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Thu YM. Multifaceted roles of SUMO in DNA metabolism. Nucleus 2024; 15:2398450. [PMID: 39287196 PMCID: PMC11409511 DOI: 10.1080/19491034.2024.2398450] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2024] [Revised: 08/16/2024] [Accepted: 08/26/2024] [Indexed: 09/19/2024] Open
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Sumoylation, a process in which SUMO (small ubiquitin like modifier) is conjugated to target proteins, emerges as a post-translational modification that mediates protein-protein interactions, protein complex assembly, and localization of target proteins. The coordinated actions of SUMO ligases, proteases, and SUMO-targeted ubiquitin ligases determine the net result of sumoylation. It is well established that sumoylation can somewhat promiscuously target proteins in groups as well as selectively target individual proteins. Through changing protein dynamics, sumoylation orchestrates multi-step processes in chromatin biology. Sumoylation influences various steps of mitosis, DNA replication, DNA damage repair, and pathways protecting chromosome integrity. This review highlights examples of SUMO-regulated nuclear processes to provide mechanistic views of sumoylation in DNA metabolism.
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- Yee Mon Thu
- Department of Biology, Colby College, Waterville, ME, USA
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Gutierrez-Morton E, Wang Y. The role of SUMOylation in biomolecular condensate dynamics and protein localization. CELL INSIGHT 2024; 3:100199. [PMID: 39399482 PMCID: PMC11467568 DOI: 10.1016/j.cellin.2024.100199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2024] [Revised: 08/23/2024] [Accepted: 08/24/2024] [Indexed: 10/15/2024]
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As a type of protein post-translational modification, SUMOylation is the process that attaches a small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) to lysine residues of protein substrates. Not only do SUMO and ubiquitin exhibit structure similarity, but the enzymatic cascades for SUMOylation and ubiquitination are also similar. It is well established that protein ubiquitination triggers proteasomal degradation, but the function of SUMOylation remains poorly understood compared to ubiquitination. Recent studies reveal the role of SUMOylation in regulating protein localization, stability, and interaction networks. SUMO can be covalently attached to substrates either as an individual monomer (monoSUMOylation) or as a polymeric SUMO chain (polySUMOylation). Strikingly, mono- and polySUMOylation likely play distinct roles in protein subcellular localization and the assembly/disassembly of biomolecular condensates, which are membraneless cellular compartments with concentrated biomolecules. In this review, we summarize the recent advances in the understanding of the function and regulation of SUMOylation, which could reveal potential therapeutic targets in disease pathogenesis.
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- Emily Gutierrez-Morton
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Florida State University, 1115 West Call Street, Tallahassee, FL, 32306-4300, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Florida State University, 1115 West Call Street, Tallahassee, FL, 32306-4300, USA
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Regan-Mochrie G, Hoggard T, Bhagwat N, Lynch G, Hunter N, Remus D, Fox CA, Zhao X. Yeast ORC sumoylation status fine-tunes origin licensing. Genes Dev 2022; 36:gad.349610.122. [PMID: 35926881 PMCID: PMC9480853 DOI: 10.1101/gad.349610.122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2022] [Accepted: 07/14/2022] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Sumoylation is emerging as a posttranslation modification important for regulating chromosome duplication and stability. The origin recognition complex (ORC) that directs DNA replication initiation by loading the MCM replicative helicase onto origins is sumoylated in both yeast and human cells. However, the biological consequences of ORC sumoylation are unclear. Here we report the effects of hypersumoylation and hyposumoylation of yeast ORC on ORC activity and origin function using multiple approaches. ORC hypersumoylation preferentially reduced the function of a subset of early origins, while Orc2 hyposumoylation had an opposing effect. Mechanistically, ORC hypersumoylation reduced MCM loading in vitro and diminished MCM chromatin association in vivo. Either hypersumoylation or hyposumoylation of ORC resulted in genome instability and the dependence of yeast on other genome maintenance factors, providing evidence that appropriate ORC sumoylation levels are important for cell fitness. Thus, yeast ORC sumoylation status must be properly controlled to achieve optimal origin function across the genome and genome stability.
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- Gemma Regan-Mochrie
- Molecular Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10065, USA
- Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10065, USA
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- Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California at Davis, Davis, California 95616, USA
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California at Davis, Davis, California 95616, USA
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- Molecular Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10065, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California at Davis, Davis, California 95616, USA
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California at Davis, Davis, California 95616, USA
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- Molecular Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10065, USA
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- Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Molecular Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10065, USA
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Hou W, Li Y, Zhang J, Xia Y, Wang X, Chen H, Lou H. Cohesin in DNA damage response and double-strand break repair. Crit Rev Biochem Mol Biol 2022; 57:333-350. [PMID: 35112600 DOI: 10.1080/10409238.2022.2027336] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2021] [Revised: 01/03/2022] [Accepted: 01/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Cohesin, a four-subunit ring comprising SMC1, SMC3, RAD21 and SA1/2, tethers sister chromatids by DNA replication-coupled cohesion (RC-cohesion) to guarantee correct chromosome segregation during cell proliferation. Postreplicative cohesion, also called damage-induced cohesion (DI-cohesion), is an emerging critical player in DNA damage response (DDR). In this review, we sum up recent progress on how cohesin regulates the DNA damage checkpoint activation and repair pathway choice, emphasizing postreplicative cohesin loading and DI-cohesion establishment in yeasts and mammals. DI-cohesion and RC-cohesion show distinct features in many aspects. DI-cohesion near or far from the break sites might undergo different regulations and execute different tasks in DDR and DSB repair. Furthermore, some open questions in this field and the significance of this new scenario to our understanding of genome stability maintenance and cohesinopathies are discussed.
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- Wenya Hou
- Shenzhen University General Hospital, Guangdong Key Laboratory for Genome Stability & Disease Prevention, Shenzhen University School of Medicine, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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- Shenzhen University General Hospital, Guangdong Key Laboratory for Genome Stability & Disease Prevention, Shenzhen University School of Medicine, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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- Shenzhen University General Hospital, Guangdong Key Laboratory for Genome Stability & Disease Prevention, Shenzhen University School of Medicine, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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- Shenzhen University General Hospital, Guangdong Key Laboratory for Genome Stability & Disease Prevention, Shenzhen University School of Medicine, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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- Shenzhen University General Hospital, Guangdong Key Laboratory for Genome Stability & Disease Prevention, Shenzhen University School of Medicine, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
- Union Shenzhen Hospital, Department of Dermatology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Nanshan Hospital), Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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- Union Shenzhen Hospital, Department of Dermatology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Nanshan Hospital), Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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- Shenzhen University General Hospital, Guangdong Key Laboratory for Genome Stability & Disease Prevention, Shenzhen University School of Medicine, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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Phipps J, Dubrana K. DNA Repair in Space and Time: Safeguarding the Genome with the Cohesin Complex. Genes (Basel) 2022; 13:198. [PMID: 35205243 PMCID: PMC8872453 DOI: 10.3390/genes13020198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2021] [Revised: 01/20/2022] [Accepted: 01/20/2022] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are a deleterious form of DNA damage, which must be robustly addressed to ensure genome stability. Defective repair can result in chromosome loss, point mutations, loss of heterozygosity or chromosomal rearrangements, which could lead to oncogenesis or cell death. We explore the requirements for the successful repair of DNA DSBs by non-homologous end joining and homology-directed repair (HDR) mechanisms in relation to genome folding and dynamics. On the occurrence of a DSB, local and global chromatin composition and dynamics, as well as 3D genome organization and break localization within the nuclear space, influence how repair proceeds. The cohesin complex is increasingly implicated as a key regulator of the genome, influencing chromatin composition and dynamics, and crucially genome organization through folding chromosomes by an active loop extrusion mechanism, and maintaining sister chromatid cohesion. Here, we consider how this complex is now emerging as a key player in the DNA damage response, influencing repair pathway choice and efficiency.
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- UMR Stabilité Génétique Cellules Souches et Radiations, INSERM, iRCM/IBFJ CEA, Université de Paris and Université Paris-Saclay, F-92265 Fontenay-aux-Roses, France;
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Herce-Hagiwara B, Thu YM. SGS1-SuOff rescues the mild methylmethane sulfonate sensitivity of srs2Δ cells in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. MICROPUBLICATION BIOLOGY 2021; 2021. [PMID: 34585105 PMCID: PMC8463932 DOI: 10.17912/micropub.biology.000480] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2021] [Revised: 09/02/2021] [Accepted: 09/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Sgs1p in Saccharomyces cerevisiae belongs to the RecQ helicase family. Sgs1p is involved in recombination during DNA damage repair and sumoylation of Sgs1p is one mechanism by which the protein is regulated. To further understand the significance of Sgs1p sumoylation in DNA damage repair, we examined the genetic interaction between SGS1 SUMO mutants and a mutant of SRS2, the protein product of which also prevents aberrant recombination structures. We observed that SGS1-SuOff, a mutant in which Sgs1p cannot be sumoylated, attenuates the mild sensitivity of srs2Δcells to methyl methane sulfonate.
