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Wu Z, Wang L, Wang X, Sun Y, Li H, Zhang Z, Ren C, Zhang X, Li S, Lu J, Xu L, Yue X, Hong Y, Li Q, Zhu H, Gong Y, Gao C, Hu H, Gao L, Liang X, Ma C. cccDNA Surrogate MC-HBV-Based Screen Identifies Cohesin Complex as a Novel HBV Restriction Factor. Cell Mol Gastroenterol Hepatol 2022; 14:1177-1198. [PMID: 35987451 PMCID: PMC9579331 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmgh.2022.08.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2022] [Revised: 08/10/2022] [Accepted: 08/10/2022] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND & AIMS Covalently closed circular DNA (cccDNA) of hepatitis B virus (HBV), existing as a stable minichromosome in the hepatocyte, is responsible for persistent HBV infection. Maintenance and sustained replication of cccDNA require its interaction with both viral and host proteins. However, the cccDNA-interacting host factors that limit HBV replication remain elusive. METHODS Minicircle HBV (MC-HBV), a recombinant cccDNA, was constructed based on chimeric intron and minicircle DNA technology. By mass spectrometry based on pull-down with biotinylated MC-HBV, the cccDNA-hepatocyte interaction profile was mapped. HBV replication was assessed in different cell models that support cccDNA formation. RESULTS MC-HBV supports persistent HBV replication and mimics the cccDNA minichromosome. The MC-HBV-based screen identified cohesin complex as a cccDNA binding host factor, leading to reduced HBV replication. Mechanistically, with the help of CCCTC-binding factor (CTCF), which has specific binding sites on cccDNA, cohesin loads on cccDNA and reshapes cccDNA confirmation to prevent RNA polymerase II enrichment. Interestingly, HBV X protein transcriptionally reduces structural maintenance of chromosomes complex expression to partially relieve the inhibitory role of the cohesin complex on HBV replication. CONCLUSIONS Our data not only provide a feasible approach to explore cccDNA-binding factors, but also identify cohesin/CTCF complex as a critical host restriction factor for cccDNA-driven HBV replication. These findings provide a novel insight into cccDNA-host interaction and targeted therapeutic intervention for HBV infection.
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- Zhuanchang Wu
- Key Laboratory for Experimental Teratology of Ministry of Education and Dept. Immunology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Cheeloo Medical College, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China
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- Key Laboratory for Experimental Teratology of Ministry of Education and Dept. Immunology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Cheeloo Medical College, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China
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- College of Agriculture and Forestry, Linyi University, Linyi, Shandong, China
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- Key Laboratory for Experimental Teratology of Ministry of Education and Dept. Immunology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Cheeloo Medical College, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China
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- College of Agriculture and Forestry, Linyi University, Linyi, Shandong, China
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- Key Laboratory for Experimental Teratology of Ministry of Education and Dept. Immunology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Cheeloo Medical College, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China
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- Key Laboratory for Experimental Teratology of Ministry of Education and Dept. Immunology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Cheeloo Medical College, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China
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- Key Laboratory for Experimental Teratology of Ministry of Education and Dept. Genetics, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Cheeloo Medical College, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China
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- Key Laboratory for Experimental Teratology of Ministry of Education and Dept. Immunology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Cheeloo Medical College, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China
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- Qilu Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China
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- Qilu Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China
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- Key Laboratory for Experimental Teratology of Ministry of Education and Dept. Immunology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Cheeloo Medical College, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China
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- Institute of Pathogen Biology and Immunology, College of Biology, State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Key Laboratory for Experimental Teratology of Ministry of Education and Dept. Genetics, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Cheeloo Medical College, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China
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- Key Laboratory for Experimental Teratology of Ministry of Education and Dept. Immunology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Cheeloo Medical College, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China
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- Key Laboratory for Experimental Teratology of Ministry of Education and Dept. Genetics, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Cheeloo Medical College, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China
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- Key Laboratory for Experimental Teratology of Ministry of Education and Dept. Immunology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Cheeloo Medical College, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China
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- Key Laboratory for Experimental Teratology of Ministry of Education and Dept. Immunology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Cheeloo Medical College, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China
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- Key Laboratory for Experimental Teratology of Ministry of Education and Dept. Immunology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Cheeloo Medical College, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China,Correspondence Address correspondence to: Chunhong Ma, PhD, Key Laboratory for Experimental Teratology of Ministry of Education and Department of Immunology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Cheeloo Medical College, Shandong University, 44 Wenhua Xi Road, Jinan, Shandong, 250012 China.
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Zhang D, Hugo W, Bergsneider M, Wang MB, Kim W, Vinters HV, Heaney AP. Single-cell RNA sequencing in silent corticotroph tumors confirms impaired POMC processing and provides new insights into their invasive behavior. Eur J Endocrinol 2022; 187:49-64. [PMID: 35521707 PMCID: PMC9248914 DOI: 10.1530/eje-21-1183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2021] [Accepted: 04/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Objective Provide insights into the defective POMC processing and invasive behavior in silent pituitary corticotroph tumors. Design and methods Single-cell RNAseq was used to compare the cellular makeup and transcriptome of silent and active corticotroph tumors. Results A series of transcripts related to hormone processing peptidases and genes involved in the structural organization of secretory vesicles were reduced in silent compared to active corticotroph tumors. Most relevant to their invasive behavior, silent corticotroph tumors exhibited several features of epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition, with increased expression of mesenchymal genes along with the loss of transcripts that regulate hormonal biogenesis and secretion. Silent corticotroph tumor vascular smooth muscle cell and pericyte stromal cell populations also exhibited plasticity in their mesenchymal features. Conclusions Our findings provide novel insights into the mechanisms of impaired POMC processing and invasion in silent corticotroph tumors and suggest that a common transcriptional reprogramming mechanism simultaneously impairs POMC processing and activates tumor invasion.
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- Dongyun Zhang
- Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles
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- Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles
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- Department of Neurosurgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles
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- Department of Head and Neck Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles
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- Department of Neurosurgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles
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- Department of Pathology and Lab Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles
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- Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles
- Department of Neurosurgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles
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Zou W, Li G, Jian L, Qian J, Liu Y, Zhao J. Arabidopsis SMC6A and SMC6B have redundant function in seed and gametophyte development. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2021; 72:4871-4887. [PMID: 33909904 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erab181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2020] [Accepted: 04/25/2021] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Reproductive development is a crucial process during plant growth. The structural maintenance of chromosome (SMC) 5/6 complex has been studied in various species. However, there are few studies on the biological function of SMC6 in plant development, especially during reproduction. In this study, knocking out of both AtSMC6A and AtSMC6B led to severe defects in Arabidopsis seed development, and expression of AtSMC6A or AtSMC6B could completely restore seed abortion in the smc6a-/-smc6b-/-double mutant. Knocking down AtSMC6A in the smc6b-/- mutant led to defects in female and male development and decreased fertility. The double mutation also resulted in loss of cell viability, and caused embryo and endosperm cell death through vacuolar cell death and necrosis. Furthermore, the expression of genes involved in embryo patterning, endosperm cellularisation, DNA damage repair, cell cycle regulation, and DNA replication were significantly changed in the albino seeds of the double mutant. Moreover, we found that the SMC5/6 complex may participate in the SOG1 (SUPPRESSOR OF GAMMA RESPONSE1)-dependent DNA damage repair pathway. These findings suggest that both AtSMC6A and AtSMC6B are functionally redundant and play important roles in seed and gametophyte development through maintaining chromosome stability in Arabidopsis.
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- Wenxuan Zou
- State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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Etheridge TJ, Villahermosa D, Campillo-Funollet E, Herbert AD, Irmisch A, Watson AT, Dang HQ, Osborne MA, Oliver AW, Carr AM, Murray JM. Live-cell single-molecule tracking highlights requirements for stable Smc5/6 chromatin association in vivo. eLife 2021; 10:e68579. [PMID: 33860765 PMCID: PMC8075580 DOI: 10.7554/elife.68579] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2021] [Accepted: 04/15/2021] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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The essential Smc5/6 complex is required in response to replication stress and is best known for ensuring the fidelity of homologous recombination. Using single-molecule tracking in live fission yeast to investigate Smc5/6 chromatin association, we show that Smc5/6 is chromatin associated in unchallenged cells and this depends on the non-SMC protein Nse6. We define a minimum of two Nse6-dependent sub-pathways, one of which requires the BRCT-domain protein Brc1. Using defined mutants in genes encoding the core Smc5/6 complex subunits, we show that the Nse3 double-stranded DNA binding activity and the arginine fingers of the two Smc5/6 ATPase binding sites are critical for chromatin association. Interestingly, disrupting the single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) binding activity at the hinge region does not prevent chromatin association but leads to elevated levels of gross chromosomal rearrangements during replication restart. This is consistent with a downstream function for ssDNA binding in regulating homologous recombination.
