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Melendez-Colon VJ, Smith CA, Seidel A, Luch A, Platt KL, Baird WM. Formation of stable adducts and absence of depurinating DNA adducts in cells and DNA treated with the potent carcinogen dibenzo[a,l]pyrene or its diol epoxides. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1997; 94:13542-7. [PMID: 9391062 PMCID: PMC28342 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.94.25.13542] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) are widespread environmental contaminants, and some are potent carcinogens in rodents. Carcinogenic PAH are activated in cells to metabolites that react with DNA to form stable covalent DNA adducts. It has been proposed [Cavalieri, E. L. & Roger, E. G. (1995) Xenobiotica 25, 677-688] that unstable DNA adducts are also formed and that apurinic sites in the DNA resulting from unstable PAH adducts play a key role in the initiation of cancer. The potent carcinogen dibenzo[a,l]pyrene (DB[a, l]P) is activated in cells to (+)-syn- and (-)-anti-DB[a,l]P-11, 12-diol-13,14-epoxide (DB[a,l]PDE), which have been shown to form stable adducts with DNA. To evaluate the importance of unstable PAH adducts, we compared stable adduct formation to apurinic site formation. Stable DB[a,l]PDE adducts were determined by 33P-postlabeling and HPLC. To measure apurinic sites they were converted to strand breaks, and these were monitored by examining the integrity of a particular restriction fragment of the dihydrofolate reductase gene. The method easily detected apurinic sites resulting from methylation by treatment of cells or DNA with dimethyl sulfate or from reaction of DNA with DB[a,l]P in the presence of horseradish peroxidase. We estimate the method could detect 0.1 apurinic site in the 14-kb fragment examined. However, apurinic sites were below our limit of detection in DNA treated directly with (+)-syn- or (-)-anti-DB[a,l]PDE or in DNA from Chinese hamster ovary B11 cells so treated, although in these samples the frequency of stable adducts ranged from 3 to 10 per 14 kb. We also treated the human mammary carcinoma cell line MCF-7 with DB[a,l]P and again could not detect significant amounts of unstable adducts. These results indicate that the proportion of stable adducts formed by DB[a,l]P activated in cells and its diol epoxides is greater than 99% and suggest a predominant role for stable DNA adducts in the carcinogenic activity of DB[a,l]P.
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- V J Melendez-Colon
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
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Bowman KK, Smith CA, Hanawalt PC. Excision-repair patch lengths are similar for transcription-coupled repair and global genome repair in UV-irradiated human cells. Mutat Res 1997; 385:95-105. [PMID: 9447231 DOI: 10.1016/s0921-8777(97)00029-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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We have used the buoyant density shift method to measure excision-repair patch lengths in UV-irradiated repair-proficient human cells and in primary fibroblasts belonging to xeroderma pigmentosum complementation group C (XP-C), in which excision repair of UV-induced photoproducts is dependent upon transcription. The patch size was found to be about 30 nucleotides for both cell types. This agrees with the size of the DNA fragments excised in vitro by the dual incisions of the structure-specific nucleases XPG and ERCC1-XPF. We conclude that the XPC protein is not required to target the excision nucleases to sites of DNA cleavage in transcribed strands of expressed genes or to protect the newly incised DNA from further processing by exonucleases.
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- K K Bowman
- Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, CA 94305-5020, USA.
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Reagan MS, Friedberg EC. Recovery of RNA polymerase II synthesis following DNA damage in mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae defective in nucleotide excision repair. Nucleic Acids Res 1997; 25:4257-63. [PMID: 9336455 PMCID: PMC147034 DOI: 10.1093/nar/25.21.4257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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We have measured the kinetics of the recovery of mRNA synthesis in the inducible GAL10 and RNR3 genes after exposure of yeast cells to ultraviolet (UV) radiation. Such recovery is abolished in mutant strains defective in nucleotide excision repair (NER) of DNA, including a rad23 mutant. Mutants defective in the RAD7 or RAD16 genes, which are required for the repair of the non-transcribed strand but not the transcribed strand of transcriptionally active genes, show slightly faster recovery of RNA synthesis than wild-type strains. A strain deleted of the RAD26 gene, which is known to be required for strand-specific NER in yeast, manifested delayed recovery of mRNA synthesis, whereas a rad28 mutant, which does not show defective strand-specific repair, showed normal kinetics of recovery. Measurement of the recovery of expression of selected individual yeast genes by Northern analysis following exposure of cells to UV radiation apparently correlates directly with the capacity of cells for strand-specific NER.
