal of 8-oxoguanine, but not cleavage at abasic sites, was opposite base-dependent, with 8-oxoG:C being the preferred substrate and negligible activity towards 8-oxoG:A. It thus appears that hFPG1 has properties similar to mammalian OGG1 in preventing mutations arising from misincorporation of A across 8-oxoG and could function as a back-up repair activity for OGG1 in ogg1(-/-) mice.
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- Ingrid Morland
- Department of Molecular Biology, Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Oslo, Rikshospitalet, 0027 Oslo, Norway
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Takao M, Kanno SI, Kobayashi K, Zhang QM, Yonei S, van der Horst GTJ, Yasui A. A back-up glycosylase in Nth1 knock-out mice is a functional Nei (endonuclease VIII) homologue. J Biol Chem 2002; 277:42205-13. [PMID: 12200441 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m206884200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 169] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Thymine glycol, a potentially lethal DNA lesion produced by reactive oxygen species, can be removed by DNA glycosylase, Escherichia coli Nth (endonuclease III), or its mammalian homologue NTH1. We have found previously that mice deleted in the Nth homologue still retain at least two residual glycosylase activities for thymine glycol. We report herein that in cell extracts from the mNth1 knock-out mouse there is a third thymine glycol glycosylase activity that is encoded by one of three mammalian proteins with sequence similarity to E. coli Fpg (MutM) and Nei (endonuclease VIII). Tissue expression of this mouse Nei-like (designated as Neil1) gene is ubiquitous but much lower than that of mNth1 except in heart, spleen, and skeletal muscle. Recombinant NEIL1 can remove thymine glycol and 5-hydroxyuracil in double- and single-stranded DNA much more efficiently than 8-oxoguanine and can nick the strand by an associated (beta-delta) apurinic/apyrimidinic lyase activity. In addition, the mouse NEIL1 has a unique DNA glycosylase/lyase activity toward mismatched uracil and thymine, especially in U:C and T:C mismatches. These results suggest that NEIL1 is a back-up glycosylase for NTH1 with unique substrate specificity and tissue-specific expression.
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- Masashi Takao
- Department of Molecular Genetics, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8575, Japan.
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Ikeda S, Kohmoto T, Tabata R, Seki Y. Differential intracellular localization of the human and mouse endonuclease III homologs and analysis of the sorting signals. DNA Repair (Amst) 2002; 1:847-54. [PMID: 12531031 DOI: 10.1016/s1568-7864(02)00145-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The mammalian endonuclease III homolog NTH1 is a DNA glycosylase/AP lyase that recognizes oxidized pyrimidine bases. Here, we compared the intracellular localization of human and mouse NTH1 and analyzed their sorting signals by examining expression of enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP)-tagged NTH1 protein. Full-length hNTH1 was sorted exclusively into nuclei. Deletion analysis showed that two basic amino acid clusters, which constitute the nuclear localization signal (NLS), are essential for nuclear sorting. Moreover, disruption of the NLS by deletion or substitution of arginine residue(s) altered the localization of the protein to mitochondria. In contrast, most mNTH1 molecules were sorted into mitochondria, with a relatively small amount localized in nuclei. Deletion analysis indicated that the mitochondrial targeting sequence of mNTH1 is contained within the N-terminal 38 amino acids. Alignment of the N-terminal sequence of human and mouse NTH1 showed that mNTH1 lacks a basic amino acid cluster corresponding to one of the NLS sequences found in hNTH1. Nuclear localization of mNTH1 was increased when this NLS sequence was added to mNTH1 through the addition of appropriate amino acids. The fact that transcription of the hNTH1 gene is initiated at multiple sites indicated that three isoforms of hNTH1 protein are translated using different initiation codons. However, no difference in intracellular localization was observed among three isoforms of hNTH1 with different N-terminal sequences.
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- Shogo Ikeda
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Okayama University of Science, Japan.