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A global map of associations between types of protein posttranslational modifications and human genetic diseases. iScience 2021; 24:102917. [PMID: 34430807 PMCID: PMC8365368 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2021.102917] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2021] [Revised: 06/27/2021] [Accepted: 07/27/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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There are >200 types of protein posttranslational modifications (PTMs) described in eukaryotes, each with unique proteome coverage and functions. We hypothesized that some genetic diseases may be caused by the removal of a specific type of PTMs by genomic variants and the consequent deregulation of particular functions. We collected >320,000 human PTMs representing 59 types and crossed them with >4M nonsynonymous DNA variants annotated with predicted pathogenicity and disease associations. We report >1.74M PTM-variant co-occurrences that an enrichment analysis distributed into 215 pairwise associations between 18 PTM types and 148 genetic diseases. Of them, 42% were not previously described. Removal of lysine acetylation exerts the most pronounced effect, and less studied PTM types such as S-glutathionylation or S-nitrosylation show relevance. Using pathogenicity predictions, we identified PTM sites that may produce particular diseases if prevented. Our results provide evidence of a substantial impact of PTM-specific removal on the pathogenesis of genetic diseases and phenotypes. There is an enrichment of disease-associated nsSNVs preventing certain types of PTMs We report 215 pairwise associations between 18 PTM types and 148 genetic diseases The removal of lysine acetylation exerts the most pronounced effect We report a set of PTM sites that may produce particular diseases if prevented
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Natural variation identifies SNI1, the SMC5/6 component, as a modifier of meiotic crossover in Arabidopsis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2021; 118:2021970118. [PMID: 34385313 PMCID: PMC8379953 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2021970118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Meiotic recombination plays a fundamental role in shaping genetic diversity in eukaryotes. Extensive variation in crossover rate exists between populations and species. The identity of modifier loci and their roles in genome evolution remain incompletely understood. We explored natural variation in Arabidopsis crossover and identified SNI1 as the causal gene underlying a major modifier locus. To date, SNI1 had no known role in crossover. SNI1 is a component of the SMC5/6 complex that is closely related to cohesin and condensin. Arabidopsis sni1 and other SMC5/6 mutants show similar effects on the interference-independent crossover pathway. Hence, our findings demonstrate that the SMC5/6 complex, which is known for its role in DNA damage repair, is also important for control of meiotic crossover. The frequency and distribution of meiotic crossovers are tightly controlled; however, variation in this process can be observed both within and between species. Using crosses of two natural Arabidopsis thaliana accessions, Col and Ler, we mapped a crossover modifier locus to semidominant polymorphisms in SUPPRESSOR OF NPR1-1 INDUCIBLE 1 (SNI1), which encodes a component of the SMC5/6 complex. The sni1 mutant exhibits a modified pattern of recombination across the genome with crossovers elevated in chromosome distal regions but reduced in pericentromeres. Mutations in SNI1 result in reduced crossover interference and can partially restore the fertility of a Class I crossover pathway mutant, which suggests that the protein affects noninterfering crossover repair. Therefore, we tested genetic interactions between SNI1 and both RECQ4 and FANCM DNA helicases, which showed that additional Class II crossovers observed in the sni1 mutant are FANCM independent. Furthermore, genetic analysis of other SMC5/6 mutants confirms the observations of crossover redistribution made for SNI1. The study reveals the importance of the SMC5/6 complex in ensuring the proper progress of meiotic recombination in plants.
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Smc5/6, an atypical SMC complex with two RING-type subunits. Biochem Soc Trans 2021; 48:2159-2171. [PMID: 32964921 DOI: 10.1042/bst20200389] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2020] [Revised: 08/26/2020] [Accepted: 08/27/2020] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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The Smc5/6 complex plays essential roles in chromosome segregation and repair, by promoting disjunction of sister chromatids. The core of the complex is constituted by an heterodimer of Structural Maintenance of Chromosomes (SMC) proteins that use ATP hydrolysis to dynamically associate with and organize chromosomes. In addition, the Smc5/6 complex contains six non-SMC subunits. Remarkably, and differently to other SMC complexes, the Nse1 and Nse2 subunits contain RING-type domains typically found in E3 ligases, pointing to the capacity to regulate other proteins and complexes through ubiquitin-like modifiers. Nse2 codes for a C-terminal SP-RING domain with SUMO ligase activity, assisting Smc5/6 functions in chromosome segregation through sumoylation of several chromosome-associated proteins. Nse1 codes for a C-terminal NH-RING domain and, although it has been proposed to have ubiquitin ligase activity, no Smc5/6-dependent ubiquitylation target has been described to date. Here, we review the function of the two RING domains of the Smc5/6 complex in the broader context of SMC complexes as global chromosome organizers of the genome.
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Psakhye I, Branzei D. SMC complexes are guarded by the SUMO protease Ulp2 against SUMO-chain-mediated turnover. Cell Rep 2021; 36:109485. [PMID: 34348159 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109485] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2021] [Revised: 06/07/2021] [Accepted: 07/07/2021] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMCs) complexes, cohesin, condensin, and Smc5/6, are essential for viability and participate in multiple processes, including sister chromatid cohesion, chromosome condensation, and DNA repair. Here we show that SUMO chains target all three SMC complexes and are antagonized by the SUMO protease Ulp2 to prevent their turnover. We uncover that the essential role of the cohesin-associated subunit Pds5 is to counteract SUMO chains jointly with Ulp2. Importantly, fusion of Ulp2 to kleisin Scc1 supports viability of PDS5 null cells and protects cohesin from proteasomal degradation mediated by the SUMO-targeted ubiquitin ligase Slx5/Slx8. The lethality of PDS5-deleted cells can also be bypassed by simultaneous loss of the proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) unloader, Elg1, and the cohesin releaser, Wpl1, but only when Ulp2 is functional. Condensin and Smc5/6 complex are similarly guarded by Ulp2 against unscheduled SUMO chain assembly, which we propose to time the availability of SMC complexes on chromatin.
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- Ivan Psakhye
- 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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He W, Verhees GF, Bhagwat N, Yang Y, Kulkarni DS, Lombardo Z, Lahiri S, Roy P, Zhuo J, Dang B, Snyder A, Shastry S, Moezpoor M, Alocozy L, Lee KG, Painter D, Mukerji I, Hunter N. SUMO fosters assembly and functionality of the MutSγ complex to facilitate meiotic crossing over. Dev Cell 2021; 56:2073-2088.e3. [PMID: 34214491 DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2021.06.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2020] [Revised: 03/31/2021] [Accepted: 06/10/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Crossing over is essential for chromosome segregation during meiosis. Protein modification by SUMO is implicated in crossover control, but pertinent targets have remained elusive. Here we identify Msh4 as a target of SUMO-mediated crossover regulation. Msh4 and Msh5 constitute the MutSγ complex, which stabilizes joint-molecule (JM) recombination intermediates and facilitates their resolution into crossovers. Msh4 SUMOylation enhances these processes to ensure that each chromosome pair acquires at least one crossover. Msh4 is directly targeted by E2 conjugase Ubc9, initially becoming mono-SUMOylated in response to DNA double-strand breaks, then multi/poly-SUMOylated forms arise as homologs fully engage. Mechanistically, SUMOylation fosters interaction between Msh4 and Msh5. We infer that initial SUMOylation of Msh4 enhances assembly of MutSγ in anticipation of JM formation, while secondary SUMOylation may promote downstream functions. Regulation of Msh4 by SUMO is distinct and independent of its previously described stabilization by phosphorylation, defining MutSγ as a hub for crossover control.
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- Wei He
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA; Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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- Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA; Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA; Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA; Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Molecular Biophysics Program, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Molecular Biophysics Program, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, USA
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- Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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- Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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- Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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- Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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- Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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- Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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- Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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- Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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- Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Molecular Biophysics Program, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA; Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA.
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Bhagwat NR, Owens SN, Ito M, Boinapalli JV, Poa P, Ditzel A, Kopparapu S, Mahalawat M, Davies OR, Collins SR, Johnson JR, Krogan NJ, Hunter N. SUMO is a pervasive regulator of meiosis. eLife 2021; 10:57720. [PMID: 33502312 PMCID: PMC7924959 DOI: 10.7554/elife.57720] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2020] [Accepted: 01/26/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Protein modification by SUMO helps orchestrate the elaborate events of meiosis to faithfully produce haploid gametes. To date, only a handful of meiotic SUMO targets have been identified. Here, we delineate a multidimensional SUMO-modified meiotic proteome in budding yeast, identifying 2747 conjugation sites in 775 targets, and defining their relative levels and dynamics. Modified sites cluster in disordered regions and only a minority match consensus motifs. Target identities and modification dynamics imply that SUMOylation regulates all levels of chromosome organization and each step of meiotic prophase I. Execution-point analysis confirms these inferences, revealing functions for SUMO in S-phase, the initiation of recombination, chromosome synapsis and crossing over. K15-linked SUMO chains become prominent as chromosomes synapse and recombine, consistent with roles in these processes. SUMO also modifies ubiquitin, forming hybrid oligomers with potential to modulate ubiquitin signaling. We conclude that SUMO plays diverse and unanticipated roles in regulating meiotic chromosome metabolism. Most mammalian, yeast and other eukaryote cells have two sets of chromosomes, one from each parent, which contain all the cell’s DNA. Sex cells – like the sperm and egg – however, have half the number of chromosomes and are formed by a specialized type of cell division known as meiosis. At the start of meiosis, each cell replicates its chromosomes so that it has twice the amount of DNA. The cell then undergoes two rounds of division to form sex cells which each contain only one set of chromosomes. Before the cell divides, the two duplicated sets of chromosomes pair up and swap sections of their DNA. This exchange allows each new sex cell to have a unique combination of DNA, resulting in offspring that are genetically distinct from their parents. This complex series of events is tightly regulated, in part, by a protein called the 'small ubiquitin-like modifier' (or SUMO for short), which attaches itself to other proteins and modifies their behavior. This process, known as SUMOylation, can affect a protein’s stability, where it is located in the cell and how it interacts with other proteins. However, despite SUMO being known as a key regulator of meiosis, only a handful of its protein targets have been identified. To gain a better understanding of what SUMO does during meiosis, Bhagwat et al. set out to find which proteins are targeted by SUMO in budding yeast and to map the specific sites of modification. The experiments identified 2,747 different sites on 775 different proteins, suggesting that SUMO regulates all aspects of meiosis. Consistently, inactivating SUMOylation at different times revealed SUMO plays a role at every stage of meiosis, including the replication of DNA and the exchanges between chromosomes. In depth analysis of the targeted proteins also revealed that SUMOylation targets different groups of proteins at different stages of meiosis and interacts with other protein modifications, including the ubiquitin system which tags proteins for destruction. The data gathered by Bhagwat et al. provide a starting point for future research into precisely how SUMO proteins control meiosis in yeast and other organisms. In humans, errors in meiosis are the leading cause of pregnancy loss and congenital diseases. Most of the proteins identified as SUMO targets in budding yeast are also present in humans. So, this research could provide a platform for medical advances in the future. The next step is to study mammalian models, such as mice, to confirm that the regulation of meiosis by SUMO is the same in mammals as in yeast.
