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Yong D, Ahmad S, Mabanglo MF, Halabelian L, Schapira M, Ackloo S, Perveen S, Ghiabi P, Vedadi M. Development of Peptide Displacement Assays to Screen for Antagonists of DDB1 Interactions. Biochemistry 2024; 63:1297-1306. [PMID: 38729622 PMCID: PMC11112733 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.4c00044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2024] [Revised: 04/01/2024] [Accepted: 04/17/2024] [Indexed: 05/12/2024]
Abstract
The DNA damage binding protein 1 (DDB1) is an essential component of protein complexes involved in DNA damage repair and the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) for protein degradation. As an adaptor protein specific to Cullin-RING E3 ligases, DDB1 binds different receptors that poise protein substrates for ubiquitination and subsequent degradation by the 26S proteasome. Examples of DDB1-binding protein receptors are Cereblon (CRBN) and the WD-repeat containing DDB1- and CUL4-associated factors (DCAFs). Cognate substrates of CRBN and DCAFs are involved in cancer-related cellular processes or are mimicked by viruses to reprogram E3 ligases for the ubiquitination of antiviral host factors. Thus, disrupting interactions of DDB1 with receptor proteins might be an effective strategy for anticancer and antiviral drug discovery. Here, we developed fluorescence polarization (FP)-based peptide displacement assays that utilize full-length DDB1 and fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC)-labeled peptide probes derived from the specific binding motifs of DDB1 interactors. A general FP-based assay condition applicable to diverse peptide probes was determined and optimized. Mutagenesis and biophysical analyses were then employed to identify the most suitable peptide probe. The FITC-DCAF15 L49A peptide binds DDB1 with a dissociation constant of 68 nM and can be displaced competitively by unlabeled peptides at sub-μM to low nM concentrations. These peptide displacement assays can be used to screen small molecule libraries to identify novel modulators that could specifically antagonize DDB1 interactions toward development of antiviral and cancer therapeutics.
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- Darren Yong
- Structural
Genomics Consortium, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1L7, Canada
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- Structural
Genomics Consortium, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1L7, Canada
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- Drug
Discovery Program, Ontario Institute for
Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario M5G 0A3, Canada
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- Structural
Genomics Consortium, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1L7, Canada
- Department
of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University
of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada
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- Structural
Genomics Consortium, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1L7, Canada
- Department
of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University
of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada
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- Structural
Genomics Consortium, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1L7, Canada
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- Structural
Genomics Consortium, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1L7, Canada
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- Structural
Genomics Consortium, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1L7, Canada
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- Drug
Discovery Program, Ontario Institute for
Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario M5G 0A3, Canada
- Department
of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University
of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada
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Jones TM, Espitia CM, Ooi A, Bauman JE, Carew JS, Nawrocki ST. Targeted CUL4A inhibition synergizes with cisplatin to yield long-term survival in models of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma through a DDB2-mediated mechanism. Cell Death Dis 2022; 13:350. [PMID: 35428778 PMCID: PMC9012827 DOI: 10.1038/s41419-022-04798-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2021] [Revised: 03/21/2022] [Accepted: 03/30/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
Abstract
Patients with late-stage and human papillomavirus (HPV)-negative head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) continue to have a very poor prognosis. The development of more effective novel therapies that improve overall survival and overcome drug resistance is an urgent priority. Here we report that HNSCC tumors significantly overexpress NEDD8 and exhibit high sensitivity to the first-in-class NEDD8-activating enzyme (NAE) inhibitor pevonedistat. Additional studies established that disruption of NEDD8-mediated protein turnover with pevonedistat dramatically augmented cisplatin-induced DNA damage and apoptosis in HNSCC models. Further analysis revealed that the specific pevonedistat target CUL4A played an essential role in driving the synergy of the pevonedistat and cisplatin combination. Targeted inhibition of CUL4A resulted in significant downregulation in Damage Specific DNA binding protein 2 (DDB2), a DNA-damage recognition protein that promotes nucleotide excision repair and resistance to cisplatin. Silencing of CUL4A or DDB2 enhanced cisplatin-induced DNA damage and apoptosis in a manner similar to that of pevonedistat demonstrating that targeted inhibition of CUL4A may be a novel approach to augment cisplatin therapy. Administration of pevonedistat to mice bearing HNSCC tumors significantly decreased DDB2 expression in tumor cells, increased DNA damage and potently enhanced the activity of cisplatin to yield tumor regression and long-term survival of all animals. Our findings provide strong rationale for clinical investigation of CUL4A inhibition with pevonedistat as a novel strategy to augment the efficacy of cisplatin therapy for patients with HNSCC and identify loss of DDB2 as a key pharmacodynamic mediator controlling sensitivity to this regimen.
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- Trace M Jones
- University of Arizona Cancer Center, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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Simmons AD, Palecek SP. Rational, Unbiased Selection of Reference Genes for Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes. Tissue Eng Part C Methods 2021; 27:322-336. [PMID: 33843289 DOI: 10.1089/ten.tec.2021.0023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Reverse transcription, quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) is a powerful technique to quantify gene expression by transcript abundance. Expression of target genes is normalized to expression of stable reference genes to account for sample preparation variability. Thus, the identification and validation of stably expressed reference genes is crucial for making accurate, quantitative, statistical conclusions in gene expression studies. Traditional housekeeping genes identified decades ago based on high and relatively stable expression are often used, although many have shown these to not be valid, particularly in highly dynamic systems such as stem cell differentiation. In this study we outline a rational approach to identify stable reference genes valid throughout human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC) differentiation to hPSC-derived cardiomyocytes (hPSC-CMs). Several publicly available transcriptomic data sets were analyzed to identify genes with low variability in expression throughout differentiation. These putative novel reference genes were subsequently validated in RT-qPCR analyses to assess their stability under various perturbations, including maturation during extended culture, lactate purification, and various differentiation efficiencies. Expression in hPSC-CMs was also compared with whole human heart tissue. A core set of three novel reference genes (EDF1, DDB1, and ZNF384) exhibited robust stability across the conditions tested, whereas expression of the traditional housekeeping genes tested (ACTB, B2M, GAPDH, and RPL13A) varied significantly under these conditions. Impact statement This article presents an unbiased method for the selection and validation of novel reference genes for real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction normalization using data from RNA sequencing datasets. This method identified more robust and stable reference genes for gene expression studies during human pluripotent stem cell differentiation to cardiomyocytes than commonly used reference genes. This study also provides a roadmap for identifying reference genes for assessing gene expression during other dynamic cellular processes, including stem cell differentiation to other cell types.
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- Aaron D Simmons
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
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Karagün E, Eroz R, Gamsızkan M, Baysak S, Eyup Y, Ozcan Y. Novel mutation identified in the DDB2 gene in patients with xeroderma pigmentosum group-E. Int J Dermatol 2020; 59:989-996. [PMID: 32530099 DOI: 10.1111/ijd.14957] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2019] [Revised: 03/19/2020] [Accepted: 04/24/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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BACKGROUND Xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) is a rare photosensitive syndrome, which is divided into eight complementation groups (XP-A to XP-G and XPV) and characterized by skin cancers diagnosed at early age. A family of seven members (age range between 5 and 47 years) with carriers of the novel nonsense mutation that causes XP-E type were included in the current study. METHODS DNA was isolated from peripheral blood samples of the proband, and cancer predisposition genes were sequenced with next-generation sequencing. The demographic features and the laboratory, clinical, and histopathological findings of patients were evaluated. RESULTS In the proband, squamous cell carcinoma was first diagnosed in the right-eye cornea at the age of 13 years and then in the left-eye cornea at the age of 15 years. Later, the patient was diagnosed with basosquamous cell carcinoma on the dorsum of the nose at the age of 18 years. After genetic analysis, a novel nonsense c.1063C>T(p.Arg355Ter) pathogenic variation that causes XP-E type was detected as homozygous in the DDB2 gene of the proband and her siblings, 11 and 5 years of age, and as heterozygous in her parents and a 22-year-old brother. CONCLUSION Because of the occurrence of early termination codon, truncated nonfunctional proteins or proteins with deleterious loss or gain-of-function activities are synthesized in nonsense mutation. Thus, to avoid the development of pathological lesions, it is important that such patients with nonsense mutation stay away from agents that might cause DNA damage and develop an appropriate lifestyle according to this condition.
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- Duzce University Medical School, Duzce, Turkey
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- Duzce University Medical School, Duzce, Turkey
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- Duzce University Medical School, Duzce, Turkey
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DNA Damage and Deficiencies in the Mechanisms of Its Repair: Implications in the Pathogenesis of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. J Immunol Res 2018; 2018:8214379. [PMID: 30116756 PMCID: PMC6079408 DOI: 10.1155/2018/8214379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2017] [Revised: 05/30/2018] [Accepted: 06/13/2018] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a perplexing and potentially severe disease, the pathogenesis of which is yet to be understood. SLE is considered to be a multifactorial disease, in which genetic factors, immune dysregulation, and environmental factors, such as ultraviolet radiation, are involved. Recently, the description of novel genes conferring susceptibility to develop SLE even in their own (monogenic lupus) has raised the interest in DNA dynamics since many of these genes are linked to DNA repair. Damage to DNA induces an inflammatory response and eventually triggers an immune response, including those targeting self-antigens. We review the evidence that indicates that patients with SLE present higher levels of DNA damage than normal subjects do and that several proteins involved in the preservation of the genomic stability show polymorphisms, some of which increase the risk for SLE development. Also, the experience from animal models reinforces the connection between DNA damage and defective repair in the development of SLE-like disease including characteristic features such as anti-DNA antibodies and nephritis. Defining the role of DNA damage response in SLE pathogenesis might be strategic in the quest for novel therapies.
