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Al-Ostoot FH, Sherapura A, Malojirao VH, Thirusangu P, Al-Muhimeed TI, Khanum SA, Prabhakar BT. Modulation of DNA damage response by targeting ATM kinase using newly synthesized di-phenoxy acetamide (DPA) analogs to induce anti-neoplasia. Pharmacol Rep 2021; 73:1344-1360. [PMID: 34109572 DOI: 10.1007/s43440-021-00292-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2021] [Revised: 05/21/2021] [Accepted: 05/31/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND Imbalance and instability in the structure of the DNA have become major characteristics of cancer. In response to DNA damage, DNA damage response (DDR) protein, ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM), plays a pivotal role in the modulation of regulatory regions responsible for inhibition of apoptosis, thereby neoplastic progression. METHODS A new series of DPA (7a-t) were synthesized, characterized. Anti-proliferative studies to identify the lead compound were carried out by LDH and MTT assay. Apoptosis/DNA damage was measured through FACS, Annexin-v staining, TUNEL and Comet assay. Elucidation of molecular mechanism through immunoblot and further validation of the drug effect through in vivo approaches. RESULTS Initial in vitro anti-proliferative screening of Compounds DPA (7a-t) against multiple cancer cell lines identified Compound DPA (7n) as a potent cytotoxic molecule with IC50 value of 4.3 μM. Down the line, in vitro and in vivo evaluation of Compound DPA (7n) inferred that it has apoptotic inducing potentiality. Further, evaluation of molecular mechanism inferred that Compound DPA (7n) effectively modulates ATM phosphorylation only, eventually altering downstream signalling pathways. CONCLUSIONS Compound DPA (7n) emerged as a potent proapoptotic and anti-neoplastic agent by inhibiting ATM kinase activity both in vitro and in vivo. The conferring results ascertain that the drug could be developed as a new ATM kinase inhibitor with anti-cancer capacity.
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- Fares Hezam Al-Ostoot
- Department of Chemistry, Yuvaraja's College, University of Mysore, Mysuru, India.,Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Education and Science, Al-Baydha University, Al Bayda, Yemen
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- Molecular Biomedicine Laboratory, Postgraduate Department of Studies and Research in Biotechnology, Sahyadri Science College, Kuvempu University, Shivamogga, Karnataka, India
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- Molecular Biomedicine Laboratory, Postgraduate Department of Studies and Research in Biotechnology, Sahyadri Science College, Kuvempu University, Shivamogga, Karnataka, India.,Department of Neurosurgery, Houston Methodist, Fannin Street, Houston, TX, USA
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- Molecular Biomedicine Laboratory, Postgraduate Department of Studies and Research in Biotechnology, Sahyadri Science College, Kuvempu University, Shivamogga, Karnataka, India.,Department of Experimental Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Chemistry, Yuvaraja's College, University of Mysore, Mysuru, India.
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- Molecular Biomedicine Laboratory, Postgraduate Department of Studies and Research in Biotechnology, Sahyadri Science College, Kuvempu University, Shivamogga, Karnataka, India.
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Prasad R, Horton JK, Wilson SH. WITHDRAWN: Requirements for PARP-1 covalent crosslinking to DNA (PARP-1 DPC). DNA Repair (Amst) 2020; 89:102824. [PMID: 32151818 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2020.102824] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2020] [Revised: 02/13/2020] [Accepted: 02/16/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The Publisher regrets that this article is an accidental duplication of an article that has already been published in DNA Repair, 90C (2020) 102850, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dnarep.2020.102850. The duplicate article has therefore been withdrawn. The full Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal can be found at https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal.
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- Rajendra Prasad
- Genome Integrity and Structural Biology Laboratory, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, 111 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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- Genome Integrity and Structural Biology Laboratory, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, 111 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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- Genome Integrity and Structural Biology Laboratory, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, 111 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA.
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Prasad R, Horton JK, Wilson SH. Requirements for PARP-1 covalent crosslinking to DNA (PARP-1 DPC). DNA Repair (Amst) 2020; 90:102850. [PMID: 32438305 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2020.102850] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2020] [Revised: 02/13/2020] [Accepted: 02/16/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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- Rajendra Prasad
- Genome Integrity and Structural Biology Laboratory, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, 111 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 27709, USA
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- Genome Integrity and Structural Biology Laboratory, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, 111 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 27709, USA
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- Genome Integrity and Structural Biology Laboratory, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, 111 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 27709, USA.
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Mutation in DNA Polymerase Beta Causes Spontaneous Chromosomal Instability and Inflammation-Associated Carcinogenesis in Mice. Cancers (Basel) 2019; 11:cancers11081160. [PMID: 31412651 PMCID: PMC6721533 DOI: 10.3390/cancers11081160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2019] [Revised: 08/01/2019] [Accepted: 08/08/2019] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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DNA polymerase beta (Pol β) is a key enzyme in the base excision repair (BER) pathway. Pol β is mutated in approximately 40% of human tumors in small-scale studies. The 5´-deoxyribose-5-phosphate (dRP) lyase domain of Pol β is responsible for DNA end tailoring to remove the 5’ phosphate group. We previously reported that the dRP lyase activity of Pol β is critical to maintain DNA replication fork stability and prevent cellular transformation. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that the human gastric cancer associated variant of Pol β (L22P) has the ability to promote spontaneous chromosomal instability and carcinogenesis in mice. We constructed a Pol β L22P conditional knock-in mouse model and found that L22P enhances hyperproliferation and DNA double strand breaks (DSBs) in stomach cells. Moreover, mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) derived from L22P mice frequently induce abnormal numbers of chromosomes and centrosome amplification, leading to chromosome segregation errors. Importantly, L22P mice exhibit chronic inflammation accompanied by stomach tumors. These data demonstrate that the human cancer-associated variant of Pol β can contribute to chromosomal instability and cancer development.
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Walter TJ, Richert C. A strongly pairing fifth base: oligonucleotides with a C-nucleoside replacing thymidine. Nucleic Acids Res 2019; 46:8069-8078. [PMID: 30085103 PMCID: PMC6144870 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gky669] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2018] [Accepted: 07/13/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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There are five canonical bases in DNA and RNA. Each base has its particular molecular recognition properties and base pairing strength. Thymine and uracil form only two hydrogen bonds when pairing with adenine, and duplexes rich in A:T base pairs are more labile than duplexes rich in C and G, making some sequences difficult to detect via hybridization in a genomic context. Here we report the synthesis of an ethynylmethylpyridone C-nucleoside, abbreviated ‘W’, that presents a similar recognition surface as thymidine in the major groove but pairs with A about as strongly as C pairs with G. A phosphoramidite building block was synthesized that allows for incorporation of W residues via automated synthesis in high yield. Melting point increases over duplexes containing T:A pairs of up to 17.5°C, or up to 5.8°C per residue were measured for oligonucleotides containing W. Further, the new base shows excellent fidelity, with a single mismatched G opposite W causing a melting point depression of up to 20.5°C. The strongly pairing replacement for thymidine is only slightly larger than its natural counterpart and performs well in different sequence contexts. It can be used to target weakly pairing A-rich sequences in biological studies.
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- Tanja J Walter
- Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Stuttgart, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Stuttgart, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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Abe T, Branzei D, Hirota K. DNA Damage Tolerance Mechanisms Revealed from the Analysis of Immunoglobulin V Gene Diversification in Avian DT40 Cells. Genes (Basel) 2018; 9:genes9120614. [PMID: 30544644 PMCID: PMC6316486 DOI: 10.3390/genes9120614] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2018] [Revised: 11/26/2018] [Accepted: 11/30/2018] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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DNA replication is an essential biochemical reaction in dividing cells that frequently stalls at damaged sites. Homologous/homeologous recombination (HR)-mediated template switch and translesion DNA synthesis (TLS)-mediated bypass processes release arrested DNA replication forks. These mechanisms are pivotal for replication fork maintenance and play critical roles in DNA damage tolerance (DDT) and gap-filling. The avian DT40 B lymphocyte cell line provides an opportunity to examine HR-mediated template switch and TLS triggered by abasic sites by sequencing the constitutively diversifying immunoglobulin light-chain variable gene (IgV). During IgV diversification, activation-induced deaminase (AID) converts dC to dU, which in turn is excised by uracil DNA glycosylase and yields abasic sites within a defined window of around 500 base pairs. These abasic sites can induce gene conversion with a set of homeologous upstream pseudogenes via the HR-mediated template switch, resulting in templated mutagenesis, or can be bypassed directly by TLS, resulting in non-templated somatic hypermutation at dC/dG base pairs. In this review, we discuss recent works unveiling IgV diversification mechanisms in avian DT40 cells, which shed light on DDT mode usage in vertebrate cells and tolerance of abasic sites.
