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Islam A, Chakraborty A, Sarker AH, Aryal UK, Pan L, Sharma G, Boldogh I, Hazra T. Site-specific acetylation of polynucleotide kinase 3'-phosphatase regulates its distinct role in DNA repair pathways. Nucleic Acids Res 2024; 52:2416-2433. [PMID: 38224455 PMCID: PMC10954452 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkae002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2023] [Revised: 12/21/2023] [Accepted: 01/01/2024] [Indexed: 01/16/2024] Open
Abstract
Mammalian polynucleotide kinase 3'-phosphatase (PNKP), a DNA end-processing enzyme with 3'-phosphatase and 5'-kinase activities, is involved in multiple DNA repair pathways, including base excision (BER), single-strand break (SSBR), and double-strand break repair (DSBR). However, little is known as to how PNKP functions in such diverse repair processes. Here we report that PNKP is acetylated at K142 (AcK142) by p300 constitutively but at K226 (AcK226) by CBP, only after DSB induction. Co-immunoprecipitation analysis using AcK142 or AcK226 PNKP-specific antibodies showed that AcK142-PNKP associates only with BER/SSBR, and AcK226 PNKP with DSBR proteins. Despite the modest effect of acetylation on PNKP's enzymatic activity in vitro, cells expressing non-acetylable PNKP (K142R or K226R) accumulated DNA damage in transcribed genes. Intriguingly, in striatal neuronal cells of a Huntington's Disease (HD)-based mouse model, K142, but not K226, was acetylated. This is consistent with the reported degradation of CBP, but not p300, in HD cells. Moreover, transcribed genomes of HD cells progressively accumulated DSBs. Chromatin-immunoprecipitation analysis demonstrated the association of Ac-PNKP with the transcribed genes, consistent with PNKP's role in transcription-coupled repair. Thus, our findings demonstrate that acetylation at two lysine residues, located in different domains of PNKP, regulates its distinct role in BER/SSBR versus DSBR.
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- Azharul Islam
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, USA
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- Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Purdue Proteomics Facility, Bindley Bioscience Center, Purdue University, IN 47907, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, USA
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Vogt A, He Y. Structure and mechanism in non-homologous end joining. DNA Repair (Amst) 2023; 130:103547. [PMID: 37556875 PMCID: PMC10528545 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2023.103547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2023] [Revised: 07/26/2023] [Accepted: 07/27/2023] [Indexed: 08/11/2023]
Abstract
DNA double-stranded breaks (DSBs) are a particularly challenging form of DNA damage to repair because the damaged DNA must not only undergo the chemical reactions responsible for returning it to its original state, but, additionally, the two free ends can become physically separated in the nucleus and must be bridged prior to repair. In nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ), one of the major pathways of DSB repair, repair is carried out by a number of repair factors capable of binding to and directly joining DNA ends. It has been unclear how these processes are carried out at a molecular level, owing in part to the lack of structural evidence describing the coordination of the NHEJ factors with each other and a DNA substrate. Advances in cryo-Electron Microscopy (cryo-EM), allowing for the structural characterization of large protein complexes that would be intractable using other techniques, have led to the visualization several key steps of the NHEJ process, which support a model of sequential assembly of repair factors at the DSB, followed by end-bridging mediated by protein-protein complexes and transition to full synapsis. Here we examine the structural evidence for these models, devoting particular attention to recent work identifying a new NHEJ intermediate state and incorporating new NHEJ factors into the general mechanism. We also discuss the evolving understanding of end-bridging mechanisms in NHEJ and DNA-PKcs's role in mediating DSB repair.
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- Alex Vogt
- Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA; Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences Program, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA; Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences Program, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA; Chemistry of Life Processes Institute, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA; Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA.
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Xu J, Bradley N, He Y. Structure and function of the apical PIKKs in double-strand break repair. Curr Opin Struct Biol 2023; 82:102651. [PMID: 37437397 PMCID: PMC10530350 DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2023.102651] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2023] [Revised: 06/15/2023] [Accepted: 06/16/2023] [Indexed: 07/14/2023]
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Members of the phosphatidylinositol 3' kinase (PI3K)-related kinases (PIKKs) family, including DNA-dependent protein kinase catalytic subunit (DNA-PKcs), ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM), ataxia-telangiectasia mutated and Rad3-related (ATR), mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), suppressor with morphological effect on genitalia 1 (SMG1), and transformation/transcription domain-associated protein 1 (TRRAP/Tra1), participate in a variety of physiological processes, such as cell-cycle control, metabolism, transcription, replication, and the DNA damage response. In eukaryotic cells, DNA-PKcs, ATM, and ATR-ATRIP are the main sensors and regulators of DNA double-strand break repair. The purpose of this review is to describe recent structures of DNA-PKcs, ATM, and ATR, as well as their functions in activation and phosphorylation in different DNA repair pathways.
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- Jingfei Xu
- Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
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Geffen Y, Anand S, Akiyama Y, Yaron TM, Song Y, Johnson JL, Govindan A, Babur Ö, Li Y, Huntsman E, Wang LB, Birger C, Heiman DI, Zhang Q, Miller M, Maruvka YE, Haradhvala NJ, Calinawan A, Belkin S, Kerelsky A, Clauser KR, Krug K, Satpathy S, Payne SH, Mani DR, Gillette MA, Dhanasekaran SM, Thiagarajan M, Mesri M, Rodriguez H, Robles AI, Carr SA, Lazar AJ, Aguet F, Cantley LC, Ding L, Getz G. Pan-cancer analysis of post-translational modifications reveals shared patterns of protein regulation. Cell 2023; 186:3945-3967.e26. [PMID: 37582358 PMCID: PMC10680287 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2023.07.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2022] [Revised: 01/06/2023] [Accepted: 07/10/2023] [Indexed: 08/17/2023]
Abstract
Post-translational modifications (PTMs) play key roles in regulating cell signaling and physiology in both normal and cancer cells. Advances in mass spectrometry enable high-throughput, accurate, and sensitive measurement of PTM levels to better understand their role, prevalence, and crosstalk. Here, we analyze the largest collection of proteogenomics data from 1,110 patients with PTM profiles across 11 cancer types (10 from the National Cancer Institute's Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium [CPTAC]). Our study reveals pan-cancer patterns of changes in protein acetylation and phosphorylation involved in hallmark cancer processes. These patterns revealed subsets of tumors, from different cancer types, including those with dysregulated DNA repair driven by phosphorylation, altered metabolic regulation associated with immune response driven by acetylation, affected kinase specificity by crosstalk between acetylation and phosphorylation, and modified histone regulation. Overall, this resource highlights the rich biology governed by PTMs and exposes potential new therapeutic avenues.
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- Yifat Geffen
- Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Cancer Center and Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Weill Cornell Medical College, Meyer Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021, USA
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- Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Weill Cornell Medical College, Meyer Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021, USA
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- Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA 02125, USA
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- Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Weill Cornell Medical College, Meyer Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021, USA
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- Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Lokey Center for Life Science and Engineering, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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- Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Department of Genetic and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Weill Cornell Medical College, Meyer Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021, USA
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- Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Department of Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA
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- Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Leidos Biomedical Research Inc., Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
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- Office of Cancer Clinical Proteomics Research, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
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- Office of Cancer Clinical Proteomics Research, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
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- Office of Cancer Clinical Proteomics Research, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
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- Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Departments of Pathology & Genomic Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
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- Weill Cornell Medical College, Meyer Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021, USA.
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- Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
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- Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Cancer Center and Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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Head PE, Kapoor-Vazirani P, Nagaraju GP, Zhang H, Rath S, Luong N, Haji-Seyed-Javadi R, Sesay F, Wang SY, Duong D, Daddacha W, Minten E, Song B, Danelia D, Liu X, Li S, Ortlund E, Seyfried N, Smalley D, Wang Y, Deng X, Dynan W, El-Rayes B, Davis A, Yu D. DNA-PK is activated by SIRT2 deacetylation to promote DNA double-strand break repair by non-homologous end joining. Nucleic Acids Res 2023; 51:7972-7987. [PMID: 37395399 PMCID: PMC10450170 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkad549] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2022] [Revised: 06/02/2023] [Accepted: 06/27/2023] [Indexed: 07/04/2023] Open
Abstract
DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK) plays a critical role in non-homologous end joining (NHEJ), the predominant pathway that repairs DNA double-strand breaks (DSB) in response to ionizing radiation (IR) to govern genome integrity. The interaction of the catalytic subunit of DNA-PK (DNA-PKcs) with the Ku70/Ku80 heterodimer on DSBs leads to DNA-PK activation; however, it is not known if upstream signaling events govern this activation. Here, we reveal a regulatory step governing DNA-PK activation by SIRT2 deacetylation, which facilitates DNA-PKcs localization to DSBs and interaction with Ku, thereby promoting DSB repair by NHEJ. SIRT2 deacetylase activity governs cellular resistance to DSB-inducing agents and promotes NHEJ. SIRT2 furthermore interacts with and deacetylates DNA-PKcs in response to IR. SIRT2 deacetylase activity facilitates DNA-PKcs interaction with Ku and localization to DSBs and promotes DNA-PK activation and phosphorylation of downstream NHEJ substrates. Moreover, targeting SIRT2 with AGK2, a SIRT2-specific inhibitor, augments the efficacy of IR in cancer cells and tumors. Our findings define a regulatory step for DNA-PK activation by SIRT2-mediated deacetylation, elucidating a critical upstream signaling event initiating the repair of DSBs by NHEJ. Furthermore, our data suggest that SIRT2 inhibition may be a promising rationale-driven therapeutic strategy for increasing the effectiveness of radiation therapy.