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Markiewicz E, Idowu OC. Involvement of the nuclear structural proteins in aging-related responses of human skin to the environmental stress. Clin Cosmet Investig Dermatol 2018; 11:297-307. [PMID: 29928140 PMCID: PMC6003287 DOI: 10.2147/ccid.s163792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
Abstract
Human skin is a stratified endocrine organ with primary roles in protection against detrimental biochemical and biophysical factors in the environment. Environmental stress causes gradual accumulation of the macromolecular damage and clinical manifestations consistent with chronic inflammatory conditions and premature aging of the skin. Structural proteins of cell nucleus, the nuclear lamins and lamina-associated proteins, play an important role in the regulation of a number of signal transduction pathways associated with stress. The nuclear lamina proteins have been implicated in a number of degenerative disorders with frequent clinical manifestations of the skin conditions related to premature aging. Analysis of the molecular signatures in response of the skin to a range of damaging factors not only points at the likely involvement of the nuclear lamina in transmission of the signals between the environment and cell nucleus but also defines skin's sensitivity to stress, and therefore the capacities to counteract external damage in aging.
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- Ewa Markiewicz
- Hexis Lab, Science Central, The Core, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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Bukowska B, Karwowski BT. Actual state of knowledge in the field of diseases related with defective nucleotide excision repair. Life Sci 2018; 195:6-18. [DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2017.12.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2017] [Revised: 12/19/2017] [Accepted: 12/24/2017] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Muñoz MJ, Nieto Moreno N, Giono LE, Cambindo Botto AE, Dujardin G, Bastianello G, Lavore S, Torres-Méndez A, Menck CFM, Blencowe BJ, Irimia M, Foiani M, Kornblihtt AR. Major Roles for Pyrimidine Dimers, Nucleotide Excision Repair, and ATR in the Alternative Splicing Response to UV Irradiation. Cell Rep 2017; 18:2868-2879. [PMID: 28329680 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2017.02.066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2016] [Revised: 01/11/2017] [Accepted: 02/21/2017] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
Abstract
We have previously found that UV irradiation promotes RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) hyperphosphorylation and subsequent changes in alternative splicing (AS). We show now that UV-induced DNA damage is not only necessary but sufficient to trigger the AS response and that photolyase-mediated removal of the most abundant class of pyrimidine dimers (PDs) abrogates the global response to UV. We demonstrate that, in keratinocytes, RNAPII is the target, but not a sensor, of the signaling cascade initiated by PDs. The UV effect is enhanced by inhibition of gap-filling DNA synthesis, the last step in the nucleotide excision repair pathway (NER), and reduced by the absence of XPE, the main NER sensor of PDs. The mechanism involves activation of the protein kinase ATR that mediates the UV-induced RNAPII hyperphosphorylation. Our results define the sequence UV-PDs-NER-ATR-RNAPII-AS as a pathway linking DNA damage repair to the control of both RNAPII phosphorylation and AS regulation.
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- Manuel J Muñoz
- Instituto de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Neurociencias (IFIBYNE-UBA-CONICET) and Departamento de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Celular, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, C1428EHA Buenos Aires, Argentina; Fondazione Istituto FIRC di Oncologia Molecolare (IFOM), Via Adamello 16, 20139 Milan, Italy
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- Instituto de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Neurociencias (IFIBYNE-UBA-CONICET) and Departamento de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Celular, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, C1428EHA Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Instituto de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Neurociencias (IFIBYNE-UBA-CONICET) and Departamento de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Celular, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, C1428EHA Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Instituto de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Neurociencias (IFIBYNE-UBA-CONICET) and Departamento de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Celular, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, C1428EHA Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Instituto de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Neurociencias (IFIBYNE-UBA-CONICET) and Departamento de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Celular, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, C1428EHA Buenos Aires, Argentina; Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain; Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), 08003 Barcelona, Spain
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- Fondazione Istituto FIRC di Oncologia Molecolare (IFOM), Via Adamello 16, 20139 Milan, Italy
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- Fondazione Istituto FIRC di Oncologia Molecolare (IFOM), Via Adamello 16, 20139 Milan, Italy
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- Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain; Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), 08003 Barcelona, Spain
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- Departamento de Microbiologia, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo 05508-900, Brazil
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- Donnelly Centre and Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3E1, Canada
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- Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain; Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), 08003 Barcelona, Spain
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- Fondazione Istituto FIRC di Oncologia Molecolare (IFOM), Via Adamello 16, 20139 Milan, Italy
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- Instituto de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Neurociencias (IFIBYNE-UBA-CONICET) and Departamento de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Celular, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, C1428EHA Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Kakumu E, Nakanishi S, Shiratori HM, Kato A, Kobayashi W, Machida S, Yasuda T, Adachi N, Saito N, Ikura T, Kurumizaka H, Kimura H, Yokoi M, Sakai W, Sugasawa K. Xeroderma pigmentosum group C protein interacts with histones: regulation by acetylated states of histone H3. Genes Cells 2017; 22:310-327. [PMID: 28233440 DOI: 10.1111/gtc.12479] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2017] [Accepted: 01/13/2017] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
Abstract
In the mammalian global genome nucleotide excision repair pathway, two damage recognition factors, XPC and UV-DDB, play pivotal roles in the initiation of the repair reaction. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying regulation of the lesion recognition process in the context of chromatin structures remain to be understood. Here, we show evidence that damage recognition factors tend to associate with chromatin regions devoid of certain types of acetylated histones. Treatment of cells with histone deacetylase inhibitors retarded recruitment of XPC to sites of UV-induced DNA damage and the subsequent repair process. Biochemical studies showed novel multifaceted interactions of XPC with histone H3, which were profoundly impaired by deletion of the N-terminal tail of histone H3. In addition, histone H1 also interacted with XPC. Importantly, acetylation of histone H3 markedly attenuated the interaction with XPC in vitro, and local UV irradiation of cells decreased the level of H3K27ac in the damaged areas. Our results suggest that histone deacetylation plays a significant role in the process of DNA damage recognition for nucleotide excision repair and that the localization and functions of XPC can be regulated by acetylated states of histones.
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- Erina Kakumu
- Division of Genomic Functions and Dynamics, Biosignal Research Center, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, 657-8501, Japan.,Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, 657-8501, Japan
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- Division of Genomic Functions and Dynamics, Biosignal Research Center, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, 657-8501, Japan.,Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, 657-8501, Japan
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- Division of Genomic Functions and Dynamics, Biosignal Research Center, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, 657-8501, Japan.,Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, 657-8501, Japan
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- Division of Genomic Functions and Dynamics, Biosignal Research Center, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, 657-8501, Japan.,Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, 657-8501, Japan
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- Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 2-2 Wakamatsu-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162-8480, Japan
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- Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 2-2 Wakamatsu-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162-8480, Japan
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- National Institute for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba, 263-8555, Japan
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- Division of Molecular Pharmacology, Biosignal Research Center, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, 657-8501, Japan
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- Division of Molecular Pharmacology, Biosignal Research Center, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, 657-8501, Japan
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- Department of Mutagenesis, Radiation Biology Center, Kyoto University, Yoshidakonoe-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan
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- Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 2-2 Wakamatsu-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162-8480, Japan
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- Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama, 226-8501, Japan
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- Division of Genomic Functions and Dynamics, Biosignal Research Center, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, 657-8501, Japan.,Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, 657-8501, Japan.,Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, 657-8501, Japan
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- Division of Genomic Functions and Dynamics, Biosignal Research Center, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, 657-8501, Japan.,Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, 657-8501, Japan.,Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, 657-8501, Japan
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- Division of Genomic Functions and Dynamics, Biosignal Research Center, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, 657-8501, Japan.,Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, 657-8501, Japan.,Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, 657-8501, Japan
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Taghdiri M, Dastsooz H, Fardaei M, Mohammadi S, Farazi Fard MA, Faghihi MA. A Novel Mutation in ERCC8 Gene Causing Cockayne Syndrome. Front Pediatr 2017; 5:169. [PMID: 28848724 PMCID: PMC5552663 DOI: 10.3389/fped.2017.00169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2016] [Accepted: 07/18/2017] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
Abstract
Cockayne syndrome (CS) is a rare autosomal recessive multisystem disorder characterized by impaired neurological and sensory functions, cachectic dwarfism, microcephaly, and photosensitivity. This syndrome shows a variable age of onset and rate of progression, and its phenotypic spectrum include a wide range of severity. Due to the progressive nature of this disorder, diagnosis can be more important when additional signs and symptoms appear gradually and become steadily worse over time. Therefore, mutation analysis of genes involved in CS pathogenesis can be helpful to confirm the suspected clinical diagnosis. Here, we report a novel mutation in ERCC8 gene in a 16-year-old boy who suffers from poor weight gain, short stature, microcephaly, intellectual disability, and photosensitivity. The patient was born to consanguineous family with no previous documented disease in his parents. To identify disease-causing mutation in the patient, whole exome sequencing utilizing next-generation sequencing on an Illumina HiSeq 2000 platform was performed. Results revealed a novel homozygote mutation in ERCC8 gene (NM_000082: exon 11, c.1122G>C) in our patient. Another gene (ERCC6), which is also involved in CS did not have any disease-causing mutations in the proband. The new identified mutation was then confirmed by Sanger sequencing in the proband, his parents, and extended family members, confirming co-segregation with the disease. In addition, different bioinformatics programs which included MutationTaster, I-Mutant v2.0, NNSplice, Combined Annotation Dependent Depletion, The PhastCons, Genomic Evolutationary Rate Profiling conservation score, and T-Coffee Multiple Sequence Alignment predicted the pathogenicity of the mutation. Our study identified a rare novel mutation in ERCC8 gene and help to provide accurate genetic counseling and prenatal diagnosis to minimize new affected individuals in this family.