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- Nikhil R Bhagwat
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California Davis, Davis, United States.,Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of California Davis, Davis, United States
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- Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of California Davis, Davis, United States
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California Davis, Davis, United States.,Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of California Davis, Davis, United States
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- Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of California Davis, Davis, United States
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- Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of California Davis, Davis, United States
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- Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of California Davis, Davis, United States
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- Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of California Davis, Davis, United States
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- Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of California Davis, Davis, United States
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- Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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- Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of California Davis, Davis, United States
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- Department of Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, United States
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- Department of Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, United States
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California Davis, Davis, United States.,Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of California Davis, Davis, United States.,Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology, University of California Davis, Davis, United States
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Zapatka M, Pociño-Merino I, Heluani-Gahete H, Bermúdez-López M, Tarrés M, Ibars E, Solé-Soler R, Gutiérrez-Escribano P, Apostolova S, Casas C, Aragon L, Wellinger R, Colomina N, Torres-Rosell J. Sumoylation of Smc5 Promotes Error-free Bypass at Damaged Replication Forks. Cell Rep 2019; 29:3160-3172.e4. [DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.10.123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2019] [Revised: 09/25/2019] [Accepted: 10/29/2019] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Smc5 and Smc6, together with the kleisin Nse4, form the heart of the enigmatic and poorly understood Smc5/6 complex, which is frequently viewed as a cousin of cohesin and condensin with functions in DNA repair. As novel functions for cohesin and condensin complexes in the organization of long-range chromatin architecture have recently emerged, new unsuspected roles for Smc5/6 have also surfaced. Here, I aim to provide a comprehensive overview of our current knowledge of the Smc5/6 complex, including its long-established function in genome stability, its multiple roles in DNA repair, and its recently discovered connection to the transcription inhibition of hepatitis B virus genomes. In addition, I summarize new research that is beginning to tease out the molecular details of Smc5/6 structure and function, knowledge that will illuminate the nuclear activities of Smc5/6 in the stability and dynamics of eukaryotic genomes.
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- Luis Aragón
- Cell Cycle Group, MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Hammersmith Hospital Campus, London W12 0NN, United Kingdom;
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Oravcová M, Boddy MN. Recruitment, loading, and activation of the Smc5-Smc6 SUMO ligase. Curr Genet 2019; 65:669-676. [PMID: 30600397 DOI: 10.1007/s00294-018-0922-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2018] [Revised: 12/14/2018] [Accepted: 12/15/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Duplication of the genome poses one of the most significant threats to genetic integrity, cellular fitness, and organismal health. Therefore, numerous mechanisms have evolved that maintain replication fork stability in the face of DNA damage and allow faithful genome duplication. The fission yeast BRCT-domain-containing protein Brc1, and its budding yeast orthologue Rtt107, has emerged as a "hub" factor that integrates multiple replication fork protection mechanisms. Notably, the cofactors and pathways through which Brc1, Rtt107, and their human orthologue (PTIP) act have appeared largely distinct. This either represents true evolutionary functional divergence, or perhaps an incomplete genetic and biochemical analysis of each protein. In this regard, we recently showed that like Rtt107, Brc1 supports key functions of the Smc5-Smc6 complex, including its recruitment into DNA repair foci, chromatin association, and SUMO ligase activity. Furthermore, fission yeast cells lacking the Nse5-Nse6 genome stability factor were found to exhibit defects in Smc5-Smc6 function, similar to but more severe than those in cells lacking Brc1. Here, we place these findings in context with the known functions of Brc1, Rtt107, and Smc5-Smc6, present data suggesting a role for acetylation in Smc5-Smc6 chromatin loading, and discuss wider implications for genome stability.
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- Martina Oravcová
- Department of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 N. Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 N. Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA.
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Dhingra N, Wei L, Zhao X. Replication protein A (RPA) sumoylation positively influences the DNA damage checkpoint response in yeast. J Biol Chem 2018; 294:2690-2699. [PMID: 30591583 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra118.006006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2018] [Revised: 12/20/2018] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The DNA damage response relies on protein modifications to elicit physiological changes required for coping with genotoxic conditions. Besides canonical DNA damage checkpoint-mediated phosphorylation, DNA damage-induced sumoylation has recently been shown to promote genotoxin survival. Cross-talk between these two pathways exists in both yeast and human cells. In particular, sumoylation is required for optimal checkpoint function, but the underlying mechanisms are not well-understood. To address this question, we examined the sumoylation of the first responder to DNA lesions, the ssDNA-binding protein complex replication protein A (RPA) in budding yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae). We delineated the sumoylation sites of the RPA large subunit, Rfa1 on the basis of previous and new mapping data. Findings using a sumoylation-defective Rfa1 mutant suggested that Rfa1 sumoylation acts in parallel with the 9-1-1 checkpoint complex to enhance the DNA damage checkpoint response. Mechanistically, sumoylated Rfa1 fostered an interaction with a checkpoint adaptor protein, Sgs1, and contributed to checkpoint kinase activation. Our results suggest that SUMO-based modulation of a DNA damage sensor positively influences the checkpoint response.
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- Nalini Dhingra
- From the Molecular Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10065
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- From the Molecular Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10065
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- From the Molecular Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10065
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Palecek JJ. SMC5/6: Multifunctional Player in Replication. Genes (Basel) 2018; 10:genes10010007. [PMID: 30583551 PMCID: PMC6356406 DOI: 10.3390/genes10010007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2018] [Revised: 12/18/2018] [Accepted: 12/19/2018] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The genome replication process is challenged at many levels. Replication must proceed through different problematic sites and obstacles, some of which can pause or even reverse the replication fork (RF). In addition, replication of DNA within chromosomes must deal with their topological constraints and spatial organization. One of the most important factors organizing DNA into higher-order structures are Structural Maintenance of Chromosome (SMC) complexes. In prokaryotes, SMC complexes ensure proper chromosomal partitioning during replication. In eukaryotes, cohesin and SMC5/6 complexes assist in replication. Interestingly, the SMC5/6 complexes seem to be involved in replication in many ways. They stabilize stalled RFs, restrain RF regression, participate in the restart of collapsed RFs, and buffer topological constraints during RF progression. In this (mini) review, I present an overview of these replication-related functions of SMC5/6.
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- Jan J Palecek
- National Centre for Biomolecular Research, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlarska 2, 61137 Brno, Czech Republic.
- Mendel Centre for Plant Genomics and Proteomics, Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 62500 Brno, Czech Republic.
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Litwin I, Pilarczyk E, Wysocki R. The Emerging Role of Cohesin in the DNA Damage Response. Genes (Basel) 2018; 9:genes9120581. [PMID: 30487431 PMCID: PMC6316000 DOI: 10.3390/genes9120581] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2018] [Revised: 11/20/2018] [Accepted: 11/21/2018] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Faithful transmission of genetic material is crucial for all organisms since changes in genetic information may result in genomic instability that causes developmental disorders and cancers. Thus, understanding the mechanisms that preserve genome integrity is of fundamental importance. Cohesin is a multiprotein complex whose canonical function is to hold sister chromatids together from S-phase until the onset of anaphase to ensure the equal division of chromosomes. However, recent research points to a crucial function of cohesin in the DNA damage response (DDR). In this review, we summarize recent advances in the understanding of cohesin function in DNA damage signaling and repair. First, we focus on cohesin architecture and molecular mechanisms that govern sister chromatid cohesion. Next, we briefly characterize the main DDR pathways. Finally, we describe mechanisms that determine cohesin accumulation at DNA damage sites and discuss possible roles of cohesin in DDR.
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- Ireneusz Litwin
- Institute of Experimental Biology, University of Wroclaw, 50-328 Wroclaw, Poland.
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- Institute of Experimental Biology, University of Wroclaw, 50-328 Wroclaw, Poland.
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- Institute of Experimental Biology, University of Wroclaw, 50-328 Wroclaw, Poland.
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Sanyal S, Molnarova L, Richterova J, Huraiova B, Benko Z, Polakova S, Cipakova I, Sevcovicova A, Gaplovska-Kysela K, Mechtler K, Cipak L, Gregan J. Mutations that prevent methylation of cohesin render sensitivity to DNA damage in S. pombe. J Cell Sci 2018; 131:jcs214924. [PMID: 29898918 PMCID: PMC6051343 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.214924] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2018] [Accepted: 06/04/2018] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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The canonical role of cohesin is to mediate sister chromatid cohesion. In addition, cohesin plays important roles in processes such as DNA repair and regulation of gene expression. Mounting evidence suggests that various post-translational modifications, including phosphorylation, acetylation and sumoylation regulate cohesin functions. Our mass spectrometry analysis of cohesin purified from Schizosaccharomyces pombe cells revealed that the cohesin subunit Psm1 is methylated on two evolutionarily conserved lysine residues, K536 and K1200. We found that mutations that prevent methylation of Psm1 K536 and K1200 render sensitivity to DNA-damaging agents and show positive genetic interactions with mutations in genes encoding the Mus81-Eme1 endonuclease. Yeast two-hybrid and co-immunoprecipitation assays showed that there were interactions between subunits of the cohesin and Mus81-Eme1 complexes. We conclude that cohesin is methylated and that mutations that prevent methylation of Psm1 K536 and K1200 show synthetic phenotypes with mutants defective in the homologous recombination DNA repair pathway.
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- Swastika Sanyal
- Department of Chromosome Biology, MFPL, University of Vienna, Dr. Bohr-Gasse 9, 1030 Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Ilkovicova 6, 842 15 Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Ilkovicova 6, 842 15 Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Ilkovicova 6, 842 15 Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Department of Membrane Biochemistry, Institute of Animal Biochemistry and Genetics, Centre of Biosciences, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 84505 Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Department of Membrane Biochemistry, Institute of Animal Biochemistry and Genetics, Centre of Biosciences, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 84505 Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Department of Genetics, Cancer Research Institute, Biomedical Research Center, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dubravska cesta 9, 84505 Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Ilkovicova 6, 842 15 Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Ilkovicova 6, 842 15 Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Campus-Vienna-Biocenter 1, 1030 Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Genetics, Cancer Research Institute, Biomedical Research Center, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dubravska cesta 9, 84505 Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Department of Chromosome Biology, MFPL, University of Vienna, Dr. Bohr-Gasse 9, 1030 Vienna, Austria
- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Ilkovicova 6, 842 15 Bratislava, Slovakia
- Advanced Microscopy Facility, Vienna Biocenter Core Facilities, Dr. Bohr-Gasse 3, 1030 Vienna, Austria
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Varejão N, Ibars E, Lascorz J, Colomina N, Torres-Rosell J, Reverter D. DNA activates the Nse2/Mms21 SUMO E3 ligase in the Smc5/6 complex. EMBO J 2018; 37:embj.201798306. [PMID: 29769404 DOI: 10.15252/embj.201798306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2017] [Revised: 04/11/2018] [Accepted: 04/20/2018] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Modification of chromosomal proteins by conjugation to SUMO is a key step to cope with DNA damage and to maintain the integrity of the genome. The recruitment of SUMO E3 ligases to chromatin may represent one layer of control on protein sumoylation. However, we currently do not understand how cells upregulate the activity of E3 ligases on chromatin. Here we show that the Nse2 SUMO E3 in the Smc5/6 complex, a critical player during recombinational DNA repair, is directly stimulated by binding to DNA Activation of sumoylation requires the electrostatic interaction between DNA and a positively charged patch in the ARM domain of Smc5, which acts as a DNA sensor that subsequently promotes a stimulatory activation of the E3 activity in Nse2. Specific disruption of the interaction between the ARM of Smc5 and DNA sensitizes cells to DNA damage, indicating that this mechanism contributes to DNA repair. These results reveal a mechanism to enhance a SUMO E3 ligase activity by direct DNA binding and to restrict sumoylation in the vicinity of those Smc5/6-Nse2 molecules engaged on DNA.
