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Gu Y, Yi Z, Zhou Z, Wang J, Li S, Zhu P, Liu N, Xu Y, He L, Wang Y, Fan Z. SNORD88B-mediated WRN nucleolar trafficking drives self-renewal in liver cancer initiating cells and hepatocarcinogenesis. Nat Commun 2024; 15:6730. [PMID: 39112443 PMCID: PMC11306581 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-50987-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2023] [Accepted: 07/29/2024] [Indexed: 08/10/2024] Open
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Whether small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) are involved in the regulation of liver cancer stem cells (CSCs) self-renewal and serve as therapeutic targets remains largely unclear. Here we show that a functional snoRNA (SNORD88B) is robustly expressed in Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) tumors and liver CSCs. SNORD88B deficiency abolishes the self-renewal of liver CSCs and hepatocarcinogenesis. Mechanistically, SNORD88B anchors WRN in the nucleolus, promoting XRCC5 interacts with STK4 promoter to suppress its transcription, leading to inactivation of Hippo signaling. Moreover, low expression of STK4 and high expression of XRCC5 are positively correlated with HCC poor prognosis. Additionally, snord88b knockout suppresses mouse liver tumorigenesis. Notably, co-administration of SNORD88B antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) with MST1 agonist adapalene (ADA) exert synergistic antitumor effects and increase overall murine survival. Our findings delineate that SNORD88B drives self-renewal of liver CSCs and accelerates HCC tumorigenesis via non-canonical mechanism, providing potential targets for liver cancer therapy by eliminating liver CSCs.
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- Yang Gu
- Key Laboratory of RNA Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Epigenetic Regulation and Intervention, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of RNA Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Epigenetic Regulation and Intervention, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of RNA Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Epigenetic Regulation and Intervention, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of RNA Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Epigenetic Regulation and Intervention, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of RNA Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Epigenetic Regulation and Intervention, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of RNA Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Epigenetic Regulation and Intervention, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China.
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- Key Laboratory of RNA Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Epigenetic Regulation and Intervention, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Cell Proliferation and Regulation Biology, Beijing Key Laboratory of Gene Resource and Molecular Development, College of Life Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
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- Key Laboratory of RNA Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Epigenetic Regulation and Intervention, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
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Tabanifar B, Moorthy A, Tsai HH, Kannan S, Verma CS, Sabapathy K. JNK mediates cell death by promoting the ubiquitination of the apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease APE1. Cell Rep 2023; 42:113123. [PMID: 37703179 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2023.113123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2023] [Revised: 04/19/2023] [Accepted: 08/28/2023] [Indexed: 09/15/2023] Open
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The c-Jun-NH2-terminal kinases (JNKs) regulate cell death, generally through the direct phosphorylation of both pro- and anti-apoptotic substrates. In this report, we demonstrate an alternate mechanism of JNK-mediated cell death involving the anti-apoptotic protein human apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 (APE1). Treatment of cells with a variety of genotoxic stresses enhanced APE1-JNK (all isoforms of JNK1 or JNK2) interaction, specifically in cells undergoing apoptosis. Steady-state APE1 levels were decreased in these cells, in which APE1 is ubiquitinated and degraded in a JNK-dependent manner. Absence of JNKs reduced APE1 ubiquitination and increased its abundance. Mechanistically, the E3 ligase ITCH associates with both APE1 and JNK and is necessary for JNK-dependent APE1 ubiquitination and degradation. Structural models of the JNK-APE1 interaction support the observation of enhanced association of the complex in the presence of ubiquitin. The data together show a mechanism of JNK-mediated cell death by the degradation of APE1 through ITCH.
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- Bahareh Tabanifar
- Divisions of Cellular & Molecular Research, National Cancer Centre Singapore, Singapore 168583, Singapore
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- Divisions of Cellular & Molecular Research, National Cancer Centre Singapore, Singapore 168583, Singapore
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- Queensland Health Forensic and Scientific Services, Coopers Plains, QLD 4108, Australia
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- Bioinformatics Institute, ASTAR, Singapore 138671, Singapore; Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117558, Singapore; School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637551, Singapore
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- Divisions of Cellular & Molecular Research, National Cancer Centre Singapore, Singapore 168583, Singapore; School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637551, Singapore.
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Abbasi S, Schild-Poulter C. Identification of Ku70 Domain-Specific Interactors Using BioID2. Cells 2021; 10:cells10030646. [PMID: 33799447 PMCID: PMC8001828 DOI: 10.3390/cells10030646] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2021] [Revised: 03/04/2021] [Accepted: 03/10/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Since its inception, proximity-dependent biotin identification (BioID), an in vivo biochemical screening method to identify proximal protein interactors, has seen extensive developments. Improvements and variants of the original BioID technique are being reported regularly, each expanding upon the existing potential of the original technique. While this is advancing our capabilities to study protein interactions under different contexts, we have yet to explore the full potential of the existing BioID variants already at our disposal. Here, we used BioID2 in an innovative manner to identify and map domain-specific protein interactions for the human Ku70 protein. Four HEK293 cell lines were created, each stably expressing various BioID2-tagged Ku70 segments designed to collectively identify factors that interact with different regions of Ku70. Historically, although many interactions have been mapped to the C-terminus of the Ku70 protein, few have been mapped to the N-terminal von Willebrand A-like domain, a canonical protein-binding domain ideally situated as a site for protein interaction. Using this segmented approach, we were able to identify domain-specific interactors as well as evaluate advantages and drawbacks of the BioID2 technique. Our study identifies several potential new Ku70 interactors and validates RNF113A and Spindly as proteins that contact or co-localize with Ku in a Ku70 vWA domain-specific manner.
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Ilina ES, Khodyreva SN, Lavrik OI. Unusual interaction of human apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 (APE1) with abasic sites via the Schiff-base-dependent mechanism. Biochimie 2018; 150:88-99. [PMID: 29730300 DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2018.04.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2017] [Accepted: 04/30/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Clustered apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) sites are more cytotoxic than isolated AP lesions because double strand breaks (DSB) can be formed during repair of closely positioned bistranded AP sites. Formation of DSB due to simultaneous cleavage of bistranded AP sites may be regulated by proteins specifically interacting with this complex lesion. A set of AP DNA duplexes containing AP sites in both strands in different mutual orientation (BS-AP DNAs) was used for search in the extracts of human cells proteins specifically recognizing clustered AP sites. A protein, which formed the Schiff-base-dependent covalent products having an apparent molecular mass of 50 kDa with the subset of BS-AP DNAs, was identified by mass spectrometry as apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 (APE1). The identity of trapped protein was confirmed by Western blot analysis with anti-APE1 antibodies. Purified recombinant human APE1 is also capable of forming the 50 kDa-adducts with efficiency of BS-AP DNAs cross-linking to APE1 being dependent on the mutual orientation of AP sites. In spite of formation of the Schiff-base-dependent intermediate, which is prerequisite for the β-elimination mechanism, APE1 is unable to cleave AP sites. APE1 lacking the first 34 amino acids at the N-terminus, unlike wild type enzyme, is unable to form cross-links with BS-AP DNAs that testifies to the involvement of disordered N-terminal extension, which is enriched in lysine residues, in the interaction with AP sites. The yield of APE1-AP DNA cross-links was found to correlate with the enzyme amount in the extracts estimated by the immunochemical approach; therefore the BS-AP DNA-probes can be useful for comparative analysis of APE1 content in cell extracts.
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- Ekaterina S Ilina
- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia; Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia.
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Uchida K, Tanaka Y, Ichikawa H, Watanabe M, Mitani S, Morita K, Fujii H, Ishikawa M, Yoshino G, Okinaga H, Nagae G, Aburatani H, Ikeda Y, Susa T, Tamamori-Adachi M, Fukusato T, Uozaki H, Okazaki T, Iizuka M. An Excess of CYP24A1, Lack of CaSR, and a Novel lncRNA Near the PTH Gene Characterize an Ectopic PTH-Producing Tumor. J Endocr Soc 2017; 1:691-711. [PMID: 29264523 PMCID: PMC5686629 DOI: 10.1210/js.2017-00063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2017] [Accepted: 04/25/2017] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Thus far, only 23 cases of the ectopic production of parathyroid hormone (PTH) have been reported. We have characterized the genome-wide transcription profile of an ectopic PTH-producing tumor originating from a retroperitoneal histiocytoma. We found that the calcium-sensing receptor (CaSR) was barely expressed in the tumor. Lack of CaSR, a crucial braking apparatus in the presence of both intraparathyroid and, probably, serendipitous PTH expression, might contribute strongly to the establishment and maintenance of the ectopic transcriptional activation of the PTH gene in nonparathyroid cells. Along with candidate drivers with a crucial frameshift mutation or copy number variation at specific chromosomal areas obtained from whole exome sequencing, we identified robust tumor-specific cytochrome P450 family 24 subfamily A member 1 (CYP24A1) overproduction, which was not observed in other non–PTH-expressing retroperitoneal histiocytoma and parathyroid adenoma samples. We then found a 2.5-kb noncoding RNA in the PTH 3′-downstream region that was exclusively present in the parathyroid adenoma and our tumor. Such a co-occurrence might act as another driver of ectopic PTH-producing tumorigenesis; both might release the control of PTH gene expression by shutting down the other branches of the safety system (e.g., CaSR and the vitamin D3–vitamin D receptor axis).