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Wang TS, Chung CH, Wang ASS, Bau DT, Samikkannu T, Jan KY, Cheng YM, Lee TC. Endonuclease III, formamidopyrimidine-DNA glycosylase, and proteinase K additively enhance arsenic-induced DNA strand breaks in human cells. Chem Res Toxicol 2002; 15:1254-8. [PMID: 12387622 DOI: 10.1021/tx025535f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We report here that sequential digestion with endonuclease III, formamidopyrimidine-DNA glycosylase, and proteinase K in Tris buffer markedly increased the sensitivity for detecting DNA damage in arsenic-treated cells. These three enzymes increased DNA strand breaks in an additive manner. By using this sequential-enzyme-digestion comet assay, we demonstrated that trivalent inorganic arsenic induced more DNA damage than monomethylarsonous acid, monomethylarsonic acid, and dimethylarsinic acid in human blood cell lines. However, trivalent inorganic arsenic was far less potent than monomethylarsonous acid in inhibiting pyruvate dehydrogenase activity. Therefore, different mechanisms are involved in inhibiting pyruvate dehydrogenase activity and inducing DNA damage. Our results also indicate while trivalent inorganic arsenic induced more endonuclease III-digestible adducts, monomethylarsonous acid and monomethylarsonic acid induced more proteinase K-digestible adducts. These results suggest there is a difference in the mechanism for inducing DNA damage between inorganic and organic methylated arsenic compounds.
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- Tsu-Shing Wang
- Department of Life Sciences, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, 402, Taiwan, ROC
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Ocampo MTA, Chaung W, Marenstein DR, Chan MK, Altamirano A, Basu AK, Boorstein RJ, Cunningham RP, Teebor GW. Targeted deletion of mNth1 reveals a novel DNA repair enzyme activity. Mol Cell Biol 2002; 22:6111-21. [PMID: 12167705 PMCID: PMC134015 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.22.17.6111-6121.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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DNA N-glycosylase/AP (apurinic/apyrimidinic) lyase enzymes of the endonuclease III family (nth in Escherichia coli and Nth1 in mammalian organisms) initiate DNA base excision repair of oxidized ring saturated pyrimidine residues. We generated a null mouse (mNth1(-/-)) by gene targeting. After almost 2 years, such mice exhibited no overt abnormalities. Tissues of mNth1(-/-) mice contained an enzymatic activity which cleaved DNA at sites of oxidized thymine residues (thymine glycol [Tg]). The activity was greater when Tg was paired with G than with A. This is in contrast to Nth1, which is more active against Tg:A pairs than Tg:G pairs. We suggest that there is a back-up mammalian repair activity which attacks Tg:G pairs with much greater efficiency than Tg:A pairs. The significance of this activity may relate to repair of oxidized 5-methyl cytosine residues (5meCyt). It was shown previously (S. Zuo, R. J. Boorstein, and G. W. Teebor, Nucleic Acids Res. 23:3239-3243, 1995) that both ionizing radiation and chemical oxidation yielded Tg from 5meCyt residues in DNA. Thus, this previously undescribed, and hence novel, back-up enzyme activity may function to repair oxidized 5meCyt residues in DNA while also being sufficient to compensate for the loss of Nth1 in the mutant mice, thereby explaining the noninformative phenotype.
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- Maria T A Ocampo
- Department of Pathology and Kaplan Comprehensive Cancer Center, New York University Medical Center, New York, New York 10016, USA
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The human base excision repair enzyme hNTH1, a homologue of Escherichia coli endonuclease III (Nth), is a 36kDa DNA glycosylase with associated abasic (AP) lyase activity. It has significant sequence homology with Nth in its DNA-binding motifs and catalytic residues but possesses a unique amino (N)-terminal tail (residues 1-95). We investigated the structure and function of this tail. Controlled proteolysis cleaved hNTH1 into discrete fragments to generate a 25kDA core domain lacking the N-terminal 98 residues. Surprisingly, recombinant hNTH1 lacking 55, 72 or 80 residues from the N terminus had four- to fivefold higher activities than the full-length enzyme. Kinetic analysis at transition states revealed that release of the final product, an AP site with a 3'-nick, is the rate-limiting step in the multi-step reaction mediated by hNTH1. The N-terminal tail regulates its overall catalytic turnover by reducing this product release rate by five- to sevenfold without affecting either the glycosylase or AP lyase activities, or the steady-state equilibrium concentration of Schiff base intermediate, the covalent complex of hNTH1 and AP-site DNA formed after the base is excised. The inhibitory role of the N-terminal tail in catalytic turnover explains the low activity of hNTH1 compared to that of its E.coli homologue.
