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D'Souza A, Blee AM, Chazin WJ. Mechanism of action of nucleotide excision repair machinery. Biochem Soc Trans 2022; 50:375-386. [PMID: 35076656 PMCID: PMC9275815 DOI: 10.1042/bst20210246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2021] [Revised: 12/20/2021] [Accepted: 12/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/08/2023]
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Nucleotide excision repair (NER) is a versatile DNA repair pathway essential for the removal of a broad spectrum of structurally diverse DNA lesions arising from a variety of sources, including UV irradiation and environmental toxins. Although the core factors and basic stages involved in NER have been identified, the mechanisms of the NER machinery are not well understood. This review summarizes our current understanding of the mechanisms and order of assembly in the core global genome (GG-NER) pathway.
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- Areetha D'Souza
- Departments of Biochemistry and Chemistry, Center for Structural Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37240-7917, U.S.A
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- Departments of Biochemistry and Chemistry, Center for Structural Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37240-7917, U.S.A
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- Departments of Biochemistry and Chemistry, Center for Structural Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37240-7917, U.S.A
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Zhang Z, Tong M, Liu Y. The crystal structure of aqua-bis(6-chloropicolinato-κ 2
N,O)copper(II), C 12H 8Cl 2N 2O 5Cu. Z KRIST-NEW CRYST ST 2021. [DOI: 10.1515/ncrs-2021-0171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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C12H8Cl2N2O5Cu, triclinic,
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(no. 2), a = 6.800(2) Å, b = 9.086(3) Å, c = 11.363(4) Å, α = 86.701(6)°, β = 84.830(5)°, γ = 77.353(5)°, V = 681.7(4) Å3, Z = 2, R
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- Zhongyu Zhang
- Shandong Provincial Engineering Laboratory of Novel Pharmaceutical Excipients, Sustained and Controlled Release Preparations, College of Medicine and Nursing, Dezhou University , Dezhou , 253000, Shandong , China
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- Shandong Provincial Engineering Laboratory of Novel Pharmaceutical Excipients, Sustained and Controlled Release Preparations, College of Medicine and Nursing, Dezhou University , Dezhou , 253000, Shandong , China
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- Shandong Provincial Engineering Laboratory of Novel Pharmaceutical Excipients, Sustained and Controlled Release Preparations, College of Medicine and Nursing, Dezhou University , Dezhou , 253000, Shandong , China
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Velegzhaninov IO, Belykh ES, Rasova EE, Pylina YI, Shadrin DM, Klokov DY. Radioresistance, DNA Damage and DNA Repair in Cells With Moderate Overexpression of RPA1. Front Genet 2020; 11:855. [PMID: 32849834 PMCID: PMC7411226 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2020.00855] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2020] [Accepted: 07/13/2020] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Molecular responses to genotoxic stress, such as ionizing radiation, are intricately complex and involve hundreds of genes. Whether targeted overexpression of an endogenous gene can enhance resistance to ionizing radiation remains to be explored. In the present study we take an advantage of the CRISPR/dCas9 technology to moderately overexpress the RPA1 gene that encodes a key functional subunit of the replication protein A (RPA). RPA is a highly conserved heterotrimeric single-stranded DNA-binding protein complex involved in DNA replication, recombination, and repair. Dysfunction of RPA1 is detrimental for cells and organisms and can lead to diminished resistance to many stress factors. We demonstrate that HEK293T cells overexpressing RPA1 exhibit enhanced resistance to cell killing by gamma-radiation. Using the alkali comet assay, we show a remarkable acceleration of DNA breaks rejoining after gamma-irradiation in RPA1 overexpressing cells. However, the spontaneous rate of DNA damage was also higher in the presence of RPA1 overexpression, suggesting alterations in the processing of replication errors due to elevated activity of the RPA protein. Additionally, the analysis of the distributions of cells with different levels of DNA damage showed a link between the RPA1 overexpression and the kinetics of DNA repair within differentially damaged cell subpopulations. Our results provide knew knowledge on DNA damage stress responses and indicate that the concept of enhancing radioresistance by targeted alteration of the expression of a single gene is feasible, however undesired consequences should be considered and evaluated.
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- Ilya O Velegzhaninov
- Institute of Biology of Komi Scientific Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Syktyvkar, Russia
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- Institute of Biology of Komi Scientific Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Syktyvkar, Russia
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- Institute of Biology of Komi Scientific Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Syktyvkar, Russia
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- Institute of Biology of Komi Scientific Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Syktyvkar, Russia
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- Institute of Biology of Komi Scientific Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Syktyvkar, Russia
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- Institut de Radioprotection et de Sureté Nucléaire, PSE-SANTE, SESANE, LRTOX, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France.,Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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Gavande NS, VanderVere-Carozza PS, Pawelczak KS, Vernon TL, Jordan MR, Turchi JJ. Structure-Guided Optimization of Replication Protein A (RPA)-DNA Interaction Inhibitors. ACS Med Chem Lett 2020; 11:1118-1124. [PMID: 32550990 DOI: 10.1021/acsmedchemlett.9b00440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2019] [Accepted: 01/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Replication protein A (RPA) is the major human single stranded DNA (ssDNA)-binding protein, playing essential roles in DNA replication, repair, recombination, and DNA-damage response (DDR). Inhibition of RPA-DNA interactions represents a therapeutic strategy for cancer drug discovery and has great potential to provide single agent anticancer activity and to synergize with both common DNA damaging chemotherapeutics and newer targeted anticancer agents. In this letter, a new series of analogues based on our previously reported TDRL-551 (4) compound were designed to improve potency and physicochemical properties. Molecular docking studies guided molecular insights, and further SAR exploration led to the identification of a series of novel compounds with low micromolar RPA inhibitory activity, increased solubility, and excellent cellular up-take. Among a series of analogues, compounds 43, 44, 45, and 46 hold promise for further development of novel anticancer agents.
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- Navnath S. Gavande
- Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM), Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, United States
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wayne State University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Detroit, Michigan 48201, United States
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- Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM), Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, United States
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- NERx Biosciences, 212 W 10th Street Suite A480, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, United States
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- Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM), Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, United States
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- Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM), Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, United States
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- Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM), Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, United States
- NERx Biosciences, 212 W 10th Street Suite A480, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, United States
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM), Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, United States
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Turchi JJ, VanderVere-Carozza PS. Small-Molecule Inhibitor Screen for DNA Repair Proteins. Methods Mol Biol 2019; 1999:217-221. [PMID: 31127579 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-9500-4_13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
Abstract
With the recent interest in targeting the DNA damage response (DDR) and DNA repair, new screening methodologies are needed to broaden the scope of targetable proteins beyond kinases and traditional enzymes. Many of the proteins involved in the DDR and repair impart their activity by making specific contacts with DNA. These protein-nucleic acid interactions represent a tractable target for perturbation with small molecules. We describe a high throughput, solution-based equilibrium binding fluorescence polarization assay that can be applied to a wide array of protein-nucleic acid interactions. The assay is sensitive, stable, and able to identify small molecules capable of blocking DNA-protein interactions.
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- John J Turchi
- Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA. .,Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
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Krasikova YS, Rechkunova NI, Maltseva EA, Lavrik OI. RPA and XPA interaction with DNA structures mimicking intermediates of the late stages in nucleotide excision repair. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0190782. [PMID: 29320546 PMCID: PMC5761895 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0190782] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2017] [Accepted: 12/20/2017] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Replication protein A (RPA) and the xeroderma pigmentosum group A (XPA) protein are indispensable for both pathways of nucleotide excision repair (NER). Here we analyze the interaction of RPA and XPA with DNA containing a flap and different size gaps that imitate intermediates of the late NER stages. Using gel mobility shift assays, we found that RPA affinity for DNA decreased when DNA contained both extended gap and similar sized flap in comparison with gapped-DNA structure. Moreover, crosslinking experiments with the flap-gap DNA revealed that RPA interacts mainly with the ssDNA platform within the long gap and contacts flap in DNA with a short gap. XPA exhibits higher affinity for bubble-DNA structures than to flap-gap-containing DNA. Protein titration analysis showed that formation of the RPA-XPA-DNA ternary complex depends on the protein concentration ratio and these proteins can function as independent players or in tandem. Using fluorescently-labelled RPA, direct interaction of this protein with XPA was detected and characterized quantitatively. The data obtained allow us to suggest that XPA can be involved in the post-incision NER stages via its interaction with RPA.
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Novosibirsk, Russia
- Department of Natural Sciences, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Novosibirsk, Russia
- Department of Natural Sciences, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia
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Burnham DR, Nijholt B, De Vlaminck I, Quan J, Yusufzai T, Dekker C. Annealing helicase HARP closes RPA-stabilized DNA bubbles non-processively. Nucleic Acids Res 2017; 45:4687-4695. [PMID: 28334870 PMCID: PMC5416776 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkx147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2016] [Accepted: 02/27/2017] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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We investigate the mechanistic nature of the Snf2 family protein HARP, mutations of which are responsible for Schimke immuno-osseous dysplasia. Using a single-molecule magnetic tweezers assay, we construct RPA-stabilized DNA bubbles within torsionally constrained DNA to investigate the annealing action of HARP on a physiologically relevant substrate. We find that HARP closes RPA-stabilized bubbles in a slow reaction, taking on the order of tens of minutes for ∼600 bp of DNA to be re-annealed. The data indicate that DNA re-anneals through the removal of RPA, which is observed as clear steps in the bubble-closing traces. The dependence of the closing rate on both ionic strength and HARP concentration indicates that removal of RPA occurs via an association-dissociation mechanism where HARP does not remain associated with the DNA. The enzyme exhibits classical Michaelis–Menten kinetics and acts cooperatively with a Hill coefficient of 3 ± 1. Our work also allows the determination of some important features of RPA-bubble structures at low supercoiling, including the existence of multiple bubbles and that RPA molecules are mis-registered on the two strands.