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- Nathalia Varejão
- Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina (IBB), Department of de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain
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- Institut de Recerca Biomèdica de Lleida (IRBLLEIDA), Department of Ciències Mèdiques Bàsiques, Universitat de Lleida, Lleida, Spain
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- Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina (IBB), Department of de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain
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- Institut de Recerca Biomèdica de Lleida (IRBLLEIDA), Department of Ciències Mèdiques Bàsiques, Universitat de Lleida, Lleida, Spain
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- Institut de Recerca Biomèdica de Lleida (IRBLLEIDA), Department of Ciències Mèdiques Bàsiques, Universitat de Lleida, Lleida, Spain
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- Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina (IBB), Department of de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain
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The Post-anaphase SUMO Pathway Ensures the Maintenance of Centromeric Cohesion through Meiosis I-II Transition in Mammalian Oocytes. Curr Biol 2018; 28:1661-1669.e4. [PMID: 29754905 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.04.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2017] [Revised: 02/23/2018] [Accepted: 04/05/2018] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The production of haploid gametes requires the maintenance of centromeric cohesion between sister chromatids through the transition between two successive meiotic divisions, meiosis I and meiosis II. One mechanism for the cohesion maintenance is shugoshin-dependent protection of centromeric cohesin at anaphase I onset [1-3]. However, how centromeric cohesion is maintained during late anaphase I and telophase I, when centromeric shugoshin is undetectable [1-3], remains largely unexplored. Here we show that the centromeric small ubiquitin-related modifier (SUMO) pathway is critical for the maintenance of centromeric cohesion during post-anaphase-I periods in mouse oocytes. SUMO2/3 and E3 ligase PIAS are enriched near centromeres during late anaphase I and telophase I. Specific perturbation of the centromeric SUMO pathway results in precocious loss of centromeric cohesin at telophase I, although shugoshin-dependent centromeric protection at anaphase I onset remains largely intact. Prevention of the SUMO perturbation during post-anaphase-I periods restores the maintenance of centromeric cohesion through the meiosis I-II transition. Thus, the post-anaphase-I centromeric SUMO pathway ensures continuous maintenance of centromeric cohesion through the meiosis I-II transition.
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Frattini C, Villa-Hernández S, Pellicanò G, Jossen R, Katou Y, Shirahige K, Bermejo R. Cohesin Ubiquitylation and Mobilization Facilitate Stalled Replication Fork Dynamics. Mol Cell 2017; 68:758-772.e4. [PMID: 29129641 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2017.10.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2017] [Revised: 07/11/2017] [Accepted: 10/12/2017] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Replication fork integrity is challenged in conditions of stress and protected by the Mec1/ATR checkpoint to preserve genome stability. Still poorly understood in fork protection is the role played by the structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) cohesin complex. We uncovered a role for the Rsp5Bul2 ubiquitin ligase in promoting survival to replication stress by preserving stalled fork integrity. Rsp5Bul2 physically interacts with cohesin and the Mec1 kinase, thus promoting checkpoint-dependent cohesin ubiquitylation and cohesin-mediated fork protection. Ubiquitylation mediated by Rsp5Bul2 promotes cohesin mobilization from chromatin neighboring stalled forks, likely by stimulating the Cdc48/p97 ubiquitin-selective segregase, and its timely association to nascent chromatids. This Rsp5Bul2 fork protection mechanism requires the Wpl1 cohesin mobilizer as well as the function of the Eco1 acetyltransferase securing sister chromatid entrapment. Our data indicate that ubiquitylation facilitates cohesin dynamic interfacing with replication forks within a mechanism preserving stalled-fork functional architecture.
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- Camilla Frattini
- Instituto de Biología Funcional y Genómica (IBFG-CSIC), Universidad de Salamanca, Calle Zacarías González 2, 37007 Salamanca, Spain; Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (CIB-CSIC), Calle Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Biología Funcional y Genómica (IBFG-CSIC), Universidad de Salamanca, Calle Zacarías González 2, 37007 Salamanca, Spain; Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (CIB-CSIC), Calle Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (CIB-CSIC), Calle Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Biología Funcional y Genómica (IBFG-CSIC), Universidad de Salamanca, Calle Zacarías González 2, 37007 Salamanca, Spain
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- Laboratory of Genome Structure and Function, Research Center for Epigenetic Disease, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, University of Tokyo, Yayoi Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- Laboratory of Genome Structure and Function, Research Center for Epigenetic Disease, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, University of Tokyo, Yayoi Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- Instituto de Biología Funcional y Genómica (IBFG-CSIC), Universidad de Salamanca, Calle Zacarías González 2, 37007 Salamanca, Spain; Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (CIB-CSIC), Calle Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
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Zilio N, Eifler-Olivi K, Ulrich HD. Functions of SUMO in the Maintenance of Genome Stability. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2017; 963:51-87. [PMID: 28197906 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-50044-7_4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Like in most other areas of cellular metabolism, the functions of the ubiquitin-like modifier SUMO in the maintenance of genome stability are manifold and varied. Perturbations of global sumoylation causes a wide spectrum of phenotypes associated with defects in DNA maintenance, such as hypersensitivity to DNA-damaging agents, gross chromosomal rearrangements and loss of entire chromosomes. Consistent with these observations, many key factors involved in various DNA repair pathways have been identified as SUMO substrates. However, establishing a functional connection between a given SUMO target, the cognate SUMO ligase and a relevant phenotype has remained a challenge, mainly because of the difficulties involved in identifying important modification sites and downstream effectors that specifically recognize the target in its sumoylated state. This review will give an overview over the major pathways of DNA repair and genome maintenance influenced by the SUMO system and discuss selected examples of SUMO's actions in these pathways where the biological consequences of the modification have been elucidated.
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- Nicola Zilio
- Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB), Ackermannweg 4, D-55128, Mainz, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB), Ackermannweg 4, D-55128, Mainz, Germany.
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Bermúdez-López M, Villoria MT, Esteras M, Jarmuz A, Torres-Rosell J, Clemente-Blanco A, Aragon L. Sgs1's roles in DNA end resection, HJ dissolution, and crossover suppression require a two-step SUMO regulation dependent on Smc5/6. Genes Dev 2017; 30:1339-56. [PMID: 27298337 PMCID: PMC4911932 DOI: 10.1101/gad.278275.116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2016] [Accepted: 05/09/2016] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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In this study, Bermudez-Lopez et al. investigated the molecular regulation of the RecQ helicase (Bloom/Sgs1), which plays critical roles during DNA repair by homologous recombination. The authors provide new insights into the regulation of recruitment and activation of Sgs1 at damaged sites by showing that the Sgs1 is recruited and activated at sites of DNA damage by the Smc5/6 complex through SUMOylation. The RecQ helicase Sgs1 plays critical roles during DNA repair by homologous recombination, from end resection to Holliday junction (HJ) dissolution. Sgs1 has both pro- and anti-recombinogenic roles, and therefore its activity must be tightly regulated. However, the controls involved in recruitment and activation of Sgs1 at damaged sites are unknown. Here we show a two-step role for Smc5/6 in recruiting and activating Sgs1 through SUMOylation. First, auto-SUMOylation of Smc5/6 subunits leads to recruitment of Sgs1 as part of the STR (Sgs1–Top3–Rmi1) complex, mediated by two SUMO-interacting motifs (SIMs) on Sgs1 that specifically recognize SUMOylated Smc5/6. Second, Smc5/6-dependent SUMOylation of Sgs1 and Top3 is required for the efficient function of STR. Sgs1 mutants impaired in recognition of SUMOylated Smc5/6 (sgs1-SIMΔ) or SUMO-dead alleles (sgs1-KR) exhibit unprocessed HJs at damaged replication forks, increased crossover frequencies during double-strand break repair, and severe impairment in DNA end resection. Smc5/6 is a key regulator of Sgs1's recombination functions.
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- Marcelino Bermúdez-López
- Cell Cycle Group, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College, London W12 0NN, United Kingdom; Deptartment of Ciències Mèdiques Bàsiques, Institut de Recerca Biomèdica de Lleida, Universitat de Lleida, 25198 Lleida, Spain
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- Instituto de Biología Funcional y Genómica, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas/Universidad de Salamanca, 37007 Salamanca, Spain
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- Cell Cycle Group, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College, London W12 0NN, United Kingdom
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- Cell Cycle Group, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College, London W12 0NN, United Kingdom
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- Deptartment of Ciències Mèdiques Bàsiques, Institut de Recerca Biomèdica de Lleida, Universitat de Lleida, 25198 Lleida, Spain
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- Instituto de Biología Funcional y Genómica, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas/Universidad de Salamanca, 37007 Salamanca, Spain
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- Cell Cycle Group, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College, London W12 0NN, United Kingdom
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Wei L, Zhao X. Roles of SUMO in Replication Initiation, Progression, and Termination. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2017; 1042:371-393. [PMID: 29357067 PMCID: PMC6643980 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-6955-0_17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Accurate genome duplication during cell division is essential for life. This process is accomplished by the close collaboration between replication factors and many additional proteins that provide assistant roles. Replication factors establish the replication machineries capable of copying billions of nucleotides, while regulatory proteins help to achieve accuracy and efficiency of replication. Among regulatory proteins, protein modification enzymes can bestow fast and reversible changes to many targets, leading to coordinated effects on replication. Recent studies have begun to elucidate how one type of protein modification, sumoylation, can modify replication proteins and regulate genome duplication through multiple mechanisms. This chapter summarizes these new findings, and how they can integrate with the known regulatory circuitries of replication. As this area of research is still at its infancy, many outstanding questions remain to be explored, and we discuss these issues in light of the new advances.