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- Thomas J Etheridge
- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, School of Life Sciences, University of SussexFalmerUnited Kingdom
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- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, School of Life Sciences, University of SussexFalmerUnited Kingdom
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- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, School of Life Sciences, University of SussexFalmerUnited Kingdom
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- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, School of Life Sciences, University of SussexFalmerUnited Kingdom
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- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, School of Life Sciences, University of SussexFalmerUnited Kingdom
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- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, School of Life Sciences, University of SussexFalmerUnited Kingdom
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- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, School of Life Sciences, University of SussexFalmerUnited Kingdom
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- Chemistry Department, School of Life Sciences, University of SussexFalmerUnited Kingdom
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- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, School of Life Sciences, University of SussexFalmerUnited Kingdom
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- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, School of Life Sciences, University of SussexFalmerUnited Kingdom
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- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, School of Life Sciences, University of SussexFalmerUnited Kingdom
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Rossi F, Helbling‐Leclerc A, Kawasumi R, Jegadesan NK, Xu X, Devulder P, Abe T, Takata M, Xu D, Rosselli F, Branzei D. SMC5/6 acts jointly with Fanconi anemia factors to support DNA repair and genome stability. EMBO Rep 2020; 21:e48222. [PMID: 31867888 PMCID: PMC7001510 DOI: 10.15252/embr.201948222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2019] [Revised: 11/19/2019] [Accepted: 11/21/2019] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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SMC5/6 function in genome integrity remains elusive. Here, we show that SMC5 dysfunction in avian DT40 B cells causes mitotic delay and hypersensitivity toward DNA intra- and inter-strand crosslinkers (ICLs), with smc5 mutants being epistatic to FANCC and FANCM mutations affecting the Fanconi anemia (FA) pathway. Mutations in the checkpoint clamp loader RAD17 and the DNA helicase DDX11, acting in an FA-like pathway, do not aggravate the damage sensitivity caused by SMC5 dysfunction in DT40 cells. SMC5/6 knockdown in HeLa cells causes MMC sensitivity, increases nuclear bridges, micronuclei, and mitotic catastrophes in a manner similar and non-additive to FANCD2 knockdown. In both DT40 and HeLa systems, SMC5/6 deficiency does not affect FANCD2 ubiquitylation and, unlike FANCD2 depletion, RAD51 focus formation. SMC5/6 components further physically interact with FANCD2-I in human cells. Altogether, our data suggest that SMC5/6 functions jointly with the FA pathway to support genome integrity and DNA repair and may be implicated in FA or FA-related human disorders.
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- UMR8200 CNRSEquipe Labellisée La Ligue Contre le CancerUniversité Paris SudGustave RoussyVillejuif CedexFrance
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- School of Life SciencesPeking UniversityBeijingChina
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- UMR8200 CNRSEquipe Labellisée La Ligue Contre le CancerUniversité Paris SudGustave RoussyVillejuif CedexFrance
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- The FIRC Institute of Molecular OncologyIFOMMilanItaly
- Present address:
Department of ChemistryGraduate School of ScienceTokyo Metropolitan UniversityHachioji‐shiTokyoJapan
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- Laboratory of DNA Damage SignalingRadiation Biology CenterGraduate School of BiostudiesKyoto UniversityKyotoJapan
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- School of Life SciencesPeking UniversityBeijingChina
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- UMR8200 CNRSEquipe Labellisée La Ligue Contre le CancerUniversité Paris SudGustave RoussyVillejuif CedexFrance
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- The FIRC Institute of Molecular OncologyIFOMMilanItaly
- Istituto di Genetica MolecolareConsiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IGM‐CNR)PaviaItaly
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Smc5 and Smc6, together with the kleisin Nse4, form the heart of the enigmatic and poorly understood Smc5/6 complex, which is frequently viewed as a cousin of cohesin and condensin with functions in DNA repair. As novel functions for cohesin and condensin complexes in the organization of long-range chromatin architecture have recently emerged, new unsuspected roles for Smc5/6 have also surfaced. Here, I aim to provide a comprehensive overview of our current knowledge of the Smc5/6 complex, including its long-established function in genome stability, its multiple roles in DNA repair, and its recently discovered connection to the transcription inhibition of hepatitis B virus genomes. In addition, I summarize new research that is beginning to tease out the molecular details of Smc5/6 structure and function, knowledge that will illuminate the nuclear activities of Smc5/6 in the stability and dynamics of eukaryotic genomes.
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- Luis Aragón
- Cell Cycle Group, MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Hammersmith Hospital Campus, London W12 0NN, United Kingdom;
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Deiss K, Lockwood N, Howell M, Segeren HA, Saunders RE, Chakravarty P, Soliman TN, Martini S, Rocha N, Semple R, Zalmas LP, Parker PJ. A genome-wide RNAi screen identifies the SMC5/6 complex as a non-redundant regulator of a Topo2a-dependent G2 arrest. Nucleic Acids Res 2019; 47:2906-2921. [PMID: 30590722 PMCID: PMC6451093 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gky1295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2018] [Revised: 12/12/2018] [Accepted: 12/17/2018] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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The Topo2a-dependent arrest is associated with faithful segregation of sister chromatids and has been identified as dysfunctional in numerous tumour cell lines. This genome-protecting pathway is poorly understood and its characterization is of significant interest, potentially offering interventional opportunities in relation to synthetic lethal behaviours in arrest-defective tumours. Using the catalytic Topo2a inhibitor ICRF193, we have performed a genome-wide siRNA screen in arrest-competent, non-transformed cells, to identify genes essential for this arrest mechanism. In addition, we have counter-screened several DNA-damaging agents and demonstrate that the Topo2a-dependent arrest is genetically distinct from DNA damage checkpoints. We identify the components of the SMC5/6 complex, including the activity of the E3 SUMO ligase NSE2, as non-redundant players that control the timing of the Topo2a-dependent arrest in G2. We have independently verified the NSE2 requirement in fibroblasts from patients with germline mutations that cause severely reduced levels of NSE2. Through imaging Topo2a-dependent G2 arrested cells, an increased interaction between Topo2a and NSE2 is observed at PML bodies, which are known SUMOylation hotspots. We demonstrate that Topo2a is SUMOylated in an ICRF193-dependent manner by NSE2 at a novel non-canonical site (K1520) and that K1520 sumoylation is required for chromosome segregation but not the G2 arrest.
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- Katharina Deiss
- Protein Phosphorylation Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, 1 Midland Road, London NW1 1AT, UK
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- Protein Phosphorylation Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, 1 Midland Road, London NW1 1AT, UK
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- High Throughput Screening, The Francis Crick Institute, 1 Midland Road, London NW1 1AT, UK
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- Protein Phosphorylation Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, 1 Midland Road, London NW1 1AT, UK
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- High Throughput Screening, The Francis Crick Institute, 1 Midland Road, London NW1 1AT, UK
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- Bioinformatics, The Francis Crick Institute, 1 Midland Road, London NW1 1AT, UK
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- Protein Phosphorylation Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, 1 Midland Road, London NW1 1AT, UK
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- Protein Phosphorylation Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, 1 Midland Road, London NW1 1AT, UK
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- The University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories, Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- The National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Protein Phosphorylation Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, 1 Midland Road, London NW1 1AT, UK
- School of Cancer and Pharmaceutical Sciences King's College London, New Hunt's House, Guy's Campus, London SE1 1UL, UK
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Brc1 Promotes the Focal Accumulation and SUMO Ligase Activity of Smc5-Smc6 during Replication Stress. Mol Cell Biol 2019; 39:MCB.00271-18. [PMID: 30348841 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.00271-18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2018] [Accepted: 10/12/2018] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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As genetic instability drives disease or loss of cell fitness, cellular safeguards have evolved to protect the genome, especially during sensitive cell cycle phases, such as DNA replication. Fission yeast Brc1 has emerged as a key factor in promoting cell survival when replication forks are stalled or collapsed. Brc1 is a multi-BRCT protein that is structurally related to the budding yeast Rtt107 and human PTIP DNA damage response factors, but functional similarities appear limited. Brc1 is a dosage suppressor of a mutation in the essential Smc5-Smc6 genome stability complex and is thought to act in a bypass pathway. In this study, we reveal an unexpectedly intimate connection between Brc1 and Smc5-Smc6 function. Brc1 is required for the accumulation of the Smc5-Smc6 genome stability complex in foci during replication stress and for activation of the intrinsic SUMO ligase activity of the complex by collapsed replication forks. Moreover, we show that the chromatin association and SUMO ligase activity of Smc5-Smc6 require the Nse5-Nse6 heterodimer, explaining how this nonessential cofactor critically supports the DNA repair roles of Smc5-Smc6. We also found that Brc1 interacts with Nse5-Nse6, as well as gamma-H2A, so it can tether Smc5-Smc6 at replicative DNA lesions to promote survival.
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Palecek JJ. SMC5/6: Multifunctional Player in Replication. Genes (Basel) 2018; 10:genes10010007. [PMID: 30583551 PMCID: PMC6356406 DOI: 10.3390/genes10010007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2018] [Revised: 12/18/2018] [Accepted: 12/19/2018] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The genome replication process is challenged at many levels. Replication must proceed through different problematic sites and obstacles, some of which can pause or even reverse the replication fork (RF). In addition, replication of DNA within chromosomes must deal with their topological constraints and spatial organization. One of the most important factors organizing DNA into higher-order structures are Structural Maintenance of Chromosome (SMC) complexes. In prokaryotes, SMC complexes ensure proper chromosomal partitioning during replication. In eukaryotes, cohesin and SMC5/6 complexes assist in replication. Interestingly, the SMC5/6 complexes seem to be involved in replication in many ways. They stabilize stalled RFs, restrain RF regression, participate in the restart of collapsed RFs, and buffer topological constraints during RF progression. In this (mini) review, I present an overview of these replication-related functions of SMC5/6.
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- Jan J Palecek
- National Centre for Biomolecular Research, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlarska 2, 61137 Brno, Czech Republic.
- Mendel Centre for Plant Genomics and Proteomics, Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 62500 Brno, Czech Republic.
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Diaz M, Pecinka A. Scaffolding for Repair: Understanding Molecular Functions of the SMC5/6 Complex. Genes (Basel) 2018; 9:genes9010036. [PMID: 29329249 PMCID: PMC5793187 DOI: 10.3390/genes9010036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2017] [Revised: 01/03/2018] [Accepted: 01/04/2018] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Chromosome organization, dynamics and stability are required for successful passage through cellular generations and transmission of genetic information to offspring. The key components involved are Structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) complexes. Cohesin complex ensures proper chromatid alignment, condensin complex chromosome condensation and the SMC5/6 complex is specialized in the maintenance of genome stability. Here we summarize recent knowledge on the composition and molecular functions of SMC5/6 complex. SMC5/6 complex was originally identified based on the sensitivity of its mutants to genotoxic stress but there is increasing number of studies demonstrating its roles in the control of DNA replication, sister chromatid resolution and genomic location-dependent promotion or suppression of homologous recombination. Some of these functions appear to be due to a very dynamic interaction with cohesin or other repair complexes. Studies in Arabidopsis indicate that, besides its canonical function in repair of damaged DNA, the SMC5/6 complex plays important roles in regulating plant development, abiotic stress responses, suppression of autoimmune responses and sexual reproduction.
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- Mariana Diaz
- Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IEB), Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Šlechtitelů 31, 77900 Olomouc-Holice, Czech Republic.
- Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research (MPIPZ), Carl-von-Linné-Weg 10, 50829 Cologne, Germany.
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- Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IEB), Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Šlechtitelů 31, 77900 Olomouc-Holice, Czech Republic.
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Lin SJ, O'Connell MJ. DNA Topoisomerase II modulates acetyl-regulation of cohesin-mediated chromosome dynamics. Curr Genet 2017; 63:923-930. [PMID: 28382430 PMCID: PMC5628089 DOI: 10.1007/s00294-017-0691-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2016] [Revised: 03/29/2017] [Accepted: 03/30/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Cohesin is one of three multi-protein structural maintenance of chromosome (SMC) complexes that regulate eukaryotic chromosome dynamics. It forms a ring-shaped structure that embraces sister chromatids through interphase to promote their pairing. In preparation for mitosis, most cohesin is stripped from the chromosome arms in prophase by a poorly defined process that is associated with cohesin phosphorylation. In the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe this prophase pathway is dependent on the cohesin-related Smc5/6 complex, and this requirement is heightened in Smc5/6 hypomorphs by DNA damage, replication stress and Topoisomerase II (Top2) dysfunction. Cohesin interacts with chromosomes immediately upon mitotic exit and becomes cohesive coincident with DNA replication. Cohesiveness is promoted by acetylation of the Smc3 subunit by an acetyltransferase, known as Eso1 in the S. pombe, which counteracts the anti-cohesive function(s) of the cohesin regulators Pds5 and Wpl1. We recently showed that Eso1 and Smc5/6 antagonize each other, and concurrent inactivation restores sister chromatid separation following genotoxic stress. Here, we have investigated the relationship between Top2 and Eso1 in successful completion of mitosis. We observe that partial inactivation of both results in a synthetic lethal mitotic block, but this is not overcome by deleting pds5 or wpl1. However, analysis of both acetyl-blocking and mimetic mutations in Smc3 indicates that the cycling of cohesin acetyl-regulation is more important than acetyl-status per se, highlighting the non-linear nature of the cohesin cycle.
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- Su-Jiun Lin
- Department of Oncological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 1425 Madison Ave, New York, NY, 10029, USA
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- Department of Oncological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 1425 Madison Ave, New York, NY, 10029, USA.
- Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
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Alt A, Dang HQ, Wells OS, Polo LM, Smith MA, McGregor GA, Welte T, Lehmann AR, Pearl LH, Murray JM, Oliver AW. Specialized interfaces of Smc5/6 control hinge stability and DNA association. Nat Commun 2017; 8:14011. [PMID: 28134253 PMCID: PMC5290277 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2016] [Accepted: 11/21/2016] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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The Structural Maintenance of Chromosomes (SMC) complexes: cohesin, condensin and Smc5/6 are involved in the organization of higher-order chromosome structure-which is essential for accurate chromosome duplication and segregation. Each complex is scaffolded by a specific SMC protein dimer (heterodimer in eukaryotes) held together via their hinge domains. Here we show that the Smc5/6-hinge, like those of cohesin and condensin, also forms a toroidal structure but with distinctive subunit interfaces absent from the other SMC complexes; an unusual 'molecular latch' and a functional 'hub'. Defined mutations in these interfaces cause severe phenotypic effects with sensitivity to DNA-damaging agents in fission yeast and reduced viability in human cells. We show that the Smc5/6-hinge complex binds preferentially to ssDNA and that this interaction is affected by both 'latch' and 'hub' mutations, suggesting a key role for these unique features in controlling DNA association by the Smc5/6 complex.
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- Aaron Alt
- Cancer Research UK DNA Repair Enzymes Group, Genome Damage and Stability Centre, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, BN1 9RQ, UK
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- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RQ, UK
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- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RQ, UK
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- Cancer Research UK DNA Repair Enzymes Group, Genome Damage and Stability Centre, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, BN1 9RQ, UK
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- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RQ, UK
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- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RQ, UK
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- Dynamic Biosensors GmbH, Lochhamer Strasse, D-81252 Martinsreid/Planegg, Germany
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- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RQ, UK
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- Cancer Research UK DNA Repair Enzymes Group, Genome Damage and Stability Centre, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, BN1 9RQ, UK
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- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RQ, UK
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- Cancer Research UK DNA Repair Enzymes Group, Genome Damage and Stability Centre, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, BN1 9RQ, UK
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Lin SJ, Tapia-Alveal C, Jabado OJ, Germain D, O'Connell MJ. An acetyltransferase-independent function of Eso1 regulates centromere cohesion. Mol Biol Cell 2016; 27:4002-4010. [PMID: 27798241 PMCID: PMC5156541 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e16-08-0596] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2016] [Revised: 10/11/2016] [Accepted: 10/12/2016] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
Abstract
Eukaryotes contain three essential Structural Maintenance of Chromosomes (SMC) complexes: cohesin, condensin, and Smc5/6. Cohesin forms a ring-shaped structure that embraces sister chromatids to promote their cohesion. The cohesiveness of cohesin is promoted by acetylation of N-terminal lysines of the Smc3 subunit by the acetyltransferases Eco1 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the homologue, Eso1, in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. In both yeasts, these acetyltransferases are essential for cell viability. However, whereas nonacetylatable Smc3 mutants are lethal in S. cerevisiae, they are not in S. pombe We show that the lethality of a temperature-sensitive allele of eso1 (eso1-H17) is due to activation of the spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC) and is associated with premature centromere separation. The lack of cohesion at the centromeres does not correlate with Psm3 acetylation or cohesin levels at the centromeres, but is associated ith significantly reduced recruitment of the cohesin regulator Pds5. The SAC activation in this context is dependent on Smc5/6 function, which is required to remove cohesin from chromosome arms but not centromeres. The mitotic defects caused by Smc5/6 and Eso1 dysfunction are cosuppressed in double mutants. This identifies a novel function (or functions) for Eso1 and Smc5/6 at centromeres and extends the functional relationships between these SMC complexes.
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- Su-Jiun Lin
- Department of Oncological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029
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- Department of Oncological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029
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- Department of Hematology and Oncology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029
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- Department of Oncological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029
- Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029
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Zabrady K, Adamus M, Vondrova L, Liao C, Skoupilova H, Novakova M, Jurcisinova L, Alt A, Oliver AW, Lehmann AR, Palecek JJ. Chromatin association of the SMC5/6 complex is dependent on binding of its NSE3 subunit to DNA. Nucleic Acids Res 2016; 44:1064-79. [PMID: 26446992 PMCID: PMC4756808 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv1021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2014] [Revised: 09/23/2015] [Accepted: 09/26/2015] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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SMC5/6 is a highly conserved protein complex related to cohesin and condensin, which are the key components of higher-order chromatin structures. The SMC5/6 complex is essential for proliferation in yeast and is involved in replication fork stability and processing. However, the precise mechanism of action of SMC5/6 is not known. Here we present evidence that the NSE1/NSE3/NSE4 sub-complex of SMC5/6 binds to double-stranded DNA without any preference for DNA-replication/recombination intermediates. Mutations of key basic residues within the NSE1/NSE3/NSE4 DNA-binding surface reduce binding to DNA in vitro. Their introduction into the Schizosaccharomyces pombe genome results in cell death or hypersensitivity to DNA damaging agents. Chromatin immunoprecipitation analysis of the hypomorphic nse3 DNA-binding mutant shows a reduced association of fission yeast SMC5/6 with chromatin. Based on our results, we propose a model for loading of the SMC5/6 complex onto the chromatin.