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- Maryam Taghdiri
- Genetic Counseling Center, Shiraz Welfare Organization, Shiraz, Iran.,Comprehensive Medical Genetic Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
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- Comprehensive Medical Genetic Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
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- Comprehensive Medical Genetic Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.,Department of Medical Genetics, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.,Center for Therapeutic Innovation, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States
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- Comprehensive Medical Genetic Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
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- Center for Therapeutic Innovation, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States
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Chitale S, Richly H. Timing of DNA lesion recognition: Ubiquitin signaling in the NER pathway. Cell Cycle 2016; 16:163-171. [PMID: 27929739 DOI: 10.1080/15384101.2016.1261227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Damaged DNA is repaired by specialized repair factors that are recruited in a well-orchestrated manner to the damage site. The DNA damage response at UV inflicted DNA lesions is accompanied by posttranslational modifications of DNA repair factors and the chromatin environment sourrounding the lesion. In particular, mono- and poly-ubiquitylation events are an integral part of the DNA damage signaling. Whereas ubiquitin signaling at DNA doublestrand breaks has been subject to intensive studies comparatively little is known about the intricacies of ubiquitylation events occurring during nucleotide excision repair (NER), the major pathway to remove bulky helix lesions. Both, the global genomic (GG-NER) and the transcription-coupled (TC-NER) branches of NER are subject to ubiquitylation and deubiquitylation processes.Here we summarize our current knowledge of the ubiquitylation network that drives DNA repair in the NER pathway and we discuss the crosstalk of ubiquitin signaling with other prominent post-translational modfications that might be essential to time the DNA damage recognition step.
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- Shalaka Chitale
- a Laboratory of Molecular Epigenetics, Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) , Mainz , Germany.,b Faculty of Biology, Johannes Gutenberg University , Mainz , Germany
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- a Laboratory of Molecular Epigenetics, Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) , Mainz , Germany
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Adam S, Dabin J, Chevallier O, Leroy O, Baldeyron C, Corpet A, Lomonte P, Renaud O, Almouzni G, Polo SE. Real-Time Tracking of Parental Histones Reveals Their Contribution to Chromatin Integrity Following DNA Damage. Mol Cell 2016; 64:65-78. [PMID: 27642047 PMCID: PMC5065526 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2016.08.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2016] [Revised: 06/20/2016] [Accepted: 08/11/2016] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Chromatin integrity is critical for cell function and identity but is challenged by DNA damage. To understand how chromatin architecture and the information that it conveys are preserved or altered following genotoxic stress, we established a system for real-time tracking of parental histones, which characterize the pre-damage chromatin state. Focusing on histone H3 dynamics after local UVC irradiation in human cells, we demonstrate that parental histones rapidly redistribute around damaged regions by a dual mechanism combining chromatin opening and histone mobilization on chromatin. Importantly, parental histones almost entirely recover and mix with new histones in repairing chromatin. Our data further define a close coordination of parental histone dynamics with DNA repair progression through the damage sensor DDB2 (DNA damage-binding protein 2). We speculate that this mechanism may contribute to maintaining a memory of the original chromatin landscape and may help preserve epigenome stability in response to DNA damage. Parental H3 histones redistribute to the periphery of UVC-damaged regions The redistribution involves histone mobilization on chromatin and chromatin opening Parental histones recover massively during repair progression Parental histone dynamics may help coordinate DNA repair with epigenome integrity
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- Salomé Adam
- Epigenetics & Cell Fate Centre, UMR7216 CNRS, Paris Diderot University, Sorbonne Paris Cité, F-75013 Paris, France; Laboratory of Nuclear Dynamics, UMR3664 CNRS, Institut Curie, PSL Research University, F-75005 Paris, France
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- Epigenetics & Cell Fate Centre, UMR7216 CNRS, Paris Diderot University, Sorbonne Paris Cité, F-75013 Paris, France
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- Epigenetics & Cell Fate Centre, UMR7216 CNRS, Paris Diderot University, Sorbonne Paris Cité, F-75013 Paris, France
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- Plateforme Imagerie Cellulaire et Tissulaire-Infrastructure en Biologie Santé et Agronomie, UMR3215 CNRS/U934 INSERM, Institut Curie, PSL Research University, F-75005 Paris, France
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- Laboratory of Nuclear Dynamics, UMR3664 CNRS, Institut Curie, PSL Research University, F-75005 Paris, France
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- Team Chromatin Assembly, Nuclear Domains, Virus, Institut NeuroMyoGène, LabEx DEVweCAN, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, UMR5310 CNRS/U1217 INSERM, F-69100 Lyon, France
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- Team Chromatin Assembly, Nuclear Domains, Virus, Institut NeuroMyoGène, LabEx DEVweCAN, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, UMR5310 CNRS/U1217 INSERM, F-69100 Lyon, France
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- Plateforme Imagerie Cellulaire et Tissulaire-Infrastructure en Biologie Santé et Agronomie, UMR3215 CNRS/U934 INSERM, Institut Curie, PSL Research University, F-75005 Paris, France
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- Laboratory of Nuclear Dynamics, UMR3664 CNRS, Institut Curie, PSL Research University, F-75005 Paris, France
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- Epigenetics & Cell Fate Centre, UMR7216 CNRS, Paris Diderot University, Sorbonne Paris Cité, F-75013 Paris, France.
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Sancar A. Mechanisms of DNA Repair by Photolyase and Excision Nuclease (Nobel Lecture). Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2016; 55:8502-27. [PMID: 27337655 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201601524] [Citation(s) in RCA: 174] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2016] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Ultraviolet light damages DNA by converting two adjacent thymines into a thymine dimer which is potentially mutagenic, carcinogenic, or lethal to the organism. This damage is repaired by photolyase and the nucleotide excision repair system in E. coli by nucleotide excision repair in humans. The work leading to these results is presented by Aziz Sancar in his Nobel Lecture.
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- Aziz Sancar
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
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Sancar A. Mechanismen der DNA-Reparatur durch Photolyasen und Exzisionsnukleasen (Nobel-Aufsatz). Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2016. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201601524] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Aziz Sancar
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics; University of North Carolina School of Medicine; Chapel Hill North Carolina USA
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Rüthemann P, Balbo Pogliano C, Naegeli H. Global-genome Nucleotide Excision Repair Controlled by Ubiquitin/Sumo Modifiers. Front Genet 2016; 7:68. [PMID: 27200078 PMCID: PMC4848295 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2016.00068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2016] [Accepted: 04/12/2016] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Global-genome nucleotide excision repair (GG-NER) prevents genome instability by excising a wide range of different DNA base adducts and crosslinks induced by chemical carcinogens, ultraviolet (UV) light or intracellular side products of metabolism. As a versatile damage sensor, xeroderma pigmentosum group C (XPC) protein initiates this generic defense reaction by locating the damage and recruiting the subunits of a large lesion demarcation complex that, in turn, triggers the excision of aberrant DNA by endonucleases. In the very special case of a DNA repair response to UV radiation, the function of this XPC initiator is tightly controlled by the dual action of cullin-type CRL4(DDB2) and sumo-targeted RNF111 ubiquitin ligases. This twofold protein ubiquitination system promotes GG-NER reactions by spatially and temporally regulating the interaction of XPC protein with damaged DNA across the nucleosome landscape of chromatin. In the absence of either CRL4(DDB2) or RNF111, the DNA excision repair of UV lesions is inefficient, indicating that these two ubiquitin ligases play a critical role in mitigating the adverse biological effects of UV light in the exposed skin.
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- Peter Rüthemann
- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich Zurich, Switzerland
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Ultraviolet Radiation-Induced Skin Aging: The Role of DNA Damage and Oxidative Stress in Epidermal Stem Cell Damage Mediated Skin Aging. Stem Cells Int 2016; 2016:7370642. [PMID: 27148370 PMCID: PMC4842382 DOI: 10.1155/2016/7370642] [Citation(s) in RCA: 182] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2015] [Accepted: 03/14/2016] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Skin is the largest human organ. Skin continually reconstructs itself to ensure its viability, integrity, and ability to provide protection for the body. Some areas of skin are continuously exposed to a variety of environmental stressors that can inflict direct and indirect damage to skin cell DNA. Skin homeostasis is maintained by mesenchymal stem cells in inner layer dermis and epidermal stem cells (ESCs) in the outer layer epidermis. Reduction of skin stem cell number and function has been linked to impaired skin homeostasis (e.g., skin premature aging and skin cancers). Skin stem cells, with self-renewal capability and multipotency, are frequently affected by environment. Ultraviolet radiation (UVR), a major cause of stem cell DNA damage, can contribute to depletion of stem cells (ESCs and mesenchymal stem cells) and damage of stem cell niche, eventually leading to photoinduced skin aging. In this review, we discuss the role of UV-induced DNA damage and oxidative stress in the skin stem cell aging in order to gain insights into the pathogenesis and develop a way to reduce photoaging of skin cells.
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Genna V, Gaspari R, Dal Peraro M, De Vivo M. Cooperative motion of a key positively charged residue and metal ions for DNA replication catalyzed by human DNA Polymerase-η. Nucleic Acids Res 2016; 44:2827-36. [PMID: 26935581 PMCID: PMC4824119 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2015] [Accepted: 02/19/2016] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Trans-lesion synthesis polymerases, like DNA Polymerase-η (Pol-η), are essential for cell survival. Pol-η bypasses ultraviolet-induced DNA damages via a two-metal-ion mechanism that assures DNA strand elongation, with formation of the leaving group pyrophosphate (PPi). Recent structural and kinetics studies have shown that Pol-η function depends on the highly flexible and conserved Arg61 and, intriguingly, on a transient third ion resolved at the catalytic site, as lately observed in other nucleic acid-processing metalloenzymes. How these conserved structural features facilitate DNA replication, however, is still poorly understood. Through extended molecular dynamics and free energy simulations, we unravel a highly cooperative and dynamic mechanism for DNA elongation and repair, which is here described by an equilibrium ensemble of structures that connect the reactants to the products in Pol-η catalysis. We reveal that specific conformations of Arg61 help facilitate the recruitment of the incoming base and favor the proper formation of a pre-reactive complex in Pol-η for efficient DNA editing. Also, we show that a third transient metal ion, which acts concertedly with Arg61, serves as an exit shuttle for the leaving PPi. Finally, we discuss how this effective and cooperative mechanism for DNA repair may be shared by other DNA-repairing polymerases.
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- Vito Genna
- Laboratory of Molecular Modeling & Drug Discovery, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Morego 30, 16163 Genoa, Italy
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- CONCEPT Lab., Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Morego 30, 16163, Genoa, Italy
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- Institute of Bioengineering, School of Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Molecular Modeling & Drug Discovery, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Morego 30, 16163 Genoa, Italy IAS-5 / INM-9 Computational Biomedicine Forschungszentrum Jülich, Wilhelm-Johnen-Straße 52428 Jülich, Germany
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Puumalainen MR, Rüthemann P, Min JH, Naegeli H. Xeroderma pigmentosum group C sensor: unprecedented recognition strategy and tight spatiotemporal regulation. Cell Mol Life Sci 2016; 73:547-66. [PMID: 26521083 PMCID: PMC4713717 DOI: 10.1007/s00018-015-2075-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2015] [Revised: 10/14/2015] [Accepted: 10/15/2015] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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The cellular defense system known as global-genome nucleotide excision repair (GG-NER) safeguards genome stability by eliminating a plethora of structurally unrelated DNA adducts inflicted by chemical carcinogens, ultraviolet (UV) radiation or endogenous metabolic by-products. Xeroderma pigmentosum group C (XPC) protein provides the promiscuous damage sensor that initiates this versatile NER reaction through the sequential recruitment of DNA helicases and endonucleases, which in turn recognize and excise insulting base adducts. As a DNA damage sensor, XPC protein is very unique in that it (a) displays an extremely wide substrate range, (b) localizes DNA lesions by an entirely indirect readout strategy, (c) recruits not only NER factors but also multiple repair players, (d) interacts avidly with undamaged DNA, (e) also interrogates nucleosome-wrapped DNA irrespective of chromatin compaction and (f) additionally functions beyond repair as a co-activator of RNA polymerase II-mediated transcription. Many recent reports highlighted the complexity of a post-translational circuit that uses polypeptide modifiers to regulate the spatiotemporal activity of this multiuse sensor during the UV damage response in human skin. A newly emerging concept is that stringent regulation of the diverse XPC functions is needed to prioritize DNA repair while avoiding the futile processing of undamaged genes or silent genomic sequences.
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- Marjo-Riitta Puumalainen
- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zürich-Vetsuisse, 8057, Zurich, Switzerland
- 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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- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zürich-Vetsuisse, 8057, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60607, USA.
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- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zürich-Vetsuisse, 8057, Zurich, Switzerland.
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Sehgal M, Singh TR. Systems biology approach for mutational and site-specific structural investigation of DNA repair genes for xeroderma pigmentosum. Gene 2014; 543:108-17. [DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2014.03.057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2013] [Accepted: 03/28/2014] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) genome replication requires host DNA damage responses (DDRs) and raises the possibility that DNA repair pathways may influence viral replication. We report here that a nucleotide excision repair (NER)-associated-factor is required for efficient HCMV DNA replication. Mutations in genes encoding NER factors are associated with xeroderma pigmentosum (XP). One of the XP complementation groups, XPE, involves mutation in ddb2, which encodes DNA damage binding protein 2 (DDB2). Infectious progeny virus production was reduced by >2 logs in XPE fibroblasts compared to levels in normal fibroblasts. The levels of immediate early (IE) (IE2), early (E) (pp65), and early/late (E/L) (gB55) proteins were decreased in XPE cells. These replication defects were rescued by infection with a retrovirus expressing DDB2 cDNA. Similar patterns of reduced viral gene expression and progeny virus production were also observed in normal fibroblasts that were depleted for DDB2 by RNA interference (RNAi). Mature replication compartments (RCs) were nearly absent in XPE cells, and there were 1.5- to 2.0-log reductions in viral DNA loads in infected XPE cells relative to those in normal fibroblasts. The expression of viral genes (UL122, UL44, UL54, UL55, and UL84) affected by DDB2 status was also sensitive to a viral DNA replication inhibitor, phosphonoacetic acid (PAA), suggesting that DDB2 affects gene expression upstream of or events associated with the initiation of DNA replication. Finally, a novel, infection-associated feedback loop between DDB2 and ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM) was observed in infected cells. Together, these results demonstrate that DDB2 and a DDB2-ATM feedback loop influence HCMV replication.
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Zhao R, Han C, Eisenhauer E, Kroger J, Zhao W, Yu J, Selvendiran K, Liu X, Wani AA, Wang QE. DNA damage-binding complex recruits HDAC1 to repress Bcl-2 transcription in human ovarian cancer cells. Mol Cancer Res 2013; 12:370-80. [PMID: 24249678 DOI: 10.1158/1541-7786.mcr-13-0281] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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UNLABELLED Elevated expression of the antiapoptotic factor Bcl-2 is believed to be one of the contributing factors to an increased relapse rate associated with multiple cisplatin-resistant cancers. DNA damage-binding protein complex subunit 2 (DDB2) has recently been revealed to play an important role in sensitizing human ovarian cancer cells to cisplatin-induced apoptosis through the downregulation of Bcl-2, but the underlying molecular mechanism remains poorly defined. Here, it is report that DDB2 functions as a transcriptional repressor for Bcl-2 in combination with DDB1. Quantitative ChIP and EMSA analysis revealed that DDB2 binds to a specific cis-acting element at the 5'-end of Bcl-2 P1 promoter. Overexpression of DDB2 resulted in marked losses of histone H3K9,14 acetylation along the Bcl-2 promoter and enhancer regions, concomitant with a local enrichment of HDAC1 to the Bcl-2 P1 core promoter in ovarian cancer cells. Coimmunoprecipitation and in vitro binding analyses identified a physical interaction between DDB1 and HDAC1, whereas downregulation of HDAC1 significantly enhanced Bcl-2 promoter activity. Finally, in comparison with wild-type DDB2, mutated DDB2, which is unable to repress Bcl-2 transcription, mediates a compromised apoptosis upon cisplatin treatment. Taken together, these data support a model wherein DDB1 and DDB2 cooperate to repress Bcl-2 transcription. DDB2 recognizes and binds to the Bcl-2 P1 promoter, and HDAC1 is recruited through the DDB1 subunit associated with DDB2 to deacetylate histone H3K9,14 across Bcl-2 regulatory regions, resulting in suppressed Bcl-2 transcription. IMPLICATIONS Increasing the expression of DDB complex may provide a molecular strategy for cancer therapy.
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- Ran Zhao
- Department of Radiology, The Ohio State University, Room 1014 BRT, 460 W. 12th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210.