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- Xiang Liu
- Division of Carcinogenesis and Molecular Epidemiology, American Health Foundation Cancer Center, 1 Dana Road, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA
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Takao M, Kanno SI, Shiromoto T, Hasegawa R, Ide H, Ikeda S, Sarker AH, Seki S, Xing JZ, Le X, Weinfeld M, Kobayashi K, Miyazaki JI, Muijtjens M, Hoeijmakers JH, van der Horst G, Yasui A. Novel nuclear and mitochondrial glycosylases revealed by disruption of the mouse Nth1 gene encoding an endonuclease III homolog for repair of thymine glycols. EMBO J 2002; 21:3486-93. [PMID: 12093749 PMCID: PMC125395 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdf350] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Endonuclease III, encoded by nth in Escherichia coli, removes thymine glycols (Tg), a toxic oxidative DNA lesion. To determine the biological significance of this repair in mammals, we established a mouse model with mutated mNth1, a homolog of nth, by gene targeting. The homozygous mNth1 mutant mice showed no detectable phenotypical abnormality. Embryonic cells with or without wild-type mNth1 showed no difference in sensitivity to menadione or hydrogen peroxide. Tg produced in the mutant mouse liver DNA by X-ray irradiation disappeared with time, though more slowly than in the wild-type mouse. In extracts from mutant mouse liver, we found, instead of mNTH1 activity, at least two novel DNA glycosylase activities against Tg. One activity is significantly higher in the mutant than in wild-type mouse in mitochondria, while the other is another nuclear glycosylase for Tg. These results underscore the importance of base excision repair of Tg both in the nuclei and mitochondria in mammals.
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8575,
Department of Mathematical and Life Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8526, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Okayama University of Science, Okayama 700-0005, Department of Molecular Biology, Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Okayama University Medical School, Okayama 700-8558, Division of Stem Cell Regulation Research, Osaka University Medical School, Suita 565-0871, Japan, Department of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G3, Experimental Oncology, Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 1Z2, Canada and MGC, Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Erasmus University, PO Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands Present address: Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Life Sciences Division, M.S. 74–157 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Present address: Department of Human Nutrition, Chugoku Junior College, Okayama, Japan Corresponding author e-mail: M.Takao and S.-i.Kanno contributed equally to this work
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8575,
Department of Mathematical and Life Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8526, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Okayama University of Science, Okayama 700-0005, Department of Molecular Biology, Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Okayama University Medical School, Okayama 700-8558, Division of Stem Cell Regulation Research, Osaka University Medical School, Suita 565-0871, Japan, Department of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G3, Experimental Oncology, Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 1Z2, Canada and MGC, Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Erasmus University, PO Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands Present address: Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Life Sciences Division, M.S. 74–157 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Present address: Department of Human Nutrition, Chugoku Junior College, Okayama, Japan Corresponding author e-mail: M.Takao and S.-i.Kanno contributed equally to this work
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8575,
Department of Mathematical and Life Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8526, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Okayama University of Science, Okayama 700-0005, Department of Molecular Biology, Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Okayama University Medical School, Okayama 700-8558, Division of Stem Cell Regulation Research, Osaka University Medical School, Suita 565-0871, Japan, Department of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G3, Experimental Oncology, Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 1Z2, Canada and MGC, Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Erasmus University, PO Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands Present address: Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Life Sciences Division, M.S. 74–157 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Present address: Department of Human Nutrition, Chugoku Junior College, Okayama, Japan Corresponding author e-mail: M.Takao and S.-i.Kanno contributed equally to this work
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8575,
Department of Mathematical and Life Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8526, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Okayama University of Science, Okayama 700-0005, Department of Molecular Biology, Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Okayama University Medical School, Okayama 700-8558, Division of Stem Cell Regulation Research, Osaka University Medical School, Suita 565-0871, Japan, Department of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G3, Experimental Oncology, Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 1Z2, Canada and MGC, Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Erasmus University, PO Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands Present address: Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Life Sciences Division, M.S. 74–157 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Present address: Department of Human Nutrition, Chugoku Junior College, Okayama, Japan Corresponding author e-mail: M.Takao and S.-i.Kanno contributed equally to this work
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8575,
Department of Mathematical and Life Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8526, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Okayama University of Science, Okayama 700-0005, Department of Molecular Biology, Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Okayama University Medical School, Okayama 700-8558, Division of Stem Cell Regulation Research, Osaka University Medical School, Suita 565-0871, Japan, Department of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G3, Experimental Oncology, Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 1Z2, Canada and MGC, Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Erasmus University, PO Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands Present address: Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Life Sciences Division, M.S. 74–157 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Present address: Department of Human Nutrition, Chugoku Junior College, Okayama, Japan Corresponding author e-mail: M.Takao and S.-i.Kanno contributed equally to this work
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8575,
Department of Mathematical and Life Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8526, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Okayama University of Science, Okayama 700-0005, Department of Molecular Biology, Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Okayama University Medical School, Okayama 700-8558, Division of Stem Cell Regulation Research, Osaka University Medical School, Suita 565-0871, Japan, Department of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G3, Experimental Oncology, Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 1Z2, Canada and MGC, Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Erasmus University, PO Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands Present address: Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Life Sciences Division, M.S. 74–157 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Present address: Department of Human Nutrition, Chugoku Junior College, Okayama, Japan Corresponding author e-mail: M.Takao and S.-i.Kanno contributed equally to this work
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8575,
Department of Mathematical and Life Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8526, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Okayama University of Science, Okayama 700-0005, Department of Molecular Biology, Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Okayama University Medical School, Okayama 700-8558, Division of Stem Cell Regulation Research, Osaka University Medical School, Suita 565-0871, Japan, Department of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G3, Experimental Oncology, Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 1Z2, Canada and MGC, Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Erasmus University, PO Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands Present address: Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Life Sciences Division, M.S. 74–157 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Present address: Department of Human Nutrition, Chugoku Junior College, Okayama, Japan Corresponding author e-mail: M.Takao and S.-i.Kanno contributed equally to this work
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8575,
Department of Mathematical and Life Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8526, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Okayama University of Science, Okayama 700-0005, Department of Molecular Biology, Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Okayama University Medical School, Okayama 700-8558, Division of Stem Cell Regulation Research, Osaka University Medical School, Suita 565-0871, Japan, Department of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G3, Experimental Oncology, Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 1Z2, Canada and MGC, Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Erasmus University, PO Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands Present address: Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Life Sciences Division, M.S. 74–157 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Present address: Department of Human Nutrition, Chugoku Junior College, Okayama, Japan Corresponding author e-mail: M.Takao and S.-i.Kanno contributed equally to this work
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8575,
Department of Mathematical and Life Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8526, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Okayama University of Science, Okayama 700-0005, Department of Molecular Biology, Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Okayama University Medical School, Okayama 700-8558, Division of Stem Cell Regulation Research, Osaka University Medical School, Suita 565-0871, Japan, Department of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G3, Experimental Oncology, Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 1Z2, Canada and MGC, Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Erasmus University, PO Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands Present address: Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Life Sciences Division, M.S. 74–157 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Present address: Department of Human Nutrition, Chugoku Junior College, Okayama, Japan Corresponding author e-mail: M.Takao and S.-i.Kanno contributed equally to this work
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8575,
Department of Mathematical and Life Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8526, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Okayama University of Science, Okayama 700-0005, Department of Molecular Biology, Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Okayama University Medical School, Okayama 700-8558, Division of Stem Cell Regulation Research, Osaka University Medical School, Suita 565-0871, Japan, Department of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G3, Experimental Oncology, Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 1Z2, Canada and MGC, Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Erasmus University, PO Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands Present address: Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Life Sciences Division, M.S. 74–157 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Present address: Department of Human Nutrition, Chugoku Junior College, Okayama, Japan Corresponding author e-mail: M.Takao and S.-i.Kanno contributed equally to this work
