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Ngo TTM, Liu B, Wang F, Basu A, Wu C, Ha T. Dependence of nucleosome mechanical stability on DNA mismatches. eLife 2024; 13:RP95514. [PMID: 38656237 DOI: 10.7554/elife.95514] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/26/2024] Open
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The organization of nucleosomes into chromatin and their accessibility are shaped by local DNA mechanics. Conversely, nucleosome positions shape genetic variations, which may originate from mismatches during replication and chemical modification of DNA. To investigate how DNA mismatches affect the mechanical stability and the exposure of nucleosomal DNA, we used an optical trap combined with single-molecule FRET and a single-molecule FRET cyclization assay. We found that a single base-pair C-C mismatch enhances DNA bendability and nucleosome mechanical stability for the 601-nucleosome positioning sequence. An increase in force required for DNA unwrapping from the histone core is observed for single base-pair C-C mismatches placed at three tested positions: at the inner turn, at the outer turn, or at the junction of the inner and outer turn of the nucleosome. The results support a model where nucleosomal DNA accessibility is reduced by mismatches, potentially explaining the preferred accumulation of single-nucleotide substitutions in the nucleosome core and serving as the source of genetic variation during evolution and cancer progression. Mechanical stability of an intact nucleosome, that is mismatch-free, is also dependent on the species as we find that yeast nucleosomes are mechanically less stable and more symmetrical in the outer turn unwrapping compared to Xenopus nucleosomes.
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- Thuy T M Ngo
- Department of Physics, Center for Physics in Living Cells University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States
- Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, United States
- Cancer Early Detection Advanced Research Center (CEDAR), Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, United States
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, United States
- Division of Oncological Sciences, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, United States
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- Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States
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- Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, United States
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- Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States
- Department of Biosciences, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States
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- Department of Physics, Center for Physics in Living Cells University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States
- Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States
- Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States
- Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, United States
- Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, United States
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The shaping of cancer genomes with the regional impact of mutation processes. EXPERIMENTAL & MOLECULAR MEDICINE 2022; 54:1049-1060. [PMID: 35902761 PMCID: PMC9355972 DOI: 10.1038/s12276-022-00808-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2022] [Revised: 04/03/2022] [Accepted: 04/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Mutation signature analysis has been used to infer the contributions of various DNA mutagenic-repair events in individual cancer genomes. Here, we build a statistical framework using a multinomial distribution to assign individual mutations to their cognate mutation signatures. We applied it to 47 million somatic mutations in 1925 publicly available cancer genomes to obtain a mutation signature map at the resolution of individual somatic mutations. Based on mutation signature-level genetic-epigenetic correlative analyses, mutations with transcriptional and replicative strand asymmetries show different enrichment patterns across genomes, and “transcribed” chromatin states and gene boundaries are particularly vulnerable to transcription-coupled repair activities. While causative processes of cancer-driving mutations can be diverse, as shown for converging effects of multiple mutational processes on TP53 mutations, the substantial fraction of recurrently mutated amino acids points to specific mutational processes, e.g., age-related C-to-T transition for KRAS p.G12 mutations. Our investigation of evolutionary trajectories with respect to mutation signatures further revealed that candidate pairs of early- vs. late-operative mutation processes in cancer genomes represent evolutionary dynamics of multiple mutational processes in the shaping of cancer genomes. We also observed that the local mutation clusters of kataegis often include mutations arising from multiple mutational processes, suggestive of a locally synchronous impact of multiple mutational processes on cancer genomes. Taken together, our examination of the genome-wide landscape of mutation signatures at the resolution of individual somatic mutations shows the spatially and temporally distinct mutagenesis-repair-replication histories of various mutational processes and their effects on shaping cancer genomes. A statistical model that assigns non-hereditary DNA alterations known as somatic mutations to mutation “signatures” (groups of mutations arising from a specific biological process) on cancer genomes provides novel insights into disease evolution. Somatic mutations result from exposure to factors often linked to cancer development, such as tobacco or ultraviolet radiation. However, assigning a somatic mutation to a particular mutation “signature” remains challenging. The model created by Ruibin Xi (Peking University, China) and Tae-Min Kim (Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea) and co-workers grouped 47 million somatic mutations in 1925 cancer genomes into localized clusters before connecting them with mutation signatures. This strategy highlights the spatial and temporal patterns related to the origins of mutations, how the DNA strands are repaired and replicated, and how this influences the emerging cancer genome.