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- Katerina Zabrady
- Mendel Centre for Plant Genomics and Proteomics, Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, Brno, 62500, Czech Republic Laboratory of Functional Genomics and Proteomics, National Centre for Biomolecular Research, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlarska 2, Brno, 61137, Czech Republic
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- Mendel Centre for Plant Genomics and Proteomics, Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, Brno, 62500, Czech Republic
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- Mendel Centre for Plant Genomics and Proteomics, Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, Brno, 62500, Czech Republic Laboratory of Functional Genomics and Proteomics, National Centre for Biomolecular Research, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlarska 2, Brno, 61137, Czech Republic
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- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RQ, United Kingdom
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- Laboratory of Functional Genomics and Proteomics, National Centre for Biomolecular Research, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlarska 2, Brno, 61137, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Functional Genomics and Proteomics, National Centre for Biomolecular Research, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlarska 2, Brno, 61137, Czech Republic
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- Mendel Centre for Plant Genomics and Proteomics, Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, Brno, 62500, Czech Republic Laboratory of Functional Genomics and Proteomics, National Centre for Biomolecular Research, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlarska 2, Brno, 61137, Czech Republic
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- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RQ, United Kingdom
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- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RQ, United Kingdom
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- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RQ, United Kingdom
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- Mendel Centre for Plant Genomics and Proteomics, Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, Brno, 62500, Czech Republic Laboratory of Functional Genomics and Proteomics, National Centre for Biomolecular Research, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlarska 2, Brno, 61137, Czech Republic
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Jacome A, Gutierrez-Martinez P, Schiavoni F, Tenaglia E, Martinez P, Rodríguez-Acebes S, Lecona E, Murga M, Méndez J, Blasco MA, Fernandez-Capetillo O. NSMCE2 suppresses cancer and aging in mice independently of its SUMO ligase activity. EMBO J 2015; 34:2604-19. [PMID: 26443207 DOI: 10.15252/embj.201591829] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2015] [Accepted: 09/01/2015] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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The SMC5/6 complex is the least understood of SMC complexes. In yeast, smc5/6 mutants phenocopy mutations in sgs1, the BLM ortholog that is deficient in Bloom's syndrome (BS). We here show that NSMCE2 (Mms21, in Saccharomyces cerevisiae), an essential SUMO ligase of the SMC5/6 complex, suppresses cancer and aging in mice. Surprisingly, a mutation that compromises NSMCE2-dependent SUMOylation does not have a detectable impact on murine lifespan. In contrast, NSMCE2 deletion in adult mice leads to pathologies resembling those found in patients of BS. Moreover, and whereas NSMCE2 deletion does not have a detectable impact on DNA replication, NSMCE2-deficient cells also present the cellular hallmarks of BS such as increased recombination rates and an accumulation of micronuclei. Despite the similarities, NSMCE2 and BLM foci do not colocalize and concomitant deletion of Blm and Nsmce2 in B lymphocytes further increases recombination rates and is synthetic lethal due to severe chromosome mis-segregation. Our work reveals that SUMO- and BLM-independent activities of NSMCE2 limit recombination and facilitate segregation; functions of the SMC5/6 complex that are necessary to prevent cancer and aging in mice.
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- Ariana Jacome
- Genomic Instability Group, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain
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- Genomic Instability Group, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain
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- Genomic Instability Group, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain
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- Telomeres and Telomerase Group, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain
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- Genomic Instability Group, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain
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- Genomic Instability Group, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain
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- DNA Replication Group, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain
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- Telomeres and Telomerase Group, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain
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- Genomic Instability Group, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain Science for Life Laboratory, Division of Translational Medicine and Chemical Biology, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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Resolving complex chromosome structures during meiosis: versatile deployment of Smc5/6. Chromosoma 2015; 125:15-27. [PMID: 25947290 PMCID: PMC4761004 DOI: 10.1007/s00412-015-0518-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2015] [Revised: 04/02/2015] [Accepted: 04/20/2015] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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The Smc5/6 complex, along with cohesin and condensin, is a member of the structural maintenance of chromosome (SMC) family, large ring-like protein complexes that are essential for chromatin structure and function. Thanks to numerous studies of the mitotic cell cycle, Smc5/6 has been implicated to have roles in homologous recombination, restart of stalled replication forks, maintenance of ribosomal DNA (rDNA) and heterochromatin, telomerase-independent telomere elongation, and regulation of chromosome topology. The nature of these functions implies that the Smc5/6 complex also contributes to the profound chromatin changes, including meiotic recombination, that characterize meiosis. Only recently, studies in diverse model organisms have focused on the potential meiotic roles of the Smc5/6 complex. Indeed, Smc5/6 appears to be essential for meiotic recombination. However, due to both the complexity of the process of meiosis and the versatility of the Smc5/6 complex, many additional meiotic functions have been described. In this review, we provide a clear overview of the multiple functions found so far for the Smc5/6 complex in meiosis. Additionally, we compare these meiotic functions with the known mitotic functions in an attempt to find a common denominator and thereby create clarity in the field of Smc5/6 research.
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Jeppsson K, Carlborg KK, Nakato R, Berta DG, Lilienthal I, Kanno T, Lindqvist A, Brink MC, Dantuma NP, Katou Y, Shirahige K, Sjögren C. The chromosomal association of the Smc5/6 complex depends on cohesion and predicts the level of sister chromatid entanglement. PLoS Genet 2014; 10:e1004680. [PMID: 25329383 PMCID: PMC4199498 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2014] [Accepted: 08/18/2014] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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The cohesin complex, which is essential for sister chromatid cohesion and chromosome segregation, also inhibits resolution of sister chromatid intertwinings (SCIs) by the topoisomerase Top2. The cohesin-related Smc5/6 complex (Smc5/6) instead accumulates on chromosomes after Top2 inactivation, known to lead to a buildup of unresolved SCIs. This suggests that cohesin can influence the chromosomal association of Smc5/6 via its role in SCI protection. Using high-resolution ChIP-sequencing, we show that the localization of budding yeast Smc5/6 to duplicated chromosomes indeed depends on sister chromatid cohesion in wild-type and top2-4 cells. Smc5/6 is found to be enriched at cohesin binding sites in the centromere-proximal regions in both cell types, but also along chromosome arms when replication has occurred under Top2-inhibiting conditions. Reactivation of Top2 after replication causes Smc5/6 to dissociate from chromosome arms, supporting the assumption that Smc5/6 associates with a Top2 substrate. It is also demonstrated that the amount of Smc5/6 on chromosomes positively correlates with the level of missegregation in top2-4, and that Smc5/6 promotes segregation of short chromosomes in the mutant. Altogether, this shows that the chromosomal localization of Smc5/6 predicts the presence of the chromatid segregation-inhibiting entities which accumulate in top2-4 mutated cells. These are most likely SCIs, and our results thus indicate that, at least when Top2 is inhibited, Smc5/6 facilitates their resolution.
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- Kristian Jeppsson
- Karolinska Institutet, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Karolinska Institutet, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- University of Tokyo, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, Laboratory of Genome Structure and Function Center for Epigenetic Disease, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- Karolinska Institutet, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Karolinska Institutet, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Karolinska Institutet, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Karolinska Institutet, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Karolinska Institutet, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Karolinska Institutet, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- University of Tokyo, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, Laboratory of Genome Structure and Function Center for Epigenetic Disease, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- University of Tokyo, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, Laboratory of Genome Structure and Function Center for Epigenetic Disease, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- Karolinska Institutet, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Stockholm, Sweden
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Tapia-Alveal C, Lin SJ, O’Connell MJ. Functional interplay between cohesin and Smc5/6 complexes. Chromosoma 2014; 123:437-45. [PMID: 24981336 PMCID: PMC4169997 DOI: 10.1007/s00412-014-0474-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2014] [Revised: 06/10/2014] [Accepted: 06/11/2014] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Chromosomes are subjected to massive reengineering as they are replicated, transcribed, repaired, condensed, and segregated into daughter cells. Among the engineers are three large protein complexes collectively known as the structural maintenance of chromosome (SMC) complexes: cohesin, condensin, and Smc5/6. As their names suggest, cohesin controls sister chromatid cohesion, condensin controls chromosome condensation, and while precise functions for Smc5/6 have remained somewhat elusive, most reports have focused on the control of recombinational DNA repair. Here, we focus on cohesin and Smc5/6 function. It is becoming increasingly clear that the functional repertoires of these complexes are greater than sister chromatid cohesion and recombination. These SMC complexes are emerging as interrelated and cooperating factors that control chromosome dynamics throughout interphase. However, they also release their embrace of sister chromatids to enable their segregation at anaphase, resetting the dynamic cycle of SMC-chromosome interactions.
