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Dvořák Tomaštíková E, Prochazkova K, Yang F, Jemelkova J, Finke A, Dorn A, Said M, Puchta H, Pecinka A. SMC5/6 complex-mediated SUMOylation stimulates DNA-protein cross-link repair in Arabidopsis. THE PLANT CELL 2023; 35:1532-1547. [PMID: 36705512 PMCID: PMC10118267 DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koad020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2022] [Revised: 11/23/2022] [Accepted: 01/23/2023] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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DNA-protein cross-links (DPCs) are highly toxic DNA lesions consisting of proteins covalently attached to chromosomal DNA. Unrepaired DPCs physically block DNA replication and transcription. Three DPC repair pathways have been identified in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) to date: the endonucleolytic cleavage of DNA by the structure-specific endonuclease MUS81; proteolytic degradation of the crosslinked protein by the metalloprotease WSS1A; and cleavage of the cross-link phosphodiester bonds by the tyrosyl phosphodiesterases TDP1 and TDP2. Here we describe the evolutionary conserved STRUCTURAL MAINTENANCE OF CHROMOSOMEs SMC5/6 complex as a crucial component involved in DPC repair. We identified multiple alleles of the SMC5/6 complex core subunit gene SMC6B via a forward-directed genetic screen designed to identify the factors involved in the repair of DPCs induced by the cytidine analog zebularine. We monitored plant growth and cell death in response to DPC-inducing chemicals, which revealed that the SMC5/6 complex is essential for the repair of several types of DPCs. Genetic interaction and sensitivity assays showed that the SMC5/6 complex works in parallel to the endonucleolytic and proteolytic pathways. The repair of zebularine-induced DPCs was associated with SMC5/6-dependent SUMOylation of the damage sites. Thus, we present the SMC5/6 complex as an important factor in plant DPC repair.
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- Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre of Plant Structural and Functional Genomics, Šlechtitelů 31, 77900 Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre of Plant Structural and Functional Genomics, Šlechtitelů 31, 77900 Olomouc, Czech Republic
- Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Science, Palacký University, Šlechtitelů 27, 77900 Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre of Plant Structural and Functional Genomics, Šlechtitelů 31, 77900 Olomouc, Czech Republic
- Functional Genomics and Proteomics, National Centre for Biomolecular Research (NCBR), Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 62500 Brno, Czech Republic
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- Botanical Institute, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Fritz-Haber-Weg 4, Karlsruhe, 76131, Germany
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- Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Centre of Plant Structural and Functional Genomics, Šlechtitelů 31, 77900 Olomouc, Czech Republic
- Field Crops Research Institute, Agricultural Research Centre, 9 Gamma Street, Giza, 12619, Cairo, Egypt
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- Botanical Institute, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Fritz-Haber-Weg 4, Karlsruhe, 76131, Germany
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Kudryavtseva N, Ermolaev A, Pivovarov A, Simanovsky S, Odintsov S, Khrustaleva L. The Control of the Crossover Localization in Allium. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:ijms24087066. [PMID: 37108228 PMCID: PMC10138942 DOI: 10.3390/ijms24087066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2022] [Revised: 04/05/2023] [Accepted: 04/08/2023] [Indexed: 04/29/2023] Open
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Meiotic crossovers/chiasmata are not randomly distributed and strictly controlled. The mechanisms behind crossover (CO) patterning remain largely unknown. In Allium cepa, as in the vast majority of plants and animals, COs predominantly occur in the distal 2/3 of the chromosome arm, while in Allium fistulosum they are strictly localized in the proximal region. We investigated the factors that may contribute to the pattern of COs in A. cepa, A. fistulosum and their F1 diploid (2n = 2x = 8C + 8F) and F1 triploid (2n = 3x = 16F + 8C) hybrids. The genome structure of F1 hybrids was confirmed using genomic in situ hybridization (GISH). The analysis of bivalents in the pollen mother cells (PMCs) of the F1 triploid hybrid showed a significant shift in the localization of COs to the distal and interstitial regions. In F1 diploid hybrid, the COs localization was predominantly the same as that of the A. cepa parent. We found no differences in the assembly and disassembly of ASY1 and ZYP1 in PMCs between A. cepa and A. fistulosum, while F1 diploid hybrid showed a delay in chromosome pairing and a partial absence of synapsis in paired chromosomes. Immunolabeling of MLH1 (class I COs) and MUS81 (class II COs) proteins showed a significant difference in the class I/II CO ratio between A. fistulosum (50%:50%) and A. cepa (73%:27%). The MLH1:MUS81 ratio at the homeologous synapsis of F1 diploid hybrid (70%:30%) was the most similar to that of the A. cepa parent. F1 triploid hybrid at the A. fistulosum homologous synapsis showed a significant increase in MLH1:MUS81 ratio (60%:40%) compared to the A. fistulosum parent. The results suggest possible genetic control of CO localization. Other factors affecting the distribution of COs are discussed.
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- Natalia Kudryavtseva
- All-Russian Research Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, 42 Timiryazevskaya Str., Moscow 127550, Russia
- Center of Molecular Biotechnology, Russian State Agrarian University-Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy, 49 Timiryazevskaya Str., Moscow 127550, Russia
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- All-Russian Research Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, 42 Timiryazevskaya Str., Moscow 127550, Russia
- Center of Molecular Biotechnology, Russian State Agrarian University-Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy, 49 Timiryazevskaya Str., Moscow 127550, Russia
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- All-Russian Research Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, 42 Timiryazevskaya Str., Moscow 127550, Russia
- Center of Molecular Biotechnology, Russian State Agrarian University-Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy, 49 Timiryazevskaya Str., Moscow 127550, Russia
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- All-Russian Research Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, 42 Timiryazevskaya Str., Moscow 127550, Russia
- Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, 33 Leninsky Prosp., Moscow 119071, Russia
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- All-Russian Research Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, 42 Timiryazevskaya Str., Moscow 127550, Russia
- Center of Molecular Biotechnology, Russian State Agrarian University-Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy, 49 Timiryazevskaya Str., Moscow 127550, Russia
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- All-Russian Research Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, 42 Timiryazevskaya Str., Moscow 127550, Russia
- Center of Molecular Biotechnology, Russian State Agrarian University-Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy, 49 Timiryazevskaya Str., Moscow 127550, Russia
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Mu N, Li Y, Li S, Shi W, Shen Y, Yang H, Zhang F, Tang D, Du G, You A, Cheng Z. MUS81 is required for atypical recombination intermediate resolution but not crossover designation in rice. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2023; 237:2422-2434. [PMID: 36495065 DOI: 10.1111/nph.18668] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2022] [Accepted: 11/29/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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The endonuclease methyl methanesulfonate and UV-sensitive protein 81 (MUS81) has been reported to participate in DNA repair during mitosis and meiosis. However, the exact meiotic function of MUS81 in rice remains unclear. Here, we use a combination of physiological, cytological, and genetic approaches to provide evidence that MUS81 functions in atypical recombination intermediate resolution rather than crossover designation in rice. Cytological and genetic analysis revealed that the total chiasma numbers in mus81 mutants were indistinguishable from wild-type. The numbers of HEI10 foci (the sites of interference-sensitive crossovers) in mus81 were also similar to that of wild-type. Moreover, disruption of MUS81 in msh5 or msh4 msh5 background did not further decrease chiasmata frequency, suggesting that rice MUS81 did not function in crossover designation. Mutation of FANCM and ZEP1 could enhance recombination frequency. Unexpectedly, chromosome fragments and bridges were frequently observed in mus81 zep1 and mus81 fancm, illustrating that MUS81 may resolve atypical recombination intermediates. Taken together, our data suggest that MUS81 contributes little to crossover designation but plays a crucial role in the resolution of atypical meiotic intermediates by working together with other anti-crossover factors.
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- Na Mu
- Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for Modern Production Technology of Grain Crops, Yangzhou University, 225009, Yangzhou, China
- State Key Lab of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Innovation Academy for Seed Design, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101, Beijing, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- State Key Lab of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Innovation Academy for Seed Design, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101, Beijing, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Institute of Food Crops, Hubei Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, 430064, China
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- State Key Lab of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Innovation Academy for Seed Design, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101, Beijing, China
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- State Key Lab of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Innovation Academy for Seed Design, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101, Beijing, China
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- State Key Lab of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Innovation Academy for Seed Design, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Cell Proliferation and Regulation Biology of Ministry of Education, College of Life Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China
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- State Key Lab of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Innovation Academy for Seed Design, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101, Beijing, China
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- State Key Lab of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Innovation Academy for Seed Design, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Food Crops, Hubei Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, 430064, China
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- Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for Modern Production Technology of Grain Crops, Yangzhou University, 225009, Yangzhou, China
- State Key Lab of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Innovation Academy for Seed Design, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101, Beijing, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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Garcia N, Yin L, Dukowic-Schulze S, Milsted C, Kianian PMA, Kianian S, Pawlowski WP, Chen C. Comparison of meiotic transcriptomes of three maize inbreds with different origins reveals differences in cell cycle and recombination. BMC Genomics 2022; 23:702. [PMID: 36224518 PMCID: PMC9554999 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-022-08922-w] [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: 06/01/2022] [Accepted: 09/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Background Cellular events during meiosis can differ between inbred lines in maize. Substantial differences in the average numbers of chiasmata and double-strand breaks (DSBs) per meiotic cell have been documented among diverse inbred lines of maize: CML228, a tropical maize inbred line, B73 and Mo17, temperate maize lines. To determine if gene expression might explain these observed differences, an RNA-Seq experiment was performed on CML228 male meiocytes which was compared to B73 and Mo17 male meiocytes, where plants were grown in the same controlled environment. Results We found that a few DSB-repair/meiotic genes which promote class I crossovers (COs) and the Zyp1 gene which limits newly formed class I COs were up-regulated, whereas Mus81 homolog 2 which promotes class II COs was down-regulated in CML228. Although we did not find enriched gene ontology (GO) categories directly related to meiosis, we found that GO categories in membrane, localization, proteolysis, energy processes were up-regulated in CML228, while chromatin remodeling, epigenetic regulation, and cell cycle related processes including meiosis related cell cycle processes were down-regulated in CML228. The degree of similarity in expression patterns between the three maize lines reflect their genetic relatedness: B73 and Mo17 had similar meiotic expressions and CML228 had a more distinct expression profile. Conclusions We found that meiotic related genes were mostly conserved among the three maize inbreds except for a few DSB-repair/meiotic genes. The findings that the molecular players in limiting class I CO formation (once CO assurance is achieved) were up-regulated and those involved in promoting class II CO formation were down-regulated in CML228 agree with the lower chiasmata number observed in CML228 previously. In addition, epigenetics such as chromatin remodeling and histone modification might play a role. Transport and energy-related processes was up-regulated and Cyclin13 was down-regulated in CML228. The direction of gene expression of these processes agree with that previously found in meiotic tissues compared with vegetative tissues. In summary, we used different natural maize inbred lines from different climatic conditions and have shown their differences in expression landscape in male meiocytes. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12864-022-08922-w.
