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Singh S, Singh N, Baranwal M, Sharma S. Polymorphisms in the MSH2 gene predict poor survival of North Indian lung cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. Biomark Med 2022; 16:69-82. [PMID: 35081740 DOI: 10.2217/bmm-2021-0565] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Aim: To estimate if MSH2 polymorphisms, viz. rs63749993, rs2303425, rs2303426, rs4987188, rs2303428 and rs17217772, have any association with clinical outcomes in North Indian lung cancer patients. Materials & methods: PCR-RFLP was used for genotyping 500 cases. Logistic regression and survival analysis was performed by utilizing MedCalc software. Results & conclusion: Our study concluded, adenocarcinoma subjects having heterozygous genotype for rs2303425 have increased survival time (MST = 12.43, p = 0.03). In lung cancer patients undergoing paclitaxel therapy, heterozygous carriers for the rs17217772 polymorphism have reduced survival time (MST = 7.96 vs 2.63 months; HR = 2.09; p = 0.02). For rs63749993 polymorphism undergoing irinotecan therapy, subjects having mutant genotype showed poor survival (13.26 vs 6.06 months; HR = 5.37; p = 0.0004). The results suggest that MSH2 polymorphisms are involved in decreasing overall survival for patients undergoing platinum-based chemotherapy.
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- Sidhartha Singh
- Department of Biotechnology, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala, 147001, India
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- Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, 160012, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala, 147001, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala, 147001, India
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DNA mismatch repair (MMR) is a highly conserved genome stabilizing pathway that corrects DNA replication errors, limits chromosomal rearrangements, and mediates the cellular response to many types of DNA damage. Counterintuitively, MMR is also involved in the generation of mutations, as evidenced by its role in causing somatic triplet repeat expansion in Huntington’s disease (HD) and other neurodegenerative disorders. In this review, we discuss the current state of mechanistic knowledge of MMR and review the roles of key enzymes in this pathway. We also present the evidence for mutagenic function of MMR in CAG repeat expansion and consider mechanistic hypotheses that have been proposed. Understanding the role of MMR in CAG expansion may shed light on potential avenues for therapeutic intervention in HD.
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- Ravi R Iyer
- CHDI Management/CHDI Foundation, Princeton, NJ, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Aparicio T, Nyerges A, Nagy I, Pal C, Martínez‐García E, Lorenzo V. Mismatch repair hierarchy of
Pseudomonas putida
revealed by mutagenic ssDNA recombineering of the
pyrF
gene. Environ Microbiol 2019; 22:45-58. [DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.14814] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2019] [Revised: 09/29/2019] [Accepted: 09/30/2019] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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- Tomas Aparicio
- Systems and Synthetic Biology ProgramCentro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB‐CSIC), Campus de Cantoblanco Madrid 28049 Spain
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- Synthetic and Systems Biology UnitInstitute of Biochemistry
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- Sequencing Platform, Biological Research CentreHungarian Academy of Sciences H‐6726 Szeged
- Sequencing LaboratorySeqOmics Biotechnology Ltd. 6782 Mórahalom Hungary
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- Synthetic and Systems Biology UnitInstitute of Biochemistry
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- Systems and Synthetic Biology ProgramCentro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB‐CSIC), Campus de Cantoblanco Madrid 28049 Spain
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- Systems and Synthetic Biology ProgramCentro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB‐CSIC), Campus de Cantoblanco Madrid 28049 Spain
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El Meouche I, Dunlop MJ. Heterogeneity in efflux pump expression predisposes antibiotic-resistant cells to mutation. Science 2019; 362:686-690. [PMID: 30409883 DOI: 10.1126/science.aar7981] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2017] [Revised: 06/07/2018] [Accepted: 09/19/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Antibiotic resistance is often the result of mutations that block drug activity; however, bacteria also evade antibiotics by transiently expressing genes such as multidrug efflux pumps. A crucial question is whether transient resistance can promote permanent genetic changes. Previous studies have established that antibiotic treatment can select tolerant cells that then mutate to achieve permanent resistance. Whether these mutations result from antibiotic stress or preexist within the population is unclear. To address this question, we focused on the multidrug pump AcrAB-TolC. Using time-lapse microscopy, we found that cells with higher acrAB expression have lower expression of the DNA mismatch repair gene mutS, lower growth rates, and higher mutation frequencies. Thus, transient antibiotic resistance from elevated acrAB expression can promote spontaneous mutations within single cells.
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- Imane El Meouche
- Department of Biomedical Engineering and Biological Design Center, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.,School of Engineering, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering and Biological Design Center, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA. .,School of Engineering, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA
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Pontrelli S, Fricke RCB, Sakurai SSM, Putri SP, Fitz-Gibbon S, Chung M, Wu HY, Chen YJ, Pellegrini M, Fukusaki E, Liao JC. Directed strain evolution restructures metabolism for 1-butanol production in minimal media. Metab Eng 2018; 49:153-163. [PMID: 30107263 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2018.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2018] [Revised: 06/30/2018] [Accepted: 08/10/2018] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Engineering a microbial strain for production sometimes entails metabolic modifications that impair essential physiological processes for growth or production. Restoring these functions may require amending a variety of non-obvious physiological networks, and thus, rational design strategies may not be practical. Here we demonstrate that growth and production may be restored by evolution that repairs impaired metabolic function. Furthermore, we use genomics, metabolomics and proteomics to identify several underlying mutations and metabolic perturbations that allow metabolism to repair. Previously, high titers of butanol production were achieved by Escherichia coli using a growth-coupled, modified Clostridial CoA-dependent pathway after all native fermentative pathways were deleted. However, production was only observed in rich media. Native metabolic function of the host was unable to support growth and production in minimal media. We use directed cell evolution to repair this phenotype and observed improved growth, titers and butanol yields. We found a mutation in pcnB which resulted in decreased plasmid copy numbers and pathway enzymes to balance resource utilization. Increased protein abundance was measured for biosynthetic pathways, glycolytic enzymes have increased activity, and adenosyl energy charge was increased. We also found mutations in the ArcAB two-component system and integration host factor (IHF) that tune redox metabolism to alter byproduct formation. These results demonstrate that directed strain evolution can enable systematic adaptations to repair metabolic function and enhance microbial production. Furthermore, these results demonstrate the versatile repair capabilities of cell metabolism and highlight important aspects of cell physiology that are required for production in minimal media.
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- Sammy Pontrelli
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States
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- Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Japan
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- Institute of Genomics and Proteomics, University of California, Los Angeles, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States
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- Instrumentation Center, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Genomics and Proteomics, University of California, Los Angeles, United States; Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, United States
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- Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Japan
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- Institute of Biological Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
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Tarique M, Chauhan M, Tuteja R. ATPase activity of Plasmodium falciparum MLH is inhibited by DNA-interacting ligands and dsRNAs of MLH along with UvrD curtail malaria parasite growth. PROTOPLASMA 2017; 254:1295-1305. [PMID: 27624787 DOI: 10.1007/s00709-016-1021-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2016] [Accepted: 09/01/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum is the major disease burden all over the world. Recently, the situation has deteriorated because the malarial parasites are becoming progressively more resistant to numerous commonly used antimalarial drugs. Thus, there is a critical requirement to find other means to restrict and eliminate malaria. The mismatch repair (MMR) machinery of parasite is quite unique in several ways, and it can be exploited for finding new drug targets. MutL homolog (MLH) is one of the major components of MMR machinery, and along with UvrD, it helps in unwinding the DNA. We have screened several DNA-interacting ligands for their effect on intrinsic ATPase activity of PfMLH protein. This screening suggested that several ligands such as daunorubicin, etoposide, ethidium bromide, netropsin, and nogalamycin are inhibitors of the ATPase activity of PfMLH, and their apparent IC50 values range from 2.1 to 9.35 μM. In the presence of nogalamycin and netropsin, the effect was significant because in their presence, the V max value dropped from 1.024 μM of hydrolyzed ATP/min to 0.596 and 0.643 μM of hydrolyzed ATP/min, respectively. The effect of double-stranded RNAs of PfMLH and PfUvrD on growth of P. falciparum 3D7 strain was studied. The parasite growth was significantly inhibited suggesting that these components belonging to MMR pathway are crucial for the survival of the parasite.
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- Mohammed Tarique
- Parasite Biology Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, P. O. Box 10504, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, 110067, India
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- Parasite Biology Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, P. O. Box 10504, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, 110067, India
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- Parasite Biology Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, P. O. Box 10504, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, 110067, India.
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Highly conserved MutS homologs (MSH) and MutL homologs (MLH/PMS) are the fundamental components of mismatch repair (MMR). After decades of debate, it appears clear that the MSH proteins initiate MMR by recognizing a mismatch and forming multiple extremely stable ATP-bound sliding clamps that diffuse without hydrolysis along the adjacent DNA. The function(s) of MLH/PMS proteins is less clear, although they too bind ATP and are targeted to MMR by MSH sliding clamps. Structural analysis combined with recent real-time single molecule and cellular imaging technologies are providing new and detailed insight into the thermal-driven motions that animate the complete MMR mechanism.