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- Takuya Abe
- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Minamiosawa 1-1, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo 192-0397, Japan.
- IFOM, the FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Via Adamello 16, 20139 Milan, Italy.
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- IFOM, the FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Via Adamello 16, 20139 Milan, Italy.
- Istituto di Genetica Molecolare, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IGM-CNR), Via Abbiategrasso 207, 27100 Pavia, Italy.
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Minamiosawa 1-1, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo 192-0397, Japan.
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Prasad R, Horton JK, Dai DP, Wilson SH. Repair pathway for PARP-1 DNA-protein crosslinks. DNA Repair (Amst) 2018; 73:71-77. [PMID: 30466837 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2018.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2018] [Revised: 10/03/2018] [Accepted: 11/09/2018] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
Abstract
Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 (PARP-1) is a regulatory enzyme involved in many different processes of DNA and RNA metabolism, including DNA repair. Previously, PARP-1 was found capable of forming a covalent DNA-protein crosslink (DPC) at the apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) site in double-stranded DNA. The C1´ atom of the AP site participates in Schiff base formation with a lysine side chain in PARP-1, and a covalent bond is formed upon reduction of the Schiff base. The PARP-1 DPC is formed in vivo where DPC formation correlates with AP site induction by a monofunctional alkylating agent. Here, we examined repair of PARP-1 DPCs in mouse fibroblasts and found that a proteasome inhibitor, MG-132, reduces repair resulting in accumulation of PARP-1 DPCs and increased alkylating agent cytotoxicity. Using a model DNA substrate mimicking the PARP-1 DPC after proteasomal degradation, we found that repair is completed by a sub-pathway of base excision repair (BER). Tyrosyl-DNA phosphodiesterase 1 was proficient in removing the ring-open AP site sugar at the phosphodiester linkage, leaving an intermediate for processing by other BER enzymes. The results reveal proteasomal degradation of the PARP-1 DPC is active in mouse fibroblasts and that a model repair intermediate is processed by the BER machinery.
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- Rajendra Prasad
- Genome Integrity and Structural Biology Laboratory, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, 111 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709, USA
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- Genome Integrity and Structural Biology Laboratory, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, 111 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709, USA
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- Genome Integrity and Structural Biology Laboratory, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, 111 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709, USA
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- Genome Integrity and Structural Biology Laboratory, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, 111 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709, USA.
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Belousova EA, Lavrik OI. Repair of Clustered Damage and DNA Polymerase Iota. BIOCHEMISTRY (MOSCOW) 2016; 80:1010-8. [PMID: 26547069 DOI: 10.1134/s0006297915080064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Multiple DNA lesions occurring within one or two turns of the DNA helix known as clustered damage are a source of double-stranded DNA breaks, which represent a serious threat to the cells. Repair of clustered lesions is accomplished in several steps. If a clustered lesion contains oxidized bases, an individual DNA lesion is repaired by the base excision repair (BER) mechanism involving a specialized DNA polymerase after excising DNA damage. Here, we investigated DNA synthesis catalyzed by DNA polymerase iota using damaged DNA templates. Two types of DNA substrates were used as model DNAs: partial DNA duplexes containing breaks of different length, and DNA duplexes containing 5-formyluracil (5-foU) and uracil as a precursor of apurinic/apyrimidinic sites (AP) in opposite DNA strands. For the first time, we showed that DNA polymerase iota is able to catalyze DNA synthesis using partial DNA duplexes having breaks of different length as substrates. In addition, we found that DNA polymerase iota could catalyze DNA synthesis during repair of clustered damage via the BER system by using both undamaged and 5-foU-containing templates. We found that hPCNA (human proliferating cell nuclear antigen) increased efficacy of DNA synthesis catalyzed by DNA polymerase iota.
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- E A Belousova
- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia.
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Ray D, Kidane D. Gut Microbiota Imbalance and Base Excision Repair Dynamics in Colon Cancer. J Cancer 2016; 7:1421-30. [PMID: 27471558 PMCID: PMC4964126 DOI: 10.7150/jca.15480] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2016] [Accepted: 05/18/2016] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Gut microbiota are required for host nutrition, energy balance, and regulating immune homeostasis, however, in some cases, this mutually beneficial relationship becomes twisted (dysbiosis), and the gut flora can incite pathological disorders including colon cancer. Microbial dysbiosis promotes the release of bacterial genotoxins, metabolites, and causes chronic inflammation, which promote oxidative DNA damage. Oxidized DNA base lesions are removed by base excision repair (BER), however, the role of this altered function of BER, as well as microbiota-mediated genomic instability and colon cancer development, is still poorly understood. In this review article, we will discuss how dysbiotic microbiota induce DNA damage, its impact on base excision repair capacity, the potential link of host BER gene polymorphism, and the risk of dysbiotic microbiota mediated genomic instability and colon cancer.
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- Debolina Ray
- Division of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, The University of Texas at Austin, Dell Pediatric Research Institute, 1400 Barbara Jordan Blvd. R1800, Austin, TX 78723, United States
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- Division of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, The University of Texas at Austin, Dell Pediatric Research Institute, 1400 Barbara Jordan Blvd. R1800, Austin, TX 78723, United States
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Prasad R, Dyrkheeva N, Williams J, Wilson SH. Mammalian Base Excision Repair: Functional Partnership between PARP-1 and APE1 in AP-Site Repair. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0124269. [PMID: 26020771 PMCID: PMC4447435 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0124269] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2015] [Accepted: 03/11/2015] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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The apurinic/apyrimidinic- (AP-) site in genomic DNA arises through spontaneous base loss and base removal by DNA glycosylases and is considered an abundant DNA lesion in mammalian cells. The base excision repair (BER) pathway repairs the AP-site lesion by excising and replacing the site with a normal nucleotide via template directed gap-filling DNA synthesis. The BER pathway is mediated by a specialized group of proteins, some of which can be found in multiprotein complexes in cultured mouse fibroblasts. Using a DNA polymerase (pol) β immunoaffinity-capture technique to isolate such a complex, we identified five tightly associated and abundant BER factors in the complex: PARP-1, XRCC1, DNA ligase III, PNKP, and Tdp1. AP endonuclease 1 (APE1), however, was not present. Nevertheless, the complex was capable of BER activity, since repair was initiated by PARP-1’s AP lyase strand incision activity. Addition of purified APE1 increased the BER activity of the pol β complex. Surprisingly, the pol β complex stimulated the strand incision activity of APE1. Our results suggested that PARP-1 was responsible for this effect, whereas other proteins in the complex had no effect on APE1 strand incision activity. Studies of purified PARP-1 and APE1 revealed that PARP-1 was able to stimulate APE1 strand incision activity. These results illustrate roles of PARP-1 in BER including a functional partnership with APE1.