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- Nelson Garcia
- Department of Horticultural Science, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, USA.,Present Address: Sound Agriculture, 5858 Horton St, Emeryville, CA, USA
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- School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- Department of Horticultural Science, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, USA.,Microvascular Biology and Pathobiology, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
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- School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- PepsiCo Inc., 210 Borlaug Hall, 1991 Upper Buford Circle, Saint Paul, MN, USA
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- Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service, Cereal Disease Lab, U.S., Saint Paul, MN, USA
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- Department of Horticultural Science, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, USA. .,School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
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Bai W, Zhao B, Gu M, Dong J. Alternative end-joining in BCR gene rearrangements and translocations. Acta Biochim Biophys Sin (Shanghai) 2022; 54:782-795. [PMID: 35593472 PMCID: PMC9828324 DOI: 10.3724/abbs.2022051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Programmed DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) occur during antigen receptor gene recombination, namely V(D)J recombination in developing B lymphocytes and class switch recombination (CSR) in mature B cells. Repair of these DSBs by classical end-joining (c-NHEJ) enables the generation of diverse BCR repertoires for efficient humoral immunity. Deletion of or mutation in c-NHEJ genes in mice and humans confer various degrees of primary immune deficiency and predisposition to lymphoid malignancies that often harbor oncogenic chromosomal translocations. In the absence of c-NHEJ, alternative end-joining (A-EJ) catalyzes robust CSR and to a much lesser extent, V(D)J recombination, but the mechanisms of A-EJ are only poorly defined. In this review, we introduce recent advances in the understanding of A-EJ in the context of V(D)J recombination and CSR with emphases on DSB end processing, DNA polymerases and ligases, and discuss the implications of A-EJ to lymphoid development and chromosomal translocations.
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- Wanyu Bai
- Department of ImmunologyZhongshan School of MedicineSun Yat-sen UniversityGuangzhou510080China,Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Control (Sun Yat-sen University)Ministry of EducationGuangzhou510080China
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- Department of ImmunologyZhongshan School of MedicineSun Yat-sen UniversityGuangzhou510080China,Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Control (Sun Yat-sen University)Ministry of EducationGuangzhou510080China
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- Department of ImmunologyZhongshan School of MedicineSun Yat-sen UniversityGuangzhou510080China,Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Control (Sun Yat-sen University)Ministry of EducationGuangzhou510080China
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- Department of ImmunologyZhongshan School of MedicineSun Yat-sen UniversityGuangzhou510080China,Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Control (Sun Yat-sen University)Ministry of EducationGuangzhou510080China,Correspondence address. Tel: +86-20-87330571; E-mail:
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Tang WS, Zhong L, Ding QQ, Dou YN, Li WW, Xu ZS, Zhou YB, Chen J, Chen M, Ma YZ. Histone deacetylase AtSRT2 regulates salt tolerance during seed germination via repression of vesicle-associated membrane protein 714 (VAMP714) in Arabidopsis. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2022; 234:1278-1293. [PMID: 35224735 DOI: 10.1111/nph.18060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2021] [Accepted: 02/07/2022] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Salt tolerance during seed germination is essential for seedling establishment under salt stress. Sirtuin-like proteins, NAD+ -dependent histone deacetylases, are involved in plant responses to abiotic stresses; however, the regulatory mechanism remains unknown. We elucidated the mechanism underlying AtSRT2 (a sirtuin-like protein)-mediated regulation of salt tolerance during seed germination in Arabidopsis. The AtSRT2 mutant srt2 exhibited significantly reduced seed germination percentages under salt stress; its targets were identified via chromatin immunoprecipitation coupled with ultra-high-throughput parallel DNA sequencing (ChIP-Seq) assay. Epistasis analysis was performed to identify AtSRT2-related pathways. Overexpression of SRT2.7, an AtSRT2 splice variant, rescued the salt-sensitive phenotype of mutant srt2. AtSRT2 histone deacetylation activity was important for salt tolerance during seed germination. The acetylation level of histone H4K8 locus in srt2-1 increased significantly under salt treatment. Vesicle-associated membrane protein 714 (VAMP714), a negative regulator of hydrogen peroxide (H2 O2 )-containing vesicle trafficking in cells, was identified as a target of AtSRT2. AtSRT2 regulated histone acetylation in the promoter region of VAMP714 and inhibited VAMP714 transcription under salt treatment. Seed germination percentage of double-mutant srt2-1vamp714 was close to that of single-mutant vamp714, and higher than that of single-mutant srt2 under salt stress. Hydrogen peroxide content and DNA damage increased after salt treatment in srt2 during seed germination. AtSRT2 regulates salt tolerance during seed germination through VAMP714 in Arabidopsis.
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- Wen-Si Tang
- Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS)/National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Triticeae Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, 100081, China
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- Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS)/National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Triticeae Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, 100081, China
- Guizhou Institute of Prataculture, Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guiyang, Guizhou, 550006, China
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- Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS)/National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Triticeae Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, 100081, China
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- Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS)/National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Triticeae Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, 100081, China
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- Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS)/National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Triticeae Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, 100081, China
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- Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS)/National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Triticeae Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, 100081, China
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- Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS)/National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Triticeae Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, 100081, China
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- Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS)/National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Triticeae Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, 100081, China
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- Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS)/National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Triticeae Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, 100081, China
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- Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS)/National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Triticeae Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, 100081, China
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Hacker L, Capdeville N, Feller L, Enderle-Kukla J, Dorn A, Puchta H. The DNA-dependent protease AtWSS1A suppresses persistent double strand break formation during replication. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2022; 233:1172-1187. [PMID: 34761387 DOI: 10.1111/nph.17848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2021] [Accepted: 11/01/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The protease WSS1A is an important factor in the repair of DNA-protein crosslinks in plants. Here we show that the loss of WSS1A leads to a reduction of 45S rDNA repeats and chromosomal fragmentation in Arabidopsis. Moreover, in the absence of any factor of the RTR (RECQ4A/TOP3α/RMI1/2) complex, which is involved in the dissolution of DNA replication intermediates, WSS1A becomes essential for viability. If WSS1A loss is combined with loss of the classical (c) or alternative (a) nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ) pathways of double-strand break (DSB) repair, the resulting mutants show proliferation defects and enhanced chromosome fragmentation, which is especially aggravated in the absence of aNHEJ. This indicates that WSS1A is involved either in the suppression of DSB formation or in DSB repair itself. To test the latter we induced DSB by CRISPR/Cas9 at different loci in wild-type and mutant cells and analyzed their repair by deep sequencing. However, no change in the quality of the repair events and only a slight increase in their quantity was found. Thus, by removing complex DNA-protein structures, WSS1A seems to be required for the repair of replication intermediates which would otherwise be resolved into persistent DSB leading to genome instability.
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- Leonie Hacker
- Botanical Institute, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Fritz-Haber-Weg 4, Karlsruhe, 76131, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Fritz-Haber-Weg 4, Karlsruhe, 76131, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Fritz-Haber-Weg 4, Karlsruhe, 76131, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Fritz-Haber-Weg 4, Karlsruhe, 76131, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Fritz-Haber-Weg 4, Karlsruhe, 76131, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Fritz-Haber-Weg 4, Karlsruhe, 76131, Germany
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Hacker L, Dorn A, Enderle J, Puchta H. The repair of topoisomerase 2 cleavage complexes in Arabidopsis. THE PLANT CELL 2022; 34:287-301. [PMID: 34524446 PMCID: PMC8773952 DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koab228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2021] [Accepted: 09/08/2021] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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DNA-protein crosslinks (DPCs) and DNA double-stranded breaks (DSBs), including those produced by stalled topoisomerase 2 cleavage complexes (TOP2ccs), must be repaired to ensure genome stability. The basic mechanisms of TOP2cc repair have been characterized in other eukaryotes, but we lack information for plants. Using CRISPR/Cas-induced mutants, we show that Arabidopsis thaliana has two main TOP2cc repair pathways: one is defined by TYROSYL-DNA-PHOSPHODIESTERASE 2 (TDP2), which hydrolyzes TOP2-DNA linkages, the other by the DNA-dependent protease WSS1A (a homolog of human SPARTAN/yeast weak suppressor of smt3 [Wss1]), which also functions in DPC repair. TDP1 and TDP2 function nonredundantly in TOP1cc repair, indicating that they act specifically on their respective stalled cleavage complexes. The nuclease METHYL METHANESULFONATE AND UV-SENSITIVE PROTEIN 81 (MUS81) plays a major role in global DPC repair and a minor role in TOP2cc repair. DSBs arise as intermediates of TOP2cc repair and are repaired by classical and alternative nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ) pathways. Double-mutant analysis indicates that "clean" DNA ends caused by TDP2 hydrolysis are mainly religated by classical NHEJ, which helps avoid mutation. In contrast, the mutagenic alternative NHEJ pathway mainly processes nonligateable DNA ends. Thus, TDP2 promotes maintenance of plant genome integrity by error-free repair of TOP2cc.
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- Leonie Hacker
- Botanical Institute, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe 76131, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe 76131, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe 76131, Germany
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Wang Q, La Y, Xia H, Zhou S, Zhai Z, La H. Roles of MEM1 in safeguarding Arabidopsis genome against DNA damage, inhibiting ATM/SOG1-mediated DNA damage response, and antagonizing global DNA hypermethylation. JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE PLANT BIOLOGY 2022; 64:87-104. [PMID: 34859586 DOI: 10.1111/jipb.13200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2021] [Accepted: 12/02/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Arabidopsis methylation elevated mutant 1 (mem1) mutants have elevated levels of global DNA methylation. In this study, such mutant alleles showed increased sensitivity to methyl methanesulfonate (MMS). In mem1 mutants, an assortment of genes engaged in DNA damage response (DDR), especially DNA-repair-associated genes, were largely upregulated without MMS treatment, suggestive of activation of the DDR pathway in them. Following MMS treatment, expression levels of multiple DNA-repair-associated genes in mem1 mutants were generally lower than in Col-0 plants, which accounted for the MMS-sensitive phenotype of the mem1 mutants. A group of DNA methylation pathway genes were upregulated in mem1 mutants under non-MMS-treated conditions, causing elevated global DNA methylation, especially in RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM)-targeted regions. Moreover, MEM1 seemed to help ATAXIA-TELANGIECTASIA MUTATED (ATM) and/or SUPPRESSOR OF GAMMA RESPONSE 1 (SOG1) to fully activate/suppress transcription of a subset of genes regulated simultaneously by MEM1 and ATM and/or SOG1, because expression of such genes decreased/increased consistently in mem1 and atm and/or sog1 mutants, but the decreases/increases in the mem1 mutants were not as dramatic as in the atm and/or sog1 mutants. Thus, our studies reveals roles of MEM1 in safeguarding genome, and interrelationships among DNA damage, activation of DDR, DNA methylation/demethylation, and DNA repair.
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- Qianqian Wang
- College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- College of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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Martinez-Garcia M, White CI, Franklin FCH, Sanchez-Moran E. The Role of Topoisomerase II in DNA Repair and Recombination in Arabidopsis thaliana. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:13115. [PMID: 34884922 PMCID: PMC8658145 DOI: 10.3390/ijms222313115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2021] [Revised: 11/30/2021] [Accepted: 12/01/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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DNA entanglements and supercoiling arise frequently during normal DNA metabolism. DNA topoisomerases are highly conserved enzymes that resolve the topological problems that these structures create. Topoisomerase II (TOPII) releases topological stress in DNA by removing DNA supercoils through breaking the two DNA strands, passing a DNA duplex through the break and religating the broken strands. TOPII performs key DNA metabolic roles essential for DNA replication, chromosome condensation, heterochromatin metabolism, telomere disentanglement, centromere decatenation, transmission of crossover (CO) interference, interlock resolution and chromosome segregation in several model organisms. In this study, we reveal the endogenous role of Arabidopsis thaliana TOPII in normal root growth and cell cycle, and mitotic DNA repair via homologous recombination. Additionally, we show that the protein is required for meiotic DSB repair progression, but not for CO formation. We propose that TOPII might promote mitotic HR DNA repair by relieving stress needed for HR strand invasion and D-loop formation.