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- Claudia Tapia-Alveal
- Department of Oncological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
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- Department of Oncological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
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- Department of Oncological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
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Payne F, Colnaghi R, Rocha N, Seth A, Harris J, Carpenter G, Bottomley WE, Wheeler E, Wong S, Saudek V, Savage D, O’Rahilly S, Carel JC, Barroso I, O’Driscoll M, Semple R. Hypomorphism in human NSMCE2 linked to primordial dwarfism and insulin resistance. J Clin Invest 2014; 124:4028-38. [PMID: 25105364 PMCID: PMC4151221 DOI: 10.1172/jci73264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2013] [Accepted: 06/19/2014] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) complexes are essential for maintaining chromatin structure and regulating gene expression. Two the three known SMC complexes, cohesin and condensin, are important for sister chromatid cohesion and condensation, respectively; however, the function of the third complex, SMC5-6, which includes the E3 SUMO-ligase NSMCE2 (also widely known as MMS21) is less clear. Here, we characterized 2 patients with primordial dwarfism, extreme insulin resistance, and gonadal failure and identified compound heterozygous frameshift mutations in NSMCE2. Both mutations reduced NSMCE2 expression in patient cells. Primary cells from one patient showed increased micronucleus and nucleoplasmic bridge formation, delayed recovery of DNA synthesis, and reduced formation of foci containing Bloom syndrome helicase (BLM) after hydroxyurea-induced replication fork stalling. These nuclear abnormalities in patient dermal fibroblast were restored by expression of WT NSMCE2, but not a mutant form lacking SUMO-ligase activity. Furthermore, in zebrafish, knockdown of the NSMCE2 ortholog produced dwarfism, which was ameliorated by reexpression of WT, but not SUMO-ligase-deficient NSMCE. Collectively, these findings support a role for NSMCE2 in recovery from DNA damage and raise the possibility that loss of its function produces dwarfism through reduced tolerance of replicative stress.
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- Felicity Payne
- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom. The University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories, Wellcome Trust–MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge, United Kingdom. The National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Glan Clwyd Hospital, North Wales, United Kingdom. University Paris Diderot, Paris, France. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Hôpital Robert Debré, Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology, and Centre de Référence des Maladies Endocriniennes Rares de la Croissance, Paris, France. Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité CIE-5, Paris, France
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom. The University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories, Wellcome Trust–MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge, United Kingdom. The National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Glan Clwyd Hospital, North Wales, United Kingdom. University Paris Diderot, Paris, France. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Hôpital Robert Debré, Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology, and Centre de Référence des Maladies Endocriniennes Rares de la Croissance, Paris, France. Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité CIE-5, Paris, France
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom. The University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories, Wellcome Trust–MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge, United Kingdom. The National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Glan Clwyd Hospital, North Wales, United Kingdom. University Paris Diderot, Paris, France. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Hôpital Robert Debré, Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology, and Centre de Référence des Maladies Endocriniennes Rares de la Croissance, Paris, France. Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité CIE-5, Paris, France
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom. The University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories, Wellcome Trust–MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge, United Kingdom. The National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Glan Clwyd Hospital, North Wales, United Kingdom. University Paris Diderot, Paris, France. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Hôpital Robert Debré, Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology, and Centre de Référence des Maladies Endocriniennes Rares de la Croissance, Paris, France. Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité CIE-5, Paris, France
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom. The University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories, Wellcome Trust–MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge, United Kingdom. The National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Glan Clwyd Hospital, North Wales, United Kingdom. University Paris Diderot, Paris, France. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Hôpital Robert Debré, Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology, and Centre de Référence des Maladies Endocriniennes Rares de la Croissance, Paris, France. Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité CIE-5, Paris, France
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom. The University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories, Wellcome Trust–MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge, United Kingdom. The National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Glan Clwyd Hospital, North Wales, United Kingdom. University Paris Diderot, Paris, France. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Hôpital Robert Debré, Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology, and Centre de Référence des Maladies Endocriniennes Rares de la Croissance, Paris, France. Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité CIE-5, Paris, France
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom. The University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories, Wellcome Trust–MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge, United Kingdom. The National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Glan Clwyd Hospital, North Wales, United Kingdom. University Paris Diderot, Paris, France. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Hôpital Robert Debré, Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology, and Centre de Référence des Maladies Endocriniennes Rares de la Croissance, Paris, France. Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité CIE-5, Paris, France
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom. The University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories, Wellcome Trust–MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge, United Kingdom. The National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Glan Clwyd Hospital, North Wales, United Kingdom. University Paris Diderot, Paris, France. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Hôpital Robert Debré, Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology, and Centre de Référence des Maladies Endocriniennes Rares de la Croissance, Paris, France. Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité CIE-5, Paris, France
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom. The University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories, Wellcome Trust–MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge, United Kingdom. The National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Glan Clwyd Hospital, North Wales, United Kingdom. University Paris Diderot, Paris, France. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Hôpital Robert Debré, Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology, and Centre de Référence des Maladies Endocriniennes Rares de la Croissance, Paris, France. Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité CIE-5, Paris, France
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom. The University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories, Wellcome Trust–MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge, United Kingdom. The National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Glan Clwyd Hospital, North Wales, United Kingdom. University Paris Diderot, Paris, France. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Hôpital Robert Debré, Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology, and Centre de Référence des Maladies Endocriniennes Rares de la Croissance, Paris, France. Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité CIE-5, Paris, France
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom. The University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories, Wellcome Trust–MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge, United Kingdom. The National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Glan Clwyd Hospital, North Wales, United Kingdom. University Paris Diderot, Paris, France. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Hôpital Robert Debré, Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology, and Centre de Référence des Maladies Endocriniennes Rares de la Croissance, Paris, France. Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité CIE-5, Paris, France
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom. The University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories, Wellcome Trust–MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge, United Kingdom. The National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Glan Clwyd Hospital, North Wales, United Kingdom. University Paris Diderot, Paris, France. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Hôpital Robert Debré, Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology, and Centre de Référence des Maladies Endocriniennes Rares de la Croissance, Paris, France. Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité CIE-5, Paris, France
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom. The University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories, Wellcome Trust–MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge, United Kingdom. The National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Glan Clwyd Hospital, North Wales, United Kingdom. University Paris Diderot, Paris, France. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Hôpital Robert Debré, Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology, and Centre de Référence des Maladies Endocriniennes Rares de la Croissance, Paris, France. Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité CIE-5, Paris, France
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom. The University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories, Wellcome Trust–MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge, United Kingdom. The National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Glan Clwyd Hospital, North Wales, United Kingdom. University Paris Diderot, Paris, France. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Hôpital Robert Debré, Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology, and Centre de Référence des Maladies Endocriniennes Rares de la Croissance, Paris, France. Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité CIE-5, Paris, France
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom. The University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories, Wellcome Trust–MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge, United Kingdom. The National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Glan Clwyd Hospital, North Wales, United Kingdom. University Paris Diderot, Paris, France. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Hôpital Robert Debré, Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology, and Centre de Référence des Maladies Endocriniennes Rares de la Croissance, Paris, France. Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité CIE-5, Paris, France
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- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom. The University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories, Wellcome Trust–MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge, United Kingdom. The National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Glan Clwyd Hospital, North Wales, United Kingdom. University Paris Diderot, Paris, France. Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Hôpital Robert Debré, Department of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology, and Centre de Référence des Maladies Endocriniennes Rares de la Croissance, Paris, France. Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité CIE-5, Paris, France
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Tapia-Alveal C, Lin SJ, Yeoh A, Jabado OJ, O'Connell MJ. H2A.Z-dependent regulation of cohesin dynamics on chromosome arms. Mol Cell Biol 2014; 34:2092-104. [PMID: 24687850 PMCID: PMC4019066 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.00193-14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2014] [Revised: 02/25/2014] [Accepted: 03/21/2014] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) complexes and DNA topoisomerases are major determinants of chromosome structure and dynamics. The cohesin complex embraces sister chromatids throughout interphase, but during mitosis most cohesin is stripped from chromosome arms by early prophase, while the remaining cohesin at kinetochores is cleaved at anaphase. This two-step removal of cohesin is required for sister chromatids to separate. The cohesin-related Smc5/6 complex has been studied mostly as a determinant of DNA repair via homologous recombination. However, chromosome segregation fails in Smc5/6 null mutants or cells treated with small interfering RNAs. This also occurs in Smc5/6 hypomorphs in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe following genotoxic and replication stress, or topoisomerase II dysfunction, and these mitotic defects are due to the postanaphase retention of cohesin on chromosome arms. Here we show that mitotic and repair roles for Smc5/6 are genetically separable in S. pombe. Further, we identified the histone variant H2A.Z as a critical factor to modulate cohesin dynamics, and cells lacking H2A.Z suppress the mitotic defects conferred by Smc5/6 dysfunction. Together, H2A.Z and the SMC complexes ensure genome integrity through accurate chromosome segregation.