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- Richard Fishel
- From the Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio 43210 and the Department of Physics and the Biophysics Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
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Development of potent in vivo mutagenesis plasmids with broad mutational spectra. Nat Commun 2015; 6:8425. [PMID: 26443021 PMCID: PMC4633624 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9425] [Citation(s) in RCA: 132] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2015] [Accepted: 08/21/2015] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Methods to enhance random mutagenesis in cells offer advantages over in vitro mutagenesis, but current in vivo methods suffer from a lack of control, genomic instability, low efficiency and narrow mutational spectra. Using a mechanism-driven approach, we created a potent, inducible, broad-spectrum and vector-based mutagenesis system in E. coli that enhances mutation 322,000-fold over basal levels, surpassing the mutational efficiency and spectra of widely used in vivo and in vitro methods. We demonstrate that this system can be used to evolve antibiotic resistance in wild-type E. coli in <24 h, outperforming chemical mutagens, ultraviolet light and the mutator strain XL1-Red under similar conditions. This system also enables the continuous evolution of T7 RNA polymerase variants capable of initiating transcription using the T3 promoter in <10 h. Our findings enable broad-spectrum mutagenesis of chromosomes, episomes and viruses in vivo, and are applicable to both bacterial and bacteriophage-mediated laboratory evolution platforms. Random DNA mutagenesis provides genetic diversity both in nature and the laboratory. Here, Badran and Liu present a potent, inducible, broad-spectrum and vector-based mutagenesis system in E. coli that surpasses the mutational efficiency and spectra of the most widely used in vivo and in vitro mutagenesis methods.
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Homologous recombination (HR) and mismatch repair (MMR) are inextricably linked. HR pairs homologous chromosomes before meiosis I and is ultimately responsible for generating genetic diversity during sexual reproduction. HR is initiated in meiosis by numerous programmed DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs; several hundred in mammals). A characteristic feature of HR is the exchange of DNA strands, which results in the formation of heteroduplex DNA. Mismatched nucleotides arise in heteroduplex DNA because the participating parental chromosomes contain nonidentical sequences. These mismatched nucleotides may be processed by MMR, resulting in nonreciprocal exchange of genetic information (gene conversion). MMR and HR also play prominent roles in mitotic cells during genome duplication; MMR rectifies polymerase misincorporation errors, whereas HR contributes to replication fork maintenance, as well as the repair of spontaneous DSBs and genotoxic lesions that affect both DNA strands. MMR suppresses HR when the heteroduplex DNA contains excessive mismatched nucleotides, termed homeologous recombination. The regulation of homeologous recombination by MMR ensures the accuracy of DSB repair and significantly contributes to species barriers during sexual reproduction. This review discusses the history, genetics, biochemistry, biophysics, and the current state of studies on the role of MMR in homologous and homeologous recombination from bacteria to humans.
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- Maria Spies
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242
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- Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology, and Medical Genetics, The Ohio State University Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, Ohio 43210 Human Genetics Institute, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio 43210 Physics Department, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
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Baharoglu Z, Mazel D. Influence of very short patch mismatch repair on SOS inducing lesions after aminoglycoside treatment in Escherichia coli. Res Microbiol 2014; 165:476-80. [PMID: 24946128 DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2014.05.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2014] [Revised: 05/22/2014] [Accepted: 05/28/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Low concentrations of aminoglycosides induce the SOS response in Vibrio cholerae but not in Escherichia coli. In order to determine whether a specific factor present in E. coli prevents this induction, we developed a genetic screen where only SOS inducing mutants are viable. We identified the vsr gene coding for the Vsr protein of the very short patch mismatch repair (VSPR) pathway. The effect of mismatch repair (MMR) mutants was also studied. We propose that lesions formed upon aminoglycoside treatment are preferentially repaired by VSPR without SOS induction in E. coli and by MMR when VSPR is impaired.
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- Zeynep Baharoglu
- Institut Pasteur, Unité Plasticité du Génome Bactérien, Département Génomes et Génétique, 25 rue du docteur Roux, 75015 Paris, France; CNRS, UMR3525, Paris, France.
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- Institut Pasteur, Unité Plasticité du Génome Bactérien, Département Génomes et Génétique, 25 rue du docteur Roux, 75015 Paris, France; CNRS, UMR3525, Paris, France
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Culligan EP, Marchesi JR, Hill C, Sleator RD. Combined metagenomic and phenomic approaches identify a novel salt tolerance gene from the human gut microbiome. Front Microbiol 2014; 5:189. [PMID: 24808895 PMCID: PMC4010731 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2014] [Accepted: 04/07/2014] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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In the current study, a number of salt-tolerant clones previously isolated from a human gut metagenomic library were screened using Phenotype MicroArray (PM) technology to assess their functional capacity. PM's can be used to study gene function, pathogenicity, metabolic capacity and identify drug targets using a series of specialized microtitre plate assays, where each well of the microtitre plate contains a different set of conditions and tests a different phenotype. Cellular respiration is monitored colorimetrically by the reduction of a tetrazolium dye. One clone, SMG 9, was found to be positive for utilization/transport of L-carnitine (a well-characterized osmoprotectant) in the presence of 6% w/v sodium chloride (NaCl). Subsequent experiments revealed a significant growth advantage in minimal media containing NaCl and L-carnitine. Fosmid sequencing revealed putative candidate genes responsible for the phenotype. Subsequent cloning of two genes did not replicate the L-carnitine-associated phenotype, although one of the genes, a σ54-dependent transcriptional regulator, did confer salt tolerance to Escherichia coli when expressed in isolation. The original clone, SMG 9, was subsequently found to have lost the original observed phenotype upon further investigation. Nevertheless, this study demonstrates the usefulness of a phenomic approach to assign a functional role to metagenome-derived clones.
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- Eamonn P Culligan
- Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, Biosciences Institute, University College Cork Cork, Ireland ; School of Microbiology, University College Cork Cork, Ireland
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- Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, Biosciences Institute, University College Cork Cork, Ireland ; Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University Cardiff, UK ; Department of Surgery and Cancer, Centre for Digestive and Gut Health, Imperial College London London, UK
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- Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, Biosciences Institute, University College Cork Cork, Ireland ; School of Microbiology, University College Cork Cork, Ireland
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- Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, Biosciences Institute, University College Cork Cork, Ireland ; Department of Biological Sciences, Cork Institute of Technology Cork, Ireland
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Carone BR, Xu T, Murphy KC, Marinus MG. High incidence of multiple antibiotic resistant cells in cultures of in enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7. Mutat Res 2013; 759:1-8. [PMID: 24361397 DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2013.11.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2013] [Revised: 11/06/2013] [Accepted: 11/26/2013] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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The spontaneous incidence of chloramphenicol (Cam) resistant mutant bacteria is at least ten-fold higher in cultures of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 strain EDL933 than in E. coli K-12. It is at least 100-fold higher in the dam (DNA adenine methyltransferase) derivative of EDL933, compared to the dam strain of E. coli K-12, thereby preventing the use of Cam resistance as a marker in gene replacement technology. Genome sequencing of Cam-resistant isolates of EDL933 and its dam derivatives showed that the marR (multiple antibiotic resistance) gene was mutated in every case but not in the Cam-sensitive parental strains. As expected from mutation in the marR gene, the Cam-resistant bacteria were also found to be resistant to tetracycline and nalidixic acid. The marR gene in strain EDL933 is annotated as a shorter open reading frame than that in E. coli K-12 but the longer marR(+) open reading frame was more efficient at complementing the marR antibiotic-resistance phenotype of strain EDL933. Beta-lactamase-tolerant derivatives were present at frequencies 10-100 times greater in cultures of marR derivatives of strain EDL933 than the parent strain. Spontaneous mutation frequency to rifampicin, spectinomycin and streptomycin resistance was the same in E. coli O157:H7 and E. coli K-12 strains.
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- Benjamin R Carone
- Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605, United States
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- Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605, United States
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- Microbiology and Physiological Systems, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605, United States
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- Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605, United States.
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Taira K, Kaneto S, Nakano K, Watanabe S, Takahashi E, Arimoto S, Okamoto K, Schaaper RM, Negishi K, Negishi T. Distinct pathways for repairing mutagenic lesions induced by methylating and ethylating agents. Mutagenesis 2013; 28:341-50. [PMID: 23446177 PMCID: PMC3630523 DOI: 10.1093/mutage/get010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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DNA alkylation damage can be repaired by nucleotide excision repair (NER), base excision repair (BER) or by direct removal of alkyl groups from modified bases by O(6)-alkylguanine DNA alkyltransferase (AGT; E.C. 2.1.1.63). DNA mismatch repair (MMR) is also likely involved in this repair. We have investigated alkylation-induced mutagenesis in a series of NER- or AGT-deficient Escherichia coli strains, alone or in combination with defects in the MutS, MutL or MutH components of MMR. All strains used contained the F'prolac from strain CC102 (F'CC102) episome capable of detecting specifically lac GC to AT reverse mutations resulting from O(6)-alkylguanine. The results showed the repair of O(6)-methylguanine to be performed by AGT ≫ MMR > NER in order of importance, whereas the repair of O(6)-ethylguanine followed the order NER > AGT > MMR. Studies with double mutants showed that in the absence of AGT or NER repair pathways, the lack of MutS protein generally increased mutant frequencies for both methylating and ethylating agents, suggesting a repair or mutation avoidance role for this protein. However, lack of MutL or MutH protein did not increase alkylation-induced mutagenesis under these conditions and, in fact, reduced mutagenesis by the N-alkyl-N-nitrosoureas MNU and ENU. The combined results suggest that little or no alkylation damage is actually corrected by the mutHLS MMR system; instead, an as yet unspecified interaction of MutS protein with alkylated DNA may promote the involvement of a repair system other than MMR to avoid a mutagenic outcome. Furthermore, both mutagenic and antimutagenic effects of MMR were detected, revealing a dual function of the MMR system in alkylation-exposed cells.