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- Daniel R Burnham
- Department of Bionanoscience, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Delft, 2629 HZ, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bionanoscience, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Delft, 2629 HZ, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bionanoscience, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Delft, 2629 HZ, The Netherlands
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- Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Department of Bionanoscience, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Delft, 2629 HZ, The Netherlands
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Impact of Age and Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1 on DNA Damage Responses in UV-Irradiated Human Skin. Molecules 2017; 22:molecules22030356. [PMID: 28245638 PMCID: PMC5432641 DOI: 10.3390/molecules22030356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2017] [Revised: 02/22/2017] [Accepted: 02/24/2017] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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The growing incidence of non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) necessitates a thorough understanding of its primary risk factors, which include exposure to ultraviolet (UV) wavelengths of sunlight and age. Whereas UV radiation (UVR) has long been known to generate photoproducts in genomic DNA that promote genetic mutations that drive skin carcinogenesis, the mechanism by which age contributes to disease pathogenesis is less understood and has not been sufficiently studied. In this review, we highlight studies that have considered age as a variable in examining DNA damage responses in UV-irradiated skin and then discuss emerging evidence that the reduced production of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) by senescent fibroblasts in the dermis of geriatric skin creates an environment that negatively impacts how epidermal keratinocytes respond to UVR-induced DNA damage. In particular, recent data suggest that two principle components of the cellular response to DNA damage, including nucleotide excision repair and DNA damage checkpoint signaling, are both partially defective in keratinocytes with inactive IGF-1 receptors. Overcoming these tumor-promoting conditions in aged skin may therefore provide a way to lower aging-associated skin cancer risk, and thus we will consider how dermal wounding and related clinical interventions may work to rejuvenate the skin, re-activate IGF-1 signaling, and prevent the initiation of NMSC.
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Ugrinova I, Pasheva E. HMGB1 Protein: A Therapeutic Target Inside and Outside the Cell. ADVANCES IN PROTEIN CHEMISTRY AND STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY 2016; 107:37-76. [PMID: 28215228 DOI: 10.1016/bs.apcsb.2016.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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High-mobility group box 1 protein (HMGB1) is a nonhistone chromosomal protein discovered more than 30 years ago. It is an abundant nuclear protein that has a dual function-in the nucleus, it binds DNA and participates in practically all DNA-dependent processes serving as an architectural factor. Outside the cell, HMGB1 plays a different role-it acts as an alarmine that activates a large number of HMGB1-"competent" cells and mediates a broad range of physiological and pathological responses. This universality makes it an attractive target for innovative therapeutic strategies in the treatment of various diseases. Here we present an overview of the major nuclear and extracellular properties of HMGB1 and describe its interaction with different molecular partners as specific receptors or inhibitors, which are important for its role as a target in multiple diseases. We highlight its pivotal role as a target for cancer treatment at two aspects: first in terms of its substantial impact on the repair capacity of cancer cells, thus affecting the effectiveness of chemotherapy with the antitumor drug cis-platinum and, second, the possibility to be targeted by microRNAs influencing different pathways of human diseases, thus making it a promising candidate for a new strategy for therapeutic interventions against various pathological conditions but mainly cancer.
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- I Ugrinova
- "Roumen Tsanev" Institute of Molecular Biology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria.
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- "Roumen Tsanev" Institute of Molecular Biology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Wu Y, Lu J, Kang T. Human single-stranded DNA binding proteins: guardians of genome stability. Acta Biochim Biophys Sin (Shanghai) 2016; 48:671-7. [PMID: 27217471 DOI: 10.1093/abbs/gmw044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2016] [Accepted: 04/15/2016] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
Abstract
Single-stranded DNA-binding proteins (SSBs) are essential for maintaining the integrity of the genome in all organisms. All processes related to DNA, such as replication, excision, repair, and recombination, require the participation of SSBs whose oligonucleotide/oligosaccharide-binding (OB)-fold domain is responsible for the interaction with single-stranded DNA (ssDNA). For a long time, the heterotrimeric replication protein A (RPA) complex was believed to be the only nuclear SSB in eukaryotes to participate in ssDNA processing, while mitochondrial SSBs that are conserved with prokaryotic SSBs were shown to be essential for maintaining genome stability in eukaryotic mitochondria. In recent years, two new proteins, hSSB1 and hSSB2 (human SSBs 1/2), were identified and have better sequence similarity to bacterial and archaeal SSBs than RPA. This review summarizes the current understanding of these human SSBs in DNA damage repair and in cell-cycle checkpoint activation following DNA damage, as well as their relationships with cancer.
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- Yuanzhong Wu
- State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou 510060, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou 510060, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou 510060, China
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He Y, Yuan J, Qiao Y, Wang D, Chen W, Liu X, Chen H, Guo Z. The role of carrier ligands of platinum(II) anticancer complexes in the protein recognition of Pt-DNA adducts. Chem Commun (Camb) 2016; 51:14064-7. [PMID: 26248639 DOI: 10.1039/c5cc05257b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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In order to systematically investigate the influence of carrier ligands on the interaction of Pt-DNA adducts with damage recognition proteins, a series of DNA probes containing 1,2-GG platinum compound crosslinks using cisplatin, oxaliplatin, (S,S-DACH)PtCl2 and (cis-1,4-DACH)PtCl2 (kiteplatin) has been constructed. These complexes share similar DNA binding properties although they exhibit quite different cytotoxicity. It is revealed that HMGB1 (high-mobility group protein B1) was the most commonly found protein that recognizes all Pt(II)-DNA probes and prefers cisplatin-DNA probes more than the others. Interestingly, an important component of the replication protein A complex, RPA2, was found to bind to kiteplatin much more tightly than other proteins. These results may be important for the interpretation of the roles of carrier ligands in platinum(II)-based anticancer complexes.
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- Yafeng He
- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Coordination Chemistry Institute, State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemistry for Life Sciences, Nanjing University, 22 Hankou Road, Nanjing, 210093, P. R. China.
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Kemmerich FE, Daldrop P, Pinto C, Levikova M, Cejka P, Seidel R. Force regulated dynamics of RPA on a DNA fork. Nucleic Acids Res 2016; 44:5837-48. [PMID: 27016742 PMCID: PMC4937307 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2016] [Accepted: 03/04/2016] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Replication protein A (RPA) is a single-stranded DNA binding protein, involved in most aspects of eukaryotic DNA metabolism. Here, we study the behavior of RPA on a DNA substrate that mimics a replication fork. Using magnetic tweezers we show that both yeast and human RPA can open forked DNA when sufficient external tension is applied. In contrast, at low force, RPA becomes rapidly displaced by the rehybridization of the DNA fork. This process appears to be governed by the binding or the release of an RPA microdomain (toehold) of only few base-pairs length. This gives rise to an extremely rapid exchange dynamics of RPA at the fork. Fork rezipping rates reach up to hundreds of base-pairs per second, being orders of magnitude faster than RPA dissociation from ssDNA alone. Additionally, we show that RPA undergoes diffusive motion on ssDNA, such that it can be pushed over long distances by a rezipping fork. Generally the behavior of both human and yeast RPA homologs is very similar. However, in contrast to yeast RPA, the dissociation of human RPA from ssDNA is greatly reduced at low Mg2+ concentrations, such that human RPA can melt DNA in absence of force.
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- Felix E Kemmerich
- Institute of Experimental Physics I, Universität Leipzig, Linnéstr. 5, 04103 Leipzig, Germany Institute for Molecular Cell Biology, University of Münster, Schlossplatz 5, D-48149 Münster, Germany
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- Institute for Molecular Cell Biology, University of Münster, Schlossplatz 5, D-48149 Münster, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Cancer Research, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Molecular Cancer Research, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Molecular Cancer Research, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Experimental Physics I, Universität Leipzig, Linnéstr. 5, 04103 Leipzig, Germany Institute for Molecular Cell Biology, University of Münster, Schlossplatz 5, D-48149 Münster, Germany
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Savreux-Lenglet G, Depauw S, David-Cordonnier MH. Protein Recognition in Drug-Induced DNA Alkylation: When the Moonlight Protein GAPDH Meets S23906-1/DNA Minor Groove Adducts. Int J Mol Sci 2015; 16:26555-81. [PMID: 26556350 PMCID: PMC4661830 DOI: 10.3390/ijms161125971] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2015] [Revised: 10/25/2015] [Accepted: 10/27/2015] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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DNA alkylating drugs have been used in clinics for more than seventy years. The diversity of their mechanism of action (major/minor groove; mono-/bis-alkylation; intra-/inter-strand crosslinks; DNA stabilization/destabilization, etc.) has undoubtedly major consequences on the cellular response to treatment. The aim of this review is to highlight the variety of established protein recognition of DNA adducts to then particularly focus on glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) function in DNA adduct interaction with illustration using original experiments performed with S23906-1/DNA adduct. The introduction of this review is a state of the art of protein/DNA adducts recognition, depending on the major or minor groove orientation of the DNA bonding as well as on the molecular consequences in terms of double-stranded DNA maintenance. It reviews the implication of proteins from both DNA repair, transcription, replication and chromatin maintenance in selective DNA adduct recognition. The main section of the manuscript is focusing on the implication of the moonlighting protein GAPDH in DNA adduct recognition with the model of the peculiar DNA minor groove alkylating and destabilizing drug S23906-1. The mechanism of action of S23906-1 alkylating drug and the large variety of GAPDH cellular functions are presented prior to focus on GAPDH direct binding to S23906-1 adducts.
