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Ghaddar N, Luciano P, Géli V, Corda Y. Chromatin assembly factor-1 preserves genome stability in ctf4Δ cells by promoting sister chromatid cohesion. Cell Stress 2023; 7:69-89. [PMID: 37662646 PMCID: PMC10468696 DOI: 10.15698/cst2023.09.289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2023] [Revised: 07/31/2023] [Accepted: 08/01/2023] [Indexed: 09/05/2023] Open
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Chromatin assembly and the establishment of sister chromatid cohesion are intimately connected to the progression of DNA replication forks. Here we examined the genetic interaction between the heterotrimeric chromatin assembly factor-1 (CAF-1), a central component of chromatin assembly during replication, and the core replisome component Ctf4. We find that CAF-1 deficient cells as well as cells affected in newly-synthesized H3-H4 histones deposition during DNA replication exhibit a severe negative growth with ctf4Δ mutant. We dissected the role of CAF-1 in the maintenance of genome stability in ctf4Δ yeast cells. In the absence of CTF4, CAF-1 is essential for viability in cells experiencing replication problems, in cells lacking functional S-phase checkpoint or functional spindle checkpoint, and in cells lacking DNA repair pathways involving homologous recombination. We present evidence that CAF-1 affects cohesin association to chromatin in a DNA-damage-dependent manner and is essential to maintain cohesion in the absence of CTF4. We also show that Eco1-catalyzed Smc3 acetylation is reduced in absence of CAF-1. Furthermore, we describe genetic interactions between CAF-1 and essential genes involved in cohesin loading, cohesin stabilization, and cohesin component indicating that CAF-1 is crucial for viability when sister chromatid cohesion is affected. Finally, our data indicate that the CAF-1-dependent pathway required for cohesion is functionally distinct from the Rtt101-Mms1-Mms22 pathway which functions in replicated chromatin assembly. Collectively, our results suggest that the deposition by CAF-1 of newly-synthesized H3-H4 histones during DNA replication creates a chromatin environment that favors sister chromatid cohesion and maintains genome integrity.
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- Nagham Ghaddar
- Marseille Cancer Research Centre (CRCM), U1068 INSERM, UMR7258 CNRS, UM105 Aix Marseille Univ, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, Marseille, France. Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer (Labeled Equip)
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- Marseille Cancer Research Centre (CRCM), U1068 INSERM, UMR7258 CNRS, UM105 Aix Marseille Univ, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, Marseille, France. Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer (Labeled Equip)
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- Marseille Cancer Research Centre (CRCM), U1068 INSERM, UMR7258 CNRS, UM105 Aix Marseille Univ, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, Marseille, France. Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer (Labeled Equip)
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- Marseille Cancer Research Centre (CRCM), U1068 INSERM, UMR7258 CNRS, UM105 Aix Marseille Univ, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, Marseille, France. Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer (Labeled Equip)
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Golla U, Bandi G, Tomar RS. Molecular Cytotoxicity Mechanisms of Allyl Alcohol (Acrolein) in Budding Yeast. Chem Res Toxicol 2015; 28:1246-64. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrestox.5b00071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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- Upendarrao Golla
- Laboratory of Chromatin Biology,
Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal-462023, India
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- Laboratory of Chromatin Biology,
Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal-462023, India
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- Laboratory of Chromatin Biology,
Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal-462023, India
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Replisome function during replicative stress is modulated by histone h3 lysine 56 acetylation through Ctf4. Genetics 2015; 199:1047-63. [PMID: 25697176 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.114.173856] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2014] [Accepted: 02/06/2015] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Histone H3 lysine 56 acetylation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is required for the maintenance of genome stability under normal conditions and upon DNA replication stress. Here we show that in the absence of H3 lysine 56 acetylation replisome components become deleterious when replication forks collapse at natural replication block sites. This lethality is not a direct consequence of chromatin assembly defects during replication fork progression. Rather, our genetic analyses suggest that in the presence of replicative stress H3 lysine 56 acetylation uncouples the Cdc45-Mcm2-7-GINS DNA helicase complex and DNA polymerases through the replisome component Ctf4. In addition, we discovered that the N-terminal domain of Ctf4, necessary for the interaction of Ctf4 with Mms22, an adaptor protein of the Rtt101-Mms1 E3 ubiquitin ligase, is required for the function of the H3 lysine 56 acetylation pathway, suggesting that replicative stress promotes the interaction between Ctf4 and Mms22. Taken together, our results indicate that Ctf4 is an essential member of the H3 lysine 56 acetylation pathway and provide novel mechanistic insights into understanding the role of H3 lysine 56 acetylation in maintaining genome stability upon replication stress.
