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Kraithong T, Hartley S, Jeruzalmi D, Pakotiprapha D. A Peek Inside the Machines of Bacterial Nucleotide Excision Repair. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:ijms22020952. [PMID: 33477956 PMCID: PMC7835731 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22020952] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2020] [Revised: 12/14/2020] [Accepted: 12/15/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Double stranded DNA (dsDNA), the repository of genetic information in bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes, exhibits a surprising instability in the intracellular environment; this fragility is exacerbated by exogenous agents, such as ultraviolet radiation. To protect themselves against the severe consequences of DNA damage, cells have evolved at least six distinct DNA repair pathways. Here, we review recent key findings of studies aimed at understanding one of these pathways: bacterial nucleotide excision repair (NER). This pathway operates in two modes: a global genome repair (GGR) pathway and a pathway that closely interfaces with transcription by RNA polymerase called transcription-coupled repair (TCR). Below, we discuss the architecture of key proteins in bacterial NER and recent biochemical, structural and single-molecule studies that shed light on the lesion recognition steps of both the GGR and the TCR sub-pathways. Although a great deal has been learned about both of these sub-pathways, several important questions, including damage discrimination, roles of ATP and the orchestration of protein binding and conformation switching, remain to be addressed.
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- Thanyalak Kraithong
- Doctor of Philosophy Program in Biochemistry (International Program), Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand;
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand
- Center for Excellence in Protein and Enzyme Technology, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, City College of New York, New York, NY 10031, USA;
- Doctor of Philosophy Programs in Biochemistry, Biology and Chemistry, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, City College of New York, New York, NY 10031, USA;
- Doctor of Philosophy Programs in Biochemistry, Biology and Chemistry, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, NY 10016, USA
- Correspondence: (D.J.); (D.P.)
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand
- Center for Excellence in Protein and Enzyme Technology, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand
- Correspondence: (D.J.); (D.P.)
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Involvement of transcription-coupled repair factor Mfd and DNA helicase UvrD in mutational processes in Pseudomonas putida. DNA Repair (Amst) 2018; 72:18-27. [PMID: 30292721 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2018.09.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2018] [Revised: 09/19/2018] [Accepted: 09/22/2018] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Stalled RNA polymerases (RNAPs) pose an obstacle for the replicating complexes, which could lead to transcription-replication conflicts and result in genetic instability. Stalled RNAPs and DNA lesions blocking RNAP elongation are removed by transcription-coupled repair (TCR), the process which in bacteria is mediated by TCR factor Mfd and helicase UvrD. Although the mechanism of TCR has been extensively studied, its role in mutagenesis is still obscure. In the current study we have investigated the role of Mfd and UvrD in mutational processes in soil bacterium Pseudomonas putida. Our results revealed that UvrD helicase is essential to prevent the emergence of mutations, as the loss of uvrD resulted in elevated mutant frequency both in exponential- and stationary-phase bacterial cultures. UvrD was also found to be necessary to survive DNA damage, but NER or MMR pathways are not completely abolished in UvrD-deficient P. putida. Mfd-deficiency had a moderate impact on surviving DNA damage and did not influence the frequency of mutations occurred in exponentially growing bacteria. However, the absence of Mfd caused approximately a two-fold decline in stationary-phase mutant frequency compared to the P. putida wild-type strain and suppressed the elevated mutant frequency observed in the ΔuvrD strain. Remarkably, the Mfd-deficient strain also formed less UV-induced mutants. These results suggest that in P. putida the Mfd-mediated TCR could be associated with UV- and stationary-phase mutagenesis.
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Cole JM, Acott JD, Courcelle CT, Courcelle J. Limited Capacity or Involvement of Excision Repair, Double-Strand Breaks, or Translesion Synthesis for Psoralen Cross-Link Repair in Escherichia coli. Genetics 2018; 210:99-112. [PMID: 30045856 PMCID: PMC6116958 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.118.301239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2018] [Accepted: 07/18/2018] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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DNA interstrand cross-links are complex lesions that covalently bind complementary strands of DNA and whose mechanism of repair remains poorly understood. In Escherichia coli, several gene products have been proposed to be involved in cross-link repair based on the hypersensitivity of mutants to cross-linking agents. However, cross-linking agents induce several forms of DNA damage, making it challenging to attribute mutant hypersensitivity specifically to interstrand cross-links. To address this, we compared the survival of UVA-irradiated repair mutants in the presence of 8-methoxypsoralen-which forms interstrand cross-links and monoadducts-to that of angelicin-a congener forming only monoadducts. We show that incision by nucleotide excision repair is not required for resistance to interstrand cross-links. In addition, neither RecN nor DNA polymerases II, IV, or V is required for interstrand cross-link survival, arguing against models that involve critical roles for double-strand break repair or translesion synthesis in the repair process. Finally, estimates based on Southern analysis of DNA fragments in alkali agarose gels indicate that lethality occurs in wild-type cells at doses producing as few as one to two interstrand cross-links per genome. These observations suggest that E. coli may lack an efficient repair mechanism for this form of damage.