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- Rajendra Prasad
- Genome Integrity and Structural Biology Laboratory, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Genome Integrity and Structural Biology Laboratory, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Epigenetics and Stem Cell Biology Laboratory, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Genome Integrity and Structural Biology Laboratory, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America
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Krute CN, Bell-Temin H, Miller HK, Rivera FE, Weiss A, Stevens SM, Shaw LN. The membrane protein PrsS mimics σS in protecting Staphylococcus aureus against cell wall-targeting antibiotics and DNA-damaging agents. MICROBIOLOGY-SGM 2015; 161:1136-1148. [PMID: 25741016 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.000065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2014] [Accepted: 03/02/2015] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Staphylococcus aureus possesses a lone extracytoplasmic function (ECF) sigma factor, σ(S). In Bacillus subtilis, the ECF sigma factor, σ(W), is activated through a proteolytic cascade that begins with cleavage of the RsiW anti-sigma factor by a site-1 protease (S1P), PrsW. We have identified a PrsW homologue in S. aureus (termed PrsS) and explored its role in σ(S) regulation. Herein, we demonstrate that although a cognate σ(S) anti-sigma factor currently remains elusive, prsS phenocopies sigS in a wealth of regards. Specifically, prsS expression mimics the upregulation observed for sigS in response to DNA-damaging agents, cell wall-targeting antibiotics and during ex vivo growth in human serum and murine macrophages. prsS mutants also display the same sensitivities of sigS mutants to the DNA-damaging agents methyl methane sulfonate (MMS) and hydrogen peroxide, and the cell wall-targeting antibiotics ampicillin, bacitracin and penicillin-G. These phenotypes appear to be explained by alterations in abundance of proteins involved in drug resistance (Pbp2a, FemB, HmrA) and the response to DNA damage (BmrA, Hpt, Tag). Our findings seem to be mediated by putative proteolytic activity of PrsS, as site-directed mutagenesis of predicted catalytic residues fails to rescue the sensitivity of the mutant to H2O2 and MMS. Finally, a role for PrsS in S. aureus virulence was identified using human and murine models of infection. Collectively, our data indicate that PrsS and σ(S) function in a similar manner, and perhaps mediate virulence and resistance to DNA damage and cell wall-targeting antibiotics, via a common pathway.
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- Christina N Krute
- Department of Cell Biology, Microbiology & Molecular Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Microbiology & Molecular Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Microbiology & Molecular Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Microbiology & Molecular Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Microbiology & Molecular Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Microbiology & Molecular Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Microbiology & Molecular Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
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Tadesse S, Kidane D, Guller S, Luo T, Norwitz NG, Arcuri F, Toti P, Norwitz ER. In vivo and in vitro evidence for placental DNA damage in preeclampsia. PLoS One 2014; 9:e86791. [PMID: 24466242 PMCID: PMC3899334 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086791] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2013] [Accepted: 12/14/2013] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Preeclampsia (PE) is an idiopathic multisystem disease affecting 5–7% of pregnant women. Placental oxidative stress is a characteristic feature of PE and occurs when the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) within the placenta overwhelms the intrinsic anti-oxidant defenses. We hypothesize that excessive oxidative DNA damage at the fetal-maternal interface coupled with a defective DNA damage/repair response is causally related to PE. Here we demonstrate that γH2AX (a sensitive marker of DNA damage) is expressed in the maternal decidua but not trophoblast of normal placentas, and that expression is significantly higher in PE placental tissues in vivo. Using primary in vitro cultures of maternal decidual stromal cells (DSCs) and fetal cytotrophoblast cells (CTs), we show an increase in γH2AX foci in DSCs cultured with vs without H2O2 (70.6% vs 11.6%; P<0.0001) or under hypoxia-reperfusion vs normoxia (20- vs 3-fold; P = 0.01); no foci were seen in CTs. We further demonstrate that Base Excision Repair (BER) intermediates are significantly increased in DSCs (not CTs) under these same conditions. Our data show that DNA damage is significantly more common in PE placentas, and that this DNA damage is localized to the maternal and not fetal side of the placenta. CTs may be selectively resistant to DNA damage in an effort to protect the fetus.
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- Serkalem Tadesse
- Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Mother Infant Research Institute (MIRI), Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Therapeutic Radiology and Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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- Mother Infant Research Institute (MIRI), Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular and Developmental Medicine, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
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- Department of Medical Biotechnologies, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
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- Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Mother Infant Research Institute (MIRI), Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Machado AMD, Figueiredo C, Seruca R, Rasmussen LJ. Helicobacter pylori infection generates genetic instability in gastric cells. Biochim Biophys Acta Rev Cancer 2010; 1806:58-65. [PMID: 20122996 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbcan.2010.01.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2009] [Revised: 01/16/2010] [Accepted: 01/24/2010] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The discovery that Helicobacter pylori is associated with gastric cancer has led to numerous studies that investigate the mechanisms by which H. pylori induces carcinogenesis. Gastric cancer shows genetic instability both in nuclear and mitochondrial DNA, besides impairment of important DNA repair pathways. As such, this review highlights the consequences of H. pylori infection on the integrity of DNA in the host cells. By down-regulating major DNA repair pathways, H. pylori infection has the potential to generate mutations. In addition, H. pylori infection can induce direct changes on the DNA of the host, such as oxidative damage, methylation, chromosomal instability, microsatellite instability, and mutations. Interestingly, H. pylori infection generates genetic instability in nuclear and mitochondrial DNA. Based on the reviewed literature we conclude that H. pylori infection promotes gastric carcinogenesis by at least three different mechanisms: (1) a combination of increased endogenous DNA damage and decreased repair activities, (2) induction of mutations in the mitochondrial DNA, and (3) generation of a transient mutator phenotype that induces mutations in the nuclear genome.
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Sánchez‐Vizcaíno JM, Martínez‐López B, Martínez‐Avilés M, Martins C, Boinas F, Vialc L, Michaud V, Jori F, Etter E, Albina E, Roger F. Scientific review on African Swine Fever. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009. [DOI: 10.2903/sp.efsa.2009.en-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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- Faculdade de Medicina Veterinaria, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, (FMV‐UTL)
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- Faculdade de Medicina Veterinaria, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, (FMV‐UTL)
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- Centre de Cooperation Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD)
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- Centre de Cooperation Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD)
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- Centre de Cooperation Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD)
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- Centre de Cooperation Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD)
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- Centre de Cooperation Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD)
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- Centre de Cooperation Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD)
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Dynamic compartmentalization of base excision repair proteins in response to nuclear and mitochondrial oxidative stress. Mol Cell Biol 2008; 29:794-807. [PMID: 19029246 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.01357-08] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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DNAs harbored in both nuclei and mitochondria of eukaryotic cells are subject to continuous oxidative damage resulting from normal metabolic activities or environmental insults. Oxidative DNA damage is primarily reversed by the base excision repair (BER) pathway, initiated by N-glycosylase apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) lyase proteins. To execute an appropriate repair response, BER components must be distributed to accommodate levels of genotoxic stress that may vary considerably between nuclei and mitochondria, depending on the growth state and stress environment of the cell. Numerous examples exist where cells respond to signals, resulting in relocalization of proteins involved in key biological transactions. To address whether such dynamic localization contributes to efficient organelle-specific DNA repair, we determined the intracellular localization of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae N-glycosylase/AP lyases, Ntg1 and Ntg2, in response to nuclear and mitochondrial oxidative stress. Fluorescence microscopy revealed that Ntg1 is differentially localized to nuclei and mitochondria, likely in response to the oxidative DNA damage status of the organelle. Sumoylation is associated with targeting of Ntg1 to nuclei containing oxidative DNA damage. These studies demonstrate that trafficking of DNA repair proteins to organelles containing high levels of oxidative DNA damage may be a central point for regulating BER in response to oxidative stress.