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- Génétique, Reproduction et Développement, Faculté de Médecine, UMR CNRS 6293—INSERM U1103—Université Clermont Auvergne, 28 Place Henri Dunant, 63001 Clermont-Ferrand, France;
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Wolter F, Schindele P, Beying N, Scheben A, Puchta H. Different DNA repair pathways are involved in single-strand break-induced genomic changes in plants. THE PLANT CELL 2021; 33:3454-3469. [PMID: 34375428 PMCID: PMC8566284 DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koab204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2021] [Accepted: 08/04/2021] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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In nature, single-strand breaks (SSBs) in DNA occur more frequently (by orders of magnitude) than double-strand breaks (DSBs). SSBs induced by the CRISPR/Cas9 nickase at a distance of 50-100 bp on opposite strands are highly mutagenic, leading to insertions/deletions (InDels), with insertions mainly occurring as direct tandem duplications. As short tandem repeats are overrepresented in plant genomes, this mechanism seems to be important for genome evolution. We investigated the distance at which paired 5'-overhanging SSBs are mutagenic and which DNA repair pathways are essential for insertion formation in Arabidopsis thaliana. We were able to detect InDel formation up to a distance of 250 bp, although with much reduced efficiency. Surprisingly, the loss of the classical nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ) pathway factors KU70 or DNA ligase 4 completely abolished tandem repeat formation. The microhomology-mediated NHEJ factor POLQ was required only for patch-like insertions, which are well-known from DSB repair as templated insertions from ectopic sites. As SSBs can also be repaired using homology, we furthermore asked whether the classical homologous recombination (HR) pathway is involved in this process in plants. The fact that RAD54 is not required for homology-mediated SSB repair demonstrates that the mechanisms for DSB- and SSB-induced HR differ in plants.
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- Felix Wolter
- Botanical Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Simons Center for Quantitative Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York 11724, USA
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- Botanical Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
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Bai W, Zhu G, Xu J, Chen P, Meng F, Xue H, Chen C, Dong J. The 3'-flap endonuclease XPF-ERCC1 promotes alternative end joining and chromosomal translocation during B cell class switching. Cell Rep 2021; 36:109756. [PMID: 34592150 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109756] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2021] [Revised: 07/06/2021] [Accepted: 09/02/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Robust alternative end joining (A-EJ) in classical non-homologous end joining (c-NHEJ)-deficient murine cells features double-strand break (DSB) end resection and microhomology (MH) usage and promotes chromosomal translocation. The activities responsible for removing 3' single-strand overhangs following resection and MH annealing in A-EJ remain unclear. We show that, during class switch recombination (CSR) in mature mouse B cells, the structure-specific endonuclease complex XPF-ERCC1SLX4, although not required for normal CSR, represents a nucleotide-excision-repair-independent 3' flap removal activity for A-EJ-mediated CSR. B cells deficient in DNA ligase 4 and XPF-ERCC1 exhibit further impaired class switching, reducing joining to the resected S region DSBs without altering the MH pattern in S-S junctions. In ERCC1-deficient A-EJ cells, 3' single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) flaps that are generated predominantly in S/G2 phase of the cell cycle are susceptible to nuclease resolution. Moreover, ERCC1 promotes c-myc-IgH translocation in Lig4-/- cells. Our study reveals an important role of the flap endonuclease XPF-ERCC1 in A-EJ and oncogenic translocation in mouse B cells.
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- Wanyu Bai
- Department of Immunology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China; Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Control (Sun Yat-sen University), Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Immunology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China; Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Control (Sun Yat-sen University), Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Immunology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China; Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Control (Sun Yat-sen University), Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Immunology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China; Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Control (Sun Yat-sen University), Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China
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- Department of Pediatrics, the Seventh Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518107, China
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- Department of Pediatrics, the Seventh Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518107, China.
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- Department of Immunology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China; Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Control (Sun Yat-sen University), Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, China; Department of Pediatrics, the Seventh Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518107, China.
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Hernandez Sanchez-Rebato M, Bouatta AM, Gallego ME, White CI, Da Ines O. RAD54 is essential for RAD51-mediated repair of meiotic DSB in Arabidopsis. PLoS Genet 2021; 17:e1008919. [PMID: 34003859 PMCID: PMC8162660 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008919] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2020] [Revised: 05/28/2021] [Accepted: 05/03/2021] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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An essential component of the homologous recombination machinery in eukaryotes, the RAD54 protein is a member of the SWI2/SNF2 family of helicases with dsDNA-dependent ATPase, DNA translocase, DNA supercoiling and chromatin remodelling activities. It is a motor protein that translocates along dsDNA and performs multiple functions in homologous recombination. In particular, RAD54 is an essential cofactor for regulating RAD51 activity. It stabilizes the RAD51 nucleofilament, remodels nucleosomes, and stimulates the homology search and strand invasion activities of RAD51. Accordingly, deletion of RAD54 has dramatic consequences on DNA damage repair in mitotic cells. In contrast, its role in meiotic recombination is less clear. RAD54 is essential for meiotic recombination in Drosophila and C. elegans, but plays minor roles in yeast and mammals. We present here characterization of the roles of RAD54 in meiotic recombination in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Absence of RAD54 has no detectable effect on meiotic recombination in otherwise wild-type plants but RAD54 becomes essential for meiotic DSB repair in absence of DMC1. In Arabidopsis, dmc1 mutants have an achiasmate meiosis, in which RAD51 repairs meiotic DSBs. Lack of RAD54 leads to meiotic chromosomal fragmentation in absence of DMC1. The action of RAD54 in meiotic RAD51 activity is thus mainly downstream of the role of RAD51 in supporting the activity of DMC1. Equivalent analyses show no effect on meiosis of combining dmc1 with the mutants of the RAD51-mediators RAD51B, RAD51D and XRCC2. RAD54 is thus required for repair of meiotic DSBs by RAD51 and the absence of meiotic phenotype in rad54 plants is a consequence of RAD51 playing a RAD54-independent supporting role to DMC1 in meiotic recombination. Homologous recombination is a universal pathway which repairs broken DNA molecules through the use of homologous DNA templates. It is both essential for maintenance of genome stability and for the generation of genetic diversity through sexual reproduction. A central step of the homologous recombination process is the search for and invasion of a homologous, intact DNA sequence that will be used as template. This key step is catalysed by the RAD51 recombinase in somatic cells and RAD51 and DMC1 in meiotic cells, assisted by a number of associated factors. Among these, the chromatin-remodelling protein RAD54 is a required cofactor for RAD51 in mitotic cells. Understanding of its role during meiotic recombination however remains elusive. We show here that RAD54 is required for repair of meiotic double strand breaks by RAD51 in the plant Arabidopsis thaliana, and this function is downstream of the meiotic role of RAD51 in supporting the activity of DMC1. These results provide new insights into the regulation of the central step of homologous recombination in plants and very probably also other multicellular eukaryotes.
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- Miguel Hernandez Sanchez-Rebato
- Institut Génétique Reproduction et Développement (iGReD), Université Clermont Auvergne, UMR 6293 CNRS, U1103 INSERM, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Institut Génétique Reproduction et Développement (iGReD), Université Clermont Auvergne, UMR 6293 CNRS, U1103 INSERM, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Institut Génétique Reproduction et Développement (iGReD), Université Clermont Auvergne, UMR 6293 CNRS, U1103 INSERM, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Institut Génétique Reproduction et Développement (iGReD), Université Clermont Auvergne, UMR 6293 CNRS, U1103 INSERM, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Institut Génétique Reproduction et Développement (iGReD), Université Clermont Auvergne, UMR 6293 CNRS, U1103 INSERM, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Rönspies M, Dorn A, Schindele P, Puchta H. CRISPR-Cas-mediated chromosome engineering for crop improvement and synthetic biology. NATURE PLANTS 2021; 7:566-573. [PMID: 33958776 DOI: 10.1038/s41477-021-00910-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2021] [Accepted: 03/31/2021] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Plant breeding relies on the presence of genetic variation, as well as on the ability to break or stabilize genetic linkages between traits. The development of the genome-editing tool clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-CRISPR-associated protein (Cas) has allowed breeders to induce genetic variability in a controlled and site-specific manner, and to improve traits with high efficiency. However, the presence of genetic linkages is a major obstacle to the transfer of desirable traits from wild species to their cultivated relatives. One way to address this issue is to create mutants with deficiencies in the meiotic recombination machinery, thereby enhancing global crossover frequencies between homologous parental chromosomes. Although this seemed to be a promising approach at first, thus far, no crossover frequencies could be enhanced in recombination-cold regions of the genome. Additionally, this approach can lead to unintended genomic instabilities due to DNA repair defects. Therefore, efforts have been undertaken to obtain predefined crossovers between homologues by inducing site-specific double-strand breaks (DSBs) in meiotic, as well as in somatic plant cells using CRISPR-Cas tools. However, this strategy has not been able to produce a substantial number of heritable homologous recombination-based crossovers. Most recently, heritable chromosomal rearrangements, such as inversions and translocations, have been obtained in a controlled way using CRISPR-Cas in plants. This approach unlocks a completely new way of manipulating genetic linkages, one in which the DSBs are induced in somatic cells, enabling the formation of chromosomal rearrangements in the megabase range, by DSB repair via non-homologous end-joining. This technology might also enable the restructuring of genomes more globally, resulting in not only the obtainment of synthetic plant chromosome, but also of novel plant species.
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- Michelle Rönspies
- Botanical Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany.
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Whitbread AL, Dorn A, Röhrig S, Puchta H. Different functional roles of RTR complex factors in DNA repair and meiosis in Arabidopsis and tomato. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2021; 106:965-977. [PMID: 33619799 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.15211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2020] [Accepted: 02/19/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The RTR (RecQ/Top3/Rmi1) complex has been elucidated as essential for ensuring genome stability in eukaryotes. Fundamental for the dissolution of Holliday junction (HJ)-like recombination intermediates, the factors have been shown to play further, partly distinct roles in DNA repair and homologous recombination. Across all kingdoms, disruption of this complex results in characteristic phenotypes including hyper-recombination and sensitivity to genotoxins. The type IA topoisomerase TOP3α has been shown as essential for viability in various animals. In contrast, in the model plant species Arabidopsis, the top3α mutant is viable. rmi1 mutants are deficient in the repair of DNA damage. Moreover, as opposed to other eukaryotes, TOP3α and RMI1 were found to be indispensable for proper meiotic progression, with mutants showing severe meiotic defects and sterility. We now established mutants of both TOP3α and RMI1 in tomato using CRISPR/Cas technology. Surprisingly, we found phenotypes that differed dramatically from those of Arabidopsis: the top3α mutants proved to be embryo-lethal, implying an essential role of the topoisomerase in tomato. In contrast, no defect in somatic DNA repair or meiosis was detectable for rmi1 mutants in tomato. This points to a differentiation of function of RTR complex partners between plant species. Our results indicate that there are relevant differences in the roles of basic factors involved in DNA repair and meiosis within dicotyledons, and thus should be taken as a note of caution when generalizing knowledge regarding basic biological processes obtained in the model plant Arabidopsis for the entire plant kingdom.
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- Amy Leanne Whitbread
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Botanical Institute, Fritz-Haber-Weg 4, Karlsruhe, 76133, Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Botanical Institute, Fritz-Haber-Weg 4, Karlsruhe, 76133, Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Botanical Institute, Fritz-Haber-Weg 4, Karlsruhe, 76133, Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Botanical Institute, Fritz-Haber-Weg 4, Karlsruhe, 76133, Germany
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Song ZT, Liu JX, Han JJ. Chromatin remodeling factors regulate environmental stress responses in plants. JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE PLANT BIOLOGY 2021; 63:438-450. [PMID: 33421288 DOI: 10.1111/jipb.13064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2020] [Accepted: 12/23/2020] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Environmental stress from climate change and agricultural activity threatens global plant biodiversity as well as crop yield and quality. As sessile organisms, plants must maintain the integrity of their genomes and adjust gene expression to adapt to various environmental changes. In eukaryotes, nucleosomes are the basic unit of chromatin around which genomic DNA is packaged by condensation. To enable dynamic access to packaged DNA, eukaryotes have evolved Snf2 (sucrose nonfermenting 2) family proteins as chromatin remodeling factors (CHRs) that modulate the position of nucleosomes on chromatin. During plant stress responses, CHRs are recruited to specific genomic loci, where they regulate the distribution or composition of nucleosomes, which in turn alters the accessibility of these loci to general transcription or DNA damage repair machinery. Moreover, CHRs interplay with other epigenetic mechanisms, including DNA methylation, histone modifications, and deposition of histone variants. CHRs are also involved in RNA processing at the post-transcriptional level. In this review, we discuss major advances in our understanding of the mechanisms by which CHRs function during plants' response to environmental stress.
