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Guardamagna I, Bassi E, Savio M, Perucca P, Cazzalini O, Prosperi E, Stivala LA. A functional in vitro cell-free system for studying DNA repair in isolated nuclei. J Cell Sci 2020; 133:jcs240010. [PMID: 32376788 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.240010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2019] [Accepted: 04/19/2020] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Assessment of DNA repair is an important endpoint measurement when studying the biochemical mechanisms of the DNA damage response and when investigating the efficacy of chemotherapy, which often uses DNA-damaging compounds. Numerous in vitro methods to biochemically characterize DNA repair mechanisms have been developed so far. However, such methods have some limitations, which are mainly due to the lack of chromatin organization in the DNA templates used. Here we describe a functional cell-free system to study DNA repair synthesis in vitro, using G1-phase nuclei isolated from human cells treated with different genotoxic agents. Upon incubation in the corresponding damage-activated cytosolic extracts, containing biotinylated dUTP, nuclei were able to initiate DNA repair synthesis. The use of specific DNA synthesis inhibitors markedly decreased biotinylated dUTP incorporation, indicating the specificity of the repair response. Exogenously added human recombinant PCNA protein, but not the sensors of UV-DNA damage DDB2 and DDB1, stimulated UVC-induced dUTP incorporation. In contrast, a DDB2PCNA- mutant protein, unable to associate with PCNA, interfered with DNA repair synthesis. Given its responsiveness to different types of DNA lesions, this system offers an additional tool to study DNA repair mechanisms.This article has an associated First Person interview with the first author of the paper.
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- Isabella Guardamagna
- Dipartimento di Medicina Molecolare, Unità di Immunologia e Patologia generale, Università degli Studi di Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Medicina Molecolare, Unità di Immunologia e Patologia generale, Università degli Studi di Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Medicina Molecolare, Unità di Immunologia e Patologia generale, Università degli Studi di Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Medicina Molecolare, Unità di Immunologia e Patologia generale, Università degli Studi di Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Medicina Molecolare, Unità di Immunologia e Patologia generale, Università degli Studi di Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy
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- Istituto di Genetica Molecolare 'Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza', CNR, 27100 Pavia, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Medicina Molecolare, Unità di Immunologia e Patologia generale, Università degli Studi di Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy
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Acharya N, Khandagale P, Thakur S, Sahu JK, Utkalaja BG. Quaternary structural diversity in eukaryotic DNA polymerases: monomeric to multimeric form. Curr Genet 2020; 66:635-655. [PMID: 32236653 DOI: 10.1007/s00294-020-01071-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2020] [Revised: 03/13/2020] [Accepted: 03/24/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Sixteen eukaryotic DNA polymerases have been identified and studied so far. Based on the sequence similarity of the catalytic subunits of DNA polymerases, these have been classified into four A, B, X and Y families except PrimPol, which belongs to the AEP family. The quaternary structure of these polymerases also varies depending upon whether they are composed of one or more subunits. Therefore, in this review, we used a quaternary structure-based classification approach to group DNA polymerases as either monomeric or multimeric and highlighted functional significance of their accessory subunits. Additionally, we have briefly summarized various DNA polymerase discoveries from a historical perspective, emphasized unique catalytic mechanism of each DNA polymerase and highlighted recent advances in understanding their cellular functions.
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- Narottam Acharya
- Laboratory of Genomic Instability and Diseases, Department of Infectious Disease Biology, Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar, 751023, India.
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- Laboratory of Genomic Instability and Diseases, Department of Infectious Disease Biology, Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar, 751023, India
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- Laboratory of Genomic Instability and Diseases, Department of Infectious Disease Biology, Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar, 751023, India
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- Laboratory of Genomic Instability and Diseases, Department of Infectious Disease Biology, Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar, 751023, India
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- Laboratory of Genomic Instability and Diseases, Department of Infectious Disease Biology, Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar, 751023, India
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Hoitsma NM, Whitaker AM, Schaich MA, Smith MR, Fairlamb MS, Freudenthal BD. Structure and function relationships in mammalian DNA polymerases. Cell Mol Life Sci 2020; 77:35-59. [PMID: 31722068 PMCID: PMC7050493 DOI: 10.1007/s00018-019-03368-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2019] [Revised: 10/11/2019] [Accepted: 10/31/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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DNA polymerases are vital for the synthesis of new DNA strands. Since the discovery of DNA polymerase I in Escherichia coli, a diverse library of mammalian DNA polymerases involved in DNA replication, DNA repair, antibody generation, and cell checkpoint signaling has emerged. While the unique functions of these DNA polymerases are differentiated by their association with accessory factors and/or the presence of distinctive catalytic domains, atomic resolution structures of DNA polymerases in complex with their DNA substrates have revealed mechanistic subtleties that contribute to their specialization. In this review, the structure and function of all 15 mammalian DNA polymerases from families B, Y, X, and A will be reviewed and discussed with special emphasis on the insights gleaned from recently published atomic resolution structures.
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- Nicole M Hoitsma
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, 66160, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, 66160, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, 66160, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, 66160, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, 66160, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, 66160, USA.
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Lee MYWT, Wang X, Zhang S, Zhang Z, Lee EYC. Regulation and Modulation of Human DNA Polymerase δ Activity and Function. Genes (Basel) 2017; 8:genes8070190. [PMID: 28737709 PMCID: PMC5541323 DOI: 10.3390/genes8070190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2017] [Revised: 07/07/2017] [Accepted: 07/11/2017] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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This review focuses on the regulation and modulation of human DNA polymerase δ (Pol δ). The emphasis is on the mechanisms that regulate the activity and properties of Pol δ in DNA repair and replication. The areas covered are the degradation of the p12 subunit of Pol δ, which converts it from a heterotetramer (Pol δ4) to a heterotrimer (Pol δ3), in response to DNA damage and also during the cell cycle. The biochemical mechanisms that lead to degradation of p12 are reviewed, as well as the properties of Pol δ4 and Pol δ3 that provide insights into their functions in DNA replication and repair. The second focus of the review involves the functions of two Pol δ binding proteins, polymerase delta interaction protein 46 (PDIP46) and polymerase delta interaction protein 38 (PDIP38), both of which are multi-functional proteins. PDIP46 is a novel activator of Pol δ4, and the impact of this function is discussed in relation to its potential roles in DNA replication. Several new models for the roles of Pol δ3 and Pol δ4 in leading and lagging strand DNA synthesis that integrate a role for PDIP46 are presented. PDIP38 has multiple cellular localizations including the mitochondria, the spliceosomes and the nucleus. It has been implicated in a number of cellular functions, including the regulation of specialized DNA polymerases, mitosis, the DNA damage response, mouse double minute 2 homolog (Mdm2) alternative splicing and the regulation of the NADPH oxidase 4 (Nox4).
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- Marietta Y W T Lee
- Department Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA.
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- Department Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA.
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- Department Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA.
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- Department Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA.
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- Department Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA.