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- Kosuke Uchida
- Department of Biochemistry, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo 173-0003, Japan.,Department of General Practice, National Defense Medical College, Saitama 359-0042, Japan
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- Department of General Practice, National Defense Medical College, Saitama 359-0042, Japan
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- Genetics Division, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo 104-0045, Japan
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- Department of Pathology, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo 173-0003, Japan
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- Genetics Division, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo 104-0045, Japan
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo 173-0003, Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo 173-0003, Japan.,Department of Internal Medicine, Self-Defense Forces Central Hospital, Tokyo 154-8532, Japan
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- Diabetes and Arteriosclerosis, Nippon Medical School, Musashikosugi Hospital, Kanagawa 211-8533, Japan
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- Center for Diabetes, Shinsuma General Hospital, Hyogo 654-0047, Japan
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo 173-0003, Japan
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- Genome Science Laboratory Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153-8904, Japan
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- Genome Science Laboratory Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153-8904, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo 173-0003, Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo 173-0003, Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo 173-0003, Japan
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- Department of Pathology, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo 173-0003, Japan
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- Department of Pathology, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo 173-0003, Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo 173-0003, Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo 173-0003, Japan
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Kaufman KL, Jenkins Y, Alomari M, Mirzaei M, Best OG, Pascovici D, Mactier S, Mulligan SP, Haynes PA, Christopherson RI. The Hsp90 inhibitor SNX-7081 is synergistic with fludarabine nucleoside via DNA damage and repair mechanisms in human, p53-negative chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Oncotarget 2015; 6:40981-97. [PMID: 26556860 PMCID: PMC4747384 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.5715] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2015] [Accepted: 09/16/2015] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Clinical trials of heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) inhibitors have been limited by high toxicity. We previously showed that the Hsp90 inhibitor, SNX-7081, synergizes with and restores sensitivity to fludarabine nucleoside (2-FaraA) in human chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) cells with lesions in the p53 pathway (Best OG, et al., Leukemia Lymphoma 53:1367-75, 2012). Here, we used label-free quantitative shotgun proteomics and comprehensive bioinformatic analysis to determine the mechanism of this synergy. We propose that 2-FaraA-induced DNA damage is compounded by SNX-7081-mediated inhibition of DNA repair, resulting in enhanced induction of apoptosis. DNA damage responses are impaired in part due to reductions in checkpoint regulators BRCA1 and cyclin D1, and cell death is triggered following reductions of MYC and nucleolin and an accumulation of apoptosis-inducing NFkB2 p100 subunit. Loss of nucleolin can activate Fas-mediated apoptosis, leading to the increase of pro-apoptotic proteins (BID, fas-associated factor-2) and subsequent apoptosis of p53-negative, 2-FaraA refractory CLL cells. A significant induction of DNA damage, indicated by increases in DNA damage marker γH2AX, was observed following the dual drug treatment of additional cell lines, indicating that a similar mechanism may operate in other p53-mutated human B-lymphoid cancers. These results provide valuable insight into the synergistic mechanism between SNX-7081 and 2-FaraA that may provide an alternative treatment for CLL patients with p53 mutations, for whom therapeutic options are currently limited. Moreover, this drug combination reduces the effective dose of the Hsp90 inhibitor and may therefore alleviate any toxicity encountered.
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MESH Headings
- Antineoplastic Agents/pharmacology
- Apoptosis/drug effects
- BRCA1 Protein/metabolism
- Benzamides/pharmacology
- Blotting, Western
- Cell Line, Tumor
- Chromatography, Liquid/methods
- Cyclin D1/metabolism
- DNA Damage
- DNA Repair/drug effects
- Drug Synergism
- HSP90 Heat-Shock Proteins/antagonists & inhibitors
- HSP90 Heat-Shock Proteins/metabolism
- Humans
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/genetics
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/metabolism
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/pathology
- Mutation
- NF-kappa B p52 Subunit/metabolism
- Phosphoproteins/metabolism
- Protein Interaction Maps/drug effects
- Proteomics/methods
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-myc/metabolism
- RNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism
- Signal Transduction/drug effects
- Signal Transduction/genetics
- Tandem Mass Spectrometry
- Tumor Suppressor Protein p53/genetics
- Tumor Suppressor Protein p53/metabolism
- Vidarabine/analogs & derivatives
- Vidarabine/pharmacology
- Nucleolin
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- Kimberley L. Kaufman
- School of Molecular Bioscience, University of Sydney, Darlington, NSW 2006, Australia
- Molecular Neuropathology, Brain and Mind Centre, Camperdown, NSW 2050, Australia
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- School of Molecular Bioscience, University of Sydney, Darlington, NSW 2006, Australia
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- School of Molecular Bioscience, University of Sydney, Darlington, NSW 2006, Australia
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- Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW 2109, Australia
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- Northern Blood Research Centre, Kolling Institute for Medical Research, Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, NSW 2065, Australia
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- Australian Proteome Analysis Facility, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW 2109, Australia
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- School of Molecular Bioscience, University of Sydney, Darlington, NSW 2006, Australia
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- Northern Blood Research Centre, Kolling Institute for Medical Research, Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, NSW 2065, Australia
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- Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW 2109, Australia
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The Ku heterodimer: function in DNA repair and beyond. MUTATION RESEARCH-REVIEWS IN MUTATION RESEARCH 2014; 763:15-29. [PMID: 25795113 DOI: 10.1016/j.mrrev.2014.06.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 187] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2014] [Revised: 06/07/2014] [Accepted: 06/25/2014] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Ku is an abundant, highly conserved DNA binding protein found in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes that plays essential roles in the maintenance of genome integrity. In eukaryotes, Ku is a heterodimer comprised of two subunits, Ku70 and Ku80, that is best characterized for its central role as the initial DNA end binding factor in the "classical" non-homologous end joining (C-NHEJ) pathway, the main DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair pathway in mammals. Ku binds double-stranded DNA ends with high affinity in a sequence-independent manner through a central ring formed by the intertwined strands of the Ku70 and Ku80 subunits. At the break, Ku directly and indirectly interacts with several C-NHEJ factors and processing enzymes, serving as the scaffold for the entire DNA repair complex. There is also evidence that Ku is involved in signaling to the DNA damage response (DDR) machinery to modulate the activation of cell cycle checkpoints and the activation of apoptosis. Interestingly, Ku is also associated with telomeres, where, paradoxically to its DNA end-joining functions, it protects the telomere ends from being recognized as DSBs, thereby preventing their recombination and degradation. Ku, together with the silent information regulator (Sir) complex is also required for transcriptional silencing through telomere position effect (TPE). How Ku associates with telomeres, whether it is through direct DNA binding, or through protein-protein interactions with other telomere bound factors remains to be determined. Ku is central to the protection of organisms through its participation in C-NHEJ to repair DSBs generated during V(D)J recombination, a process that is indispensable for the establishment of the immune response. Ku also functions to prevent tumorigenesis and senescence since Ku-deficient mice show increased cancer incidence and early onset of aging. Overall, Ku function is critical to the maintenance of genomic integrity and to proper cellular and organismal development.
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Grundy GJ, Moulding HA, Caldecott KW, Rulten SL. One ring to bring them all--the role of Ku in mammalian non-homologous end joining. DNA Repair (Amst) 2014; 17:30-8. [PMID: 24680220 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2014.02.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2014] [Accepted: 02/25/2014] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The repair of DNA double strand breaks is essential for cell survival and several conserved pathways have evolved to ensure their rapid and efficient repair. The non-homologous end joining pathway is initiated when Ku binds to the DNA break site. Ku is an abundant nuclear heterodimer of Ku70 and Ku80 with a toroidal structure that allows the protein to slide over the broken DNA end and bind with high affinity. Once locked into placed, Ku acts as a tool-belt to recruit multiple interacting proteins, forming one or more non-homologous end joining complexes that act in a regulated manner to ensure efficient repair of DNA ends. Here we review the structure and functions of Ku and the proteins with which it interacts during non-homologous end joining.
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- Gabrielle J Grundy
- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, Science Park Road, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RQ, UK.
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- School of Biochemistry, Medical Sciences, University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TD, UK
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- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, Science Park Road, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RQ, UK.
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- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, Science Park Road, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RQ, UK.
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The redox function of APE1 is involved in the differentiation process of stem cells toward a neuronal cell fate. PLoS One 2014; 9:e89232. [PMID: 24586617 PMCID: PMC3929656 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0089232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2013] [Accepted: 01/16/2014] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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UNLABELLED Low-to-moderate levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) govern different steps of neurogenesis via molecular pathways that have been decrypted only partially. Although it has been postulated that redox-sensitive molecules are involved in neuronal differentiation, the molecular bases for this process have not been elucidated yet. The aim of this work was therefore to study the role played by the redox-sensitive, multifunctional protein APE1/Ref-1 (APE1) in the differentiation process of human adipose tissue-derived multipotent adult stem cells (hAT-MASC) and embryonic carcinoma stem cells (EC) towards a neuronal phenotype. METHODS AND RESULTS Applying a definite protocol, hAT-MASC can adopt a neural fate. During this maturation process, differentiating cells significantly increase their intracellular Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) levels and increase the APE1 nuclear fraction bound to chromatin. This latter event is paralleled by the increase of nuclear NF-κB, a transcription factor regulated by APE1 in a redox-dependent fashion. Importantly, the addition of the antioxidant N-acetyl cysteine (NAC) to the differentiation medium partially prevents the nuclear accumulation of APE1, increasing the neuronal differentiation of hAT-MASC. To investigate the involvement of APE1 in the differentiation process, we employed E3330, a specific inhibitor of the APE1 redox function. The addition of E3330, either to the neurogenic embryonic carcinoma cell line NT2-D1or to hAT-MASC, increases the differentiation of stem cells towards a neural phenotype, biasing the differentiation towards specific subtypes, such as dopaminergic cells. In conclusion, during the differentiation process of stem cells towards a neuroectodermic phenotype, APE1 is recruited, in a ROS-dependent manner, to the chromatin. This event is associated with an inhibitory effect of APE1 on neurogenesis that may be reversed by E3330. Therefore, E3330 may be employed both to boost neural differentiation and to bias the differentiation potential of stem cells towards specific neuronal subtypes. These findings provide a molecular basis for the redox-mediated hypothesis of neuronal differentiation program.
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SIGNIFICANCE Human apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 (APE1, also known as REF-1) was isolated based on its ability to cleave at AP sites in DNA or activate the DNA binding activity of certain transcription factors. We review herein topics related to this multi-functional DNA repair and stress-response protein. RECENT ADVANCES APE1 displays homology to Escherichia coli exonuclease III and is a member of the divalent metal-dependent α/β fold-containing phosphoesterase superfamily of enzymes. APE1 has acquired distinct active site and loop elements that dictate substrate selectivity, and a unique N-terminus which at minimum imparts nuclear targeting and interaction specificity. Additional activities ascribed to APE1 include 3'-5' exonuclease, 3'-repair diesterase, nucleotide incision repair, damaged or site-specific RNA cleavage, and multiple transcription regulatory roles. CRITICAL ISSUES APE1 is essential for mouse embryogenesis and contributes to cell viability in a genetic background-dependent manner. Haploinsufficient APE1(+/-) mice exhibit reduced survival, increased cancer formation, and cellular/tissue hyper-sensitivity to oxidative stress, supporting the notion that impaired APE1 function associates with disease susceptibility. Although abnormal APE1 expression/localization has been seen in cancer and neuropathologies, and impaired-function variants have been described, a causal link between an APE1 defect and human disease remains elusive. FUTURE DIRECTIONS Ongoing efforts aim at delineating the biological role(s) of the different APE1 activities, as well as the regulatory mechanisms for its intra-cellular distribution and participation in diverse molecular pathways. The determination of whether APE1 defects contribute to human disease, particularly pathologies that involve oxidative stress, and whether APE1 small-molecule regulators have clinical utility, is central to future investigations.