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Stoyanova T, Roy N, Bhattacharjee S, Kopanja D, Valli T, Bagchi S, Raychaudhuri P. p21 cooperates with DDB2 protein in suppression of ultraviolet ray-induced skin malignancies. J Biol Chem 2011; 287:3019-28. [PMID: 22167187 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m111.295816] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Exposure to ultraviolet rays (UV) in sunlight is the main cause of skin cancer. Here, we show that the p53-induced genes DDB2 and p21 are down-regulated in skin cancer, and in the mouse model they functionally cooperate to prevent UV-induced skin cancer. Our previous studies demonstrated an antagonistic role of DDB2 and p21 in nucleotide excision repair and apoptosis. Surprisingly, we find that the loss of p21 restores nucleotide excision repair and apoptosis in Ddb2(-/-) mice, but it does not protect from UV-mediated skin carcinogenesis. In contrast, Ddb2(-/-)p21(-/-) mice are significantly more susceptible to UV-induced skin cancer than the Ddb2(-/-) or the p21(-/-) mice. We provide evidence that p21 deletion in the Ddb2(-/-) background causes a strong increase in cell proliferation. The increased proliferation in the Ddb2(-/-)p21(-/-) background is related to a severe deficiency in UV-induced premature senescence. Also, the oncogenic pro-proliferation transcription factor FOXM1 is overexpressed in the p21(-/-) background. Our results show that the anti-proliferative and the pro-senescence pathways of DDB2 and p21 are critical protection mechanisms against skin malignancies.
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- Tanya Stoyanova
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Cancer Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607, USA
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Fei J, Kaczmarek N, Luch A, Glas A, Carell T, Naegeli H. Regulation of nucleotide excision repair by UV-DDB: prioritization of damage recognition to internucleosomal DNA. PLoS Biol 2011; 9:e1001183. [PMID: 22039351 PMCID: PMC3201922 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2011] [Accepted: 09/15/2011] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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This study reveals the molecular mechanism by which the nucleotide excision repair protein DDB2 prioritises excision of UV-induced DNA lesions in the nucleosome landscape. How tightly packed chromatin is thoroughly inspected for DNA damage is one of the fundamental unanswered questions in biology. In particular, the effective excision of carcinogenic lesions caused by the ultraviolet (UV) radiation of sunlight depends on UV-damaged DNA-binding protein (UV-DDB), but the mechanism by which this DDB1-DDB2 heterodimer stimulates DNA repair remained enigmatic. We hypothesized that a distinctive function of this unique sensor is to coordinate damage recognition in the nucleosome repeat landscape of chromatin. Therefore, the nucleosomes of human cells have been dissected by micrococcal nuclease, thus revealing, to our knowledge for the first time, that UV-DDB associates preferentially with lesions in hypersensitive, hence, highly accessible internucleosomal sites joining the core particles. Surprisingly, the accompanying CUL4A ubiquitin ligase activity is necessary to retain the xeroderma pigmentosum group C (XPC) partner at such internucleosomal repair hotspots that undergo very fast excision kinetics. This CUL4A complex thereby counteracts an unexpected affinity of XPC for core particles that are less permissive than hypersensitive sites to downstream repair subunits. That UV-DDB also adopts a ubiquitin-independent function is evidenced by domain mapping and in situ protein dynamics studies, revealing direct but transient interactions that promote a thermodynamically unfavorable β-hairpin insertion of XPC into substrate DNA. We conclude that the evolutionary advent of UV-DDB correlates with the need for a spatiotemporal organizer of XPC positioning in higher eukaryotic chromatin. Like all molecules in living organisms, DNA undergoes spontaneous decay and is constantly under attack by endogenous and environmental agents. Unlike other molecules, however, DNA—the blueprint of heredity—cannot be re-created de novo; it can only be copied. The original blueprint must therefore remain pristine. All kinds of DNA damage pose a health hazard. DNA lesions induced by the ultraviolet (UV) component of sunlight, for example, can lead to skin aging and skin cancer. A repair process known as nucleotide excision repair (NER) is dedicated to correcting this UV damage. Although the enzymatic steps of this repair process are known in detail, we still do not understand how it copes with the native situation in the cell, where the DNA is tightly wrapped around protein spools called nucleosomes. Our study has revealed the molecular mechanism by which an enigmatic component of NER called UV-DDB stimulates excision of UV-induced lesions in the landscape of nucleosome-packaged DNA in human skin cells. In particular, we describe how this accessory protein prioritizes, in space and time, which UV lesions in packaged DNA to target for repair by NER complexes, thus optimizing the repair process.
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- Jia Fei
- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zürich-Vetsuisse, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zürich-Vetsuisse, Zürich, Switzerland
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- German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Department of Product Safety & Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zürich-Vetsuisse, Zürich, Switzerland
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Furman JL, Mok PW, Badran AH, Ghosh I. Turn-on DNA damage sensors for the direct detection of 8-oxoguanine and photoproducts in native DNA. J Am Chem Soc 2011; 133:12518-27. [PMID: 21520929 DOI: 10.1021/ja1116606] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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The integrity of the genetic information in all living organisms is constantly threatened by a variety of endogenous and environmental insults. To counter this risk, the DNA-damage response is employed for repairing lesions and maintaining genomic integrity. However, an aberrant DNA-damage response can potentially lead to genetic instability and mutagenesis, carcinogenesis, or cell death. To directly monitor DNA damage events in the context of native DNA, we have designed two new sensors utilizing genetically fragmented firefly luciferase (split luciferase). The sensors are comprised of a methyl-CpG binding domain (MBD) attached to one fragment of split luciferase for localizing the sensor to DNA (50-80% of the CpG dinucleotide sites in the genome are symmetrically methylated at cytosines), while a damage-recognition domain is attached to the complementary fragment of luciferase to probe adjacent nucleotides for lesions. Specifically, we utilized oxoguanine glycosylase 1 (OGG1) to detect 8-oxoguanine caused by exposure to reactive oxygen species and employed the damaged-DNA binding protein 2 (DDB2) for detection of pyrimidine dimer photoproducts induced by UVC light. These two sensors were optimized and validated using oligonucleotides, plasmids, and mammalian genomic DNA, as well as HeLa cells that were systematically exposed to a variety of environmental insults, demonstrating that this methodology utilizing MBD-directed DNA localization provides a simple, sensitive, and potentially general approach for the rapid profiling of specific chemical modifications associated with DNA damage and repair.
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- Jennifer L Furman
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, 1306 East University Boulevard, Tucson, Arizona 85721, United States
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Guerrero-Santoro J, Levine AS, Rapić-Otrin V. Co-localization of DNA repair proteins with UV-induced DNA damage in locally irradiated cells. Methods Mol Biol 2011; 682:149-61. [PMID: 21057927 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60327-409-8_12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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This chapter describes a technique in which indirect immunofluorescence is applied to visualize the process of nucleotide excision repair (NER) at the site of locally induced damage in DNA. UV-irradiation of cells through an isopore polycarbonate membrane filter generates cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPD) and (6-4) photoproducts (6-4PP) on a subnuclear area, which corresponds to the size of a pore on the membrane. Specific antibodies to CPD and 6-4PP define the damaged spot. The NER components co-localize at the damaged-DNA subnuclear spot, where the proteins are stained with the appropriate fluorescent antibodies. This relatively simple and affordable method facilitates the examination of the sequential assembly of NER proteins in the chromatin-embedded DNA photoproducts. The method also enhances the identification of repair auxiliary proteins and complexes, such as ubiquitin E3 ligases, involved in the initiation of NER on non-transcribed DNA.
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- Jennifer Guerrero-Santoro
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Trinucleotide expansion underlies several human diseases. Expansion occurs during multiple stages of human development in different cell types, and is sensitive to the gender of the parent who transmits the repeats. Repair and replication models for expansions have been described, but we do not know whether the pathway involved is the same under all conditions and for all repeat tract lengths, which differ among diseases. Currently, researchers rely on bacteria, yeast and mice to study expansion, but these models differ substantially from humans. We need now to connect the dots among human genetics, pathway biochemistry and the appropriate model systems to understand the mechanism of expansion as it occurs in human disease.
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Gaddameedhi S, Kemp MG, Reardon JT, Shields JM, Smith-Roe SL, Kaufmann WK, Sancar A. Similar nucleotide excision repair capacity in melanocytes and melanoma cells. Cancer Res 2010; 70:4922-30. [PMID: 20501836 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-10-0095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Sunlight UV exposure produces DNA photoproducts in skin that are repaired solely by nucleotide excision repair in humans. A significant fraction of melanomas are thought to result from UV-induced DNA damage that escapes repair; however, little evidence is available about the functional capacity of normal human melanocytes, malignant melanoma cells, and metastatic melanoma cells to repair UV-induced photoproducts in DNA. In this study, we measured nucleotide excision repair in both normal melanocytes and a panel of melanoma cell lines. Our results show that in 11 of 12 melanoma cell lines tested, UV photoproduct repair occurred as efficiently as in primary melanocytes. Importantly, repair capacity was not affected by mutation in the N-RAS or B-RAF oncogenes, nor was a difference observed between a highly metastatic melanoma cell line (A375SM) or its parental line (A375P). Lastly, we found that although p53 status contributed to photoproduct removal efficiency, its role did not seem to be mediated by enhanced expression or activity of DNA binding protein DDB2. We concluded that melanoma cells retain capacity for nucleotide excision repair, the loss of which probably does not commonly contribute to melanoma progression.