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Korona DA, Lecompte KG, Pursell ZF. The high fidelity and unique error signature of human DNA polymerase epsilon. Nucleic Acids Res 2010; 39:1763-73. [PMID: 21036870 PMCID: PMC3061053 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq1034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Bulk replicative DNA synthesis in eukaryotes is highly accurate and efficient, primarily because of two DNA polymerases (Pols): Pols δ and ε. The high fidelity of these enzymes is due to their intrinsic base selectivity and proofreading exonuclease activity which, when coupled with post-replication mismatch repair, helps to maintain human mutation rates at less than one mutation per genome duplication. Conditions that reduce polymerase fidelity result in increased mutagenesis and can lead to cancer in mice. Whereas yeast Pol ε has been well characterized, human Pol ε remains poorly understood. Here, we present the first report on the fidelity of human Pol ε. We find that human Pol ε carries out DNA synthesis with high fidelity, even in the absence of its 3′→5′ exonucleolytic proofreading and is significantly more accurate than yeast Pol ε. Though its spectrum of errors is similar to that of yeast Pol ε, there are several notable exceptions. These include a preference of the human enzyme for T→A over A→T transversions. As compared with other replicative DNA polymerases, human Pol ε is particularly accurate when copying homonucleotide runs of 4–5 bases. The base pair substitution specificity and high fidelity for frameshift errors observed for human Pol ε are distinct from the errors made by human Pol δ.
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- Dagmara A Korona
- Department of Biochemistry and Tulane Cancer Center, Tulane University School of Medicine, 1430 Tulane Ave., New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
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Aita M, Benedetti F, Carafelli E, Caccia E, Romano N. Effects of hypophyseal or thymic allograft on thymus development in partially decerebrate chicken embryos: expression of PCNA and CD3 markers. Eur J Histochem 2010; 54:e37. [PMID: 20819775 PMCID: PMC3167313 DOI: 10.4081/ejh.2010.e37] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2010] [Revised: 07/07/2010] [Accepted: 07/12/2010] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Changes in chicken embryo thymus after partial decerebration (including the hypophysis) and after hypophyseal or thymic allograft were investigated. Chicken embryos were partially decerebrated at 36–40 h of incubation and on day 12 received a hypophysis or a thymus allograft from 18-day-old donor embryos. The thymuses of normal, sham-operated and partially decerebrate embryos were collected on day 12 and 18. The thymuses of the grafted embryos were collected on day 18. The samples were examined with histological method and tested for the anti-PCNA and anti-CD3 immune-reactions. After partial decerebration, the thymic cortical and medullary compartments diminished markedly in size. Anti-PCNA and anti-CD3 revealed a reduced immunereaction, verified also by statistical analysis. In hypophyseal or grafted embryos, the thymic morphological compartments improved, the anti-PCNA and anti-CD3 immune-reactions recovered much better after the thymic graft, probably due to the thymic growth factors and also by an emigration of thymocytes from the same grafted thymus.
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- M Aita
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology Vittorio Erspamer, Faculty of Medicine, University La Sapienza, Piazzale A. Moro 5, Rome, Italy.
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Mirzayans R, Andrais B, Paterson MC. Synergistic Effect of Aphidicolin and 1-β-d-arabinofuranosylcytosine on the Repair of γ-ray-induced DNA Damage in Normal Human Fibroblasts. Int J Radiat Biol 2009; 62:417-25. [PMID: 1357055 DOI: 10.1080/09553009214552301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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The effects on enzymatic DNA repair of aphidicolin and 1-beta-D-arabinofuranosylcytosine (araC), two potent inhibitors of long-patch excision repair, were investigated in cultured human cells exposed to 60Co gamma-radiation. Using alkaline-sucrose velocity sedimentation analysis, both drugs were shown to inhibit markedly the repair of radioproducts in cultures exposed to greater than or equal to 150 Gy, indicating that a significant component of gamma-ray-induced DNA damage is operated on by a long-patch excision pathway. Moreover, while the extent of repair inhibited by aphidicolin was comparable to that suppressed by araC, combined exposure of irradiated cultures to the two drugs elicited a synergistic response. Specifically, in all three normal fibroblast strains examined, the yield of aphidicolin- or araC-detectable sites (lesions whose repair could be blocked by each drug alone) observed during the first 2 h after irradiation with 150 Gy ranged from 0.8 to 1.2 per 10(8) daltons genomic DNA, whereas the incidence of sites detected by combined exposure to the inhibitors was increased 4-fold (i.e. 3.8 per 10(8) daltons). This difference in site yield leads us to propose that simultaneous administration of aphidicolin and araC serves to block, in addition to long-patch repair, a second mode of excision repair which is refractory to each drug alone.
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- R Mirzayans
- Department of Medicine, Cross Cancer Institute, Alberta, Canada
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Pursell ZF, Kunkel TA. DNA polymerase epsilon: a polymerase of unusual size (and complexity). PROGRESS IN NUCLEIC ACID RESEARCH AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2008; 82:101-45. [PMID: 18929140 PMCID: PMC3694787 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6603(08)00004-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Zachary F. Pursell
- Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Laboratory of Structural Biology National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
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- Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Laboratory of Structural Biology National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
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Enns L, Murray D, Mirzayans R. Lack of Correlation Between DNA Strand Breakage and p53 Protein Levels in Human Fibroblast Strains Exposed to Ultraviolet Light¶. Photochem Photobiol 2007. [DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2000)0720562locbds2.0.co2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Adar S, Livneh Z. Translesion DNA synthesis across non-DNA segments in cultured human cells. DNA Repair (Amst) 2006; 5:479-90. [PMID: 16473566 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2006.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2005] [Revised: 01/05/2006] [Accepted: 01/09/2006] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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DNA lesions that have escaped DNA repair are tolerated via translesion DNA synthesis (TLS), carried out by specialized error-prone DNA polymerases. To evaluate the robustness of the TLS system in human cells, we examined its ability to cope with foreign non-DNA stretches of 3 or 12 methylene residues, using a gap-lesion plasmid assay system. We found that both the trimethylene and dodecamethylene inserts were bypassed with significant efficiencies in human cells, using both misinsertion and misalignment mechanisms. TLS across these non-DNA segments was aphidicolin-sensitive, and did not require poleta. In vitro primer extension assays showed that purified poleta, polkappa and poliota were each capable of inserting each of the four nucleotides opposite the trimethylene chain, but only poleta and polkappa could fully bypass it. Poleta and poliota, but not polkappa, could also insert each of the four nucleotides opposite the dodecamethylene chain, but all three polymerases were severely blocked by this lesion. The ability of TLS polymerases to insert nucleotides opposite a hydrocarbon chain, despite the lack of any similarity to DNA, suggests that they may act via a mode of transient and local template-independent polymerase activity, and highlights the robustness of the TLS system in human cells.