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- Gaëlle Savreux-Lenglet
- UMR-S1172-Jean-Pierre Aubert Research Centre (JPARC), INSERM, University of Lille, Lille Hospital, Institut pour la Recherche sur le Cancer de Lille, Place de Verdun F-59045 Lille cedex, France.
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- UMR-S1172-Jean-Pierre Aubert Research Centre (JPARC), INSERM, University of Lille, Lille Hospital, Institut pour la Recherche sur le Cancer de Lille, Place de Verdun F-59045 Lille cedex, France.
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- UMR-S1172-Jean-Pierre Aubert Research Centre (JPARC), INSERM, University of Lille, Lille Hospital, Institut pour la Recherche sur le Cancer de Lille, Place de Verdun F-59045 Lille cedex, France.
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Mishra AK, Dormi SS, Turchi AM, Woods DS, Turchi JJ. Chemical inhibitor targeting the replication protein A-DNA interaction increases the efficacy of Pt-based chemotherapy in lung and ovarian cancer. Biochem Pharmacol 2014; 93:25-33. [PMID: 25449597 DOI: 10.1016/j.bcp.2014.10.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2014] [Revised: 10/22/2014] [Accepted: 10/23/2014] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
Abstract
Platinum-based chemotherapeutics exert their therapeutic efficacy via the formation of DNA adducts which interfere with DNA replication, transcription and cell division and ultimately induce cell death. Repair and tolerance of these Pt-DNA lesions by nucleotide excision repair (NER) and homologous recombination (HR) can substantially reduce the effectiveness of therapy. Inhibition of these repair pathways, therefore, holds the potential to sensitize cancer cells to Pt treatment and increase clinical efficacy. Replication Protein A (RPA) plays essential roles in both NER and HR, along with its role in DNA replication and DNA damage checkpoint activation. Each of these functions is, in part, mediated by RPA binding to single-stranded DNA (ssDNA). Here we report the synthesis and characterization of novel derivatives of RPA small molecule inhibitors and their activity in models of epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) and non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). We have synthesized analogs of our previously reported RPA inhibitor TDRL-505 and determined the structure-activity relationships. These data led us to the identification of TDRL-551, which exhibited a greater than 2-fold increase in in vitro activity. TDRL-551 showed synergy with Pt in tissue culture models of EOC and in vivo efficacy, as a single agent and in combination with platinum, in a NSCLC xenograft model. These data demonstrate the utility of RPA inhibition in EOC and NSCLC and the potential in developing novel anticancer therapeutics that target RPA-DNA interactions.
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- Akaash K Mishra
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA
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- NERx Biosciences Inc. 351W. 10th Street, Suite 510, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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- NERx Biosciences Inc. 351W. 10th Street, Suite 510, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA; Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA; NERx Biosciences Inc. 351W. 10th Street, Suite 510, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.
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The natural absence of RPA1N domain did not impair Leishmania amazonensis RPA-1 participation in DNA damage response and telomere protection. Parasitology 2013; 140:547-59. [DOI: 10.1017/s0031182012002028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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SUMMARYWe have previously shown that the subunit 1 of Leishmania amazonensis RPA (LaRPA-1) alone binds the G-rich telomeric strand and is structurally different from other RPA-1. It is analogous to telomere end-binding proteins described in model eukaryotes whose homologues were not identified in the protozoan´s genome. Here we show that LaRPA-1 is involved with damage response and telomere protection although it lacks the RPA1N domain involved with the binding with multiple checkpoint proteins. We induced DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) in Leishmania using phleomycin. Damage was confirmed by TUNEL-positive nuclei and triggered a G1/S cell cycle arrest that was accompanied by nuclear accumulation of LaRPA-1 and RAD51 in the S phase of hydroxyurea-synchronized parasites. DSBs also increased the levels of RAD51 in non-synchronized parasites and of LaRPA-1 and RAD51 in the S phase of synchronized cells. More LaRPA-1 appeared immunoprecipitating telomeres in vivo and associated in a complex containing RAD51, although this interaction needs more investigation. RAD51 apparently co-localized with few telomeric clusters but it did not immunoprecipitate telomeric DNA. These findings suggest that LaRPA-1 and RAD51 work together in response to DNA DSBs and at telomeres, upon damage, LaRPA-1 works probably to prevent loss of single-stranded DNA and to assume a capping function.
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Glanzer JG, Carnes KA, Soto P, Liu S, Parkhurst LJ, Oakley GG. A small molecule directly inhibits the p53 transactivation domain from binding to replication protein A. Nucleic Acids Res 2012; 41:2047-59. [PMID: 23267009 PMCID: PMC3561959 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks1291] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Replication protein A (RPA), essential for DNA replication, repair and DNA damage signalling, possesses six ssDNA-binding domains (DBDs), including DBD-F on the N-terminus of the largest subunit, RPA70. This domain functions as a binding site for p53 and other DNA damage and repair proteins that contain amphipathic alpha helical domains. Here, we demonstrate direct binding of both ssDNA and the transactivation domain 2 of p53 (p53TAD2) to DBD-F, as well as DBD-F-directed dsDNA strand separation by RPA, all of which are inhibited by fumaropimaric acid (FPA). FPA binds directly to RPA, resulting in a conformational shift as determined through quenching of intrinsic tryptophan fluorescence in full length RPA. Structural analogues of FPA provide insight on chemical properties that are required for inhibition. Finally, we confirm the inability of RPA possessing R41E and R43E mutations to bind to p53, destabilize dsDNA and quench tryptophan fluorescence by FPA, suggesting that protein binding, DNA modulation and inhibitor binding all occur within the same site on DBD-F. The disruption of p53–RPA interactions by FPA may disturb the regulatory functions of p53 and RPA, thereby inhibiting cellular pathways that control the cell cycle and maintain the integrity of the human genome.
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- Jason G Glanzer
- Department of Oral Biology, College of Dentistry, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Lincoln, NE 68583, USA
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Sears CR, Turchi JJ. Complex cisplatin-double strand break (DSB) lesions directly impair cellular non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ) independent of downstream damage response (DDR) pathways. J Biol Chem 2012; 287:24263-72. [PMID: 22621925 PMCID: PMC3397852 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m112.344911] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2012] [Revised: 05/18/2012] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The treatment for advanced stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) often includes platinum-based chemotherapy and IR. Cisplatin and IR combination therapy display schedule and dose-dependent synergy, the mechanism of which is not completely understood. In a series of in vitro and cell culture assays in a NSCLC model, we investigated both the downstream and direct treatment and damage effects of cisplatin on NHEJ catalyzed repair of a DNA DSB. The results demonstrate that extracts prepared from cisplatin-treated cells are fully capable of NHEJ catalyzed repair of a DSB using a non-cisplatin-damaged DNA substrate in vitro. Similarly, using two different host cell reactivation assays, treatment of cells prior to transfection of a linear, undamaged reporter plasmid revealed no reduction in NHEJ compared with untreated cells. In contrast, transfection of a linear GFP-reporter plasmid containing site-specific, cisplatin lesions 6-bp from the termini revealed a significant impairment in DSB repair of the cisplatin-damaged DNA substrates in the absence of cellular treatment with cisplatin. Together, these data demonstrate that impaired NHEJ in combined cisplatin-IR treated cells is likely the result of a direct effect of cisplatin-DNA lesions near a DSB and that the indirect cellular effects of cisplatin treatment are not significant contributors to the synergistic cytotoxicity observed with combination cisplatin-IR treatment.
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- From the Departments of Medicine and
- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202
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Carra C, Saha J, Cucinotta FA. Theoretical prediction of the binding free energy for mutants of replication protein A. J Mol Model 2011; 18:3035-49. [PMID: 22160652 DOI: 10.1007/s00894-011-1313-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2011] [Accepted: 11/16/2011] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The replication protein A (RPA) is a heterotrimeric (70, 32, and 14 kDa subunits), single stranded DNA (ssDNA) binding protein required for pivotal functions in the cell metabolism, such as chromosomal replication, prevention of hairpin formation, DNA repair and recombination, and signaling after DNA damage. Studies based on deletions and mutations have identified the high affinity ssDNA binding domains in the 70 kDa subunit of RPA, regions A and B. Individually, the domain A and B have a low affinity for ssDNA, while tandems composed of AA, AB, BB, and BA sequences bind the ssDNA with moderate to high affinity. Single and double point mutations on polar residues in the binding domains leads to a reduction in affinity of RPA for ssDNA, in particular when two hydrophilic residues are involved. In view of these results, we performed a study based on molecular dynamics simulation aimed to reproduce the experimental change in binding free energy, ΔΔG, of RPA70 mutants to further elucidate the nature of the protein-ssDNA interaction. The MM-PB(GB)SA methods implemented in Amber10 and the code FoldX were used to estimate the binding free energy. The theoretical and experimental ΔΔG values correlate better when the results are obtained by MM-PBSA calculated on individual trajectories for each mutant. In these conditions, the correlation coefficient between experimental and theoretical ΔΔG reaches a value of 0.95 despite the overestimation of the energy change by one order of magnitude. The decomposition of the MM-GBSA energy per residue allows us to correlate the change of the affinity with the residue polarity and energy contribution to the binding. The method revealed reliable predictions of the change in the affinity in function of mutations, and can be used to identify new mutants with distinct binding properties.