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- Kentaro Taira
- Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tsushima, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
- NIEHS, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA and
- Nihon Pharmaceutical University, Ina, Kita-Adachi-Gun, Saitama 362-0806, Japan
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- Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tsushima, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
- NIEHS, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA and
- Nihon Pharmaceutical University, Ina, Kita-Adachi-Gun, Saitama 362-0806, Japan
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- Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tsushima, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
- NIEHS, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA and
- Nihon Pharmaceutical University, Ina, Kita-Adachi-Gun, Saitama 362-0806, Japan
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- Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tsushima, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
- NIEHS, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA and
- Nihon Pharmaceutical University, Ina, Kita-Adachi-Gun, Saitama 362-0806, Japan
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- Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tsushima, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
- NIEHS, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA and
- Nihon Pharmaceutical University, Ina, Kita-Adachi-Gun, Saitama 362-0806, Japan
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- Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tsushima, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
- NIEHS, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA and
- Nihon Pharmaceutical University, Ina, Kita-Adachi-Gun, Saitama 362-0806, Japan
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- Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tsushima, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
- NIEHS, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA and
- Nihon Pharmaceutical University, Ina, Kita-Adachi-Gun, Saitama 362-0806, Japan
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- Nihon Pharmaceutical University, Ina, Kita-Adachi-Gun, Saitama 362-0806, Japan
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- *To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +81 86 251 7946; Fax: +81 86 251 7926; E-mail:
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Distinct requirements within the Msh3 nucleotide binding pocket for mismatch and double-strand break repair. J Mol Biol 2013; 425:1881-1898. [PMID: 23458407 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2013.02.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2013] [Revised: 02/21/2013] [Accepted: 02/22/2013] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, repair of insertion/deletion loops is carried out by Msh2-Msh3-mediated mismatch repair (MMR). Msh2-Msh3 is also required for 3' non-homologous tail removal (3' NHTR) in double-strand break repair. In both pathways, Msh2-Msh3 binds double-strand/single-strand junctions and initiates repair in an ATP-dependent manner. However, the kinetics of the two processes appear different; MMR is likely rapid in order to coordinate with the replication fork, whereas 3' NHTR has been shown to be a slower process. To understand the molecular requirements in both repair pathways, we performed an in vivo analysis of well-conserved residues in Msh3 that are hypothesized to be required for MMR and/or 3' NHTR. These residues are predicted to be involved in either communication between the DNA-binding and ATPase domains within the complex or nucleotide binding and/or exchange within Msh2-Msh3. We identified a set of aromatic residues within the FLY motif of the predicted Msh3 nucleotide binding pocket that are essential for Msh2-Msh3-mediated MMR but are largely dispensable for 3' NHTR. In contrast, mutations in other regions gave similar phenotypes in both assays. Based on these results, we suggest that the two pathways have distinct requirements with respect to the position of the bound ATP within Msh3. We propose that the differences are related, at least in part, to the kinetics of each pathway. Proper binding and positioning of ATP is required to induce rapid conformational changes at the replication fork, but is less important when more time is available for repair, as in 3' NHTR.
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DNA mismatch repair (MMR) corrects replication errors in newly synthesized DNA. It also has an antirecombination action on heteroduplexes that contain similar but not identical sequences. This review focuses on the genetics and development of MMR and not on the latest biochemical mechanisms. The main focus is on MMR in Escherichia coli, but examples from Streptococcuspneumoniae and Bacillussubtilis have also been included. In most organisms, only MutS (detects mismatches) and MutL (an endonuclease) and a single exonucleaseare present. How this system discriminates between newlysynthesized and parental DNA strands is not clear. In E. coli and its relatives, however, Dam methylation is an integral part of MMR and is the basis for strand discrimination. A dedicated site-specific endonuclease, MutH, is present, andMutL has no endonuclease activity; four exonucleases can participate in MMR. Although it might seem that the accumulated wealth of genetic and biochemical data has given us a detailed picture of the mechanism of MMR in E. coli, the existence of three competing models to explain the initiation phase indicates the complexity of the system. The mechanism of the antirecombination action of MMR is largely unknown, but only MutS and MutL appear to be necessary. A primary site of action appears to be on RecA, although subsequent steps of the recombination process can also be inhibited. In this review, the genetics of Very Short Patch (VSP) repair of T/G mismatches arising from deamination of 5-methylcytosineresidues is also discussed.
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Martín-López JV, Barrios Y, Medina-Arana V, Andújar M, Lee S, Gu L, Li GM, Rüschoff J, Salido E, Fishel R. The hMSH2(M688R) Lynch syndrome mutation may function as a dominant negative. Carcinogenesis 2012; 33:1647-54. [PMID: 22739024 DOI: 10.1093/carcin/bgs199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The hMSH2(M688R) mismatch repair (MMR) gene mutation has been found in five large families from Tenerife, Spain, suggesting it is a Lynch syndrome or hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (LS/HNPCC) founder mutation. In addition to classical LS/HNPCC tumors, these families present with a high incidence of central nervous system (CNS) tumors normally associated with Turcot or constitutional mismatch repair deficiency (CMMR-D) syndromes. Turcot and CMMR-D mutations may be biallelic, knocking out both copies of the MMR gene. The hMSH2(M688R) mutation is located in the ATP hydrolysis (ATPase) domain. We show that the hMSH2(M688R)-hMSH6 heterodimer binds to mismatched nucleotides but lacks normal ATP functions and inhibits MMR in vitro when mixed with the wild-type (WT) heterodimer. Another alteration that has been associated with LS/HNPCC, hMSH2(M688I)-hMSH6, displays no identifiable differences with the WT heterodimer. Interestingly, some extracolonic tumors from hMSH2(M688R) carriers may express hMSH2-hMSH6, yet display microsatellite instability (MSI). The functional analysis along with variability in tumor expression and the high incidence of CNS tumors suggests that hMSH2(M688R) may act as a dominant negative in some tissues, while the hMSH2(M688I) is most likely a benign polymorphism.
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- Juana V Martín-López
- Unidad de Investigación Mixta HUC-ULL, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de La Laguna, La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 38002, Spain
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Esophageal cancer risk is associated with polymorphisms of DNA repair genes MSH2 and WRN in Chinese population. J Thorac Oncol 2012; 7:448-52. [PMID: 22173703 DOI: 10.1097/jto.0b013e31823c487a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Normal function of DNA repair system is essential for the removal of damage induced by many kinds of internal and environmental agents. Genetic polymorphisms in DNA repair genes associated with modified repair capacity may be related to the risk of developing esophageal cancer (EC). This article dealt whether single-nucleotide polymorphisms of DNA repair genes MSH2, WRN, and Ku70 potentially contributed to EC susceptibility. METHODS A hospital-based case-control study with 117 EC cases and 132 controls in a Chinese population was conducted. We genotyped three single-nucleotide polymorphisms MSH2 c.2063T>G, WRN c.4330T>C, and Ku70 c.-1310 C>G using polymerase chain reaction-based restriction fragment length polymorphism and then performed statistical analysis by calculating the adjusted odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI). RESULTS Carriers of the MSH2 c.2063 G allele were at a higher risk of developing EC with the TT genotype as reference (OR = 4.53, 95% CI = 1.92-10.64, 33p = 0.001). Also for WRN c.4330T>C, individuals with at least one C allele (T/C or C/C) had a 2.21-fold increased risk for EC development compared with those who bore the T/T wild-type genotype (OR = 2.21, 95% CI = 1.06-4.59, 33p = 0.035). Moreover, statistically significant variant genotypic interaction was suggested between MSH2 and WRN as a result of a much increased predisposition to EC (33p = 0.016). No obvious correlation was observed between Ku70 c.-1310 CG and esophageal carcinogenesis (33p > 0.05). CONCLUSIONS Our findings indicated that genetic variants in DNA repair pathways may be involved in esophageal tumorigenesis. MSH2 c.2063 G allele and WRN c.4330 C allele, not Ku70 c.-1310 CG, conferred risk for the process of developing EC.
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Medina-Arana V, Delgado L, González L, Bravo A, Díaz H, Salido E, Riverol D, González-Aguilera JJ, Fernández-Peralta AM. Adrenocortical carcinoma, an unusual extracolonic tumor associated with Lynch II syndrome. Fam Cancer 2011; 10:265-71. [PMID: 21225464 DOI: 10.1007/s10689-010-9416-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Lynch syndrome (LS) is an autosomal dominant condition that predisposes to colorectal cancer and specific other tumors. Extracolonic tumors occur mainly in the endometrium, stomach, ovary, small intestine and urinary tract. The presence of rare tumors in patients belonging to families who have Lynch syndrome is always interesting, because the question arises whether these tumors should be considered as a coincidence or are related with the syndrome. In this last case, they are also the result of the defect in the mismatch repair system, opening the possibility of extending the tumor spectrum associated with the syndrome. Here we describe a patient from a Lynch syndrome family with a germline mutation c.2063T>G (p.M688R) in the MSH2 gene, who developed an adrenal cortical carcinoma, a tumor not usually associated with LS. We analyzed the adrenocortical tumour for microsatellite instability (MSI), LOH and the presence of the germline c.2063T>G (M688R) mutation. The adrenal cortical carcinoma showed the MSH2 mutation, loss of heterozygosity of the normal allele in the MSH2 gene and loss of immunohistochemical expression for MSH2 protein, but no microsatellite instability. Additionally, the adrenal cortical carcinoma did not harbour a TP53 mutation. The molecular study indicates that this adrenal cortical cancer is probably due to the mismatch repair defect.