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- Sheera Adar
- Department of Biological Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
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Asahara H, Li Y, Fuss J, Haines DS, Vlatkovic N, Boyd MT, Linn S. Stimulation of human DNA polymerase epsilon by MDM2. Nucleic Acids Res 2003; 31:2451-9. [PMID: 12711691 PMCID: PMC154228 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg342] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The human DNA polymerase epsilon catalytic subunit consists of a 140-kDa N-terminal domain that contains the catalytic activity and a 120-kDa C-terminal domain that binds to the other subunits and to exogenous peptides, including PCNA and MDM2. We report here that recombinant human MDM2 purified from insect cells or Escherichia coli stimulated the activity of DNA polymerase epsilon up to 10- and 40-fold, respectively, but not those of DNA polymerase beta or Klenow fragment of E.coli DNA polymerase I. Kinetic studies indicated that MDM2 increased the maximum velocity of the reaction, but did not change substrate affinities. The stimulation depended upon the interaction of the N-terminal 166 amino acid residues of MDM2 with the C-terminal domain of the full-length catalytic subunit, since the deletion of 166 amino acids from N-terminal of MDM2 or the removal of the C-terminal domain of DNA polymerase epsilon by trypsin digestion or competition for binding to it by the addition of excess C-terminal fragment eliminated the stimulation. Since DNA polymerase epsilon appears to be involved in DNA replication, recombination and repair synthesis, we suggest that MDM2 binding to DNA polymerase epsilon might be part of a reconfiguration process that allows DNA polymerase epsilon to associate with repair/recombination proteins in response to DNA damage.
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- Hitomi Asahara
- Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Barker Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3202, USA
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Liu W, Linn S. Proteolysis of the human DNA polymerase epsilon catalytic subunit by caspase-3 and calpain specifically during apoptosis. Nucleic Acids Res 2000; 28:4180-8. [PMID: 11058115 PMCID: PMC113151 DOI: 10.1093/nar/28.21.4180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2000] [Revised: 09/15/2000] [Accepted: 09/15/2000] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Human DNA polymerase epsilon (pol epsilon) normally contains a 261-kDa catalytic subunit (p261), but from some sources it is isolated as a 140-kDa catalytic core of p261. This shortened form possesses normal or somewhat enhanced polymerase activity and its significance is unknown. We report here that caspase-3 and calpain can form p140 from p261 in vitro and in vivo and that during early stages of apoptosis induced in Jurkat cells by staurosporine or anti-Fas-activating antibody, p261 is cleaved into p140 by caspase-3. At later stages, activated calpain might also contribute to this conversion. The sites of cleavage by caspase-3 have been identified, and mutations at these 'DEAD boxes' resulted in cleavage-resistant enzyme. Cleavage at these sites separates the 'N-terminal catalytic core' from the 'C-terminal' regions described for p261. Cleavage does not occur during necrosis or following exposure to H(2)O(2) or methanesulfonic acid methyl ester. p140 is unlikely to be able to functionally replace p261 in vivo, since it does not bind to PCNA or the other pol epsilon subunits.
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- W Liu
- Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 229 Stanley Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3206, USA
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Enns L, Murray D, Mirzayans R. Lack of correlation between DNA strand breakage and p53 protein levels in human fibroblast strains exposed to ultraviolet lights. Photochem Photobiol 2000; 72:562-8. [PMID: 11045730 DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2000)072<0562:locbds>2.0.co;2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The contribution of DNA strand breaks accumulating in the course of nucleotide excision repair to upregulation of the p53 tumor suppressor protein was investigated in human dermal fibroblast strains after treatment with 254 nm ultraviolet (UV) light. For this purpose, fibroblast cultures were exposed to UV and incubated for 3 h in the presence or absence of l-beta-D-arabinofuranosylcytosine (araC) and/or hydroxyurea (HU), and then assayed for DNA strand breakage and p53 protein levels. As expected from previous studies, incubation of normal and ataxia telangiectasia (AT) fibroblasts with araC and HU after UV irradiation resulted in an accumulation of DNA strand breaks. Such araC/HU-accumulated strand breaks (reflecting nonligated repair-incision events) following UV irradiation were not detected in xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) fibroblast strains belonging to complementation groups A and G. Western blot analysis revealed that normal fibroblasts exhibited little upregulation of p53 (approximately 1.2-fold) when incubated without araC after 5 J/m2 irradiation, but showed significant (three-fold) upregulation of p53 when incubated with araC after irradiation. AraC is known to inhibit nucleotide excision repair at both the damage removal and repair resynthesis steps. Therefore, the potentiation of UV-induced upregulation of p53 evoked by araC in normal cells may be a consequence of either persistent bulky DNA lesions or persistent incision-associated DNA strand breaks. To distinguish between these two possibilities, we determined p53 induction in AT fibroblasts (which do not upregulate p53 in response to DNA strand breakage) and in XP fibroblasts (which do not exhibit incision-associated breaks after UV irradiation). The p53 response after treatment with 5 J/m2 UV and incubation with araC was similar in AT, XPA, XPG and normal fibroblasts. In addition, exposure of XPA and XPG fibroblasts to UV (5, 10 or 20 J/m2) followed by incubation without araC resulted in a strong upregulation of p53. We further demonstrated that HU, an inhibitor of replicative DNA synthesis (but not of nucleotide excision repair), had no significant impact on p53 protein levels in UV irradiated and unirradiated human fibroblasts. We conclude that upregulation of p53 at early times after exposure of diploid human fibroblasts to UV light is triggered by persistent bulky DNA lesions, and that incision-associated DNA strand breaks accumulating in the course of nucleotide excision repair and breaks arising as a result of inhibition of DNA replication contribute little (if anything) to upregulation of p53.
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- L Enns
- Department of Oncology, University of Alberta, Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, Canada
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Perderiset M, Maga G, Piard K, Francesconi S, Tratner I, Hübscher U, Baldacci G. Mutant DNA polymerase delta from thermosensitive Schizosaccharomyces pombe strains display reduced stimulation by proliferating cell nuclear antigen. Biochem J 1998; 335 ( Pt 3):581-8. [PMID: 9794798 PMCID: PMC1219819 DOI: 10.1042/bj3350581] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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We have isolated and characterized DNA polymerase delta (pol delta) from two thermosensitive Schizosaccharomyces pombe strains, poldeltats1 and poldeltats3, mutated in two different evolutionarily conserved domains of the catalytic subunit. At the restrictive temperature of 37 degreesC poldeltats1 and poldeltats3 mutant strains arrest growth in the S phase of the cell cycle. We show that at low levels of primer ends, in vitro stimulation by proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) of mutant enzymes is lower than stimulation of wild-type pol delta. Affinity for primer (3'-OH) ends and processivity of mutant enzymes do not appear different from wild-type pol delta. In contrast, Vmax values are lower than the wild-type value. The major in vitro defect appears to be decreased stimulation of mutant enzymes by PCNA, resulting in reduced velocity of DNA synthesis. In addition, ts1 pol delta is not stimulated by low PCNA concentration at 37 degreesC, although low concentrations stimulate activity at 25 degreesC, suggesting that this thermolability at low levels of primer ends could be its critical defect in vivo. Thus, both ts1 and ts3 pol delta mutations are located in regions of the catalytic subunit that seem necessary, directly or indirectly, for its efficient interaction with PCNA.