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Sgs1 and Sae2 promote telomere replication by limiting accumulation of ssDNA. Nat Commun 2014; 5:5004. [DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2014] [Accepted: 08/15/2014] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Rubinstein L, Ungar L, Harari Y, Babin V, Ben-Aroya S, Merenyi G, Marjavaara L, Chabes A, Kupiec M. Telomere length kinetics assay (TELKA) sorts the telomere length maintenance (tlm) mutants into functional groups. Nucleic Acids Res 2014; 42:6314-25. [PMID: 24728996 PMCID: PMC4041441 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Genome-wide systematic screens in yeast have uncovered a large gene network (the telomere length maintenance network or TLM), encompassing more than 400 genes, which acts coordinatively to maintain telomere length. Identifying the genes was an important first stage; the next challenge is to decipher their mechanism of action and to organize then into functional groups or pathways. Here we present a new telomere-length measuring program, TelQuant, and a novel assay, telomere length kinetics assay, and use them to organize tlm mutants into functional classes. Our results show that a mutant defective for the relatively unknown MET7 gene has the same telomeric kinetics as mutants defective for the ribonucleotide reductase subunit Rnr1, in charge of the limiting step in dNTP synthesis, or for the Ku heterodimer, a well-established telomere complex. We confirm the epistatic relationship between the mutants and show that physical interactions exist between Rnr1 and Met7. We also show that Met7 and the Ku heterodimer affect dNTP formation, and play a role in non-homologous end joining. Thus, our telomere kinetics assay uncovers new functional groups, as well as complex genetic interactions between tlm mutants.
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- Linda Rubinstein
- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel
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- Faculty of Life Sciences Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics and Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Umeå University, Umeå 901 87, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics and Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Umeå University, Umeå 901 87, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics and Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Umeå University, Umeå 901 87, Sweden
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel
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Germann SM, Schramke V, Pedersen RT, Gallina I, Eckert-Boulet N, Oestergaard VH, Lisby M. TopBP1/Dpb11 binds DNA anaphase bridges to prevent genome instability. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2013; 204:45-59. [PMID: 24379413 PMCID: PMC3882784 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201305157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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TopBP1/Dpb11 prevents accumulation of anaphase chromatin bridges by stimulating the Mec1/ATR kinase and suppressing homologous recombination. DNA anaphase bridges are a potential source of genome instability that may lead to chromosome breakage or nondisjunction during mitosis. Two classes of anaphase bridges can be distinguished: DAPI-positive chromatin bridges and DAPI-negative ultrafine DNA bridges (UFBs). Here, we establish budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the avian DT40 cell line as model systems for studying DNA anaphase bridges and show that TopBP1/Dpb11 plays an evolutionarily conserved role in their metabolism. Together with the single-stranded DNA binding protein RPA, TopBP1/Dpb11 binds to UFBs, and depletion of TopBP1/Dpb11 led to an accumulation of chromatin bridges. Importantly, the NoCut checkpoint that delays progression from anaphase to abscission in yeast was activated by both UFBs and chromatin bridges independently of Dpb11, and disruption of the NoCut checkpoint in Dpb11-depleted cells led to genome instability. In conclusion, we propose that TopBP1/Dpb11 prevents accumulation of anaphase bridges via stimulation of the Mec1/ATR kinase and suppression of homologous recombination.
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- Susanne M Germann
- Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Ole Maaloeesvej 5, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
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Hector RE, Ray A, Chen BR, Shtofman R, Berkner KL, Runge KW. Mec1p associates with functionally compromised telomeres. Chromosoma 2012; 121:277-90. [PMID: 22289863 PMCID: PMC3350766 DOI: 10.1007/s00412-011-0359-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2011] [Revised: 12/30/2011] [Accepted: 12/30/2011] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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In many organisms, telomere DNA consists of simple sequence repeat tracts that are required to protect the chromosome end. In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, tract maintenance requires two checkpoint kinases of the ATM family, Tel1p and Mec1p. Previous work has shown that Tel1p is recruited to functional telomeres with shorter repeat tracts to promote telomerase-mediated repeat addition, but the role of Mec1p is unknown. We found that Mec1p telomere association was detected as cells senesced when telomere function was compromised by extreme shortening due to either the loss of telomerase or the double-strand break binding protein Ku. Exonuclease I effects the removal of the 5' telomeric strand, and eliminating it prevented both senescence and Mec1p telomere association. Thus, in contrast to Tel1p, Mec1p associates with short, functionally compromised telomeres.