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- Ze-Ting Song
- Yunnan Key Laboratory of Plant Reproductive Adaptation and Evolutionary Ecology, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650500, China
- State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China
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- Yunnan Key Laboratory of Plant Reproductive Adaptation and Evolutionary Ecology, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650500, China
- Laboratory of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-Resources in Yunnan, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650500, China
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Verma P, Tandon R, Yadav G, Gaur V. Structural Aspects of DNA Repair and Recombination in Crop Improvement. Front Genet 2020; 11:574549. [PMID: 33024442 PMCID: PMC7516265 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2020.574549] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2020] [Accepted: 08/25/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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The adverse effects of global climate change combined with an exponentially increasing human population have put substantial constraints on agriculture, accelerating efforts towards ensuring food security for a sustainable future. Conventional plant breeding and modern technologies have led to the creation of plants with better traits and higher productivity. Most crop improvement approaches (conventional breeding, genome modification, and gene editing) primarily rely on DNA repair and recombination (DRR). Studying plant DRR can provide insights into designing new strategies or improvising the present techniques for crop improvement. Even though plants have evolved specialized DRR mechanisms compared to other eukaryotes, most of our insights about plant-DRRs remain rooted in studies conducted in animals. DRR mechanisms in plants include direct repair, nucleotide excision repair (NER), base excision repair (BER), mismatch repair (MMR), non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) and homologous recombination (HR). Although each DRR pathway acts on specific DNA damage, there is crosstalk between these. Considering the importance of DRR pathways as a tool in crop improvement, this review focuses on a general description of each DRR pathway, emphasizing on the structural aspects of key DRR proteins. The review highlights the gaps in our understanding and the importance of studying plant DRR in the context of crop improvement.
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- Prabha Verma
- National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi, India
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- National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi, India
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- National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi, India
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- National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi, India
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Hacker L, Dorn A, Puchta H. WITHDRAWN: DNA-protein crosslink repair in plants. DNA Repair (Amst) 2020; 88:102786. [PMID: 32057665 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2020.102786] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2019] [Accepted: 01/06/2020] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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- Leonie Hacker
- Botanical Institute, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany.
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DNA-protein crosslinks represent a severe kind of DNA damage as they disturb essential processes, such as transcription and DNA replication, due to their bulkiness. To ensure the maintenance of genome integrity, it is necessary for all living organisms to repair these lesions in a timely manner. Over recent years, much knowledge has been obtained regarding the repair of DNA-protein crosslinks (DPC), but it was only recently that the first insights into the mechanisms of DPC repair in plants were obtained. The plant DPC repair network consists of at least three parallel pathways that resolve DPC by distinct biochemical mechanisms. The endonuclease MUS81 resolves the DPC by cleaving the DNA part of the crosslink, the protease WSS1A is able to degrade the protein part and the tyrosyl-DNA-phosphodiesterase TDP1 can hydrolyse the crosslink between a protein and the DNA. However, due to the variety of different DPC types and the evolutionary conservation of pathways between eukaryotes, we expect that future research will reveal additional factors involved in DPC repair in plants.
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Van Vu T, Sung YW, Kim J, Doan DTH, Tran MT, Kim JY. Challenges and Perspectives in Homology-Directed Gene Targeting in Monocot Plants. RICE (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2019; 12:95. [PMID: 31858277 PMCID: PMC6923311 DOI: 10.1186/s12284-019-0355-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2019] [Accepted: 12/04/2019] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Continuing crop domestication/redomestication and modification is a key determinant of the adaptation and fulfillment of the food requirements of an exploding global population under increasingly challenging conditions such as climate change and the reduction in arable lands. Monocotyledonous crops are not only responsible for approximately 70% of total global crop production, indicating their important roles in human life, but also the first crops to be challenged with the abovementioned hurdles; hence, monocot crops should be the first to be engineered and/or de novo domesticated/redomesticated. A long time has passed since the first green revolution; the world is again facing the challenge of feeding a predicted 9.7 billion people in 2050, since the decline in world hunger was reversed in 2015. One of the major lessons learned from the first green revolution is the importance of novel and advanced trait-carrying crop varieties that are ideally adapted to new agricultural practices. New plant breeding techniques (NPBTs), such as genome editing, could help us succeed in this mission to create novel and advanced crops. Considering the importance of NPBTs in crop genetic improvement, we attempt to summarize and discuss the latest progress with major approaches, such as site-directed mutagenesis using molecular scissors, base editors and especially homology-directed gene targeting (HGT), a very challenging but potentially highly precise genome modification approach in plants. We therefore suggest potential approaches for the improvement of practical HGT, focusing on monocots, and discuss a potential approach for the regulation of genome-edited products.
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- Tien Van Vu
- Division of Applied Life Science (BK21 Plus program), Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Research Center, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, 660-701, Republic of Korea
- National Key Laboratory for Plant Cell Biotechnology, Agricultural Genetics Institute, Km 02, Pham Van Dong Road, Co Nhue 1, Bac Tu Liem, Hanoi, 11917, Vietnam
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- Division of Applied Life Science (BK21 Plus program), Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Research Center, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, 660-701, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Applied Life Science (BK21 Plus program), Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Research Center, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, 660-701, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Applied Life Science (BK21 Plus program), Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Research Center, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, 660-701, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Applied Life Science (BK21 Plus program), Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Research Center, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, 660-701, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Applied Life Science (BK21 Plus program), Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Research Center, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, 660-701, Republic of Korea.
- Division of Life Science, Gyeongsang National University, 501 Jinju-daero, Jinju, 52828, Republic of Korea.
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DNA Helicases as Safekeepers of Genome Stability in Plants. Genes (Basel) 2019; 10:genes10121028. [PMID: 31835565 PMCID: PMC6947026 DOI: 10.3390/genes10121028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2019] [Revised: 12/05/2019] [Accepted: 12/07/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Genetic information of all organisms is coded in double-stranded DNA. DNA helicases are essential for unwinding this double strand when it comes to replication, repair or transcription of genetic information. In this review, we will focus on what is known about a variety of DNA helicases that are required to ensure genome stability in plants. Due to their sessile lifestyle, plants are especially exposed to harmful environmental factors. Moreover, many crop plants have large and highly repetitive genomes, making them absolutely dependent on the correct interplay of DNA helicases for safeguarding their stability. Although basic features of a number of these enzymes are conserved between plants and other eukaryotes, a more detailed analysis shows surprising peculiarities, partly also between different plant species. This is additionally of high relevance for plant breeding as a number of these helicases are also involved in crossover control during meiosis and influence the outcome of different approaches of CRISPR/Cas based plant genome engineering. Thus, gaining knowledge about plant helicases, their interplay, as well as the manipulation of their pathways, possesses the potential for improving agriculture. In the long run, this might even help us cope with the increasing obstacles of climate change threatening food security in completely new ways.
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Wolter F, Puchta H. In planta gene targeting can be enhanced by the use of CRISPR/Cas12a. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2019; 100:1083-1094. [PMID: 31381206 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.14488] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2019] [Revised: 07/08/2019] [Accepted: 07/29/2019] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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The controlled change of plant genomes by homologous recombination (HR) is still difficult to achieve. We previously developed the in planta gene targeting (ipGT) technology which depends on the simultaneous activation of the target locus by a double-strand break and the excision of the target vector. Whereas the use of SpCas9 resulted in low ipGT frequencies in Arabidopsis, we were recently able to improve the efficiency by using egg cell-specific expression of the potent but less broadly applicable SaCas9 nuclease. In this study, we now tested whether we could improve ipGT further, by either performing it in cells with enhanced intrachromosomal HR efficiencies or by the use of Cas12a, a different kind of CRISPR/Cas nuclease with an alternative cutting mechanism. We could show before that plants possess three kinds of DNA ATPase complexes, which all lead to instabilities of homologous genomic repeats if lost by mutation. As these proteins act in independent pathways, we tested ipGT in double mutants in which intrachromosomal HR is enhanced 20-80-fold. However, we were not able to obtain higher ipGT frequencies, indicating that mechanisms for gene targeting (GT) and chromosomal repeat-induced HR differ. However, using LbCas12a, the GT frequencies were higher than with SaCas9, despite a lower non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ) induction efficiency, demonstrating the particular suitability of Cas12a to induce HR. As SaCas9 has substantial restrictions due to its longer GC rich PAM sequence, the use of LbCas12a with its AT-rich PAM broadens the range of ipGT drastically, particularly when targeting in CG-deserts like promoters and introns.
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- Felix Wolter
- Botanical Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, POB 6980, 76049, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, POB 6980, 76049, Karlsruhe, Germany
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DNA- and DNA-Protein-Crosslink Repair in Plants. Int J Mol Sci 2019; 20:ijms20174304. [PMID: 31484324 PMCID: PMC6747210 DOI: 10.3390/ijms20174304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2019] [Revised: 08/30/2019] [Accepted: 09/01/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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DNA-crosslinks are one of the most severe types of DNA lesions. Crosslinks (CLs) can be subdivided into DNA-intrastrand CLs, DNA-interstrand CLs (ICLs) and DNA-protein crosslinks (DPCs), and arise by various exogenous and endogenous sources. If left unrepaired before the cell enters S-phase, ICLs and DPCs pose a major threat to genomic integrity by blocking replication. In order to prevent the collapse of replication forks and impairment of cell division, complex repair pathways have emerged. In mammals, ICLs are repaired by the so-called Fanconi anemia (FA) pathway, which includes 22 different FANC genes, while in plants only a few of these genes are conserved. In this context, two pathways of ICL repair have been defined, each requiring the interaction of a helicase (FANCJB/RTEL1) and a nuclease (FAN1/MUS81). Moreover, homologous recombination (HR) as well as postreplicative repair factors are also involved. Although DPCs possess a comparable toxic potential to cells, it has only recently been shown that at least three parallel pathways for DPC repair exist in plants, defined by the protease WSS1A, the endonuclease MUS81 and tyrosyl-DNA phosphodiesterase 1 (TDP1). The importance of crosslink repair processes are highlighted by the fact that deficiencies in the respective pathways are associated with diverse hereditary disorders.
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Dorn A, Feller L, Castri D, Röhrig S, Enderle J, Herrmann NJ, Block-Schmidt A, Trapp O, Köhler L, Puchta H. An Arabidopsis FANCJ helicase homologue is required for DNA crosslink repair and rDNA repeat stability. PLoS Genet 2019; 15:e1008174. [PMID: 31120885 PMCID: PMC6550410 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2019] [Revised: 06/05/2019] [Accepted: 05/03/2019] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Proteins of the Fanconi Anemia (FA) complementation group are required for crosslink (CL) repair in humans and their loss leads to severe pathological phenotypes. Here we characterize a homolog of the Fe-S cluster helicase FANCJ in the model plant Arabidopsis, AtFANCJB, and show that it is involved in interstrand CL repair. It acts at a presumably early step in concert with the nuclease FAN1 but independently of the nuclease AtMUS81, and is epistatic to both error-prone and error-free post-replicative repair in Arabidopsis. The simultaneous knock out of FANCJB and the Fe-S cluster helicase RTEL1 leads to induced cell death in root meristems, indicating an important role of the enzymes in replicative DNA repair. Surprisingly, we found that AtFANCJB is involved in safeguarding rDNA stability in plants. In the absence of AtRTEL1 and AtFANCJB, we detected a synergetic reduction to about one third of the original number of 45S rDNA copies. It is tempting to speculate that the detected rDNA instability might be due to deficiencies in G-quadruplex structure resolution and might thus contribute to pathological phenotypes of certain human genetic diseases.