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Kulkarni A, Wilson DM. The involvement of DNA-damage and -repair defects in neurological dysfunction. Am J Hum Genet 2008; 82:539-66. [PMID: 18319069 PMCID: PMC2427185 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2008.01.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2007] [Revised: 12/17/2007] [Accepted: 01/03/2008] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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A genetic link between defects in DNA repair and neurological abnormalities has been well established through studies of inherited disorders such as ataxia telangiectasia and xeroderma pigmentosum. In this review, we present a comprehensive summary of the major types of DNA damage, the molecular pathways that function in their repair, and the connection between defective DNA-repair responses and specific neurological disease. Particular attention is given to describing the nature of the repair defect and its relationship to the manifestation of the associated neurological dysfunction. Finally, the review touches upon the role of oxidative stress, a leading precursor to DNA damage, in the development of certain neurodegenerative pathologies, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
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- Avanti Kulkarni
- Laboratory of Molecular Gerontology, National Institute of Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
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- Laboratory of Molecular Gerontology, National Institute of Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
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Kailasam S, Rogers KR. A fluorescence-based screening assay for DNA damage induced by genotoxic industrial chemicals. CHEMOSPHERE 2007; 66:165-71. [PMID: 16820187 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2006.05.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2005] [Revised: 05/16/2006] [Accepted: 05/21/2006] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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A rapid screening assay to detect chemically-induced DNA damage resulting from exposure of surrogate DNA to genotoxic compounds is reported. This assay is based on changes in the melting and annealing behavior observed for damaged DNA. Exposure of calf thymus DNA to genotoxic industrial chemicals reduced the extent to which the DNA annealed as measured using a double strand DNA selective fluorescent indicator dye. Formaldehyde, acrolein, crotonaldehyde and bromoethane showed the most prominent effects, chloroacetone and allylamine exhibited lesser effects, and acryrlonitrile showed no statistically significant assay response. The assay response for formaldehyde and crotonaldehyde were measured over the concentration range of 10-100 mM and 50-300 mM, respectively. This assay showed little response for the cytotoxic compounds phenol, cyclohexane and toluene but was sensitive to the effects of DNA damaging compounds such as mitomycin C and glutaraldehyde.
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- S Kailasam
- US EPA National Exposure Research Laboratory-LV, Environmental Protection Agency, 944 E. Harmon Ave., Las Vegas, NV 89119, USA
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In mammalian cells, base excision repair (BER) is the major repair pathway involved in the removal of non-bulky damaged nucleotides. The fidelity of BER is dependent on the polymerization step, where the major BER DNA polymerase (Pol beta) must incorporate the correct Watson-Crick base paired nucleotide into the one nucleotide repair gap. Recent studies have indicated that expression of some Pol beta variants or changes in expression of wild-type Pol beta protein, frequently found in cancer cells, can lead to DNA repair synthesis errors and confers to cells a mutator phenotype.
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- Katie K L Chan
- Radiation and Genome Stability Unit, Medical Research Council Harwell, Oxfordshire, UK
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Cistulli C, Lavrik OI, Prasad R, Hou E, Wilson SH. AP endonuclease and poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 interact with the same base excision repair intermediate. DNA Repair (Amst) 2004; 3:581-91. [PMID: 15135726 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2003.09.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/02/2003] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Base excision repair (BER) is a defense system that protects cells from deleterious effects secondary to modified or missing DNA bases. BER is known to involve apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease (APE) and DNA polymerase ss (ss-pol) among other enzymes, and recent studies have suggested that poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 (PARP-1) also plays a role by virtue of its binding to BER intermediates. The main role of APE is cleavage of the DNA backbone at abasic sites, and the enzyme also can catalyze 3'- to 5'-exonuclease activity at the cleaved abasic site. Photocross-linking studies with mouse embryonic fibroblast (MEF) cell extracts described here indicated that APE and PARP-1 interact with the same APE-cleaved abasic site BER intermediate. The model BER intermediate used includes a synthetic abasic site sugar, i.e. tetrahydrofuran (THF), in place of the natural deoxyribose. APE cross-linked efficiently with this intermediate, but not with a molecule lacking the 5'-THF phosphate group, and the same property was demonstrated for PARP-1. The addition of purified APE to the MEF extract reduced the amount of PARP-1 cross-linked to the BER intermediate, suggesting that APE can compete with PARP-1. APE and PARP-1 were antagonists of each other in in vitro BER related reactions on this model BER intermediate. These results suggest that PARP-1 and APE can interact with the same BER intermediate and that competition between these two proteins may influence their respective BER related functions.
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- Cheryl Cistulli
- Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, 11 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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Varzim G, Monteiro E, Silva RA, Fernandes J, Lopes C. CYP1A1 and XRCC1 gene polymorphisms in SCC of the larynx. Eur J Cancer Prev 2003; 12:495-9. [PMID: 14639127 DOI: 10.1097/00008469-200312000-00008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The present study was undertaken to examine CYP1A1 and XRCC1 polymorphisms as potential genetic susceptibility markers for laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). Eighty-eight patients with laryngeal SCC and 178 randomly selected healthy blood donors from the same Caucasian population (Porto, Northern Portugal) were analysed for CYP1A1 (MspI and NcoI) and XRCC1 (Arg194Trp and Arg399Gln) polymorphisms, using PCR-RFLP techniques. CYP1A1 MspI MH (mutant homozygous) and CYP1A1 NcoI HT (heterozygous) genotypes were more frequent in patients than in controls, with those carrying a CYP1A1 NcoI HT genotype having a 2.3-fold higher risk for tumour development. On the other hand, polymorphisms in XRCC1 codon 399 and codon 194 do not seem to play a role in the aetiology of smoking-related laryngeal SCC, once its distribution was similar in both analysed groups. All the significant associations observed were exclusively due to differences between controls and larynx glottic cancer patient subgroup. Furthermore, lower lifetime tobacco consumption was observed in laryngeal SCC patients carrying the MspI and NcoI polymorphisms, than in those who did not show the polymorphic variants. This investigation seems to support the importance of CYP1A1 gene polymorphism as a potential genetic marker of laryngeal cancer development, specially concerning smokers who have inherited the at-risk genotypes CYP1A1 MspI MH or CYP1A1 NcoI HT, who do appear to be more susceptible to the development of SCC of the glottic larynx.
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- G Varzim
- Department of Genetics, Portuguese Institute of Oncology, Porto, Rua Antonio Bernardino Almeida, 4200-072 Porto, Portugal.
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Ying YLM, Shen DW, Liang XJ, Gottesman MM. Codominance of cisplatin resistance in somatic cell hybrids. J Cell Physiol 2003; 196:63-9. [PMID: 12767041 DOI: 10.1002/jcp.10320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Intrinsic or acquired resistance to cisplatin in cancer cells remains a major obstacle to successful chemotherapy. The clinically relevant genetic and molecular mechanisms of resistance have not yet been identified. Cisplatin-resistant (CP-r) human KB epidermoid carcinoma cell lines (HeLa) resistant to varying levels of cisplatin after single and multiple selection steps are cross-resistant to other platinum compounds and to methotrexate. Intraspecies hybrids of the sensitive and KB CP-r cells were fused with HeLa D98(OR) CP-s, hypoxanthine-aminopterin-thymidine (HAT) sensitive, ouabain resistant, to determine whether cisplatin resistance is dominant or recessive. Cell-cell hybridization between the sensitive cells and single-step or two-step KB CP-r cells both indicated codominance of cisplatin resistance compared to hybrids between sensitive cell lines (D98(OR)xKB). The hybrids between sensitive cell lines (D98xKB) and a single-step CP-r KB cell line (D98xKB-CP.5) also were cross-resistant to carboplatin and methotrexate. In addition, the relatively slower growth rate of CP-r cells appears to be dominant. In the two-step CP-r KB cell line, KB-CP1, resistance is no more dominant than in the single-step CP-r KB cell line, KB-CP.5, suggesting that one of the two steps of resistance in KB-CP1 may not be dominant. These dominance data suggest that it might be possible to identify one or more genes responsible for cisplatin resistance by gene transfer from a resistant cell line to a sensitive cell line.