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- Claudio Carra
- Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD, USA.
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Carra C, Cucinotta FA. Accurate prediction of the binding free energy and analysis of the mechanism of the interaction of replication protein A (RPA) with ssDNA. J Mol Model 2011; 18:2761-83. [PMID: 22116609 DOI: 10.1007/s00894-011-1288-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2011] [Accepted: 10/19/2011] [Indexed: 10/15/2022]
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The eukaryotic replication protein A (RPA) has several pivotal functions in the cell metabolism, such as chromosomal replication, prevention of hairpin formation, DNA repair and recombination, and signaling after DNA damage. Moreover, RPA seems to have a crucial role in organizing the sequential assembly of DNA processing proteins along single stranded DNA (ssDNA). The strong RPA affinity for ssDNA, K(A) between 10(-9)-10(-10) M, is characterized by a low cooperativity with minor variation for changes on the nucleotide sequence. Recently, new data on RPA interactions was reported, including the binding free energy of the complex RPA70AB with dC(8) and dC(5), which has been estimated to be -10 ± 0.4 kcal mol(-1) and -7 ± 1 kcal mol(-1), respectively. In view of these results we performed a study based on molecular dynamics aimed to reproduce the absolute binding free energy of RPA70AB with the dC(5) and dC(8) oligonucleotides. We used several tools to analyze the binding free energy, rigidity, and time evolution of the complex. The results obtained by MM-PBSA method, with the use of ligand free geometry as a reference for the receptor in the separate trajectory approach, are in excellent agreement with the experimental data, with ±4 kcal mol(-1) error. This result shows that the MM-PB(GB)SA methods can provide accurate quantitative estimates of the binding free energy for interacting complexes when appropriate geometries are used for the receptor, ligand and complex. The decomposition of the MM-GBSA energy for each residue in the receptor allowed us to correlate the change of the affinity of the mutated protein with the ΔG(gas+sol) contribution of the residue considered in the mutation. The agreement with experiment is optimal and a strong change in the binding free energy can be considered as the dominant factor in the loss for the binding affinity resulting from mutation.
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- Claudio Carra
- Universities Space Research Association, Houston, TX 77058, USA.
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Neher TM, Bodenmiller D, Fitch RW, Jalal SI, Turchi JJ. Novel irreversible small molecule inhibitors of replication protein A display single-agent activity and synergize with cisplatin. Mol Cancer Ther 2011; 10:1796-806. [PMID: 21846830 DOI: 10.1158/1535-7163.mct-11-0303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Replication protein A (RPA) is a single-strand DNA-binding protein with essential roles in DNA replication, recombination, and repair. It is necessary for the formation of the preincision complex that is required for proper incision of damaged DNA nucleotides during DNA repair. We have previously identified small molecule inhibitors (SMI) with the ability to disrupt RPA-binding activity to ssDNA. Further characterization of these RPA inhibitors was done using both lung and ovarian cancer cell lines. Lung cancer cell lines showed increased apoptotic cell death following treatment with the SMI MCI13E, with IC(50) values of approximately 5 μmol/L. The ovarian cancer cell line A2780 and the p53-null lung cancer cell line H1299 were particularly sensitive to MCI13E treatment, with IC(50) values less than 3 μmol/L. Furthermore, a cell-cycle effect was observed in lung cancer cell lines that resulted in a lengthening of either G(1) or S-phases of the cell cycle following single-agent treatment. Sequential treatment with MCI13E and cisplatin resulted in synergism. Overall, these data suggest that decreasing DNA-binding activity of RPA via a SMI may disrupt the role of RPA in cell-cycle regulation. Thus, SMIs of RPA hold the potential to be used as single-agent chemotherapeutics or in combination with current chemotherapeutic regimens to increase efficacy.
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- Tracy M Neher
- Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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Earley JN, Turchi JJ. Interrogation of nucleotide excision repair capacity: impact on platinum-based cancer therapy. Antioxid Redox Signal 2011; 14:2465-77. [PMID: 20812782 PMCID: PMC3096502 DOI: 10.1089/ars.2010.3369] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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DNA repair is essential for routine monitoring and repair of damage imparted to our genetic material by exposure to endogenous and exogenous carcinogens, including reactive oxygen species, UV light, and chemicals such as those found in cigarette smoke. Without DNA repair pathways, the continual assault on our DNA would be highly mutagenic and the risk of cancer increased. Paradoxically, the same pathways that help prevent cancer development are detrimental to the efficacy of DNA-damaging cancer therapeutics such as cisplatin. Recent studies demonstrate the inverse relationship between DNA repair capacity and efficacy of platinum-based chemotherapeutics: increased DNA repair capacity leads to resistance, while decreased capacity leads to increased sensitivities. Cisplatin's cytotoxic effects are mediated by formation of intrastrand DNA crosslinks, which are predominantly repaired via the nucleotide excision repair (NER) pathway. In an effort to personalize the treatment of cancers based on DNA repair capacity, we developed an ELISA-based assay to measure NER activity accurately and reproducibly as a prognostic for platinum-based treatments. Here we present an overview of DNA repair and its link to cancer and therapeutics. We also present data demonstrating the ability to detect the proteins of the pre-incision complex within the NER pathway from cell and tissue extracts.
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- Jennifer N Earley
- Department of Medicine/Hematology and Oncology, Indiana University School of Medicine, 980 W. Walnut Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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Kothandapani A, Dangeti VSMN, Brown AR, Banze LA, Wang XH, Sobol RW, Patrick SM. Novel role of base excision repair in mediating cisplatin cytotoxicity. J Biol Chem 2011; 286:14564-74. [PMID: 21357694 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m111.225375] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Using isogenic mouse embryonic fibroblasts and human cancer cell lines, we show that cells defective in base excision repair (BER) display a cisplatin-specific resistant phenotype. This was accompanied by enhanced repair of cisplatin interstrand cross-links (ICLs) and ICL-induced DNA double strand breaks, but not intrastrand adducts. Cisplatin induces abasic sites with a reduced accumulation in uracil DNA glycosylase (UNG) null cells. We show that cytosines that flank the cisplatin ICLs undergo preferential oxidative deamination in vitro, and AP endonuclease 1 (APE1) can cleave the resulting ICL DNA substrate following removal of the flanking uracil. We also show that DNA polymerase β has low fidelity at the cisplatin ICL site after APE1 incision. Down-regulating ERCC1-XPF in BER-deficient cells restored cisplatin sensitivity. Based on our results, we propose a novel model in which BER plays a positive role in maintaining cisplatin cytotoxicity by competing with the productive cisplatin ICL DNA repair pathways.
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- Anbarasi Kothandapani
- Department of Biochemistry and Cancer Biology, University of Toledo, Health Science Campus, Toledo, Ohio 43614, USA
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Anciano Granadillo VJ, Earley JN, Shuck SC, Georgiadis MM, Fitch RW, Turchi JJ. Targeting the OB-Folds of Replication Protein A with Small Molecules. J Nucleic Acids 2010; 2010:304035. [PMID: 21188165 PMCID: PMC3005895 DOI: 10.4061/2010/304035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2010] [Accepted: 09/27/2010] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Replication protein A (RPA) is the main eukaryotic single-strand (ss) DNA-binding protein involved in DNA replication and repair. We have identified and developed two classes of small molecule inhibitors (SMIs) that show in vitro inhibition of the RPA-DNA interaction. We present further characterization of these SMIs with respect to their target binding, mechanism of action, and specificity. Both reversible and irreversible modes of inhibition are observed for the different classes of SMIs with one class found to specifically interact with DNA-binding domains A and B (DBD-A/B) of RPA. In comparison with other oligonucleotide/oligosaccharide binding-fold (OB-fold) containing ssDNA-binding proteins, one class of SMIs displayed specificity for the RPA protein. Together these data demonstrate that the specific targeting of a protein-DNA interaction can be exploited towards interrogating the cellular activity of RPA as well as increasing the efficacy of DNA-damaging chemotherapeutics used in cancer treatment.
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- Victor J Anciano Granadillo
- Department of Medicine/Hematology and Oncology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Joseph E. Walther Hall, R3-C562, 980 W. Walnut Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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Oakley GG, Patrick SM. Replication protein A: directing traffic at the intersection of replication and repair. FRONT BIOSCI-LANDMRK 2010; 15:883-900. [PMID: 20515732 DOI: 10.2741/3652] [Citation(s) in RCA: 147] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Since the initial discovery of replication protein A (RPA) as a DNA replication factor, much progress has been made on elucidating critical roles for RPA in other DNA metabolic pathways. RPA has been shown to be required for DNA replication, DNA repair, DNA recombination, and the DNA damage response pathway with roles in checkpoint activation. This review summarizes the current understanding of RPA structure, phosphorylation and protein-protein interactions in mediating these DNA metabolic processes.