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Dietlein F, Wang AB, Fagre C, Tang A, Besselink NJM, Cuppen E, Li C, Sunyaev SR, Neal JT, Van Allen EM. Genome-wide analysis of somatic noncoding mutation patterns in cancer. Science 2022; 376:eabg5601. [PMID: 35389777 PMCID: PMC9092060 DOI: 10.1126/science.abg5601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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We established a genome-wide compendium of somatic mutation events in 3949 whole cancer genomes representing 19 tumor types. Protein-coding events captured well-established drivers. Noncoding events near tissue-specific genes, such as ALB in the liver or KLK3 in the prostate, characterized localized passenger mutation patterns and may reflect tumor-cell-of-origin imprinting. Noncoding events in regulatory promoter and enhancer regions frequently involved cancer-relevant genes such as BCL6, FGFR2, RAD51B, SMC6, TERT, and XBP1 and represent possible drivers. Unlike most noncoding regulatory events, XBP1 mutations primarily accumulated outside the gene's promoter, and we validated their effect on gene expression using CRISPR-interference screening and luciferase reporter assays. Broadly, our study provides a blueprint for capturing mutation events across the entire genome to guide advances in biological discovery, therapies, and diagnostics.
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- Felix Dietlein
- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA.,Cancer Program, Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.,Corresponding author. (E.M.V.A.); (F.D.)
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- Cancer Program, Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Cancer Program, Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA.,Cancer Program, Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Center for Molecular Medicine and Oncode Institute, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CX Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Center for Molecular Medicine and Oncode Institute, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CX Utrecht, Netherlands.,Hartwig Medical Foundation, 1098 XH Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Tumor Cell Biology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA
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- Division of Genetics, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.,Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Cancer Program, Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA.,Cancer Program, Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.,Corresponding author. (E.M.V.A.); (F.D.)
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Monroe JG, Srikant T, Carbonell-Bejerano P, Becker C, Lensink M, Exposito-Alonso M, Klein M, Hildebrandt J, Neumann M, Kliebenstein D, Weng ML, Imbert E, Ågren J, Rutter MT, Fenster CB, Weigel D. Mutation bias reflects natural selection in Arabidopsis thaliana. Nature 2022; 602:101-105. [PMID: 35022609 PMCID: PMC8810380 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-04269-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 144] [Impact Index Per Article: 72.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2020] [Accepted: 11/17/2021] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Since the first half of the twentieth century, evolutionary theory has been dominated by the idea that mutations occur randomly with respect to their consequences1. Here we test this assumption with large surveys of de novo mutations in the plant Arabidopsis thaliana. In contrast to expectations, we find that mutations occur less often in functionally constrained regions of the genome-mutation frequency is reduced by half inside gene bodies and by two-thirds in essential genes. With independent genomic mutation datasets, including from the largest Arabidopsis mutation accumulation experiment conducted to date, we demonstrate that epigenomic and physical features explain over 90% of variance in the genome-wide pattern of mutation bias surrounding genes. Observed mutation frequencies around genes in turn accurately predict patterns of genetic polymorphisms in natural Arabidopsis accessions (r = 0.96). That mutation bias is the primary force behind patterns of sequence evolution around genes in natural accessions is supported by analyses of allele frequencies. Finally, we find that genes subject to stronger purifying selection have a lower mutation rate. We conclude that epigenome-associated mutation bias2 reduces the occurrence of deleterious mutations in Arabidopsis, challenging the prevailing paradigm that mutation is a directionless force in evolution.
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- J Grey Monroe
- Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA.
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Faculty of Biology, Ludwig Maximilian University, Martinsried, Germany
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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- Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA, USA
- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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- Department of Biology, Westfield State University, Westfield, MA, USA
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- ISEM, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- Department of Ecology and Genetics, EBC, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Biology, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, USA
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- Oak Lake Field Station, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
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Kawall K. The Generic Risks and the Potential of SDN-1 Applications in Crop Plants. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2021; 10:2259. [PMID: 34834620 PMCID: PMC8622673 DOI: 10.3390/plants10112259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2021] [Revised: 10/01/2021] [Accepted: 10/18/2021] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The use of site-directed nucleases (SDNs) in crop plants to alter market-oriented traits is expanding rapidly. At the same time, there is an on-going debate around the safety and regulation of crops altered with the site-directed nuclease 1 (SDN-1) technology. SDN-1 applications can be used to induce a variety of genetic alterations ranging from fairly 'simple' genetic alterations to complex changes in plant genomes using, for example, multiplexing approaches. The resulting plants can contain modified alleles and associated traits, which are either known or unknown in conventionally bred plants. The European Commission recently published a study on new genomic techniques suggesting an adaption of the current GMO legislation by emphasizing that targeted mutagenesis techniques can produce genomic alterations that can also be obtained by natural mutations or conventional breeding techniques. This review highlights the need for a case-specific risk assessment of crop plants derived from SDN-1 applications considering both the characteristics of the product and the process to ensure a high level of protection of human and animal health and the environment. The published literature on so-called market-oriented traits in crop plants altered with SDN-1 applications is analyzed here to determine the types of SDN-1 application in plants, and to reflect upon the complexity and the naturalness of such products. Furthermore, it demonstrates the potential of SDN-1 applications to induce complex alterations in plant genomes that are relevant to generic SDN-associated risks. In summary, it was found that nearly half of plants with so-called market-oriented traits contain complex genomic alterations induced by SDN-1 applications, which may also pose new types of risks. It further underscores the need for data on both the process and the end-product for a case-by-case risk assessment of plants derived from SDN-1 applications.