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- M Perderiset
- CNRS-IFC1, Institut de Recherche sur le Cancer, UPR 9044, 7 Rue Guy Moquet BP8, 94801 Villejuif, France
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Kitano S, Bohr VA, Reed TD, Haggerty CM, May A, Roth GS. Effect of aging on EGF-stimulated replication of specific genes in rat hepatocytes. J Cell Physiol 1998; 176:32-9. [PMID: 9618142 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4652(199807)176:1<32::aid-jcp4>3.0.co;2-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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EGF-stimulated replication of specific genes was examined in primary hepatocyte cultures from mature (6 months) and senescent (24 months) rats. Basal and EGF-stimulated [3H]thymidine incorporation and DNA polymerase alpha activities, as well as total cellular DNA, were also assessed. The genes examined were dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) and c-myc, as well as total mitochondrial DNA (mt DNA). Although [3H]thymidine incorporation, DNA polymerase alpha activity, total cellular DNA, DHFR, and c-myc gene specific DNA replication stimulated by EGF are reduced with age, mt DNA replication is not affected by either EGF or age. Chromosomal DNA replication is mediated mainly by DNA polymerase alpha while mt DNA replication is mediated by its own DNA polymerase gamma. Thus, the age-related decline in stimulated DNA replication appears to be associated mainly with the DNA polymerase alpha activation pathway.
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- S Kitano
- Molecular Physiology and Genetics Section, Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Gerontology Research Center, National Institute on Aging, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA
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Kitano S, Fawcett TW, Yo Y, Roth GS. Molecular mechanisms of impaired stimulation of DNA synthesis in cultured hepatocytes of aged rats. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY 1998; 275:C146-54. [PMID: 9688845 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.1998.275.1.c146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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We examined epidermal growth factor (EGF)- and epinephrine-stimulated mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase (MEK) 1 and MEK2 activities, DNA polymerase alpha activity, and EGF-stimulated E2F DNA binding activity in primary cultured hepatocytes from 6- and 24-mo-old rats. MEK stimulation by either EGF or epinephrine was not altered with aging. However, stimulation of DNA polymerase alpha activity by these agents was 70% and 50% lower, respectively, in cells of aged compared with cells of young rats, consistent with a lesser increase in [3H]thymidine incorporation. EGF-stimulated E2F (a transcription factor that regulates expression of the DNA polymerase alpha gene) binding to DNA was reduced with age. PD-098059, a specific inhibitor of MEK, inhibited EGF-stimulated MEK1 and MEK2 activities in hepatocytes from 6- and 24-mo-old rats. Although PD-098059 inhibited EGF-stimulated DNA synthesis in hepatocytes from 6-mo-old rats, it had no effect in 24-mo-old rats. Thus the age-related impairment appears to occur before E2F activation, and signal transduction sequences other than the mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway may be involved in stimulated DNA synthesis in hepatocytes from old rats.
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- S Kitano
- Molecular Physiology and Genetics Section, Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Gerontology Research Center, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA
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Our study reveals the presence of DNA polymerases delta and epsilon, participating in DNA replication and repair, along with already known polymerases alpha and beta, in the developing and aging rat brain. This was achieved through a protocol that takes advantage of the reported differential sensitivities of different DNA polymerases towards certain inhibitors such as butylphenyl and butylanilino nucleotide analogs. 2',3'-dideoxythymidine triphosphate, the monoclonal antibody of human polymerase alpha and the use of preferred template primers and proliferating cell nuclear antigen. The results indicate that while polymerase beta seems to be the predominant one, significant levels of polymerases alpha, delta and epsilon are also present at all the postnatal ages studies and that the relative proportion of polymerase epsilon increases with age. The data suggest that the rat brain is equipped with a sustained DNA repair capacity throughout the life span.
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- D R Prapurna
- Neurobiochemistry Laboratory, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad Hyderabad, India.
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The activation of a DNA polymerase delta (pol delta) purified from bovine placenta by ginsenosides from Panax Ginseng C. A. Meyer has been studied. Preincubation of the enzyme with ginsenosides increased the polymerase activity 2.2-fold in a dose-dependent manner. There was a reproducible decrease in Km, in addition to a substantial increase in Vmax, in response to increasing concentrations of ginsenosides. Ginsenosides also activated the proofreading ability of 3'- to 5'-exonuclease activity associated with DNA pol delta. The coordinated activation of both polymerase and exonuclease activities of DNA pol delta by ginsenosides is consistent with the view that its polymerase and its exonuclease activities residue on the same protein molecule. UV/Vis difference spectroscopic studies suggested that the activation of DNA pol delta by ginsenosides might be due to the conformational change induced by ginsenosides binding.
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- S W Cho
- Department of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, University of Ulsan, Seoul, Korea
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Uitto L, Halleen J, Hentunen T, Höyhtyä M, Syväoja JE. Structural relationship between DNA polymerases epsilon and epsilon* and their occurrence in eukaryotic cells. Nucleic Acids Res 1995; 23:244-7. [PMID: 7862528 PMCID: PMC306661 DOI: 10.1093/nar/23.2.244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Monoclonal antibodies raised against the N-terminal half of human DNA polymerase epsilon bind both to a large > 200 kDa form of DNA polymerase epsilon from HeLa cells and to a small 140 kDa form (DNA polymerase epsilon*) from calf thymus, while antibody against the C-terminal half binds to DNA polymerase epsilon but does not bind to DNA polymerase epsilon*. These results indicate that the two enzymes have common structural motifs in their N-terminal halves, and that DNA polymerase epsilon* is very likely derived from DNA polymerase epsilon by removal of its C-terminal half. DNA polymerase epsilon as well as DNA polymerase epsilon* was detected in extracts from cells of numerous eukaryotic species from yeast to human. The results indicate that DNA polymerase epsilon and its tendency to occur in a smaller form, DNA polymerase epsilon*, are evolutionarily highly conserved and that DNA polymerase epsilon may occur universally in proliferating eukaryotic cells.