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- Greg G Oakley
- College of Dentistry, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Lincoln, Nebraska 68583, USA
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Shuck SC, Turchi JJ. Targeted inhibition of Replication Protein A reveals cytotoxic activity, synergy with chemotherapeutic DNA-damaging agents, and insight into cellular function. Cancer Res 2010; 70:3189-98. [PMID: 20395205 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-09-3422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Targeting uncontrolled cell proliferation and resistance to DNA-damaging chemotherapeutics with a single agent has significant potential in cancer treatment. Replication protein A (RPA), the eukaryotic ssDNA-binding protein, is essential for genomic maintenance and stability via roles in both DNA replication and repair. We have identified a novel small molecule that inhibits the in vitro and cellular ssDNA-binding activity of RPA, prevents cell cycle progression, induces cytotoxicity, and increases the efficacy of chemotherapeutic DNA-damaging agents. These results provide new insight into the mechanism of RPA-ssDNA interactions in chromosome maintenance and stability. This represents the first molecularly targeted eukaryotic DNA-binding inhibitor and reveals the utility of targeting a protein-DNA interaction as a therapeutic strategy for cancer treatment.
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- Sarah C Shuck
- Departments of Medicine and Biochemistry, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
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De Vlaminck I, Vidic I, van Loenhout MTJ, Kanaar R, Lebbink JHG, Dekker C. Torsional regulation of hRPA-induced unwinding of double-stranded DNA. Nucleic Acids Res 2010; 38:4133-42. [PMID: 20197317 PMCID: PMC2896508 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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All cellular single-stranded (ss) DNA is rapidly bound and stabilized by single stranded DNA-binding proteins (SSBs). Replication protein A, the main eukaryotic SSB, is able to unwind double-stranded (ds) DNA by binding and stabilizing transiently forming bubbles of ssDNA. Here, we study the dynamics of human RPA (hRPA) activity on topologically constrained dsDNA with single-molecule magnetic tweezers. We find that the hRPA unwinding rate is exponentially dependent on torsion present in the DNA. The unwinding reaction is self-limiting, ultimately removing the driving torsional stress. The process can easily be reverted: release of tension or the application of a rewinding torque leads to protein dissociation and helix rewinding. Based on the force and salt dependence of the in vitro kinetics we anticipate that the unwinding reaction occurs frequently in vivo. We propose that the hRPA unwinding reaction serves to protect and stabilize the dsDNA when it is structurally destabilized by mechanical stresses.
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- Iwijn De Vlaminck
- Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Lorentzweg 1, 2628 CJ Delft, The Netherlands
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Kemp MG, Mason AC, Carreira A, Reardon JT, Haring SJ, Borgstahl GEO, Kowalczykowski SC, Sancar A, Wold MS. An alternative form of replication protein a expressed in normal human tissues supports DNA repair. J Biol Chem 2009; 285:4788-97. [PMID: 19996105 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m109.079418] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Replication protein A (RPA) is a heterotrimeric protein complex required for a large number of DNA metabolic processes, including DNA replication and repair. An alternative form of RPA (aRPA) has been described in which the RPA2 subunit (the 32-kDa subunit of RPA and product of the RPA2 gene) of canonical RPA is replaced by a homologous subunit, RPA4. The normal function of aRPA is not known; however, previous studies have shown that it does not support DNA replication in vitro or S-phase progression in vivo. In this work, we show that the RPA4 gene is expressed in normal human tissues and that its expression is decreased in cancerous tissues. To determine whether aRPA plays a role in cellular physiology, we investigated its role in DNA repair. aRPA interacted with both Rad52 and Rad51 and stimulated Rad51 strand exchange. We also showed that, by using a reconstituted reaction, aRPA can support the dual incision/excision reaction of nucleotide excision repair. aRPA is less efficient in nucleotide excision repair than canonical RPA, showing reduced interactions with the repair factor XPA and no stimulation of XPF-ERCC1 endonuclease activity. In contrast, aRPA exhibits higher affinity for damaged DNA than canonical RPA, which may explain its ability to substitute for RPA in the excision step of nucleotide excision repair. Our findings provide the first direct evidence for the function of aRPA in human DNA metabolism and support a model for aRPA functioning in chromosome maintenance functions in nonproliferating cells.
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- Michael G Kemp
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
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Zhu G, Lippard SJ. Photoaffinity labeling reveals nuclear proteins that uniquely recognize cisplatin-DNA interstrand cross-links. Biochemistry 2009; 48:4916-25. [PMID: 19364127 DOI: 10.1021/bi900389b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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The DNA-binding inorganic compound cisplatin is one of the most successful anticancer drugs. The detailed mechanism by which cells recognize and process cisplatin-DNA damage is of great interest. Although the family of proteins that bind cisplatin 1,2- and 1,3-intrastrand cross-links has been identified, much less is known about cellular protein interactions with cisplatin interstrand cross-links (ICLs). In order to address this question, a photoreactive analogue of cisplatin, PtBP(6), was used to construct a DNA duplex containing a site-specific platinum ICL. This DNA probe was characterized and used in photo-cross-linking experiments to separate and identify nuclear proteins that bind to the ICL by peptide mass fingerprint analysis. Several such proteins were discovered, including PARP-1, hMutSbeta, DNA ligase III, XRCC1, and PNK. The photo-cross-linking approach was independently validated by an electrophoretic mobility shift assay demonstrating hMutSbeta binding to a cisplatin ICL. Proteins that recognize the platinum ICL were also identified in cisplatin-resistant cells, cells halted at various phases of the cell cycle, and in different carcinoma cells. Nuclear proteins that bind to the platinum ICL differ from those binding to intrastrand cross-links, indicating different mechanisms for disruption of cellular functions.
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- Guangyu Zhu
- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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Pestryakov PE, Lavrik OI. Mechanisms of single-stranded DNA-binding protein functioning in cellular DNA metabolism. BIOCHEMISTRY (MOSCOW) 2009; 73:1388-404. [PMID: 19216707 DOI: 10.1134/s0006297908130026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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This review deals with analysis of mechanisms involved in coordination of DNA replication and repair by SSB proteins; characteristics of eukaryotic, prokaryotic, and archaeal SSB proteins are considered, which made it possible to distinguish general mechanisms specific for functioning of proteins from organisms of different life domains. Mechanisms of SSB protein interactions with DNA during metabolism of the latter are studied; structural organization of the SSB protein complexes with DNA, as well as structural and functional peculiarities of different SSB proteins are analyzed.
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- P E Pestryakov
- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
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Suhasini AN, Sommers JA, Mason AC, Voloshin ON, Camerini-Otero RD, Wold MS, Brosh RM. FANCJ helicase uniquely senses oxidative base damage in either strand of duplex DNA and is stimulated by replication protein A to unwind the damaged DNA substrate in a strand-specific manner. J Biol Chem 2009; 284:18458-70. [PMID: 19419957 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m109.012229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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FANCJ mutations are genetically linked to the Fanconi anemia complementation group J and predispose individuals to breast cancer. Understanding the role of FANCJ in DNA metabolism and how FANCJ dysfunction leads to tumorigenesis requires mechanistic studies of FANCJ helicase and its protein partners. In this work, we have examined the ability of FANCJ to unwind DNA molecules with specific base damage that can be mutagenic or lethal. FANCJ was inhibited by a single thymine glycol, but not 8-oxoguanine, in either the translocating or nontranslocating strands of the helicase substrate. In contrast, the human RecQ helicases (BLM, RECQ1, and WRN) display strand-specific inhibition of unwinding by the thymine glycol damage, whereas other DNA helicases (DinG, DnaB, and UvrD) are not significantly inhibited by thymine glycol in either strand. In the presence of replication protein A (RPA), but not Escherichia coli single-stranded DNA-binding protein, FANCJ efficiently unwound the DNA substrate harboring the thymine glycol damage in the nontranslocating strand; however, inhibition of FANCJ helicase activity by the translocating strand thymine glycol was not relieved. Strand-specific stimulation of human RECQ1 helicase activity was also observed, and RPA bound with high affinity to single-stranded DNA containing a single thymine glycol. Based on the biochemical studies, we propose a model for the specific functional interaction between RPA and FANCJ on the thymine glycol substrates. These studies are relevant to the roles of RPA, FANCJ, and other DNA helicases in the metabolism of damaged DNA that can interfere with basic cellular processes of DNA metabolism.
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- Avvaru N Suhasini
- Laboratory of Molecular Gerontology, Biomedical Research Center, NIA, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA
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Guggenheim ER, Xu D, Zhang CX, Chang PV, Lippard SJ. Photoaffinity isolation and identification of proteins in cancer cell extracts that bind to platinum-modified DNA. Chembiochem 2009; 10:141-57. [PMID: 19053130 PMCID: PMC2710532 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200800471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2008] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The activity of the anticancer drug cisplatin is a consequence of its ability to bind DNA. Platinum adducts bend and unwind the DNA duplex, creating recognition sites for nuclear proteins. Following DNA damage recognition, the lesions will either be repaired, facilitating cell viability, or if repair is unsuccessful and the Pt adduct interrupts vital cellular functions, apoptosis will follow. With the use of the benzophenone-modified cisplatin analogue Pt-BP6, 25 bp DNA duplexes containing either a 1,2-d(G*pG*) intrastrand or a 1,3-d(G*pTpG*) intrastrand crosslink were synthesized, where the asterisks designate platinated nucleobases. Proteins having affinity for these platinated DNAs were photocrosslinked and identified in cervical, testicular, pancreatic and bone cancer-cell nuclear extracts. Proteins identified in this manner include the DNA repair factors RPA1, Ku70, Ku80, Msh2, DNA ligase III, PARP-1, and DNA-PKcs, as well as HMG-domain proteins HMGB1, HMGB2, HMGB3, and UBF1. The latter strongly associate with the 1,2-d(G*pG*) adduct and weakly or not at all with the 1,3-d(G*pTpG*) adduct. The nucleotide excision repair protein RPA1 was photocrosslinked only by the probe containing a 1,3-d(G*pTpG*) intrastrand crosslink. The affinity of PARP-1 for platinum-modified DNA was established using this type of probe for the first time. To ensure that the proteins were not photocrosslinked because of an affinity for DNA ends, a 90-base dumbbell probe modified with Pt-BP6 was investigated. Photocrosslinking experiments with this longer probe revealed the same proteins, as well as some additional proteins involved in chromatin remodeling, transcription, or repair. These findings reveal a more complete list of proteins involved in the early steps of the mechanism of action of the cisplatin and its close analogue carboplatin than previously was available.