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- Katharina Kawall
- Fachstelle Gentechnik und Umwelt, Frohschammerstr. 14, 80807 Munich, Germany
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Lee CA, Abd-Rabbo D, Reimand J. Functional and genetic determinants of mutation rate variability in regulatory elements of cancer genomes. Genome Biol 2021; 22:133. [PMID: 33941236 PMCID: PMC8091793 DOI: 10.1186/s13059-021-02318-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2020] [Accepted: 03/19/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Background Cancer genomes are shaped by mutational processes with complex spatial variation at multiple scales. Entire classes of regulatory elements are affected by local variations in mutation frequency. However, the underlying mechanisms with functional and genetic determinants remain poorly understood. Results We characterise the mutational landscape of 1.3 million gene-regulatory and chromatin architectural elements in 2419 whole cancer genomes with transcriptional and pathway activity, functional conservation and recurrent driver events. We develop RM2, a statistical model that quantifies mutational enrichment or depletion in classes of genomic elements through genetic, trinucleotide and megabase-scale effects. We report a map of localised mutational processes affecting CTCF binding sites, transcription start sites (TSS) and tissue-specific open-chromatin regions. Increased mutation frequency in TSSs associates with mRNA abundance in most cancer types, while open-chromatin regions are generally enriched in mutations. We identify ~ 10,000 CTCF binding sites with core DNA motifs and constitutive binding in 66 cell types that represent focal points of mutagenesis. We detect site-specific mutational signature enrichments, such as SBS40 in open-chromatin regions in prostate cancer and SBS17b in CTCF binding sites in gastrointestinal cancers. Candidate drivers of localised mutagenesis are also apparent: BRAF mutations associate with mutational enrichments at CTCF binding sites in melanoma, and ARID1A mutations with TSS-specific mutagenesis in pancreatic cancer. Conclusions Our method and catalogue of localised mutational processes provide novel perspectives to cancer genome evolution, mutagenesis, DNA repair and driver gene discovery. The functional and genetic correlates of mutational processes suggest mechanistic hypotheses for future studies.
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- Christian A Lee
- Computational Biology Program, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Computational Biology Program, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Computational Biology Program, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, ON, Canada. .,Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. .,Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
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Espiritu D, Gribkova AK, Gupta S, Shaytan AK, Panchenko AR. Molecular Mechanisms of Oncogenesis through the Lens of Nucleosomes and Histones. J Phys Chem B 2021; 125:3963-3976. [PMID: 33769808 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c00694] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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At the cellular level, cancer is the disease of both the genome and the epigenome, and the interplay between genetic mutations and epigenetic states may occur at the level of elementary chromatin units, the nucleosomes. They are formed by a segment of DNA wrapped around an octamer of histone proteins. In this review, we survey various mechanisms of cancer etiology and progression mediated by histones and nucleosomes. In particular, we discuss the effects of mutations in histones, changes in their expression and slicing on epigenetic dysregulation and carcinogenesis. The links between cancer phenotypes and differential expression of histone variants and isoforms are summarized. Finally, we discourse the geometric and steric effects of DNA compaction in nucleosomes on DNA mutation rate, interactions with transcription factors, including pioneer transcription factors, and prospects of cancer cells' genome and epigenome editing.
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- Daniel Espiritu
- Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1-12 Leninskie Gory, Moscow, 119991, Russia.,Sirius University of Science and Technology, 1 Olympic Avenue, Sochi, 354340, Russia
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- Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1-12 Leninskie Gory, Moscow, 119991, Russia.,Sirius University of Science and Technology, 1 Olympic Avenue, Sochi, 354340, Russia.,Bioinformatics Lab, Faculty of Computer Science, HSE University, 11 Pokrovsky Boulevard, