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Paul B, Siddaramappa S. Comparative analysis of the diversity of trinucleotide repeats in bacterial genomes. Genome 2024; 67:281-291. [PMID: 38593473 DOI: 10.1139/gen-2023-0097] [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] [Indexed: 04/11/2024]
Abstract
The human gut is the most favorable niche for microbial populations, and few studies have explored the possibilities of horizontal gene transfer between host and pathogen. Trinucleotide repeat (TNR) expansion in humans can cause more than 40 neurodegenerative diseases. Further, TNRs are a type of microsatellite that resides on coding regions can contribute to the synthesis of homopolymeric amino acids. Hence, the present study aims to estimate the occurrence and diversity of TNRs in bacterial genomes available in the NCBI Genome database. Genome-wide analyses revealed that several bacterial genomes contain different types of uninterrupted TNRs. It was found that TNRs are abundant in the genomes of Alcaligenes faecalis, Mycoplasma gallisepticum, Mycoplasma genitalium, Sorangium cellulosum, and Thermus thermophilus. Interestingly, the genome of Bacillus thuringiensis strain YBT-1518 contained 169 uninterrupted ATT repeats. The genome of Leclercia adecarboxylata had 46 uninterrupted CAG repeats, which potentially translate into polyglutamine. In some instances, the TNRs were present in genes that potentially encode essential functions. Similar occurrences in human genes are known to cause genetic disorders. Further analysis of the occurrence of TNRs in bacterial genomes is likely to provide a better understanding of mismatch repair, genetic disorders, host-pathogen interaction, and homopolymeric amino acids.
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- Bobby Paul
- Department of Bioinformatics, Manipal School of Life Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal 576104, Karnataka, India
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- Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology, Biotech Park, Electronic City, Bengaluru 560100, Karnataka, India
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Lai Y, Diaz N, Armbrister R, Agoulnik I, Liu Y. DNA Base Damage Repair Crosstalks with Chromatin Structures to Contract Expanded GAA Repeats in Friedreich's Ataxia. Biomolecules 2024; 14:809. [PMID: 39062522 PMCID: PMC11274795 DOI: 10.3390/biom14070809] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2024] [Revised: 06/29/2024] [Accepted: 07/03/2024] [Indexed: 07/28/2024] Open
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Trinucleotide repeat (TNR) expansion is the cause of over 40 neurodegenerative diseases, including Huntington's disease and Friedreich's ataxia (FRDA). There are no effective treatments for these diseases due to the poor understanding of molecular mechanisms underlying somatic TNR expansion and contraction in neural systems. We and others have found that DNA base excision repair (BER) actively modulates TNR instability, shedding light on the development of effective treatments for the diseases by contracting expanded repeats through DNA repair. In this study, temozolomide (TMZ) was employed as a model DNA base damaging agent to reveal the mechanisms of the BER pathway in modulating GAA repeat instability at the frataxin (FXN) gene in FRDA neural cells and transgenic mouse mice. We found that TMZ induced large GAA repeat contraction in FRDA mouse brain tissue, neurons, and FRDA iPSC-differentiated neural cells, increasing frataxin protein levels in FRDA mouse brain and neural cells. Surprisingly, we found that TMZ could also inhibit H3K9 methyltransferases, leading to open chromatin and increasing ssDNA breaks and recruitment of the key BER enzyme, pol β, on the repeats in FRDA neural cells. We further demonstrated that the H3K9 methyltransferase inhibitor BIX01294 also induced the contraction of the expanded repeats and increased frataxin protein in FRDA neural cells by opening the chromatin and increasing the endogenous ssDNA breaks and recruitment of pol β on the repeats. Our study provides new mechanistic insight illustrating that inhibition of H3K9 methylation can crosstalk with BER to induce GAA repeat contraction in FRDA. Our results will open a new avenue for developing novel gene therapy by targeting histone methylation and the BER pathway for repeat expansion diseases.
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- Yanhao Lai
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th Street, Miami, FL 33199, USA; (Y.L.); (N.D.)
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th Street, Miami, FL 33199, USA; (Y.L.); (N.D.)
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- Biochemistry Ph.D. Program, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th Street, Miami, FL 33199, USA; (R.A.); (I.A.)
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- Biochemistry Ph.D. Program, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th Street, Miami, FL 33199, USA; (R.A.); (I.A.)
- Biomolecular Sciences Institute, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th Street, Miami, FL 33199, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th Street, Miami, FL 33199, USA; (Y.L.); (N.D.)
- Biochemistry Ph.D. Program, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th Street, Miami, FL 33199, USA; (R.A.); (I.A.)