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- Jessica M Cole
- Department of Biology, Portland State University, Oregon 97201
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Transcription-coupled DNA repair (TCR) acts on lesions in the transcribed strand of active genes. Helix distorting adducts and other forms of DNA damage often interfere with the progression of the transcription apparatus. Prolonged stalling of RNA polymerase can promote genome instability and also induce cell cycle arrest and apoptosis. These generally unfavorable events are counteracted by RNA polymerase-mediated recruitment of specific proteins to the sites of DNA damage to perform TCR and eventually restore transcription. In this perspective we discuss the decision-making process to employ TCR and we elucidate the intricate biochemical pathways leading to TCR in E. coli and human cells.
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- Bibhusita Pani
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA.
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Cho Endonuclease Functions during DNA Interstrand Cross-Link Repair in Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol 2016; 198:3099-3108. [PMID: 27573016 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00509-16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2016] [Accepted: 08/22/2016] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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DNA interstrand cross-links are complex lesions that covalently link both strands of the duplex DNA. Lesion removal is proposed to be initiated via the UvrABC nucleotide excision repair complex; however, less is known about the subsequent steps of this complex repair pathway. In this study, we characterized the contribution of nucleotide excision repair mutants to survival in the presence of psoralen-induced damage. Unexpectedly, we observed that the nucleotide excision repair mutants exhibit differential sensitivity to psoralen-induced damage, with uvrC mutants being less sensitive than either uvrA or uvrB We show that Cho, an alternative endonuclease, acts with UvrAB and is responsible for the reduced hypersensitivity of uvrC mutants. We find that Cho's contribution to survival correlates with the presence of DNA interstrand cross-links, rather than monoadducts, and operates at a step after, or independently from, the initial incision during the global repair of psoralen DNA adducts from the genome. IMPORTANCE DNA interstrand cross-links are complex lesions that covalently bind to both strands of the duplex DNA and whose mechanism of repair remains poorly understood. In this study, we show that Cho, an alternative endonuclease, acts with UvrAB and participates in the repair of DNA interstrand cross-links formed in the presence of photoactivated psoralens. Cho's contribution to survival correlates with the presence of DNA interstrand cross-links and operates at a step after, or independently from, the initial incision during the repair process.
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Nucleotide excision repair (NER) is a versatile pathway that removes helix-distorting DNA lesions from the genomes of organisms across the evolutionary scale, from bacteria to humans. The serial steps in NER involve recognition of lesions, adducts or structures that disrupt the DNA double helix, removal of a short oligonucleotide containing the offending lesion, synthesis of a repair patch copying the opposite undamaged strand, and ligation, to restore the DNA to its original form. Transcription-coupled repair (TCR) is a subpathway of NER dedicated to the repair of lesions that, by virtue of their location on the transcribed strands of active genes, encumber elongation by RNA polymerases. In this review, I report on recent findings that contribute to the elucidation of TCR mechanisms in the bacterium Escherichia coli, the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and human cells. I review general models for the biochemical pathways and how and when cells might choose to utilize TCR or other pathways for repair or bypass of transcription-blocking DNA alterations.
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- Graciela Spivak
- Biology Department, Stanford University, 385 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, 94305-5020, USA.
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Kamarthapu V, Nudler E. Rethinking transcription coupled DNA repair. Curr Opin Microbiol 2015; 24:15-20. [PMID: 25596348 DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2014.12.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2014] [Revised: 12/22/2014] [Accepted: 12/30/2014] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Nucleotide excision repair (NER) is an evolutionarily conserved, multistep process that can detect a wide variety of DNA lesions. Transcription coupled repair (TCR) is a subpathway of NER that repairs the transcribed DNA strand faster than the rest of the genome. RNA polymerase (RNAP) stalled at DNA lesions mediates the recruitment of NER enzymes to the damage site. In this review we focus on a newly identified bacterial TCR pathway in which the NER enzyme UvrD, in conjunction with NusA, plays a major role in initiating the repair process. We discuss the tradeoff between the new and conventional models of TCR, how and when each pathway operates to repair DNA damage, and the necessity of pervasive transcription in maintaining genome integrity.