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- Yu-Lan Mary Ying
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-4254, USA
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Henderson P, Boone E, Schuster G. Bulged Guanine is Uniquely Sensitive to Damage Caused by Visible-Light Irradiation of Ethidium Bound to DNA: A Possible Role in Mutagenesis. Helv Chim Acta 2002. [DOI: 10.1002/1522-2675(200201)85:1<135::aid-hlca135>3.0.co;2-h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Kranendonk M, Laires A, Rueff J, Estabrook WR, Vermeulen NP. Heterologous expression of xenobiotic mammalian-metabolizing enzymes in mutagenicity tester bacteria: an update and practical considerations. Crit Rev Toxicol 2000; 30:287-306. [PMID: 10852498 DOI: 10.1080/10408440091159211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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There is an increasing need for metabolic competent cell systems for the mechanistic studies of biotransformation of xenobiotics in toxicology in general and in genotoxicology in particular. These cell systems combine the heterologous expression of a particular mammalian biotransformation enzyme with a specific target/ end point by which a functional analysis of the expressed gene product in the (geno)toxicity of chemicals can be performed. cDNAs of an increasing number of mammalian biotransformation enzymes is being cloned. The construction of specific expression vectors permits their heterologous expression in laboratory bacteria, such as Escherichia coli strains. This development does not only allow biochemical and enzymatic studies of (pure) enzyme preparations but also facilitates the engineering of metabolically competent mutagenicity tester bacteria, thereby providing new tools for genotoxicity testing and for studying of the roles of biotransformation in chemical carcinogenesis. In this review, we describe an update as well as an evaluation of enzymes expressed in mutagenicity tester bacteria. Four types of biotransformation enzymes are now expressed in these bacteria, namely, GSTs, CYPs, NATs, and STs. The expression of these enzymes in the tester bacteria and their subsequent application in mutagenicity assays demonstrates that heterologous expression in this type of bacteria has a number implications for the functionality of the biotransformation enzymes as well as for the functioning of the tester bacteria in mutagenicity detection. We also describe here a number of practical considerations in this regard.
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- M Kranendonk
- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
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Rietze R, Poulin P, Weiss S. Mitotically active cells that generate neurons and astrocytes are present in multiple regions of the adult mouse hippocampus. J Comp Neurol 2000. [DOI: 10.1002/1096-9861(20000828)424:3<397::aid-cne2>3.0.co;2-a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 123] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Sabel M, Felsberg J, Messing-Jünger M, Neuen-Jacob E, Piek J. Glioblastoma multiforme at the site of metal splinter injury: a coincidence? Case report. J Neurosurg 1999; 91:1041-4. [PMID: 10584854 DOI: 10.3171/jns.1999.91.6.1041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The authors report the case of a man who had suffered a penetrating metal splinter injury to the left frontal lobe at 18 years of age. Thirty-seven years later the patient developed a left-sided frontal tumor at the precise site of the meningocerebral scar and posttraumatic defect. Histological examination confirmed a glioblastoma multiforme adjacent to the dural scar and metal splinters. In addition, a chronic abscess from which Propionibacterium acnes was isolated was found within the glioma tissue. The temporal and local association of metal splinter injury with chronic abscess, scar formation, and malignant glioma is highly suggestive of a causal relationship between trauma and the development of a malignant brain tumor.
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- M Sabel
- Department of Neurosurgery, Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf, Germany.
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Oliveros M, García-Escudero R, Alejo A, Viñuela E, Salas ML, Salas J. African swine fever virus dUTPase is a highly specific enzyme required for efficient replication in swine macrophages. J Virol 1999; 73:8934-43. [PMID: 10515998 PMCID: PMC112924 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.73.11.8934-8943.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The African swine fever virus (ASFV) gene E165R, which is homologous to dUTPases, has been characterized. A multiple alignment of dUTPases showed the conservation in ASFV dUTPase of the motifs that define this protein family. A biochemical analysis of the purified recombinant enzyme showed that the virus dUTPase is a trimeric, highly specific enzyme that requires a divalent cation for activity. The enzyme is most probably complexed with Mg(2+), the preferred cation, and has an apparent K(m) for dUTP of 1 microM. Northern and Western blotting, as well as immunofluorescence analyses, indicated that the enzyme is expressed at early and late times of infection and is localized in the cytoplasm of the infected cells. On the other hand, an ASFV dUTPase-deletion mutant (vDeltaE165R) has been obtained. Growth kinetics showed that vDeltaE165R replicates as efficiently as parental virus in Vero cells but only to 10% or less of parental virus in swine macrophages. Our results suggest that the dUTPase activity is dispensable for virus replication in dividing cells but is required for productive infection in nondividing swine macrophages, the natural host cell for the virus. The viral dUTPase may play a role in lowering the dUTP concentration in natural infections to minimize misincorporation of deoxyuridine into the viral DNA and ensure the fidelity of genome replication.
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- M Oliveros
- Centro de Biología Molecular "Severo Ochoa", Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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Lau AY, Schärer OD, Samson L, Verdine GL, Ellenberger T. Crystal structure of a human alkylbase-DNA repair enzyme complexed to DNA: mechanisms for nucleotide flipping and base excision. Cell 1998; 95:249-58. [PMID: 9790531 DOI: 10.1016/s0092-8674(00)81755-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 225] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
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DNA N-glycosylases are base excision-repair proteins that locate and cleave damaged bases from DNA as the first step in restoring the genetic blueprint. The human enzyme 3-methyladenine DNA glycosylase removes a diverse group of damaged bases from DNA, including cytotoxic and mutagenic alkylation adducts of purines. We report the crystal structure of human 3-methyladenine DNA glycosylase complexed to a mechanism-based pyrrolidine inhibitor. The enzyme has intercalated into the minor groove of DNA, causing the abasic pyrrolidine nucleotide to flip into the enzyme active site, where a bound water is poised for nucleophilic attack. The structure shows an elegant means of exposing a nucleotide for base excision as well as a network of residues that could catalyze the in-line displacement of a damaged base from the phosphodeoxyribose backbone.
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- A Y Lau
- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- S H Wilson
- Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2233, USA.
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van Leeuwen F, Taylor MC, Mondragon A, Moreau H, Gibson W, Kieft R, Borst P. beta-D-glucosyl-hydroxymethyluracil is a conserved DNA modification in kinetoplastid protozoans and is abundant in their telomeres. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1998; 95:2366-71. [PMID: 9482891 PMCID: PMC19348 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.5.2366] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The unusual DNA base beta-D-glucosyl-hydroxymethyluracil, called "J, " replaces approximately 0.5-1% of Thy in DNA of African trypanosomes but has not been found in other organisms thus far. In Trypanosoma brucei, J is located predominantly in repetitive DNA, and its presence correlates with the silencing of telomeric genes. Using antibodies specific for J, we have developed sensitive assays to screen for J in a range of organisms and have found that J is not limited to trypanosomes that undergo antigenic variation but is conserved among Kinetoplastida. In all kinetoplastids tested, including the human pathogens Leishmania donovani and Trypanosoma cruzi, J was found to be abundantly present in the (GGGTTA)n telomere repeats. Outside Kinetoplastida, J was found only in Diplonema, a small phagotrophic marine flagellate, in which we also identified 5-MeCyt. Fractionation of Diplonema DNA showed that the two modifications are present in a common genome compartment, which suggests that they may have a similar function. Dinoflagellates appear to contain small amounts of modified bases that may be analogs of J. The evolutionary conservation of J in kinetoplastid protozoans suggests that it has a general function, repression of transcription or recombination, or a combination of both. T. brucei may have recruited J for the control of genes involved in antigenic variation.
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- F van Leeuwen
- Division of Molecular Biology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Plesmanlaan 121, 1066 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Czerny C, Eder E, Rünger TM. Genotoxicity and mutagenicity of the alpha, beta-unsaturated carbonyl compound crotonaldehyde (butenal) on a plasmid shuttle vector. Mutat Res 1998; 407:125-34. [PMID: 9637241 DOI: 10.1016/s0921-8777(97)00069-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Crotonaldehyde is an alpha,beta-unsaturated carbonyl compound and an important environmental and industrial toxic substance. Its mutagenic and carcinogenic properties are related to its reactivity to DNA, where it forms different guanine adducts. In order to study the mutagenic consequences of this agent in intact human cells, we treated the shuttle vector plasmid pZ189 with different doses of crotonaldehyde at 37 degrees C for 2 h and then transfected the such damaged plasmid into the normal human lymphoblast cell line GM0621. Within these host cells the guanine adducts are repaired and the plasmids replicated by cellular enzymes. After 2.5 days replicated plasmids were purified from the cells and plasmid survival was quantitated by transformation ability. With increasing doses of crotonaldehyde, we found a significant decline of plasmid survival, reflecting a pronounced genotoxicity of crotonaldehyde-induced DNA damage in intact human cells. Using the plasmid encoded mutagenesis marker gene supF, we were able to screen for mutants and determine mutation frequency in recovered plasmids. A significant increase in mutation frequency with increasing doses of crotonaldehyde reflects mutagenicity of crotonaldehyde-induced DNA damage. Base sequence analysis of recovered mutants revealed 39% point mutations, 46% deletions, and 15% insertions and inversions. Most of the point mutations (82%) were located at G:C base pairs, which is well explained by the DNA damage profile of crotonaldehyde. Among deletions we found a frequent reoccurrence of two hot spot deletions, representing 62% of all deletions. The sites of breakpoints of these deletions hot spots and of other deletions within the plasmid were also found to be sites of DNA breaks, directly induced by crotonaldehyde, as seen in an endlabeled plasmid fragment, treated with crotonaldehyde. Further analysis of the flanking sequences around the deletion breakpoints revealed a high frequency of four different kinds of short sequence homologies of up to eight base pairs.