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- Mengxia Li
- Intramural Research Program, Laboratory of Molecular Gerontology, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health , Baltimore, Maryland
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Scott TL, Rangaswamy S, Wicker CA, Izumi T. Repair of oxidative DNA damage and cancer: recent progress in DNA base excision repair. Antioxid Redox Signal 2014; 20:708-26. [PMID: 23901781 PMCID: PMC3960848 DOI: 10.1089/ars.2013.5529] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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SIGNIFICANCE Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are generated by exogenous and environmental genotoxins, but also arise from mitochondria as byproducts of respiration in the body. ROS generate DNA damage of which pathological consequence, including cancer is well established. Research efforts are intense to understand the mechanism of DNA base excision repair, the primary mechanism to protect cells from genotoxicity caused by ROS. RECENT ADVANCES In addition to the notion that oxidative DNA damage causes transformation of cells, recent studies have revealed how the mitochondrial deficiencies and ROS generation alter cell growth during the cancer transformation. CRITICAL ISSUES The emphasis of this review is to highlight the importance of the cellular response to oxidative DNA damage during carcinogenesis. Oxidative DNA damage, including 7,8-dihydro-8-oxoguanine, play an important role during the cellular transformation. It is also becoming apparent that the unusual activity and subcellular distribution of apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1, an essential DNA repair factor/redox sensor, affect cancer malignancy by increasing cellular resistance to oxidative stress and by positively influencing cell proliferation. FUTURE DIRECTIONS Technological advancement in cancer cell biology and genetics has enabled us to monitor the detailed DNA repair activities in the microenvironment. Precise understanding of the intracellular activities of DNA repair proteins for oxidative DNA damage should provide help in understanding how mitochondria, ROS, DNA damage, and repair influence cancer transformation.
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- Timothy L Scott
- Graduate Center for Toxicology, University of Kentucky , Lexington, Kentucky
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Antoniali G, Lirussi L, D'Ambrosio C, Dal Piaz F, Vascotto C, Casarano E, Marasco D, Scaloni A, Fogolari F, Tell G. SIRT1 gene expression upon genotoxic damage is regulated by APE1 through nCaRE-promoter elements. Mol Biol Cell 2013; 25:532-47. [PMID: 24356447 PMCID: PMC3923644 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e13-05-0286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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APE1 is recruited to the transcription initiation site of the SIRT1 promoter during early cell response to oxidative stress. This reveals the importance of BER enzyme involvement in controlling specific gene expression at the transcriptional level. Apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 (APE1) is a multifunctional protein contributing to genome stability via repair of DNA lesions via the base excision repair pathway. It also plays a role in gene expression regulation and RNA metabolism. Another, poorly characterized function is its ability to bind to negative calcium responsive elements (nCaRE) of some gene promoters. The presence of many functional nCaRE sequences regulating gene transcription can be envisioned, given their conservation within ALU repeats. To look for functional nCaRE sequences within the human genome, we performed bioinformatic analyses and identified 57 genes potentially regulated by APE1. We focused on sirtuin-1 (SIRT1) deacetylase due to its involvement in cell stress, including senescence, apoptosis, and tumorigenesis, and its role in the deacetylation of APE1 after genotoxic stress. The human SIRT1 promoter presents two nCaRE elements stably bound by APE1 through its N-terminus. We demonstrate that APE1 is part of a multiprotein complex including hOGG1, Ku70, and RNA Pol II, which is recruited on SIRT1 promoter to regulate SIRT1 gene functions during early response to oxidative stress. These findings provide new insights into the role of nCaRE sequences in the transcriptional regulation of mammalian genes.
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- Giulia Antoniali
- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Technologies, University of Udine, 33100 Udine, Italy Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, ISPAAM, National Research Council, 80147 Naples, Italy Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Salerno, 84084 Fisciano (Salerno), Italy Department of Pharmacy, University of Naples "Federico II," 80134 Naples, Italy Institute of Biostructures and Bioimaging, National Research Council, 80134 Naples, Italy
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Povirk LF. Processing of damaged DNA ends for double-strand break repair in mammalian cells. ISRN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2012; 2012. [PMID: 24236237 PMCID: PMC3825254 DOI: 10.5402/2012/345805] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Most DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs)formed in a natural environment have chemical modifications at or near the ends that preclude direct religation and require removal or other processing so that rejoining can proceed. Free radical-mediated DSBs typically bear unligatable 3'-phosphate or 3'-phosphoglycolate termini and often have oxidized bases and/or abasic sites near the break. Topoisomerase-mediated DSBs are blocked by covalently bound peptide fragments of the topoisomerase. Enzymes capable of resolving damaged ends include polynucleotide kinase/phosphatase, which restores missing 5'-phosphates and removes 3'-phosphates; tyrosyl-DNA phosphodiesterases I and II (TDP1 and TDP2), which remove peptide fragments of topoisomerases I and II, respectively, and the Artemis and Metnase endonucleases, which can trim damaged overhangs of diverse structure. TDP1 as well as APE1 can remove 3'-phosphoglycolates and other 3' blocks, while CtIP appears to provide an alternative pathway for topoisomerase II fragment removal. Ku, a core DSB joining protein, can cleave abasic sites near DNA ends. The downstream processes of patching and ligation are tolerant of residual damage, and can sometimes proceed without complete damage removal. Despite these redundant pathways for resolution, damaged ends appear to be a significant barrier to rejoining, and their resolution may be a rate-limiting step in repair of some DSBs..
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- Lawrence F Povirk
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, and Massey Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, 401 College St. Richmond, VA 23298, USA, 804-828-9640
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Kelley MR, Georgiadis MM, Fishel ML. APE1/Ref-1 role in redox signaling: translational applications of targeting the redox function of the DNA repair/redox protein APE1/Ref-1. Curr Mol Pharmacol 2012; 5:36-53. [PMID: 22122463 DOI: 10.2174/1874467211205010036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2010] [Revised: 08/18/2010] [Accepted: 08/25/2010] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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The heterogeneity of most cancers diminishes the treatment effectiveness of many cancer-killing regimens. Thus, treatments that hold the most promise are ones that block multiple signaling pathways essential to cancer survival. One of the most promising proteins in that regard is APE1, whose reduction-oxidation activity influences multiple cancer survival mechanisms, including growth, proliferation, metastasis, angiogenesis, and stress responses. With the continued research using APE1 redox specific inhibitors alone or coupled with developing APE1 DNA repair inhibitors it will now be possible to further delineate the role of APE1 redox, repair and protein-protein interactions. Previously, use of siRNA or over expression approaches, while valuable, do not give a clear picture of the two major functions of APE1 since both techniques severely alter the cellular milieu. Additionally, use of the redox-specific APE1 inhibitor, APX3330, now makes it possible to study how inhibition of APE1's redox signaling can affect multiple tumor pathways and can potentiate the effectiveness of existing cancer regimens. Because APE1 is an upstream effector of VEGF, as well as other molecules that relate to angiogenesis and the tumor microenvironment, it is also being studied as a possible treatment for agerelated macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy. This paper reviews all of APE1's functions, while heavily focusing on its redox activities. It also discusses APE1's altered expression in many cancers and the therapeutic potential of selective inhibition of redox regulation, which is the subject of intense preclinical studies.
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- Mark R Kelley
- Department of Pediatrics (Section of Hematology/Oncology), Herman B Wells Center for Pediatric Research, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.
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Tell G, Fantini D, Quadrifoglio F. Understanding different functions of mammalian AP endonuclease (APE1) as a promising tool for cancer treatment. Cell Mol Life Sci 2010; 67:3589-608. [PMID: 20706766 PMCID: PMC11115856 DOI: 10.1007/s00018-010-0486-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2010] [Accepted: 07/28/2010] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The apurinic endonuclease 1/redox factor-1 (APE1) has a crucial function in DNA repair and in redox signaling in mammals, and recent studies identify it as an excellent target for sensitizing tumor cells to chemotherapy. APE1 is an essential enzyme in the base excision repair pathway of DNA lesions caused by oxidation and alkylation. As importantly, APE1 also functions as a redox agent maintaining transcription factors involved in cancer promotion and progression in an active reduced state. Very recently, a new unsuspected function of APE1 in RNA metabolism was discovered, opening new perspectives for this multifunctional protein. These observations underline the necessity to understand the molecular mechanisms responsible for fine-tuning its different biological functions. This survey intends to give an overview of the multifunctional roles of APE1 and their regulation in the context of considering this protein a promising tool for anticancer therapy.
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- Gianluca Tell
- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Technologies, University of Udine, Piazzale Kolbe 4, 33100, Udine, Italy.
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Fantini D, Vascotto C, Marasco D, D'Ambrosio C, Romanello M, Vitagliano L, Pedone C, Poletto M, Cesaratto L, Quadrifoglio F, Scaloni A, Radicella JP, Tell G. Critical lysine residues within the overlooked N-terminal domain of human APE1 regulate its biological functions. Nucleic Acids Res 2010; 38:8239-56. [PMID: 20699270 PMCID: PMC3001066 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq691] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 (APE1), an essential protein in mammals, is involved in base excision DNA repair (BER) and in regulation of gene expression, acting as a redox co-activator of several transcription factors. Recent findings highlight a novel role for APE1 in RNA metabolism, which is modulated by nucleophosmin (NPM1). The results reported in this article show that five lysine residues (K24, K25, K27, K31 and K32), located in the APE1 N-terminal unstructured domain, are involved in the interaction of APE1 with both RNA and NPM1, thus supporting a competitive binding mechanism. Data from kinetic experiments demonstrate that the APE1 N-terminal domain also serves as a device for fine regulation of protein catalytic activity on abasic DNA. Interestingly, some of these critical lysine residues undergo acetylation in vivo. These results suggest that protein–protein interactions and/or post-translational modifications involving APE1 N-terminal domain may play important in vivo roles, in better coordinating and fine-tuning protein BER activity and function on RNA metabolism.