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- Annika Dorn
- Botanical Institute, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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Enderle J, Dorn A, Beying N, Trapp O, Puchta H. The Protease WSS1A, the Endonuclease MUS81, and the Phosphodiesterase TDP1 Are Involved in Independent Pathways of DNA-protein Crosslink Repair in Plants. THE PLANT CELL 2019; 31:775-790. [PMID: 30760561 PMCID: PMC6501609 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.18.00824] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2018] [Revised: 01/08/2019] [Accepted: 02/11/2019] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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DNA-protein crosslinks (DPCs) represent a severe threat to the genome integrity; however, the main mechanisms of DPC repair were only recently elucidated in humans and yeast. Here we define the pathways for DPC repair in plants. Using CRISPR/Cas9, we could show that only one of two homologs of the universal repair proteases SPARTAN/ weak suppressor of smt3 (Wss1), WSS1A, is essential for DPC repair in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana). WSS1A defective lines exhibit developmental defects and are hypersensitive to camptothecin (CPT) and cis-platin. Interestingly, the CRISPR/Cas9 mutants of TYROSYL-DNA PHOSPHODIESTERASE 1 (TDP1) are insensitive to CPT, and only the wss1A tdp1 double mutant reveals a higher sensitivity than the wss1A single mutant. This indicates that TDP1 defines a minor backup pathway in the repair of DPCs. Moreover, we found that knock out of the endonuclease METHYL METHANESULFONATE AND UV SENSITIVE PROTEIN 81 (MUS81) results in a strong sensitivity to DPC-inducing agents. The fact that wss1A mus81 and tdp1 mus81 double mutants exhibit growth defects and an increase in dead cells in root meristems after CPT treatment demonstrates that there are three independent pathways for DPC repair in Arabidopsis. These pathways are defined by their different biochemical specificities, as main actors, the DNA endonuclease MUS81 and the protease WSS1A, and the phosphodiesterase TDP1 as backup.
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- Janina Enderle
- Botanical Institute, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Fritz-Haber-Weg 4, Karlsruhe 76131, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Fritz-Haber-Weg 4, Karlsruhe 76131, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Fritz-Haber-Weg 4, Karlsruhe 76131, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Fritz-Haber-Weg 4, Karlsruhe 76131, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Fritz-Haber-Weg 4, Karlsruhe 76131, Germany
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Schmidt C, Pacher M, Puchta H. DNA Break Repair in Plants and Its Application for Genome Engineering. Methods Mol Biol 2019; 1864:237-266. [PMID: 30415341 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-8778-8_17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Genome engineering is a biotechnological approach to precisely modify the genetic code of a given organism in order to change the context of an existing sequence or to create new genetic resources, e.g., for obtaining improved traits or performance. Efficient targeted genome alterations are mainly based on the induction of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) or adjacent single-strand breaks (SSBs). Naturally, all organisms continuously have to deal with DNA-damaging factors challenging the genetic integrity, and therefore a wide range of DNA repair mechanisms have evolved. A profound understanding of the different repair pathways is a prerequisite to control and enhance targeted gene modifications. DSB repair can take place by nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ) or homology-dependent repair (HDR). As the main outcome of NHEJ-mediated repair is accompanied by small insertions and deletions, it is applicable to specifically knock out genes or to rearrange linkage groups or whole chromosomes. The basic requirement for HDR is the presence of a homologous template; thus this process can be exploited for targeted integration of ectopic sequences into the plant genome. The development of different types of artificial site-specific nucleases allows for targeted DSB induction in the plant genome. Such synthetic nucleases have been used for both qualitatively studying DSB repair in vivo with respect to mechanistic differences and quantitatively in order to determine the role of key factors for NHEJ and HR, respectively. The conclusions drawn from these studies allow for a better understanding of genome evolution and help identifying synergistic or antagonistic genetic interactions while supporting biotechnological applications for transiently modifying the plant DNA repair machinery in favor of targeted genome engineering.
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- Carla Schmidt
- Botanical Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany.
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Dorn A, Röhrig S, Papp K, Schröpfer S, Hartung F, Knoll A, Puchta H. The topoisomerase 3α zinc-finger domain T1 of Arabidopsis thaliana is required for targeting the enzyme activity to Holliday junction-like DNA repair intermediates. PLoS Genet 2018; 14:e1007674. [PMID: 30222730 PMCID: PMC6160208 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007674] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2018] [Revised: 09/27/2018] [Accepted: 08/31/2018] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Topoisomerase 3α, a class I topoisomerase, consists of a TOPRIM domain, an active centre and a variable number of zinc-finger domains (ZFDs) at the C-terminus, in multicellular organisms. Whereas the functions of the TOPRIM domain and the active centre are known, the specific role of the ZFDs is still obscure. In contrast to mammals where a knockout of TOP3α leads to lethality, we found that CRISPR/Cas induced mutants in Arabidopsis are viable but show growth retardation and meiotic defects, which can be reversed by the expression of the complete protein. However, complementation with AtTOP3α missing either the TOPRIM-domain or carrying a mutation of the catalytic tyrosine of the active centre leads to embryo lethality. Surprisingly, this phenotype can be overcome by the simultaneous removal of the ZFDs from the protein. In combination with a mutation of the nuclease AtMUS81, the TOP3α knockout proved to be also embryo lethal. Here, expression of TOP3α without ZFDs, and in particular without the conserved ZFD T1, leads to only a partly complementation in root growth-in contrast to the complete protein, that restores root length to mus81-1 mutant level. Expressing the E. coli resolvase RusA in this background, which is able to process Holliday junction (HJ)-like recombination intermediates, we could rescue this root growth defect. Considering all these results, we conclude that the ZFD T1 is specifically required for targeting the topoisomerase activity to HJ like recombination intermediates to enable their processing. In the case of an inactivated enzyme, this leads to cell death due to the masking of these intermediates, hindering their resolution by MUS81.
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- Annika Dorn
- Botanical Institute, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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Samach A, Gurevich V, Avivi-Ragolsky N, Levy AA. The effects of AtRad52 over-expression on homologous recombination in Arabidopsis. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2018; 95:30-40. [PMID: 29667244 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.13927] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2017] [Revised: 03/20/2018] [Accepted: 03/22/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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AtRad52 homologs are involved in DNA recombination and repair, but their precise functions in different homologous recombination (HR) pathways or in gene-targeting have not been analyzed. In order to facilitate our analyses, we generated an AtRad52-1A variant that had a stronger nuclear localization than the native gene thanks to the removal of the transit peptide for mitochondrial localization and to the addition of a nuclear localization signal. Over-expression of this variant increased HR in the nucleus, compared with the native AtRad52-1A: it increased intra-chromosomal recombination and synthesis-dependent strand-annealing HR repair rates; but conversely, it repressed the single-strand annealing pathway. The effect of AtRad52-1A over-expression on gene-targeting was tested with and without the expression of small RNAs generated from an RNAi construct containing homology to the target and donor sequences. True gene-targeting events at the Arabidopsis Cruciferin locus were obtained only when combining AtRad52-1A over-expression and target/donor-specific RNAi. This suggests that sequence-specific small RNAs might be involved in AtRad52-1A-mediated HR.
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- Aviva Samach
- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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Röhrig S, Dorn A, Enderle J, Schindele A, Herrmann NJ, Knoll A, Puchta H. The RecQ-like helicase HRQ1 is involved in DNA crosslink repair in Arabidopsis in a common pathway with the Fanconi anemia-associated nuclease FAN1 and the postreplicative repair ATPase RAD5A. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2018; 218:1478-1490. [PMID: 29577315 DOI: 10.1111/nph.15109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2017] [Accepted: 02/12/2018] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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RecQ helicases are important caretakers of genome stability and occur in varying copy numbers in different eukaryotes. Subsets of RecQ paralogs are involved in DNA crosslink (CL) repair. The orthologs of AtRECQ2, AtRECQ3 and AtHRQ1, HsWRN, DmRECQ5 and ScHRQ1 participate in CL repair in their respective organisms, and we aimed to define the function of these helicases for plants. We obtained Arabidopsis mutants of the three RecQ helicases and determined their sensitivity against CL agents in single- and double-mutant analyses. Only Athrq1, but not Atrecq2 and Atrecq3, mutants proved to be sensitive to intra- and interstrand crosslinking agents. AtHRQ1 is specifically involved in the repair of replicative damage induced by CL agents. It shares pathways with the Fanconi anemia-related endonuclease FAN1 but not with the endonuclease MUS81. Most surprisingly, AtHRQ1 is epistatic to the ATPase RAD5A for intra- as well as interstrand CL repair. We conclude that, as in fungi, AtHRQ1 has a conserved function in DNA excision repair. Additionally, HRQ1 not only shares pathways with the Fanconi anemia repair factors, but in contrast to fungi also seems to act in a common pathway with postreplicative DNA repair.
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- Sarah Röhrig
- Botanical Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, BW, 76131, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, BW, 76131, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, BW, 76131, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, BW, 76131, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, BW, 76131, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, BW, 76131, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, BW, 76131, Germany
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Macovei A, Pagano A, Sabatini ME, Grandi S, Balestrazzi A. The Human Tyrosyl-DNA Phosphodiesterase 1 (hTdp1) Inhibitor NSC120686 as an Exploratory Tool to Investigate Plant Tdp1 Genes. Genes (Basel) 2018; 9:genes9040186. [PMID: 29597329 PMCID: PMC5924528 DOI: 10.3390/genes9040186] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2018] [Revised: 03/16/2018] [Accepted: 03/23/2018] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The hTdp1 (human tyrosyl-DNA phosphodiesterase 1) inhibitor NSC120686 has been used, along with topoisomerase inhibitors, as a pharmacophoric model to restrain the Tdp1 activity as part of a synergistic treatment for cancer. While this compound has an end-point application in medical research, in plants, its application has not been considered so far. The originality of our study consists in the use of hTdp1 inhibitor in Medicago truncatula cells, which, unlike human cells, contain two Tdp1 genes. Hence, the purpose of this study was to test the hTdp1 inhibitor NSC120686 as an exploratory tool to investigate the plant Tdp1 genes, since their characterization is still in incipient phases. To do so, M. truncatula calli were exposed to increasing (75, 150, 300 μM) concentrations of NSC120686. The levels of cell mortality and DNA damage, measured via diffusion assay and comet assay, respectively, were significantly increased when the highest doses were used, indicative of a cytotoxic and genotoxic threshold. In addition, the NSC120686-treated calli and untreated MtTdp1α-depleted calli shared a similar response in terms of programmed cell death (PCD)/necrosis and DNA damage. Interestingly, the expression profiles of MtTdp1α and MtTdp1β genes were differently affected by the NSC120686 treatment, as MtTdp1α was upregulated while MtTdp1β was downregulated. The NSC120686 treatment affected not only the MtTdp1 genes but also other genes with roles in alternative DNA repair pathways. Since the expression patterns of these genes were different than what was observed in the MtTdp1α-depleted plants, it could be hypothesized that the NSC120686 treatment exerts a different influence compared to that resulting from the lack of the MtTdp1α gene function.
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- Anca Macovei
- Department of Biology and Biotechnology 'L. Spallanzani', University of Pavia, via Ferrata 9, 27100 Pavia, Italy.
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnology 'L. Spallanzani', University of Pavia, via Ferrata 9, 27100 Pavia, Italy.
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnology 'L. Spallanzani', University of Pavia, via Ferrata 9, 27100 Pavia, Italy.
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnology 'L. Spallanzani', University of Pavia, via Ferrata 9, 27100 Pavia, Italy.
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnology 'L. Spallanzani', University of Pavia, via Ferrata 9, 27100 Pavia, Italy.
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Wiedemann G, van Gessel N, Köchl F, Hunn L, Schulze K, Maloukh L, Nogué F, Decker EL, Hartung F, Reski R. RecQ Helicases Function in Development, DNA Repair, and Gene Targeting in Physcomitrella patens. THE PLANT CELL 2018; 30:717-736. [PMID: 29514942 PMCID: PMC5894843 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.17.00632] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2017] [Revised: 02/16/2018] [Accepted: 03/06/2018] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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RecQ DNA helicases are genome surveillance proteins found in all kingdoms of life. They are characterized best in humans, as mutations in RecQ genes lead to developmental abnormalities and diseases. To better understand RecQ functions in plants we concentrated on Arabidopsis thaliana and Physcomitrella patens, the model species predominantly used for studies on DNA repair and gene targeting. Phylogenetic analysis of the six P. patens RecQ genes revealed their orthologs in humans and plants. Because Arabidopsis and P. patens differ in their RecQ4 and RecQ6 genes, reporter and deletion moss mutants were generated and gene functions studied in reciprocal cross-species and cross-kingdom approaches. Both proteins can be found in meristematic moss tissues, although at low levels and with distinct expression patterns. PpRecQ4 is involved in embryogenesis and in subsequent development as demonstrated by sterility of ΔPpRecQ4 mutants and by morphological aberrations. Additionally, ΔPpRecQ4 displays an increased sensitivity to DNA damages and an increased rate of gene targeting. Therefore, we conclude that PpRecQ4 acts as a repressor of recombination. In contrast, PpRecQ6 is not obviously important for moss development or DNA repair but does function as a potent enhancer of gene targeting.
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- Gertrud Wiedemann
- Plant Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Plant Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Plant Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Plant Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Julius Kuehn Institute, Institute for Biosafety in Plant Biotechnology, 06484 Quedlinburg, Germany
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- Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRA, AgroParisTech, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, 78000 Versailles, France
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- Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRA, AgroParisTech, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, 78000 Versailles, France
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- Plant Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Julius Kuehn Institute, Institute for Biosafety in Plant Biotechnology, 06484 Quedlinburg, Germany
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- Plant Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
- BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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Romero-Barrios N, Vert G. Proteasome-independent functions of lysine-63 polyubiquitination in plants. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2018; 217:995-1011. [PMID: 29194634 DOI: 10.1111/nph.14915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2017] [Accepted: 10/12/2017] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Contents Summary 995 I. Introduction 995 II. The plant Ub machinery 996 III. From Ub to Ub linkage types in plants 997 IV. Increasing analytical resolution for K63 polyUb in plants 998 V. How to build K63 polyUb chains? 998 VI. Cellular roles of K63 polyUb in plants 999 VII. Physiological roles of K63 polyUb in plants 1004 VIII. Future perspectives: towards the next level of the Ub code 1006 Acknowledgements 1006 References 1007 SUMMARY: Ubiquitination is a post-translational modification essential for the regulation of eukaryotic proteins, having an impact on protein fate, function, localization or activity. What originally appeared to be a simple system to regulate protein turnover by the 26S proteasome is now known to be the most intricate regulatory process cells have evolved. Ubiquitin can be arranged in countless chain assemblies, triggering various cellular outcomes. Polyubiquitin chains using lysine-63 from ubiquitin represent the second most abundant type of ubiquitin modification. Recent studies have exposed their common function in proteasome-independent functions in non-plant model organisms. The existence of lysine-63 polyubiquitination in plants is, however, only just emerging. In this review, we discuss the recent advances on the characterization of ubiquitin chains and the molecular mechanisms driving the formation of lysine-63-linked ubiquitin modifications. We provide an overview of the roles associated with lysine-63 polyubiquitination in plant cells in the light of what is known in non-plant models. Finally, we review the crucial roles of lysine-63 polyubiquitin-dependent processes in plant growth, development and responses to environmental conditions.
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- Natali Romero-Barrios
- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CNRS/CEA/Univ. Paris Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91198, France
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CNRS/CEA/Univ. Paris Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91198, France
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Sakamoto AN, Kaya H, Endo M. Deletion of TLS polymerases promotes homologous recombination in Arabidopsis. PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR 2018; 13:e1483673. [PMID: 29944437 PMCID: PMC6128680 DOI: 10.1080/15592324.2018.1483673] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Unrepaired DNA damage hinders the maintenance of genome integrity because it blocks the catalytic activity of replicase. The stalled replication fork can be processed through either translesion synthesis (TLS) with specific polymerases, or replication using the undamaged template. To investigate how TLS activities are regulated and how the stalled replication fork is processed in plants, reversion frequencies and homologous recombination (HR) frequencies were analyzed using GUS-based substrates. The HR frequencies in plants deficient in DNA polymerase ζ (Pol ζ) or Rev1 were higher than that in wildtype plants under normal conditions, and were significantly increased by ultraviolet light irradiation. Heat shock protein (HSP) 90 is known to be involved in various stress responses. To examine the role of HSP90 in the regulation of damage tolerance, we analyzed reversion frequencies and HR frequencies in plants grown in the presence of a HSP inhibitor, geldanamycin (GDA). Reversion frequency was lower in GDA-treated plants than in mock-treated plants. Though the HR frequency was higher in GDA-treated wildtype plants than in mock-treated plants, no significant difference was detected in Rev1-deficient plants. In yeast, TLS polymerases interacted with each other or with a replication clump component, proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA). HSP90 interacted with REV1 or REV7 in Nicotiana benthamiana cells. These results suggest that HSP90 interacts with TLS polymerase(s), which promotes error-prone TLS in plants.
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- A. N. Sakamoto
- Department of Radiation-Applied Biology Research, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), Takasaki, Gumma, Japan
- CONTACT A. N. Sakamoto Department of Radiation-Applied Biology Research, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), Watanuki-machi 1233, Takasaki, Gumma 370-1292, Japan
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- Plant Molecular Biology and Virology, Graduate School of Agriculture, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Ehime, Japan
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- Plant Genome Engineering Research Unit, Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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Khatri N, Singh S, Hakim N, Mudgil Y. Comparative expression profiling of AtRAD5B and AtNDL1: Hints towards a role in G protein mediated signaling. Gene Expr Patterns 2017; 25-26:167-174. [PMID: 28865954 DOI: 10.1016/j.gep.2017.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2017] [Revised: 08/19/2017] [Accepted: 08/21/2017] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Arabidopsis AtRAD5B encodes for a putative helicase of the class SWItch/Sucrose Non-Fermentable (SWI/SNF) ATPases. We identified AtRAD5B as an interactor of N-MYC DOWNREGULATED-LIKE1 (AtNDL1) in a yeast two-hybrid screen. AtNDL1 is a G protein signaling component which regulates auxin transport and gradients together with GTP binding protein beta 1 (AGB1). Auxin gradients are known to recruit SWI/SNF remodeling complexes to the chromatin and regulate expression of genes involved in flower and leaf formation. In current study, a comparative spatial and temporal co-expression/localization analysis of AtNDL1, AGB1 with AtRAD5B was carried out in order to explore the possibility of their coexistence in a common signaling network. Translational fusion (GUS) of AtNDL1 and AtRAD5B in seedlings and reproductive organs revealed that both shared similar expression patterns with the highest expression observed in male reproductive organs. Moreover, they shared similar domains of localization in roots, suggesting their potential functioning together in reproductive and root development processes. This study predicts the existence of a signaling network involving AtNDL1, AGB1 with AtRAD5B.
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- Nisha Khatri
- Department of Botany, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
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- Department of Botany, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
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- Department of Botany, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
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Klemm T, Mannuß A, Kobbe D, Knoll A, Trapp O, Dorn A, Puchta H. The DNA translocase RAD5A acts independently of the other main DNA repair pathways, and requires both its ATPase and RING domain for activity in Arabidopsis thaliana. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2017; 91:725-740. [PMID: 28509359 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.13602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2017] [Revised: 04/27/2017] [Accepted: 05/09/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Multiple pathways exist to repair DNA damage induced by methylating and crosslinking agents in Arabidopsis thaliana. The SWI2/SNF2 translocase RAD5A, the functional homolog of budding yeast Rad5 that is required for the error-free branch of post-replicative repair, plays a surprisingly prominent role in the repair of both kinds of lesions in Arabidopsis. Here we show that both the ATPase domain and the ubiquitination function of the RING domain of the Arabidopsis protein are essential for the cellular response to different forms of DNA damage. To define the exact role of RAD5A within the complex network of DNA repair pathways, we crossed the rad5a mutant line with mutants of different known repair factors of Arabidopsis. We had previously shown that RAD5A acts independently of two main pathways of replication-associated DNA repair defined by the helicase RECQ4A and the endonuclease MUS81. The enhanced sensitivity of all double mutants tested in this study indicates that the repair of damaged DNA by RAD5A also occurs independently of nucleotide excision repair (AtRAD1), single-strand break repair (AtPARP1), as well as microhomology-mediated double-strand break repair (AtTEB). Moreover, RAD5A can partially complement for a deficient AtATM-mediated DNA damage response in plants, as the double mutant shows phenotypic growth defects.
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- Tobias Klemm
- Botanical Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Kaiserstr. 12, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Kaiserstr. 12, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Kaiserstr. 12, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Kaiserstr. 12, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Botanical Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Kaiserstr. 12, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany
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Spampinato CP. Protecting DNA from errors and damage: an overview of DNA repair mechanisms in plants compared to mammals. Cell Mol Life Sci 2017; 74:1693-1709. [PMID: 27999897 PMCID: PMC11107726 DOI: 10.1007/s00018-016-2436-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2016] [Revised: 12/01/2016] [Accepted: 12/05/2016] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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The genome integrity of all organisms is constantly threatened by replication errors and DNA damage arising from endogenous and exogenous sources. Such base pair anomalies must be accurately repaired to prevent mutagenesis and/or lethality. Thus, it is not surprising that cells have evolved multiple and partially overlapping DNA repair pathways to correct specific types of DNA errors and lesions. Great progress in unraveling these repair mechanisms at the molecular level has been made by several talented researchers, among them Tomas Lindahl, Aziz Sancar, and Paul Modrich, all three Nobel laureates in Chemistry for 2015. Much of this knowledge comes from studies performed in bacteria, yeast, and mammals and has impacted research in plant systems. Two plant features should be mentioned. Plants differ from higher eukaryotes in that they lack a reserve germline and cannot avoid environmental stresses. Therefore, plants have evolved different strategies to sustain genome fidelity through generations and continuous exposure to genotoxic stresses. These strategies include the presence of unique or multiple paralogous genes with partially overlapping DNA repair activities. Yet, in spite (or because) of these differences, plants, especially Arabidopsis thaliana, can be used as a model organism for functional studies. Some advantages of this model system are worth mentioning: short life cycle, availability of both homozygous and heterozygous lines for many genes, plant transformation techniques, tissue culture methods and reporter systems for gene expression and function studies. Here, I provide a current understanding of DNA repair genes in plants, with a special focus on A. thaliana. It is expected that this review will be a valuable resource for future functional studies in the DNA repair field, both in plants and animals.
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- Claudia P Spampinato
- Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Centro de Estudios Fotosintéticos y Bioquímicos (CEFOBI), Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Suipacha 531, 2000, Rosario, Argentina.