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- C Czerny
- Department of Dermatology, University of Würzburg, Germany
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Holme JA, Bjørge C, Trbojevic M, Olsen AK, Brunborg G, Søderlund EJ, Bjørås M, Seeberg E, Scholz T, Dybing E, Wiger R. Effects of chemical-induced DNA damage on male germ cells. ARCHIVES OF TOXICOLOGY. SUPPLEMENT. = ARCHIV FUR TOXIKOLOGIE. SUPPLEMENT 1998; 20:151-60. [PMID: 9442290 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-46856-8_14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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- J A Holme
- Department of Environmental Medicine, National Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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Eukaryotic DNA Ligases and DNA Repair. DNA Repair (Amst) 1998. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-48770-5_13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Oliveros M, Yáñez RJ, Salas ML, Salas J, Viñuela E, Blanco L. Characterization of an African swine fever virus 20-kDa DNA polymerase involved in DNA repair. J Biol Chem 1997; 272:30899-910. [PMID: 9388236 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.49.30899] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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African swine fever virus (ASFV) encodes a novel DNA polymerase, constituted of only 174 amino acids, belonging to the polymerase (pol) X family of DNA polymerases. Biochemical analyses of the purified enzyme indicate that ASFV pol X is a monomeric DNA-directed DNA polymerase, highly distributive, lacking a proofreading 3'-5'-exonuclease, and with a poor discrimination against dideoxynucleotides. A multiple alignment of family X DNA polymerases, together with the extrapolation to the crystal structure of mammalian DNA polymerase beta (pol beta), showed the conservation in ASFV pol X of the most critical residues involved in DNA binding, nucleotide binding, and catalysis of the polymerization reaction. Therefore, the 20-kDa ASFV pol X most likely represents the minimal functional version of an evolutionarily conserved pol beta-type DNA polymerase core, constituted by only the "palm" and "thumb" subdomains. It is worth noting that such an "unfingered" DNA polymerase is able to handle templated DNA polymerization with a considerable high fidelity at the base discrimination level. Base excision repair is considered to be a cellular defense mechanism repairing modified bases in DNA. Interestingly, the fact that ASFV pol X is able to conduct filling of a single nucleotide gap points to a putative role in base excision repair during the ASFV life cycle.
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- M Oliveros
- Centro de Biología Molecular "Severo Ochoa" (C.S.I.C.-U.A.M.), Universidad Autónoma, Canto Blanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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A wide range of cytotoxic and mutagenic DNA bases are removed by different DNA glycosylases, which initiate the base excision repair pathway. DNA glycosylases cleave the N-glycosylic bond between the target base and deoxyribose, thus releasing a free base and leaving an apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) site. In addition, several DNA glycosylases are bifunctional, since they also display a lyase activity that cleaves the phosphodiester backbone 3' to the AP site generated by the glycosylase activity. Structural data and sequence comparisons have identified common features among many of the DNA glycosylases. Their active sites have a structure that can only bind extrahelical target bases, as observed in the crystal structure of human uracil-DNA glycosylase in a complex with double-stranded DNA. Nucleotide flipping is apparently actively facilitated by the enzyme. With bacteriophage T4 endonuclease V, a pyrimidine-dimer glycosylase, the enzyme gains access to the target base by flipping out an adenine opposite to the dimer. A conserved helix-hairpin-helix motif and an invariant Asp residue are found in the active sites of more than 20 monofunctional and bifunctional DNA glycosylases. In bifunctional DNA glycosylases, the conserved Asp is thought to deprotonate a conserved Lys, forming an amine nucleophile. The nucleophile forms a covalent intermediate (Schiff base) with the deoxyribose anomeric carbon and expels the base. Deoxyribose subsequently undergoes several transformations, resulting in strand cleavage and regeneration of the free enzyme. The catalytic mechanism of monofunctional glycosylases does not involve covalent intermediates. Instead the conserved Asp residue may activate a water molecule which acts as the attacking nucleophile.
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- H E Krokan
- UNIGEN Center for Molecular Biology, The Medical Faculty, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, N-7005 Trondheim, Norway
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Roe T, Chow SA, Brown PO. 3'-end processing and kinetics of 5'-end joining during retroviral integration in vivo. J Virol 1997; 71:1334-40. [PMID: 8995657 PMCID: PMC191188 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.71.2.1334-1340.1997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Retroviral replication depends on integration of viral DNA into a host cell chromosome. Integration proceeds in three steps: 3'-end processing, the endonucleolytic removal of the two terminal nucleotides from each 3' end of the viral DNA; strand transfer, the joining of the 3' ends of viral DNA to host DNA; and 5'-end joining (or gap repair), the joining of the 5' ends of viral DNA to host DNA. The 5'-end joining step has never been investigated, either for retroviral integration or for any other transposition process. We have developed an assay for 5'-end joining in vivo and have examined the kinetics of 5'-end joining for Moloney murine leukemia virus (MLV). The interval between 3'-end and 5'-end joining is estimated to be less than 1 h. This assay will be a useful tool for examining whether viral or host components mediate 5'-end joining. MLV integrates its DNA only after its host cell has completed mitosis. We show that the extent of 3'-end processing is the same in unsynchronized and aphidicolin-arrested cells. 3'-end processing therefore does not depend on mitosis.
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- T Roe
- Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University Medical Center, California 94305, USA
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Rünger TM, Epe B, Möller K, Dekant B, Hellfritsch D. Repair of directly and indirectly UV-induced DNA lesions and of DNA double-strand breaks in cells from skin cancer-prone patients with the disorders dysplastic nevus syndrome or basal cell nevus syndrome. Recent Results Cancer Res 1997; 143:337-51. [PMID: 8912431 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-60393-8_24] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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- T M Rünger
- Department of Dermatology, University of Würzburg, Germany
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Many steps are required to convert a normal cell into a cancerous one. The cancer cell must be able to multiply under conditions that a normal cell would not and to invade surrounding tissue and spread throughout the body. Both genetic changes, such as activation of oncogenes or inactivation of tumor suppressor genes, and epigenetic changes, such as stimulation of cell proliferation, contribute to the development of cancers. Chemical agents can increase the probability of malignant transformation by inducing mutations that can ultimately lead to tumor formation, by promoting the development of tumors in cells with preexisting genetic damage, or by increasing the rate of acquisition of malignant traits by benign tumors. Chemical carcinogens are structurally diverse, but all initiating agents are either already electrophiles or can be converted to electrophilic reactants through metabolic activation. Genetic and environmental factors can alter an individual's ability to metabolize carcinogens, to repair DNA damage, and to respond to mitogenic stimuli, all of which can alter susceptibility to chemical carcinogenesis. The incidence and time required for appearance of tumors appear to be dose-related, but the existence of no-effect doses of carcinogens remains controversial.