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- PamelaSara E Head
- Department of Radiation Oncology and Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University School of Medicine,Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology and Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University School of Medicine,Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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- School of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL 35233, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology and Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University School of Medicine,Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology and Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University School of Medicine,Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology and Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University School of Medicine,Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology and Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University School of Medicine,Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology and Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University School of Medicine,Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, UT Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Augusta University, Augusta, GA 30912, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology and Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University School of Medicine,Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology and Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University School of Medicine,Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology and Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University School of Medicine,Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology and Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University School of Medicine,Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
- Department of Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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- Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology and Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University School of Medicine,Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology and Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University School of Medicine,Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology and Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University School of Medicine,Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
- Department of Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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- School of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL 35233, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, UT Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology and Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University School of Medicine,Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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Islam A, Chakraborty A, Sarker AH, Aryal UK, Sharma G, Boldogh I, Hazra T. Site-specific acetylation of polynucleotide kinase 3'-phosphatase (PNKP) regulates its distinct role in DNA repair pathways. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.06.21.545973. [PMID: 37645927 PMCID: PMC10461918 DOI: 10.1101/2023.06.21.545973] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/31/2023]
Abstract
Mammalian polynucleotide kinase 3'-phosphatase (PNKP) is a dual-function DNA end-processing enzyme with 3'-phosphatase and 5'-kinase activities, which generate 3'-OH and 5'-phosphate termini respectively, as substrates for DNA polymerase and DNA ligase to complete DNA repair. PNKP is thus involved in multiple DNA repair pathways, including base excision (BER), single-strand break (SSBR), and double-strand break repair (DSBR). However, little is known as to how PNKP functions in such diverse repair processes, which involve distinct sets of proteins. In this study, we report that PNKP is acetylated at two lysine (K142 and K226) residues. While K142 (AcK142) is constitutively acetylated by p300, CBP acetylates K226 (AcK226) only after DSB induction. Co-immunoprecipitation analysis using antibodies specific for PNKP peptides containing AcK142 or AcK226 of PNKP showed that AcK142-PNKP associates only with BER/SSBR, and AcK226 PNKP only with DSBR proteins. Although acetylation at these residues did not significantly affect the enzymatic activity of PNKP in vitro, cells expressing nonacetylable PNKP (K142R or K226R) accumulated DNA damage, specifically in transcribed genes. Intriguingly, in striatal neuronal cells of a Huntington's Disease (HD)-based mouse model, K142, but not K226, was acetylated. This observation is consistent with the reported degradation of CBP but not p300 in HD cells. Moreover, genomes of HD cells progressively accumulated DSBs specifically in the transcribed genes. Chromatin-immunoprecipitation analysis using anti-AcK142 or anti-AcK226 antibodies demonstrated an association of Ac-PNKP with the transcribed genes, consistent with PNKP's role in transcription-coupled repair. Thus, our findings collectively demonstrate that acetylation at two lysine residues located in different domains of PNKP regulates its functionally distinct role in BER/SSBR vs. DSBR.
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- Azharul Islam
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, 77555, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, 77555, USA
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- Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Purdue Proteomics Facility, Bindley Bioscience Center, Purdue University, IN 47907, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, 77555, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, 77555, USA
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Liu XW, Liu WJ, Meng Y, Hu J, Zhang CY. Development of a tandem signal amplification strategy for label-free sensing polynucleotide kinase activity in cancer cells. Talanta 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2022.124001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Zika Virus Induces Mitotic Catastrophe in Human Neural Progenitors by Triggering Unscheduled Mitotic Entry in the Presence of DNA Damage While Functionally Depleting Nuclear PNKP. J Virol 2022; 96:e0033322. [PMID: 35412344 PMCID: PMC9093132 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00333-22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
Abstract
Vertical transmission of Zika virus (ZIKV) leads with high frequency to congenital ZIKV syndrome (CZS), whose worst outcome is microcephaly. However, the mechanisms of congenital ZIKV neurodevelopmental pathologies, including direct cytotoxicity to neural progenitor cells (NPC), placental insufficiency, and immune responses, remain incompletely understood. At the cellular level, microcephaly typically results from death or insufficient proliferation of NPC or cortical neurons. NPC replicate fast, requiring efficient DNA damage responses to ensure genome stability. Like congenital ZIKV infection, mutations in the polynucleotide 5′-kinase 3′-phosphatase (PNKP) gene, which encodes a critical DNA damage repair enzyme, result in recessive syndromes often characterized by congenital microcephaly with seizures (MCSZ). We thus tested whether there were any links between ZIKV and PNKP. Here, we show that two PNKP phosphatase inhibitors or PNKP knockout inhibited ZIKV replication. PNKP relocalized from the nucleus to the cytoplasm in infected cells, colocalizing with the marker of ZIKV replication factories (RF) NS1 and resulting in functional nuclear PNKP depletion. Although infected NPC accumulated DNA damage, they failed to activate the DNA damage checkpoint kinases Chk1 and Chk2. ZIKV also induced activation of cytoplasmic CycA/CDK1 complexes, which trigger unscheduled mitotic entry. Inhibition of CDK1 activity inhibited ZIKV replication and the formation of RF, supporting a role of cytoplasmic CycA/CDK1 in RF morphogenesis. In brief, ZIKV infection induces mitotic catastrophe resulting from unscheduled mitotic entry in the presence of DNA damage. PNKP and CycA/CDK1 are thus host factors participating in ZIKV replication in NPC, and pathogenesis to neural progenitor cells. IMPORTANCE The 2015–2017 Zika virus (ZIKV) outbreak in Brazil and subsequent international epidemic revealed the strong association between ZIKV infection and congenital malformations, mostly neurodevelopmental defects up to microcephaly. The scale and global expansion of the epidemic, the new ZIKV outbreaks (Kerala state, India, 2021), and the potential burden of future ones pose a serious ongoing risk. However, the cellular and molecular mechanisms resulting in microcephaly remain incompletely understood. Here, we show that ZIKV infection of neuronal progenitor cells results in cytoplasmic sequestration of an essential DNA repair protein itself associated with microcephaly, with the consequent accumulation of DNA damage, together with an unscheduled activation of cytoplasmic CDK1/Cyclin A complexes in the presence of DNA damage. These alterations result in mitotic catastrophe of neuronal progenitors, which would lead to a depletion of cortical neurons during development.
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Pradhan S, Gao R, Bush K, Zhang N, Wairkar YP, Sarkar PS. Polyglutamine Expansion in Huntingtin and Mechanism of DNA Damage Repair Defects in Huntington’s Disease. Front Cell Neurosci 2022; 16:837576. [PMID: 35444517 PMCID: PMC9013776 DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2022.837576] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2021] [Accepted: 02/07/2022] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
Abstract
Emerging evidence suggests that DNA repair deficiency and genome instability may be the impending signs of many neurological diseases. Genome-wide association (GWAS) studies have established a strong correlation between genes that play a role in DNA damage repair and many neurodegenerative diseases, including Huntington’s disease (HD), and several other trinucleotides repeat expansion-related hereditary ataxias. Recently, many reports have documented a significant role played by the DNA repair processes in aging and in modifying many neurodegenerative diseases, early during their progression. Studies from our lab and others have now begun to understand the mechanisms that cause defective DNA repair in HD and surprisingly, many proteins that have a strong link to known neurodegenerative diseases seem to be important players in these cellular pathways. Mutations in huntingtin (HTT) gene that lead to polyglutamine repeat expansion at the N-terminal of HTT protein has been shown to disrupt transcription-coupled DNA repair process, a specialized DNA repair process associated with transcription. Due to the recent progress made in understanding the mechanisms of DNA repair in relation to HD, in this review, we will mainly focus on the mechanisms by which the wild-type huntingtin (HTT) protein helps in DNA repair during transcription, and the how polyglutamine expansions in HTT impedes this process in HD. Further studies that identify new players in DNA repair will help in our understanding of this process in neurons. Furthermore, it should help us understand how various DNA repair mechanism(s) coordinate to maintain the normal physiology of neurons, and provide insights for the development of novel drugs at prodromal stages of these neurodegenerative diseases.