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- L Uitto
- Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Finland
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- G S Chui
- Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University, California 94305-5307, USA
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Mirzayans R, Enns L, Cubitt S, Karimian K, Radatus B, Paterson MC. Effect of DNA polymerase inhibitors on repair of gamma ray-induced DNA damage in proliferating (intact versus permeable) human fibroblasts: evidence for differences in the modes of action of aphidicolin and 1-beta-D-arabinofuranosylcytosine. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1994; 1227:92-100. [PMID: 7918688 DOI: 10.1016/0925-4439(94)90112-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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The mammalian DNA polymerase inhibitors aphidicolin and 1-beta-D-arabinofuranosylcytosine (araC), when used in combination, inhibit the repair of DNA damage induced by gamma rays or 4-nitroquinoline 1-oxide in normal human fibroblasts to an extent 2- to 4-fold greater than that seen with each inhibitor alone. Thus either aphidicolin modulates the rate of intracellular accumulation of araC 5'-triphosphate (araCTP), the presumed rate-limiting step in the genotoxic action of araC, or aphidicolin and araC inhibit repair by different mechanisms. To explore these possibilities, we compared the effects of aphidicolin, araC, araCTP, and 2',3'-dideoxythymidine triphosphate (ddTTP) on repair of DNA damage induced by 60Co gamma radiation in intact versus permeable human fibroblasts. Both aphidicolin and araC strongly inhibited repair in permeable cells, as indicated by the accumulation of DNA strand breaks in irradiated cultures that were subsequently treated with saponin (25 micrograms/ml; 10 min) and incubated for 2 h with either chemical. The extent of repair inhibition by each drug was comparable in intact and permeable cells, amounting to approximately 1.1 sites/10(8) daltons/2 h upon exposure to 150 Gy. The active metabolite of araC, araCTP, did not inhibit repair in intact cells, but did so in permeable cells to an extent within the range of that seen with araC or aphidicolin alone. The incidence of DNA strand breaks accumulating in gamma-irradiated permeable cultures as a result of incubation with araCTP plus aphidicolin, or araC plus aphidicolin, was approximately 2-fold greater than that arising in parallel cultures which had been incubated with optimal concentrations of each of the three drugs alone. Although the resolution of our assays compelled us to monitor repair events in moribund cell populations, we have reason to be confident that within the short post-irradiation period considered here, the observed drug-accumulated breaks truly represent functional repair inhibition and not merely abortive pathological responses. We thus conclude that (1) the accumulation of araCTP in intact cells is not limiting the ability of araC to inhibit DNA repair; and (2) the mode of the inhibitory action of araC/araCTP on gamma ray repair is different from that of aphidicolin. In contrast to the observations with these chemicals, ddTTP (20 microM), a potent inhibitor of DNA polymerase beta, did not produce any measurable effect on DNA repair in gamma-irradiated permeable fibroblasts, nor did it enhance the efficacy of araC, araCTP or aphidicolin to inhibit repair. These results strongly suggest that DNA polymerase beta plays no significant role in the repair of gamma radioproducts in human fibroblasts.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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- R Mirzayans
- Molecular Oncology Program, Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Bialek G, Grosse F. An error-correcting proofreading exonuclease-polymerase that copurifies with DNA-polymerase-alpha-primase. J Biol Chem 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)53421-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Coffman FD, Fresa KL, Hameed M, Cohen S. Characteristics of DNA replication in isolated nuclei initiated by an aprotinin-binding protein. J Cell Biochem 1993; 51:157-64. [PMID: 7680045 DOI: 10.1002/jcb.240510207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Isolated cell nuclei were used as the source of template DNA to investigate the role of a cytosolic aprotinin-binding protein (ADR) in the initiation of eukaryotic DNA replication. Computerized image cytometry demonstrated that the DNA content of individual nuclei increased significantly following incubation with ADR-containing preparations, and the extent of DNA synthesis is consistent with that allowed by the limiting concentration of dTTP. Thus, dTTP incorporation into isolated nuclei represents DNA synthesis and not parent strand repair. We found that dTTP incorporation into the isolated nuclei is dependent on DNA polymerase alpha (a principal polymerase in DNA replication) but that DNA polymerase beta (a principal polymerase in DNA repair processes) does not play a significant role in this system. Finally, neither aprotinin nor a previously described cytosolic ADR inhibitor can block the replication of nuclease-treated calf thymus DNA, while both strongly inhibit replication of DNA in isolated nuclei. This result, coupled with the relative ineffectiveness of nuclease-treated DNA compared with nuclear DNA to serve as a replicative template in this assay, argues against a significant contribution from repair or synthesis which initiates at a site of DNA damage. These data indicate that ADR-mediated incorporation of 3H-dTTP into isolated nuclei results from DNA replicative processes that are directly relevant to in vivo S phase events.
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- F D Coffman
- Department of Pathology, Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102
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DNA polymerases delta and epsilon are required for chromosomal replication in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol Cell Biol 1993. [PMID: 8417347 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.13.1.496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Three DNA polymerases, alpha, delta, and epsilon are required for viability in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We have investigated whether DNA polymerases epsilon and delta are required for DNA replication. Two temperature-sensitive mutations in the POL2 gene, encoding DNA polymerase epsilon, have been identified by using the plasmid shuffle technique. Alkaline sucrose gradient analysis of DNA synthesis products in the mutant strains shows that no chromosomal-size DNA is formed after shift of an asynchronous culture to the nonpermissive temperature. The only DNA synthesis observed is a reduced quantity of short DNA fragments. The DNA profiles of replication intermediates from these mutants are similar to those observed with DNA synthesized in mutants deficient in DNA polymerase alpha under the same conditions. The finding that DNA replication stops upon shift to the nonpermissive temperature in both DNA polymerase alpha- and DNA polymerase epsilon- deficient strains shows that both DNA polymerases are involved in elongation. By contrast, previous studies on pol3 mutants, deficient in DNA polymerase delta, suggested that there was considerable residual DNA synthesis at the nonpermissive temperature. We have reinvestigated the nature of DNA synthesis in pol3 mutants. We find that pol3 strains are defective in the synthesis of chromosomal-size DNA at the restrictive temperature after release from a hydroxyurea block. These results demonstrate that yeast DNA polymerase delta is also required at the replication fork.
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Binding of a sequence-specific single-stranded DNA-binding factor to the simian virus 40 core origin inverted repeat domain is cell cycle regulated. Mol Cell Biol 1993. [PMID: 8380226 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.13.1.408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The inverted repeat domain (IR domain) within the simian virus 40 origin of replication is the site of initial DNA melting prior to the onset of DNA synthesis. The domain had previously been shown to be bound by a cellular factor in response to DNA damage. We demonstrate that two distinct cellular components bind opposite strands of the IR domain. Replication protein A (RPA), previously identified as a single-stranded DNA binding protein required for origin-specific DNA replication in vitro, is shown to have a preference for the pyrimidine-rich strand. A newly described component, IR factor B (IRF-B), specifically recognizes the opposite strand. IRF-B binding activity in nuclear extract varies significantly with cell proliferation and the cell cycle, so that binding of IRF-B to the IR domain is negatively correlated with the onset of DNA synthesis. Loss of IRF-B binding from the nucleus also occurs in response to cellular DNA damage. UV cross-linking indicates that the core binding component of IRF-B is a protein of ca. 34 kDa. We propose that RPA and IRF-B bind opposite strands of the IR domain and together may function in the regulation of origin activation.
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Peck VM, Gerner EW, Cress AE. Delta-type DNA polymerase characterized from Drosophila melanogaster embryos. Nucleic Acids Res 1993; 20:5779-84. [PMID: 1360647 PMCID: PMC334416 DOI: 10.1093/nar/20.21.5779] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Genetic and biochemical evidence suggests there are at least three DNA polymerases required for replication in eukaryotic cells. However, Drosophila embryonic cells have a very short duration S phase which is regulated differently. To address the question of whether embryos utilize different DNA polymerases, we employed Mono Q anion exchange chromatography to resolve the DNA polymerase activities. Two types of DNA polymerase, DNA polymerase delta and DNA polymerase alpha, were distinguished by: 1. copurification of DNA primase or 3'-5'exonuclease activities; 2. immunoblot analysis with alpha-specific polyclonal antisera; 3. sensitivity to aphidicolin and BuPdGTP; and 4. processivity measurements with and without Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen. These observations suggest that Drosophila embryos, similar to nonembryonic cells, have both alpha- and delta-type DNA polymerases.
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- V M Peck
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona, Tucson 85724
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Moore RC, Randell C, Westerman M. The influence of growth medium on the yield of X-ray-induced chromatid exchanges in the presence and absence of aphidicolin. Mutat Res 1993; 285:13-8. [PMID: 7678127 DOI: 10.1016/0027-5107(93)90046-i] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The frequency of exchanges in JU56 cells irradiated in the G2 phase in the presence and absence of the polymerase inhibitor aphidicolin (APC), and in the presence of a range of concentrations of cysteine was measured. It was found that in the absence of cysteine, incubation for 2 h with APC had no effect on the yield. Addition of cysteine at concentrations of 50-250 mg/l reduced the frequency of exchanges, and at these concentrations the frequency was increased by incubation with APC. At higher concentrations, the yield was reduced and incubation with APC did not elevate it. In following experiments, it was found that incubation with cysteine for a period of longer than 10 minutes was necessary before APC affected the yield of exchanges.