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- V Medina-Arana
- Servicio de Cirugía General y Digestiva, Hospital Universitario de Canarias, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
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Dissmeyer N, Schnittger A. Use of phospho-site substitutions to analyze the biological relevance of phosphorylation events in regulatory networks. Methods Mol Biol 2011; 779:93-138. [PMID: 21837563 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-264-9_6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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Biological information is often transmitted by phosphorylation cascades. However, the biological relevance of specific phosphorylation events is often difficult to determine. An invaluable tool to study the effect of kinases and/or phosphatases is the use of phospho- and dephospho-mimetic substitutions in the respective target proteins. Here, we present a generally applicable procedure of how to design, set-up, and carry out phosphorylation modulation experiments and subsequent monitoring of protein activities, taking -cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) as a case study. CDKs are key regulators of cell cycle progression in all eukaryotic cells. Consequently, CDKs are controlled at many levels and phosphorylation of CDKs -themselves is used to regulate their kinase activity. We describe in detail complementation experiments of a mutant in CDKA;1, the major cell cycle kinase in Arabidopsis, with phosphorylation-site variants of CDKA;1. CDKA;1 versions were generated either by mimicking a phosphorylated amino acid by replacing the respective residue with a negatively charged amino acid, e.g., aspartate or glutamate, or by mutating it to a non-phoshorylatable amino acid, such as alanine, valine, or phenylalanine. The genetic complementation studies were accompanied by the isolation of these kinase variants from plant extract and subsequent kinase assays to determine changes in their activity levels. This work allowed us to judge the importance of -posttranslational regulation of CDKA;1 in plants and has shown that the molecular mechanistics of CDK function are apparently conserved across the kingdoms. However, the regulatory wiring of CDKs is -strikingly different between plants, animals, and yeast.
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- Nico Dissmeyer
- Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (IPB), Independent Junior Research Group on Protein Recognition and Degradation, Halle (Saale), Germany.
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Polosina YY, Cupples CG. Wot the 'L-Does MutL do? Mutat Res 2010; 705:228-38. [PMID: 20667509 DOI: 10.1016/j.mrrev.2010.07.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2010] [Revised: 07/13/2010] [Accepted: 07/14/2010] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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In model DNA, A pairs with T, and C with G. However, in vivo, the complementarity of the DNA strands may be disrupted by errors in DNA replication, biochemical modification of bases and recombination. In prokaryotic organisms, mispaired bases are recognized by MutS homologs which, together with MutL homologs, initiate mismatch repair. These same proteins also participate in base excision repair and nucleotide excision repair. In eukaryotes they regulate not just DNA repair but also meiotic recombination, cell-cycle delay and/or apoptosis in response to DNA damage, and hypermutation in immunoglobulin genes. Significantly, the same DNA mismatches that trigger repair in some circumstances trigger non-repair pathways in others. In this review, we argue that mismatch recognition by the MutS proteins is linked to these disparate biological outcomes through regulated interaction of MutL proteins with a wide variety of effector proteins.
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- Yaroslava Y Polosina
- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, PO Box 3055, STN CSC, Victoria, BC, Canada.
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Tam SM, Samipak S, Britt A, Chetelat RT. Characterization and comparative sequence analysis of the DNA mismatch repair MSH2 and MSH7 genes from tomato. Genetica 2009; 137:341-54. [PMID: 19690966 PMCID: PMC2770637 DOI: 10.1007/s10709-009-9398-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2009] [Accepted: 08/04/2009] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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DNA mismatch repair proteins play an essential role in maintaining genomic integrity during replication and genetic recombination. We successfully isolated a full length MSH2 and partial MSH7 cDNAs from tomato, based on sequence similarity between MutS and plant MSH homologues. Semi-quantitative RT-PCR reveals higher levels of mRNA expression of both genes in young leaves and floral buds. Genetic mapping placed MSH2 and MSH7 on chromosomes 6 and 7, respectively, and indicates that these genes exist as single copies in the tomato genome. Analysis of protein sequences and phylogeny of the plant MSH gene family show that these proteins are evolutionarily conserved, and follow the classical model of asymmetric protein evolution. Genetic manipulation of the expression of these MSH genes in tomato will provide a potentially useful tool for modifying genetic recombination and hybrid fertility between wide crosses.
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- Sheh May Tam
- School of Science, Monash University Sunway Campus, Jalan Lagoon Selatan, 46150, Bandar Sunway, Selangor, Malaysia
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Genetically engineered mice are essential tools in both mechanistic studies and drug development in colon cancer research. Mice with mutations in the Apc gene, as well as in genes that modify or interact with Apc, are important models of familial adenomatous polyposis. Mice with mutations in the beta-catenin signaling pathway have also revealed important information about colon cancer pathogenesis, along with models for hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer and inflammatory bowel diseases associated with colon cancer. Finally, transplantation models (xenografts)have been useful in the study of metastasis and for testing potential therapeutics. This review discusses what models have been developed most recently and what they have taught us about colon cancer formation, progression, and possible treatment strategies.
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- Makoto Mark Taketo
- Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA
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Lützen A, de Wind N, Georgijevic D, Nielsen FC, Rasmussen LJ. Functional analysis of HNPCC-related missense mutations in MSH2. Mutat Res 2008; 645:44-55. [PMID: 18822302 DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2008.08.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2008] [Revised: 07/25/2008] [Accepted: 08/26/2008] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) is associated with germline mutations in the human DNA mismatch repair (MMR) genes, most frequently MSH2 and MLH1. The majority of HNPCC mutations cause truncations and thus loss of function of the affected polypeptide. However, a significant proportion of MMR mutations found in HNPCC patients are single amino acid substitutions and the functional consequences of many of these mutations in DNA repair are unclear. We have examined the consequences of seven MSH2 missense mutations found in HNPCC families by testing the MSH2 mutant proteins in functional assays as well as by generating equivalent missense mutations in Escherichia coli MutS and analyzing the phenotypes of these mutants. Here we show that two mutant proteins, MSH2-P622L and MSH2-C697F confer multiple biochemical defects, namely in mismatch binding, in vivo interaction with MSH6 and EXO1, and in nuclear localization in the cell. Mutation G674R, located in the ATP-binding region of MSH2, appears to confer resistance to ATP-dependent mismatch release. Mutations D167H and H639R show reduced mismatch binding. Results of in vivo experiments in E. coli with MutS mutants show that one additional mutant, equivalent of MSH2-A834T that do not show any defects in MSH2 assays, is repair deficient. In conclusion, all mutant proteins (except for MSH2-A305T) have defects; either in mismatch binding, ATP-release, mismatch repair activity, subcellular localization or protein-protein interactions.
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- Anne Lützen
- Department of Science, Systems and Models, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark
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Miguel V, Monti MR, Argaraña CE. The role of MutS oligomers on Pseudomonas aeruginosa mismatch repair system activity. DNA Repair (Amst) 2008; 7:1799-808. [PMID: 18687413 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2008.07.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2008] [Accepted: 07/09/2008] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The Escherichia coli DNA Mismatch Repair (MMR) protein MutS exist as dimers and tetramers in solution, and the identification of its functional oligomeric state has been matter of extensive study. In the present work, we have analyzed the oligomerization state of MutS from Pseudomonas aeruginosa a bacterial species devoid of Dam methylation and MutH homologue. By analyzing native MutS and different mutated versions of the protein, we determined that P. aeruginosa MutS is mainly tetrameric in solution and that its oligomerization capacity is conducted as in E. coli, by the C-terminal region of the protein. The analysis of mismatch oligonucleotide binding activity showed that wild-type MutS binds to DNA as tetramer. The DNA binding activity decreased when the C-terminal region was deleted (MutSDelta798) or when a full-length MutS with tetramerization defects (MutSR842E) was tested. The ATPase activity of MutSDelta798 was similar to MutSR842E and diminished respect to the wild-type protein. Experiments carried out on a P. aeruginosa mutS strain to test the proficiency of different oligomeric versions of MutS to function in vivo showed that MutSDelta798 is not functional and that full-length dimeric version MutSR842E, is not capable of completely restoring the MMR activity of the mutant strain. Additional experiments carried out in conditions of high mutation rate induced by the base analogue 2-AP confirm that the dimeric version of MutS is not as efficient as the tetrameric wild-type protein to prevent mutations. Therefore, it is concluded that although dimeric MutS is sufficient for MMR activity, optimal activity is obtained with the tetrameric version of the protein and therefore it should be considered as the active form of MutS in P. aeruginosa.