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- Subrata Pradhan
- Department of Neurology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States
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- Department of Neurology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States
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- Department of Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States
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- Department of Neurology, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, United States
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- Department of Neurology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States
- Department of Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States
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- Department of Neurology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States
- Department of Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States
- *Correspondence: Partha S. Sarkar,
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Cheng Z, Cheng D, Li J, Guo L, Zhang W, Zhang C, Liu Y, Huang Y, Xu K. Polymorphisms Within DNA Double-Strand Breaks Repair-Related Genes Contribute to Structural Chromosome Abnormality in Recurrent Pregnancy Loss. Front Genet 2022; 12:787718. [PMID: 35003222 PMCID: PMC8733605 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2021.787718] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2021] [Accepted: 12/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
Abstract
Background: Structural chromosome abnormality (SCA) is an important cause of human diseases, including recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL). DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) repair-related genes play critical roles in SCA. The present study aims to investigate the potential contribution of DSBs repair-related gene polymorphisms to SCA. Methods: Fifty-four affected RPL individuals with SCA, 88 affected RPL individuals without SCA, and 84 controls were analyzed. Targeted whole-exome sequencing (WES) was used for screening single nucleotide polymorphisms in six DSBs repair-related genes (EP300, XRCC6, LIG4, XRCC4, PRKDC, and DCLRE1C), and validation was performed by Sanger sequencing. Finally, we detected the frequency of radiation-induced chromosome translocations in no SCA samples with significant polymorphisms by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). Results: A total of 35 polymorphisms have been identified and confirmed. Frequencies of EP300 rs20551, XRCC6 rs132788, and LIG4 rs1805388 were significantly different between SCA RPL and no SCA RPL (p = 0.030, 0.031, and 0.040 respectively). Frequencies of those three gene polymorphisms between SCA RPL and controls also were significantly different (p = 0.017, 0.028, and 0.029 respectively). Moreover, the frequency of the G allele at rs20551 locus, the T allele at rs132788 locus and the A allele at rs1805388 locus was significantly higher in SCA RPL than no SCA RPL (OR = 3.227, p = 0.005; OR = 1.978, p = 0.008 and OR = 1.769, p = 0.036 respectively) and controls (OR = 7.130, p = 0.000; OR = 2.157, p = 0.004; OR = 2.397, p = 0.003 respectively). Additionally, the frequency of radiation-induced translocation in no SCA samples with rs20551, rs132788 or rs1805388 was significantly higher compared with the wild type samples (p = 0.015, 0.012, and 0.007 respectively). Conclusion: Our results suggest that rs20551, rs132788, and rs1805388 might be associated with the risk of SCA. Larger scales of genetic variations studies and functional experiments are necessary to further confirm these findings.
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- Zhenbo Cheng
- Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.,Department of Laboratory Medicine, Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Changsha, China
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- School of Basic Medical Science, Institute of Reproductive and Stem Cell Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China.,Reproductive and Genetic Hospital of CITIC-Xiangya, Changsha, China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.,Department of Laboratory Medicine, Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.,Department of Laboratory Medicine, Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.,Department of Laboratory Medicine, Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.,Department of Laboratory Medicine, Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.,Department of Laboratory Medicine, Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.,Department of Laboratory Medicine, Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.,Department of Laboratory Medicine, Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Changsha, China
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Liang S, Chaplin AK, Stavridi AK, Appleby R, Hnizda A, Blundell TL. Stages, scaffolds and strings in the spatial organisation of non-homologous end joining: Insights from X-ray diffraction and Cryo-EM. PROGRESS IN BIOPHYSICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2021; 163:60-73. [PMID: 33285184 PMCID: PMC8224183 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2020.11.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2020] [Accepted: 11/26/2020] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) is the preferred pathway for the repair of DNA double-strand breaks in humans. Here we describe three structural aspects of the repair pathway: stages, scaffolds and strings. We discuss the orchestration of DNA repair to guarantee robust and efficient NHEJ. We focus on structural studies over the past two decades, not only using X-ray diffraction, but also increasingly exploiting cryo-EM to investigate the macromolecular assemblies.
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- Shikang Liang
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge, CB2 1GA, Cambridgeshire, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge, CB2 1GA, Cambridgeshire, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge, CB2 1GA, Cambridgeshire, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge, CB2 1GA, Cambridgeshire, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge, CB2 1GA, Cambridgeshire, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge, CB2 1GA, Cambridgeshire, UK.
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Hammel M, Tainer JA. X-ray scattering reveals disordered linkers and dynamic interfaces in complexes and mechanisms for DNA double-strand break repair impacting cell and cancer biology. Protein Sci 2021; 30:1735-1756. [PMID: 34056803 PMCID: PMC8376411 DOI: 10.1002/pro.4133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2021] [Revised: 05/23/2021] [Accepted: 05/25/2021] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Evolutionary selection ensures specificity and efficiency in dynamic metastable macromolecular machines that repair DNA damage without releasing toxic and mutagenic intermediates. Here we examine non‐homologous end joining (NHEJ) as the primary conserved DNA double‐strand break (DSB) repair process in human cells. NHEJ has exemplary key roles in networks determining the development, outcome of cancer treatments by DSB‐inducing agents, generation of antibody and T‐cell receptor diversity, and innate immune response for RNA viruses. We determine mechanistic insights into NHEJ structural biochemistry focusing upon advanced small angle X‐ray scattering (SAXS) results combined with X‐ray crystallography (MX) and cryo‐electron microscopy (cryo‐EM). SAXS coupled to atomic structures enables integrated structural biology for objective quantitative assessment of conformational ensembles and assemblies in solution, intra‐molecular distances, structural similarity, functional disorder, conformational switching, and flexibility. Importantly, NHEJ complexes in solution undergo larger allosteric transitions than seen in their cryo‐EM or MX structures. In the long‐range synaptic complex, X‐ray repair cross‐complementing 4 (XRCC4) plus XRCC4‐like‐factor (XLF) form a flexible bridge and linchpin for DNA ends bound to KU heterodimer (Ku70/80) and DNA‐PKcs (DNA‐dependent protein kinase catalytic subunit). Upon binding two DNA ends, auto‐phosphorylation opens DNA‐PKcs dimer licensing NHEJ via concerted conformational transformations of XLF‐XRCC4, XLF–Ku80, and LigIVBRCT–Ku70 interfaces. Integrated structures reveal multifunctional roles for disordered linkers and modular dynamic interfaces promoting DSB end processing and alignment into the short‐range complex for ligation by LigIV. Integrated findings define dynamic assemblies fundamental to designing separation‐of‐function mutants and allosteric inhibitors targeting conformational transitions in multifunctional complexes.
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- Michal Hammel
- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
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- Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA.,Department of Cancer Biology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA.,Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
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Tu Y, Li X, Zhu X, Liu X, Guo C, Jia D, Tang TS. Determining the Fate of Neurons in SCA3: ATX3, a Rising Decision Maker in Response to DNA Stresses and Beyond. Front Cell Dev Biol 2021; 8:619911. [PMID: 33425926 PMCID: PMC7793700 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2020.619911] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2020] [Accepted: 12/01/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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DNA damage response (DDR) and apoptosis are reported to be involved in the pathogenesis of many neurodegenerative diseases including polyglutamine (polyQ) disorders, such as Spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA3) and Huntington's disease (HD). Consistently, an increasing body of studies provide compelling evidence for the crucial roles of ATX3, whose polyQ expansion is defined as the cause of SCA3, in the maintenance of genome integrity and regulation of apoptosis. The polyQ expansion in ATX3 seems to affect its physiological functions in these distinct pathways. These advances have expanded our understanding of the relationship between ATX3's cellular functions and the underlying molecular mechanism of SCA3. Interestingly, dysregulated DDR pathways also contribute to the pathogenesis of other neurodegenerative disorder such as HD, which presents a common molecular mechanism yet distinct in detail among different diseases. In this review, we provide a comprehensive overview of the current studies about the physiological roles of ATX3 in DDR and related apoptosis, highlighting the crosslinks between these impaired pathways and the pathogenesis of SCA3. Moreover, whether these mechanisms are shared in other neurodegenerative diseases are analyzed. Finally, the preclinical studies targeting DDR and related apoptosis for treatment of polyQ disorders including SCA3 and HD are also summarized and discussed.
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- Yingfeng Tu
- Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Related Diseases of Women and Children, Department of Paediatrics, West China Second University Hospital, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Collaborative Innovation Center of Biotherapy, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Hebei Key Laboratory of Applied Chemistry, School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, China
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- Guangdong Key Laboratory for Genome Stability & Disease Prevention, Shenzhen University Health Science Center, Shenzhen, China
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- Hebei Key Laboratory of Applied Chemistry, School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, China
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- Beijing Institute of Genomics (China National Center for Bioinformation), University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Related Diseases of Women and Children, Department of Paediatrics, West China Second University Hospital, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Collaborative Innovation Center of Biotherapy, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Institute of Zoology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.,Institute for Stem Cell and Regeneration, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Structural insights into the role of DNA-PK as a master regulator in NHEJ. GENOME INSTABILITY & DISEASE 2021; 2:195-210. [PMID: 34723130 PMCID: PMC8549938 DOI: 10.1007/s42764-021-00047-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2021] [Revised: 07/06/2021] [Accepted: 07/12/2021] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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DNA-dependent protein kinase catalytic subunit DNA-PKcs/PRKDC is the largest serine/threonine protein kinase of the phosphatidyl inositol 3-kinase-like protein kinase (PIKK) family and is the most highly expressed PIKK in human cells. With its DNA-binding partner Ku70/80, DNA-PKcs is required for regulated and efficient repair of ionizing radiation-induced DNA double-strand breaks via the non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) pathway. Loss of DNA-PKcs or other NHEJ factors leads to radiation sensitivity and unrepaired DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs), as well as defects in V(D)J recombination and immune defects. In this review, we highlight the contributions of the late Dr. Carl W. Anderson to the discovery and early characterization of DNA-PK. We furthermore build upon his foundational work to provide recent insights into the structure of NHEJ synaptic complexes, an evolutionarily conserved and functionally important YRPD motif, and the role of DNA-PKcs and its phosphorylation in NHEJ. The combined results identify DNA-PKcs as a master regulator that is activated by its detection of two double-strand DNA ends for a cascade of phosphorylation events that provide specificity and efficiency in assembling the synaptic complex for NHEJ.