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- Damiano Fantini
- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Technologies, University of Udine, 33100 Udine, Italy
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Bhattaracharyya A, Chattopadhyay R, Burnette BR, Cross JV, Mitra S, Ernst PB, Bhakat KK, Crowe SE. Acetylation of apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease-1 regulates Helicobacter pylori-mediated gastric epithelial cell apoptosis. Gastroenterology 2009; 136:2258-69. [PMID: 19505426 PMCID: PMC2694750 DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2009.02.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2008] [Revised: 02/02/2009] [Accepted: 02/10/2009] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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BACKGROUND & AIMS Helicobacter pylori-induced gastric epithelial cell (GEC) apoptosis is a complex process that includes activation of the tumor suppressor p53. p53-mediated apoptosis involves p53 activation, bax transcription, and cytochrome c release from mitochondria. Apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease-1 (APE-1) regulates transcriptional activity of p53, and H pylori induce APE-1 expression in human GECs. H pylori infection increases intracellular calcium ion concentration [Ca2+]i of GECs, which induces APE-1 acetylation. We investigated the effects of H pylori infection and APE-1 acetylation on GEC apoptosis. METHODS AGS cells (wild-type or with suppressed APE-1), KATO III cells, and cells isolated from gastric biopsy specimens were infected with H pylori. Effects were examined by immunoblotting, real-time reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction, immunoprecipitation, immunofluorescence microscopy, chromatin immunoprecipitation, mobility shift, DNA binding, and luciferase assays. RESULTS H pylori infection increased [Ca2+]i and acetylation of APE-1 in GECs, but the acetylation status of APE-1 did not affect the transcriptional activity of p53. In GECs, expression of a form of APE-1 that could not be acetylated increased total and mitochondrial levels of Bax and induced release of cytochrome c and fragmentation of DNA; expression of wild-type APE-1 reduced these apoptotic events. We identified a negative calcium response element in the human bax promoter and found that poly (adenosine diphosphate-ribose) polymerase 1 recruited the acetylated APE-1/histone deacetylase-1 repressor complex to bax nCaRE. CONCLUSIONS H pylori-mediated acetylation of APE-1 suppresses Bax expression; this prevents p53-mediated apoptosis when H pylori infect GECs.
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- Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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Vascotto C, Fantini D, Romanello M, Cesaratto L, Deganuto M, Leonardi A, Radicella JP, Kelley MR, D'Ambrosio C, Scaloni A, Quadrifoglio F, Tell G. APE1/Ref-1 interacts with NPM1 within nucleoli and plays a role in the rRNA quality control process. Mol Cell Biol 2009; 29:1834-54. [PMID: 19188445 PMCID: PMC2655621 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.01337-08] [Citation(s) in RCA: 180] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2008] [Revised: 09/29/2008] [Accepted: 01/20/2009] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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APE1/Ref-1 (hereafter, APE1), a DNA repair enzyme and a transcriptional coactivator, is a vital protein in mammals. Its role in controlling cell growth and the molecular mechanisms that fine-tune its different cellular functions are still not known. By an unbiased proteomic approach, we have identified and characterized several novel APE1 partners which, unexpectedly, include a number of proteins involved in ribosome biogenesis and RNA processing. In particular, a novel interaction between nucleophosmin (NPM1) and APE1 was characterized. We observed that the 33 N-terminal residues of APE1 are required for stable interaction with the NPM1 oligomerization domain. As a consequence of the interaction with NPM1 and RNA, APE1 is localized within the nucleolus and this localization depends on cell cycle and active rRNA transcription. NPM1 stimulates APE1 endonuclease activity on abasic double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) but decreases APE1 endonuclease activity on abasic single-stranded RNA (ssRNA) by masking the N-terminal region of APE1 required for stable RNA binding. In APE1-knocked-down cells, pre-rRNA synthesis and rRNA processing were not affected but inability to remove 8-hydroxyguanine-containing rRNA upon oxidative stress, impaired translation, lower intracellular protein content, and decreased cell growth rate were found. Our data demonstrate that APE1 affects cell growth by directly acting on RNA quality control mechanisms, thus affecting gene expression through posttranscriptional mechanisms.
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MESH Headings
- Binding, Competitive
- Cell Cycle
- Cell Nucleolus/metabolism
- Cell Proliferation
- DNA/metabolism
- DNA-(Apurinic or Apyrimidinic Site) Lyase/chemistry
- DNA-(Apurinic or Apyrimidinic Site) Lyase/metabolism
- Electrophoresis, Gel, Two-Dimensional
- HeLa Cells
- Humans
- Nuclear Proteins/chemistry
- Nuclear Proteins/metabolism
- Nucleophosmin
- Oxidation-Reduction
- Peptide Mapping
- Protein Binding
- Protein Biosynthesis
- Protein Interaction Mapping
- Protein Multimerization
- Protein Structure, Tertiary
- RNA, Ribosomal/genetics
- RNA, Ribosomal/metabolism
- RNA, Ribosomal, 18S/metabolism
- RNA, Ribosomal, 28S/metabolism
- Transcription, Genetic
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- Carlo Vascotto
- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Technologies, University of Udine, P.le Kolbe 4, 33100 Udine, Italy
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Bhakat KK, Mantha AK, Mitra S. Transcriptional regulatory functions of mammalian AP-endonuclease (APE1/Ref-1), an essential multifunctional protein. Antioxid Redox Signal 2009; 11:621-38. [PMID: 18715144 PMCID: PMC2933571 DOI: 10.1089/ars.2008.2198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 197] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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The mammalian AP-endonuclease (APE1/Ref-1) plays a central role in the repair of oxidized and alkylated bases in mammalian genomes via the base excision repair (BER) pathway. However, APE1, unlike its E. coli prototype Xth, has two unique and apparently distinct transcriptional regulatory activities. APE1 functions as a redox effector factor (Ref-1) for several transcription factors including AP-1, HIF1-alpha, and p53. APE1 was also identified as a direct trans-acting factor for repressing human parathyroid hormone (PTH) and renin genes by binding to the negative calcium-response element (nCaRE) in their promoters. We have characterized APE1's post-translational modification, namely, acetylation which modulates its transcriptional regulatory function. Furthermore, stable interaction of APE1 with several other trans-acting factors including HIF-1alpha, STAT3, YB-1, HDAC1, and CBP/p300 and formation of distinct trans-acting complexes support APE1's direct regulatory function for diverse genes. Multiple functions of mammalian APE1, both in DNA repair and gene regulation, warrant extensive analysis of its own regulation and dissection of the mechanisms. In this review, we have discussed APE1's own regulation and its role as a transcriptional coactivator or corepressor by both redox-dependent and redox-independent (acetylation-mediated) mechanisms, and explore the potential utility of targeting these functions for enhancing drug sensitivity of cancer cells.
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- Kishor K Bhakat
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Sealy Center for Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas 77555, USA.
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Tell G, Quadrifoglio F, Tiribelli C, Kelley MR. The many functions of APE1/Ref-1: not only a DNA repair enzyme. Antioxid Redox Signal 2009; 11:601-20. [PMID: 18976116 PMCID: PMC2811080 DOI: 10.1089/ars.2008.2194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 358] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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APE1/Ref-1 (APE1), the mammalian ortholog of Escherichia coli Xth, and a multifunctional protein possessing both DNA repair and transcriptional regulatory activities, has a pleiotropic role in controlling cellular response to oxidative stress. APE1 is the main apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease in eukaryotic cells, playing a central role in the DNA base excision repair pathway of all DNA lesions (uracil, alkylated and oxidized, and abasic sites), including single-strand breaks, and has also cotranscriptional activity by modulating genes expression directly regulated by either ubiquitous (i.e., AP-1, Egr-1, NFkappa-B, p53, and HIF) and tissue specific (i.e., PEBP-2, Pax-5 and -8, and TTF-1) transcription factors. In addition, it controls the intracellular redox state by inhibiting the reactive oxygen species (ROS) production. At present, information is still inadequate regarding the molecular mechanisms responsible for the coordinated control of its several activities. Both expression and/or subcellular localization are altered in several metabolic and proliferative disorders such as in tumors and aging. Here, we have attempted to coalesce the most relevant information concerning APE1's different functions in order to shed new light and to focus current and future studies to fully understand this unique molecule that is acquiring more and more interest and translational relevance in the field of molecular medicine.
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- Gianluca Tell
- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Technologies, University of Udine, Udine, Italy.
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The DNA base excision repair (BER) pathway repairs alkylation and oxidative DNA damage caused by endogenous and exogenous agents, including chemotherapeutic agents. Upon removal of the damaged base AP endonuclease 1 (Ape1), a critical component of the pathway cleaves the abasic site to facilitate repair. Ape1 is a multifunctional protein which plays a role not only in DNA repair but it also functions as a reduction-oxidation factor, known as Ref-1 in the literature, to increase the DNA binding ability of several transcription factors involved in different growth signaling pathways. Elevated levels of Ape1 have been linked to resistance to chemotherapy, poor prognosis, and poor survival. Reducing the amount of Ape1 protein in cancer cells and tumors using RNA interference and anti-sense oligonucleotide technology sensitizes mammalian tumor cells to a variety of laboratory and chemotherapeutic agents. Therefore, selective inhibition of Ape1's DNA repair activity is a promising avenue to develop novel cancer therapeutics.
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- Aditi Bapat
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
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Ape1/Ref-1 induces glial cell-derived neurotropic factor (GDNF) responsiveness by upregulating GDNF receptor alpha1 expression. Mol Cell Biol 2009; 29:2264-77. [PMID: 19188437 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.01484-08] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 (Ape1/Ref-1) dysregulation has been identified in several human tumors and in patients with a variety of neurodegenerative diseases. However, the function of Ape1/Ref-1 is unclear. We show here that Ape1/Ref-1 increases the expression of glial cell-derived neurotropic factor (GDNF) receptor alpha1 (GFRalpha1), a key receptor for GDNF. Expression of Ape1/Ref-1 led to an increase in the GDNF responsiveness in human fibroblast. Ape1/Ref-1 induced GFRalpha1 transcription through enhanced binding of NF-kappaB complexes to the GFRalpha1 promoter. GFRalpha1 levels correlate proportionally with Ape1/Ref-1 in cancer cells. The knockdown of endogenous Ape1/Ref-1 in pancreatic cancer cells markedly suppressed GFRalpha1 expression and invasion in response to GNDF, while overexpression of GFRalpha1 restored invasion. In neuronal cells, the Ape1/Ref-1-mediated increase in GDNF responsiveness not only stimulated neurite outgrowth but also protected the cells from beta-amyloid peptide and oxidative stress. Our results show that Ape1/Ref-1 is a novel physiological regulator of GDNF responsiveness, and they also suggest that Ape1/Ref-1-induced GFRalpha1 expression may play important roles in pancreatic cancer progression and neuronal cell survival.