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8575,
Department of Mathematical and Life Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8526, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Okayama University of Science, Okayama 700-0005, Department of Molecular Biology, Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Okayama University Medical School, Okayama 700-8558, Division of Stem Cell Regulation Research, Osaka University Medical School, Suita 565-0871, Japan, Department of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G3, Experimental Oncology, Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 1Z2, Canada and MGC, Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Erasmus University, PO Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands Present address: Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Life Sciences Division, M.S. 74–157 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Present address: Department of Human Nutrition, Chugoku Junior College, Okayama, Japan Corresponding author e-mail: M.Takao and S.-i.Kanno contributed equally to this work
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8575,
Department of Mathematical and Life Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8526, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Okayama University of Science, Okayama 700-0005, Department of Molecular Biology, Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Okayama University Medical School, Okayama 700-8558, Division of Stem Cell Regulation Research, Osaka University Medical School, Suita 565-0871, Japan, Department of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G3, Experimental Oncology, Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 1Z2, Canada and MGC, Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Erasmus University, PO Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands Present address: Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Life Sciences Division, M.S. 74–157 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Present address: Department of Human Nutrition, Chugoku Junior College, Okayama, Japan Corresponding author e-mail: M.Takao and S.-i.Kanno contributed equally to this work
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8575,
Department of Mathematical and Life Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8526, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Okayama University of Science, Okayama 700-0005, Department of Molecular Biology, Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Okayama University Medical School, Okayama 700-8558, Division of Stem Cell Regulation Research, Osaka University Medical School, Suita 565-0871, Japan, Department of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G3, Experimental Oncology, Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 1Z2, Canada and MGC, Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Erasmus University, PO Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands Present address: Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Life Sciences Division, M.S. 74–157 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Present address: Department of Human Nutrition, Chugoku Junior College, Okayama, Japan Corresponding author e-mail: M.Takao and S.-i.Kanno contributed equally to this work
| | - Akira Yasui
- Department of Molecular Genetics, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8575,
Department of Mathematical and Life Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8526, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Okayama University of Science, Okayama 700-0005, Department of Molecular Biology, Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Okayama University Medical School, Okayama 700-8558, Division of Stem Cell Regulation Research, Osaka University Medical School, Suita 565-0871, Japan, Department of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G3, Experimental Oncology, Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 1Z2, Canada and MGC, Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Erasmus University, PO Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands Present address: Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Life Sciences Division, M.S. 74–157 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Present address: Department of Human Nutrition, Chugoku Junior College, Okayama, Japan Corresponding author e-mail: M.Takao and S.-i.Kanno contributed equally to this work
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Abstract
The principal oxidized cytosine bases, uracil glycol, 5-hydroxycytosine, and 5-hydroxyuracil, are readily bypassed, miscode, and are thus important premutagenic lesions. Similarly the principal oxidation product of guanine, 8-oxoguanine, miscodes with A and is a premutagenic lesion. Most of the thymine and adenine products that retain their ring structure primarily pair with their cognate bases and are not potent premutagenic lesions. Although thymine glycol pairs with its cognate base and is not mutagenic it significantly distorts the DNA molecule and is a lethal lesion. Ring fragmentation, ring contraction, and ring open products of both pyrimidines and purines block DNA polymerases and are potentially lethal lesions. Although these breakdown products have the potential to mispair during translesion synthesis, the mutational spectra of prokaryotic mutants defective in the pyrimidine-specific and/or purine-specific DNA glycosylases do not reflect that expected of the breakdown products. Taken together, the data suggest that the principal biological consequences of endogenously produced and unrepaired free radical-damaged DNA bases are mutations.
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- Susan S Wallace
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The Markey Center for Molecular Genetics, The University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405-0068, USA.
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