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- Lei Wei
- Molecular Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
- Louis V. Gerstner Jr. Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Molecular Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
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Cohesin is a protein complex with key roles in chromosome biology, from chromatid segregation to DNA repair. Cohesin function is regulated by several posttranslational modifications, including phosphorylation, acetylation, ubiquitylation, and SUMOylation. Recent studies have shown that cohesin SUMOylation is essential for sister chromatid cohesion during normal cell cycle and in response to DNA damage. Posttranslational modification by the small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) is a field in expansion, however, detecting SUMOylation can be challenging because the amount of modified substrates are usually low and de-conjugation during sample preparation often occurs. In this chapter we describe a method that can be adapted to different model organisms, and substrates to detect SUMOylation. We focus on cohesin and show that SUMOylation indeed occurs in most of the subunits of budding yeast cohesin.
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- Marcelino Bermúdez-López
- Cell Cycle Group, Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0NN, UK
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- Cell Cycle Group, Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0NN, UK.
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Analysis of SUMOylation in the RENT Complex by Fusion to a SUMO-Specific Protease Domain. Methods Mol Biol 2017; 1505:97-117. [PMID: 27826860 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-6502-1_9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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Protein sumoylation is a reversible posttranslational modification that controls multiple processes during cell cycle progression. Frequently, SUMO synergistically targets various subunits in a protein complex to modulate its function, leading to what has been defined as protein group sumoylation. Different subunits in the RENT (regulator of nucleolar silencing and telophase) complex, including Net1, Sir2, and Cdc14, can be coupled to SUMO, making it difficult to ascertain the role of this modification. Here we describe a method to downregulate sumoylation in RENT, consisting in the fusion of a catalytic domain of the Ulp1 SUMO protease (Ulp Domain; UD) to the C-terminus of members in the complex using epitope tags as linkers. Targeting of the UD to specific loci can be simplified by transformation of PCR-amplified cassettes. The presence of the UD in the complex allows the concurrent downregulation of sumoylated species in the RENT complex, what can be easily monitored by pull-down of SUMO conjugates. This methodology can be applied to other protein complexes exhibiting group sumoylation.
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Bolaños-Villegas P, De K, Pradillo M, Liu D, Makaroff CA. In Favor of Establishment: Regulation of Chromatid Cohesion in Plants. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2017; 8:846. [PMID: 28588601 PMCID: PMC5440745 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00846] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2017] [Accepted: 05/05/2017] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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In eukaryotic organisms, the correct regulation of sister chromatid cohesion, whereby sister chromatids are paired and held together, is essential for accurate segregation of the sister chromatids and homologous chromosomes into daughter cells during mitosis and meiosis, respectively. Sister chromatid cohesion requires a cohesin complex comprised of structural maintenance of chromosome adenosine triphosphatases and accessory proteins that regulate the association of the complex with chromosomes or that are involved in the establishment or release of cohesion. The cohesin complex also plays important roles in the repair of DNA double-strand breaks, regulation of gene expression and chromosome condensation. In this review, we summarize progress in understanding cohesion dynamics in plants, with the aim of uncovering differences at specific stages. We also highlight dissimilarities between plants and other eukaryotes with respect to the key players involved in the achievement of cohesion, pointing out areas that require further study.
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- Pablo Bolaños-Villegas
- Laboratory of Molecular and Cell Biology, Fabio Baudrit Agricultural Research Station, University of Costa RicaAlajuela, Costa Rica
- *Correspondence: Christopher A. Makaroff, Pablo Bolaños-Villegas,
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, James Cancer Hospital and Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University Wexner School of Medicine, ColumbusOH, United States
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- Departamento de Genética, Facultad de Biología, Universidad Complutense de MadridMadrid, Spain
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- Hughes Laboratories, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Miami University, OxfordOH, United States
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- Hughes Laboratories, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Miami University, OxfordOH, United States
- *Correspondence: Christopher A. Makaroff, Pablo Bolaños-Villegas,
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Interplay between Top1 and Mms21/Nse2 mediated sumoylation in stable maintenance of long chromosomes. Curr Genet 2016; 63:627-645. [PMID: 27872982 DOI: 10.1007/s00294-016-0665-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2016] [Revised: 11/06/2016] [Accepted: 11/14/2016] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Genetic information in cells is encrypted in DNA molecules forming chromosomes of varying sizes. Accurate replication and partitioning of chromosomes in the crowded cellular milieu is a complex process involving duplication, folding and movement. Longer chromosomes may be more susceptible to mis-segregation or DNA damage and there may exist specialized physiological mechanisms preventing this. Here, we present genetic evidence for such a mechanism which depends on Mms21/Nse2 mediated sumoylation and topoisomerase-1 (Top1) for maintaining stability of longer chromosomes. While mutations inactivating Top1 or the SUMO ligase activity of Mms21 (mms21sl) individually destabilized yeast artificial chromosomes (YACs) to a modest extent, the mms21sl top1 double mutant exhibited a synthetic-sick phenotype, and showed preferential destabilization of the longer chromosome relative to shorter chromosomes. In contrast, an smc6-56 top1 mutant defective in Smc6, another subunit of the Smc5/6 complex, of which Mms21 is a component, did not show such a preferential enhancement in frequency of loss of the longer YAC, indicating that this defect may be specific to the deficiency in SUMO ligase activity of Mms21 in the mms21sl top1 mutants. In addition, mms21sl top1 double mutants harboring a longer fusion derivative of natural yeast chromosomes IV and XII displayed reduced viability, consistent with enhanced chromosome instability, relative to single mutants or the double mutant having the natural (shorter) non-fused chromosomes. Our findings reveal a functional interplay between Mms21 and Top1 in maintenance of longer chromosomes, and suggest that lack of sumoylation of Mms21 targets coupled with Top1 deficiency is a crucial requirement for accurate inheritance of longer chromosomes.
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Gligoris T, Löwe J. Structural Insights into Ring Formation of Cohesin and Related Smc Complexes. Trends Cell Biol 2016; 26:680-693. [PMID: 27134029 PMCID: PMC4989898 DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2016.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2015] [Revised: 03/30/2016] [Accepted: 04/05/2016] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Cohesin facilitates sister chromatid cohesion through the formation of a large ring structure that encircles DNA. Its function relies on two structural maintenance of chromosomes (Smc) proteins, which are found in almost all organisms tested, from bacteria to humans. In accordance with their ubiquity, Smc complexes, such as cohesin, condensin, Smc5-6, and the dosage compensation complex, affect almost all processes of DNA homeostasis. Although their precise molecular mechanism remains enigmatic, here we provide an overview of the architecture of eukaryotic Smc complexes with a particular focus on cohesin, which has seen the most progress recently. Given the evident conservation of many structural features between Smc complexes, it is expected that architecture and topology will have a significant role when deciphering their precise molecular mechanisms.
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- Thomas Gligoris
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3QU, UK.
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- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, CB2 0QH, UK
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Mms21 SUMO Ligase Activity Promotes Nucleolar Function in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics 2016; 204:645-658. [PMID: 27510371 PMCID: PMC5068852 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.115.181750] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2015] [Accepted: 07/12/2016] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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The budding yeast E3 SUMO ligase Mms21, also known as Nse2, is a component of the Smc5/6 complex, which regulates sister chromatid cohesion, DNA replication, and repair. Our study shows that the mms21RINGΔ mutant exhibits (1) reduced ribosomal RNA production; (2) nuclear accumulation of ribosomal proteins; (3) elevated Gcn4 translation, indicating translational stress; and (4) upregulation of Gcn4 targets. Genes involved in ribosome biogenesis and translation are downregulated in the mms21RINGΔ mutant. We identified RPL19A as a novel genetic suppressor of the mms21RINGΔ mutant. Deletion of RPL19A partially suppresses growth defects in both smc5-6 and mms21RINGΔ mutants as well as nuclear accumulation of ribosome subunits in the mms21RINGΔ mutant. Deletion of a previously identified strong suppressor, MPH1, rescues both the accumulation of ribosome subunits and translational stress. This study suggests that the Smc5/6 complex supports nucleolar function.
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Bonner JN, Choi K, Xue X, Torres NP, Szakal B, Wei L, Wan B, Arter M, Matos J, Sung P, Brown GW, Branzei D, Zhao X. Smc5/6 Mediated Sumoylation of the Sgs1-Top3-Rmi1 Complex Promotes Removal of Recombination Intermediates. Cell Rep 2016; 16:368-378. [PMID: 27373152 PMCID: PMC5051638 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2016.06.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/29/2016] [Revised: 05/12/2016] [Accepted: 05/31/2016] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Timely removal of DNA recombination intermediates is critical for genome stability. The DNA helicase-topoisomerase complex, Sgs1-Top3-Rmi1 (STR), is the major pathway for processing these intermediates to generate conservative products. However, the mechanisms that promote STR-mediated functions remain to be defined. Here we show that Sgs1 binds to poly-SUMO chains and associates with the Smc5/6 SUMO E3 complex in yeast. Moreover, these interactions contribute to the sumoylation of Sgs1, Top3, and Rmi1 upon the generation of recombination structures. We show that reduced STR sumoylation leads to accumulation of recombination structures, and impaired growth in conditions when these structures arise frequently, highlighting the importance of STR sumoylation. Mechanistically, sumoylation promotes STR inter-subunit interactions and accumulation at DNA repair centers. These findings expand the roles of sumoylation and Smc5/6 in genome maintenance by demonstrating that they foster STR functions in the removal of recombination intermediates.
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- Jacob N Bonner
- Molecular Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA; Programs in Biochemistry, Cell, and Molecular Biology, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Molecular Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA; Programs in Biochemistry, Cell, and Molecular Biology, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Donnelly Centre and Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3E1, Canada
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- IFOM, The FIRC of Molecular Oncology, Via Adamello 16, 20139, Milan, Italy
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- Molecular Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA; Gerstner Jr. Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Molecular Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, Otto-Stern-Weg 3, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, Otto-Stern-Weg 3, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Donnelly Centre and Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3E1, Canada
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- IFOM, The FIRC of Molecular Oncology, Via Adamello 16, 20139, Milan, Italy
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- Molecular Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA; Programs in Biochemistry, Cell, and Molecular Biology, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York, NY 10065, USA.
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Bustard DE, Ball LG, Cobb JA. Non-Smc element 5 (Nse5) of the Smc5/6 complex interacts with SUMO pathway components. Biol Open 2016; 5:777-85. [PMID: 27215325 PMCID: PMC4920195 DOI: 10.1242/bio.018440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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The Smc5/6 complex in Saccharomyces cerevisiae contains six essential non-Smc elements, Nse1-6. With the exception of Nse2 (also known as Mms21), which is an E3 small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) ligase, very little is understood about the role of these components or their contribution to Smc5/6 functionality. Our characterization of Nse5 establishes a previously unidentified relationship between the Smc5/6 complex and factors of the SUMO pathway. Nse5 physically associates with the E2 conjugating enzyme, Ubc9, where contacts are stabilized by non-covalent interactions with SUMO. SUMO also mediates the interactions between Nse5 and the two PIAS family E3 SUMO ligases, Siz1 and Siz2. Cells carrying the nse5-ts1 allele or lacking either SIZ1 or SIZ2 exhibit a reduction in Smc5 sumoylation upon MMS treatment and demonstrate functional redundancy for SUMO mediated events in the presence of DNA damage. Overall, given the extensive connection between Nse5 and components of the SUMO pathway, we speculate that one function of the Smc5/6 complex might be as a scaffold center to enable sumoylation events in budding yeast.
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- Denise E Bustard
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Robson DNA Science Centre, Arnie Charbonneau Cancer Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Drive N.W., Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 4N1
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Robson DNA Science Centre, Arnie Charbonneau Cancer Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Drive N.W., Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 4N1
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Robson DNA Science Centre, Arnie Charbonneau Cancer Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Drive N.W., Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 4N1
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García-Rodríguez N, Wong RP, Ulrich HD. Functions of Ubiquitin and SUMO in DNA Replication and Replication Stress. Front Genet 2016; 7:87. [PMID: 27242895 PMCID: PMC4865505 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2016.00087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2016] [Accepted: 04/27/2016] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Complete and faithful duplication of its entire genetic material is one of the essential prerequisites for a proliferating cell to maintain genome stability. Yet, during replication DNA is particularly vulnerable to insults. On the one hand, lesions in replicating DNA frequently cause a stalling of the replication machinery, as most DNA polymerases cannot cope with defective templates. This situation is aggravated by the fact that strand separation in preparation for DNA synthesis prevents common repair mechanisms relying on strand complementarity, such as base and nucleotide excision repair, from working properly. On the other hand, the replication process itself subjects the DNA to a series of hazardous transformations, ranging from the exposure of single-stranded DNA to topological contortions and the generation of nicks and fragments, which all bear the risk of inducing genomic instability. Dealing with these problems requires rapid and flexible responses, for which posttranslational protein modifications that act independently of protein synthesis are particularly well suited. Hence, it is not surprising that members of the ubiquitin family, particularly ubiquitin itself and SUMO, feature prominently in controlling many of the defensive and restorative measures involved in the protection of DNA during replication. In this review we will discuss the contributions of ubiquitin and SUMO to genome maintenance specifically as they relate to DNA replication. We will consider cases where the modifiers act during regular, i.e., unperturbed stages of replication, such as initiation, fork progression, and termination, but also give an account of their functions in dealing with lesions, replication stalling and fork collapse.
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Wei L, Zhao X. A new MCM modification cycle regulates DNA replication initiation. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2016; 23:209-16. [PMID: 26854664 PMCID: PMC4823995 DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.3173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2015] [Accepted: 01/06/2016] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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The MCM DNA helicase is a central regulatory target during genome replication. MCM is kept inactive during G1, and it initiates replication after being activated in S phase. During this transition, the only known chemical change to MCM is the gain of multisite phosphorylation that promotes cofactor recruitment. Because replication initiation is intimately linked to multiple biological cues, additional changes to MCM can provide further regulatory points. Here, we describe a yeast MCM SUMOylation cycle that regulates replication. MCM subunits undergo SUMOylation upon loading at origins in G1 before MCM phosphorylation. MCM SUMOylation levels then decline as MCM phosphorylation levels rise, thus suggesting an inhibitory role of MCM SUMOylation during replication. Indeed, increasing MCM SUMOylation impairs replication initiation, partly through promoting the recruitment of a phosphatase that decreases MCM phosphorylation and activation. We propose that MCM SUMOylation counterbalances kinase-based regulation, thus ensuring accurate control of replication initiation.
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- Lei Wei
- Molecular Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA
- Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA
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- Molecular Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA
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Protein modification by conjugation to the ubiquitin-related protein SUMO (SUMOylation) regulates numerous cellular functions and is reversible. However, unlike typical posttranslational modifications, SUMOylation often targets and regulates proteins of functionally and physically linked protein groups, rather than individual proteins. Functional studies of protein-group SUMOylation are thus particularly challenging, as they require the identification of ideally all members of a modified protein group. Here, we describe mass spectrometric approaches to detect SUMOylated protein groups in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, yet the protocols can be readily adapted for studies of SUMOylation in mammalian cells.
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- Ivan Psakhye
- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Am Klopferspitz 18, 82152, Martinsried, Germany.
- IFOM, the FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Via Adamello 16, 20139, Milan, Italy.
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- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Am Klopferspitz 18, 82152, Martinsried, Germany.
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He X, Riceberg J, Pulukuri SM, Grossman S, Shinde V, Shah P, Brownell JE, Dick L, Newcomb J, Bence N. Characterization of the loss of SUMO pathway function on cancer cells and tumor proliferation. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0123882. [PMID: 25860128 PMCID: PMC4393225 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0123882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2014] [Accepted: 02/23/2015] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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SUMOylation is a post-translational ubiquitin-like protein modification pathway that regulates important cellular processes including chromosome structure, kinetochore function, chromosome segregation, nuclear and sub-nuclear organization, transcription and DNA damage repair. There is increasing evidence that the SUMO pathway is dysregulated in cancer, raising the possibility that modulation of this pathway may have therapeutic potential. To investigate the importance of the SUMO pathway in the context of cancer cell proliferation and tumor growth, we applied lentivirus-based short hairpin RNAs (shRNA) to knockdown SUMO pathway genes in human cancer cells. shRNAs for SAE2 and UBC9 reduced SUMO conjugation activity and inhibited proliferation of human cancer cells. To expand upon these observations, we generated doxycycline inducible conditional shRNA cell lines for SAE2 to achieve acute and reversible SAE2 knockdown. Conditional SAE2 knockdown in U2OS and HCT116 cells slowed cell growth in vitro, and SAE2 knockdown induced multiple terminal outcomes including apoptosis, endoreduplication and senescence. Multinucleated cells became senescent and stained positive for the senescence marker, SA-β Gal, and displayed elevated levels of p53 and p21. In an attempt to explain these phenotypes, we confirmed that loss of SUMO pathway activity leads to a loss of SUMOylated Topoisomerase IIα and the appearance of chromatin bridges which can impair proper cytokinesis and lead to multinucleation. Furthermore, knockdown of SAE2 induces disruption of PML nuclear bodies which may further promote apoptosis or senescence. In an in vivo HCT116 xenograft tumor model, conditional SAE2 knockdown strongly impaired tumor growth. These data demonstrate that the SUMO pathway is required for cancer cell proliferation in vitro and tumor growth in vivo, implicating the SUMO pathway as a potential cancer therapeutic target.
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- Xingyue He
- Oncology Drug Discovery Unit, Takeda Pharmaceuticals International Co., Cambridge, United States of America
- * E-mail: (XH); (NB)
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- Oncology Drug Discovery Unit, Takeda Pharmaceuticals International Co., Cambridge, United States of America
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- Oncology Drug Discovery Unit, Takeda Pharmaceuticals International Co., Cambridge, United States of America
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- Oncology Drug Discovery Unit, Takeda Pharmaceuticals International Co., Cambridge, United States of America
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- Oncology Drug Discovery Unit, Takeda Pharmaceuticals International Co., Cambridge, United States of America
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- Oncology Drug Discovery Unit, Takeda Pharmaceuticals International Co., Cambridge, United States of America
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- Oncology Drug Discovery Unit, Takeda Pharmaceuticals International Co., Cambridge, United States of America
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- Oncology Drug Discovery Unit, Takeda Pharmaceuticals International Co., Cambridge, United States of America
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- Oncology Drug Discovery Unit, Takeda Pharmaceuticals International Co., Cambridge, United States of America
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- Nurix, Inc. San Francisco, United States of America
- * E-mail: (XH); (NB)
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Mec1-dependent phosphorylation of Mms21 modulates its SUMO ligase activity. DNA Repair (Amst) 2015; 28:83-92. [DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2015.01.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2014] [Revised: 01/12/2015] [Accepted: 01/15/2015] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Bermúdez-López M, Pociño-Merino I, Sánchez H, Bueno A, Guasch C, Almedawar S, Bru-Virgili S, Garí E, Wyman C, Reverter D, Colomina N, Torres-Rosell J. ATPase-dependent control of the Mms21 SUMO ligase during DNA repair. PLoS Biol 2015; 13:e1002089. [PMID: 25764370 PMCID: PMC4357442 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2014] [Accepted: 01/26/2015] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Modification of proteins by SUMO is essential for the maintenance of genome integrity. During DNA replication, the Mms21-branch of the SUMO pathway counteracts recombination intermediates at damaged replication forks, thus facilitating sister chromatid disjunction. The Mms21 SUMO ligase docks to the arm region of the Smc5 protein in the Smc5/6 complex; together, they cooperate during recombinational DNA repair. Yet how the activity of the SUMO ligase is controlled remains unknown. Here we show that the SUMO ligase and the chromosome disjunction functions of Mms21 depend on its docking to an intact and active Smc5/6 complex, indicating that the Smc5/6-Mms21 complex operates as a large SUMO ligase in vivo. In spite of the physical distance separating the E3 and the nucleotide-binding domains in Smc5/6, Mms21-dependent sumoylation requires binding of ATP to Smc5, a step that is part of the ligase mechanism that assists Ubc9 function. The communication is enabled by the presence of a conserved disruption in the coiled coil domain of Smc5, pointing to potential conformational changes for SUMO ligase activation. In accordance, scanning force microscopy of the Smc5-Mms21 heterodimer shows that the molecule is physically remodeled in an ATP-dependent manner. Our results demonstrate that the ATP-binding activity of the Smc5/6 complex is coordinated with its SUMO ligase, through the coiled coil domain of Smc5 and the physical remodeling of the molecule, to promote sumoylation and chromosome disjunction during DNA repair. Conserved conformational joints in the Mms21-Smc5/6 complex allow coordination between its ATPase and E3 SUMO ligase activities, integrating its structural and signaling roles during DNA repair to allow correct chromosome separation. The modification of target proteins by conjugation to SUMO—a small protein that acts as a regulatory tag—is essential for maintaining the integrity of genomes in most eukaryotic organisms. One critical step during the attachment of SUMO is the activation of the enzymes that catalyze this reaction—E1, E2, and the SUMO ligases. However, we currently do not fully understand how the different enzymes in the SUMO pathway are regulated. The SUMO ligase Mms21 is known to bind to Smc5/6, a large protein complex involved in the structural maintenance of chromosomes. Both Mms21 and Smc5/6 counteract the accumulation of recombination intermediates, which otherwise join replicated chromosomes, preventing their separation. Not surprisingly, the few known targets of the Mms21 ligase are mostly related to the repair of sister chromatids by recombination. Here, we show that the Mms21 SUMO ligase needs to bind to the Smc5/6 complex to promote chromosome separation. We used two Mms21-dependent SUMO conjugation targets—Smc5 and cohesin—to study the connection between the Mms21’s SUMO ligase activity and its binding partner, Smc5/6. Our results indicated that Mms21 activation is tightly coordinated with the intrinsic ATPase function of the Smc5/6 complex. However, the SUMO ligase and the ATPase lie in different domains of the Smc5/6-Mms21 complex that are normally distant from each other; we show that communication between these enzyme sites is enabled by the presence of conserved joints, which we suggest allow the necessary conformational changes required for SUMO ligase activation. This coordination of activities is extremely helpful for the cell, enabling it to integrate a structural role on chromatin during DNA repair with a signaling function, thereby promoting correct separation of the chromosomes.