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- Claudia Tapia-Alveal
- Department of Oncological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Oncological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Oncological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Oncological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
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Verver DE, Langedijk NSM, Jordan PW, Repping S, Hamer G. The SMC5/6 complex is involved in crucial processes during human spermatogenesis. Biol Reprod 2014; 91:22. [PMID: 24855106 PMCID: PMC6058740 DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.114.118596] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/01/2022] Open
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Genome integrity is crucial for safe reproduction. Therefore, chromatin structure and dynamics should be tightly regulated during germ cell development. Chromatin structure and function are in large part determined by the structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) protein complexes, of which SMC5/6 recently has been shown to be involved in both spermatogonial differentiation and meiosis during mouse spermatogenesis. We therefore investigated the role of this complex in human spermatogenesis. We found SMC6 to be expressed in the human testis and present in a subset of type Adark and type Apale spermatogonia, all spermatocytes, and round spermatids. During human meiosis, SMC5/6 is located at the synaptonemal complex (SC), the XY body, and at the centromeres during meiotic metaphases. However, in contrast to mouse spermatogenesis, SMC6 is not located at pericentromeric heterochromatin in human spermatogenic cells, indicating subtle but perhaps important differences in not only SMC5/6 function but maybe also in maintenance of genomic integrity at the repetitive pericentromeric regions. Nonetheless, our data clearly indicate that the SMC5/6 complex, as shown in mice, is involved in numerous crucial processes during human spermatogenesis, such as in spermatogonial development, on the SC between synapsed chromosomes, and in DNA double-strand break repair on unsynapsed chromosomes during pachynema.
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- Dideke E Verver
- Center for Reproductive Medicine, Women's and Children's Hospital, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Center for Reproductive Medicine, Women's and Children's Hospital, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Center for Reproductive Medicine, Women's and Children's Hospital, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Center for Reproductive Medicine, Women's and Children's Hospital, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Copsey A, Tang S, Jordan PW, Blitzblau HG, Newcombe S, Chan ACH, Newnham L, Li Z, Gray S, Herbert AD, Arumugam P, Hochwagen A, Hunter N, Hoffmann E. Smc5/6 coordinates formation and resolution of joint molecules with chromosome morphology to ensure meiotic divisions. PLoS Genet 2013; 9:e1004071. [PMID: 24385939 PMCID: PMC3873251 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2013] [Accepted: 11/08/2013] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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During meiosis, Structural Maintenance of Chromosome (SMC) complexes underpin two fundamental features of meiosis: homologous recombination and chromosome segregation. While meiotic functions of the cohesin and condensin complexes have been delineated, the role of the third SMC complex, Smc5/6, remains enigmatic. Here we identify specific, essential meiotic functions for the Smc5/6 complex in homologous recombination and the regulation of cohesin. We show that Smc5/6 is enriched at centromeres and cohesin-association sites where it regulates sister-chromatid cohesion and the timely removal of cohesin from chromosomal arms, respectively. Smc5/6 also localizes to recombination hotspots, where it promotes normal formation and resolution of a subset of joint-molecule intermediates. In this regard, Smc5/6 functions independently of the major crossover pathway defined by the MutLγ complex. Furthermore, we show that Smc5/6 is required for stable chromosomal localization of the XPF-family endonuclease, Mus81-Mms4(Eme1). Our data suggest that the Smc5/6 complex is required for specific recombination and chromosomal processes throughout meiosis and that in its absence, attempts at cell division with unresolved joint molecules and residual cohesin lead to severe recombination-induced meiotic catastrophe.
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- Alice Copsey
- MRC Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
- Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
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- MRC Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
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- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- MRC Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
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- MRC Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
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- MRC Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
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- MRC Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
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- MRC Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
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- MRC Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
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- Department of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
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- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Department of Biology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
- Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
- Department of Biology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America
- Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
- Department of Cell Biology & Human Anatomy, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
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- MRC Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
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Gallego-Paez LM, Tanaka H, Bando M, Takahashi M, Nozaki N, Nakato R, Shirahige K, Hirota T. Smc5/6-mediated regulation of replication progression contributes to chromosome assembly during mitosis in human cells. Mol Biol Cell 2013; 25:302-17. [PMID: 24258023 PMCID: PMC3890350 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e13-01-0020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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The Smc5/6 complex plays a critical role in processing DNA replication and is indispensable for sister chromatid assembly and faithful segregation in mitosis. The structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) proteins constitute the core of critical complexes involved in structural organization of chromosomes. In yeast, the Smc5/6 complex is known to mediate repair of DNA breaks and replication of repetitive genomic regions, including ribosomal DNA loci and telomeres. In mammalian cells, which have diverse genome structure and scale from yeast, the Smc5/6 complex has also been implicated in DNA damage response, but its further function in unchallenged conditions remains elusive. In this study, we addressed the behavior and function of Smc5/6 during the cell cycle. Chromatin fractionation, immunofluorescence, and live-cell imaging analyses indicated that Smc5/6 associates with chromatin during interphase but largely dissociates from chromosomes when they condense in mitosis. Depletion of Smc5 and Smc6 resulted in aberrant mitotic chromosome phenotypes that were accompanied by the abnormal distribution of topoisomerase IIα (topo IIα) and condensins and by chromosome segregation errors. Importantly, interphase chromatin structure indicated by the premature chromosome condensation assay suggested that Smc5/6 is required for the on-time progression of DNA replication and subsequent binding of topo IIα on replicated chromatids. These results indicate an essential role of the Smc5/6 complex in processing DNA replication, which becomes indispensable for proper sister chromatid assembly in mitosis.
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- Lina Marcela Gallego-Paez
- Research Center for Epigenetic Disease, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0032, Japan Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama 226-8501, Japan Bio-Frontier Research Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama 226-8501, Japan Cancer Institute, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo 135-8550, Japan Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency, Tokyo 102-0076, Japan
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Gómez R, Jordan PW, Viera A, Alsheimer M, Fukuda T, Jessberger R, Llano E, Pendás AM, Handel MA, Suja JA. Dynamic localization of SMC5/6 complex proteins during mammalian meiosis and mitosis suggests functions in distinct chromosome processes. J Cell Sci 2013; 126:4239-52. [PMID: 23843628 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.130195] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Four members of the structural maintenance of chromosome (SMC) protein family have essential functions in chromosome condensation (SMC2/4) and sister-chromatid cohesion (SMC1/3). The SMC5/6 complex has been implicated in chromosome replication, DNA repair and chromosome segregation in somatic cells, but its possible functions during mammalian meiosis are unknown. Here, we show in mouse spermatocytes that SMC5 and SMC6 are located at the central region of the synaptonemal complex from zygotene until diplotene. During late diplotene both proteins load to the chromocenters, where they colocalize with DNA Topoisomerase IIα, and then accumulate at the inner domain of the centromeres during the first and second meiotic divisions. Interestingly, SMC6 and DNA Topoisomerase IIα colocalize at stretched strands that join kinetochores during the metaphase II to anaphase II transition, and both are observed on stretched lagging chromosomes at anaphase II following treatment with Etoposide. During mitosis, SMC6 and DNA Topoisomerase IIα colocalize at the centromeres and chromatid axes. Our results are consistent with the participation of SMC5 and SMC6 in homologous chromosome synapsis during prophase I, chromosome and centromere structure during meiosis I and mitosis and, with DNA Topoisomerase IIα, in regulating centromere cohesion during meiosis II.
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- Rocío Gómez
- Departamento de Biología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
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Ju L, Wing J, Taylor E, Brandt R, Slijepcevic P, Horsch M, Rathkolb B, Rácz I, Becker L, Hans W, Adler T, Beckers J, Rozman J, Klingenspor M, Wolf E, Zimmer A, Klopstock T, Busch DH, Gailus-Durner V, Fuchs H, de Angelis MH, van der Horst G, Lehmann AR. SMC6 is an essential gene in mice, but a hypomorphic mutant in the ATPase domain has a mild phenotype with a range of subtle abnormalities. DNA Repair (Amst) 2013; 12:356-66. [PMID: 23518413 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2013.02.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2012] [Revised: 02/05/2013] [Accepted: 02/16/2013] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Smc5-6 is a highly conserved protein complex related to cohesin and condensin involved in the structural maintenance of chromosomes. In yeasts the Smc5-6 complex is essential for proliferation and is involved in DNA repair and homologous recombination. siRNA depletion of genes involved in the Smc5-6 complex in cultured mammalian cells results in sensitivity to some DNA damaging agents. In order to gain further insight into its role in mammals we have generated mice mutated in the Smc6 gene. A complete knockout resulted in early embryonic lethality, demonstrating that this gene is essential in mammals. However, mutation of the highly conserved serine-994 to alanine in the ATP hydrolysis motif in the SMC6 C-terminal domain, resulted in mice with a surprisingly mild phenotype. With the neo gene selection marker in the intron following the mutation, resulting in reduced expression of the SMC6 gene, the mice were reduced in size, but fertile and had normal lifespans. When the neo gene was removed, the mice had normal size, but detailed phenotypic analysis revealed minor abnormalities in glucose tolerance, haematopoiesis, nociception and global gene expression patterns. Embryonic fibroblasts derived from the ser994 mutant mice were not sensitive to killing by a range of DNA damaging agents, but they were sensitive to the induction of sister chromatid exchanges induced by ultraviolet light or mitomycin C. They also accumulated more oxidative damage than wild-type cells.