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Luo M, Delaplane S, Jiang A, Reed A, He Y, Fishel M, Nyland RL, Borch RF, Qiao X, Georgiadis MM, Kelley MR. Role of the multifunctional DNA repair and redox signaling protein Ape1/Ref-1 in cancer and endothelial cells: small-molecule inhibition of the redox function of Ape1. Antioxid Redox Signal 2008; 10:1853-67. [PMID: 18627350 PMCID: PMC2587278 DOI: 10.1089/ars.2008.2120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The DNA base excision-repair pathway is responsible for the repair of DNA damage caused by oxidation/alkylation and protects cells against the effects of endogenous and exogenous agents. Removal of the damaged base creates a baseless (AP) site. AP endonuclease1 (Ape1) acts on this site to continue the BER-pathway repair. Failure to repair baseless sites leads to DNA strand breaks and cytotoxicity. In addition to the repair role of Ape1, it also functions as a major redox-signaling factor to reduce and activate transcription factors such as AP1, p53, HIF-1alpha, and others that control the expression of genes important for cell survival and cancer promotion and progression. Thus, the Ape1 protein interacts with proteins involved in DNA repair, growth-signaling pathways, and pathways involved in tumor promotion and progression. Although knockdown studies with siRNA have been informative in studying the role of Ape1 in both normal and cancer cells, knocking down Ape1 does not reveal the individual role of the redox or repair functions of Ape1. The identification of small-molecule inhibitors of specific Ape1 functions is critical for mechanistic studies and translational applications. Here we discuss small-molecule inhibition of Ape1 redox and its effect on both cancer and endothelial cells.
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- Meihua Luo
- Department of Pediatrics (Section of Hematology/Oncology), Herman B Wells Center for Pediatric Research, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, USA
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Ku antigen interacts with abasic sites. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS 2008; 1784:1777-85. [PMID: 18757043 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2008.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2008] [Revised: 07/28/2008] [Accepted: 08/05/2008] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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One of the most abundant lesions in DNA is the abasic (AP) sites arising spontaneously or as an intermediate in base excision repair. Certain proteins participating in the processing of these lesions form a Schiff base with the deoxyribose of the AP site. This intermediate can be stabilized by NaBH(4) treatment. By this method, DNA duplexes with AP sites were used to trap proteins in cell extracts. In HeLa cell extract, along with a prevalent trap product with an apparent molecular mass of 95 kDa, less intensive low-molecular-weight products were observed. The major one was identified as the p80-subunit of Ku antigen (Ku). Ku antigen, a DNA binding component of DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK), participates in double-stranded break repair and is responsible for the resistance of cells to ionizing radiation. The specificity of Ku interaction with AP sites was proven by more efficient competition of DNA duplexes with an analogue of abasic site than non-AP DNA. Ku80 was cross-linked to AP DNAs with different efficiencies depending on the size and position of strand interruptions opposite to AP sites. Ku antigen as a part of DNA-PK was shown to inhibit AP site cleavage by apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1.
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Dyrkheeva NS, Khodyreva SN, Lavrik OI. Multifunctional human apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1: Role of additional functions. Mol Biol 2007. [DOI: 10.1134/s0026893307030065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Fishel ML, Kelley MR. The DNA base excision repair protein Ape1/Ref-1 as a therapeutic and chemopreventive target. Mol Aspects Med 2007; 28:375-95. [PMID: 17560642 DOI: 10.1016/j.mam.2007.04.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 205] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2007] [Accepted: 04/15/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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With our growing understanding of the pathways involved in cell proliferation and signaling, targeted therapies, in the treatment of cancer are entering the clinical arena. New and emerging targets are proteins involved in DNA repair pathways. Inhibition of various proteins in the DNA repair pathways sensitizes cancer cells to DNA damaging agents such as chemotherapy and/or radiation. We study the apurinic endonuclease 1/redox factor-1 (Ape1/Ref-1) and believe that its crucial function in DNA repair and reduction-oxidation or redox signaling make it an excellent target for sensitizing tumor cells to chemotherapy. Ape1/Ref-1 is an essential enzyme in the base excision repair (BER) pathway which is responsible for the repair of DNA caused by oxidative and alkylation damage. As importantly, Ape1/Ref-1 also functions as a redox factor maintaining transcription factors in an active reduced state. Ape1/Ref-1 stimulates the DNA binding activity of numerous transcription factors that are involved in cancer promotion and progression such as AP-1 (Fos/Jun), NFkappaB, HIF-1alpha, CREB, p53 and others. We will discuss what is known regarding the pharmacological targeting of the DNA repair activity, as well as the redox activity of Ape1/Ref-1, and explore the budding clinical utility of inhibition of either of these functions in cancer treatment. A brief discussion of the effect of polymorphisms in its DNA sequence is included because of Ape1/Ref-1's importance to maintenance and integrity of the genome. Experimental modification of Ape1/Ref-1 activity changes the response of cells and of organisms to DNA damaging agents, suggesting that Ape1/Ref-1 may also be a productive target of chemoprevention. In this review, we will provide an overview of Ape1/Ref-1's activities and explore the potential of this protein as a target in cancer treatment as well as its role in chemoprevention.
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- Melissa L Fishel
- Department of Pediatrics (Section of Hematology/Oncology), Herman B Wells Center for Pediatric Research, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, United States
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Grillo C, D'Ambrosio C, Scaloni A, Maceroni M, Merluzzi S, Turano C, Altieri F. Cooperative activity of Ref-1/APE and ERp57 in reductive activation of transcription factors. Free Radic Biol Med 2006; 41:1113-23. [PMID: 16962936 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2006.06.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2006] [Revised: 06/01/2006] [Accepted: 06/24/2006] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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ERp57, a protein disulfide isomerase localized mainly in the endoplasmic reticulum, has also been found in lesser amounts in the cytosol and nucleus, where its function is still not characterized. We report here that ERp57 displays affinity for Ref-1, a protein involved in DNA repair as well as in the reduction and activation of transcription factors. Immunoprecipitation experiments showed that Ref-1 and ERp57 also interact in vivo in at least three types of cultured human cells, namely HepG2, M14, and Raji. Oxidative stress increased the amount of nuclear Ref-1 associated with ERp57. Moreover, ERp57 reduced by the thioredoxin-reductase/thioredoxin system stimulated the binding of AP-1 to its consensus sequence on DNA, and HeLa cells stably transfected and overexpressing ERp57 were protected against hydrogen peroxide-induced cell killing. Accordingly, ERp57 appears to cooperate with Ref-1 in the regulation of gene expression mediated by redox-sensitive transcription factors and in the adaptive response of the cell to oxidative insult.
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- Caterina Grillo
- Department of Biochemical Sciences A. Rossi Fanelli, University La Sapienza, P.le A. Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
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Chang IY, Kim SH, Cho HJ, Lee DY, Kim MH, Chung MH, You HJ. Human AP endonuclease suppresses DNA mismatch repair activity leading to microsatellite instability. Nucleic Acids Res 2005; 33:5073-81. [PMID: 16147991 PMCID: PMC1201336 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki829] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The multifunctional mammalian apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) endonuclease (APE) participates in the repair of AP sites in the cellular DNA as well as participating in the redox regulation of the transcription factor function. The function of APE is considered as the rate-limiting step in DNA base excision repair. Paradoxically, an unbalanced increase in APE protein leads to genetic instability. Therefore, we investigated the mechanisms of genetic instability that are induced by APE. Here, we report that the overexpression of APE protein disrupts the repair of DNA mismatches, which results in microsatellite instability (MSI). We found that expression of APE protein led to the suppression of the repair of DNA mismatches in the normal human fibroblast cells. Western blot analysis revealed that hMSH6 protein was markedly reduced in the APE-expressing cells. Moreover, the addition of purified Mutalpha (MSH2 and MSH6 complex) to the extracts from the APE-expressing cells led to the restoration of mismatch repair (MMR) activity. By performing MMR activity assay and MSI analysis, we found that the co-expression of hMSH6 and APE exhibited the microsatellite stability, whereas the expression of APE alone generated the MSI-high phenotype. The APE-mediated decrease in MMR activity described here demonstrates the presence of a new and highly effective APE-mediated mechanism for MSI.
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- In-Youb Chang
- Research Center for Proteinous Materials, Chosun University375 Seusuk-dong, Gwangju 501-759, Korea
- Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, Chosun University375 Seusuk-dong, Gwangju 501-759, Korea
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- Research Center for Proteinous Materials, Chosun University375 Seusuk-dong, Gwangju 501-759, Korea
- Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Chosun University375 Seusuk-dong, Gwangju 501-759, Korea
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- Research Center for Proteinous Materials, Chosun University375 Seusuk-dong, Gwangju 501-759, Korea
- Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Chosun University375 Seusuk-dong, Gwangju 501-759, Korea
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- Research Center for Proteinous Materials, Chosun University375 Seusuk-dong, Gwangju 501-759, Korea
- Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Chosun University375 Seusuk-dong, Gwangju 501-759, Korea
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- Research Center for Proteinous Materials, Chosun University375 Seusuk-dong, Gwangju 501-759, Korea
- Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Chosun University375 Seusuk-dong, Gwangju 501-759, Korea
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- Department of Pharmacology, College of medicine, Seoul National University28, Yongon-dong, Seoul 110-799, Korea
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- Research Center for Proteinous Materials, Chosun University375 Seusuk-dong, Gwangju 501-759, Korea
- Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Chosun University375 Seusuk-dong, Gwangju 501-759, Korea
- To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +82 62 230 6337; Fax: +82 62 233 3720;
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Tell G, Damante G, Caldwell D, Kelley MR. The intracellular localization of APE1/Ref-1: more than a passive phenomenon? Antioxid Redox Signal 2005; 7:367-84. [PMID: 15706084 DOI: 10.1089/ars.2005.7.367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 291] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Human apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1/redox effector factor-1 (APE1/Ref-1) is a perfect paradigm of the functional complexity of a biological macromolecule. First, it plays a crucial role, by both redox-dependent and -independent mechanisms, as a transcriptional coactivator for different transcription factors, either ubiquitous (i.e., AP-1, Egr-1, NF-kappaB, p53, HIF) or tissue-specific (i.e., PEBP-2, Pax-5 and -8, TTF-1), in controlling different cellular processes such as apoptosis, proliferation, and differentiation. Second, it acts, as an apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease, during the second step of the DNA base excision repair pathway, which is responsible for the repair of cellular alkylation and oxidative DNA damages. Third, it controls the intracellular reactive oxygen species production by negatively regulating the activity of the Ras-related GTPase Rac1. Despite these known functions of APE1/Ref-1, information is still scanty about the molecular mechanisms responsible for the coordinated control of its several activities. Some evidence suggests that the expression and subcellular localization of APE1/Ref-1 are finely tuned. APE1/Ref-1 is a ubiquitous protein, but its expression pattern differs according to the different cell types. APE1/Ref-1 subcellular localization is mainly nuclear, but cytoplasmic staining has also been reported, the latter being associated with mitochondria and/or presence within the endoplasmic reticulum. It is not by chance that both expression and subcellular localization are altered in several metabolic and proliferative disorders, such as in tumors and aging. Moreover, a fundamental role played by different posttranslational modifications in modulating APE1/Ref-1 functional activity is becoming evident. In the present review, we tried to put together a growing body of information concerning APE1/Ref-1's different functions, shedding new light on present and future directions to understand fully this unique molecule.
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- Gianluca Tell
- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Technologies, University of Udine, Piazzale Kolbe 4, 33100 Udine, Italy.
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Wong D, Demple B. Modulation of the 5'-deoxyribose-5-phosphate lyase and DNA synthesis activities of mammalian DNA polymerase beta by apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:25268-75. [PMID: 15078879 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m400804200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The Ape1 protein initiates the repair of apurinic/apyrimidinic sites during mammalian base excision repair (BER) of DNA. Ape1 catalyzes hydrolysis of the 5'-phosphodiester bond of abasic DNA to create nicks flanked by 3'-hydroxyl and 5'-deoxyribose 5-phosphate (dRP) termini. DNA polymerase (pol) beta catalyzes both DNA synthesis at the 3'-hydroxyl terminus and excision of the 5'-dRP moiety prior to completion of BER by DNA ligase. During BER, Ape1 recruits pol beta to the incised apurinic/apyrimidinic site and stimulates 5'-dRP excision by pol beta. The activities of these two enzymes are thus coordinated during BER. To examine further the coordination of BER, we investigated the ability of Ape1 to modulate the deoxynucleotidyltransferase and 5'-dRP lyase activities of pol beta. We report here that Ape1 stimulates 5'-dRP excision by a mechanism independent of its apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease activity. We also demonstrate a second mechanism, independent of Ape1, in which conditions that support DNA synthesis by pol beta also enhance 5'-dRP excision. Ape1 modulates the gap-filling activity of pol beta by specifically inhibiting synthesis on an incised abasic substrate but not on single-nucleotide gapped DNA. In contrast to the wild-type Ape1 protein, a catalytically impaired mutant form of Ape1 did not affect DNA synthesis by pol beta. However, this mutant protein retained the ability to stimulate 5'-dRP excision by pol beta. Simultaneous monitoring of 5'-dRP excision and DNA synthesis by pol beta demonstrated that the 5'-dRP lyase activity lags behind the polymerase activity despite the coordination of these two steps by Ape1 during BER.
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- Donny Wong
- Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Bhakat KK, Izumi T, Yang SH, Hazra TK, Mitra S. Role of acetylated human AP-endonuclease (APE1/Ref-1) in regulation of the parathyroid hormone gene. EMBO J 2004; 22:6299-309. [PMID: 14633989 PMCID: PMC291836 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdg595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 144] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [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 AP-endonuclease (APE1/Ref-1), a multifunctional protein central to repairing abasic sites and single-strand breaks in DNA, also plays a role in transcriptional regulation. Besides activating some transcription factors, APE1 is directly involved in Ca2+-dependent downregulation of parathyroid hormone (PTH) expression by binding to negative calcium response elements (nCaREs) present in the PTH promoter. Here we show that APE1 is acetylated both in vivo and in vitro by the transcriptional co-activator p300 which is activated by Ca2+. Acetylation at Lys6 or Lys7 enhances binding of APE1 to nCaRE. APE1 stably interacts with class I histone deacetylases (HDACs) in vivo. An increase in extracellular calcium enhances the level of acetylated APE1 which acts as a repressor for the PTH promoter. Moreover, chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) assay revealed that acetylation of APE1 enhanced binding of the APE1-HDACs complex to the PTH promoter. These results indicate that acetylation of APE1 plays an important role in this key repair protein's action in transcriptional regulation.
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- Kishor K Bhakat
- Sealy Center for Molecular Science and Department of Human Biological Chemistry and Genetics, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555-1079, USA
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Wong D, DeMott MS, Demple B. Modulation of the 3'-->5'-exonuclease activity of human apurinic endonuclease (Ape1) by its 5'-incised Abasic DNA product. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:36242-9. [PMID: 12857737 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m306065200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The major abasic endonuclease of human cells, Ape1 protein, is a multifunctional enzyme with critical roles in base excision repair (BER) of DNA. In addition to its primary activity as an apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease in BER, Ape1 also possesses 3'-phosphodiesterase, 3'-phosphatase, and 3'-->5'-exonuclease functions specific for the 3' termini of internal nicks and gaps in DNA. The exonuclease activity is enhanced at 3' mismatches, which suggests a possible role in BER for Ape1 as a proofreading activity for the relatively inaccurate DNA polymerase beta. To elucidate this role more precisely, we investigated the ability of Ape1 to degrade DNA substrates that mimic BER intermediates. We found that the Ape1 exonuclease is active at both mismatched and correctly matched 3' termini, with preference for mismatches. In our hands, the exonuclease activity of Ape1 was more active at one-nucleotide gaps than at nicks in DNA, even though the latter should represent the product of repair synthesis by polymerase beta. However, the exonuclease activity was inhibited by the presence of nearby 5'-incised abasic residues, which result from the apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease activity of Ape1. The same was true for the recently described exonuclease activity of Escherichia coli endonuclease IV. Exonuclease III, the E. coli homolog of Ape1, did not discriminate among the different substrates. Removal of the 5' abasic residue by polymerase beta alleviated the inhibition of the Ape1 exonuclease activity. These results suggest roles for the Ape1 exonuclease during BER after both DNA repair synthesis and excision of the abasic deoxyribose-5-phosphate by polymerase beta.
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- Donny Wong
- Department of Cancer Cell Biology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Willis DM, Loewy AP, Charlton-Kachigian N, Shao JS, Ornitz DM, Towler DA. Regulation of osteocalcin gene expression by a novel Ku antigen transcription factor complex. J Biol Chem 2002; 277:37280-91. [PMID: 12145306 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m206482200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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We previously described an osteocalcin (OC) fibroblast growth factor (FGF) response element (FRE) DNA binding activity as a target of Msx2 transcriptional regulation. We now identify Ku70, Ku80, and Tbdn100, a variant of Tubedown-1, as constituents of the purified OCFRE-binding complex. Northern and Western blot analyses demonstrate expression of Ku and Tbdn100 in MC3T3E1 osteoblasts. FGF2 treatment regulates Ku, but not Tbdn100, protein accumulation. Gel supershift studies confirm sequence-specific DNA binding of Ku in the OCFRE complex; chromatin immunoprecipitation assays confirm association of Ku and Tbdn100 with the endogenous OC promoter. In the promoter region -154 to -113, the OCFRE is juxtaposed to OSE2, an osteoblast-specific element that binds Runx2 (Osf2, Cbfa1). Expression of the Ku.Tbdn100 complex up-regulates both the basal and Runx2-dependent transcription driven by this 42-bp OC promoter element, reconstituted in CV-1 cells. Synergistic transactivation occurs in the presence of activated FGF receptor 2 signaling. Msx2 suppresses Ku- and Runx2-dependent transcription; suppression is dependent upon the Msx2 homeodomain NH(2)-terminal arm and extension. Pull-down assays confirm physical interactions between Ku and these co-regulatory transcription factors, consistent with the functional interactions identified. Finally, cultured Ku70 -/- calvarial cells exhibit a profound, selective deficiency in OC expression as compared with wild-type calvarial cells, confirming the biochemical data showing a role for Ku in OC transcription. In toto, these data indicate that a novel Ku antigen complex assembles on the OC promoter, functioning in concert with Msx2 and Runx2 to regulate OC gene expression.
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- David M Willis
- Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
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Kuninger DT, Izumi T, Papaconstantinou J, Mitra S. Human AP-endonuclease 1 and hnRNP-L interact with a nCaRE-like repressor element in the AP-endonuclease 1 promoter. Nucleic Acids Res 2002; 30:823-9. [PMID: 11809897 PMCID: PMC100287 DOI: 10.1093/nar/30.3.823] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The major human AP-endonuclease 1 (APE1) is a multifunctional protein that plays a central role in the repair of damaged DNA by acting as a dual-function nuclease in the base excision repair pathway. This enzyme was also independently identified as a redox activator of AP-1 DNA-binding activity and has subsequently been shown to activate a variety of transcription factors via a redox mechanism. In a third distinct role, APE1 was identified as a component of a trans-acting complex that acts as a repressor by binding to the negative calcium responsive elements (nCaRE)-A and nCaRE-B, which were first discovered in the promoter of the human parathyroid gene and later in the APE1 promoter itself. Here we show that the nuclear protein complex which binds to the nCaRE-B2 of the hAPE1 gene contains APE1 itself and the heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein L (hnRNP-L). The interaction between the APE1 and hnRNP-L proteins does not require the presence of nCaRE-B2. Our results support the possibility that the APE1 gene is down-regulated by its own product, which would be the first such example of the regulation of a DNA repair enzyme, and identify a novel function of hnRNP-L in transcriptional regulation.