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- Shobhan Gaddameedhi
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
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Reactive oxygen species (ROS) is critical for premature senescence, a process significant in tumor suppression and cancer therapy. Here, we reveal a novel function of the nucleotide excision repair protein DDB2 in the accumulation of ROS in a manner that is essential for premature senescence. DDB2-deficient cells fail to undergo premature senescence induced by culture shock, exogenous oxidative stress, oncogenic stress, or DNA damage. These cells do not accumulate ROS following DNA damage. The lack of ROS accumulation in DDB2 deficiency results from high-level expression of the antioxidant genes in vitro and in vivo. DDB2 represses antioxidant genes by recruiting Cul4A and Suv39h and by increasing histone-H3K9 trimethylation. Moreover, expression of DDB2 also is induced by ROS. Together, our results show that, upon oxidative stress, DDB2 functions in a positive feedback loop by repressing the antioxidant genes to cause persistent accumulation of ROS and induce premature senescence.
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The genome of all organisms is constantly attacked by a variety of environmental and endogenous mutagens that cause cell death, apoptosis, senescence, genetic diseases and cancer. To mitigate these deleterious endpoints of genotoxic reactions, living organisms have evolved one or more mechanisms for repairing every type of naturally occurring DNA lesion. For example, double-strand breaks are rapidly religated by non-homologous end-joining. Homologous recombination is used for the high-fidelity repair of interstrand cross-links, double-strand breaks and other DNA injuries that disrupt the replication fork. Some genotoxic lesions inflicted by alkylating agents can be repaired by direct reversal of DNA damage. The base excision repair pathway takes advantage of multiple DNA glycosylases to remove modified or incorrect bases. Finally, the nucleotide excision repair machinery provides a versatile strategy to monitor DNA quality and eliminate all forms of helix-distorting DNA lesions, including a wide diversity of carcinogen adducts. The efficiency of DNA repair responses is enhanced by their coupling to transcription and coordination with the cell cycle circuit.
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Hannah J, Zhou P. Regulation of DNA damage response pathways by the cullin-RING ubiquitin ligases. DNA Repair (Amst) 2009; 8:536-43. [PMID: 19231300 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2009.01.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Eukaryotic cells repair ultraviolet light (UV)- and chemical carcinogen-induced DNA strand-distorting damage through the nucleotide excision repair (NER) pathway. Concurrent activation of the DNA damage checkpoints is also required to arrest the cell cycle and allow time for NER action. Recent studies uncovered critical roles for ubiquitin-mediated post-translational modifications in controlling both NER and checkpoint functions. In this review, we will discuss recent progress in delineating the roles of cullin-RING E3 ubiquitin ligases in orchestrating the cellular DNA damage response through ubiquitination of NER factors, histones, and checkpoint effectors.
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- Jeffrey Hannah
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College and Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, 1300 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, United States
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The XPE gene of xeroderma pigmentosum, its product and biological roles. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2009; 637:57-64. [PMID: 19181111 DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-09599-8_7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/16/2023]
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The nucleotide excision repair of DNA in human cells and its association with xeroderma pigmentosum. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2009; 637:113-9. [PMID: 19181116 DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-09599-8_12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/19/2023]
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Shell SM, Zou Y. Other proteins interacting with XP proteins. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2009; 637:103-12. [PMID: 19181115 DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-09599-8_11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Steven M Shell
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, James H. Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee 37614, USA
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Cellular concentrations of DDB2 regulate dynamic binding of DDB1 at UV-induced DNA damage. Mol Cell Biol 2008; 28:7402-13. [PMID: 18936169 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.01108-08] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Nucleotide excision repair (NER) is the principal pathway for counteracting cytotoxic and mutagenic effects of UV irradiation. To provide insight into the in vivo regulation of the DNA damage recognition step of global genome NER (GG-NER), we constructed cell lines expressing fluorescently tagged damaged DNA binding protein 1 (DDB1). DDB1 is a core subunit of a number of cullin 4-RING ubiquitin ligase complexes. UV-activated DDB1-DDB2-CUL4A-ROC1 ubiquitin ligase participates in the initiation of GG-NER and triggers the UV-dependent degradation of its subunit DDB2. We found that DDB1 rapidly accumulates on DNA damage sites. However, its binding to damaged DNA is not static, since DDB1 constantly dissociates from and binds to DNA lesions. DDB2, but not CUL4A, was indispensable for binding of DDB1 to DNA damage sites. The residence time of DDB1 on the damage site is independent of the main damage-recognizing protein of GG-NER, XPC, as well as of UV-induced proteolysis of DDB2. The amount of DDB1 that is temporally immobilized on damaged DNA critically depends on DDB2 levels in the cell. We propose a model in which UV-dependent degradation of DDB2 is important for the release of DDB1 from continuous association to unrepaired DNA and makes DDB1 available for its other DNA damage response functions.
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Zhao Q, Barakat BM, Qin S, Ray A, El-Mahdy MA, Wani G, Arafa ES, Mir SN, Wang QE, Wani AA. The p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase augments nucleotide excision repair by mediating DDB2 degradation and chromatin relaxation. J Biol Chem 2008; 283:32553-61. [PMID: 18806262 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m803963200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The p38 MAPK is a family of serine/threonine protein kinases that play important roles in cellular responses to external stress signals, e.g. UV irradiation. To assess the role of p38 MAPK pathway in nucleotide excision repair (NER), the most versatile DNA repair pathway, we determined the efficiency of NER in cells treated with p38 MAPK inhibitor SB203580 and found that p38 MAPK is required for the prompt repair of UV-induced DNA damage CPD. We further investigated the possible mechanism through which p38 MAPK regulates NER and found that p38 MAPK mediates UV-induced histone H3 acetylation and chromatin relaxation. Moreover, p38 MAPK also regulates UV-induced DDB2 ubiquitylation and degradation via phosphorylation of the target protein. Finally, our results showed that p38 MAPK is required for the recruitment of NER factors XPC and TFIIH to UV-induced DNA damage sites. We conclude that p38 MAPK regulates chromatin remodeling as well as DDB2 degradation for facilitating NER factor assembly.
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- Qun Zhao
- Department of Radiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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Kattan Z, Marchal S, Brunner E, Ramacci C, Leroux A, Merlin JL, Domenjoud L, Dauça M, Becuwe P. Damaged DNA binding protein 2 plays a role in breast cancer cell growth. PLoS One 2008; 3:e2002. [PMID: 18431487 PMCID: PMC2291195 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2008] [Accepted: 03/05/2008] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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The Damaged DNA binding protein 2 (DDB2), is involved in nucleotide excision repair as well as in other biological processes in normal cells, including transcription and cell cycle regulation. Loss of DDB2 function may be related to tumor susceptibility. However, hypothesis of this study was that DDB2 could play a role in breast cancer cell growth, resulting in its well known interaction with the proliferative marker E2F1 in breast neoplasia. DDB2 gene was overexpressed in estrogen receptor (ER)-positive (MCF-7 and T47D), but not in ER-negative breast cancer (MDA-MB231 and SKBR3) or normal mammary epithelial cell lines. In addition, DDB2 expression was significantly (3.0-fold) higher in ER-positive than in ER-negative tumor samples (P = 0.0208) from 16 patients with breast carcinoma. Knockdown of DDB2 by small interfering RNA in MCF-7 cells caused a decrease in cancer cell growth and colony formation. Inversely, introduction of the DDB2 gene into MDA-MB231 cells stimulated growth and colony formation. Cell cycle distribution and 5 Bromodeoxyuridine incorporation by flow cytometry analysis showed that the growth-inhibiting effect of DDB2 knockdown was the consequence of a delayed G1/S transition and a slowed progression through the S phase of MCF-7 cells. These results were supported by a strong decrease in the expression of S phase markers (Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen, cyclin E and dihydrofolate reductase). These findings demonstrate for the first time that DDB2 can play a role as oncogene and may become a promising candidate as a predictive marker in breast cancer.