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- IRBLLEIDA, Dept. Ciències Mèdiques Bàsiques, Universitat de Lleida, Lleida, Spain
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- Department of Genetics and Radiation Oncology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- IRBLLEIDA, Dept. Ciències Mèdiques Bàsiques, Universitat de Lleida, Lleida, Spain
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- IRBLLEIDA, Dept. Ciències Mèdiques Bàsiques, Universitat de Lleida, Lleida, Spain
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- IRBLLEIDA, Dept. Ciències Mèdiques Bàsiques, Universitat de Lleida, Lleida, Spain
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- Institut de Biotecnologia i Biomedicina, Dept. de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain
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- IRBLLEIDA, Dept. Ciències Mèdiques Bàsiques, Universitat de Lleida, Lleida, Spain
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- Department of Genetics and Radiation Oncology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Institut de Biotecnologia i Biomedicina, Dept. de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain
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- IRBLLEIDA, Dept. Ciències Mèdiques Bàsiques, Universitat de Lleida, Lleida, Spain
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- IRBLLEIDA, Dept. Ciències Mèdiques Bàsiques, Universitat de Lleida, Lleida, Spain
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Liu D, Makaroff CA. Overexpression of a truncated CTF7 construct leads to pleiotropic defects in reproduction and vegetative growth in Arabidopsis. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2015; 15:74. [PMID: 25848842 PMCID: PMC4359560 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-015-0452-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2014] [Accepted: 02/12/2015] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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BACKGROUND Eco1/Ctf7 is essential for the establishment of sister chromatid cohesion during S phase of the cell cycle. Inactivation of Ctf7/Eco1 leads to a lethal phenotype in most organisms. Altering Eco1/Ctf7 levels or point mutations in the gene can lead to alterations in nuclear division as well as a wide range of developmental defects. Inactivation of Arabidopsis CTF7 (AtCTF7) results in severe defects in reproduction and vegetative growth. RESULTS To further investigate the function(s) of AtCTF7, a tagged version of AtCTF7 and several AtCTF7 deletion constructs were created and transformed into wild type or ctf7 +/- plants. Transgenic plants expressing 35S:NTAP:AtCTF7∆299-345 (AtCTF7∆B) displayed a wide range of phenotypic alterations in reproduction and vegetative growth. Male meiocytes exhibited chromosome fragmentation and uneven chromosome segregation. Mutant ovules contained abnormal megasporocyte-like cells during pre-meiosis, megaspores experienced elongated meiosis and megagametogenesis, and defective megaspores/embryo sacs were produced at various stages. The transgenic plants also exhibited a broad range of vegetative defects, including meristem disruption and dwarfism that were inherited in a non-Mendelian fashion. Transcripts for epigenetically regulated transposable elements (TEs) were elevated in transgenic plants. Transgenic plants expressing 35S:AtCTF7∆B displayed similar vegetative defects, suggesting the defects in 35S:NTAP:AtCTF7∆B plants are caused by high-level expression of AtCTF7∆B. CONCLUSIONS High level expression of AtCTF7∆B disrupts megasporogenesis, megagametogenesis and male meiosis, as well as causing a broad range of vegetative defects, including dwarfism that are inherited in a non-Mendelian fashion.
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- Desheng Liu
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056 USA
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Sumoylation influences DNA break repair partly by increasing the solubility of a conserved end resection protein. PLoS Genet 2015; 11:e1004899. [PMID: 25569253 PMCID: PMC4287433 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004899] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2014] [Accepted: 11/17/2014] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Protein modifications regulate both DNA repair levels and pathway choice. How each modification achieves regulatory effects and how different modifications collaborate with each other are important questions to be answered. Here, we show that sumoylation regulates double-strand break repair partly by modifying the end resection factor Sae2. This modification is conserved from yeast to humans, and is induced by DNA damage. We mapped the sumoylation site of Sae2 to a single lysine in its self-association domain. Abolishing Sae2 sumoylation by mutating this lysine to arginine impaired Sae2 function in the processing and repair of multiple types of DNA breaks. We found that Sae2 sumoylation occurs independently of its phosphorylation, and the two modifications act in synergy to increase soluble forms of Sae2. We also provide evidence that sumoylation of the Sae2-binding nuclease, the Mre11-Rad50-Xrs2 complex, further increases end resection. These findings reveal a novel role for sumoylation in DNA repair by regulating the solubility of an end resection factor. They also show that collaboration between different modifications and among multiple substrates leads to a stronger biological effect. Proper repair of DNA lesions is crucial for cell growth and organism development. Both the choice and capacity of DNA repair pathways are tightly regulated in response to environmental cues and cell cycle phase. Recent work has uncovered the importance of protein modifications, such as phosphorylation and sumoylation, in this regulation. Sumoylation is known to be critical for the efficient repair of highly toxic DNA double-strand breaks in both yeast and humans, and this is partly mediated by influencing DNA end resection. However, it has been unclear for which resection factor sumoylation is important, how sumoylation influences specific attributes of the relevant targets, and how this modification is coordinated with phosphorylation-based regulation. Here, we provide exciting new insights into these issues by revealing that 1) a conserved end resection factor is a SUMO target relevant to this process, 2) this regulation favors a specific repair pathway, 3) sumoylation collaborates with phosphorylation to promote protein solubility, and 4) sumoylation influences DNA repair via an “ensemble effect” that entails simultaneous small alterations of multiple substrates. Our work reveals both a novel mechanism and a general principle for SUMO-mediated regulation of DNA repair.
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Cubeñas-Potts C, Srikumar T, Lee C, Osula O, Subramonian D, Zhang XD, Cotter RJ, Raught B, Matunis MJ. Identification of SUMO-2/3-modified proteins associated with mitotic chromosomes. Proteomics 2015; 15:763-72. [PMID: 25367092 DOI: 10.1002/pmic.201400400] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2014] [Revised: 10/07/2014] [Accepted: 10/28/2014] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Sumoylation is essential for progression through mitosis, but the specific protein targets and functions remain poorly understood. In this study, we used chromosome spreads to more precisely define the localization of SUMO-2/3 (small ubiquitin-related modifier) to the inner centromere and protein scaffold of mitotic chromosomes. We also developed methods to immunopurify proteins modified by endogenous, untagged SUMO-2/3 from mitotic chromosomes. Using these methods, we identified 149 chromosome-associated SUMO-2/3 substrates by nLC-ESI-MS/MS. Approximately one-third of the identified proteins have reported functions in mitosis. Consistent with SUMO-2/3 immunolocalization, we identified known centromere- and kinetochore-associated proteins, as well as chromosome scaffold associated proteins. Notably, >30 proteins involved in chromatin modification or remodeling were identified. Our results provide insights into the roles of sumoylation as a regulator of chromatin structure and other diverse processes in mitosis. Furthermore, our purification and fractionation methodologies represent an important compliment to existing approaches to identify sumoylated proteins using exogenously expressed and tagged SUMOs.
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- Caelin Cubeñas-Potts
- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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SUMOylation by the E3 ligase TbSIZ1/PIAS1 positively regulates VSG expression in Trypanosoma brucei. PLoS Pathog 2014; 10:e1004545. [PMID: 25474309 PMCID: PMC4256477 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004545] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2014] [Accepted: 10/29/2014] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Bloodstream form trypanosomes avoid the host immune response by switching the expression of their surface proteins between Variant Surface Glycoproteins (VSG), only one of which is expressed at any given time. Monoallelic transcription of the telomeric VSG Expression Site (ES) by RNA polymerase I (RNA pol I) localizes to a unique nuclear body named the ESB. Most work has focused on silencing mechanisms of inactive VSG-ESs, but the mechanisms involved in transcriptional activation of a single VSG-ES remain largely unknown. Here, we identify a highly SUMOylated focus (HSF) in the nucleus of the bloodstream form that partially colocalizes with the ESB and the active VSG-ES locus. SUMOylation of chromatin-associated proteins was enriched along the active VSG-ES transcriptional unit, in contrast to silent VSG-ES or rDNA, suggesting that it is a distinct feature of VSG-ES monoallelic expression. In addition, sequences upstream of the active VSG-ES promoter were highly enriched in SUMOylated proteins. We identified TbSIZ1/PIAS1 as the SUMO E3 ligase responsible for SUMOylation in the active VSG-ES chromatin. Reduction of SUMO-conjugated proteins by TbSIZ1 knockdown decreased the recruitment of RNA pol I to the VSG-ES and the VSG-ES-derived transcripts. Furthermore, cells depleted of SUMO conjugated proteins by TbUBC9 and TbSUMO knockdown confirmed the positive function of SUMO for VSG-ES expression. In addition, the largest subunit of RNA pol I TbRPA1 was SUMOylated in a TbSIZ-dependent manner. Our results show a positive mechanism associated with active VSG-ES expression via post-translational modification, and indicate that chromatin SUMOylation plays an important role in the regulation of VSG-ES. Thus, protein SUMOylation is linked to active gene expression in this protozoan parasite that diverged early in evolution. African trypanosomes have evolved one of the most complex strategies of immune evasion by routinely switching the expression of surface proteins called Variant Surface Glycoproteins (VSG), only one of which is expressed at any given time. Previous work has suggested that the recruitment of a single VSG telomeric locus to a discrete nuclear body (ESB) underlies the mechanism responsible for VSG monoallelic expression. Our findings establish unexpected roles for SUMOylation as a specific post-translational modification that marks the ESB and the VSG-ES chromatin. We describe a highly SUMOylated focus (HSF) as a novel nuclear structure that partially colocalizes with the VSG-ES locus and the nuclear body ESB. Furthermore, chromatin SUMOylation is a distinct feature of the active VSG-ES locus, in contrast to other loci investigated. SUMOylation of chromatin-associated proteins is required for efficient recruitment of the polymerase to the VSG-ES promoter and for VSG-ES expression. Altogether, these data suggest the presence of a large number of SUMOylated proteins associated with monoallelic expression as Protein Group SUMOylation. In contrast to the wealth of literature focused on VSG regulation by silencing, our results indicate a positive mechanism via SUMOylation to regulate VSG expression in the infectious form of this protozoan parasite.