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- Venu Kamarthapu
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA.
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Ahmad M, Tuteja R. Emerging importance of mismatch repair components including UvrD helicase and their cross-talk with the development of drug resistance in malaria parasite. Mutat Res 2014; 770:54-60. [PMID: 25771870 DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2014.09.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2014] [Revised: 08/14/2014] [Accepted: 09/17/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Human malaria is an important parasitic infection responsible for a significant number of deaths worldwide, particularly in tropical and subtropical regions. The recent scenario has worsened mainly because of the emergence of drug-resistant malaria parasites having the potential to spread across the world. Drug-resistant parasites possess a defective mismatch repair (MMR); therefore, it is essential to explore its mechanism in detail to determine the underlying cause. Recently, artemisinin-resistant parasites have been reported to exhibit nonsynonymous single nucleotide polymorphisms in genes involved in MMR pathways such as MutL homolog (MLH) and UvrD. Plasmodium falciparum MLH is an endonuclease required to restore the defective MMR in drug-resistant W2 strain of P. falciparum. Although the role of helicases in eukaryotic MMR has been questioned, the identification and characterization of the UvrD helicase and their cross-talk with MLH in P. falciparum suggests the possible involvement of UvrD in MMR. A comparative genome-wide analysis revealed the presence of the UvrD helicase in Plasmodium species, while it is absent in human host. Therefore, PfUvrD may emerge as a suitable drug target to control malaria. This review study is focused on recent developments in MMR biochemistry, emerging importance of the UvrD helicase, possibility of its involvement in MMR and the emerging cross-talk between MMR components and drug resistance in malaria parasite.
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- Moaz Ahmad
- Malaria Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, P. O. Box 10504, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi 110067, India
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- Malaria Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, P. O. Box 10504, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi 110067, India.
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A quarter of a century has elapsed since the discovery of transcription-coupled repair (TCR), and yet our fascination with this process has not diminished. Nucleotide excision repair (NER) is a versatile pathway that removes helix-distorting DNA lesions from the genomes of organisms across the evolutionary scale, from bacteria to humans. TCR, defined as a subpathway of NER, is dedicated to the repair of lesions that, by virtue of their location on the transcribed strands of active genes, encumber elongation by RNA polymerases. In this review, we will report on newly identified proteins, protein modifications, and protein complexes that participate in TCR in Escherichia coli and in human cells. We will discuss general models for the biochemical pathways and how and when cells might choose to utilize TCR or other pathways for repair or bypass of transcription-blocking DNA alterations.
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- Graciela Spivak
- Biology Department, Stanford University, 385 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305-5020, USA.
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- Biology Department, Stanford University, 385 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305-5020, USA.
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Removal of misincorporated ribonucleotides from prokaryotic genomes: an unexpected role for nucleotide excision repair. PLoS Genet 2013; 9:e1003878. [PMID: 24244177 PMCID: PMC3820734 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003878] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2013] [Accepted: 08/29/2013] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Stringent steric exclusion mechanisms limit the misincorporation of ribonucleotides by high-fidelity DNA polymerases into genomic DNA. In contrast, low-fidelity Escherichia coli DNA polymerase V (pol V) has relatively poor sugar discrimination and frequently misincorporates ribonucleotides. Substitution of a steric gate tyrosine residue with alanine (umuC_Y11A) reduces sugar selectivity further and allows pol V to readily misincorporate ribonucleotides as easily as deoxynucleotides, whilst leaving its poor base-substitution fidelity essentially unchanged. However, the mutability of cells expressing the steric gate pol V mutant is very low due to efficient repair mechanisms that are triggered by the misincorporated rNMPs. Comparison of the mutation frequency between strains expressing wild-type and mutant pol V therefore allows us to identify pathways specifically directed at ribonucleotide excision repair (RER). We previously demonstrated that rNMPs incorporated by umuC_Y11A are efficiently removed from DNA in a repair pathway initiated by RNase HII. Using the same approach, we show here that mismatch repair and base excision repair play minimal back-up roles in RER in vivo. In contrast, in the absence of functional RNase HII, umuC_Y11A-dependent mutagenesis increases significantly in ΔuvrA, uvrB5 and ΔuvrC strains, suggesting that rNMPs misincorporated