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- Evan R. Guggenheim
- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, Telephone: 617-253-1892 , Fax: 617-258-8150
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, Telephone: 617-253-1892 , Fax: 617-258-8150
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, Telephone: 617-253-1892 , Fax: 617-258-8150
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, Telephone: 617-253-1892 , Fax: 617-258-8150
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, Telephone: 617-253-1892 , Fax: 617-258-8150
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Krasikova YS, Rechkunova NI, Maltseva EA, Petruseva IO, Silnikov VN, Zatsepin TS, Oretskaya TS, Schärer OD, Lavrik OI. Interaction of nucleotide excision repair factors XPC-HR23B, XPA, and RPA with damaged DNA. BIOCHEMISTRY (MOSCOW) 2008; 73:886-96. [PMID: 18774935 DOI: 10.1134/s0006297908080063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The interaction of nucleotide excision repair factors--xeroderma pigmentosum complementation group C protein in complex with human homolog of yeast Rad23 protein (XPC-HR23B), replication protein A (RPA), and xeroderma pigmentosum complementation group A protein (XPA)--with 48-mer DNA duplexes imitating damaged DNA structures was investigated. All studied proteins demonstrated low specificity in binding to damaged DNA compared with undamaged DNA duplexes. RPA stimulates formation of XPC-HR23B complex with DNA, and when XPA and XPC-HR23B are simultaneously present in the reaction mixture a synergistic effect in binding of these proteins to DNA is observed. RPA crosslinks to DNA bearing photoreactive 5I-dUMP residue on one strand and fluorescein-substituted dUMP analog as a lesion in the opposite strand of DNA duplex and also stimulates cross-linking with XPC-HR23B. Therefore, RPA might be one of the main regulation factors at various stages of nucleotide excision repair. The data are in agreement with the cooperative binding model of nucleotide excision repair factors participating in pre-incision complex formation with DNA duplexes bearing damages.
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- Yu S Krasikova
- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
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Patrick SM, Tillison K, Horn JM. Recognition of cisplatin-DNA interstrand cross-links by replication protein A. Biochemistry 2008; 47:10188-96. [PMID: 18729380 DOI: 10.1021/bi800460d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Replication protein A (RPA) is a heterotrimeric protein that is required for DNA replication and most DNA repair pathways. RPA has previously been shown to play a role in recognizing and binding damaged DNA during nucleotide excision repair (NER). RPA has also been suggested to play a role in psoralen DNA interstrand cross-link (ICL) repair, but a clear biochemical activity has yet to be identified in the ICL DNA repair pathways. Using HeLa cell extracts and DNA affinity chromatography, we demonstrate that RPA is preferentially retained on a cisplatin interstrand cross-link (ICL) DNA column compared with undamaged DNA. The retention of RPA on cisplatin intrastrand and ICL containing DNA affinity columns is comparable. In vitro electrophoretic mobility shift assays (EMSAs) using synthetic DNA substrates and purified RPA demonstrate higher affinity for cisplatin ICL DNA binding compared with undamaged DNA. The enhanced binding of RPA to the cisplatin ICL is dependent on the DNA length. As the DNA flanking the cisplatin ICL is increased from 7 to 21 bases, preferential RPA binding is observed. Fluorescence anisotropy reveals greater than 200-fold higher affinity to a cisplatin ICL containing 42-mer DNA compared with an undamaged DNA and a 3-4-fold higher affinity when compared with a cisplatin intrastrand damaged DNA. As the DNA length and stringency of the binding reaction increase, greater preferential binding of RPA to cisplatin ICL DNA is observed. These data are consistent with a role for RPA in the initial recognition and initiation of cisplatin ICL DNA repair.
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- Steve M Patrick
- Department of Biochemistry and Cancer Biology, University of Toledo Health Science Campus, Toledo, Ohio 43614, USA.
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Cruet-Hennequart S, Glynn MT, Murillo LS, Coyne S, Carty MP. Enhanced DNA-PK-mediated RPA2 hyperphosphorylation in DNA polymerase eta-deficient human cells treated with cisplatin and oxaliplatin. DNA Repair (Amst) 2008; 7:582-96. [PMID: 18289945 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2007.12.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2007] [Revised: 12/17/2007] [Accepted: 12/21/2007] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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The chemotherapeutic drugs cisplatin and oxaliplatin act by induction of DNA damage, including monoadducts, intrastrand and interstrand crosslinks. An increased understanding of the repair and replication of platinum-damaged DNA is required to improve the effectiveness of these drugs in killing cancer cells. We have investigated the effect of expression of DNA polymerase eta (poleta), a translesion synthesis (TLS) enzyme, on the response of human cell lines to cisplatin and oxaliplatin. Poleta-deficient cells are more sensitive to both drugs than are normal cells. In poleta-deficient cells, drug treatment leads to prolonged S-phase arrest, and increased phosphorylation of the phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase-related protein kinase (PIKK) substrates Chk1, p95/Nbs1 and RPA2, the 34kDa subunit of replication protein A. Cisplatin- and oxaliplatin-induced hyperphosphorylation of RPA2, and association of the hyperphosphorylated protein with chromatin, is elevated in poleta-deficient cells. Cisplatin-induced phosphorylation of RPA2 on serine 4/serine 8, but not on serine 33, is inhibited by the DNA-PK inhibitor, NU7441, but not by the ATM inhibitor, KU-55933. Cisplatin-induced DNA-PK-dependent hyperphosphorylation of RPA2 on serine 4/serine 8 occurs after recruitment of RPA to chromatin, as determined by immunofluorescence and by subcellular fractionation. ATR is required both for recruitment of RPA2 to chromatin and its subsequent hyperphosphorylation on serine 4/serine 8 by DNA-PK, since CGK733, an inhibitor of ATM and ATR, blocked both recruitment and hyperphosphorylation. Thus, increased sensitivity to cisplatin and oxaliplatin in DNA poleta-deficient cells is associated with prolonged S-phase arrest, and enhanced PIKK-signalling, in particular activation of DNA-PK-dependent hyperphosphorylation of RPA2 on serines 4 and 8.
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- Séverine Cruet-Hennequart
- DNA Damage Response Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry, and National Centre for Biomedical Engineering Science, National University of Ireland, Galway, Galway City, Ireland
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Eukaryotic nucleotide excision repair: from understanding mechanisms to influencing biology. Cell Res 2008; 18:64-72. [PMID: 18166981 DOI: 10.1038/cr.2008.2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 177] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Repair of bulky DNA adducts by the nucleotide excision repair (NER) pathway is one of the more versatile DNA repair pathways for the removal of DNA lesions. There are two subsets of the NER pathway, global genomic-NER (GG-NER) and transcription-coupled NER (TC-NER), which differ only in the step involving recognition of the DNA lesion. Following recognition of the damage, the sub-pathways then converge for the incision/excision steps and subsequent gap filling and ligation steps. This review will focus on the GGR sub-pathway of NER, while the TCR sub-pathway will be covered in another article in this issue. The ability of the NER pathway to repair a wide array of adducts stems, in part, from the mechanisms involved in the initial recognition step of the damaged DNA and results in NER impacting an equally wide array of human physiological responses and events. In this review, the impact of NER on carcinogenesis, neurological function, sensitivity to environmental factors and sensitivity to cancer therapeutics will be discussed. The knowledge generated in our understanding of the NER pathway over the past 40 years has resulted from advances in the fields of animal model systems, mammalian genetics and in vitro biochemistry, as well as from reconstitution studies and structural analyses of the proteins and enzymes that participate in this pathway. Each of these avenues of research has contributed significantly to our understanding of how the NER pathway works and how alterations in NER activity, both positive and negative, influence human biology.
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Liu JS, Kuo SR, Melendy T. DNA damage-induced RPA focalization is independent of gamma-H2AX and RPA hyper-phosphorylation. J Cell Biochem 2007; 99:1452-62. [PMID: 16927366 DOI: 10.1002/jcb.21066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Replication protein A (RPA) is the major eukaryotic single stranded DNA binding protein that plays a central role in DNA replication, repair and recombination. Like many DNA repair proteins RPA is heavily phosphorylated (specifically on its 32 kDa subunit) in response to DNA damage. Phosphorylation of many repair proteins has been shown to be important for their recruitment to DNA damage-induced intra-nuclear foci. Further, phosphorylation of H2AX (gamma-H2AX) has been shown to be important for either the recruitment or stable retention of DNA repair proteins to these intra-nuclear foci. We address here the relationship between DNA damage-induced hyper-phosphorylation of RPA and its intra-nuclear focalization, and whether gamma-H2AX is required for RPA's presence at these foci. Using GFP-conjugated RPA, we demonstrate the formation of extraction-resistant RPA foci induced by DNA damage or stalled replication forks. The strong DNA damage-induced RPA foci appear after phosphorylated histone H2AX and Chk1, but earlier than the appearance of hyper-phosphorylated RPA. We demonstrate that while the functions of phosphoinositol-3-kinase-related protein kinases are essential for DNA damage-induced H2AX phosphorylation and RPA hyper-phosphorylation, they are dispensable for the induction of extraction-resistant RPA and RPA foci. Furthermore, in mouse cells genetically devoid of H2AX, DNA damage-induced extraction-resistant RPA appears with the same kinetics as in normal mouse cells. These results demonstrate that neither RPA hyper-phosphorylation nor H2AX are required for the formation in RPA intra-nuclear foci in response to DNA damage/replicational stress and are consistent with a role for RPA as a DNA damage sensor involved in the initial recognition of damaged DNA or blocked replication forks.