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- Virginia Miguel
- Centro de Investigaciones en Química Biológica de Córdoba (CIQUIBIC), CONICET, Departamento de Química Biológica, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Ciudad Universitaria, 5000 Córdoba, Argentina
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Working through a diagnostic challenge: colonic polyposis, Amsterdam criteria, and a mismatch repair mutation. Fam Cancer 2008; 7:281-5. [PMID: 18176851 DOI: 10.1007/s10689-007-9179-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2007] [Accepted: 12/21/2007] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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The two most common causes of hereditary colorectal cancer are Lynch syndrome and familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP). The phenotype of Lynch syndrome, also known as hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC), is differentiated in part from FAP by the lack of profuse colonic polyposis. Here we describe a proband who presented with greater than 50 adenomatous colonic polyps prior to developing cancer of the colon and urinary bladder, and a family history that fulfills the Amsterdam criteria. Germline analyses of APC and MYH in the proband did not reveal any mutations. Comprehensive analysis of the mismatch repair genes associated with Lynch syndrome revealed a germline hMSH6 missense mutation 2314C>T (arg772trp) and normal sequencing for hMSH2 and hMLH1. We outline evidence supporting the pathogenicity of the identified hMSH6 mutation (arg772trp) and suggest possible etiologies for the unexplained colonic adenomatous polyposis.
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Gammie AE, Erdeniz N, Beaver J, Devlin B, Nanji A, Rose MD. Functional characterization of pathogenic human MSH2 missense mutations in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics 2007; 177:707-21. [PMID: 17720936 PMCID: PMC2034637 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.107.071084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) is associated with defects in DNA mismatch repair. Mutations in either hMSH2 or hMLH1 underlie the majority of HNPCC cases. Approximately 25% of annotated hMSH2 disease alleles are missense mutations, resulting in a single change out of 934 amino acids. We engineered 54 missense mutations in the cognate positions in yeast MSH2 and tested for function. Of the human alleles, 55% conferred strong defects, 8% displayed intermediate defects, and 38% showed no defects in mismatch repair assays. Fifty percent of the defective alleles resulted in decreased steady-state levels of the variant Msh2 protein, and 49% of the Msh2 variants lost crucial protein-protein interactions. Finally, nine positions are predicted to influence the mismatch recognition complex ATPase activity. In summary, the missense mutations leading to loss of mismatch repair defined important structure-function relationships and the molecular analysis revealed the nature of the deficiency for Msh2 variants expressed in the tumors. Of medical relevance are 15 human alleles annotated as pathogenic in public databases that conferred no obvious defects in mismatch repair assays. This analysis underscores the importance of functional characterization of missense alleles to ensure that they are the causative factor for disease.
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- Alison E Gammie
- Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544-1014, USA.
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Holmes SF, Scarpinato KD, McCulloch SD, Schaaper RM, Kunkel TA. Specialized mismatch repair function of Glu339 in the Phe-X-Glu motif of yeast Msh6. DNA Repair (Amst) 2006; 6:293-303. [PMID: 17141577 PMCID: PMC1839834 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2006.10.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2006] [Revised: 10/20/2006] [Accepted: 10/21/2006] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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The major eukaryotic mismatch repair (MMR) pathway requires Msh2-Msh6, which, like Escherichia coli MutS, binds to and participates in repair of the two most common replication errors, single base-base and single base insertion-deletion mismatches. For both types of mismatches, the side chain of E. coli Glu38 in a conserved Phe-X-Glu motif interacts with a mismatched base. The Ovarepsilon of Glu38 forms a hydrogen bond with either the N7 of purines or the N3 of pyrimidines. We show here that changing E. coli Glu38 to alanine results in nearly complete loss of repair of both single base-base and single base deletion mismatches. In contrast, a yeast strain with alanine replacing homologous Glu339 in Msh6 has nearly normal repair for insertion-deletion and most base-base mismatches, but is defective in repairing base-base mismatches characteristic of oxidative stress, e.g. 8-oxo-G.A mismatches. The results suggest that bacterial MutS and yeast Msh2-Msh6 differ in how they recognize and/or process replication errors involving undamaged bases, and that Glu339 in Msh6 may have a specialized role in repairing mismatches containing oxidized bases.
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- Shannon F. Holmes
- Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
- Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
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- Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
- Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
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- Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
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- Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
- Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
- Corresponding author: Phone: 919-541-2644, Fax: 919-541-7613
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Yang H, To KH, Aguila SJ, Miller JH. Metagenomic DNA fragments that affect Escherichia coli mutational pathways. Mol Microbiol 2006; 61:960-77. [PMID: 16879649 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05268.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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A multicopy cloning approach was used to search for metagenomic DNA fragments that affect Escherichia coli mutational pathways. Soil metagenomic expression libraries were constructed with DNA samples prepared directly from soil samples collected from the UCLA Botanical Garden. Using frameshift mutator screening, we obtained a total of 26 unique metagenomic fragments that stimulate frameshift rates in an E. coli wild-type host. Mutational enhancer strains such as an ndk-deficient strain and a temperature sensitive mutS strain (mutS60) were used to further verify the mutator phenotype. We found that the presence of multiple copies of certain types of metagenomic DNA sequence repeats cause general genome instability in the wild-type E. coli host and the effect can be suppressed by overproducing a DNA mismatch component MutL. In addition, we identified nine metagenomic mutator genes (designated as smu genes) that encode proteins that have not been linked to mutator phenotypes prior to this study including a putative RNA methyltransferase Smu10A. The strain overproducing Smu10A displays one prominent base substitution hotspot in the rpoB gene, which coincides with the base substitution hotspot we have observed in cells that are partially deficient in the proofreading function carried out by the DNA polymerase III epsilon subunit. Based on the structural conservation of DNA replication/recombination/repair machineries among microorganisms, this approach would allow us to both identify new mutational pathways in E. coli and to find genes involved in DNA replication, recombination or DNA repair from vast unculturable microbes.
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- Hanjing Yang
- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, and the Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Ravi R Iyer
- Department of Biochemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
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Lebbink JHG, Georgijevic D, Natrajan G, Fish A, Winterwerp HHK, Sixma TK, de Wind N. Dual role of MutS glutamate 38 in DNA mismatch discrimination and in the authorization of repair. EMBO J 2006; 25:409-19. [PMID: 16407973 PMCID: PMC1383519 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7600936] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2005] [Accepted: 12/05/2005] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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MutS plays a critical role in DNA mismatch repair in Escherichia coli by binding to mismatches and initiating repair in an ATP-dependent manner. Mutational analysis of a highly conserved glutamate, Glu38, has revealed its role in mismatch recognition by enabling MutS to discriminate between homoduplex and mismatched DNA. Crystal structures of MutS have shown that Glu38 forms a hydrogen bond to one of the mismatched bases. In this study, we have analyzed the crystal structures, DNA binding and the response to ATP binding of three Glu38 mutants. While confirming the role of the negative charge in initial discrimination, we show that in vivo mismatch repair can proceed even when discrimination is low. We demonstrate that the formation of a hydrogen bond by residue 38 to the mismatched base authorizes repair by inducing intramolecular signaling, which results in the inhibition of rapid hydrolysis of distally bound ATP. This allows formation of the stable MutS-ATP-DNA clamp, a key intermediate in triggering downstream repair events.
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- Joyce H G Lebbink
- Division of Molecular Carcinogenesis, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Toxicogenetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Division of Molecular Carcinogenesis, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Division of Molecular Carcinogenesis, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Division of Molecular Carcinogenesis, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Division of Molecular Carcinogenesis, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Toxicogenetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Joseph N, Duppatla V, Rao DN. Prokaryotic DNA Mismatch Repair. PROGRESS IN NUCLEIC ACID RESEARCH AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2006; 81:1-49. [PMID: 16891168 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6603(06)81001-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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- Nimesh Joseph
- Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
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Calmann MA, Marinus M. Differential effects of cisplatin and MNNG on dna mutants of Escherichia coli. Mutat Res 2005; 578:406-16. [PMID: 16144703 PMCID: PMC2927670 DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2005.06.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2005] [Revised: 06/09/2005] [Accepted: 06/09/2005] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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DNA mismatch repair (MMR) in mammalian cells or Escherichia coli dam mutants increases the cytotoxic effects of cisplatin and N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (MNNG). We found that, unlike wildtype, the dnaE486 (alpha catalytic subunit of DNA polymerase III holoenzyme) mutant, and a DnaX (clamp loader subunits) over-producer, are sensitive to cisplatin but resistant to MNNG at the permissive temperature for growth. Survival of dam-13 dnaN159 (beta sliding clamp) bacteria to cisplatin was significantly less than dam cells, suggesting decreased MMR, which may be due to reduced MutS-beta clamp interaction. We also found an elevated spontaneous mutant frequency to rifampicin resistance in dnaE486 (10-fold), dnaN159 (35-fold) and dnaX36 (10-fold) strains. The mutation spectrum in the dnaN159 strain was consistent with increased SOS induction and not indicative of MMR deficiency.