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Efficient Generation of diRNAs Requires Components in the Posttranscriptional Gene Silencing Pathway. Sci Rep 2017; 7:301. [PMID: 28331197 PMCID: PMC5428250 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-00374-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2016] [Accepted: 02/21/2017] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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It has been reported that double-stranded break (DSB)-induced small RNAs (diRNAs) are generated via the RNA-directed DNA methylation pathway and function in DSB repair in Arabidposis. However, important questions remain regarding the biogenesis and function of diRNAs. Here, we used CRISPR/Cas9- or TALEN-triggered DSBs to characterize diRNAs in Arabidopsis and rice. We found that 21-nt diRNAs were generated from a 35S promoter::GU-US reporter transgene targeted by CRISPR/Cas9. Unexpectedly, Pol II transcription of the transgene was required for efficient diRNA production and the level of diRNA accumulation correlated with the expression level of the transgene. diRNAs were not detected from CRISPR/Cas9- or TALEN-induced DSBs within the examined endogenous genes in Arabidopsis or rice. We also found that DCL4 and RDR6 that are known to be involved in posttranscriptional gene silencing were required to generate diRNAs. Our results suggest that DSBs are necessary but not sufficient for efficient diRNA generation and a high level of diRNAs is not necessary for DSB repair.
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Liu M, Ba Z, Costa-Nunes P, Wei W, Li L, Kong F, Li Y, Chai J, Pontes O, Qi Y. IDN2 Interacts with RPA and Facilitates DNA Double-Strand Break Repair by Homologous Recombination in Arabidopsis. THE PLANT CELL 2017; 29:589-599. [PMID: 28223440 PMCID: PMC5385954 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.16.00769] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2016] [Revised: 01/17/2017] [Accepted: 02/17/2017] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Repair of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) is critical for the maintenance of genome integrity. We previously showed that DSB-induced small RNAs (diRNAs) facilitate homologous recombination-mediated DSB repair in Arabidopsis thaliana Here, we show that INVOLVED IN DE NOVO2 (IDN2), a double-stranded RNA binding protein involved in small RNA-directed DNA methylation, is required for DSB repair in Arabidopsis. We find that IDN2 interacts with the heterotrimeric replication protein A (RPA) complex. Depletion of IDN2 or the diRNA binding ARGONAUTE2 leads to increased accumulation of RPA at DSB sites and mislocalization of the recombination factor RAD51. These findings support a model in which IDN2 interacts with RPA and facilitates the release of RPA from single-stranded DNA tails and subsequent recruitment of RAD51 at DSB sites to promote DSB repair.
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- Mingming Liu
- Peking University-Tsinghua University-National Institute of Biological Sciences Joint Graduate Program, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
- National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing 102206, China
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- Center for Plant Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China
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- Center for Plant Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Center for Plant Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Bionova (Beijing) Biotech Co., Beijing 102206, China
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- Center for Plant Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Center for Plant Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
- Tsinghua-Peking Center for Life Sciences, Beijing 100084, China
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- Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China
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- Center for Plant Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
- Tsinghua-Peking Center for Life Sciences, Beijing 100084, China
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Li G, Zou W, Jian L, Qian J, Deng Y, Zhao J. Non-SMC elements 1 and 3 are required for early embryo and seedling development in Arabidopsis. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2017; 68:1039-1054. [PMID: 28207059 PMCID: PMC5441860 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erx016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Early embryo development from the zygote is an essential stage in the formation of the seed, while seedling development is the beginning of the formation of an individual plant. AtNSE1 and AtNSE3 are subunits of the structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) 5/6 complex and have been identified as non-SMC elements, but their functions in Arabidopsis growth and development remain as yet unknown. In this study, we found that loss of function of AtNSE1 and AtNSE3 led to severe defects in early embryo development. Partially complemented mutants showed that the development of mutant seedlings was inhibited, that chromosome fragments occurred during anaphase, and that the cell cycle was delayed at G2/M, which led to the occurrence of endoreduplication. Further, a large number of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) occurred in the nse1 and nse3 mutants, and the expression of AtNSE1 and AtNSE3 was up-regulated following treatment of the plants with DSB inducer compounds, suggesting that AtNSE1 and AtNSE3 have a role in DNA damage repair. Therefore, we conclude that AtNSE1 and AtNSE3 facilitate DSB repair and contribute to maintaining genome stability and cell division in mitotic cells. Thus, we think that AtNSE1 and AtNSE3 may be crucial factors for maintaining proper early embryonic and post-embryonic development.
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- Gang Li
- State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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Sidhu GK, Warzecha T, Pawlowski WP. Evolution of meiotic recombination genes in maize and teosinte. BMC Genomics 2017; 18:106. [PMID: 28122517 PMCID: PMC5267385 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-017-3486-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2016] [Accepted: 01/11/2017] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Background Meiotic recombination is a major source of genetic variation in eukaryotes. The role of recombination in evolution is recognized but little is known about how evolutionary forces affect the recombination pathway itself. Although the recombination pathway is fundamentally conserved across different species, genetic variation in recombination components and outcomes has been observed. Theoretical predictions and empirical studies suggest that changes in the recombination pathway are likely to provide adaptive abilities to populations experiencing directional or strong selection pressures, such as those occurring during species domestication. We hypothesized that adaptive changes in recombination may be associated with adaptive evolution patterns of genes involved in meiotic recombination. Results To examine how maize evolution and domestication affected meiotic recombination genes, we studied patterns of sequence polymorphism and divergence in eleven genes controlling key steps in the meiotic recombination pathway in a diverse set of maize inbred lines and several accessions of teosinte, the wild ancestor of maize. We discovered that, even though the recombination genes generally exhibited high sequence conservation expected in a pathway controlling a key cellular process, they showed substantial levels and diverse patterns of sequence polymorphism. Among others, we found differences in sequence polymorphism patterns between tropical and temperate maize germplasms. Several recombination genes displayed patterns of polymorphism indicative of adaptive evolution. Conclusions Despite their ancient origin and overall sequence conservation, meiotic recombination genes can exhibit extensive and complex patterns of molecular evolution. Changes in these genes could affect the functioning of the recombination pathway, and may have contributed to the successful domestication of maize and its expansion to new cultivation areas. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12864-017-3486-z) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Gaganpreet K Sidhu
- School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA.,Current address: Institute for Cancer Genetics, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10032, USA
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- School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA.,Permanent address: Department of Plant Breeding and Seed Science, Agricultural University, Krakow, Poland
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- School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA.
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Boubriak I, Akimkina T, Polischuk V, Dmitriev A, McCready S, Grodzinsky D. Long term effects of Chernobyl contamination on DNA repair function and plant resistance to different biotic and abiotic stress factors. CYTOL GENET+ 2016. [DOI: 10.3103/s0095452716060049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Kobbe D, Kahles A, Walter M, Klemm T, Mannuss A, Knoll A, Focke M, Puchta H. AtRAD5A is a DNA translocase harboring a HIRAN domain which confers binding to branched DNA structures and is required for DNA repair in vivo. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2016; 88:521-530. [PMID: 27458713 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.13283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2016] [Revised: 07/20/2016] [Accepted: 07/22/2016] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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DNA lesions such as crosslinks represent obstacles for the replication machinery. Nonetheless, replication can proceed via the DNA damage tolerance pathway also known as postreplicative repair pathway. SNF2 ATPase Rad5 homologs, such as RAD5A of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, are important for the error-free mode of this pathway. We able to demonstrate before, that RAD5A is a key factor in the repair of DNA crosslinks in Arabidopsis. Here, we show by in vitro analysis that AtRAD5A protein is a DNA translocase able to catalyse fork regression. Interestingly, replication forks with a gap in the leading strand are processed best, in line with its suggested function. Furthermore AtRAD5A catalyses branch migration of a Holliday junction and is furthermore not impaired by the DNA binding of a model protein, which is indicative of its ability to displace other proteins. Rad5 homologs possess HIRAN (Hip116, Rad5; N-terminal) domains. By biochemical analysis we were able to demonstrate that the HIRAN domain variant from Arabidopsis RAD5A mediates structure selective DNA binding without the necessity for a free 3'OH group as has been shown to be required for binding of HIRAN domains in a mammalian RAD5 homolog. The biological importance of the HIRAN domain in AtRAD5A is demonstrated by our result that it is required for its function in DNA crosslink repair in vivo.
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- Daniela Kobbe
- Botanical Institute II, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, 76131, Germany
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- Botanical Institute II, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, 76131, Germany
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- Botanical Institute II, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, 76131, Germany
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- Botanical Institute II, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, 76131, Germany
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- Botanical Institute II, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, 76131, Germany
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- Botanical Institute II, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, 76131, Germany
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- Botanical Institute II, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, 76131, Germany
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- Botanical Institute II, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, 76131, Germany
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The Transcriptional Response to DNA-Double-Strand Breaks in Physcomitrella patens. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0161204. [PMID: 27537368 PMCID: PMC4990234 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0161204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2016] [Accepted: 08/01/2016] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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The model bryophyte Physcomitrella patens is unique among plants in supporting the generation of mutant alleles by facile homologous recombination-mediated gene targeting (GT). Reasoning that targeted transgene integration occurs through the capture of transforming DNA by the homology-dependent pathway for DNA double-strand break (DNA-DSB) repair, we analysed the genome-wide transcriptomic response to bleomycin-induced DNA damage and generated mutants in candidate DNA repair genes. Massively parallel (Illumina) cDNA sequencing identified potential participants in gene targeting. Transcripts encoding DNA repair proteins active in multiple repair pathways were significantly up-regulated. These included Rad51, CtIP, DNA ligase 1, Replication protein A and ATR in homology-dependent repair, Xrcc4, DNA ligase 4, Ku70 and Ku80 in non-homologous end-joining and Rad1, Tebichi/polymerase theta, PARP in microhomology-mediated end-joining. Differentially regulated cell-cycle components included up-regulated Rad9 and Hus1 DNA-damage-related checkpoint proteins and down-regulated D-type cyclins and B-type CDKs, commensurate with the imposition of a checkpoint at G2 of the cell cycle characteristic of homology-dependent DNA-DSB repair. Candidate genes, including ATP-dependent chromatin remodelling helicases associated with repair and recombination, were knocked out and analysed for growth defects, hypersensitivity to DNA damage and reduced GT efficiency. Targeted knockout of PpCtIP, a cell-cycle activated mediator of homology-dependent DSB resection, resulted in bleomycin-hypersensitivity and greatly reduced GT efficiency.
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Yao Y, Bilichak A, Golubov A, Kovalchuk I. Arabidopsis thaliana siRNA biogenesis mutants have the lower frequency of homologous recombination. PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR 2016; 11:e1151599. [PMID: 26901311 PMCID: PMC4991315 DOI: 10.1080/15592324.2016.1151599] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2016] [Revised: 01/30/2016] [Accepted: 02/01/2016] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) are involved in the regulation of plant development and response to stress. We have previously shown that mutants impaired in Dicer-like 2 (DCL2), DCL3 and DCL4, RDR2, RDR6 and NPRD1 are partially impaired in their response to stress and dcl2 and dcl3 plants are also impaired in transgenerational response to stress, including changes in homologous recombination frequency (HRF). Here, we have analyzed genome stability of dcl2, dcl3, dcl4, dcl2 dcl3, dcl2 dcl3 dcl4 and rdr6 mutants by measuring the non-induced and the stress-induced recombination frequency. We found that all mutants had the lower spontaneous HRF. The analysis of strand breaks showed that all tested Arabidopsis mutants had a higher level of spontaneous strand breaks, suggesting that the lower HRF is not due to the unusually low level of breaks. Exposure to methyl methane sulfonate (MMS) resulted in an increase in the level of strand breaks in wild-type plants and a decrease in mutants. All mutants had the higher methylation of cytosines at CpG sites under non-induced conditions. Exposure to MMS resulted in a decrease in methylation level in wild-type plants and an increase in methylation in all dcl mutants. The expression of several DNA repair genes was altered in dcl4 plants under non-induced and induced conditions. Our data suggest that siRNA biogenesis may be essential for the maintenance of the genome stability and stress response in Arabidopsis.