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- R C Moore
- Cell Biology Group, Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute, Melbourne, Australia
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Carmichael EP, Roome JM, Wahl AF. Binding of a sequence-specific single-stranded DNA-binding factor to the simian virus 40 core origin inverted repeat domain is cell cycle regulated. Mol Cell Biol 1993; 13:408-20. [PMID: 8380226 PMCID: PMC358921 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.13.1.408-420.1993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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The inverted repeat domain (IR domain) within the simian virus 40 origin of replication is the site of initial DNA melting prior to the onset of DNA synthesis. The domain had previously been shown to be bound by a cellular factor in response to DNA damage. We demonstrate that two distinct cellular components bind opposite strands of the IR domain. Replication protein A (RPA), previously identified as a single-stranded DNA binding protein required for origin-specific DNA replication in vitro, is shown to have a preference for the pyrimidine-rich strand. A newly described component, IR factor B (IRF-B), specifically recognizes the opposite strand. IRF-B binding activity in nuclear extract varies significantly with cell proliferation and the cell cycle, so that binding of IRF-B to the IR domain is negatively correlated with the onset of DNA synthesis. Loss of IRF-B binding from the nucleus also occurs in response to cellular DNA damage. UV cross-linking indicates that the core binding component of IRF-B is a protein of ca. 34 kDa. We propose that RPA and IRF-B bind opposite strands of the IR domain and together may function in the regulation of origin activation.
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- E P Carmichael
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Wallingford, Connecticut 06492
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Budd ME, Campbell JL. DNA polymerases delta and epsilon are required for chromosomal replication in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol Cell Biol 1993; 13:496-505. [PMID: 8417347 PMCID: PMC358929 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.13.1.496-505.1993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Three DNA polymerases, alpha, delta, and epsilon are required for viability in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We have investigated whether DNA polymerases epsilon and delta are required for DNA replication. Two temperature-sensitive mutations in the POL2 gene, encoding DNA polymerase epsilon, have been identified by using the plasmid shuffle technique. Alkaline sucrose gradient analysis of DNA synthesis products in the mutant strains shows that no chromosomal-size DNA is formed after shift of an asynchronous culture to the nonpermissive temperature. The only DNA synthesis observed is a reduced quantity of short DNA fragments. The DNA profiles of replication intermediates from these mutants are similar to those observed with DNA synthesized in mutants deficient in DNA polymerase alpha under the same conditions. The finding that DNA replication stops upon shift to the nonpermissive temperature in both DNA polymerase alpha- and DNA polymerase epsilon- deficient strains shows that both DNA polymerases are involved in elongation. By contrast, previous studies on pol3 mutants, deficient in DNA polymerase delta, suggested that there was considerable residual DNA synthesis at the nonpermissive temperature. We have reinvestigated the nature of DNA synthesis in pol3 mutants. We find that pol3 strains are defective in the synthesis of chromosomal-size DNA at the restrictive temperature after release from a hydroxyurea block. These results demonstrate that yeast DNA polymerase delta is also required at the replication fork.
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- M E Budd
- Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 91125
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Uitto L, Halleen J, Remes P, Kesti T, Syväoja JE. The 3'-->5' exonuclease associated with HeLa DNA polymerase epsilon. Chromosoma 1992; 102:S142-6. [PMID: 1337878 DOI: 10.1007/bf02451798] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The 3'-->5' exonuclease activity of highly purified large form of human DNA polymerase epsilon was studied. The activity removes mononucleotides from the 3' end of an oligonucleotide with a non-processive mechanism and leaves 5'-terminal trinucleotide non-hydrolyzed. This is the case both with single-stranded oligonucleotides and with oligonucleotides annealed to complementary regions of M13DNA. However, the reaction rates with single-stranded oligonucleotides are at least ten-fold when compared to those with completely base-paired oligonucleotides. Conceivably, mismatched 3' end of an oligonucleotide annealed to M13DNA is rapidly removed and the hydrolysis is slowed down when double-stranded region is reached. The preferential removal of a non-complementary 3' end and the nonprocessive mechanism are consistent with anticipated proofreading function. In addition to the 3'-->5' exonuclease activity, an 5'-->3' exonuclease activity is often present even in relatively highly purified DNA polymerase epsilon preparates suggesting that such an activity may be an essential component for the action of this enzyme in vivo. Contrary to the 3'-->5' exonuclease activity, the 5'-->3' exonuclease is separable from the polymerase activity.
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- L Uitto
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oulu, Finland
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Siegal G, Turchi JJ, Myers TW, Bambara RA. A 5' to 3' exonuclease functionally interacts with calf DNA polymerase epsilon. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1992; 89:9377-81. [PMID: 1329095 PMCID: PMC50134 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.89.20.9377] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Analysis of fractions containing purified DNA polymerase epsilon from calf thymus has revealed the presence of a 5' to 3' exonuclease activity that is specific for a single strand of duplex DNA. This activity is capable of degrading a 3'-labeled oligonucleotide hybridized to M13mp18 DNA. When a second oligonucleotide primer is annealed 3 bases upstream, degradation of the downstream primer is strictly dependent on DNA synthesis from the upstream primer. Replacement of the downstream primer by an oligoribonucleotide of identical sequence results in a similar pattern of exonucleolytic activity. The activity has been highly purified and found to cosediment in glycerol gradients with a peptide of 56 kDa as judged by SDS/PAGE analysis. Effects of calf DNA polymerase alpha and delta on exonuclease activity are also observed but with differences in the pattern of products.
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- G Siegal
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, NY 14642
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Daidoji H, Takasaki Y, Nakane PK. Proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA/cyclin) in plant proliferating cells: immunohistochemical and quantitative analysis using autoantibody and murine monoclonal antibodies to PCNA. Cell Biochem Funct 1992; 10:123-32. [PMID: 1352740 DOI: 10.1002/cbf.290100209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Proliferating-cell nuclear antigen (PCNA), also known as cyclin, is synthesized in proliferative cells and recently was identified as DNA polymerase-delta auxiliary protein. In this paper, the association of PCNA to the proliferative cells of plants was analysed using both autoantibodies to PCNA obtained from a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and murine monoclonal antibodies. By immunohistochemical analysis, nuclei of cells around the growing point in soybean root tips reacted strongly with autoantibodies to PCNA in the serum from a patient with SLE. The plant PCNA in root tip cells was purified by ammonium sulfate fractionation, DEAE chromatography, and affinity chromatography. The partially purified plant PCNA was tested by immunoblotting and a 34 kD polypeptide reacted with both the human anti-PCNA autoantibody and a mouse monoclonal antibody against human PCNA (TOB 7). In addition, the purified plant PCNA reacted with both antibodies in enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). The binding of anti-PCNA serum to the animal PCNA was blocked by the plant PCNA in this ELISA. The association of PCNA with growing cells in plants was further confirmed by quantitative sandwich type ELISA using two murine monoclonal antibodies to PCNA, TOB7 and TO17. Those results suggested that PCNA in both plant and animal cells had the same immunological and biochemical characteristics and the plant PCNA might play an important role in cell growth, existing as it does in proliferating plant cells. The concentration of PCNA in soybean germ extract before germination was less than 5 ng ml-1 (protein concentration, 6.8 mg ml-1), but that of the root tip stem including the growing point increased to 887 ng ml-1 (protein concentration 3.8 mg ml-1) in the second day after germination.