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- David T Kuninger
- Department of Human Biological Chemistry and Genetics and Sealy Center for Molecular Science, University of Texas Medical Branch, 6.136 Medical Research Building, Route 1079, Galveston, TX 77555, USA
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Merante F, Altamentova SM, Mickle DAG, Weisel RD, Thatcher BJ, Martin BM, Marshall JG, Tumiati LC, Cowan DB, Li RK. The characterization and purification of a human transcription factor modulating the glutathione peroxidase gene in response to oxygen tension. Mol Cell Biochem 2002; 229:73-83. [PMID: 11936849 DOI: 10.1023/a:1017921110363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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An oxygen responsive transcription factor regulating human glutathione peroxidase gene (GPx) through two oxygen responsive elements (ORE I and ORE2) has been purified and characterized by sequence-specific DNA affinity chromatography. The DNA binding activity, termed Oxygen Responsive Element Binding Protein (OREBP), was partially represented by a 77 kD polypeptide (p70) possessing a blocked N-terminus. The p70 subunit co-eluted with an 86 kD subunit (p80) from affinity columns. N-terminal sequencing analysis of the 86 kD component revealed that this protein represented the larger member of the Ku antigen complex. The identity of the purified 77 kD subunit was determined by Western blot analysis using an antibody directed against the p70 protein. In addition to binding the GPx-ORE, the OREBP was itself regulated by oxygen tension. It was found that the abundance of the ORE binding activity was decreased in cells maintained at low oxygen tension (40 mm Hg). Anti-Ku-antibodies specifically supershifted the OREBP-ORE DNA complex. These observations further add to the numerous nuclear roles of the Ku-transcription factor.
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The second enzyme in the DNA base excision repair (BER) pathway, apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) endonuclease or Ape1, hydrolyzes the phosphodiester backbone immediately 5' to an AP site generating a normal 3'-hydroxyl group and an abasic deoxyribose-5-phosphate, which is processed by subsequent enzymes of the BER pathway. AP sites are the most common form of DNA damage, and the persistence of AP sites in DNA results in a block to DNA replication, cytotoxic mutations, and genetic instability. Interestingly, Ape1/ref-1 is a multifunctional protein that not only is a DNA repair enzyme, but also functions as a redox factor maintaining transcription factors, such as Fos, Jun, nuclear factor-kappaB, PAX (paired box-containing family of genes), hypoxia inducible factor-lalpha (HIF-1alpha), HIF-1-like factor, and p53, in an active reduced state. Apel/ref-1 has also been implicated in a number of other activities, one of which is the activation of bioreductive drugs requiring reduction for activity. In this report, we present data supporting our findings that another level of posttranslational modification of Apel/ref-1 that clearly affects the AP endonuclease activity is the reduction or oxidation of this protein. Furthermore, we show data demonstrating that at least one of the sites involved in this redox regulation is the cysteine amino acid found at position 310, immediately adjacent to the crucial histidine residue at position 309 in the DNA repair active site. These findings suggest that the Apel/ref-1 protein may be much more intimately regulated at the posttranslational level than initially imagined.
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- M R Kelley
- Department of Pediatrics, Herman B. Wells Center for Pediatric Research, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis 46202, USA.
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Wilson DM, Barsky D. The major human abasic endonuclease: formation, consequences and repair of abasic lesions in DNA. Mutat Res 2001; 485:283-307. [PMID: 11585362 DOI: 10.1016/s0921-8777(01)00063-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 300] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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DNA continuously suffers the loss of its constituent bases, and thereby, a loss of potentially vital genetic information. Sites of missing bases--termed abasic or apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) sites--form spontaneously, through damage-induced hydrolytic base release, or by enzyme-catalyzed removal of modified or mismatched bases during base excision repair (BER). In this review, we discuss the structural and biological consequences of abasic lesions in DNA, as well as the multiple repair pathways for such damage, while emphasizing the mechanistic operation of the multi-functional human abasic endonuclease APE1 (or REF-1) and its potential relationship to disease.
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- D M Wilson
- Molecular and Structural Biology Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94551, USA.
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- S J Marx
- Metabolic Diseases Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Bethesda, MD 20892-1802, USA.
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Uliel L, Weisman-Shomer P, Oren-Jazan H, Newcomb T, Loeb LA, Fry M. Human Ku antigen tightly binds and stabilizes a tetrahelical form of the Fragile X syndrome d(CGG)n expanded sequence. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:33134-41. [PMID: 10924524 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m005542200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Hairpin and tetrahelical structures of a d(CGG)(n) sequence in the FMR1 gene have been implicated in its expansion in fragile X syndrome. The identification of tetraplex d(CGG)(n) destabilizing proteins (Fry, M., and Loeb, L. A.(1999) J. Biol. Chem. 274, 12797-12803; Weisman-Shomer, P., Naot, Y., and Fry, M. (2000) J. Biol. Chem. 275, 2231-2238) suggested that proteins might modulate d(CGG)(n) folding and aggregation. We assayed human TK-6 lymphoblastoid cell extracts for d(CGG)(8) oligomer binding proteins. The principal binding protein was identified as Ku antigen by its partial amino acid sequence and antigenicity. The purified 88/75-kDa heterodimeric Ku bound with similar affinities (K(d) approximately 1. 8-10.2 x 10(-9) mol/liter) to double-stranded d(CGG)(8).d(CCG)(8), hairpin d(CGG)(8), single-stranded d(CII)(8), or tetraplex structures of telomeric or IgG switch region sequences. However, Ku associated more tightly with bimolecular G'2 tetraplex d(CGG)(8) (K(d) approximately 0.35 x 10(-9) mol/liter). Binding to Ku protected G'2 d(CGG)(8) against nuclease digestion and impeded its unwinding by the tetraplex destabilizing protein qTBP42. Stabilization of d(CGG)(n) tetraplex domains in FMR1 by Ku or other proteins might promote d(CGG) expansion and FMR1 silencing.
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- L Uliel
- Unit of Biochemistry, The Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 31096, Israel
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The DNA base excision repair (BER) pathway is responsible for the repair of cellular alkylation and oxidative DNA damage. A crucial and the second step in the BER pathway involves the cleavage of baseless sites in DNA by an AP endonuclease. The major AP endonuclease in mammalian cells is Ape1/ref-1. Ape1/ref-1 is a multifunctional protein that is not only responsible for repair of AP sites, but also functions as a reduction-oxidation (redox) factor maintaining transcription factors in an active reduced state. Ape1/ref-1 has been shown to stimulate the DNA binding activity of numerous transcription factors that are involved in cancer promotion and progression such as Fos, Jun, NF(B, PAX, HIF-1(, HLF and p53. Ape1/ref-1 has also been implicated in the activation of bioreductive drugs which require reduction in order to be active and has been shown to interact with a subunit of the Ku antigen to act as a negative regulator of the parathyroid hormone promoter, as well as part of the HREBP transcription factor complex. Ape1/ref-1 levels have been found to be elevated in a number of cancers such as ovarian, cervical, prostate, rhabdomyosarcomas and germ cell tumors and correlated with the radiosensitivity of cervical cancers. In this review, we have attempted to try and assimilated as much data concerning Ape1/ref-1 and incorporate the rapidly growing information on Ape1/ref-1 in a wide variety of functions and systems.
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- A R Evans
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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Ramakrishnan M, Liu WM, DiCroce PA, Posner A, Zheng J, Kohwi-Shigematsu T, Krontiris TG. Modulated binding of SATB1, a matrix attachment region protein, to the AT-rich sequence flanking the major breakpoint region of BCL2. Mol Cell Biol 2000; 20:868-77. [PMID: 10629043 PMCID: PMC85203 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.20.3.868-877.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/1999] [Accepted: 10/22/1999] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The t(14,18) chromosomal translocation that occurs in human follicular lymphoma constitutively activates the BCL2 gene and disrupts control of apoptosis. Interestingly, 70% of the t(14,18) translocations are confined to three 15-bp clusters positioned within a 150-bp region (major breakpoint region or [MBR]) in the untranslated portion of terminal exon 3. We analyzed DNA-protein interactions in the MBR, as these may play some role in targeting the translocation to this region. An 87-bp segment (87MBR) immediately 3' to breakpoint cluster 3 was essential for DNA-protein interaction monitored with mobility shift assays. We further delineated a core binding region within 87MBR: a 33-bp, very AT-rich sequence highly conserved between the human and mouse BCL2 gene (37MBR). We have purified and identified one of the core factors as the matrix attachment region (MAR) binding protein, SATB1, which is known to bind to AT-rich sequences with a high propensity to unwind. Additional factors in nuclear extracts, which we have not yet characterized further, increased SATB1 affinity for the 37MBR target four- to fivefold. Specific binding activity within 37MBR displayed cell cycle regulation in Jurkat T cells, while levels of SATB1 remained constant throughout the cell cycle. Finally, we demonstrated in vivo binding of SATB1 to the MBR, strongly suggesting the BCL2 major breakpoint region is a MAR. We discuss the potential consequences of our observations for both MBR fragility and regulatory function.
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- M Ramakrishnan
- Division of Molecular Medicine, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California 91010, USA
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Giffin W, Gong W, Schild-Poulter C, Haché RJ. Ku antigen-DNA conformation determines the activation of DNA-dependent protein kinase and DNA sequence-directed repression of mouse mammary tumor virus transcription. Mol Cell Biol 1999; 19:4065-78. [PMID: 10330147 PMCID: PMC104366 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.19.6.4065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) transcription is repressed by DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK) through a DNA sequence element, NRE1, in the viral long terminal repeat that is a sequence-specific DNA binding site for the Ku antigen subunit of the kinase. While Ku is an essential component of the active kinase, how the catalytic subunit of DNA-PK (DNA-PKcs) is regulated through its association with Ku is only beginning to be understood. We report that activation of DNA-PKcs and the repression of MMTV transcription from NRE1 are dependent upon Ku conformation, the manipulation of DNA structure by Ku, and the contact of Ku80 with DNA. Truncation of one copy of the overlapping direct repeat that comprises NRE1 abrogated the repression of MMTV transcription by Ku-DNA-PKcs. Remarkably, the truncated element was recognized by Ku-DNA-PKcs with affinity similar to that of the full-length element but was unable to promote the activation of DNA-PKcs. Analysis of Ku-DNA-PKcs interactions with DNA ends, double- and single-stranded forms of NRE1, and the truncated NRE1 element revealed striking differences in Ku conformation that differentially affected the recruitment of DNA-PKcs and the activation of kinase activity.