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- D B Couch
- University of Mississippi Medical Center Jackson, USA
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Prasad R, Singhal RK, Srivastava DK, Molina JT, Tomkinson AE, Wilson SH. Specific interaction of DNA polymerase beta and DNA ligase I in a multiprotein base excision repair complex from bovine testis. J Biol Chem 1996; 271:16000-7. [PMID: 8663274 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.27.16000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 213] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Base excision repair (BER) is a cellular defense mechanism repairing modified bases in DNA. Recently, a G:U repair reaction has been reconstituted with several purified enzymes from Escherichia coli (Dianov, G., and Lindahl, T.(1994) Curr. Biol. 4, 1069-1076). Using bovine testis crude nuclear extract, we have shown that G:U is repaired efficiently in vitro, and DNA polymerase beta (beta-pol) is responsible for the single nucleotide gap-filling synthesis (Singhal, R. K., Prasad, R., and Wilson, S. H.(1995) J. Biol. Chem. 270, 949-957). To investigate potential interaction of beta-pol with other BER protein(s), we developed affinity chromatography matrices by cross-linking purified rat beta-pol or antibody against beta-pol to solid supports. Crude nuclear extract from bovine testis was applied to these affinity columns, which were then extensively washed. Proteins that bound specifically to the affinity columns were co-eluted in a complex with beta-pol. This complex had a molecular mass of approximately 180 kDa and was able to conduct the complete uracil-initiated BER reaction. The BER complex contained both beta-pol and DNA ligase I. An antibody to beta-pol was able to shift the complex in sucrose gradients to a much larger molecular mass (>300 kDa) that again contained both beta-pol and DNA ligase I. Furthermore, DNA ligase I and beta-pol were co-immunoprecipitated from the testis nuclear extract with anti beta-pol IgG. Thus, we conclude that beta-pol and DNA ligase I are components of a multiprotein complex that performs BER.
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- R Prasad
- Sealy Center for Molecular Science, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas 77555-1068, USA
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Grombacher T, Kaina B. Isolation and analysis of inducibility of the rat N-methylpurine-DNA glycosylase promoter. DNA Cell Biol 1996; 15:581-8. [PMID: 8756339 DOI: 10.1089/dna.1996.15.581] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Alkylations at base nitrogens in DNA are removed by excision repair, the first step of which is catalyzed by the repair enzyme N-methylpurine-DNA glycosylase (MPG). To study regulation of MPG expression, we have cloned the rat MPG promoter. A cosmid clone containing the rat MPG gene was isolated from a library using rat MPG cDNA as a probe. The 5' part of the MPG gene and the nontranscribed 5'-flanking region were isolated and characterized. Transcription start sites of the rat MPG gene were identified by primer extension and S1 nuclease protection analysis of RNA from primary rat hepatocytes. Promoter activity of the 5'-flanking noncoding region was shown by transfection in H4IIE rat hepatoma cells of various genomic MPG fragments cloned in front of the reporter gene chloramphenicol acetyltransferase. The rat MPG promoter does not contain a TATA box, but has a CCAAT sequence element and putative binding sites for the transcription factors Sp1, AP-2, AP-3, Ets-1, PEA3, NF-1, p53, c-Myc, NF-kappa B, and the glucocorticoid receptor. The activity of the rat MPG promoter was found to be inducible by the tumor promoter TPA and UV light, but not to a significant extent by methylating agents and ionizing radiation.
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- T Grombacher
- Research Center Karlsruhe, Institute of Genetics, Germany
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Youssoufian H. Cytoplasmic localization of FAC is essential for the correction of a prerepair defect in Fanconi anemia group C cells. J Clin Invest 1996; 97:2003-10. [PMID: 8621788 PMCID: PMC507273 DOI: 10.1172/jci118635] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Mutations in the gene defective in Fanconi anemia complementation group C, FAC, are responsible for a subset of Fanconi anemia, a group of autosomal recessive disorders characterized by chromosomal instability, hypersensitivity to cross-linking agents, and cancer susceptibility. Although abnormalities in DNA repair have been suspected, localization of the FAC gene product to the cytoplasm has cast doubt on such a mechanism. Monitoring of interstrand DNA cross-linking shows that the predominant defect in group C cells is in the initial induction of cross-links, not in repair synthesis. Both the cross-linking defect and the enhanced cytotoxicity of cross-linkers on Fanconi anemia group C cells are corrected completely by cytoplasmic isoforms of the FAC protein, but not by an isoform targeted to the nucleus. The ability of FAC to correct these phenotypic abnormalities reaches a maximum threshold despite overexpression leading to higher levels of cytosolic protein. These results demonstrate that cytoplasmic localization is essential for the intracellular activity of the FAC protein. It is proposed that this activity is coupled to a cytoplasmic defense mechanism against a specific class of genotoxic agents.
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- H Youssoufian
- Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Wilson TM, Rivkees SA, Deutsch WA, Kelley MR. Differential expression of the apurinic / apyrimidinic endonuclease (APE/ref-1) multifunctional DNA base excision repair gene during fetal development and in adult rat brain and testis. Mutat Res 1996; 362:237-48. [PMID: 8637502 DOI: 10.1016/0921-8777(95)00053-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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The multifunctional mammalian apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) endonuclease is responsible for the repair of AP sites in DNA. In addition, this enzyme has been shown to function as a redox factor facilitating the DNA binding capability of Jun-Jun homodimers and Fos-Jun heterodimers by altering their redox state and to be involved in calcium mediated transcriptional repression of the parathyroid hormone gene. Previous studies examining the tissue specific distribution of the AP endonuclease (APE) transcript and protein by Northern analysis and enzymatic assays, respectively, have shown that this gene is expressed in all tissues at relatively similar levels. In the current study, adult and fetal rat tissue sections were examined for the expression of the APE transcript in specific subpopulations of cells and during development by in situ hybridization. In the adult brain, the APE transcript showed a widespread, but heterogeneous pattern of expression. Predominant levels of transcript were detected in the suprachiasmatic nuclei, the supraoptic and paraventricular nuclei, the hippocampus and the cerebellum. During fetal development, transcript was detected in all somatic sites examined with very high levels in the thymus, liver and developing brain. Examination of the adult testis indicated that the expression of the transcript varies with the stage of spermatogenesis with the highest levels being present over round spermatids. These results provide evidence that the APE gene is not homogeneously expressed, but rather is found in subpopulations of cells in the brain and testes and during development.
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- T M Wilson
- Department of Pediatrics, Herman B Wells Center for Pediatric Research, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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Basnakian AG, James SJ. Quantification of 3'OH DNA breaks by random oligonucleotide-primed synthesis (ROPS) assay. DNA Cell Biol 1996; 15:255-62. [PMID: 8634154 DOI: 10.1089/dna.1996.15.255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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A simple and precise assay is presented for quantification of the relative number of 3'OH ends (breaks) present in DNA molecules. The assay is based on the ability of the Klenow fragment polymerase to initiate random oligonucleotide-primed synthesis from the reannealed 3'OH ends of single-stranded (ss) DNA. After a denaturation-reassociation step, the ssDNA serves as its own primer by randomly reassociating itself or to other ssDNA molecules. Under strictly defined reaction conditions (time, temperature, concentration of precursors) the incorporation of [32P]dNTP into newly synthesized DNA will be proportional to the initial number of 3'OH ends (breaks). The assay is specific for the detection of 3'OH ends and requires only 0.25 micrograms of DNA for analysis. It has application for the detection of the relative number of breaks per DNA molecule generated in vitro by endonucleases or in vivo during normal processes of DNA repair and also for the detection of DNA strand breaks from genotoxic DNA damaging agents. Although specific for 3'OH DNA ends, the assay can be adapted to measure 3'P (5'OH) DNA ends or breaks induced by oxidative DNA damaging agents by pretreatment of the DNA with alkaline phosphatase or Escherichia coli exonuclease III. The assay is capable of quantifying first several breaks per 10(5) bp.