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- H Daidoji
- Department of Medicine, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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Zahradka P. Dideoxynucleoside triphosphates inhibit a late stage of SV40 DNA replication in vitro. Mol Cell Biochem 1992; 110:65-73. [PMID: 1315927 DOI: 10.1007/bf02385007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The role of DNA polymerases in the replication of SV40 DNA was studied using a T-antigen-dependent assay supplemented with a human KB cell extract. Inhibition of DNA polymerase alpha by addition of aphidicolin or monoclonal antibodies prevented DNA synthesis, confirming the requirement for this enzyme in replication. The replication process was unaffected by ddTTP at a concentration (5 microM) inhibitory to DNA polymerases beta and gamma, however, higher concentrations of ddTTP (200 microM) caused an apparent accumulation of relaxed circular plasmid with a concomitant decrease in DNA synthesis. An analysis of this replication intermediate indicated that it was formed during the replication reaction and that the replicative cycle was nearly complete. A kinetic study of ddTTP inhibition strongly suggested DNA polymerase epsilon (PCNA-independent DNA polymerase delta) was the target of the inhibitor and that this enzyme functions during the final stages of DNA replication.
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- P Zahradka
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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Yang CL, Chang LS, Zhang P, Hao H, Zhu L, Toomey NL, Lee MY. Molecular cloning of the cDNA for the catalytic subunit of human DNA polymerase delta. Nucleic Acids Res 1992; 20:735-45. [PMID: 1542570 PMCID: PMC312012 DOI: 10.1093/nar/20.4.735] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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The cDNA of human DNA polymerase delta was cloned. The cDNA had a length of 3.5 kb and encoded a protein of 1107 amino acid residues with a calculated molecular mass of 124 kDa. Northern blot analysis showed that the cDNA hybridized to a mRNA of 3.4 kb. Monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies to the C-terminal 20 residues specifically immunoblotted the human pol delta catalytic polypeptide. A multiple sequence alignment was constructed. This showed that human pol delta is closely related to yeast pol delta and the herpes virus DNA polymerases. The levels of pol delta message were found to be induced concomitantly with DNA pol delta activity and DNA synthesis in serum restimulated proliferating IMR90 cultured cells. The human pol delta gene was localized to chromosome 19 by Southern blotting of EcoRI digested DNA from a panel of rodent/human cell hybrids.
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- C L Yang
- Department of Medicine, University of Miami School of Medicine, FL 33101
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Popanda O, Thielmann HW. The function of DNA polymerases in DNA repair synthesis of ultraviolet-irradiated human fibroblasts. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1992; 1129:155-60. [PMID: 1730053 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4781(92)90480-n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Ultraviolet-induced DNA repair synthesis was measured in saponin-permeabilized normal human fibroblasts by the incorporation of [alpha-32P]dTMP into DNA. The involvement of DNA polymerases alpha, beta, delta, and epsilon in excision repair of pyrimidine dimers was examined using specific inhibitors. Dose-response curves resulting from experiments with up to 12 different inhibitor concentrations were analyzed by linear regression. Inhibitor concentrations at which repair activity was reduced to 50% were calculated. The following K50 values were found: aphidicolin, 0.2 microM; ddTTP, 12.5 microM; butylphenyl-dGTP, 7.6 microM; butylanilino-dATP, 6.0 microM. Comparison of K50 values with in vitro Ki values of DNA polymerases revealed that in permeabilized human fibroblasts reparative DNA synthesis is catalyzed by DNA polymerase delta and by DNA polymerase epsilon.
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- O Popanda
- Institute of Biochemistry, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg
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The past decade has witnessed an exciting evolution in our understanding of eukaryotic DNA replication at the molecular level. Progress has been particularly rapid within the last few years due to the convergence of research on a variety of cell types, from yeast to human, encompassing disciplines ranging from clinical immunology to the molecular biology of viruses. New eukaryotic DNA replicases and accessory proteins have been purified and characterized, and some have been cloned and sequenced. In vitro systems for the replication of viral DNA have been developed, allowing the identification and purification of several mammalian replication proteins. In this review we focus on DNA polymerases alpha and delta and the polymerase accessory proteins, their physical and functional properties, as well as their roles in eukaryotic DNA replication.
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- A G So
- Department of Medicine, University of Miami, Florida
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Yang CL, Zhang SJ, Toomey NL, Palmer TN, Lee MY. Induction of DNA polymerase activities in the regenerating rat liver. Biochemistry 1991; 30:7534-41. [PMID: 1677271 DOI: 10.1021/bi00244a024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The levels of DNA polymerase alpha, DNA polymerase delta, and its accessory protein, proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) were examined in the regenerating rat liver. The levels of DNA polymerase alpha and delta activities in regenerating liver extracts were determined by the use of the DNA polymerase alpha specific inhibitor, BuAdATP [2-(p-n-butylanilino)-9-(2-deoxy-beta-D-ribofuranosyl) adenine 5'-triphosphate], and monoclonal antibodies. These reagents showed that the total DNA polymerase activities increased ca. 4-fold during regeneration and that the fraction of DNA polymerase delta activity at the peak was 40% of the total DNA polymerase activity. Immunoblots and inhibition studies using specific antibodies showed that DNA polymerase delta and epsilon and PCNA were concomitantly induced after partial hepatectomy. The levels of both DNA polymerase delta and epsilon and PCNA reached their maxima at 24-36 h post hepatectomy, i.e., at the same time that in vivo DNA synthesis reached its peak. Partial purification and characterization of DNA polymerases delta and epsilon from the regenerating rat liver were also performed. These observations suggest that the variation of DNA polymerase delta and epsilon and PCNA during liver regeneration is closely related to DNA synthesis and is consistent with their involvement in DNA replication.
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- C L Yang
- Department of Medicine, University of Miami School of Medicine, Florida 33101
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Biochemical and functional comparison of DNA polymerases alpha, delta, and epsilon from calf thymus. J Biol Chem 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)99242-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Richard MC, Litvak S, Castroviejo M. DNA polymerase B from wheat embryos: a plant delta-like DNA polymerase. Arch Biochem Biophys 1991; 287:141-50. [PMID: 1654800 DOI: 10.1016/0003-9861(91)90399-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Studies in eucaryotic cells (mainly animals and yeast) indicate that at least two DNA polymerases are involved in DNA replication at the level of the replication fork: DNA polymerase alpha, which is associated with DNA primase, is involved in the replication of the lagging strand; DNA polymerase delta, associated with an exonuclease activity, synthesizes the forward continuous DNA strand. Much less information exists concerning plant systems. Previous work from this laboratory provided preliminary evidence of an association between DNA polymerase B from wheat embryo and an exonucleolytic activity. In this paper, we present additional data on the biochemical properties of DNA polymerase B. An improved purification procedure described in this article has been developed. During all the purification steps the nuclease activity was associated with DNA polymerase activity. A biochemical study of this enzyme activity shows that it is an exonuclease which hydrolyses DNA in the 3' to 5' direction. Moreover, this exonuclease confers a proofreading function to DNA polymerase B. Comparison of DNA polymerase B properties (template specificity, sensitivity to DNA replication inhibitors like aphidicolin and butyl-phenyl dGTP, copurification of DNA polymerase and exonuclease activities) with those of animal DNA polymerase delta indicates that these enzymes share many common features. To our knowledge, this is the first report of DNA polymerase delta in higher plants.