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- Corresponding author: Dr M.G. Marinus, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 364 Plantation Street, Worcester MA 01605, Tel 508 856 3330, Fax 508 856 2003,
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Gruver AM, Miller KA, Rajesh C, Smiraldo PG, Kaliyaperumal S, Balder R, Stiles KM, Albala JS, Pittman DL. The ATPase motif in RAD51D is required for resistance to DNA interstrand crosslinking agents and interaction with RAD51C. Mutagenesis 2005; 20:433-40. [PMID: 16236763 DOI: 10.1093/mutage/gei059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Homologous recombination (HR) is a mechanism for repairing DNA interstrand crosslinks and double-strand breaks. In mammals, HR requires the activities of the RAD51 family (RAD51, RAD51B, RAD51C, RAD51D, XRCC2, XRCC3 and DMC1), each of which contains conserved ATP binding sequences (Walker Motifs A and B). RAD51D is a DNA-stimulated ATPase that interacts directly with RAD51C and XRCC2. To test the hypothesis that ATP binding and hydrolysis by RAD51D are required for the repair of interstrand crosslinks, site-directed mutations in Walker Motif A were generated, and complementation studies were performed in Rad51d-deficient mouse embryonic fibroblasts. The K113R and K113A mutants demonstrated a respective 96 and 83% decrease in repair capacity relative to wild-type. Further examination of these mutants, by yeast two-hybrid analyses, revealed an 8-fold reduction in the ability to associate with RAD51C whereas interaction with XRCC2 was retained at a level similar to the S111T control. These cell-based studies are the first evidence that ATP binding and hydrolysis by RAD51D are required for efficient HR repair of DNA interstrand crosslinks.
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- Aaron M Gruver
- Department of Physiology and Cardiovascular Genomics, Medical University of Ohio, Toledo, OH 43614-5804, USA
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Antony E, Khubchandani S, Chen S, Hingorani MM. Contribution of Msh2 and Msh6 subunits to the asymmetric ATPase and DNA mismatch binding activities of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Msh2-Msh6 mismatch repair protein. DNA Repair (Amst) 2005; 5:153-62. [PMID: 16214425 PMCID: PMC4674293 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2005.08.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2005] [Revised: 08/22/2005] [Accepted: 08/25/2005] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Previous analyses of both Thermus aquaticus MutS homodimer and Saccharomyces cerevisiae Msh2-Msh6 heterodimer have revealed that the subunits in these protein complexes bind and hydrolyze ATP asymmetrically, emulating their asymmetric DNA binding properties. In the MutS homodimer, one subunit (S1) binds ATP with high affinity and hydrolyzes it rapidly, while the other subunit (S2) binds ATP with lower affinity and hydrolyzes it at an apparently slower rate. Interaction of MutS with mismatched DNA results in suppression of ATP hydrolysis at S1-but which of these subunits, S1 or S2, makes specific contact with the mismatch (e.g., base stacking by a conserved phenylalanine residue) remains unknown. In order to answer this question and to clarify the links between the DNA binding and ATPase activities of each subunit in the dimer, we made mutations in the ATPase sites of Msh2 and Msh6 and assessed their impact on the activity of the Msh2-Msh6 heterodimer (in Msh2-Msh6, only Msh6 makes base specific contact with the mismatch). The key findings are: (a) Msh6 hydrolyzes ATP rapidly, and thus resembles the S1 subunit of the MutS homodimer, (b) Msh2 hydrolyzes ATP at a slower rate, and thus resembles the S2 subunit of MutS, (c) though itself an apparently weak ATPase, Msh2 has a strong influence on the ATPase activity of Msh6, (d) Msh6 binding to mismatched DNA results in suppression of rapid ATP hydrolysis, revealing a "cis" linkage between its mismatch recognition and ATPase activities, (e) the resultant Msh2-Msh6 complex, with both subunits in the ATP-bound state, exhibits altered interactions with the mismatch.
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- Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 860 685 2284; fax: +1 860 685 2141. (M.M. Hingorani)
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Scherer SJ, Avdievich E, Edelmann W. Functional consequences of DNA mismatch repair missense mutations in murine models and their impact on cancer predisposition. Biochem Soc Trans 2005; 33:689-93. [PMID: 16042575 DOI: 10.1042/bst0330689] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Mutations in MMR (DNA mismatch repair) genes underlie HNPCC (hereditary non-polyposis colon cancer) and also a significant proportion of sporadic colorectal cancers. MMR maintains genome stability and suppresses tumour formation by correcting DNA replication errors and by mediating an apoptotic response to DNA damage. Analysis of mouse lines with MMR missense mutations demonstrates that these MMR functions can be separated and allows the assessment of their individual roles in tumour suppression. These studies in mice indicate that, although the increased mutation rates caused by MMR defects are sufficient to drive tumorigenesis, both functions co-operate in tumour suppression.
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- S J Scherer
- Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
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Chen Y, Beck A, Davenport C, Chen Y, Shattuck D, Tavtigian SV. Characterization of TRZ1, a yeast homolog of the human candidate prostate cancer susceptibility gene ELAC2 encoding tRNase Z. BMC Mol Biol 2005; 6:12. [PMID: 15892892 PMCID: PMC1156898 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2199-6-12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2004] [Accepted: 05/13/2005] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND In humans, mutation of ELAC2 is associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer. ELAC2 has been shown to have tRNase Z activity and is associated with the gamma-tubulin complex. RESULTS In this work, we show that the yeast homolog of ELAC2, encoded by TRZ1 (tRNase Z 1), is involved genetically in RNA processing. The temperature sensitivity of a trz1 mutant can be rescued by multiple copies of REX2, which encodes a protein with RNA 3' processing activity, suggesting a role of Trz1p in RNA processing in vivo. Trz1p has two putative nucleotide triphosphate-binding motifs (P-loop) and a conserved histidine motif. The histidine motif and the putative nucleotide binding motif at the C-domain are important for Trz1p function because mutant proteins bearing changes to the critical residues in these motifs are unable to rescue deletion of TRZ1. The growth defect exhibited by trz1 yeast is not complemented by the heterologous ELAC2, suggesting that Trz1p may have additional functions in yeast. CONCLUSION Our results provide genetic evidence that prostate cancer susceptibility gene ELAC2 may be involved in RNA processing, especially rRNA processing and mitochondrial function.
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- Yang Chen
- Myriad Genetics, Inc. 320 Wakara Way, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA
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- Myriad Genetics, Inc. 320 Wakara Way, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA
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- Myriad Genetics, Inc. 320 Wakara Way, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA
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- Myriad Genetics, Inc. 320 Wakara Way, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA
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- Myriad Genetics, Inc. 320 Wakara Way, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA
- International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, 150 Cours Albert-Thomas, 69372 Lyon Cedex 08, France
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Sia EA, Kirkpatrick DT. The yeast MSH1 gene is not involved in DNA repair or recombination during meiosis. DNA Repair (Amst) 2005; 4:253-61. [PMID: 15590333 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2004.10.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2004] [Revised: 09/24/2004] [Accepted: 10/02/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Six strong homologs of the bacterial MutS DNA mismatch repair (MMR) gene have been identified in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. With the exception of the MSH1 gene, the involvement of each homolog in DNA repair and recombination during meiosis has been determined previously. Five of the homologs have been demonstrated to act in meiotic DNA repair (MSH2, MSH3, MSH6 and MSH4) and/or meiotic recombination (MSH4 and MSH5). Unfortunately the loss of mitochondrial function that results from deletion of MSH1 disrupts meiotic progression, precluding an analysis of MSH1 function in meiotic DNA repair and recombination. However, the recent identification of two separation-of-function alleles of MSH1 that interfere with protein function but still maintain functional mitochondria allow the meiotic activities of MSH1 to be determined. We show that the G776D and F105A alleles of MSH1 exhibit no defects in meiotic recombination, repair base-base mismatches and large loop mismatches efficiently during meiosis, and have high levels of spore viability. These data indicate that the MSH1 protein, unlike other MutS homologs in yeast, plays no role in DNA repair or recombination during meiosis.
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- Elaine A Sia
- Department of Biology, University of Rochester, River Campus Box 270211, Rochester, New York 14627-0211, USA
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Watson ME, Burns JL, Smith AL. Hypermutable Haemophilus influenzae with mutations in mutS are found in cystic fibrosis sputum. MICROBIOLOGY-SGM 2005; 150:2947-2958. [PMID: 15347753 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27230-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Hypermutable bacterial pathogens exist at surprisingly high prevalence and benefit bacterial populations by promoting adaptation to selective environments, including resistance to antibiotics. Five hundred Haemophilus influenzae isolates were screened for an increased frequency of mutation to resistance to rifampicin, nalidixic acid and spectinomycin: of the 14 hypermutable isolates identified, 12 were isolated from cystic fibrosis (CF) sputum. Analysis by enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus (ERIC)-PCR and ribotyping identified eight distinct genetic fingerprints. The hypermutable phenotype of seven of the eight unique isolates was associated with polymorphisms in conserved sites of mutS. Four of the mutant mutS alleles were cloned and failed to complement the mutator phenotype of a mutS : : TSTE mutant of H. influenzae strain Rd KW20. Antibiotic susceptibility testing of the hypermutators identified one beta-lactamase-negative ampicillin-resistant (BLNAR) isolate with two isolates producing beta-lactamase. Six isolates from the same patient with CF, with the same genetic fingerprint, were clonal by multilocus sequence typing (MLST). In this clone, there was an evolution to higher MIC values for the antibiotics administered to the patient during the period in which the strains were isolated. Hypermutable H. influenzae with mutations in mutS are prevalent, particularly in the CF lung environment, and may be selected for and maintained by antibiotic pressure.