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- Ronald E. Hector
- Department of Molecular Genetics, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University, Lerner Research Institute, 9500 Euclid Avenue, NE20, Cleveland, OH 44195 USA
- Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106-4920 USA
- Present Address: NCAUR, ARS, USDA, 1815 N. University St., Peoria, IL 61604 USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University, Lerner Research Institute, 9500 Euclid Avenue, NE20, Cleveland, OH 44195 USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University, Lerner Research Institute, 9500 Euclid Avenue, NE20, Cleveland, OH 44195 USA
- Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106-4920 USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University, Lerner Research Institute, 9500 Euclid Avenue, NE20, Cleveland, OH 44195 USA
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- Department of Molecular Cardiology, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University, Lerner Research Institute, 9500 Euclid Avenue, NB50, Cleveland, OH 44195 USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University, Lerner Research Institute, 9500 Euclid Avenue, NE20, Cleveland, OH 44195 USA
- Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106-4920 USA
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dNTP pools determine fork progression and origin usage under replication stress. EMBO J 2012; 31:883-94. [PMID: 22234185 DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2011.470] [Citation(s) in RCA: 210] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2011] [Accepted: 12/01/2011] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Intracellular deoxyribonucleoside triphosphate (dNTP) pools must be tightly regulated to preserve genome integrity. Indeed, alterations in dNTP pools are associated with increased mutagenesis, genomic instability and tumourigenesis. However, the mechanisms by which altered or imbalanced dNTP pools affect DNA synthesis remain poorly understood. Here, we show that changes in intracellular dNTP levels affect replication dynamics in budding yeast in different ways. Upregulation of the activity of ribonucleotide reductase (RNR) increases elongation, indicating that dNTP pools are limiting for normal DNA replication. In contrast, inhibition of RNR activity with hydroxyurea (HU) induces a sharp transition to a slow-replication mode within minutes after S-phase entry. Upregulation of RNR activity delays this transition and modulates both fork speed and origin usage under replication stress. Interestingly, we also observed that chromosomal instability (CIN) mutants have increased dNTP pools and show enhanced DNA synthesis in the presence of HU. Since upregulation of RNR promotes fork progression in the presence of DNA lesions, we propose that CIN mutants adapt to chronic replication stress by upregulating dNTP pools.
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Gomez-Manzano C, Jiang H, Alonso M, Yung WKA, Fueyo J. Gene therapy. HANDBOOK OF CLINICAL NEUROLOGY 2012; 104:331-8. [PMID: 22230451 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-444-52138-5.00021-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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- Candelaria Gomez-Manzano
- Department of Neuro-oncology, The University of Texas, M. D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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Barlow JH, Lisby M, Rothstein R. Differential regulation of the cellular response to DNA double-strand breaks in G1. Mol Cell 2008; 30:73-85. [PMID: 18406328 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2008.01.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 138] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2007] [Revised: 12/03/2007] [Accepted: 01/25/2008] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Double-strand breaks (DSBs) are potentially lethal DNA lesions that can be repaired by either homologous recombination (HR) or nonhomologous end-joining (NHEJ). We show that DSBs induced by ionizing radiation (IR) are efficiently processed for HR and bound by Rfa1 during G1, while endonuclease-induced breaks are recognized by Rfa1 only after the cell enters S phase. This difference is dependent on the DNA end-binding Yku70/Yku80 complex. Cell-cycle regulation is also observed in the DNA damage checkpoint response. Specifically, the 9-1-1 complex is required in G1 cells to recruit the Ddc2 checkpoint protein to damaged DNA, while, upon entry into S phase, the cyclin-dependent kinase Cdc28 and the 9-1-1 complex both serve to recruit Ddc2 to foci. Together, these results demonstrate that the DNA repair machinery distinguishes between different types of damage in G1, which translates into different modes of checkpoint activation in G1 and S/G2 cells.
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- Jacqueline H Barlow
- Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Medical Center, 701 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032-2704, USA
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Pike BL, Heierhorst J. Mdt1 facilitates efficient repair of blocked DNA double-strand breaks and recombinational maintenance of telomeres. Mol Cell Biol 2007; 27:6532-45. [PMID: 17636027 PMCID: PMC2099617 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.00471-07] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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DNA recombination plays critical roles in DNA repair and alternative telomere maintenance. Here we show that absence of the SQ/TQ cluster domain-containing protein Mdt1 (Ybl051c) renders Saccharomyces cerevisiae particularly hypersensitive to bleomycin, a drug that causes 3'-phospho-glycolate-blocked DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs). mdt1Delta also hypersensitizes partially recombination-defective cells to camptothecin-induced 3'-phospho-tyrosyl protein-blocked DSBs. Remarkably, whereas mdt1Delta cells are unable to restore broken chromosomes after bleomycin treatment, they efficiently repair "clean" endonuclease-generated DSBs. Epistasis analyses indicate that MDT1 acts in the repair of bleomycin-induced DSBs by regulating the efficiency of the homologous recombination pathway as well as telomere-related functions of the KU complex. Moreover, mdt1Delta leads to severe synthetic growth defects with a deletion of the recombination facilitator and telomere-positioning factor gene CTF18 already in the absence of exogenous DNA damage. Importantly, mdt1Delta causes a dramatic shift from the usually prevalent type II to the less-efficient type I pathway of recombinational telomere maintenance in the absence of telomerase in liquid senescence assays. As telomeres resemble protein-blocked DSBs, the results indicate that Mdt1 acts in a novel blocked-end-specific recombination pathway that is required for the efficiency of both drug-induced DSB repair and telomerase-independent telomere maintenance.