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The FHA domain of PNKP is essential for its recruitment to DNA damage sites and maintenance of genome stability. Mutat Res 2020; 822:111727. [PMID: 33220551 DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2020.111727] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2020] [Revised: 09/28/2020] [Accepted: 10/26/2020] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Polynucleotide kinase phosphatase (PNKP) has dual enzymatic activities as kinase and phosphatase for DNA ends, which are the prerequisite for the ligation, and thus is involved in base excision repair, single-strand break repair and non-homologous end joining for double-strand break (DSB) repair. In this study, we examined mechanisms for the recruitment of PNKP to DNA damage sites by laser micro-irradiation and live-cell imaging analysis using confocal microscope. We show that the forkhead-associated (FHA) domain of PNKP is essential for the recruitment of PNKP to DNA damage sites. Arg35 and Arg48 within the FHA domain are required for interactions with XRCC1 and XRCC4. PNKP R35A/R48A mutant failed to accumulate on the laser track and siRNA-mediated depletion of XRCC1 and/or XRCC4 reduced PNKP accumulation on the laser track, indicating that PNKP is recruited to DNA damage sites via the interactions between its FHA domain and XRCC1 or XRCC4. Furthermore, cells expressing PNKP R35A/R48A mutant exhibited increased sensitivity toward ionizing radiation in association with delayed SSB and DSB repair and genome instability, represented by micronuclei and chromosome bridges. Taken together, these findings revealed the importance of PNKP recruitment to DNA damage sites via its FHA domain for DNA repair and maintenance of genome stability.
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Wang DX, Wang J, Du YC, Ma JY, Wang SY, Tang AN, Kong DM. CRISPR/Cas12a-based dual amplified biosensing system for sensitive and rapid detection of polynucleotide kinase/phosphatase. Biosens Bioelectron 2020; 168:112556. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2020.112556] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2020] [Revised: 08/14/2020] [Accepted: 08/24/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Tsukada K, Matsumoto Y, Shimada M. Linker region is required for efficient nuclear localization of polynucleotide kinase phosphatase. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0239404. [PMID: 32970693 PMCID: PMC7514006 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0239404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2020] [Accepted: 09/05/2020] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Polynucleotide kinase phosphatase (PNKP) is a DNA repair factor with dual enzymatic functions, i.e., phosphorylation of 5’-end and dephosphorylation of 3’-end, which are prerequisites for DNA ligation and, thus, is involved in multiple DNA repair pathways, i.e., base excision repair, single-strand break repair and double-strand break repair through non-homologous end joining. Mutations in PNKP gene causes inherited diseases, such as microcephaly and seizure (MCSZ) by neural developmental failure and ataxia with oculomotor apraxia 4 (AOA4) and Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease 2B2 (CMT2B2) by neurodegeneration. PNKP consists of the Forkhead-associated (FHA) domain, linker region, phosphatase domain and kinase domain. Although the functional importance of PNKP interaction with XRCC1 and XRCC4 through the FHA domain and that of phosphatase and kinase enzyme activities have been well established, little is known about the function of linker region. In this study, we identified a functional putative nuclear localization signal (NLS) of PNKP located in the linker region, and showed that lysine 138 (K138), arginine 139 (R139) and arginine 141 (R141) residues therein are critically important for nuclear localization. Furthermore, double mutant of K138A and R35A, the latter of which mutates arginine 35, central amino acid of FHA domain, showed additive effect on nuclear localization, indicating that the FHA domain as well as the NLS is important for PNKP nuclear localization. Thus, this study revealed two distinct mechanisms regulating nuclear localization and subnuclear distribution of PNKP. These findings would contribute to deeper understanding of a variety of DNA repair pathway, i.e., base excision repair, single-strand break repair and double-strand break repair.
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- Kaima Tsukada
- Laboratory for Advanced Nuclear Energy, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
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- Laboratory for Advanced Nuclear Energy, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
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- Laboratory for Advanced Nuclear Energy, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
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Shiloh Y. The cerebellar degeneration in ataxia-telangiectasia: A case for genome instability. DNA Repair (Amst) 2020; 95:102950. [PMID: 32871349 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2020.102950] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2020] [Revised: 08/05/2020] [Accepted: 08/08/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Research on the molecular pathology of genome instability disorders has advanced our understanding of the complex mechanisms that safeguard genome stability and cellular homeostasis at large. Once the culprit genes and their protein products are identified, an ongoing dialogue develops between the research lab and the clinic in an effort to link specific disease symptoms to the functions of the proteins that are missing in the patients. Ataxi A-T elangiectasia (A-T) is a prominent example of this process. A-T's hallmarks are progressive cerebellar degeneration, immunodeficiency, chronic lung disease, cancer predisposition, endocrine abnormalities, segmental premature aging, chromosomal instability and radiation sensitivity. The disease is caused by absence of the powerful protein kinase, ATM, best known as the mobilizer of the broad signaling network induced by double-strand breaks (DSBs) in the DNA. In parallel, ATM also functions in the maintenance of the cellular redox balance, mitochondrial function and turnover and many other metabolic circuits. An ongoing discussion in the A-T field revolves around the question of which ATM function is the one whose absence is responsible for the most debilitating aspect of A-T - the cerebellar degeneration. This review suggests that it is the absence of a comprehensive role of ATM in responding to ongoing DNA damage induced mainly by endogenous agents. It is the ensuing deterioration and eventual loss of cerebellar Purkinje cells, which are very vulnerable to ATM absence due to a unique combination of physiological features, which kindles the cerebellar decay in A-T.
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- Yosef Shiloh
- The David and Inez Myers Laboratory for Cancer Genetics, Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Tel Aviv University Medical School, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel.
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Anisenko A, Kan M, Shadrina O, Brattseva A, Gottikh M. Phosphorylation Targets of DNA-PK and Their Role in HIV-1 Replication. Cells 2020; 9:E1907. [PMID: 32824372 PMCID: PMC7464883 DOI: 10.3390/cells9081907] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2020] [Revised: 08/13/2020] [Accepted: 08/14/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
Abstract
The DNA dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK) is a trimeric nuclear complex consisting of a large protein kinase and the Ku heterodimer. The kinase activity of DNA-PK is required for efficient repair of DNA double-strand breaks (DSB) by non-homologous end joining (NHEJ). We also showed that the kinase activity of DNA-PK is essential for post-integrational DNA repair in the case of HIV-1 infection. Besides, DNA-PK is known to participate in such cellular processes as protection of mammalian telomeres, transcription, and some others where the need for its phosphorylating activity is not clearly elucidated. We carried out a systematic search and analysis of DNA-PK targets described in the literature and identified 67 unique DNA-PK targets phosphorylated in response to various in vitro and/or in vivo stimuli. A functional enrichment analysis of DNA-PK targets and determination of protein-protein associations among them were performed. For 27 proteins from these 67 DNA-PK targets, their participation in the HIV-1 life cycle was demonstrated. This information may be useful for studying the functioning of DNA-PK in various cellular processes, as well as in various stages of HIV-1 replication.
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- Andrey Anisenko
- Chemistry Department and Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119234, Russia; (O.S.); (M.G.)
- Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119234, Russia;; (M.K.); (A.B.)
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- Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119234, Russia;; (M.K.); (A.B.)
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- Chemistry Department and Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119234, Russia; (O.S.); (M.G.)
- Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119234, Russia;; (M.K.); (A.B.)
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- Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119234, Russia;; (M.K.); (A.B.)
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- Chemistry Department and Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119234, Russia; (O.S.); (M.G.)
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Zhang J, Si J, Gan L, Zhou R, Guo M, Zhang H. Harnessing the targeting potential of differential radiobiological effects of photon versus particle radiation for cancer treatment. J Cell Physiol 2020; 236:1695-1711. [PMID: 32691425 DOI: 10.1002/jcp.29960] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2020] [Accepted: 07/09/2020] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Radiotherapy is one of the major modalities for malignancy treatment. High linear energy transfer (LET) charged-particle beams, like proton and carbon ions, exhibit favourable depth-dose distributions and radiobiological enhancement over conventional low-LET photon irradiation, thereby marking a new era in high precision medicine. Tumour cells have developed multicomponent signal transduction networks known as DNA damage responses (DDRs), which initiate cell-cycle checkpoints and induce double-strand break (DSB) repairs in the nucleus by nonhomologous end joining or homologous recombination pathways, to manage ionising radiation (IR)-induced DNA lesions. DNA damage induction and DSB repair pathways are reportedly dependent on the quality of radiation delivered. In this review, we summarise various types of DNA lesion and DSB repair mechanisms, upon irradiation with low and high-LET radiation, respectively. We also analyse factors influencing DNA repair efficiency. Inhibition of DNA damage repair pathways and dysfunctional cell-cycle checkpoint sensitises tumour cells to IR. Radio-sensitising agents, including DNA-PK inhibitors, Rad51 inhibitors, PARP inhibitors, ATM/ATR inhibitors, chk1 inhibitors, wee1 kinase inhibitors, Hsp90 inhibitors, and PI3K/AKT/mTOR inhibitors have been found to enhance cell killing by IR through interference with DDRs, cell-cycle arrest, or other cellular processes. The cotreatment of these inhibitors with IR may represent a promising therapeutic strategy for cancer.
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- Jinhua Zhang
- Department of Medical Physics, Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China
- Key Laboratory of Heavy Ion Radiation Biology and Medicine of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China
- College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Department of Medical Physics, Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China
- Key Laboratory of Heavy Ion Radiation Biology and Medicine of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China
- College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Department of Medical Physics, Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China
- Key Laboratory of Heavy Ion Radiation Biology and Medicine of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China
- College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Research Center for Ecological Impacts and Environmental Health Effects of Toxic and Hazardous Chemicals, Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People's Republic of China, Nanjing, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- Department of Medical Physics, Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China
- Key Laboratory of Heavy Ion Radiation Biology and Medicine of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China
- College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Taylor AMR, Rothblum-Oviatt C, Ellis NA, Hickson ID, Meyer S, Crawford TO, Smogorzewska A, Pietrucha B, Weemaes C, Stewart GS. Chromosome instability syndromes. Nat Rev Dis Primers 2019; 5:64. [PMID: 31537806 PMCID: PMC10617425 DOI: 10.1038/s41572-019-0113-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/29/2019] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Fanconi anaemia (FA), ataxia telangiectasia (A-T), Nijmegen breakage syndrome (NBS) and Bloom syndrome (BS) are clinically distinct, chromosome instability (or breakage) disorders. Each disorder has its own pattern of chromosomal damage, with cells from these patients being hypersensitive to particular genotoxic drugs, indicating that the underlying defect in each case is likely to be different. In addition, each syndrome shows a predisposition to cancer. Study of the molecular and genetic basis of these disorders has revealed mechanisms of recognition and repair of DNA double-strand breaks, DNA interstrand crosslinks and DNA damage during DNA replication. Specialist clinics for each disorder have provided the concentration of expertise needed to tackle their characteristic clinical problems and improve outcomes. Although some treatments of the consequences of a disorder may be possible, for example, haematopoietic stem cell transplantation in FA and NBS, future early intervention to prevent complications of disease will depend on a greater understanding of the roles of the affected DNA repair pathways in development. An important realization has been the predisposition to cancer in carriers of some of these gene mutations.
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- A Malcolm R Taylor
- Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
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- The University of Arizona Cancer Center, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Center for Chromosome Stability, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Stem Cell and Leukaemia Proteomics Laboratory, and Paediatric and Adolescent Oncology, Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
- Department of Paediatric and Adolescent Haematology and Oncology, Royal Manchester Children's Hospital and The Christie NHS Trust, Manchester, UK
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- Department of Neurology and Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Laboratory of Genome Maintenance, Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Immunology, The Children's Memorial Health Institute, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Pediatrics (Pediatric Immunology), Amalia Children's Hospital, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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Hegde ML, Dutta A, Yang C, Mantha AK, Hegde PM, Pandey A, Sengupta S, Yu Y, Calsou P, Chen D, Lees-Miller SP, Mitra S. Scaffold attachment factor A (SAF-A) and Ku temporally regulate repair of radiation-induced clustered genome lesions. Oncotarget 2018; 7:54430-54444. [PMID: 27303920 PMCID: PMC5342353 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.9914] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2016] [Accepted: 05/26/2016] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Ionizing radiation (IR) induces highly cytotoxic double-strand breaks (DSBs) and also clustered oxidized bases in mammalian genomes. Base excision repair (BER) of bi-stranded oxidized bases could generate additional DSBs as repair intermediates in the vicinity of direct DSBs, leading to loss of DNA fragments. This could be avoided if DSB repair via DNA-PK-mediated nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ) precedes BER initiated by NEIL1 and other DNA glycosylases (DGs). Here we show that DNA-PK subunit Ku inhibits DGs via direct interaction. The scaffold attachment factor (SAF)-A, (also called hnRNP-U), phosphorylated at Ser59 by DNA-PK early after IR treatment, is linked to transient release of chromatin-bound NEIL1, thus preventing BER. SAF-A is subsequently dephosphorylated. Ku inhibition of DGs in vitro is relieved by unphosphorylated SAF-A, but not by the phosphomimetic Asp59 mutant. We thus propose that SAF-A, in concert with Ku, temporally regulates base damage repair in irradiated cell genome.
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- Muralidhar L Hegde
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, USA.,Houston Methodist Neurological Institute, Houston, TX, USA.,Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, USA.,Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX , USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX , USA.,Center for Animal Sciences, School of Basic and Applied Sciences, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, Punjab, India
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, USA.,Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
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- Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, CNRS, Université de Toulouse-Université Paul Sabatier, Equipe Labellisée Ligue contre le Cancer, Toulouse, France
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- UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, USA.,Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.,Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX , USA
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Kochan JA, Desclos EC, Bosch R, Meister L, Vriend LE, van Attikum H, Krawczyk PM. Meta-analysis of DNA double-strand break response kinetics. Nucleic Acids Res 2017; 45:12625-12637. [PMID: 29182755 PMCID: PMC5728399 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkx1128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2017] [Revised: 10/24/2017] [Accepted: 11/13/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Most proteins involved in the DNA double-strand break response (DSBR) accumulate at the damage sites, where they perform functions related to damage signaling, chromatin remodeling and repair. Over the last two decades, studying the accumulation of many DSBR proteins provided information about their functionality and underlying mechanisms of action. However, comparison and systemic interpretation of these data is challenging due to their scattered nature and differing experimental approaches. Here, we extracted, analyzed and compared the available results describing accumulation of 79 DSBR proteins at sites of DNA damage, which can be further explored using Cumulus (http://www.dna-repair.live/cumulus/)-the accompanying interactive online application. Despite large inter-study variability, our analysis revealed that the accumulation of most proteins starts immediately after damage induction, occurs in parallel and peaks within 15-20 min. Various DSBR pathways are characterized by distinct accumulation kinetics with major non-homologous end joining proteins being generally faster than those involved in homologous recombination, and signaling and chromatin remodeling factors accumulating with varying speeds. Our meta-analysis provides, for the first time, comprehensive overview of the temporal organization of the DSBR in mammalian cells and could serve as a reference for future mechanistic studies of this complex process.
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- Jakub A. Kochan
- Department of Medical Biology and Laboratory of Experimental Oncology and Radiobiology (LEXOR), Cancer Center Amsterdam, Academic Medical Center, Meibergdreef 15, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Biology and Laboratory of Experimental Oncology and Radiobiology (LEXOR), Cancer Center Amsterdam, Academic Medical Center, Meibergdreef 15, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Biology and Laboratory of Experimental Oncology and Radiobiology (LEXOR), Cancer Center Amsterdam, Academic Medical Center, Meibergdreef 15, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Biology and Laboratory of Experimental Oncology and Radiobiology (LEXOR), Cancer Center Amsterdam, Academic Medical Center, Meibergdreef 15, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Biology and Laboratory of Experimental Oncology and Radiobiology (LEXOR), Cancer Center Amsterdam, Academic Medical Center, Meibergdreef 15, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Einthovenweg 20, 2333 ZC Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Biology and Laboratory of Experimental Oncology and Radiobiology (LEXOR), Cancer Center Amsterdam, Academic Medical Center, Meibergdreef 15, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Multiple DNA repair pathways maintain genome stability and ensure that DNA remains essentially unchanged over the life of a cell. Various human diseases occur if DNA repair is compromised, and most of these impact the nervous system, in some cases exclusively. However, it is often unclear what specific endogenous damage underpins disease pathology. Generally, the types of causative DNA damage are associated with replication, transcription, or oxidative metabolism; other direct sources of endogenous lesions may arise from aberrant topoisomerase activity or ribonucleotide incorporation into DNA. This review focuses on the etiology of DNA damage in the nervous system and the genome stability pathways that prevent human neurologic disease.
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- Peter J McKinnon
- Department of Genetics, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105, USA
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Havali-Shahriari Z, Weinfeld M, Glover JNM. Characterization of DNA Substrate Binding to the Phosphatase Domain of the DNA Repair Enzyme Polynucleotide Kinase/Phosphatase. Biochemistry 2017; 56:1737-1745. [PMID: 28276686 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.6b01236] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Polynucleotide kinase/phosphatase (PNKP) is a DNA strand break repair enzyme that uses separate 5' kinase and 3' phosphatase active sites to convert damaged 5'-hydroxyl/3'-phosphate strand termini to ligatable 5'-phosphate/3'-hydroxyl ends. The phosphatase active site has received particular attention as a target of inhibition in cancer therapy development. The phosphatase domain dephosphorylates a range of single- and double-stranded substrates; however, structural studies have shown that the phosphatase catalytic cleft can bind only single-stranded substrates. Here we use a catalytically inactive but structurally intact phosphatase mutant to probe interactions between PNKP and a variety of single- and double-stranded DNA substrates using an electrophoretic mobility shift assay. This work indicates that the phosphatase domain binds 3'-phosphorylated single-stranded DNAs in a manner that is highly dependent on the presence of the 3'-phosphate. Double-stranded substrate binding, in contrast, is not as dependent on the 3'-phosphate. Experiments comparing blunt-end, 3'-overhanging, and frayed-end substrates indicate that the predicted loss of energy due to base pair disruption upon binding of the phosphatase active site is likely balanced by favorable interactions between the liberated complementary strand and PNKP. Comparison of the effects on substrate binding of mutations within the phosphatase active site cleft with mutations in surrounding positively charged surfaces suggests that the surrounding surfaces are important for binding to double-stranded substrates. We further show that while fluorescence polarization methods can detect specific binding of single-stranded DNAs with the phosphatase domain, this method does not detect specific interactions between the PNKP phosphatase and double-stranded substrates.
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- Department of Oncology, University of Alberta, Cross Cancer Institute , 11560 University Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 1Z2, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta , Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2H7, Canada
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Shiloh Y, Lederman HM. Ataxia-telangiectasia (A-T): An emerging dimension of premature ageing. Ageing Res Rev 2017; 33:76-88. [PMID: 27181190 DOI: 10.1016/j.arr.2016.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2016] [Revised: 05/02/2016] [Accepted: 05/10/2016] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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A-T is a prototype genome instability syndrome and a multifaceted disease. A-T leads to neurodegeneration - primarily cerebellar atrophy, immunodeficiency, oculocutaneous telangiectasia (dilated blood vessels), vestigial thymus and gonads, endocrine abnormalities, cancer predisposition and varying sensitivity to DNA damaging agents, particularly those that induce DNA double-strand breaks. With the recent increase in life expectancy of A-T patients, the premature ageing component of this disease is gaining greater awareness. The complex A-T phenotype reflects the ever growing number of functions assigned to the protein encoded by the responsible gene - the homeostatic protein kinase, ATM. The quest to thoroughly understand the complex A-T phenotype may reveal yet elusive ATM functions.