into DNA are actively repaired by nucleotide excision repair (NER) in vivo. Participation of NER in RER was confirmed by reconstituting ribonucleotide-dependent NER in vitro. We show that UvrABC nuclease-catalyzed incisions are readily made on DNA templates containing one, two, or five rNMPs and that the reactions are stimulated by the presence of mispaired bases. Similar to NER of DNA lesions, excision of rNMPs proceeds through dual incisions made at the 8th phosphodiester bond 5′ and 4th–5th phosphodiester bonds 3′ of the ribonucleotide. Ribonucleotides misinserted into DNA can therefore be added to the broad list of helix-distorting modifications that are substrates for NER. Most DNA polymerases differentiate between ribo- and deoxyribonucleotides quite effectively, thereby deterring insertion of nucleotides with the “wrong” sugar into chromosomes. Nevertheless, a significant number of ribonucleotides still get stably incorporated into genomic DNA. E.coli pol V is among the most inaccurate DNA polymerases in terms of both sugar selectivity and base substitution fidelity. The umuC_Y11A steric gate variant of pol V is even less discriminating when selecting sugar of the incoming nucleotide while keeping a similar capacity to form non-Watson-Crick base pairs. In the present study, we describe mechanisms employed by E. coli to excise rNMPs from DNA and to concomitantly reduce the extent of spontaneous mutagenesis induced by umuC_Y11A. The first line of defense comes from Ribonuclease HII, which initiates the ribonucleotide excision repair pathway. In the absence of RNase HII, alternate repair pathways help remove the misincorporated ribonucleotides. Here, we present the first direct evidence that nucleotide excision repair (NER) has the capacity to recognize both correctly and incorrectly paired rNMPs embedded in DNA. The combined actions of RNase HII and NER thereby reduce the mutagenic potential of ribonucleotides errantly incorporated into prokaryotic genomes.
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Hughes CD, Wang H, Ghodke H, Simons M, Towheed A, Peng Y, Van Houten B, Kad NM. Real-time single-molecule imaging reveals a direct interaction between UvrC and UvrB on DNA tightropes. Nucleic Acids Res 2013; 41:4901-12. [PMID: 23511970 PMCID: PMC3643590 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Nucleotide excision DNA repair is mechanistically conserved across all kingdoms of life. In prokaryotes, this multi-enzyme process requires six proteins: UvrA–D, DNA polymerase I and DNA ligase. To examine how UvrC locates the UvrB–DNA pre-incision complex at a site of damage, we have labeled UvrB and UvrC with different colored quantum dots and quantitatively observed their interactions with DNA tightropes under a variety of solution conditions using oblique angle fluorescence imaging. Alone, UvrC predominantly interacts statically with DNA at low salt. Surprisingly, however, UvrC and UvrB together in solution bind to form the previously unseen UvrBC complex on duplex DNA. This UvrBC complex is highly motile and engages in unbiased one-dimensional diffusion. To test whether UvrB makes direct contact with the DNA in the UvrBC–DNA complex, we investigated three UvrB mutants: Y96A, a β-hairpin deletion and D338N. These mutants affected the motile properties of the UvrBC complex, indicating that UvrB is in intimate contact with the DNA when bound to UvrC. Given the in vivo excess of UvrB and the abundance of UvrBC in our experiments, this newly identified complex is likely to be the predominant form of UvrC in the cell.
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- Craig D Hughes
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ, UK
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UvrD Participation in Nucleotide Excision Repair Is Required for the Recovery of DNA Synthesis following UV-Induced Damage in Escherichia coli. J Nucleic Acids 2012; 2012:271453. [PMID: 23056919 PMCID: PMC3465929 DOI: 10.1155/2012/271453] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2012] [Accepted: 07/17/2012] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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UvrD is a DNA helicase that participates in nucleotide excision repair and several replication-associated processes, including methyl-directed mismatch repair and recombination. UvrD is capable of displacing oligonucleotides from synthetic forked DNA structures in vitro and is essential for viability in the absence of Rep, a helicase associated with processing replication forks. These observations have led others to propose that UvrD may promote fork regression and facilitate resetting of the replication fork following arrest. However, the molecular activity of UvrD at replication forks in vivo has not been directly examined. In this study, we characterized the role UvrD has in processing and restoring replication forks following arrest by UV-induced DNA damage. We show that UvrD is required for DNA synthesis to recover. However, in the absence of UvrD, the displacement and partial degradation of the nascent DNA at the arrested fork occur normally. In addition, damage-induced replication intermediates persist and accumulate in uvrD mutants in a manner that is similar to that observed in other nucleotide excision repair mutants. These data indicate that, following arrest by DNA damage, UvrD is not required to catalyze fork regression in vivo and suggest that the failure of uvrD mutants to restore DNA synthesis following UV-induced arrest relates to its role in nucleotide excision repair.
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Cellular characterization of the primosome and rep helicase in processing and restoration of replication following arrest by UV-induced DNA damage in Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol 2012; 194:3977-86. [PMID: 22636770 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00290-12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Following arrest by UV-induced DNA damage, replication is restored through a sequence of steps that involve partial resection of the nascent DNA by RecJ and RecQ, branch migration and processing of the fork DNA surrounding the lesion by RecA and RecF-O-R, and resumption of DNA synthesis once the blocking lesion has been repaired or bypassed. In vitro, the primosomal proteins (PriA, PriB, and PriC) and Rep are capable of initiating replication from synthetic DNA fork structures, and they have been proposed to catalyze these events when replication is disrupted by certain impediments in vivo. Here, we characterized the role that PriA, PriB, PriC, and Rep have in processing and restoring replication forks following arrest by UV-induced DNA damage. We show that the partial degradation and processing of the arrested replication fork occurs normally in both rep and primosome mutants. In each mutant, the nascent degradation ceases and DNA synthesis initially resumes in a timely manner, but the recovery then stalls in the absence of PriA, PriB, or Rep. The results demonstrate a role for the primosome and Rep helicase in overcoming replication forks arrested by UV-induced damage in vivo and suggest that these proteins are required for the stability and efficiency of the replisome when DNA synthesis resumes but not to initiate de novo replication downstream of the lesion.
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Mattenberger Y, Mattson S, Métrailler J, Silva F, Belin D. 55.1, a gene of unknown function of phage T4, impacts on Escherichia coli folate metabolism and blocks DNA repair by the NER. Mol Microbiol 2011; 82:1406-21. [PMID: 22029793 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07897.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Phage T4, the archetype of lytic bacterial viruses, needs only 62 genes to propagate under standard laboratory conditions. Interestingly, the T4 genome contains more than 100 putative genes of unknown function, with few detectable homologues in cellular genomes. To characterize this uncharted territory of genetic information, we have identified several T4 genes that prevent bacterial growth when expressed from plasmids under inducible conditions. Here, we report on the various phenotypes and molecular characterization of 55.1, one of the genes of unknown function. High-level expression from the arabinose-inducible P(BAD) promoter is toxic to the bacteria and delays the intracellular accumulation of phage without affecting the final burst size. Low-level expression from T4 promoter(s) renders bacteria highly sensitive to UV irradiation and hypersensitive to trimethoprim, an inhibitor of dihydrofolate reductase. The delay in intracellular phage accumulation requires UvsW, a T4 helicase that is also a suppressor of 55.1-induced toxicity and UV sensitivity. Genetic and biochemical experiments demonstrate that gp55.1 binds to FolD, a key enzyme of the folate metabolism and suppressor of 55.1. Finally, we show that gp55.1 prevents the repair of UV-induced DNA photoproducts by the nucleotide excision repair (NER) pathway through interaction with the UvrA and UvrB proteins.
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- Yves Mattenberger
- Department of Pathology and Immunology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Dorazi R, Götz D, Munro S, Bernander R, White MF. Equal rates of repair of DNA photoproducts in transcribed and non-transcribed strands in Sulfolobus solfataricus. Mol Microbiol 2006; 63:521-9. [PMID: 17163966 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05516.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The nucleotide excision repair (NER) pathway removes bulky lesions such as photoproducts from DNA. In both bacteria and eukarya, lesions located in transcribed strands are repaired significantly faster than those located in non-transcribed strands due to damage signalling by stalled RNA polymerase molecules: a phenomenon known as transcription-coupled repair (TCR). TCR requires a mechanism for coupling the detection of stalled RNA polymerase molecules to the NER pathway, provided in bacteria by the Mfd protein. In the third domain of life, archaea, the pathway of NER is not well defined, there are no Mfd homologues and the existence of TCR has not been investigated. In this report we looked at rates of removal of photoproducts in three different operons of the crenarchaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus following UV irradiation. We found no evidence for significantly faster repair in the transcribed strands of these three operons. The rate of global genome repair in S. solfataricus is relatively rapid, and this may obviate the requirement for a specialized TCR pathway. Significantly faster repair kinetics were observed in the presence of visible light, consistent with the presence of a gene for photolyase in the genome of S. solfataricus.