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MESH Headings
- Adenosine Triphosphatases/genetics
- Adenosine Triphosphatases/physiology
- Ampicillin Resistance
- Anti-Bacterial Agents/pharmacology
- Bacterial Proteins/genetics
- Bacterial Proteins/physiology
- Cloning, Molecular
- Cystic Fibrosis/microbiology
- DNA Fingerprinting
- DNA, Bacterial/analysis
- DNA, Bacterial/chemistry
- DNA, Bacterial/isolation & purification
- DNA, Intergenic
- DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics
- DNA-Binding Proteins/physiology
- Drug Resistance, Bacterial/genetics
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genetic Complementation Test
- Haemophilus influenzae/drug effects
- Haemophilus influenzae/genetics
- Haemophilus influenzae/isolation & purification
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
- MutS DNA Mismatch-Binding Protein
- Mutation
- Nalidixic Acid/pharmacology
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
- Ribotyping
- Rifampin/pharmacology
- Selection, Genetic
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Spectinomycin/pharmacology
- Sputum/microbiology
- beta-Lactamases/analysis
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- Michael E Watson
- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65212, USA
- Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, 307 Westlake Ave N, Suite 500, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, 4800 Sand Point Way, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
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- Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, 307 Westlake Ave N, Suite 500, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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Calmann MA, Nowosielska A, Marinus MG. Separation of mutation avoidance and antirecombination functions in an Escherichia coli mutS mutant. Nucleic Acids Res 2005; 33:1193-200. [PMID: 15731339 PMCID: PMC549567 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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DNA mismatch repair in Escherichia coli has been shown to be involved in two distinct processes: mutation avoidance, which removes potential mutations arising as replication errors, and antirecombination which prevents recombination between related, but not identical (homeologous), DNA sequences. We show that cells with the mutSΔ800 mutation (which removes the C-terminal 53 amino acids of MutS) on a multicopy plasmid are proficient for mutation avoidance. In interspecies genetic crosses, however, recipients with the mutSΔ800 mutation show increased recombination by up to 280-fold relative to mutS+. The MutSΔ800 protein binds to O6-methylguanine mismatches but not to intrastrand platinated GG cross-links, explaining why dam bacteria with the mutSΔ800 mutation are resistant to cisplatin, but not MNNG, toxicity. The results indicate that the C-terminal end of MutS is necessary for antirecombination and cisplatin sensitization, but less significant for mutation avoidance. The inability of MutSΔ800 to form tetramers may indicate that these are the active form of MutS.
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- To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +1 508 856 3330; Fax: +1 508 856 3036;
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Mookerjee SA, Lyon HD, Sia EA. Analysis of the functional domains of the mismatch repair homologue Msh1p and its role in mitochondrial genome maintenance. Curr Genet 2004; 47:84-99. [PMID: 15611870 DOI: 10.1007/s00294-004-0537-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2004] [Revised: 09/14/2004] [Accepted: 09/20/2004] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) repair occurs in all eukaryotic organisms and is essential for the maintenance of mitochondrial function. Evidence from both humans and yeast suggests that mismatch repair is one of the pathways that functions in overall mtDNA stability. In the mitochondria of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the presence of a homologue to the bacterial MutS mismatch repair protein, MSH1, has long been known to be essential for mitochondrial function. The mechanisms for which it is essential are unclear, however. Here, we analyze the effects of two point mutations, msh1-F105A and msh1-G776D, both predicted to be defective in mismatch repair; and we show that they are both able to maintain partial mitochondrial function. Moreover, there are significant differences in the severity of mitochondrial disruption between the two mutants that suggest multiple roles for Msh1p in addition to mismatch repair. Our overall findings suggest that these additional predicted functions of Msh1p, including recombination surveillance and heteroduplex rejection, may be primarily responsible for its essential role in mtDNA stability.
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- Shona A Mookerjee
- Department of Biology, University of Rochester, RC Box 270211, Rochester, NY 14627-0211, USA
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Joseph N, Sawarkar R, Rao DN. DNA mismatch correction in Haemophilus influenzae: characterization of MutL, MutH and their interaction. DNA Repair (Amst) 2004; 3:1561-77. [PMID: 15474418 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2004.06.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2004] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Haemophilus influenzae DNA mismatch repair proteins, MutS, MutL and MutH, are functionally characterized in this study. Introduction of mutS, mutL and mutH genes of H. influenzae resulted in complementation of the mismatch repair activity of the respective mutant strains of Escherichia coli to varying levels. DNA binding studies using H. influenzae MutH have shown that the protein is capable of binding to any DNA sequence non-specifically in a co-operative and metal independent manner. Presence of MutL and ATP in the binding reaction resulted in the formation of a more specific complex, which indicates that MutH is conferred specificity for binding hemi-methylated DNA through structural alterations mediated by its interaction with MutL. To study the role of conserved amino acids Ile213 and Leu214 in the helix at the C-terminus of MutH, they were mutated to alanine. The mutant proteins showed considerably reduced DNA binding and nicking, as well as MutL-mediated activation. MutH failed to nick HU bound DNA whereas MboI and Sau3AI, which have the same recognition sequence as MutH, efficiently cleaved the substrate. MutS ATPase activity was found to be reduced two-fold in presence of covalently closed circular duplex containing a mismatched base pair whereas, the activity was regained upon linearization of the circular duplex. This observation possibly suggests that the MutS clamps are trapped in the closed DNA heteroduplex. These studies, therefore, serve as the basis for a detailed investigation of the structure-function relationship among the protein partners of the mismatch repair pathway of H. influenzae.
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- Nimesh Joseph
- Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
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Lin DP, Wang Y, Scherer SJ, Clark AB, Yang K, Avdievich E, Jin B, Werling U, Parris T, Kurihara N, Umar A, Kucherlapati R, Lipkin M, Kunkel TA, Edelmann W. An Msh2 point mutation uncouples DNA mismatch repair and apoptosis. Cancer Res 2004; 64:517-22. [PMID: 14744764 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-03-2957] [Citation(s) in RCA: 144] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Mutations in the human DNA mismatch repair gene MSH2 are associated with hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer as well as a significant proportion of sporadic colorectal cancer. The inactivation of MSH2 results in the accumulation of somatic mutations in the genome of tumor cells and resistance to the genotoxic effects of a variety of chemotherapeutic agents. Here we show that the DNA repair and DNA damage-induced apoptosis functions of Msh2 can be uncoupled using mice that carry the G674A missense mutation in the conserved ATPase domain. As a consequence, although Msh2(G674A) homozygous mutant mice are highly tumor prone, the onset of tumorigenesis is delayed as compared with Msh2-null mice. In addition, tumors that carry the mutant allele remain responsive to treatment with a chemotherapeutic agent. Our results indicate that Msh2-mediated apoptosis is an important component of tumor suppression and that certain MSH2 missense mutations can cause mismatch repair deficiency while retaining the signaling functions that confer sensitivity to chemotherapeutic agents.
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- Diana P Lin
- Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA
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Selmane T, Schofield MJ, Nayak S, Du C, Hsieh P. Formation of a DNA mismatch repair complex mediated by ATP. J Mol Biol 2004; 334:949-65. [PMID: 14643659 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2003.10.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The mismatch repair proteins, MutS and MutL, interact in a DNA mismatch and ATP-dependent manner to activate downstream events in repair. Here, we assess the role of ATP binding and hydrolysis in mismatch recognition by MutS and the formation of a ternary complex involving MutS and MutL bound to a mismatched DNA. We show that ATP reduces the affinity of MutS for mismatched DNA and that the modulation of DNA binding affinity by nucleotide is even more pronounced for MutS E694A, a protein that binds ATP but is defective for ATP hydrolysis. Despite the ATP hydrolysis defect, E694A, like WT MutS, undergoes rapid, ATP-dependent dissociation from a DNA mismatch. Furthermore, MutS E694A retains the ability to interact with MutL on mismatched DNA. The recruitment of MutL to a mismatched DNA by MutS is also observed for two mutant MutL proteins, E29A, defective for ATP hydrolysis, and R266A, defective for DNA binding. These results suggest that ATP binding in the absence of hydrolysis is sufficient to trigger formation of a MutS sliding clamp. However, recruitment of MutL results in the formation of a dynamic ternary complex that we propose is the intermediate that signals subsequent repair steps requiring ATP hydrolysis.