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- A G Basnakian
- National Center for Toxicological Research, FDA, Division of Nutritional Toxicology, Jefferson, Arkansas 72079, USA
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Testicular germ cell tumours (TGCT) are cured in over 80% of patients by using combination chemotherapy. However, the mechanism regulating this sensitivity has not been defined. Because cells derived from patients with DNA repair syndromes are similar to TCGT in their sensitivity to certain DNA-damaging agents and some of the genes involved have been cloned by functional complementation, the purpose of our study was to determine whether drug sensitivity in TGCT also has a genetic basis. Three testis tumour cell lines (cisplatin-sensitive) and 3 bladder cancer cell lines (cisplatin-resistant) were fused with a cisplatin-sensitive cell line (D98orC1). The authenticity of the hybrids was confirmed by karyotyping and PCR analysis of locus-specific sites, and sensitivities to cisplatin were measured by colony forming assays. The hybrids between sensitive cell lines were more resistant to cisplatin than the parental cells, indicating that functional complementation had occurred. The hybrids between the cisplatin-resistant and sensitive cells were intermediate in their cisplatin sensitivity, indicating that resistance is incompletely dominant. We conclude that cisplatin sensitivity has a genetic basis in TGCT and that resistance to cisplatin can be conferred by somatic cell fusion. Our data indicate that gene(s) controlling sensitivity to chemotherapy in TGCT might be identified by expression cloning.
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- X Wang
- Institute of Urology and Nephrology, University College of London, United Kingdom
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A cell responds to damage to its DNA in one of three ways: by tolerating the damage, by repairing the damage or by undergoing apoptosis. The latter two responses represent defenses against genomic instability and tumorigenesis resulting from unrepaired damage. There are multiple DNA repair pathways to cope with a variety of damage reflecting the importance of DNA repair in maintaining both cell viability and genomic stability. These include base excision repair, mismatch repair, double-strand break repair and nucleotide excision repair. Several signal transduction pathways are activated by DNA damage resulting in cell-cycle arrest. Cell-cycle arrest increases the time available for DNA repair before DNA replication and mutation fixation. Recently, there has been tremendous progress in our understanding of the molecular components repair processes and to examine recently observed interactions between DNA repair, signal transduction pathways and other cellular processes such as cell-cycle control, transcription, replication and recombination.
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- C M ap Rhys
- Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institutes on Aging, National Institute of Health, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
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Herrick AL, Rafferty JA, Margison GP. DNA repair deficiency in systemic lupus erythematosus; cause or consequence of disease and implications for management. Lupus 1995; 4:423-4. [PMID: 8749563 DOI: 10.1177/096120339500400602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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- A L Herrick
- University of Manchester Rheumatic Diseases Centre, Hope Hospital, Salford, UK
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Yang YM, Ronai Z. Ultraviolet light-responsive element (TGACAACA)-binding proteins in cells of xeroderma pigmentosum patients. Mol Carcinog 1995; 14:111-7. [PMID: 7576098 DOI: 10.1002/mc.2940140207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The ultraviolet light (UV)-responsive element (URE) is an octamer sequence, TGACAACA, that shares homology with cyclic AMP-responsive element and activator protein 1 target sequences. Because URE-binding proteins have been shown to play a role in cellular response to DNA damage, we determined their expression and DNA-binding activities in repair-deficient cells. Of the complementation groups tested, only xeroderma pigmentosum (XP)-C cells induced expression of c-jun after UV irradiation; this correlated with XP-C binding to the URE and resembled the pattern observed with normal human fibroblasts. In other cases either a decrease (XP-A) or no change (XP-D) in URE-binding activities was noticed, which may be associated with decreased c-fos and poor c-jun expression after UV irradiation. That XP-C cells were the only complementation group exhibiting URE-binding activities similar to those of repair-proficient cells points to the possible correlation between proper repair of transcriptionally active genes and the expression and activities of proteins implicated in the cellular response to UV irradiation.
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- Y M Yang
- Molecular Carcinogenesis Program, American Health Foundation, Valhalla, New York 10595, USA
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Goljer I, Kumar S, Bolton PH. Refined solution structure of a DNA heteroduplex containing an aldehydic abasic site. J Biol Chem 1995; 270:22980-7. [PMID: 7559436 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.270.39.22980] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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The solution structure of the DNA duplex d(C1G2C3G4A5D6A7C8G9C10C11)-d (G22C21G20C19T18A17T16G15C14G13-G12), with D indicating a deoxyribose aldehyde abasic site and numbering from 5' to 3', has been determined by the combined use of NMR and restrained molecular dynamics. The 31P and 31P-1H correlation data indicate that the backbones of these duplex DNAs are regular. One- and two-dimensional 1H NMR data indicate that the duplexes are right-handed and B-form. Conformational changes due to the presence of the abasic site extends to the base pairs adjacent to the lesion site with the local conformation of the DNA being dependent on whether the abasic site is in the alpha or beta configuration. When the sugar of the abasic site is in the beta configuration the deoxyribose is within the helix, whereas when the sugar is in the alpha configuration the deoxyribose is out of the helix. The base of residue A17 in the position opposite the abasic site is predominantly stacked in the helix in both cases. A water molecule can apparently form a hydrogen bond bridge between the beta abasic site and A17.
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- I Goljer
- Department of Chemistry, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut 06459, USA
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Bramson J, O'Connor T, Panasci L. Effect of alkyl-N-purine DNA glycosylase overexpression on cellular resistance to bifunctional alkylating agents. Biochem Pharmacol 1995; 50:39-44. [PMID: 7605343 DOI: 10.1016/0006-2952(95)00114-f] [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: 01/26/2023]
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Increased activity of alkyl-N-purine DNA glycosylase (ANPG; a.k.a. N3-methyladenine DNA glycosylase) has been correlated with resistance to both chloroethylnitrosoureas and nitrogen mustards. Also, overexpression of the human glycosylase in Escherichia coli results in resistance to alkylating agents. To determine how overexpression of the protein affects resistance to these bifunctional alkylating agents in mammalian cells, wild-type CHO-AA8 cells were transfected with an expression construct containing the human ANPG cDNA. Several clonally isolated lines that expressed increasing levels of glycosylase activity were selected. None of these lines displayed increased resistance to either bis-chloroethylnitrosourea or melphalan. To determine how overexpression of this protein affects cells in the absence of nucleotide excision repair, the mutant CHO-UV20 cell line was transfected with the same expression construct. This cell line lacks functional ERCC-1 protein and displays extreme hypersensitivity to bifunctional alkylating agents. Again, none of the UV20 transfectants displayed increased resistance. The results of these experiments indicate that unlike E. coli, overexpression of the glycosylase alone is not sufficient to confer resistance to bifunctional alkylating agents in this system. Structural differences between mammalian cells and E. coli may explain the interesting result that a mammalian gene can confer drug resistance in E. coli but not in mammalian cells.
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- J Bramson
- Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research of the Sir Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Bobola MS, Berger MS, Silber JR. Contribution of O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase to resistance to 1,3-(2-chloroethyl)-1-nitrosourea in human brain tumor-derived cell lines. Mol Carcinog 1995; 13:81-8. [PMID: 7605583 DOI: 10.1002/mc.2940130204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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To assess the possible role of the DNA repair protein O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) in resistance of brain neoplasms to the clinically important chloroethylating agent 1,3-bis(2-chloroethyl)-1-nitrosourea (BCNU), we quantitated MGMT activity, BCNU survival, and the effect of ablating MGMT activity on the sensitivity of 14 human medulloblastoma- and glioma-derived cell lines. BCNU resistance, measured as 10% survival dose (LD10), differed eightfold among the lines. Elimination of measurable MGMT activity with the substrate analogue inhibitor O6-benzylguanine (O6-BG) revealed a variable but limited contribution of MGMT to survival. In no case did O6-BG reduce LD10 by more than 3.4-fold. In contrast, O6-BG reduced the LD10 for N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine up to 31-fold in the same cell lines (Bobola MS, Blank A, Berger MS, Silber JR, Mol Carcinog 13:70-80, 1995). Variability in BCNU survival, manifested as a sevenfold range of LD10, persists after measurable MGMT was eliminated, indicating that another mechanism or mechanisms is operating to limit cytotoxicity. Cells alkylated while suspended in growth medium are more resistant to BCNU and display less dependence on MGMT than cells treated while proliferating on a plastic substratum. When alkylated in suspension, most of the lines are either unresponsive to O6-BG or contain a subpopulation that did not respond to O6-BG. Our results demonstrate that BCNU resistance is multifactorial and that MGMT makes a modest contribution to resistance in our lines.
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- M S Bobola
- Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle 98195, USA
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