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- M S Reagan
- Laboratory of Molecular Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, TX 75235, USA
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Gaubatz JW, Tan BH. Introduction, distribution, and removal of 7-methylguanine in different liver chromatin fractions of young and old mice. Mutat Res 1997; 375:25-35. [PMID: 9129677 DOI: 10.1016/s0027-5107(96)00246-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The distribution and elimination of 7-methylguanine (m7Gua) from different liver DNA chromatin fractions has been studied after treating young and old mice with N-methyl-N-nitrosourea (MNU). Guanine methylation kinetics was first studied in total liver DNA following intraperitoneal injections of 25 mg/kg and 50 mg/kg MNU does. MNU-induced DNA alkylation, as measured by m7Gua levels, was dose-dependent in liver tissues of young (9-11 month) and old mice (28-29 month). However, liver DNA in old mice incurred approximately 50% more damage than young mice for weight-normalized doses of MNU. The kinetics of adduct removal from total DNA was biphasic. A more rapid phase of m7Gua removal was observed during the first 24 h to 48 h following MNU administration; thereafter, the remaining m7Gua adducts were hydrolyzed much more slowly. Similar amounts of m7Gua were removed by 24 h at both the 25 mg/kg and 50 mg/kg MNU doses for a single age-group, but old liver tissue removed significantly more m7Gua than young liver tissue during this initial phase. Following a single injection of carcinogen (50 mg/kg), liver nuclei were isolated and chromatin was sheared by limited Micrococcal nuclease digestion. Chromatin was separated into nuclease-soluble, low-salt, high-salt and nuclear matrix fractions. All four fractions of young liver chromatin were methylated to the same degree. In contrast, there were differences in m7Gua levels between old liver chromatin fractions. DNA in the nuclease-sensitive fraction was most heavily alkylated, whereas nuclear matrix sequences were modified the least. Removal of m7Gua occurred at relatively uniform rates in all chromatin fractions regardless of age, indicating that m7Gua was not preferentially repaired in different nuclease-susceptible regions of chromatin. These results suggest that the N-methylpurine-DNA glycosylase responsible for eliminating m7Gua from the mammalian genome is not deficient in senescent liver tissue. However, there may be age-related changes in chromatin composition or structure that make some genomic sequences more accessible to alkylating agents in liver tissue of older animals.
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- J W Gaubatz
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine, University of South Alabama, Mobile 36688-0002, USA
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Klaude M, Gedik CM, Collins AR. DNA damage and repair after low doses of UV-C radiation; comparable rates of repair in rodent and human cells. Int J Radiat Biol 1995; 67:501-8. [PMID: 7775825 DOI: 10.1080/09553009514550611] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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The UV endonuclease assay for cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers in the DNA of UV-C-irradiated mammalian cells has been modified by replacing alkaline sucrose sedimentation with alkaline unwinding and hydroxylapatite chromatography to determine the number of DNA breaks introduced by the endonuclease. Dimers induced by doses as low as 0.25 Jm-2 can be detected and the assay has been used to examine the capacity of human, hamster and mouse cells to remove damage inflicted by sublethal doses of UV-C. In addition, incision activity has been measured by incubating cells with DNA synthesis inhibitors after irradiation with UV-C. In rodent and human cells, given a dose of UV-C of 1 Jm-2 about half of the endonuclease-sensitive sites are lost in 5-6 h. The incision capacity of these cells corresponds well with the extent of removal of dimers. Thus, although rodent cells are normally considered to be relatively deficient in nucleotide excision repair, we find that rodent and human cells have comparable capacities to deal with low levels of UV-C-induced damage.
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- M Klaude
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Aberdeen, Marischal College, UK
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Lommel L, Carswell-Crumpton C, Hanawalt PC. Preferential repair of the transcribed DNA strand in the dihydrofolate reductase gene throughout the cell cycle in UV-irradiated human cells. Mutat Res 1995; 336:181-92. [PMID: 7885388 DOI: 10.1016/0921-8777(94)00055-b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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We examined repair of UV-induced cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPD) in each strand of the expressed dihydrofolate reductase gene in human cells in different phases of the cell cycle: G1, early S, middle S, late S, and G2/M. After 4 h of incubation, repair of the transcribed strand was substantially more efficient than repair of the non-transcribed strand in all phases. Furthermore, we observed no remarkable cell cycle-dependent differences in either the initial lesion frequency or the efficiency of repair of the transcribed strand. We conclude that transcription coupled repair operates generally and with high efficiency throughout the cell cycle.