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Base excision repair (BER) is an essential DNA repair pathway involved in the maintenance of genome stability and thus in the prevention of human diseases, such as premature aging, neurodegenerative diseases, and cancer. Protein posttranslational modifications (PTMs), including acetylation, methylation, phosphorylation, SUMOylation, and ubiquitylation, have emerged as important contributors in controlling cellular BER protein levels, enzymatic activities, protein-protein interactions, and protein cellular localization. These PTMs therefore play key roles in regulating the BER pathway and are consequently crucial for coordinating an efficient cellular DNA damage response. In this review, we summarize the presently available data on characterized PTMs of key BER proteins, the functional consequences of these modifications at the protein level, and also the impact on BER in vitro and in vivo.
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Dumitrache LC, McKinnon PJ. Polynucleotide kinase-phosphatase (PNKP) mutations and neurologic disease. Mech Ageing Dev 2016; 161:121-129. [PMID: 27125728 DOI: 10.1016/j.mad.2016.04.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2016] [Revised: 04/12/2016] [Accepted: 04/24/2016] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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A variety of human neurologic diseases are caused by inherited defects in DNA repair. In many cases, these syndromes almost exclusively impact the nervous system, underscoring the critical requirement for genome stability in this tissue. A striking example of this is defective enzymatic activity of polynucleotide kinase-phosphatase (PNKP), leading to microcephaly or neurodegeneration. Notably, the broad neural impact of mutations in PNKP can result in markedly different disease entities, even when the inherited mutation is the same. For example microcephaly with seizures (MCSZ) results from various hypomorphic PNKP mutations, as does ataxia with oculomotor apraxia 4 (AOA4). Thus, other contributing factors influence the neural phenotype when PNKP is disabled. Here we consider the role for PNKP in maintaining brain function and how perturbation in its activity can account for the varied pathology of neurodegeneration or microcephaly present in MCSZ and AOA4 respectively.
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- Lavinia C Dumitrache
- Dept. of Genetics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA
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- Dept. of Genetics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.
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The Response to Oxidative DNA Damage in Neurons: Mechanisms and Disease. Neural Plast 2016; 2016:3619274. [PMID: 26942017 PMCID: PMC4752990 DOI: 10.1155/2016/3619274] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2015] [Accepted: 12/24/2015] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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There is a growing body of evidence indicating that the mechanisms that control genome stability are of key importance in the development and function of the nervous system. The major threat for neurons is oxidative DNA damage, which is repaired by the base excision repair (BER) pathway. Functional mutations of enzymes that are involved in the processing of single-strand breaks (SSB) that are generated during BER have been causally associated with syndromes that present important neurological alterations and cognitive decline. In this review, the plasticity of BER during neurogenesis and the importance of an efficient BER for correct brain function will be specifically addressed paying particular attention to the brain region and neuron-selectivity in SSB repair-associated neurological syndromes and age-related neurodegenerative diseases.
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Shimada M, Dumitrache LC, Russell HR, McKinnon PJ. Polynucleotide kinase-phosphatase enables neurogenesis via multiple DNA repair pathways to maintain genome stability. EMBO J 2015; 34:2465-80. [PMID: 26290337 DOI: 10.15252/embj.201591363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2015] [Accepted: 07/09/2015] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Polynucleotide kinase-phosphatase (PNKP) is a DNA repair factor possessing both 5'-kinase and 3'-phosphatase activities to modify ends of a DNA break prior to ligation. Recently, decreased PNKP levels were identified as the cause of severe neuropathology present in the human microcephaly with seizures (MCSZ) syndrome. Utilizing novel murine Pnkp alleles that attenuate expression and a T424GfsX48 frame-shift allele identified in MCSZ individuals, we determined how PNKP inactivation impacts neurogenesis. Mice with PNKP inactivation in neural progenitors manifest neurodevelopmental abnormalities and postnatal death. This severe phenotype involved defective base excision repair and non-homologous end-joining, pathways required for repair of both DNA single- and double-strand breaks. Although mice homozygous for the T424GfsX48 allele were lethal embryonically, attenuated PNKP levels (akin to MCSZ) showed general neurodevelopmental defects, including microcephaly, indicating a critical developmental PNKP threshold. Directed postnatal neural inactivation of PNKP affected specific subpopulations including oligodendrocytes, indicating a broad requirement for genome maintenance, both during and after neurogenesis. These data illuminate the basis for selective neural vulnerability in DNA repair deficiency disease.
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- Mikio Shimada
- Department of Genetics, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
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- Department of Genetics, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
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- Department of Genetics, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
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Höhn A, Hartmann P, Gebhart V, Sonntag J, Grune T, Jung T. Actual Isothermal Effects of Water-Filtered Infrared A-Irradiation. Photochem Photobiol 2015; 91:887-94. [DOI: 10.1111/php.12439] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2014] [Accepted: 02/18/2015] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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- Annika Höhn
- Department for “Molecular Toxicology”; German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke (DIfE); Nuthetal Germany
- Department of Nutritional Toxicology; Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena; Jena Germany
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- Department of Nutritional Toxicology; Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena; Jena Germany
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- Department of Nutritional Toxicology; Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena; Jena Germany
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- Department of Nutritional Toxicology; Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena; Jena Germany
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- Department for “Molecular Toxicology”; German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke (DIfE); Nuthetal Germany
- Department of Nutritional Toxicology; Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena; Jena Germany
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- Department for “Molecular Toxicology”; German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke (DIfE); Nuthetal Germany
- Department of Nutritional Toxicology; Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena; Jena Germany
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Chatterjee A, Saha S, Chakraborty A, Silva-Fernandes A, Mandal SM, Neves-Carvalho A, Liu Y, Pandita RK, Hegde ML, Hegde PM, Boldogh I, Ashizawa T, Koeppen AH, Pandita TK, Maciel P, Sarkar PS, Hazra TK. The role of the mammalian DNA end-processing enzyme polynucleotide kinase 3'-phosphatase in spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 pathogenesis. PLoS Genet 2015; 11:e1004749. [PMID: 25633985 PMCID: PMC4310589 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004749] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2014] [Accepted: 09/11/2014] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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DNA strand-breaks (SBs) with non-ligatable ends are generated by ionizing radiation, oxidative stress, various chemotherapeutic agents, and also as base excision repair (BER) intermediates. Several neurological diseases have already been identified as being due to a deficiency in DNA end-processing activities. Two common dirty ends, 3'-P and 5'-OH, are processed by mammalian polynucleotide kinase 3'-phosphatase (PNKP), a bifunctional enzyme with 3'-phosphatase and 5'-kinase activities. We have made the unexpected observation that PNKP stably associates with Ataxin-3 (ATXN3), a polyglutamine repeat-containing protein mutated in spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA3), also known as Machado-Joseph Disease (MJD). This disease is one of the most common dominantly inherited ataxias worldwide; the defect in SCA3 is due to CAG repeat expansion (from the normal 14-41 to 55-82 repeats) in the ATXN3 coding region. However, how the expanded form gains its toxic function is still not clearly understood. Here we report that purified wild-type (WT) ATXN3 stimulates, and by contrast the mutant form specifically inhibits, PNKP's 3' phosphatase activity in vitro. ATXN3-deficient cells also show decreased PNKP activity. Furthermore, transgenic mice conditionally expressing the pathological form of human ATXN3 also showed decreased 3'-phosphatase activity of PNKP, mostly in the deep cerebellar nuclei, one of the most affected regions in MJD patients' brain. Finally, long amplicon quantitative PCR analysis of human MJD patients' brain samples showed a significant accumulation of DNA strand breaks. Our results thus indicate that the accumulation of DNA strand breaks due to functional deficiency of PNKP is etiologically linked to the pathogenesis of SCA3/MJD.
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- Arpita Chatterjee
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America
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- School of Health Sciences, Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
- ICVS/3B’s—PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America
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- School of Health Sciences, Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
- ICVS/3B’s—PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal
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- Department of Neurology and Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
- Department of Radiation Oncology, The Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, The Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, The Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Microbiology & Immunology; University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Neurology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
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- Department of Neurology, Albany Stratton VA Medical Center, Albany, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
- Department of Radiation Oncology, The Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- School of Health Sciences, Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
- ICVS/3B’s—PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal
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- Department of Neurology and Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America
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The DNA-dependent protein kinase: A multifunctional protein kinase with roles in DNA double strand break repair and mitosis. PROGRESS IN BIOPHYSICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2014; 117:194-205. [PMID: 25550082 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2014.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 194] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2014] [Revised: 12/16/2014] [Accepted: 12/19/2014] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK) is a serine/threonine protein kinase composed of a large catalytic subunit (DNA-PKcs) and the Ku70/80 heterodimer. Over the past two decades, significant progress has been made in elucidating the role of DNA-PK in non-homologous end joining (NHEJ), the major pathway for repair of ionizing radiation-induced DNA double strand breaks in human cells and recently, additional roles for DNA-PK have been reported. In this review, we will describe the biochemistry, structure and function of DNA-PK, its roles in DNA double strand break repair and its newly described roles in mitosis and other cellular processes.