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- Youli Yao
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology/Co-Innovation Center for Modern Production Technology of Grain Crops, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology/Co-Innovation Center for Modern Production Technology of Grain Crops, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology/Co-Innovation Center for Modern Production Technology of Grain Crops, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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Olivier M, Da Ines O, Amiard S, Serra H, Goubely C, White CI, Gallego ME. The Structure-Specific Endonucleases MUS81 and SEND1 Are Essential for Telomere Stability in Arabidopsis. THE PLANT CELL 2016; 28:74-86. [PMID: 26704385 PMCID: PMC4746687 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.15.00898] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2015] [Accepted: 12/23/2015] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Structure-specific endonucleases act to repair potentially toxic structures produced by recombination and DNA replication, ensuring proper segregation of the genetic material to daughter cells during mitosis and meiosis. Arabidopsis thaliana has two putative homologs of the resolvase (structure-specific endonuclease): GEN1/Yen1. Knockout of resolvase genes GEN1 and SEND1, individually or together, has no detectable effect on growth, fertility, or sensitivity to DNA damage. However, combined absence of the endonucleases MUS81 and SEND1 results in severe developmental defects, spontaneous cell death, and genome instability. A similar effect is not seen in mus81 gen1 plants, which develop normally and are fertile. Absence of RAD51 does not rescue mus81 send1, pointing to roles of these proteins in DNA replication rather than DNA break repair. The enrichment of S-phase histone γ-H2AX foci and a striking loss of telomeric DNA in mus81 send1 further support this interpretation. SEND1 has at most a minor role in resolution of the Holliday junction but acts as an essential backup to MUS81 for resolution of toxic replication structures to ensure genome stability and to maintain telomere integrity.
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- Margaux Olivier
- Génétique, Reproduction et Développement, UMR CNRS 6293, Clermont Université, INSERM U1103, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Génétique, Reproduction et Développement, UMR CNRS 6293, Clermont Université, INSERM U1103, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Génétique, Reproduction et Développement, UMR CNRS 6293, Clermont Université, INSERM U1103, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Génétique, Reproduction et Développement, UMR CNRS 6293, Clermont Université, INSERM U1103, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Génétique, Reproduction et Développement, UMR CNRS 6293, Clermont Université, INSERM U1103, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Génétique, Reproduction et Développement, UMR CNRS 6293, Clermont Université, INSERM U1103, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Génétique, Reproduction et Développement, UMR CNRS 6293, Clermont Université, INSERM U1103, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Kobbe S, Trapp O, Knoll A, Manuss A, Puchta H. The Translesion Polymerase ζ Has Roles Dependent on and Independent of the Nuclease MUS81 and the Helicase RECQ4A in DNA Damage Repair in Arabidopsis. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2015; 169:2718-29. [PMID: 26474640 PMCID: PMC4677884 DOI: 10.1104/pp.15.00806] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2015] [Accepted: 10/15/2015] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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DNA polymerase zeta catalytic subunit REV3 is known to play an important role in the repair of DNA damage induced by cross-linking and methylating agents. Here, we demonstrate that in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), the basic polymerase activity of REV3 is essential for resistance protection against these different types of damaging agents. Interestingly, its processivity is mainly required for resistance to interstrand and intrastrand cross-linking agents, but not alkylating agents. To better define the role of REV3 in relation to other key factors involved in DNA repair, we perform epistasis analysis and show that REV3-mediated resistance to DNA-damaging agents is independent of the replication damage checkpoint kinase ataxia telangiectasia-mutated and rad3-related homolog. REV3 cooperates with the endonuclease MMS and UV-sensitive protein81 in response to interstrand cross links and alkylated bases, whereas it acts independently of the ATP-dependent DNA helicase RECQ4A. Taken together, our data show that four DNA intrastrand cross-link subpathways exist in Arabidopsis, defined by ATP-dependent DNA Helicase RECQ4A, MMS and UV-sensitive protein81, REV3, and the ATPase Radiation Sensitive Protein 5A.
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- Sabrina Kobbe
- Botanical Institute II, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76187 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Botanical Institute II, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76187 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Botanical Institute II, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76187 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Botanical Institute II, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76187 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Botanical Institute II, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76187 Karlsruhe, Germany
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Manova V, Gruszka D. DNA damage and repair in plants - from models to crops. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2015; 6:885. [PMID: 26557130 PMCID: PMC4617055 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00885] [Citation(s) in RCA: 168] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2015] [Accepted: 10/05/2015] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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The genomic integrity of every organism is constantly challenged by endogenous and exogenous DNA-damaging factors. Mutagenic agents cause reduced stability of plant genome and have a deleterious effect on development, and in the case of crop species lead to yield reduction. It is crucial for all organisms, including plants, to develop efficient mechanisms for maintenance of the genome integrity. DNA repair processes have been characterized in bacterial, fungal, and mammalian model systems. The description of these processes in plants, in contrast, was initiated relatively recently and has been focused largely on the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Consequently, our knowledge about DNA repair in plant genomes - particularly in the genomes of crop plants - is by far more limited. However, the relatively small size of the Arabidopsis genome, its rapid life cycle and availability of various transformation methods make this species an attractive model for the study of eukaryotic DNA repair mechanisms and mutagenesis. Moreover, abnormalities in DNA repair which proved to be lethal for animal models are tolerated in plant genomes, although sensitivity to DNA damaging agents is retained. Due to the high conservation of DNA repair processes and factors mediating them among eukaryotes, genes and proteins that have been identified in model species may serve to identify homologous sequences in other species, including crop plants, in which these mechanisms are poorly understood. Crop breeding programs have provided remarkable advances in food quality and yield over the last century. Although the human population is predicted to "peak" by 2050, further advances in yield will be required to feed this population. Breeding requires genetic diversity. The biological impact of any mutagenic agent used for the creation of genetic diversity depends on the chemical nature of the induced lesions and on the efficiency and accuracy of their repair. More recent targeted mutagenesis procedures also depend on host repair processes, with different pathways yielding different products. Enhanced understanding of DNA repair processes in plants will inform and accelerate the engineering of crop genomes via both traditional and targeted approaches.
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- Vasilissa Manova
- Department of Molecular Genetics, Institute of Plant Physiology and Genetics, Bulgarian Academy of SciencesSofia
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- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Biology and Environment Protection, University of SilesiaKatowice, Poland
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Herrmann NJ, Knoll A, Puchta H. The nuclease FAN1 is involved in DNA crosslink repair in Arabidopsis thaliana independently of the nuclease MUS81. Nucleic Acids Res 2015; 43:3653-66. [PMID: 25779053 PMCID: PMC4402529 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2015] [Accepted: 03/01/2015] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Fanconi anemia is a severe genetic disorder. Mutations in one of several genes lead to defects in DNA crosslink (CL) repair in human cells. An essential step in CL repair is the activation of the pathway by the monoubiquitination of the heterodimer FANCD2/FANCI, which recruits the nuclease FAN1 to the CL site. Surprisingly, FAN1 function is not conserved between different eukaryotes. No FAN1 homolog is present in Drosophila and Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The FAN1 homolog in Schizosaccharomyces pombe is involved in CL repair; a homolog is present in Xenopus but is not involved in CL repair. Here we show that a FAN1 homolog is present in plants and it is involved in CL repair in Arabidopsis thaliana. Both the virus-type replication-repair nuclease and the ubiquitin-binding ubiquitin-binding zinc finger domains are essential for this function. FAN1 likely acts upstream of two sub-pathways of CL repair. These pathways are defined by the Bloom syndrome homolog RECQ4A and the ATPase RAD5A, which is involved in error-free post-replicative repair. Mutations in both FAN1 and the endonuclease MUS81 resulted in greater sensitivity against CLs than in the respective single mutants. These results indicate that the two nucleases define two independent pathways of CL repair in plants.
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- Natalie J Herrmann
- Botanical Institute II, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Hertzstrasse 16, Karlsruhe, 76187, Germany
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- Botanical Institute II, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Hertzstrasse 16, Karlsruhe, 76187, Germany
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- Botanical Institute II, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Hertzstrasse 16, Karlsruhe, 76187, Germany
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Knoll A, Fauser F, Puchta H. DNA recombination in somatic plant cells: mechanisms and evolutionary consequences. Chromosome Res 2015; 22:191-201. [PMID: 24788060 DOI: 10.1007/s10577-014-9415-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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In somatic cells, recombination is a means of DNA damage repair. The most severe type of damage in nuclear DNA is double-strand breaks (DSBs) which may be repaired via either non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) or homologous recombination (HR). In this review, we will summarize the basic features, the mechanisms, and the key players of both repair modes in plants with a focus on the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. NHEJ may result in insertion of sequences from elsewhere in the genome but is much more often associated with deletions. If more than one DSB is processed simultaneously via NHEJ, besides deletions, inversions or translocations may also arise. As the germ line is only set aside late in plant development, somatic changes may be transferred to the next generation. Thus, NHEJ might influence the evolution of plant genomes and indeed seems to be an important factor of genome shrinking. Deletions may also be due to DSB-induced recombination between tandem duplicated homologous sequences by single-strand annealing (SSA). Moreover, conservative HR using the synthesis-dependent strand annealing (SDSA) mechanism operates in somatic plant cells. The efficiency of SDSA is dependent on the genomic template used as matrix for the repair of the DSB. Besides DSBs, stalled replication forks may also be processed via HR. Several DNA processing enzymes are involved in the regulation of replication initiated HR, mostly in its suppression, and we summarize the current knowledge of these processes in plants.
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- Alexander Knoll
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Botanical Institute II, Hertzstr. 16, 76187, Karlsruhe, Germany
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Hu Z, Cools T, Kalhorzadeh P, Heyman J, De Veylder L. Deficiency of the Arabidopsis helicase RTEL1 triggers a SOG1-dependent replication checkpoint in response to DNA cross-links. THE PLANT CELL 2015; 27:149-61. [PMID: 25595823 PMCID: PMC4330584 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.114.134312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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To maintain genome integrity, DNA replication is executed and regulated by a complex molecular network of numerous proteins, including helicases and cell cycle checkpoint regulators. Through a systematic screening for putative replication mutants, we identified an Arabidopsis thaliana homolog of human Regulator of Telomere Length 1 (RTEL1), which functions in DNA replication, DNA repair, and recombination. RTEL1 deficiency retards plant growth, a phenotype including a prolonged S-phase duration and decreased cell proliferation. Genetic analysis revealed that rtel1 mutant plants show activated cell cycle checkpoints, specific sensitivity to DNA cross-linking agents, and increased homologous recombination, but a lack of progressive shortening of telomeres, indicating that RTEL1 functions have only been partially conserved between mammals and plants. Surprisingly, RTEL1 deficiency induces tolerance to the deoxynucleotide-depleting drug hydroxyurea, which could be mimicked by DNA cross-linking agents. This resistance does not rely on the essential replication checkpoint regulator WEE1 but could be blocked by a mutation in the SOG1 transcription factor. Taken together, our data indicate that RTEL1 is required for DNA replication and that its deficiency activates a SOG1-dependent replication checkpoint.
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- Zhubing Hu
- Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, B-9052 Gent, Belgium Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, B-9052 Gent, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, B-9052 Gent, Belgium Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, B-9052 Gent, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, B-9052 Gent, Belgium Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, B-9052 Gent, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, B-9052 Gent, Belgium Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, B-9052 Gent, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, B-9052 Gent, Belgium Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, B-9052 Gent, Belgium
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