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- Zilal Kattan
- Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire du Développement, EA 3446 Université Henri Poincaré-Nancy Université, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France
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- Centre Alexis Vautrin, UMR 7039 Institut Polytechnique de Lorraine/Université Henri Poincaré-Nancy Université/ CNRS, Vandoeuvre les Nancy, France
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- Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire du Développement, EA 3446 Université Henri Poincaré-Nancy Université, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France
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- Unité de Biologie des Tumeurs du Centre Alexis Vautrin, EA3452 Nancy Université, Vandoeuvre lès Nancy, France
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- Unité de Biologie des Tumeurs du Centre Alexis Vautrin, EA3452 Nancy Université, Vandoeuvre lès Nancy, France
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- Unité de Biologie des Tumeurs du Centre Alexis Vautrin, EA3452 Nancy Université, Vandoeuvre lès Nancy, France
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- Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire du Développement, EA 3446 Université Henri Poincaré-Nancy Université, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France
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- Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire du Développement, EA 3446 Université Henri Poincaré-Nancy Université, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France
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- Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire du Développement, EA 3446 Université Henri Poincaré-Nancy Université, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France
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Maillard O, Camenisch U, Blagoev KB, Naegeli H. Versatile protection from mutagenic DNA lesions conferred by bipartite recognition in nucleotide excision repair. Mutat Res 2008; 658:271-86. [PMID: 18321768 DOI: 10.1016/j.mrrev.2008.01.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2007] [Revised: 01/11/2008] [Accepted: 01/14/2008] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Nucleotide excision repair is a cut-and-patch pathway that eliminates potentially mutagenic DNA lesions caused by ultraviolet light, electrophilic chemicals, oxygen radicals and many other genetic insults. Unlike antigen recognition by the immune system, which employs billions of immunoglobulins and T-cell receptors, the nucleotide excision repair complex relies on just a few generic factors to detect an extremely wide range of DNA adducts. This molecular versatility is achieved by a bipartite strategy initiated by the detection of abnormal strand fluctuations, followed by the localization of injured residues through an enzymatic scanning process coupled to DNA unwinding. The early recognition subunits are able to probe the thermodynamic properties of nucleic acid substrates but avoid direct contacts with chemically altered bases. Only downstream subunits of the bipartite recognition process interact more closely with damaged bases to delineate the sites of DNA incision. Thus, consecutive factors expand the spectrum of deleterious genetic lesions conveyed to DNA repair by detecting distinct molecular features of target substrates.
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- Olivier Maillard
- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zürich-Vetsuisse, Winterthurerstrasse 260, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland
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Li J, Wang QE, Zhu Q, El-Mahdy MA, Wani G, Praetorius-Ibba M, Wani AA. DNA damage binding protein component DDB1 participates in nucleotide excision repair through DDB2 DNA-binding and cullin 4A ubiquitin ligase activity. Cancer Res 2007; 66:8590-7. [PMID: 16951172 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-06-1115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Functional defect in DNA damage binding (DDB) activity has a direct relationship to decreased nucleotide excision repair (NER) and increased susceptibility to cancer. DDB forms a complex with cullin 4A (Cul4A), which is now known to ubiquitylate DDB2, XPC, and histone H2A. However, the exact role of DDB1 in NER is unclear. In this study, we show that DDB1 knockdown in human cells impaired their ability to efficiently repair UV-induced cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPD) but not 6-4 photoproducts (6-4PP). Extensive nuclear protein fractionation and chromatin association analysis revealed that upon irradiation, DDB1 protein is translocated from a loosely bound to a tightly bound in vivo chromatin fraction and the DDB1 translocation required the participation of functional DDB2 protein. DDB1 knockdown also affected the translocation of Cul4A component to the tightly bound form in UV-damaged chromatin in vivo as well as its recruitment to the locally damaged nuclear foci in situ. However, DDB1 knockdown had no effect on DNA damage binding capacity of DDB2. The data indicated that DDB2 can bind to damaged DNA in vivo as a monomer, whereas Cul4A recruitment to damage sites depends on the fully assembled complex. Our data also showed that DDB1 is required for the UV-induced DDB2 ubiquitylation and degradation. In summary, the results suggest that (a) DDB1 is critical for efficient NER of CPD; (b) DDB1 acts in bridging DDB2 and ubiquitin ligase Cul4A; and (c) DDB1 aids in recruiting the ubiquitin ligase activity to the damaged sites for successful commencement of lesion processing by NER.
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- Jinyou Li
- Department of Radiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43240, USA
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The xeroderma pigmentosum group E gene product DDB2 activates nucleotide excision repair by regulating the level of p21Waf1/Cip1. Mol Cell Biol 2007; 28:177-87. [PMID: 17967871 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.00880-07] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The xeroderma pigmentosum group E gene product DDB2, a protein involved in nucleotide excision repair (NER), associates with the E3 ubiquitin ligase complex Cul4A-DDB1. But the precise role of these interactions in the NER activity of DDB2 is unclear. Several models, including DDB2-mediated ubiquitination of histones in UV-irradiated cells, have been proposed. But those models lack clear genetic evidence. Here we show that DDB2 participates in NER by regulating the cellular levels of p21(Waf1/Cip1). We show that DDB2 enhances nuclear accumulation of DDB1, which binds to a modified form of p53 containing phosphorylation at Ser18 (p53(S18P)) and targets it for degradation in low-dose-UV-irradiated cells. DDB2(-/-) mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs), unlike wild-type MEFs, are deficient in the proteolysis of p53(S18P). Accumulation of p53(S18P) in DDB2(-/-) MEFs causes higher expression p21(Waf1/Cip1). We show that the increased expression of p21(Waf1/Cip1) is the cause NER deficiency in DDB2(-/-) cells because deletion or knockdown of p21(Waf1/Cip1) reverses their NER-deficient phenotype. p21(Waf1/Cip1) was shown to bind PCNA, which is required for both DNA replication and NER. Moreover, an increased level of p21(Waf1/Cip1) was shown to inhibit NER both in vitro and in vivo. Our results provide genetic evidence linking the regulation of p21(Waf1/Cip1) to the NER activity of DDB2.
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Dehart JL, Planelles V. Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 Vpr links proteasomal degradation and checkpoint activation. J Virol 2007; 82:1066-72. [PMID: 17855541 PMCID: PMC2224437 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01628-07] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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- Jason L Dehart
- Department of Pathology, University of Utah School of Medicine, 15 North Medical Drive East #2100, Room 2520, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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Luijsterburg MS, Goedhart J, Moser J, Kool H, Geverts B, Houtsmuller AB, Mullenders LHF, Vermeulen W, van Driel R. Dynamic in vivo interaction of DDB2 E3 ubiquitin ligase with UV-damaged DNA is independent of damage-recognition protein XPC. J Cell Sci 2007; 120:2706-16. [PMID: 17635991 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.008367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Damage DNA binding protein 2 (DDB2) has a high affinity for UV-damaged DNA and has been implicated in the initial steps of global genome nucleotide excision repair (NER) in mammals. DDB2 binds to CUL4A and forms an E3 ubiquitin ligase. In this study, we have analyzed the properties of DDB2 and CUL4A in vivo. The majority of DDB2 and CUL4A diffuse in the nucleus with a diffusion rate consistent with a high molecular mass complex. Essentially all DDB2 binds to UV-induced DNA damage, where each molecule resides for approximately 2 minutes. After the induction of DNA damage, DDB2 is proteolytically degraded with a half-life that is two orders of magnitude larger than its residence time on a DNA lesion. This indicates that binding to damaged DNA is not the primary trigger for DDB2 breakdown. The bulk of DDB2 binds to and dissociates from DNA lesions independently of damage-recognition protein XPC. Moreover, the DDB2-containing E3 ubiquitin ligase is bound to many more damaged sites than XPC, suggesting that there is little physical interaction between the two proteins. We propose a scenario in which DDB2 prepares UV-damaged chromatin for assembly of the NER complex.
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- Martijn S Luijsterburg
- Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, BioCentrum Amsterdam, Nuclear Organisation Group, University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 318, 1098 SM Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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DeHart JL, Zimmerman ES, Ardon O, Monteiro-Filho CMR, Argañaraz ER, Planelles V. HIV-1 Vpr activates the G2 checkpoint through manipulation of the ubiquitin proteasome system. Virol J 2007; 4:57. [PMID: 17559673 PMCID: PMC1904188 DOI: 10.1186/1743-422x-4-57] [Citation(s) in RCA: 122] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2007] [Accepted: 06/08/2007] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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HIV-1 Vpr is a viral accessory protein that activates ATR through the induction of DNA replication stress. ATR activation results in cell cycle arrest in G2 and induction of apoptosis. In the present study, we investigate the role of the ubiquitin/proteasome system (UPS) in the above activity of Vpr. We report that the general function of the UPS is required for Vpr to induce G2 checkpoint activation, as incubation of Vpr-expressing cells with proteasome inhibitors abolishes this effect. We further investigated in detail the specific E3 ubiquitin ligase subunits that Vpr manipulates. We found that Vpr binds to the DCAF1 subunit of a cullin 4a/DDB1 E3 ubiquitin ligase. The carboxy-terminal domain Vpr(R80A) mutant, which is able to bind DCAF1, is inactive in checkpoint activation and has dominant-negative character. In contrast, the mutation Q65R, in the leucine-rich domain of Vpr that mediates DCAF1 binding, results in an inactive Vpr devoid of dominant negative behavior. Thus, the interaction of Vpr with DCAF1 is required, but not sufficient, for Vpr to cause G2 arrest. We propose that Vpr recruits, through its carboxy terminal domain, an unknown cellular factor that is required for G2-to-M transition. Recruitment of this factor leads to its ubiquitination and degradation, resulting in failure to enter mitosis.