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Edmonds MJ, Parsons JL. Regulation of base excision repair proteins by ubiquitylation. Exp Cell Res 2014; 329:132-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2014.07.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2014] [Revised: 07/21/2014] [Accepted: 07/24/2014] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Shiloh Y. ATM: expanding roles as a chief guardian of genome stability. Exp Cell Res 2014; 329:154-61. [PMID: 25218947 DOI: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2014.09.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2014] [Revised: 08/19/2014] [Accepted: 09/01/2014] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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- Yosef Shiloh
- The David and Inez Myers Laboratory for Cancer Research, Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.
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Nickson CM, Parsons JL. Monitoring regulation of DNA repair activities of cultured cells in-gel using the comet assay. Front Genet 2014; 5:232. [PMID: 25076968 PMCID: PMC4100063 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2014] [Accepted: 06/30/2014] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Base excision repair (BER) is the predominant cellular mechanism by which human cells repair DNA base damage, sites of base loss, and DNA single strand breaks of various complexity, that are generated in their thousands in every human cell per day as a consequence of cellular metabolism and exogenous agents, including ionizing radiation. Over the last three decades the comet assay has been employed in scientific research to examine the cellular response to these types of DNA damage in cultured cells, therefore revealing the efficiency and capacity of BER. We have recently pioneered new research demonstrating an important role for post-translational modifications (particularly ubiquitylation) in the regulation of cellular levels of BER proteins, and that subtle changes (∼20-50%) in protein levels following siRNA knockdown of E3 ubiquitin ligases or deubiquitylation enzymes can manifest in significant changes in DNA repair capacity monitored using the comet assay. For example, we have shown that the E3 ubiquitin ligase Mule, the tumor suppressor protein ARF, and the deubiquitylation enzyme USP47 modulate DNA repair by controlling cellular levels of DNA polymerase β, and also that polynucleotide kinase phosphatase levels are controlled by ATM-dependant phosphorylation and Cul4A-DDB1-STRAP-dependent ubiquitylation. In these studies we employed a modification of the comet assay whereby cultured cells, following DNA damage treatment, are embedded in agarose and allowed to repair in-gel prior to lysis and electrophoresis. Whilst this method does have its limitations, it avoids the extensive cell culture-based processing associated with the traditional approach using attached cells and also allows for the examination of much more precise DNA repair kinetics. In this review we will describe, using this modified comet assay, our accumulating evidence that ubiquitylation-dependant regulation of BER proteins has important consequences for overall cellular DNA repair capacity.
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- Catherine M Nickson
- Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, North West Cancer Research Centre, University of Liverpool Liverpool, UK
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- Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, North West Cancer Research Centre, University of Liverpool Liverpool, UK
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Radhakrishnan SK, Jette N, Lees-Miller SP. Non-homologous end joining: emerging themes and unanswered questions. DNA Repair (Amst) 2014; 17:2-8. [PMID: 24582502 PMCID: PMC4084493 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2014.01.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2013] [Revised: 01/03/2014] [Accepted: 01/24/2014] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) is the major pathway for the repair of ionizing radiation induced DNA double strand breaks in human cells. Here, we discuss current insights into the mechanism of NHEJ and the interplay between NHEJ and other pathways for repair of IR-induced DNA damage.
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- Sarvan Kumar Radhakrishnan
- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Southern Alberta Cancer Research Institute, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Drive, NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 4N1
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- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Southern Alberta Cancer Research Institute, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Drive, NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 4N1
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- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Southern Alberta Cancer Research Institute, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Drive, NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 4N1.
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Williams GJ, Hammel M, Radhakrishnan SK, Ramsden D, Lees-Miller SP, Tainer JA. Structural insights into NHEJ: building up an integrated picture of the dynamic DSB repair super complex, one component and interaction at a time. DNA Repair (Amst) 2014; 17:110-20. [PMID: 24656613 PMCID: PMC4102006 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2014.02.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2013] [Revised: 01/27/2014] [Accepted: 02/10/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) is the major pathway for repair of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) in human cells. NHEJ is also needed for V(D)J recombination and the development of T and B cells in vertebrate immune systems, and acts in both the generation and prevention of non-homologous chromosomal translocations, a hallmark of genomic instability and many human cancers. X-ray crystal structures, cryo-electron microscopy envelopes, and small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) solution conformations and assemblies are defining most of the core protein components for NHEJ: Ku70/Ku80 heterodimer; the DNA dependent protein kinase catalytic subunit (DNA-PKcs); the structure-specific endonuclease Artemis along with polynucleotide kinase/phosphatase (PNKP), aprataxin and PNKP related protein (APLF); the scaffolding proteins XRCC4 and XLF (XRCC4-like factor); DNA polymerases, and DNA ligase IV (Lig IV). The dynamic assembly of multi-protein NHEJ complexes at DSBs is regulated in part by protein phosphorylation. The basic steps of NHEJ have been biochemically defined to require: (1) DSB detection by the Ku heterodimer with subsequent DNA-PKcs tethering to form the DNA-PKcs-Ku-DNA complex (termed DNA-PK), (2) lesion processing, and (3) DNA end ligation by Lig IV, which functions in complex with XRCC4 and XLF. The current integration of structures by combined methods is resolving puzzles regarding the mechanisms, coordination and regulation of these three basic steps. Overall, structural results suggest the NHEJ system forms a flexing scaffold with the DNA-PKcs HEAT repeats acting as compressible macromolecular springs suitable to store and release conformational energy to apply forces to regulate NHEJ complexes and the DNA substrate for DNA end protection, processing, and ligation.
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- Gareth J Williams
- Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States
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- Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Southern Alberta Cancer Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, T2 N 4N1 Canada
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- Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 2759, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Southern Alberta Cancer Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, T2 N 4N1 Canada; Department of Oncology, Southern Alberta Cancer Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, T2 N 4N1 Canada.
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- Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States; Department of Molecular Biology, Skaggs Institute of Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, United States.
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Woodbine L, Gennery AR, Jeggo PA. Reprint of "The clinical impact of deficiency in DNA non-homologous end-joining". DNA Repair (Amst) 2014; 17:9-20. [PMID: 24780557 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2014.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2013] [Revised: 01/27/2014] [Accepted: 02/10/2014] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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DNA non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ) is the major DNA double strand break (DSB) repair pathway in mammalian cells. Defects in NHEJ proteins confer marked radiosensitivity in cell lines and mice models, since radiation potently induces DSBs. The process of V(D)J recombination functions during the development of the immune response, and involves the introduction and rejoining of programmed DSBs to generate an array of diverse T and B cells. NHEJ rejoins these programmed DSBs. Consequently, NHEJ deficiency confers (severe) combined immunodeficiency - (S)CID - due to a failure to carry out V(D)J recombination efficiently. NHEJ also functions in class switch recombination, another step enhancing T and B cell diversity. Prompted by these findings, a search for radiosensitivity amongst (S)CID patients revealed a radiosensitive sub-class, defined as RS-SCID. Mutations in NHEJ genes, defining human syndromes deficient in DNA ligase IV (LIG4 Syndrome), XLF-Cernunnos, Artemis or DNA-PKcs, have been identified in such patients. Mutations in XRCC4 or Ku70,80 in patients have not been identified. RS-SCID patients frequently display additional characteristics including microcephaly, dysmorphic facial features and growth delay. Here, we overview the clinical spectrum of RS-SCID patients and discuss our current understanding of the underlying biology.
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- Lisa Woodbine
- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9RQ, UK
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- Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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- Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
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Waters CA, Strande NT, Wyatt DW, Pryor JM, Ramsden DA. Nonhomologous end joining: a good solution for bad ends. DNA Repair (Amst) 2014; 17:39-51. [PMID: 24630899 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2014.02.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2013] [Revised: 01/27/2014] [Accepted: 02/10/2014] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Double strand breaks pose unique problems for DNA repair, especially when broken ends possess complex structures that interfere with standard DNA transactions. Nonhomologous end joining can use multiple strategies to solve these problems. It further uses sophisticated means to ensure the strategy chosen provides the ideal balance of flexibility and accuracy.
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- Crystal A Waters
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics and Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics and Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics and Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics and Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics and Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
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Woodbine L, Gennery AR, Jeggo PA. The clinical impact of deficiency in DNA non-homologous end-joining. DNA Repair (Amst) 2014; 16:84-96. [PMID: 24629483 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2014.02.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2013] [Revised: 01/27/2014] [Accepted: 02/10/2014] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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DNA non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ) is the major DNA double strand break (DSB) repair pathway in mammalian cells. Defects in NHEJ proteins confer marked radiosensitivity in cell lines and mice models, since radiation potently induces DSBs. The process of V(D)J recombination functions during the development of the immune response, and involves the introduction and rejoining of programmed DSBs to generate an array of diverse T and B cells. NHEJ rejoins these programmed DSBs. Consequently, NHEJ deficiency confers (severe) combined immunodeficiency - (S)CID - due to a failure to carry out V(D)J recombination efficiently. NHEJ also functions in class switch recombination, another step enhancing T and B cell diversity. Prompted by these findings, a search for radiosensitivity amongst (S)CID patients revealed a radiosensitive sub-class, defined as RS-SCID. Mutations in NHEJ genes, defining human syndromes deficient in DNA ligase IV (LIG4 Syndrome), XLF-Cernunnos, Artemis or DNA-PKcs, have been identified in such patients. Mutations in XRCC4 or Ku70,80 in patients have not been identified. RS-SCID patients frequently display additional characteristics including microcephaly, dysmorphic facial features and growth delay. Here, we overview the clinical spectrum of RS-SCID patients and discuss our current understanding of the underlying biology.