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- Robert Dorazi
- Centre for Biomolecular Sciences, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9ST, UK
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Hashem VI, Rosche WA, Sinden RR. Genetic recombination destabilizes (CTG)n.(CAG)n repeats in E. coli. Mutat Res 2004; 554:95-109. [PMID: 15450408 DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2004.03.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2004] [Revised: 03/16/2004] [Accepted: 03/28/2004] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The expansion of trinucleotide repeats has been implicated in 17 neurological diseases to date. Factors leading to the instability of trinucleotide repeat sequences have thus been an area of intense interest. Certain genes involved in mismatch repair, recombination, nucleotide excision repair, and replication influence the instability of trinucleotide repeats in both Escherichia coli and yeast. Using a genetic assay for repeat deletion in E. coli, the effect of mutations in the recA, recB, and lexA genes on the rate of deletion of (CTG)n.(CAG)n repeats of varying lengths were examined. The results indicate that mutations in recA and recB, which decrease the rate of recombination, had a stabilizing effect on (CAG)n.(CTG)n repeats decreasing the high rates of deletion seen in recombination proficient cells. Thus, recombination proficiency correlates with high rates of genetic instability in triplet repeats. Induction of the SOS system, however, did not appear to play a significant role in repeat instability, nor did the presence of triplet repeats in cells turn on the SOS response. A model is suggested where deletion during exponential growth may result from attempts to restart replication when paused at triplet repeats.
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- Vera I Hashem
- Laboratory of DNA Structure and Mutagenesis, Center for Genome Research, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Texas A&M University, 2121 West Holcombe Blvd., Houston 77030-3303, USA
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Nucleotide excision repair provides an important cellular defense against a large variety of structurally unrelated DNA alterations. Most of these alterations, if unrepaired, may contribute to mutagenesis, oncogenesis, and developmental abnormalities, as well as cellular lethality. There are two subpathways of nucleotide excision repair; global genomic repair (GGR) and transcription coupled repair (TCR), that is selective for the transcribed DNA strand in expressed genes. Some of the proteins involved in the recognition of DNA damage (including RNA polymerase) are also responsive to natural variations in the secondary structural features of DNA. Gratuitous repair events in undamaged DNA might then contribute to genomic instability. However, damage recognition enzymes for GGR are normally maintained at very low levels unless the cells are genomically stressed. GGR is controlled through the SOS stress response in E. coli and through the activated p53 tumor suppressor in human cells. These inducible responses in human cells are important, as they have been shown to operate upon chemical carcinogen DNA damage at levels to which humans are environmentally exposed. Interestingly, most rodent tissues are deficient in the p53-dependent GGR pathway. Since rodents are used as surrogates for environmental cancer risk assessment, it is essential that we understand how they differ from humans with respect to DNA repair and oncogenic responses to environmental genotoxins. In the case of terminally differentiated mammalian cells, a new paradigm has appeared in which GGR is attenuated but both strands of expressed genes are repaired efficiently.
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- Philip C Hanawalt
- Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California, CA 94305-5020, USA.
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Crowley DJ, Courcelle J. Answering the Call: Coping with DNA Damage at the Most Inopportune Time. J Biomed Biotechnol 2002; 2:66-74. [PMID: 12488586 PMCID: PMC153787 DOI: 10.1155/s1110724302202016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2002] [Accepted: 02/20/2002] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
Abstract
DNA damage incurred during the process of chromosomal replication has a particularly high possibility of resulting in mutagenesis or lethality for the cell. The SOS response of Escherichia coli appears to be well adapted for this particular situation and involves the coordinated up-regulation of genes whose products center upon the tasks of maintaining the integrity of the replication fork when it encounters DNA damage, delaying the replication process (a DNA damage checkpoint), repairing the DNA lesions or allowing replication to occur over these DNA lesions, and then restoring processive replication before the SOS response itself is turned off. Recent advances in the fields of genomics and biochemistry has given a much more comprehensive picture of the timing and coordination of events which allow cells to deal with potentially lethal or mutagenic DNA lesions at the time of chromosomal replication.
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- David J. Crowley
- Biology Department, Mercer University, 1400 Coleman Avenue, Macon, GA 31207, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Mississippi State University, PO Box GY, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA
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