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- W Giffin
- Departments of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, The Loeb Health Research Institute at the Ottawa Hospital, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Ludwig DL, MacInnes MA, Takiguchi Y, Purtymun PE, Henrie M, Flannery M, Meneses J, Pedersen RA, Chen DJ. A murine AP-endonuclease gene-targeted deficiency with post-implantation embryonic progression and ionizing radiation sensitivity. Mutat Res 1998; 409:17-29. [PMID: 9806499 DOI: 10.1016/s0921-8777(98)00039-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 140] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease (here designated APE/REF) carries out repair incision at abasic or single-strand break damages in mammals. This multifunctional protein also has putative role(s) as a cysteine 'reducing factor' (REF) in cell-stress transcriptional responses. To assess the significance of APE/REF for embryonic teratogenesis we constructed a more precisely targeted Ape/Ref-deficient genotype in mice. Ape/Ref gene replacement in ES cells eliminated the potential of APE/REF protein synthesis while retaining the Ape/Ref bi-directional promoter that avoided potential inactivation of an upstream gene. Chimeric animals crossed into Tac:N:NIHS-BC produced germline transmission. Homozygous null Ape/Ref-embryos exhibited successful implantation and nearly normal developmental progression until embryonic day 7.5 followed by morphogenetic failure and adsorption of embryos by day 9.5. We characterized the cellular events proceeding to embryonic lethality and examined ionizing radiation sensitivity of pre-implantation Ape/Ref-null embryos. After intermating of heterozygotes, Mendelian numbers of putative Ape/Ref-null progeny embryos at day 6.5 displayed a several-fold elevation of pycnotic, fragmenting cell nuclei within the embryo proper-the epiblast. Increased cell-nucleus degeneration occurred within epiblast cells while mitosis continued and before obvious morphogenetic disruption. Mitogenic response to epiblast cell death, if any, was ineffective for replacement of lost cells. Extra-embryonic yolk sac, a trophectoderm derived lineage retained normal appearance to day 9. Explanted homozygous Ape/Ref-null blastocysts displayed increased sensitivity to gamma-irradiation, most likely a manifestation of APE/REF incision defect. Our study establishes that this new Ape/Ref deficiency genotype is definitely capable of post-implantation developmental progression to the onset of gastrulation. Function(s) of APE/REF in base damage incision and also conceivably in mitogenic responses towards epiblast cell death are critical for transit through the gastrulation stage of embryonic growth and development.
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- D L Ludwig
- Life Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM 87545, USA
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Available data on possible genetic impacts of mammalian retroposons are reviewed. Most important is the growing number of established examples showing the involvement of retroposons in modulation of expression of protein-coding genes transcribed by RNA polymerase II (Pol II). Retroposons contain conserved blocks of nucleotide sequence for binding of some important Pol II transcription factors as well as sequences involved in regulation of stability of mRNA. Moreover, these mobile genes provide short regions of sequence homology for illegitimate recombinations, leading to diverse genome rearrangements during evolution. Therefore, mammalian retroposons representing a significant fraction of noncoding DNA cannot be considered at present as junk DNA but as important genetic symbionts driving the evolution of regulatory networks controlling gene expression.
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- N V Tomilin
- Institute of Cytology, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
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Nishishita T, Okazaki T, Ishikawa T, Igarashi T, Hata K, Ogata E, Fujita T. A negative vitamin D response DNA element in the human parathyroid hormone-related peptide gene binds to vitamin D receptor along with Ku antigen to mediate negative gene regulation by vitamin D. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:10901-7. [PMID: 9556566 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.18.10901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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We found that the human parathyroid hormone-related peptide (hPTHrP) gene contained a DNA element (nVDREhPTHrP) homologous to a negative vitamin D response element in the human parathyroid hormone gene. It bound to vitamin D receptor (VDR) but not retinoic acid Xalpha receptor (RXRalpha) in the human T cell line MT2 cells. VDR binding to this element was confirmed by the Southwestern assay combined with immunodepletion using anti-VDR monoclonal antibody, and this binding activity was repressed by 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3. Such a repression was reversed by acid phosphatase treatment, suggesting that 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 phosphorylates VDR to weaken its binding activity to nVDREhPTHrP. In electrophoretic mobility shift assay, we found anti-Ku antigen antibody specifically supershifted the MT2 nuclear proteinnVDREhPTHrP complex. The nVDREhPTHrP-bearing reporter plasmid produced vitamin D-dependent inhibition of the reporter activity in MT2 cells, which was markedly masked by the introduction of the Ku antigen expression vector in the antisense orientation. On the other hand, such a procedure did not perturb the vitamin D response element-mediated gene stimulation by vitamin D. These results indicate that nVDREhPTHrP interacts with Ku antigen in addition to VDR to mediate gene suppression by vitamin D.
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- T Nishishita
- Endocrine Genetics and Hypertension Unit, 4th Department of Internal Medicine, University of Tokyo School of Medicine, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112, Japan
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Dynan WS, Yoo S. Interaction of Ku protein and DNA-dependent protein kinase catalytic subunit with nucleic acids. Nucleic Acids Res 1998; 26:1551-9. [PMID: 9512523 PMCID: PMC147477 DOI: 10.1093/nar/26.7.1551] [Citation(s) in RCA: 263] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The Ku protein-DNA-dependent protein kinase system is one of the major pathways by which cells of higher eukaryotes respond to double-strand DNA breaks. The components of the system are evolutionarily conserved and homologs are known from a number of organisms. The Ku protein component binds directly to DNA ends and may help align them for ligation. Binding of Ku protein to DNA also nucleates formation of an active enzyme complex containing the DNA-dependent protein kinase catalytic subunit (DNA-PKcs). The interaction between Ku protein, DNA-PKcs and nucleic acids has been extensively investigated. This review summarizes the results of these biochemical investigations and relates them to recent molecular genetic studies that reveal highly characteristic repair and recombination defects in mutant cells lacking Ku protein or DNA-PKcs.
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- W S Dynan
- Program in Gene Regulation, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Room CB-2803, Medical College of Georgia, 1120 15th Street, Augusta, GA 30912, USA.
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Analysis of DNA Binding Proteins Associated With Hemin-Induced Transcriptional Inhibition. The Hemin Response Element Binding Protein Is a Heterogeneous Complex That Includes the Ku Protein. Blood 1998. [DOI: 10.1182/blood.v91.5.1793.1793_1793_1801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Hemin inhibits transcription of the tartrate resistant acid phosphatase (TRAP) gene. Using deletion mutagenesis of the mouse TRAP 5′-flanking region, we previously identified a 27-bp DNA segment containing a central GAGGC tandem repeat sequence (the hemin response element [HRE]), which bound nuclear proteins (hemin response element binding proteins [HREBPs]) from hemin-treated cells and appeared to be responsible for mediating transcriptional inhibition in response to hemin. We now have used affinity binding to HRE-derivatized beads to identify four HREBP components with apparent molecular masses of 133-, 90-, 80-, and 37-kD, respectively. The 80- and 90-kD components correspond to the p70 and p80/86 subunits of Ku antigen (KuAg) as documented by partial amino acid microsequencing of tryptic digests and immunologic reactivity. Based on reactivity of the HREBP gel shift band with antibodies to the redox factor protein (ref1) in shift Western experiments, it is shown that the 37-kD component represents ref1. The 133-kD component appeared to be a unique protein. KuAg participation in HREBP complexes was specific as it was present in HREBPs bound to HRE microcircles. Results of depletion/reconstitution experiments suggested that KuAg does not bind alone or directly to HRE DNA, but does so only in conjunction with the 133- and/or 37-kD proteins. We conclude that HREBP is a heterogeneous complex composed of KuAg, ref1, and a unique 133-kD protein. We speculate that the role of heme may be to promote interactions among these components, thereby facilitating HRE binding and downregulation of hemin responsive genes.
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Analysis of DNA Binding Proteins Associated With Hemin-Induced Transcriptional Inhibition. The Hemin Response Element Binding Protein Is a Heterogeneous Complex That Includes the Ku Protein. Blood 1998. [DOI: 10.1182/blood.v91.5.1793] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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AbstractHemin inhibits transcription of the tartrate resistant acid phosphatase (TRAP) gene. Using deletion mutagenesis of the mouse TRAP 5′-flanking region, we previously identified a 27-bp DNA segment containing a central GAGGC tandem repeat sequence (the hemin response element [HRE]), which bound nuclear proteins (hemin response element binding proteins [HREBPs]) from hemin-treated cells and appeared to be responsible for mediating transcriptional inhibition in response to hemin. We now have used affinity binding to HRE-derivatized beads to identify four HREBP components with apparent molecular masses of 133-, 90-, 80-, and 37-kD, respectively. The 80- and 90-kD components correspond to the p70 and p80/86 subunits of Ku antigen (KuAg) as documented by partial amino acid microsequencing of tryptic digests and immunologic reactivity. Based on reactivity of the HREBP gel shift band with antibodies to the redox factor protein (ref1) in shift Western experiments, it is shown that the 37-kD component represents ref1. The 133-kD component appeared to be a unique protein. KuAg participation in HREBP complexes was specific as it was present in HREBPs bound to HRE microcircles. Results of depletion/reconstitution experiments suggested that KuAg does not bind alone or directly to HRE DNA, but does so only in conjunction with the 133- and/or 37-kD proteins. We conclude that HREBP is a heterogeneous complex composed of KuAg, ref1, and a unique 133-kD protein. We speculate that the role of heme may be to promote interactions among these components, thereby facilitating HRE binding and downregulation of hemin responsive genes.
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Among the more frequent oxidative DNA injuries is the formation of abasic sites (AP sites) resulting from removal of purine or pyrimidine bases, estimated to occur at a rate of 1 x 10(4)/genome/24 h. A defect in DNA repair at this level could account for the accumulation of mutations and subsequent genome instability. We have identified missense mutations in the APE gene coding for a multifunctional DNA repair enzyme, AP endonuclease in eight of 11 patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and familial ALS. These mutations could affect the repair of abasic sites leading to the accumulation of mutations in neurons, resulting in their degeneration and death. Our findings implicate mutated AP endonuclease in the pathogenesis of ALS.
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- Z L Olkowski
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30335-3801, USA
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Bennett RAO, Demple B. Protein Interactions in Mammalian Pathways of DNA Base Excision Repair. DNA Repair (Amst) 1998. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-48770-5_3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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