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- L Lommel
- Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, CA 94305-5020
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Baird WM, Smith CA, Spivak G, Mauthe RJ, Hanawalt PC. Analysis of the Fine Structure of the Repair ofAnti−benzo[a]pyrene-7,8-diol-9,10-epoxide-DNA Adducts in Mammalian Cells by Laser-Induced Strand Cleavage. Polycycl Aromat Compd 1994. [DOI: 10.1080/10406639408031181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Cooper PK, Leadon SA. Defective repair of ionizing radiation damage in Cockayne's syndrome and xeroderma pigmentosum group G. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1994; 726:330-2. [PMID: 8092696 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1994.tb52842.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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- P K Cooper
- Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- B Van Houten
- Department of Pathology, University of Vermont, Burlington 05405
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Cells are continuously exposed to DNA damaging agents that may cause mutations or lead to cell death. To counter this constant, ubiquitous attack on the genetic material, cells possess highly diverse and efficient systems to repair a variety of DNA lesions. For cells that are nondividing and are expected to remain functionally viable for many years, it is important that damage not accumulate in those genes that are essential to maintaining differentiated gene expression. If damage were to accumulate slowly in working genes, then the outcomes might appear as biological changes typically associated with senescence. Estimates on the types of DNA damage believed to arise spontaneously suggest that methylation of N7-guanine is one of the more frequently occurring events, exceeded only by single-strand breaks and possibly depurination. Previous studies have shown that the steady-state levels of m7Gua increase during aging of postmitotic mammalian tissues. To test for the possibility that repair of m7Gua might decline in senescent animals, we induced methyl adducts in young and old mice with single doses of MNU, and determined the kinetics of adduct removal. Liver, kidney and brain all exhibited some active repair of m7Gua as characterized by the rapid removal of the adduct from DNA. However, a fraction of damage was refractory to repair and was lost from DNA much more slowly. This repair-resistant fraction of damage was greater in DNA from the old tissues, but the interpretation of the data is not straightforward, because different amounts of damage were induced in young and old tissues with the same weight-normalized dose of MNU. Although old cells had higher levels of persistent adducts, initial repair rates were similar between age-matched tissues. Furthermore, experiments indicated that mRNA levels for 3-methyladenine glycosylase repair enzyme did not change with age. Our working hypothesis is that repair enzymes are present and active in senescent postmitotic tissues, but changes have occurred in old chromatin that have affected the ability of repair enzymes to efficiently process these adducts.
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- J W Gaubatz
- Department of Biochemistry, University of South Alabama, Mobile 36688
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Waters R, Zhang R, Jones NJ. Inducible removal of UV-induced pyrimidine dimers from transcriptionally active and inactive genes of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1993; 239:28-32. [PMID: 8510656 DOI: 10.1007/bf00281597] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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The prior UV irradiation of alpha haploid Saccharomyces cerevisiae with a UV dose of 25 J/m2 substantially increases the repairability of damage subsequently induced by a UV dose of 70 J/m2 given 1 h after the first irradiation. This enhancement of repair is seen at both the MAT alpha and HML alpha loci, which are, respectively, transcriptionally active and inactive in alpha haploid cells. The presence in the medium of the protein synthesis inhibitor, cycloheximide in the period between the two irradiations eliminated this effect. Enhanced repair still occurred if cycloheximide was present only after the final UV irradiation. This indicated that the first result is not due to cycloheximide merely blocking the synthesis of repair enzymes associated with a hypothetical rapid turnover of such molecules. The enhanced repairability is not the result of changes in chromatin accessibility without protein synthesis, merely caused by the repair of the damage induced by the prior irradiation. The data clearly show that a UV-inducible removal of pyrimidine dimers has occurred which involves the synthesis of new proteins. The genes known to possess inducible promoters, and which are involved in excision are RAD2, RAD7, RAD16 and RAD23. Studies with the rad7 and rad16 mutants which are defective in the ability to repair HML alpha and proficient in the repair of MAT alpha showed that in rad7, preirradiation enhanced the repair at MAT alpha, whereas in rad16 this increased repair of MAT alpha was absent. The preirradiation did not modify the inability to repair HML alpha in either strain. Thus RAD16 has a role in this inducible repair.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- R Waters
- School of Biological Sciences, University College of Swansea, UK
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Turker MS, Cooper GE, Bishop PL. Region-specific rates of molecular evolution: a fourfold reduction in the rate of accumulation of "silent" mutations in transcribed versus nontranscribed regions of homologous DNA fragments derived from two closely related mouse species. J Mol Evol 1993; 36:31-40. [PMID: 8433377 DOI: 10.1007/bf02407304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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We have sequenced homologous DNA fragments of 2.7 and 2.8 kbp derived from the closely related mouse species Mus musculus domesticus (M. domesticus) and Mus musculus musculus (M. musculus), respectively. These two species diverged approximately 1 million years ago. Each DNA fragment contains 1.35 kbp of the 3' end of the constitutively expressed 2.2-kbp aprt (adenine phosphoribosyltransferase) gene and a similarly sized nontranscribed region downstream of the aprt gene. The aprt gene region contains protein coding sequences (0.35 kbp), intronic sequences (0.75 kbp), and a 3' nontranslated sequence (0.25 kbp). Both the M. domesticus and M. musculus downstream regions share three partial copies of the B1 repetitive element with the M. musculus downstream region containing an additional complete copy of this element. A comparison of the 2.7- and 2.8-kbp DNA fragments revealed a total of 63 molecular alterations (i.e., mutations) that were approximately fourfold more abundant in the nontranscribed downstream region than in the transcribed aprt gene. Of the 11 mutations observed in the transcribed region, 7 were found in introns, 3 in the 3' untranslated sequence, and 1 was a synonymous change in an exon. A comparison of the human and M. domesticus aprt genes has previously revealed no homology in either the intronic or 3' nontranslated regions with the exception of a 26-bp sequence in intron 3 and sequences at the exon/intron boundaries necessary for correct mRNA splicing (Broderick et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 84:3349, 1987). Therefore, there does not appear to be selective pressure for sequences within these regions. We conclude that there is a lower rate of accumulation of "silent" mutations in the transcribed mouse aprt gene than in a contiguous nontranscribed downstream region. A possible molecular mechanism involving preferential DNA repair for the transcribed region is discussed.