- Biomolecular Sciences Institute, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th Street, Miami, FL 33199, USA
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Fan C, Chen K, Wang Y, Ball EV, Stenson PD, Mort M, Bacolla A, Kehrer-Sawatzki H, Tainer JA, Cooper DN, Zhao H. Profiling human pathogenic repeat expansion regions by synergistic and multi-level impacts on molecular connections. Hum Genet 2023; 142:245-274. [PMID: 36344696 PMCID: PMC10290229 DOI: 10.1007/s00439-022-02500-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2022] [Accepted: 10/24/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Whilst DNA repeat expansions cause numerous heritable human disorders, their origins and underlying pathological mechanisms are often unclear. We collated a dataset comprising 224 human repeat expansions encompassing 203 different genes, and performed a systematic analysis with respect to key topological features at the DNA, RNA and protein levels. Comparison with controls without known pathogenicity and genomic regions lacking repeats, allowed the construction of the first tool to discriminate repeat regions harboring pathogenic repeat expansions (DPREx). At the DNA level, pathogenic repeat expansions exhibited stronger signals for DNA regulatory factors (e.g. H3K4me3, transcription factor-binding sites) in exons, promoters, 5'UTRs and 5'genes but were not significantly different from controls in introns, 3'UTRs and 3'genes. Additionally, pathogenic repeat expansions were also found to be enriched in non-B DNA structures. At the RNA level, pathogenic repeat expansions were characterized by lower free energy for forming RNA secondary structure and were closer to splice sites in introns, exons, promoters and 5'genes than controls. At the protein level, pathogenic repeat expansions exhibited a preference to form coil rather than other types of secondary structure, and tended to encode surface-located protein domains. Guided by these features, DPREx ( http://biomed.nscc-gz.cn/zhaolab/geneprediction/# ) achieved an Area Under the Curve (AUC) value of 0.88 in a test on an independent dataset. Pathogenic repeat expansions are thus located such that they exert a synergistic influence on the gene expression pathway involving inter-molecular connections at the DNA, RNA and protein levels.
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- Cong Fan
- Department of Medical Research Center, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, 107 Yan Jiang West Road, Guangzhou, 500001, People's Republic of China
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 500001, China
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- School of Life Science, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 500001, China
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- Institute of Medical Genetics, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Heath Park, Cardiff, CF14 4XN, UK
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- Institute of Medical Genetics, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Heath Park, Cardiff, CF14 4XN, UK
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- Institute of Medical Genetics, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Heath Park, Cardiff, CF14 4XN, UK
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 6767 Bertner Avenue, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 6767 Bertner Avenue, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Institute of Medical Genetics, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Heath Park, Cardiff, CF14 4XN, UK
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- Department of Medical Research Center, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, 107 Yan Jiang West Road, Guangzhou, 500001, People's Republic of China.
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Masnovo C, Lobo AF, Mirkin SM. Replication dependent and independent mechanisms of GAA repeat instability. DNA Repair (Amst) 2022; 118:103385. [PMID: 35952488 PMCID: PMC9675320 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2022.103385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2022] [Revised: 07/28/2022] [Accepted: 07/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Trinucleotide repeat instability is a driver of human disease. Large expansions of (GAA)n repeats in the first intron of the FXN gene are the cause Friedreich's ataxia (FRDA), a progressive degenerative disorder which cannot yet be prevented or treated. (GAA)n repeat instability arises during both replication-dependent processes, such as cell division and intergenerational transmission, as well as in terminally differentiated somatic tissues. Here, we provide a brief historical overview on the discovery of (GAA)n repeat expansions and their association to FRDA, followed by recent advances in the identification of triplex H-DNA formation and replication fork stalling. The main body of this review focuses on the last decade of progress in understanding the mechanism of (GAA)n repeat instability during DNA replication and/or DNA repair. We propose that the discovery of additional mechanisms of (GAA)n repeat instability can be achieved via both comparative approaches to other repeat expansion diseases and genome-wide association studies. Finally, we discuss the advances towards FRDA prevention or amelioration that specifically target (GAA)n repeat expansions.
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- Chiara Masnovo
- Department of Biology, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA
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- Department of Biology, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA
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- Department of Biology, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA.
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Comprehensive pharmacogenomics characterization of temozolomide response in gliomas. Eur J Pharmacol 2021; 912:174580. [PMID: 34678239 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejphar.2021.174580] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2021] [Revised: 10/11/2021] [Accepted: 10/18/2021] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Recent developments in pharmacogenomics have created opportunities for predicting temozolomide response in gliomas. Temozolomide is the main first-line alkylating chemotherapeutic drug together with radiotherapy as standard treatments of high-risk gliomas after surgery. However, there are great individual differences in temozolomide response. Besides the heterogeneity of gliomas, pharmacogenomics relevant genetic polymorphisms can not only affect pharmacokinetics of temozolomide but also change anti-tumor effects of temozolomide. This review will summarize pharmacogenomic studies of temozolomide in gliomas which can lay the foundation to personalized chemotherapy.