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- Tassadite Selmane
- Genetics and Biochemistry Branch, National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-1810, USA
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Baitinger C, Burdett V, Modrich P. Hydrolytically Deficient MutS E694A Is Defective in the MutL-dependent Activation of MutH and in the Mismatch-dependent Assembly of the MutS · MutL · Heteroduplex Complex. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:49505-11. [PMID: 14506224 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m308738200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The roles of ATP binding and hydrolysis by MutS in mismatch repair are poorly understood. MutS E694A, in which Glu-694 of the Walker B motif is substituted with alanine, is defective in hydrolysis of bound ATP and has been reported to support MutL-dependent activation of the MutH d(GATC) endonuclease in a trans DNA activation assay (Junop, M. S., Obmolova, G., Rausch, K., Hsieh, P., and Yang, W. (2001) Mol. Cell 7, 1-12). Because the MutH trans activation assay used in these previous studies was characterized by high background and low efficiency, we have re-evaluated the activities of MutS E694A. In contrast to native MutS, which can be isolated in a nucleotide-free form, purified MutS E694A contains 1.0 mol of bound ATP per dimer equivalent, and substoichiometric levels of bound ADP (0.08-0.58 mol/dimer), consistent with the suggestion that the ADP.MutS.ATP complex comprises a significant fraction of the protein in solution (Bjornson, K. P. and Modrich, P. (2003) J. Biol. Chem. 278, 18557-18562). In the presence of Mg2+, endogenous ATP is hydrolyzed with a rate constant of 0.12 min-1 at 30 degrees C, and hydrolysis yields a protein that displays increased specificity for heteroduplex DNA. As observed with wild type MutS, ATP can promote release of MutS E694A from a mismatch. However, the mutant protein is defective in the methyl-directed, mismatch- and MutL-dependent cis activation of MutH endonuclease on a 6.4-kilobase pair heteroduplex, displaying only 1 to 2% of the activity of wild type MutS. The mutant protein also fails to support normal assembly of the MutS.MutL.DNA ternary complex. Although a putative ternary complex can be observed in the presence of MutS E694A, assembly of this structure displays little if any dependence on a mismatched base pair.
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- Celia Baitinger
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Biochemistry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
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Bjornson KP, Blackwell LJ, Sage H, Baitinger C, Allen D, Modrich P. Assembly and molecular activities of the MutS tetramer. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:34667-73. [PMID: 12829697 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m305513200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Analytical equilibrium ultracentrifugation indicates that Escherichia coli MutS exists as an equilibrating mixture of dimers and tetramers. The association constant for the dimer-to-tetramer transition is 2.1 x 10(7) M-1, indicating that the protein would consist of both dimers and tetramers at physiological concentrations. The carboxyl terminus of MutS is required for tetramer assembly because a previously described 53-amino acid carboxyl-terminal truncation (MutS800) forms a limiting species of a dimer (Obmolova, G., Ban, C., Hsieh, P., and Yang, W. (2000) Nature 407, 703-710; Lamers, M. H., Perrakis, A., Enzlin, J. H., Winterwerp, H. H., de Wind, N., and Sixma, T. K. (2000) Nature 407, 711-717). MutS800 binds a 20-base pair heteroduplex an order of magnitude more weakly than full-length MutS, and at saturating protein concentrations, the heteroduplex-bound mass observed with MutS800 is only half that observed with the full length protein, indicating that the subunit copy number of heteroduplex-bound MutS is twice that of MutS800. Analytical equilibrium ultracentrifugation using a fluorescein-tagged 20-base pair heteroduplex demonstrated that native MutS forms a tetramer on this single site-sized heteroduplex DNA. Equilibrium fluorescence experiments indicated that dimer-to-tetramer assembly promotes mismatch binding by MutS and that the tetramer can bind only a single heteroduplex molecule, implying nonequivalence of the two dimers within the tetramer. Compared with native MutS, the ability of MutS800 to promote MutL-dependent activation of MutH is substantially reduced.
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- Keith P Bjornson
- Department of Biochemistry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
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Bjornson KP, Modrich P. Differential and simultaneous adenosine di- and triphosphate binding by MutS. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:18557-62. [PMID: 12624105 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m301101200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The roles of ATP binding and hydrolysis in the function of MutS in mismatch repair are poorly understood. As one means of addressing this question, we have determined the affinities and number of adenosine di- and triphosphate binding sites within MutS. Nitrocellulose filter binding assay and equilibrium fluorescence anisotropy measurements have demonstrated that MutS has one high affinity binding site for ADP and one high affinity site for nonhydrolyzable ATP analogues per dimer equivalent. Low concentrations of 5'-adenylylimidodiphosphate (AMPPNP) promote ADP binding and a large excess of AMPPNP is required to displace ADP from the protein. Fluorescence energy transfer and filter binding assays indicate that ADP and nonhydrolyzable ATP analogues can bind simultaneously to adjacent subunits within the MutS oligomer with affinities in the low micromolar range. These findings suggest that the protein exists primarily as the ATP.MutS.ADP ternary complex in solution and that this may be the form of the protein that is involved in DNA encounters in vivo.
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- Keith P Bjornson
- Department of Biochemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
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Lamers MH, Winterwerp HH, Sixma TK. The alternating ATPase domains of MutS control DNA mismatch repair. EMBO J 2003; 22:746-56. [PMID: 12554674 PMCID: PMC140748 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdg064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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DNA mismatch repair is an essential safeguard of genomic integrity by removing base mispairings that may arise from DNA polymerase errors or from homologous recombination between DNA strands. In Escherichia coli, the MutS enzyme recognizes mismatches and initiates repair. MutS has an intrinsic ATPase activity crucial for its function, but which is poorly understood. We show here that within the MutS homodimer, the two chemically identical ATPase sites have different affinities for ADP, and the two sites alternate in ATP hydrolysis. A single residue, Arg697, located at the interface of the two ATPase domains, controls the asymmetry. When mutated, the asymmetry is lost and mismatch repair in vivo is impaired. We propose that asymmetry of the ATPase domains is an essential feature of mismatch repair that controls the timing of the different steps in the repair cascade.
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- Division of Molecular Carcinogenesis, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Plesmanlaan 121, 1066 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Matic I, Babic A, Radman M. 2-aminopurine allows interspecies recombination by a reversible inactivation of the Escherichia coli mismatch repair system. J Bacteriol 2003; 185:1459-61. [PMID: 12562818 PMCID: PMC142871 DOI: 10.1128/jb.185.4.1459-1461.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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2-Aminopurine treatment of Escherichia coli induces a reversible phenotype of DNA mismatch repair deficiency. This transient phenotype results in a 300-fold increase in the frequency of interspecies conjugational recombination with a Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium Hfr donor. This method can be used for the generation of biodiversity by allowing recombination between diverged genes and genomes.
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- Ivan Matic
- INSERM U571, Faculté de Médecine, Necker-Enfants Malades, Université René Descartes, 75730 Paris Cedex 15, France.
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Pezza RJ, Villarreal MA, Montich GG, Argaraña CE. Vanadate inhibits the ATPase activity and DNA binding capability of bacterial MutS. A structural model for the vanadate-MutS interaction at the Walker A motif. Nucleic Acids Res 2002; 30:4700-8. [PMID: 12409461 PMCID: PMC135828 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkf606] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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MutS, a member of the ABC ATPases superfamily, is a mismatch DNA-binding protein constituent of the DNA post-replicative mismatch repair system (MMRS). In this work, it is shown that the ATPase activity of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Escherichia coli MutS is inhibited by ortho- and decavanadate. Structural comparison of the region involved in the ATP binding of E.coli MutS with the corresponding region of other ABC ATPases inhibited by vanadate, including the myosin- orthovanadate-Mg complex, showed that they are highly similar. From these results it is proposed that the orthovanadate inhibition of MutS ATPase can take place by a similar mechanism to that described for other ATPases. Docking of decavanadate on the ATP-binding region of MutS showed that the energetically more favorable interaction of this compound would take place with the complex MutS- ADP-Mg, suggesting that the inhibitory effect could be produced by a steric impediment of the protein ATP/ADP exchange. Besides the effect observed on the ATPase activity, vanadate also affects the DNA-binding capability of the protein, and partially inhibits the oligomerization of MutS and the temperature-induced inactivation of the protein. From the results obtained, and considering that vanadate is an intracellular trace component, this compound could be considered as a new modulator of the MMRS.
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- Roberto J Pezza
- Centro de Investigaciones en Química Biológica de Córdoba, UNC-CONICET, Departamento de Química Biológica, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Ciudad Universitaria, Córdoba, Argentina
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Negishi K, Loakes D, Schaaper RM. Saturation of DNA mismatch repair and error catastrophe by a base analogue in Escherichia coli. Genetics 2002; 161:1363-71. [PMID: 12196386 PMCID: PMC1462219 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/161.4.1363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Deoxyribosyl-dihydropyrimido[4,5-c][1,2]oxazin-7-one (dP) is a potent mutagenic deoxycytidine-derived base analogue capable of pairing with both A and G, thereby causing G. C --> A. T and A. T --> G. C transition mutations. We have found that the Escherichia coli DNA mismatch-repair system can protect cells against this mutagenic action. At a low dose, dP is much more mutagenic in mismatch-repair-defective mutH, mutL, and mutS strains than in a wild-type strain. At higher doses, the difference between the wild-type and the mutator strains becomes small, indicative of saturation of mismatch repair. Introduction of a plasmid containing the E. coli mutL(+) gene significantly reduces dP-induced mutagenesis. Together, the results indicate that the mismatch-repair system can remove dP-induced replication errors, but that its capacity to remove dP-containing mismatches can readily be saturated. When cells are cultured at high dP concentration, mutant frequencies reach exceptionally high levels and viable cell counts are reduced. The observations are consistent with a hypothesis in which dP-induced cell killing and growth impairment result from excess mutations (error catastrophe), as previously observed spontaneously in proofreading-deficient mutD (dnaQ) strains.
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- Kazuo Negishi
- Gene Research Center, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
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