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The maintenance of chromosome structure: positioning and functioning of SMC complexes. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 2014; 15:601-14. [PMID: 25145851 DOI: 10.1038/nrm3857] [Citation(s) in RCA: 163] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) complexes, which in eukaryotic cells include cohesin, condensin and the Smc5/6 complex, are central regulators of chromosome dynamics and control sister chromatid cohesion, chromosome condensation, DNA replication, DNA repair and transcription. Even though the molecular mechanisms that lead to this large range of functions are still unclear, it has been established that the complexes execute their functions through their association with chromosomal DNA. A large set of data also indicates that SMC complexes work as intermolecular and intramolecular linkers of DNA. When combining these insights with results from ongoing analyses of their chromosomal binding, and how this interaction influences the structure and dynamics of chromosomes, a picture of how SMC complexes carry out their many functions starts to emerge.
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Tapia-Alveal C, Lin SJ, O’Connell MJ. Functional interplay between cohesin and Smc5/6 complexes. Chromosoma 2014; 123:437-45. [PMID: 24981336 PMCID: PMC4169997 DOI: 10.1007/s00412-014-0474-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2014] [Revised: 06/10/2014] [Accepted: 06/11/2014] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Chromosomes are subjected to massive reengineering as they are replicated, transcribed, repaired, condensed, and segregated into daughter cells. Among the engineers are three large protein complexes collectively known as the structural maintenance of chromosome (SMC) complexes: cohesin, condensin, and Smc5/6. As their names suggest, cohesin controls sister chromatid cohesion, condensin controls chromosome condensation, and while precise functions for Smc5/6 have remained somewhat elusive, most reports have focused on the control of recombinational DNA repair. Here, we focus on cohesin and Smc5/6 function. It is becoming increasingly clear that the functional repertoires of these complexes are greater than sister chromatid cohesion and recombination. These SMC complexes are emerging as interrelated and cooperating factors that control chromosome dynamics throughout interphase. However, they also release their embrace of sister chromatids to enable their segregation at anaphase, resetting the dynamic cycle of SMC-chromosome interactions.
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- Claudia Tapia-Alveal
- Department of Oncological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
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- Department of Oncological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
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- Department of Oncological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
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D'Ambrosio LM, Lavoie BD. Pds5 prevents the PolySUMO-dependent separation of sister chromatids. Curr Biol 2014; 24:361-71. [PMID: 24485833 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.12.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2013] [Revised: 10/24/2013] [Accepted: 12/17/2013] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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BACKGROUND The establishment, maintenance, and dissolution of sister chromatid cohesion are sequentially coordinated during the cell cycle to ensure faithful chromosome transmission. This cell-cycle-dependent regulation of cohesion is mediated, in part, by distinct posttranslational modifications of cohesin, a protein complex consisting of the Smc1-Smc3 ATPase, the Mcd1/Scc1 α-kleisin, and Scc3. Although cohesion is established in S phase, cohesins are not sufficient to maintain cohesion as cells progress from G2 to the metaphase-to-anaphase transition. Rather, the cohesin-associated factor Pds5 is also required to keep sisters paired until anaphase onset. How Pds5 maintains cohesion at the molecular level and whether this maintenance involves the regulation of cohesin modifications remains to be defined. RESULTS In pds5 mutants, we find that Mcd1 is extensively SUMOylated and that premature sister separation requires Siz2-dependent polySUMOylation. Moreover, abrogation of Pds5 function promotes the proteasome-dependent degradation of Mcd1 and a significant loss of cohesin from chromatin independently of anaphase onset. We further demonstrate that inactivation of the Slx5-Slx8 SUMO-targeted ubiquitin ligase, required for targeting polySUMOylated factors for proteasome-mediated destruction, limits Mcd1 turnover and restores both cell growth and cohesion in metaphase cells defective for Pds5 function. CONCLUSIONS We propose that Pds5 maintains cohesion, at least in part, by antagonizing the polySUMO-dependent degradation of cohesin.
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- Lisa M D'Ambrosio
- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Medical Sciences Building, Room 4278, 1 King's College Circle, Toronto, ON M5S 1A8, Canada
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Medical Sciences Building, Room 4278, 1 King's College Circle, Toronto, ON M5S 1A8, Canada.
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Marston AL. Chromosome segregation in budding yeast: sister chromatid cohesion and related mechanisms. Genetics 2014; 196:31-63. [PMID: 24395824 PMCID: PMC3872193 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.112.145144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2013] [Accepted: 09/18/2013] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Studies on budding yeast have exposed the highly conserved mechanisms by which duplicated chromosomes are evenly distributed to daughter cells at the metaphase-anaphase transition. The establishment of proteinaceous bridges between sister chromatids, a function provided by a ring-shaped complex known as cohesin, is central to accurate segregation. It is the destruction of this cohesin that triggers the segregation of chromosomes following their proper attachment to microtubules. Since it is irreversible, this process must be tightly controlled and driven to completion. Furthermore, during meiosis, modifications must be put in place to allow the segregation of maternal and paternal chromosomes in the first division for gamete formation. Here, I review the pioneering work from budding yeast that has led to a molecular understanding of the establishment and destruction of cohesion.
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- Adele L Marston
- The Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JR, United Kingdom
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Kubota T, Myung K, Donaldson AD. Is PCNA unloading the central function of the Elg1/ATAD5 replication factor C-like complex? Cell Cycle 2013; 12:2570-9. [PMID: 23907118 PMCID: PMC3865047 DOI: 10.4161/cc.25626] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Maintaining genome stability is crucial for all cells. The budding yeast Elg1 protein, the major subunit of a replication factor C-like complex, is important for genome stability, since cells lacking Elg1 exhibit increased recombination and chromosomal rearrangements. This genome maintenance function of Elg1 seems to be conserved in higher eukaryotes, since removal of the human Elg1 homolog, encoded by the ATAD5 gene, also causes genome instability leading to tumorigenesis. The fundamental molecular function of the Elg1/ATAD5-replication factor C-like complex (RLC) was, until recently, elusive, although Elg1/ATAD5-RLC was known to interact with the replication sliding clamp PCNA. Two papers have now reported that following DNA replication, the Elg1/ATAD5-RLC is required to remove PCNA from chromatin in yeast and human cells. In this Review, we summarize the evidence that Elg1/ATAD5-RLC acts as a PCNA unloader and discuss the still enigmatic relationship between the function of Elg1/ATAD5-RLC in PCNA unloading and the role of Elg1/ATAD5 in maintaining genomic stability.
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- Takashi Kubota
- Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
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A genetic screen for high copy number suppressors of the synthetic lethality between elg1Δ and srs2Δ in yeast. G3-GENES GENOMES GENETICS 2013; 3:917-26. [PMID: 23704284 PMCID: PMC3656737 DOI: 10.1534/g3.113.005561] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Elg1 and Srs2 are two proteins involved in maintaining genome stability in yeast. After DNA damage, the homotrimeric clamp PCNA, which provides stability and processivity to DNA polymerases and serves as a docking platform for DNA repair enzymes, undergoes modification by the ubiquitin-like molecule SUMO. PCNA SUMOylation helps recruit Srs2 and Elg1 to the replication fork. In the absence of Elg1, both SUMOylated PCNA and Srs2 accumulate at the chromatin fraction, indicating that Elg1 is required for removing SUMOylated PCNA and Srs2 from DNA. Despite this interaction, which suggests that the two proteins work together, double mutants elg1Δ srs2Δ have severely impaired growth as haploids and exhibit synergistic sensitivity to DNA damage and a synergistic increase in gene conversion. In addition, diploid elg1Δ srs2Δ double mutants are dead, which implies that an essential function in the cell requires at least one of the two gene products for survival. To gain information about this essential function, we have carried out a high copy number suppressor screen to search for genes that, when overexpressed, suppress the synthetic lethality between elg1Δ and srs2Δ. We report the identification of 36 such genes, which are enriched for functions related to DNA- and chromatin-binding, chromatin packaging and modification, and mRNA export from the nucleus.
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Remeseiro S, Losada A. Cohesin, a chromatin engagement ring. Curr Opin Cell Biol 2013; 25:63-71. [PMID: 23219370 DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2012.10.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2012] [Accepted: 10/18/2012] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Cohesin is a four subunit complex, conserved from yeast to man, with the ability to hold together two DNA segments within its ring-shaped structure. When the two segments belong to sister chromatids, cohesin is mediating cohesion, which is essential for chromosome segregation in mitosis and meiosis and for homologous DNA repair. When the two DNA segments are in the same chromatid, a loop is formed. These chromatin loops are emerging as a mechanism for controlling the communication between enhancers and promoters and thereby regulate gene expression. They also facilitate DNA replication and recombination. Given all its essential functions, it is not surprising that mutations in cohesin and its interacting factors have been associated to cancer and developmental syndromes known as cohesinopathies.
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- Silvia Remeseiro
- Chromosome Dynamics Group, Molecular Oncology Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
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