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- Lisa Woodbine
- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9RQ, UK
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- Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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- Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
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The modulation of phosphatase expression impacts the proliferation efficiency of HSV-1 in infected astrocytes. PLoS One 2013; 8:e79648. [PMID: 24260274 PMCID: PMC3829861 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079648] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2013] [Accepted: 10/02/2013] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Herpes Simplex Virus 1 (HSV-1) is a major pathogen that causes human neurological diseases, including herpes simplex encephalitis (HSE). Previous studies have shown that astrocytes are involved in HSV-1 systemic pathogenesis in the central nervous system (CNS), although the mechanism remains unclear. In this study, a high-throughput RNAi library screening method was used to analyze the effect of host phosphatase gene regulation on HSV-1 replication using Macaca mulatta primary astrocytes in an in vitro culture system. The results showed that the downregulation of five phosphatase genes (PNKP, SNAP23, PTPRU, LOC714621 and PPM1M) significantly inhibited HSV-1 infection, suggesting that these phosphatases were needed in HSV-1 replication in rhesus astrocytes. Although statistically significant, the effect of downregulation of these phosphatases on HSV-1 replication in a human astrocytoma cell line appears to be more limited. Our results suggest that the phosphatase genes in astrocytes may regulate the immunological and pathological reactions caused by HSV-1 CNS infection through the regulation of HSV-1 replication or of multiple signal transduction pathways.
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PNKP knockdown by RNA interference inhibits herpes simplex virus-1 replication in astrocytes. Virol Sin 2013; 28:345-51. [PMID: 24213989 DOI: 10.1007/s12250-013-3350-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2013] [Accepted: 10/24/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022] Open
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Herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1) is a major pathogen that causes various central nervous system (CNS) diseases, including herpes simplex encephalitis and meningitis. According to recent studies, PNKP significantly affects the proliferation of HSV-1 in astrocytes. Here, we used viral proliferation curves to confirm the significant inhibitory effects of PNKP on HSV-1 proliferation. PNKP downregulation was also confirmed by analyzing the transcription of viral genes. We found that PNKP downregulation affects the viral DNA copy number. This study preliminarily confirms that PNKP affects viral proliferation by affecting HSV-1 genome cyclization. These results also suggest that astrocytes play a specific role in preventing HSV-1 infection.
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Goodarzi AA, Jeggo PA. The repair and signaling responses to DNA double-strand breaks. ADVANCES IN GENETICS 2013; 82:1-45. [PMID: 23721719 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-407676-1.00001-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 165] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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A DNA double-strand break (DSB) has long been recognized as a severe cellular lesion, potentially representing an initiating event for carcinogenesis or cell death. The evolution of DSB repair pathways as well as additional processes, such as cell cycle checkpoint arrest, to minimize the cellular impact of DSB formation was, therefore, not surprising. However, the depth and complexity of the DNA damage responses being revealed by current studies were unexpected. Perhaps the most surprising finding to emerge is the dramatic changes to chromatin architecture that arise in the DSB vicinity. In this review, we overview the cellular response to DSBs focusing on DNA repair pathways and the interface between them. We consider additional events which impact upon these DSB repair pathways, including regulated arrest of cell cycle progression and chromatin architecture alterations. Finally, we discuss the impact of defects in these processes to human disease.
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- Aaron A Goodarzi
- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Southern Alberta Cancer Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Woodbine L, Neal JA, Sasi NK, Shimada M, Deem K, Coleman H, Dobyns WB, Ogi T, Meek K, Davies EG, Jeggo PA. PRKDC mutations in a SCID patient with profound neurological abnormalities. J Clin Invest 2013; 123:2969-80. [PMID: 23722905 DOI: 10.1172/jci67349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2012] [Accepted: 03/28/2013] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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The DNA-dependent protein kinase catalytic subunit (DNA-PKcs; encoded by PRKDC) functions in DNA non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ), the major DNA double strand break (DSB) rejoining pathway. NHEJ also functions during lymphocyte development, joining V(D)J recombination intermediates during antigen receptor gene assembly. Here, we describe a patient with compound heterozygous mutations in PRKDC, low DNA-PKcs expression, barely detectable DNA-PK kinase activity, and impaired DSB repair. In a heterologous expression system, we found that one of the PRKDC mutations inactivated DNA-PKcs, while the other resulted in dramatically diminished but detectable residual function. The patient suffered SCID with reduced or absent T and B cells, as predicted from PRKDC-deficient animal models. Unexpectedly, the patient was also dysmorphic; showed severe growth failure, microcephaly, and seizures; and had profound, globally impaired neurological function. MRI scans revealed microcephaly-associated cortical and hippocampal dysplasia and progressive atrophy over 2 years of life. These neurological features were markedly more severe than those observed in patients with deficiencies in other NHEJ proteins. Although loss of DNA-PKcs in mice, dogs, and horses was previously shown not to impair neuronal development, our findings demonstrate a stringent requirement for DNA-PKcs during human neuronal development and suggest that high DNA-PK protein expression is required to sustain efficient pre- and postnatal neurogenesis.
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- Lisa Woodbine
- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
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Shiloh Y, Ziv Y. The ATM protein kinase: regulating the cellular response to genotoxic stress, and more. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 2013; 14:197-210. [DOI: 10.1038/nrm3546] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1164] [Impact Index Per Article: 105.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Parsons JL, Dianov GL. Co-ordination of base excision repair and genome stability. DNA Repair (Amst) 2013; 12:326-33. [PMID: 23473643 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2013.02.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2013] [Accepted: 02/13/2013] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Base excision repair (BER) is a major DNA repair pathway employed in mammalian cells that is required to maintain genome stability, thus preventing several human diseases, such as ageing, neurodegenerative diseases and cancer. This is achieved through the repair of damaged DNA bases, sites of base loss and single strand breaks of varying complexity that are continuously induced endogenously or via exogenous mutagens. Whilst the enzymes involved in BER are now well known and characterised, the role of the co-ordination of BER enzymatic activities in the cellular response to DNA damage and the mechanisms regulating this process are only now being revealed. Post-translational modifications of BER proteins, including ubiquitylation and phosphorylation, are increasingly being identified as key processes that regulate BER. In this review we will summarise recent evidence discovering novel mechanisms that are involved in maintaining genome stability by regulation of the key BER proteins in response to DNA damage.
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- Jason L Parsons
- Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, Cancer Research Centre, University of Liverpool, 200 London Road, Liverpool, L3 9TA, UK
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Fenton AL, Shirodkar P, Macrae CJ, Meng L, Koch CA. The PARP3- and ATM-dependent phosphorylation of APLF facilitates DNA double-strand break repair. Nucleic Acids Res 2013; 41:4080-92. [PMID: 23449221 PMCID: PMC3627606 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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APLF is a forkhead associated-containing protein with poly(ADP-ribose)-binding zinc finger (PBZ) domains, which undergoes ionizing radiation (IR)-induced and Ataxia-Telangiectasia Mutated (ATM)-dependent phosphorylation at serine-116 (Ser(116)). Here, we demonstrate that the phosphorylation of APLF at Ser(116) in human U2OS cells by ATM is dependent on poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase 3 (PARP3) levels and the APLF PBZ domains. The interaction of APLF at sites of DNA damage was diminished by the single substitution of APLF Ser(116) to alanine, and the cellular depletion or chemical inhibition of ATM or PARP3 also altered the level of accumulation of APLF at sites of laser-induced DNA damage and impaired the accumulation of Ser(116)-phosphorylated APLF at IR-induced γH2AX foci in human cells. The data further suggest that ATM and PARP3 participate in a common signalling pathway to facilitate APLF-Ser(116) phosphorylation, which, in turn, appears to be required for efficient DNA double-strand break repair kinetics and cell survival following IR. Collectively, these findings provide a more detailed understanding of the molecular pathway that leads to the phosphorylation of APLF following DNA damage and suggest that Ser(116)-APLF phosphorylation facilitates APLF-dependent double-strand break repair.
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- Amanda L Fenton
- Division of Signalling Biology, Ontario Cancer Institute (University Health Network), 610 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5G 2M9, Canada
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Detection and repair of ionizing radiation-induced DNA double strand breaks: new developments in nonhomologous end joining. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2013; 86:440-9. [PMID: 23433795 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2013.01.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2012] [Accepted: 01/07/2013] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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DNA damage can occur as a result of endogenous metabolic reactions and replication stress or from exogenous sources such as radiation therapy and chemotherapy. DNA double strand breaks are the most cytotoxic form of DNA damage, and defects in their repair can result in genome instability, a hallmark of cancer. The major pathway for the repair of ionizing radiation-induced DSBs in human cells is nonhomologous end joining. Here we review recent advances on the mechanism of nonhomologous end joining, as well as new findings on its component proteins and regulation.
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KE SHIZHONG, NI XIAOYAN, ZHANG YUEHUA, WANG YINAN, WU BIN, GAO FENGGUANG. Camptothecin and cisplatin upregulate ABCG2 and MRP2 expression by activating the ATM/NF-κB pathway in lung cancer cells. Int J Oncol 2013; 42:1289-96. [DOI: 10.3892/ijo.2013.1805] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2012] [Accepted: 01/04/2013] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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