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- M S Turker
- Department of Pathology, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington 40536
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Liuzzi M, Paterson M. Enzymatic analysis of oligonucleotides containing cyclobutane pyrimidine photodimers with a cleaved intradimer phosphodiester linkage. J Biol Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)41688-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Jones JC, Stevnsner T, Mattern MR, Bohr VA. Effect of specific enzyme inhibitors on replication, total genome DNA repair and on gene-specific DNA repair after UV irradiation in CHO cells. Mutat Res 1991; 255:155-62. [PMID: 1656249 DOI: 10.1016/0921-8777(91)90049-u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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We have studied the effect of some specific enzyme inhibitors on DNA repair and replication after UV damage in Chinese hamster ovary cells. The DNA repair was studied at the level of the average, overall genome and also in the active dihydrofolate reductase gene. Replication was measured in the overall genome. We tested inhibitors of DNA polymerase alpha and delta (aphidicolin), of poly(ADPr) polymerase (3-aminobenzamide), of ribonucleotide reductase (hydroxyurea), of topoisomerase I (camptothecin), and of topoisomerase II (merbarone, VP-16). In addition, we tested the effect of the potential topoisomerase I activator, beta-lapachone. All of these compounds inhibited genome replication and all topoisomerase inhibitors affected the overall genome repair; beta-lapachone stimulated it. None of these compounds had any effect on the gene-specific repair.
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- J C Jones
- Division of Cancer Treatment, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892
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The removal of N-methylpurines from the DHFR gene and an unexpressed adjacent locus located downstream occurs at similar rates and to a similar extent in dimethyl sulfate treated Chinese hamster ovary B11 cells. Furthermore, no significant differences in repair rates are observed between the strands of the active gene. These data primarily reflect the removal of the most abundant lesion produced by dimethyl sulfate, 7-methylguanine, and are in contrast to the results obtained for the removal of ultraviolet-induced cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers from the same region of the genome. Pyrimidine dimers are cleared preferentially from the transcribed strand of the DHFR gene and are removed poorly from the non-transcribed complementary strand and unexpressed adjacent regions. The results suggest that DNA lesions such as dimers that block transcription are removed preferentially from active genes, whereas lesions that do not interfere with nucleic acid synthesis (i.e. 7-methylguanine) are removed at similar rates from expressed and silent loci.
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- D A Scicchitano
- Division of Pathology and Toxicology, American Health Foundation, Valhalla, NY 10595-1599
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The rate of excision repair of UV-induced pyrimidine dimers (PDs) was measured at specific sites in each strand of a yeast minichromosome containing an active gene (URA3), a replication origin (ARS1), and positioned nucleosomes. All six PD sites analyzed in the transcribed URA3 strand were repaired more rapidly (greater than 5-fold on average) than any of the nine PD sites analyzed in the nontranscribed strand. Efficient repair also occurred in both strands of a disrupted TRP1 gene (ten PD sites), containing four unstable nucleosomes, and in a nucleosome gap at the 5' end of URA3 (two PD sites). Conversely, slow repair occurred in both strands immediately downstream of the URA3 gene (12 of 14 PD sites). This region contains the ARS1 consensus sequence, a nucleosome gap, and two stable nucleosomes. Thus, modulation of DNA repair occurs in a simple yeast minichromosome and correlates with gene expression, nucleosome stability, and (possibly) control of replication.
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- M J Smerdon
- Biochemistry/Biophysics Program, Washington State University, Pullman 99164-4660
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