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- Jen-Sing Liu
- Department of Microbiology, University at Buffalo, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Buffalo, New York 14214, USA
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- Yongwon Jung
- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307, USA
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Maltseva EA, Rechkunova NI, Petruseva IO, Silnikov VN, Vermeulen W, Lavrik OI. Interaction of nucleotide excision repair factors RPA and XPA with DNA containing bulky photoreactive groups imitating damages. BIOCHEMISTRY (MOSCOW) 2006; 71:270-8. [PMID: 16545063 DOI: 10.1134/s0006297906030060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Interaction of nucleotide excision repair factors--replication protein A (RPA) and Xeroderma pigmentosum complementing group A protein (XPA)--with DNA structures containing nucleotides with bulky photoreactive groups imitating damaged nucleotides was investigated. Efficiency of photoaffinity modification of two proteins by photoreactive DNAs varied depending on DNA structure and type of photoreactive group. The secondary structure of DNA and, first of all, the presence of extended single-stranded parts plays a key role in recognition by RPA. However, it was shown that RPA efficiently interacts with DNA duplex containing a bulky substituent at the 5 -end of a nick. XPA was shown to prefer the nicked DNA; however, this protein was cross-linked with approximately equal efficiency by single-stranded and double-stranded DNA containing a bulky substituent inside the strand. XPA seems to be sensitive not only to the structure of DNA double helix, but also to a bulky group incorporated into DNA. The mechanism of damage recognition in the process of nucleotide excision repair is discussed.
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- E A Maltseva
- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk
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Trego KS, Turchi JJ. Pre-steady-state binding of damaged DNA by XPC-hHR23B reveals a kinetic mechanism for damage discrimination. Biochemistry 2006; 45:1961-9. [PMID: 16460043 PMCID: PMC2435173 DOI: 10.1021/bi051936t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The XPC-hHR23B complex (XPC-hHR23B) is a heterodimeric protein required for the initial step of DNA damage recognition in the global nucleotide excision repair (NER) pathway. A strong preference of XPC-hHR23B for UV- and cisplatin-damaged DNA has previously been demonstrated using equilibrium binding assays. To better understand the molecular mechanism of damage recognition by XPC-hHR23B, we carried out the pre-steady-state kinetic analysis of the XPC-hHR23B-DNA interactions using a stopped-flow fluorescence assay. XPC-hHR23B displays a faster k(on) for cisplatin- and UV-damaged duplex DNA than for undamaged DNA, with additional, minor effects on the k(off) rates. XPC-hHR23B has a high affinity for undamaged single-stranded DNA compared to duplex DNA, which can be largely attributed to a high rate of association. However, cisplatin damage on single-stranded DNA reduced the overall level of binding by a factor of 7, with nearly equal contributions from changes to the k(on) and k(off) rates. Together, these results support a model for initial damage recognition by XPC-hHR23B that is dependent on structural changes in the DNA, and not adduct chemistry.
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- To whom correspondence should be addressed. Current address: Indiana University Cancer Research Institute, Indiana University School of Medicine, R4-202, 1044 W. Walnut St., Indianapolis, IN 46202. E-mail:
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Brabec V, Stehlíková K, Malina J, Vojtiísková M, Kaspárková J. Thermodynamic properties of damaged DNA and its recognition by xeroderma pigmentosum group A protein and replication protein A. Arch Biochem Biophys 2006; 446:1-10. [PMID: 16405861 DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2005.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2005] [Revised: 12/05/2005] [Accepted: 12/06/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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The effects of the lesions induced by single, site-specific 1,2-GG or 1,3-GTG intrastrand adducts of cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II) formed in oligodeoxyribonucleotide duplexes on energetics of DNA were examined by means of differential scanning calorimetry. These effects were correlated with affinity of these duplexes for damaged-DNA binding-proteins XPA and RPA; this affinity was examined by gel electrophoresis. The results confirm that rigid DNA bending is the specific determinant responsible for high-affinity interactions of XPA with damaged DNA, but that an additional important factor, which affects affinity of XPA to damaged DNA, is a change of thermodynamic stability of DNA induced by the damage. In addition, the results also confirm that RPA preferentially binds to DNA distorted so that hydrogen bonds between complementary bases are interrupted. RPA also binds to non-denaturational distortions in double-helical DNA, but affinity of RPA to these distortions is insensitive to alterations of thermodynamic stability of damaged DNA.
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- Viktor Brabec
- Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Královopolská 135, CZ-61265 Brno, Czech Republic.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21205
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21205
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Zorbas H, Keppler BK. Cisplatin damage: are DNA repair proteins saviors or traitors to the cell? Chembiochem 2005; 6:1157-66. [PMID: 15934047 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200400427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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- Haralabos Zorbas
- Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Am Klopferspitz 18, 82152 Martinsried, Germany.
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Cubeddu L, White MF. DNA damage detection by an archaeal single-stranded DNA-binding protein. J Mol Biol 2005; 353:507-16. [PMID: 16181640 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2005.08.050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2005] [Revised: 08/11/2005] [Accepted: 08/18/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Archaeal DNA repair pathways are not well defined; in particular, there are no convincing candidate proteins for detection of DNA mismatches or the bulky lesions removed by excision repair pathways. Single-stranded DNA-binding proteins (SSBs) play a central role in DNA replication, recombination and repair. The crenarchaeal SSB is a monomer with a single oligonucleotide-binding fold for single-stranded DNA binding coupled to a flexible C-terminal tail reminiscent of bacterial SSB that mediates interactions with other proteins. We demonstrate that Sulfolobus solfataricus SSB can melt DNA containing a mismatch or DNA lesion specifically in vitro. We suggest that a potential role for SSB in archaea is the detection of DNA damage due to local destabilisation of the DNA double helix, followed by recruitment of specific repair proteins. Proteins interacting specifically with a single-stranded DNA:SSB complex include several known or putative DNA repair proteins and DNA helicases.
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- Liza Cubeddu
- Centre for Biomolecular Sciences, University of St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 9ST, UK
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Patrick SM, Oakley GG, Dixon K, Turchi JJ. DNA damage induced hyperphosphorylation of replication protein A. 2. Characterization of DNA binding activity, protein interactions, and activity in DNA replication and repair. Biochemistry 2005; 44:8438-8448. [PMID: 15938633 PMCID: PMC4328999 DOI: 10.1021/bi048057b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Replication protein A (RPA) is a heterotrimeric protein consisting of 70-, 34-, and 14- kDa subunits that is required for many DNA metabolic processes including DNA replication and DNA repair. Using a purified hyperphosphorylated form of RPA protein prepared in vitro, we have addressed the effects of hyperphosphorylation on steady-state and pre-steady-state DNA binding activity, the ability to support DNA repair and replication reactions, and the effect on the interaction with partner proteins. Equilibrium DNA binding activity measured by fluorescence polarization reveals no difference in ssDNA binding to pyrimidine-rich DNA sequences. However, RPA hyperphosphorylation results in a decreased affinity for purine-rich ssDNA and duplex DNA substrates. Pre-steady-state kinetic analysis is consistent with the equilibrium DNA binding and demonstrates a contribution from both the k(on) and k(off) to achieve these differences. The hyperphosphorylated form of RPA retains damage-specific DNA binding, and, importantly, the affinity of hyperphosphorylated RPA for damaged duplex DNA is 3-fold greater than the affinity of unmodified RPA for undamaged duplex DNA. The ability of hyperphosphorylated RPA to support DNA repair showed minor differences in the ability to support nucleotide excision repair (NER). Interestingly, under reaction conditions in which RPA is maintained in a hyperphosphorylated form, we also observed inhibition of in vitro DNA replication. Analyses of protein-protein interactions bear out the effects of hyperphosphorylated RPA on DNA metabolic pathways. Specifically, phosphorylation of RPA disrupts the interaction with DNA polymerase alpha but has no significant effect on the interaction with XPA. These results demonstrate that the effects of DNA damage induced hyperphosphorylation of RPA on DNA replication and DNA repair are mediated through alterations in DNA binding activity and protein-protein interactions.
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- Steve M. Patrick
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, Ohio 45435
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- Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio 45267
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721-0106
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, Ohio 45435
- To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: (937)-775-3595; fax: (937)-775-3730;
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Nuss JE, Patrick SM, Oakley GG, Alter GM, Robison JG, Dixon K, Turchi JJ. DNA damage induced hyperphosphorylation of replication protein A. 1. Identification of novel sites of phosphorylation in response to DNA damage. Biochemistry 2005; 44:8428-37. [PMID: 15938632 PMCID: PMC4331072 DOI: 10.1021/bi0480584] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Replication protein A (RPA) is the predominant eukaryotic single-stranded DNA binding protein composed of 70, 34, and 14 kDa subunits. RPA plays central roles in the processes of DNA replication, repair, and recombination, and the p34 subunit of RPA is phosphorylated in a cell-cycle-dependent fashion and is hyperphosphorylated in response to DNA damage. We have developed an in vitro procedure for the preparation of hyperphosphorylated RPA and characterized a series of novel sites of phosphorylation using a combination of in gel tryptic digestion, SDS-PAGE and HPLC, MALDI-TOF MS analysis, 2D gel electrophoresis, and phosphospecific antibodies. We have mapped five phosphorylation sites on the RPA p34 subunit and five sites of phosphorylation on the RPA p70 subunit. No modification of the 14 kDa subunit was observed. Using the procedures developed with in vitro phosphorylated RPA, we confirmed a series of phosphorylation events on RPA from HeLa cells that was hyperphosphorylated in vivo in response to the DNA damaging agents, aphidicolin and hydroxyurea.