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- Limei Ju
- Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RQ, UK
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Initiation of DNA damage responses through XPG-related nucleases. EMBO J 2012; 32:290-302. [PMID: 23211746 DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2012.322] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2012] [Accepted: 11/09/2012] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Lesion-specific enzymes repair different forms of DNA damage, yet all lesions elicit the same checkpoint response. The common intermediate required to mount a checkpoint response is thought to be single-stranded DNA (ssDNA), coated by replication protein A (RPA) and containing a primer-template junction. To identify factors important for initiating the checkpoint response, we screened for genes that, when overexpressed, could amplify a checkpoint signal to a weak allele of chk1 in fission yeast. We identified Ast1, a novel member of the XPG-related family of endo/exonucleases. Ast1 promotes checkpoint activation caused by the absence of the other XPG-related nucleases, Exo1 and Rad2, the homologue of Fen1. Each nuclease is recruited to DSBs, and promotes the formation of ssDNA for checkpoint activation and recombinational repair. For Rad2 and Exo1, this is independent of their S-phase role in Okazaki fragment processing. This XPG-related pathway is distinct from MRN-dependent responses, and each enzyme is critical for damage resistance in MRN mutants. Thus, multiple nucleases collaborate to initiate DNA damage responses, highlighting the importance of these responses to cellular fitness.
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Kliszczak M, Stephan AK, Flanagan AM, Morrison CG. SUMO ligase activity of vertebrate Mms21/Nse2 is required for efficient DNA repair but not for Smc5/6 complex stability. DNA Repair (Amst) 2012; 11:799-810. [PMID: 22921571 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2012.06.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2012] [Revised: 06/03/2012] [Accepted: 06/06/2012] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Nse2/Mms21 is an E3 SUMO ligase component of the Smc5/6 complex, which plays multiple roles in maintaining genome stability. To study the functions of the vertebrate Nse2 orthologue, we generated Nse2-deficient chicken DT40 cells. Nse2 was dispensable for DT40 cell viability and required for efficient repair of bulky DNA lesions, although Nse2-deficient cells showed normal sensitivity to ionising radiation-induced DNA damage. Homologous recombination activities were reduced in Nse2(-/-/-) cells. Nse2 deficiency destabilised Smc5, but not Smc6. In rescue experiments, we found that the SUMO ligase activity of Nse2 was required for an efficient response to MMS- or cis-platin-induced DNA damage, and for homologous recombination, but not for Smc5 stability. Gel filtration analysis indicated that Smc5 and Nse2 remain associated during the cell cycle and after DNA damage and Smc5/Smc6 association is independent of Nse2. Analysis of Nse2(-/-/-)Smc5(-) clones, which were viable although slow-growing, showed no significant increase in DNA damage sensitivity. We propose that Nse2 determines the activity, but not the assembly, of the Smc5/6 complex in vertebrate cells, and this activity requires the Nse2 SUMO ligase function.
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- Maciej Kliszczak
- Centre for Chromosome Biology, School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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Genome rearrangements caused by depletion of essential DNA replication proteins in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics 2012; 192:147-60. [PMID: 22673806 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.112.141051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Genetic screens of the collection of ~4500 deletion mutants in Saccharomyces cerevisiae have identified the cohort of nonessential genes that promote maintenance of genome integrity. Here we probe the role of essential genes needed for genome stability. To this end, we screened 217 tetracycline-regulated promoter alleles of essential genes and identified 47 genes whose depletion results in spontaneous DNA damage. We further showed that 92 of these 217 essential genes have a role in suppressing chromosome rearrangements. We identified a core set of 15 genes involved in DNA replication that are critical in preventing both spontaneous DNA damage and genome rearrangements. Mapping, classification, and analysis of rearrangement breakpoints indicated that yeast fragile sites, Ty retrotransposons, tRNA genes, early origins of replication, and replication termination sites are common features at breakpoints when essential replication genes that suppress chromosome rearrangements are downregulated. We propose mechanisms by which depletion of essential replication proteins can lead to double-stranded DNA breaks near these features, which are subsequently repaired by homologous recombination at repeated elements.
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Bass KL, Murray JM, O'Connell MJ. Brc1-dependent recovery from replication stress. J Cell Sci 2012; 125:2753-64. [PMID: 22366461 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.103119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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BRCT-containing protein 1 (Brc1) is a multi-BRCT (BRCA1 carboxyl terminus) domain protein in Schizosaccharomyces pombe that is required for resistance to chronic replicative stress, but whether this reflects a repair or replication defect is unknown and the subject of this study. We show that brc1Δ cells are significantly delayed in recovery from replication pausing, though this does not activate a DNA damage checkpoint. DNA repair and recombination protein Rad52 is a homologous recombination protein that loads the Rad51 recombinase at resected double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) breaks and is also recruited to stalled replication forks, where it may stabilize structures through its strand annealing activity. Rad52 is required for the viability of brc1Δ cells, and brc1Δ cells accumulate Rad52 foci late in S phase that are potentiated by replication stress. However, these foci contain the single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) binding protein RPA, but not Rad51 or γH2A. Further, these foci are not associated with increased recombination between repeated sequences, or increased post-replication repair. Thus, these Rad52 foci do not represent sites of recombination. Following the initiation of DNA replication, the induction of these foci by replication stress is suppressed by defects in origin recognition complex (ORC) function, which is accompanied by loss of viability and severe mitotic defects. This suggests that cells lacking Brc1 undergo an ORC-dependent rescue of replication stress, presumably through the firing of dormant origins, and this generates RPA-coated ssDNA and recruits Rad52. However, as Rad51 is not recruited, and the checkpoint effector kinase Chk1 is not activated, these structures must not contain the unprotected primer ends found at sites of DNA damage that are required for recombination and checkpoint activation.
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- Kirstin L Bass
- Department of Oncological Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
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Tapia-Alveal C, O'Connell MJ. Nse1-dependent recruitment of Smc5/6 to lesion-containing loci contributes to the repair defects of mutant complexes. Mol Biol Cell 2011; 22:4669-82. [PMID: 21976700 PMCID: PMC3226483 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e11-03-0272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The Smc5/6 complex is widely believed to be required for homologous recombination. It is shown that repair defects of Smc5/6 mutants are due to the Nse1-dependent recruitment of dysfunctional complexes to lesions. Of the three structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) complexes, Smc5/6 remains the most poorly understood. Genetic studies have shown that Smc5/6 mutants are defective in homologous recombination (HR), and consistent with this, Smc5/6 is enriched at lesions. However, Smc5/6 is essential for viability, but HR is not, and the terminal phenotype of null Smc5/6 mutants is mitotic failure. Here we analyze the function of Nse1, which contains a variant RING domain that is characteristic of ubiquitin ligases. Whereas deletion of this domain causes DNA damage sensitivity and mitotic failure, serine mutations in conserved cysteines do not. However, these mutations suppress the DNA damage sensitivity of Smc5/6 hypomorphs but not that of HR mutants and remarkably decrease the recruitment of Smc5/6 to loci containing lesions marked for HR-mediated repair. Analysis of DNA repair pathways in suppressed double mutants suggests that lesions are channeled into recombination-dependent and error-free postreplication repair. Thus the HR defect in Smc5/6 mutants appears to be due to the presence of dysfunctional complexes at lesions rather than to reflect an absolute requirement for Smc5/6 to complete HR.
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- Claudia Tapia-Alveal
- Department of Oncological Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
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Koch A, Krug K, Pengelley S, Macek B, Hauf S. Mitotic Substrates of the Kinase Aurora with Roles in Chromatin Regulation Identified Through Quantitative Phosphoproteomics of Fission Yeast. Sci Signal 2011; 4:rs6. [DOI: 10.1126/scisignal.2001588] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Evaluation of associations between common variation in mitotic regulatory pathways and risk of overall and high grade breast cancer. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2011; 129:617-22. [PMID: 21607584 DOI: 10.1007/s10549-011-1587-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2011] [Accepted: 05/10/2011] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Mitotic regulatory pathways insure proper timing of mitotic entry, sister chromatid cohesion and separation, and cytokinesis. Disruption of this process results in inappropriate chromosome segregation and aneuploidy, and appears to contribute to cancer. Specifically, disregulation and somatic mutation of mitotic regulators has been observed in human cancers, and overexpression of mitotic regulators is common in aggressive and late stage tumors. However, the role of germline variation in mitotic pathways and risk of cancer is not well understood. We tested 1,084 haplotype-tagging and functional variants from 164 genes in mitotic regulatory pathways in 791 Caucasian women with breast cancer and 843 healthy controls for association with risk of overall and high grade breast cancer. Sixty-one single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) from 40 genes were associated (P < 0.05) with risk of breast cancer in a log-additive model. In addition, 60 SNPs were associated (P < 0.05) with risk of high grade breast cancer. However, none of these associations were significant after Bonferroni correction for multiple testing. In gene-level analyses, CDC25C, SCC1/RAD21, TLK2, and SMC6L1 were associated (P < 0.05) with overall breast cancer risk, CDC6, CDC27, SUMO3, RASSF1, KIF2, and CDC14A were associated with high grade breast cancer risk, and EIF3S10 and CDC25A were associated with both. Further investigation in breast and other cancers are needed to understand the influence of inherited variation in mitotic genes on tumor grade and cancer risk.