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Huang R, Zhou PK. DNA damage repair: historical perspectives, mechanistic pathways and clinical translation for targeted cancer therapy. Signal Transduct Target Ther 2021; 6:254. [PMID: 34238917 PMCID: PMC8266832 DOI: 10.1038/s41392-021-00648-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 289] [Impact Index Per Article: 96.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2021] [Revised: 04/28/2021] [Accepted: 05/13/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Genomic instability is the hallmark of various cancers with the increasing accumulation of DNA damage. The application of radiotherapy and chemotherapy in cancer treatment is typically based on this property of cancers. However, the adverse effects including normal tissues injury are also accompanied by the radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Targeted cancer therapy has the potential to suppress cancer cells' DNA damage response through tailoring therapy to cancer patients lacking specific DNA damage response functions. Obviously, understanding the broader role of DNA damage repair in cancers has became a basic and attractive strategy for targeted cancer therapy, in particular, raising novel hypothesis or theory in this field on the basis of previous scientists' findings would be important for future promising druggable emerging targets. In this review, we first illustrate the timeline steps for the understanding the roles of DNA damage repair in the promotion of cancer and cancer therapy developed, then we summarize the mechanisms regarding DNA damage repair associated with targeted cancer therapy, highlighting the specific proteins behind targeting DNA damage repair that initiate functioning abnormally duo to extrinsic harm by environmental DNA damage factors, also, the DNA damage baseline drift leads to the harmful intrinsic targeted cancer therapy. In addition, clinical therapeutic drugs for DNA damage and repair including therapeutic effects, as well as the strategy and scheme of relative clinical trials were intensive discussed. Based on this background, we suggest two hypotheses, namely "environmental gear selection" to describe DNA damage repair pathway evolution, and "DNA damage baseline drift", which may play a magnified role in mediating repair during cancer treatment. This two new hypothesis would shed new light on targeted cancer therapy, provide a much better or more comprehensive holistic view and also promote the development of new research direction and new overcoming strategies for patients.
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- Ruixue Huang
- Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Xiangya School of Public Health, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Department of Radiation Biology, Beijing Key Laboratory for Radiobiology, Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, AMMS, Beijing, China.
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Liu TC, Guo KW, Chu JW, Hsiao YY. Understanding APE1 cellular functions by the structural preference of exonuclease activities. Comput Struct Biotechnol J 2021; 19:3682-3691. [PMID: 34285771 PMCID: PMC8258793 DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2021.06.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2021] [Revised: 06/21/2021] [Accepted: 06/22/2021] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Mammalian apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) endonuclease 1 (APE1) has versatile enzymatic functions, including redox, endonuclease, and exonuclease activities. APE1 is thus broadly associated with pathways in DNA repair, cancer cell growth, and drug resistance. Unlike its AP site-specific endonuclease activity in Base excision repair (BER), the 3′-5′ exonucleolytic cleavage of APE1 using the same active site exhibits complex substrate selection patterns, which are key to the biological functions. This work aims to integrate molecular structural information and biocatalytic properties to deduce the substrate recognition mechanism of APE1 as an exonuclease and make connection to its diverse functionalities in the cell. In particular, an induced space-filling model emerges in which a bridge-like structure is formed by Arg177 and Met270 (RM bridge) upon substrate binding, causing the active site to adopt a long and narrow product pocket for hosting the leaving group of an AP site or the 3′-end nucleotide. Rather than distinguishing bases as other exonucleases, the hydrophobicity and steric hindrance due to the APE1 product pocket provides selectivity for substrate structures, such as matched or mismatched blunt-ended dsDNA, recessed dsDNA, gapped dsDNA, and nicked dsDNA with 3′-end overhang shorter than 2 nucleotides. These dsDNAs are similar to the native substrates in BER proofreading, BER for trinucleotide repeats (TNR), Nucleotide incision repair (NIR), DNA single-strand breaks (SSB), SSB with damaged bases, and apoptosis. Integration of in vivo studies, in vitro biochemical assays, and structural analysis is thus essential for linking the APE1 exonuclease activity to the specific roles in cellular functions.
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- Tung-Chang Liu
- Institute of Molecular Medicine and Bioengineering, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30068, Taiwan.,Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan 30068, Taiwan
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- Institute of Molecular Medicine and Bioengineering, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30068, Taiwan.,Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan 30068, Taiwan
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- Institute of Molecular Medicine and Bioengineering, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30068, Taiwan.,Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan 30068, Taiwan.,Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, 30068, Taiwan.,Center For Intelligent Drug Systems and Smart Bio-devices (IDSB), National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
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- Institute of Molecular Medicine and Bioengineering, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30068, Taiwan.,Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan 30068, Taiwan.,Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, 30068, Taiwan.,Center For Intelligent Drug Systems and Smart Bio-devices (IDSB), National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.,Drug Development and Value Creation Research Center, Center for Cancer Research, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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