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- M C Richard
- Institut de Biochimie Cellulaire et Neurochimie, Bordeaux, France
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Larone GE, Hunting DJ. Purification of DNA fragments containing excision-repair patches from human cells using streptavidin-biotin. Mutat Res 1991; 254:273-80. [PMID: 2052014 DOI: 10.1016/0921-8777(91)90066-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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We have developed a method for purifying DNA fragments containing excision-repair patches which involves incorporation of biotinated deoxyuridine monophosphate into repair patches followed by isolation of biotin-containing DNA fragments using streptavidin and either isopycnic density gradient centrifugation or gel electrophoresis. Normal human fibroblasts were damaged with UV radiation, rendered permeable and allowed to perform repair synthesis in the presence of ATP, dATP, dGTP, [3H]dCTP and biotinated deoxyuridine triphosphate. The DNA was purified, sonicated to a number-average molecular weight of 150 bp, then incubated with streptavidin, a protein with a high affinity for biotin and with a density of 1.3 g/ml in cesium trifluoroacetate compared to 1.6 g/ml for DNA. Isopycnic centrifugation in cesium trifluoroacetate resulted in the separation of the streptavidin-DNA complex with little or no dissociation. The streptavidin-DNA complex was also separated from free DNA by electrophoresis in 2% agarose. This method is applicable to any type DNA damage repaired by the excision repair pathways in which thymine is present in the repair patches, including damage from chemical carcinogens and ionizing radiation.
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- G E Larone
- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Radiobiology, University of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
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Kodama H, Ito M, Ohnishi N, Suzuka I, Komamine A. Molecular cloning of the gene for plant proliferating-cell nuclear antigen and expression of this gene during the cell cycle in synchronized cultures of Catharanthus roseus cells. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1991; 197:495-503. [PMID: 1902790 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1991.tb15937.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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A cDNA library was screened for plant proliferating-cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) from Catharanthus roseus (periwinkle). A lambda gt11 cDNA library was constructed using poly(A)-rich RNA isolated from the cells in the S phase. A cDNA clone for PCNA was isolated by using a rice genomic clone, pCJ-1, which contains PCNA-related gene sequences. The cDNA contains an open reading frame of 804 nucleotides, encoding a protein of 268 amino acids with a molecular mass of 29,765 Da. When conservative substitutions were included, a high degree of similarity (about 85%) was observed between the predicted amino acid sequence of periwinkle PCNA and that of human PCNA. Expression of mRNA for periwinkle PCNA was undetectable or very weak in quiescent cells, such as phosphate-starved cells, auxin-starved cells and cells in the stationary phase. In the synchronous progression of the cell cycle induced by the addition of phosphate or auxin, the active accumulation of periwinkle PCNA mRNA was observed preferentially in the S phase. When an inhibitor of DNA synthesis, aphidicolin, was added to the cells at the G1 phase, an increase in the level of PCNA mRNA was observed. The partial inhibition of protein synthesis at the G1 phase by a protein inhibitor, anisomycin, caused the arrest of cells in the G1 phase. No increase of the level of periwinkle PCNA mRNA was observed in cells arrested at the G1 phase by the inhibition of protein synthesis. These results indicate that the induction of mRNA for periwinkle PCNA occurred independently of the initiation of DNA replication, but that synthesis of certain proteins at the G1 phase was required for the induction of periwinkle PCNA mRNA at the S phase.
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- H Kodama
- Biological Institute, Faculty of Science, Tohoku University, Japan
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Roberts JD, Thomas DC, Kunkel TA. Exonucleolytic proofreading of leading and lagging strand DNA replication errors. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1991; 88:3465-9. [PMID: 1901658 PMCID: PMC51468 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.88.8.3465] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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We have asked whether exonucleolytic proofreading occurs during simian virus 40 origin-dependent, bidirectional DNA replication in extracts of human HeLa cells. In addition, we have compared the fidelity of leading and lagging strand DNA synthesis. In a fidelity assay that scores single-base substitution errors that revert a TGA codon in the lacZ alpha gene in an M13mp vector, providing an excess of a single dNTP substrate over the other three dNTP substrates in a replication reaction generates defined, strand-specific errors. Fidelity measurements with two vectors having the origin of replication on opposite sides of the opal codon demonstrate that error rates for two different A.dCTP and T.dGTP mispairs increase when deoxyguanosine monophosphate is added to replication reaction mixtures or when the concentration of deoxynucleoside triphosphates is increased. The data suggest that exonucleolytic proofreading occurs on both strands during bidirectional replication. Measurements using the two simian virus 40 origin-containing vectors suggest that base substitution error rates are similar for replication of the leading and lagging strands.
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- J D Roberts
- Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
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Kesti T, Syväoja JE. Identification and tryptic cleavage of the catalytic core of HeLa and calf thymus DNA polymerase epsilon. J Biol Chem 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)38123-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Murray LE, Singer RA, Fenwick RG, Johnston GC. The G1 interval in the mammalian cell cycle: dual control by mass accumulation and stage-specific activities. Cell Prolif 1991; 24:215-28. [PMID: 1706946 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2184.1991.tb01151.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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The temporal determinants of the G1 cell cycle interval were investigated using nine mammalian cell lines. In each case, cells were allowed to proliferate for many cell cycles under conditions that slowed progress through S phase without an equivalent impairment of overall mass accumulation. This disproportionate inhibition of progress through the cell cycle caused newly produced cells to be more massive than usual. Under these growth conditions, the determinants of the length of the G1 interval became evident. For two cell lines, HeLa S3 and NIH 3T3, a protracted S phase, and the resultant increase in mass, resulted in a dramatically shortened G1 interval. Thus, for these cell lines, a major portion of G1 time exists to accommodate mass accumulation needed to initiate the subsequent S phase. Nevertheless, under conditions that protracted S phase and shortened the G1 interval, cells still exhibited a measurable G1 time, reflecting the stage-specific activities within G1. One activity that may be responsible for this obligatory G1 time is the synthesis of a labile protein. For other cells studied here, protraction of S phase also caused proliferating cells to become more massive, but in these cases there was no diminution of the G1 time. For these cells, the entire G1 interval must accommodate G1-specific activities necessary to initiate a new cell cycle. A unifying view of the G1 interval recognizes the two distinct influences that determine the time spent in G1: the need to accumulate sufficient mass to initiate a new DNA-division sequence; and the stage-specific events necessary for the subsequent S phase. The length of the G1 interval is dictated by the longer of these two time-consuming activities.
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- L E Murray
- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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