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The Nse2/Mms21 SUMO ligase of the Smc5/6 complex in the maintenance of genome stability. FEBS Lett 2011; 585:2907-13. [PMID: 21550342 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2011.04.067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2011] [Revised: 04/22/2011] [Accepted: 04/27/2011] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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There exist three highly-conserved structural maintenance of chromosomes (Smc) complexes that ensure genome stability during eukaryotic cell division. There are the well-characterized cohesin and condensin complexes and the third Smc complex, Smc5/6. Nse2/Mms21, a SUMO ligase, is a component of the Smc5/6 complex and recent data have indicated that Nse1 may function as a ubiquitin ligase. Smc5/6 regulates sister chromatid cohesion, homologous recombination and chromatin structure and conformation. This review examines the functions of Smc5/6 in DNA repair and the maintenance of genomic integrity and explores the roles of the associated SUMO and ubiquitin ligases. Recent findings have indicated that Smc5/6 may play a topological role in chromosome dynamics, which may help understand the complexity of its activities.
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Kegel A, Betts-Lindroos H, Kanno T, Jeppsson K, Ström L, Katou Y, Itoh T, Shirahige K, Sjögren C. Chromosome length influences replication-induced topological stress. Nature 2011; 471:392-6. [PMID: 21368764 DOI: 10.1038/nature09791] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2010] [Accepted: 01/05/2011] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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During chromosome duplication the parental DNA molecule becomes overwound, or positively supercoiled, in the region ahead of the advancing replication fork. To allow fork progression, this superhelical tension has to be removed by topoisomerases, which operate by introducing transient DNA breaks. Positive supercoiling can also be diminished if the advancing fork rotates along the DNA helix, but then sister chromatid intertwinings form in its wake. Despite these insights it remains largely unknown how replication-induced superhelical stress is dealt with on linear, eukaryotic chromosomes. Here we show that this stress increases with the length of Saccharomyces cerevisiae chromosomes. This highlights the possibility that superhelical tension is handled on a chromosome scale and not only within topologically closed chromosomal domains as the current view predicts. We found that inhibition of type I topoisomerases leads to a late replication delay of longer, but not shorter, chromosomes. This phenotype is also displayed by cells expressing mutated versions of the cohesin- and condensin-related Smc5/6 complex. The frequency of chromosomal association sites of the Smc5/6 complex increases in response to chromosome lengthening, chromosome circularization, or inactivation of topoisomerase 2, all having the potential to increase the number of sister chromatid intertwinings. Furthermore, non-functional Smc6 reduces the accumulation of intertwined sister plasmids after one round of replication in the absence of topoisomerase 2 function. Our results demonstrate that the length of a chromosome influences the need of superhelical tension release in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and allow us to propose a model where the Smc5/6 complex facilitates fork rotation by sequestering nascent chromatid intertwinings that form behind the replication machinery.
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- Andreas Kegel
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet, von Eulers väg 3, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
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Roles of vertebrate Smc5 in sister chromatid cohesion and homologous recombinational repair. Mol Cell Biol 2011; 31:1369-81. [PMID: 21245390 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.00786-10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The structural maintenance of chromosomes (Smc) family members Smc5 and Smc6 are both essential in budding and fission yeasts. Yeast smc5/6 mutants are hypersensitive to DNA damage, and Smc5/6 is recruited to HO-induced double-strand breaks (DSBs), facilitating intersister chromatid recombinational repair. To determine the role of the vertebrate Smc5/6 complex during the normal cell cycle, we generated an Smc5-deficient chicken DT40 cell line using gene targeting. Surprisingly, Smc5(-) cells were viable, although they proliferated more slowly than controls and showed mitotic abnormalities. Smc5-deficient cells were sensitive to methyl methanesulfonate and ionizing radiation (IR) and showed increased chromosome aberration levels upon irradiation. Formation and resolution of Rad51 and gamma-H2AX foci after irradiation were altered in Smc5 mutants, suggesting defects in homologous recombinational (HR) repair of DNA damage. Ku70(-/-) Smc5(-) cells were more sensitive to IR than either single mutant, with Rad54(-/-) Smc5(-) cells being no more sensitive than Rad54(-/-) cells, consistent with an HR function for the vertebrate Smc5/6 complex. Although gene targeting occurred at wild-type levels, recombinational repair of induced double-strand breaks was reduced in Smc5(-) cells. Smc5 loss increased sister chromatid exchanges and sister chromatid separation distances in mitotic chromosomes. We conclude that Smc5/6 regulates recombinational repair by ensuring appropriate sister chromatid cohesion.
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Bermúdez-López M, Ceschia A, de Piccoli G, Colomina N, Pasero P, Aragón L, Torres-Rosell J. The Smc5/6 complex is required for dissolution of DNA-mediated sister chromatid linkages. Nucleic Acids Res 2010; 38:6502-12. [PMID: 20571088 PMCID: PMC2965248 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq546] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Mitotic chromosome segregation requires the removal of physical connections between sister chromatids. In addition to cohesin and topological entrapments, sister chromatid separation can be prevented by the presence of chromosome junctions or ongoing DNA replication. We will collectively refer to them as DNA-mediated linkages. Although this type of structures has been documented in different DNA replication and repair mutants, there is no known essential mechanism ensuring their timely removal before mitosis. Here, we show that the dissolution of these connections is an active process that requires the Smc5/6 complex, together with Mms21, its associated SUMO-ligase. Failure to remove DNA-mediated linkages causes gross chromosome missegregation in anaphase. Moreover, we show that Smc5/6 is capable to dissolve them in metaphase-arrested cells, thus restoring chromosome resolution and segregation. We propose that Smc5/6 has an essential role in the removal of DNA-mediated linkages to prevent chromosome missegregation and aneuploidy.
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- Marcelino Bermúdez-López
- IRBLLEIDA, Department of Ciències Mèdiques Bàsiques, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat de Lleida, 25008 Lleida, Spain
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Feeney KM, Wasson CW, Parish JL. Cohesin: a regulator of genome integrity and gene expression. Biochem J 2010; 428:147-61. [PMID: 20462401 DOI: 10.1042/bj20100151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Following DNA replication, chromatid pairs are held together by a proteinacious complex called cohesin until separation during the metaphase-to-anaphase transition. Accurate segregation is achieved by regulation of both sister chromatid cohesion establishment and removal, mediated by post-translational modification of cohesin and interaction with numerous accessory proteins. Recent evidence has led to the conclusion that cohesin is also vitally important in the repair of DNA lesions and control of gene expression. It is now clear that chromosome segregation is not the only important function of cohesin in the maintenance of genome integrity.
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- Katherine M Feeney
- Bute Medical School, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9TS, Scotland, U.K
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Transformation/transcription domain-associated protein (TRRAP)-mediated regulation of Wee1. Genetics 2010; 185:81-93. [PMID: 20194963 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.110.114769] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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The G2 DNA damage checkpoint inhibits Cdc2 and mitotic entry through the dual regulation of Wee1 and Cdc25 by the Chk1 effector kinase. Upregulation of Chk1 by mutation or overexpression bypasses the requirement for upstream regulators or DNA damage to promote a G2 cell cycle arrest. We screened in fission yeast for mutations that rendered cells resistant to overexpressed chk1(+). We identified a mutation in tra1, which encodes one of two homologs of transformation/transcription domain-associated protein (TRRAP), an ATM/R-related pseudokinase that scaffolds several histone acetyltransferase (HAT) complexes. Inhibition of histone deacetylases reverts the resistance to overexpressed chk1(+), suggesting this phenotype is due to a HAT activity, although expression of checkpoint and cell cycle genes is not greatly affected. Cells with mutant or deleted tra1 activate Chk1 normally and are checkpoint proficient. However, these cells are semi-wee even when overexpressing chk1(+) and accumulate inactive Wee1 protein. The changed division response (Cdr) kinases Cdr1 and Cdr2 are negative regulators of Wee1, and we show that they are required for the Tra1-dependent alterations to Wee1 function. This identifies Tra1 as another component controlling the timing of entry into mitosis via Cdc2 activation.
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Regulation of the repair of DNA double-strand breaks by homologous recombination is extremely important for both cell viability and the maintenance of genomic integrity. Modulation of double-strand break repair in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae involves controlling the recruitment of one of the central recombination proteins, Rad52, to sites of DNA lesions. The Rad52 protein, which plays a role in strand exchange and the annealing of single strand DNA, is positively regulated upon entry into S phase, repressed during the intra-S phase checkpoint, and undergoes posttranslational modification events such as phosphorylation and sumoylation. These processes all contribute to the timing of Rad52 recruitment, its stability and function. Here, we summarize the regulatory events affecting the Rad52 protein and discuss how this regulation impacts DNA repair and cell survival.
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