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- Brietta L Pike
- St. Vincent's Institute of Medical Research, 9 Princes Street, Fitzroy, VIC 3065, Australia
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Tam ATY, Pike BL, Hammet A, Heierhorst J. Telomere-related functions of yeast KU in the repair of bleomycin-induced DNA damage. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2007; 357:800-3. [PMID: 17442269 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.04.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2007] [Accepted: 04/03/2007] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Bleomycins are small glycopeptide cancer chemotherapeutics that give rise to 3'-modified DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs). In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, DSBs are predominantly repaired by RAD52-dependent homologous recombination (HR) with some support by Yku70/Yku80 (KU)-dependent pathways. The main DSB repair function of KU is believed to be as part of the non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ) pathway, but KU also functions in a "chromosome healing" pathway that seals DSBs by de novo telomere addition. We report here that rad52Deltayku70Delta double mutants are considerably more bleomycin hypersensitive than rad52Deltalig4Delta cells that lack the NHEJ-specific DNA ligase 4. Moreover, the telomere-specific KU mutation yku80-135i also dramatically increases rad52Delta bleomycin hypersensitivity, almost to the level of rad52Deltayku80Delta. The results indicate that telomere-specific functions of KU play a more prominent role in the repair of bleomycin-induced damage than its NHEJ functions, which could have important clinical implications for bleomycin-based combination chemotherapies.
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- Angela T Y Tam
- St. Vincent's Institute of Medical Research, 9 Princes Street, Fitzroy, Vic. 3065, Australia
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In response to even a single chromosomal double-strand DNA break, cells enact the DNA damage checkpoint. This checkpoint triggers cell cycle arrest, providing time for the cell to repair damaged chromosomes before entering mitosis. This mechanism helps prevent the segregation of damaged or mutated chromosomes and thus promotes genomic stability. Recent work has elucidated the molecular mechanisms underlying several critical steps in checkpoint activation, notably the recruitment of the upstream checkpoint kinases of the ATM and ATR families to different damaged DNA structures and the molecular events through which these kinases activate their effectors. Chromatin modification has emerged as one important component of checkpoint activation and maintenance. Following DNA repair, the checkpoint pathway is inactivated in a process termed recovery. A related but genetically distinct process, adaptation, controls cell cycle re-entry in the face of unrepairable damage.
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- Jacob C Harrison
- Department of Biology and Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02445, USA.
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Jiang H, Alonso MM, Gomez-Manzano C, Piao Y, Fueyo J. Oncolytic viruses and DNA-repair machinery: overcoming chemoresistance of gliomas. Expert Rev Anticancer Ther 2007; 6:1585-92. [PMID: 17134363 DOI: 10.1586/14737140.6.11.1585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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The current standard of care for malignant gliomas is surgical resection and radiotherapy followed by extended adjuvant treatment with the alkylating agent temozolomide. Temozolomide causes DNA damage, which induces cell death. Through changes in the DNA-repair machinery, glioma cells develop resistance to temozolomide, compromising the therapeutic effect of the drug. Oncolytic viruses, such as herpes simplex viruses and adenoviruses, are being introduced into clinical trials as a new treatment for this malignancy. Biological studies have revealed that these viruses use mechanisms to either inactivate (adenovirus) or take advantage of (herpes simplex virus) the cellular DNA-repair machinery to achieve productive replication. Adenoviruses express proteins from the early genes to either downregulate the damage-repair enzyme, O(6)-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase, or degrade poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase or the Mre11-Rad50-NBS1 complex, which detects DNA strand breaks. Temozolomide enhances herpes simplex virus oncolysis by upregulating the DNA repair-related genes growth arrest DNA damage 34 and ribonucleotide reductase. The interactions between viruses and the DNA-repair machinery suggest that a combined temozolomide and viral therapy will overcome the limitations of a single therapy by diminishing chemoresistance or enhancing oncolysis. This hypothesis has been supported by promising findings from preclinical and clinical studies.
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- Hong Jiang
- University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Neuro-Oncology, 1515 Holcombe Blvd., Box 1002, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
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