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- Jason L DeHart
- Division of Cell Biology and Immunology, Department of Pathology, University of Utah School of Medicine, 15 North Medical Drive East #2100 – Room 2520, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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- Division of Cell Biology and Immunology, Department of Pathology, University of Utah School of Medicine, 15 North Medical Drive East #2100 – Room 2520, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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- Division of Cell Biology and Immunology, Department of Pathology, University of Utah School of Medicine, 15 North Medical Drive East #2100 – Room 2520, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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- Laboratório de Farmacologia Molecular (CP 04536), Faculdade de Saude, Universidade de Brasília, 70919-970 Brasília, DF, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Farmacologia Molecular (CP 04536), Faculdade de Saude, Universidade de Brasília, 70919-970 Brasília, DF, Brazil
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- Division of Cell Biology and Immunology, Department of Pathology, University of Utah School of Medicine, 15 North Medical Drive East #2100 – Room 2520, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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Itoh T, Iwashita S, Cohen MB, Meyerholz DK, Linn S. Ddb2 is a haploinsufficient tumor suppressor and controls spontaneous germ cell apoptosis. Hum Mol Genet 2007; 16:1578-86. [PMID: 17468495 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddm107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Damage-specific DNA-binding (DDB) protein heterodimer has been extensively studied in the context of nucleotide excision repair. However, the smaller subunit, DDB2, is also implicated in tumor suppressor p53-mediated processes, although the precise details of the DDB2 - p53 interactions are unknown. Here, we report that Ddb2(-/-) and Ddb2(+/-) mice have shortened lifespans and increased frequency and spectrum of spontaneous tumors. Notably, Ddb2 deficiency enhances lung and mammary adenocarcinomas. Ddb2(-/-) mice are smaller than normal. Whereas weights of kidneys and livers are reduced proportionately, spleens from Ddb2(-/-) mice gradually enlarge with age due to lymphoid proliferation. Ddb2(-/-) mice also have larger testes, and the testicular germ cells show significantly decreased spontaneous apoptosis. These changes parallel reduced levels of p53 and its serine 15 phosphorylation in testicular germ cells. Since tumors that appeared in heterozygous Ddb2(+/-) mice conserve the wild-type Ddb2 allele, Ddb2 RNA expression and Ddb2 exon sequence, Ddb2 heterozygosity can facilitate tumor development as a haploinsufficient tumor suppressor. These results demonstrate that in whole animals as in cultured cells Ddb2 can regulate apoptosis and tumor incidence.
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- Toshiki Itoh
- Department of Pathology, The University of Iowa, Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.
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Unsal-Kaçmaz K, Chastain PD, Qu PP, Minoo P, Cordeiro-Stone M, Sancar A, Kaufmann WK. The human Tim/Tipin complex coordinates an Intra-S checkpoint response to UV that slows replication fork displacement. Mol Cell Biol 2007; 27:3131-42. [PMID: 17296725 PMCID: PMC1899931 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.02190-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 192] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2006] [Revised: 12/15/2006] [Accepted: 02/02/2007] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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UV-induced DNA damage stalls DNA replication forks and activates the intra-S checkpoint to inhibit replicon initiation. In response to stalled replication forks, ATR phosphorylates and activates the transducer kinase Chk1 through interactions with the mediator proteins TopBP1, Claspin, and Timeless (Tim). Murine Tim recently was shown to form a complex with Tim-interacting protein (Tipin), and a similar complex was shown to exist in human cells. Knockdown of Tipin using small interfering RNA reduced the expression of Tim and reversed the intra-S checkpoint response to UVC. Tipin interacted with replication protein A (RPA) and RPA-coated DNA, and RPA promoted the loading of Tipin onto RPA-free DNA. Immunofluorescence analysis of spread DNA fibers showed that treating HeLa cells with 2.5 J/m(2) UVC not only inhibited the initiation of new replicons but also reduced the rate of chain elongation at active replication forks. The depletion of Tim and Tipin reversed the UV-induced inhibition of replicon initiation but affected the rate of DNA synthesis at replication forks in different ways. In undamaged cells depleted of Tim, the apparent rate of replication fork progression was 52% of the control. In contrast, Tipin depletion had little or no effect on fork progression in unirradiated cells but significantly attenuated the UV-induced inhibition of DNA chain elongation. Together, these findings indicate that the Tim-Tipin complex mediates the UV-induced intra-S checkpoint, Tim is needed to maintain DNA replication fork movement in the absence of damage, Tipin interacts with RPA on DNA and, in UV-damaged cells, Tipin slows DNA chain elongation in active replicons.
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- Keziban Unsal-Kaçmaz
- Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, CB 7295, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
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Leibeling D, Laspe P, Emmert S. Nucleotide excision repair and cancer. J Mol Histol 2006; 37:225-38. [PMID: 16855787 DOI: 10.1007/s10735-006-9041-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2006] [Accepted: 06/21/2006] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Nucleotide excision repair (NER) is the most versatile and best studied DNA repair system in humans. NER can repair a variety of bulky DNA damages including UV-light induced DNA photoproducts. NER consists of a multistep process in which the DNA lesion is recognized and demarcated by DNA unwinding. Then, an approximately 28 bp DNA damage containing oligonucleotide is excised followed by gap filling using the undamaged DNA strand as a template. The consequences of defective NER are demonstrated by three rare autosomal-recessive NER-defective syndromes: xeroderma pigmentosum (XP), Cockayne syndrome (CS), and trichothiodystrophy (TTD). XP patients show severe sun sensitivity, freckling in sun exposed skin, and develop skin cancers already during childhood. CS patients exhibit sun sensitivity, severe neurologic abnormalities, and cachectic dwarfism. Clinical symptoms of TTD patients include sun sensitivity, freckling in sun exposed skin areas, and brittle sulfur-deficient hair. In contrast to XP patients, CS and TTD patients are not skin cancer prone. Studying these syndromes can increase the knowledge of skin cancer development including cutaneous melanoma as well as basal and squamous cell carcinoma in general that may lead to new preventional and therapeutic anticancer strategies in the normal population.
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- Diana Leibeling
- Department of Dermatology and Venerology, Georg-August-University Goettingen, Von-Siebold-Strasse 3, 37075 Goettingen, Germany
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El-Mahdy MA, Zhu Q, Wang QE, Wani G, Prætorius-Ibba M, Wani AA. Cullin 4A-mediated proteolysis of DDB2 protein at DNA damage sites regulates in vivo lesion recognition by XPC. J Biol Chem 2006; 281:13404-13411. [PMID: 16527807 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m511834200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) complementation group E gene product, damaged DNA-binding protein 2 (DDB2), is a subunit of the DDB heterodimeric protein complex with high specificity for binding to a variety of DNA helix-distorting lesions. DDB is believed to play a role in the initial step of damage recognition in mammalian nucleotide excision repair (NER) of ultraviolet light (UV)-induced photolesions. It has been shown that DDB2 is rapidly degraded after cellular UV irradiation. However, the relevance of DDB2 degradation to its functionality in NER is still unknown. Here, we have provided evidence that Cullin 4A (CUL-4A), a key component of CUL-4A-based ubiquitin ligase, mediates DDB2 degradation at the damage sites and regulates the recruitment of XPC and the repair of cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers. We have shown that CUL-4A can be identified in a UV-responsive protein complex containing both DDB subunits. CUL-4A was visualized in localized UV-irradiated sites together with DDB2 and XPC. Degradation of DDB2 could be blocked by silencing CUL-4A using small interference RNA or by treating cells with proteasome inhibitor MG132. This blockage resulted in prolonged retention of DDB2 at the subnuclear DNA damage foci within micropore irradiated cells. Knock down of CUL-4A also decreased recruitment of the damage recognition factor, XPC, to the damaged foci and concomitantly reduced the removal of cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers from the entire genome. These results suggest that CUL-4A mediates the proteolytic degradation of DDB2 and that this degradation event, initiated at the lesion sites, regulates damage recognition by XPC during the early steps of NER.
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- Mohamed A El-Mahdy
- Department of Radiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
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- Department of Radiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
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- Department of Radiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
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- Department of Radiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
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- Department of Radiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210; Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210; James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210.
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Reardon JT, Sancar A. Purification and characterization of Escherichia coli and human nucleotide excision repair enzyme systems. Methods Enzymol 2006; 408:189-213. [PMID: 16793370 DOI: 10.1016/s0076-6879(06)08012-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Nucleotide excision repair is a multicomponent, multistep enzymatic system that removes a wide spectrum of DNA damage by dual incisions in the damaged strand on both sides of the lesion. The basic steps are damage recognition, dual incisions, resynthesis to replace the excised DNA, and ligation. Each step has been studied in vitro using cell extracts or highly purified repair factors and radiolabeled DNA of known sequence with DNA damage at a defined site. This chapter describes procedures for preparation of DNA substrates designed for analysis of damage recognition, either the 5' or the 3' incision event, excision (resulting from concerted dual incisions), and repair synthesis. Excision in Escherichia coli is accomplished by the three-subunit Uvr(A)BC excision nuclease and in humans by six repair factors: XPA, RPA, XPChR23B, TFIIH, XPFERCC1, and XPG. This chapter outlines methods for expression and purification of these essential repair factors and provides protocols for performing each of the in vitro repair assays with either the E. coli or the human excision nuclease.
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- Joyce T Reardon
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, USA
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