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- To whom correspondence should be addressed. Phone: (937)-775-3595; fax: (937)-775-3730;
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Chaney SG, Campbell SL, Bassett E, Wu Y. Recognition and processing of cisplatin- and oxaliplatin-DNA adducts. Crit Rev Oncol Hematol 2005; 53:3-11. [PMID: 15607931 DOI: 10.1016/j.critrevonc.2004.08.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 254] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/05/2004] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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The cytotoxicity of platinum compounds is thought to be determined primarily by their DNA adducts. Cisplatin and oxaliplatin are structurally distinct, but form the same types of adducts at the same sites on DNA. However, the DNA adducts are differentially recognized by a number of cellular proteins. For example, mismatch repair proteins and some damage-recognition proteins bind to cisplatin-GG adducts with higher affinity than to oxaliplatin-GG adducts, and this differential recognition of cisplatin- and oxaliplatin-GG adducts is thought to contribute to the differences in cytotoxicity and tumor range of cisplatin and oxaliplatin. A detailed kinetic analysis of the insertion and extension steps of dNTP incorporation in the vicinity of the adduct shows that both DNA polymerase beta (pol beta) and DNA polymerase eta (pol eta) catalyze translesion synthesis past oxaliplatin-GG adducts with greater efficiency than past cisplatin-GG adducts. In the case of pol eta, the efficiency and fidelity of translesion synthesis in vitro is very similar to that previously observed with cyclobutane TT dimers, suggesting that pol eta is likely to be involved in error-free bypass of Pt adducts in vivo. This has been confirmed for cisplatin by comparing the cisplatin-induced mutation frequency in human fibroblast cell lines with and without pol eta. Thus, the greater efficiency of bypass of oxaliplatin-GG adducts by pol eta may explain the lower mutagenicity of oxaliplatin compared to cisplatin. The ability of these cellular proteins to discriminate between cisplatin and oxaliplatin adducts suggest that there exist significant conformational differences between the adducts, yet the crystal structures of the cisplatin- and oxaliplatin-GG adducts were very similar. We have recently solved the solution structure of the oxaliplatin-GG adduct and have shown that it is significantly different from the previously published solution structures of the cisplatin-GG adducts. Furthermore, the observed differences in conformation provide a logical explanation for the differential recognition of cisplatin and oxaliplatin adducts by mismatch repair and damage-recognition proteins.
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- Stephen G Chaney
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Curriculum in Toxicology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7260, USA.
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Boeckman HJ, Trego KS, Henkels KM, Turchi JJ. Cisplatin sensitizes cancer cells to ionizing radiation via inhibition of nonhomologous end joining. Mol Cancer Res 2005; 3:277-85. [PMID: 15886299 PMCID: PMC2432110 DOI: 10.1158/1541-7786.mcr-04-0032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The combination of cisplatin and ionizing radiation (IR) treatment represents a common modality for treating a variety of cancers. These two agents provide considerable synergy during treatment, although the mechanism of this synergy remains largely undefined. We have investigated the mechanism of cisplatin sensitization to IR using a combination of in vitro and in vivo experiments. A clear synergistic interaction between cisplatin and IR is observed in cells proficient in nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ) catalyzed repair of DNA double-strand breaks (DSB). In contrast, no interaction between cisplatin and IR is observed in NHEJ-deficient cells. Reconstituted in vitro NHEJ assays revealed that a site-specific cisplatin-DNA lesion near the terminus results in complete abrogation of NHEJ catalyzed repair of the DSB. These data show that the cisplatin-IR synergistic interaction requires the DNA-dependent protein kinase-dependent NHEJ pathway for joining of DNA DSBs, and the presence of a cisplatin lesion on the DNA blocks this pathway. In the absence of a functional NHEJ pathway, although the cells are hypersensitive to IR, there is no synergistic interaction with cisplatin.
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- Heather J. Boeckman
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, OH 45435
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, OH 45435
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, OH 45435
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, OH 45435
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Shell SM, Hess S, Kvaratskhelia M, Zou Y. Mass spectrometric identification of lysines involved in the interaction of human replication protein a with single-stranded DNA. Biochemistry 2005; 44:971-8. [PMID: 15654753 PMCID: PMC1450108 DOI: 10.1021/bi048208a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
Human replication protein A (hRPA), a heterotrimeric single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) binding protein, is required for many cellular pathways including DNA damage repair, recombination, and replication as well as the ATR-mediated DNA damage response. While extensive effort has been devoted to understanding the structural relationships between RPA and ssDNA, information is currently limited to the RPA domains, the trimerization core, and a partial cocrystal structure. In this work, we employed a mass spectrometric protein footprinting method of single amino acid resolution to investigate the interactions of the entire heterotrimeric hRPA with ssDNA. In particular, we monitored surface accessibility of RPA lysines with NHS-biotin modification in the contexts of the free protein and the nucleoprotein complex. Our results not only indicated excellent agreement with the available crystal structure data for RPA70 DBD-AB-ssDNA complex but also revealed new protein contacts in the nucleoprotein complex. In addition to two residues, K263 and K343 of p70, previously identified by cocrystallography as direct DNA contacts, we observed protection of five additional lysines (K183, K259, K489, K577, and K588 of p70) upon ssDNA binding to RPA. Three residues, K489, K577, and K588, are located in ssDNA binding domain C and are likely to establish the direct contacts with cognate DNA. In contrast, no ssDNA-contacting lysines were identified in DBD-D. In addition, two lysines, K183 and K259, are positioned outside the putative ssDNA binding cleft. We propose that the protection of these lysines could result from the RPA interdomain structural reorganization induced by ssDNA binding.
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- Steven M Shell
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, James H. Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee 37614, USA
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Liu Y, Yang Z, Utzat C, Liu Y, Geacintov N, Basu A, Zou Y. Interactions of human replication protein A with single-stranded DNA adducts. Biochem J 2005; 385:519-26. [PMID: 15362978 PMCID: PMC1134724 DOI: 10.1042/bj20041151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2004] [Revised: 08/19/2004] [Accepted: 09/14/2004] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
Abstract
Human RPA (replication protein A), a single-stranded DNA-binding protein, is required for many cellular pathways including DNA repair, recombination and replication. However, the role of RPA in nucleotide excision repair remains elusive. In the present study, we have systematically examined the binding of RPA to a battery of well-defined ssDNA (single-stranded DNA) substrates using fluorescence spectroscopy. These substrates contain adducts of (6-4) photoproducts, N-acetyl-2-aminofluorene-, 1-aminopyrene-, BPDE (benzo[a]pyrene diol epoxide)- and fluorescein that are different in many aspects such as molecular structure and size, DNA disruption mode (e.g. base stacking or non-stacking), as well as chemical properties. Our results showed that RPA has a lower binding affinity for damaged ssDNA than for non-damaged ssDNA and that the affinity of RPA for damaged ssDNA depends on the type of adduct. Interestingly, the bulkier lesions have a greater effect. With a fluorescent base-stacking bulky adduct, (+)-cis-anti-BPDE-dG, we demonstrated that, on binding of RPA, the fluorescence of BPDE-ssDNA was significantly enhanced by up to 8-9-fold. This indicated that the stacking between the BPDE adduct and its neighbouring ssDNA bases had been disrupted and there was a lack of substantial direct contacts between the protein residues and the lesion itself. For RPA interaction with short damaged ssDNA, we propose that, on RPA binding, the modified base of ssDNA is looped out from the surface of the protein, permitting proper contacts of RPA with the remaining unmodified bases.
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Key Words
- adduct
- binding affinity
- dna damage recognition
- fluorescence spectroscopy
- human replication protein a
- single-stranded dna
- aaf, n-acetyl-2-acetylaminofluorene
- ap, 1-aminopyrene
- bpde, benzo[a]pyrene diol epoxide or 7,8-dihydroxy-9,10-epoxy-7,8,9,10-tetrahydrobenzo[a]pyrene
- c8-aaf-dg, n-(deoxyguanosin-8-yl)-aaf
- c8-ap-dg, n-(deoxyguanosin-8-yl)-ap
- dbd, dna-binding domain
- rpa, replication protein a
- ssdna, single-stranded dna
- ner, nucleotide excision repair
- (6-4)pp, (6-4)photoproduct
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- Yiyong Liu
- *Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, James H. Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 37614, U.S.A
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- *Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, James H. Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 37614, U.S.A
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- *Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, James H. Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 37614, U.S.A
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- †Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, U.S.A
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- *Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, James H. Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 37614, U.S.A
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Reardon JT, Sancar A. Nucleotide Excision Repair. PROGRESS IN NUCLEIC ACID RESEARCH AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2005; 79:183-235. [PMID: 16096029 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6603(04)79004-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 224] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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- Joyce T Reardon
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
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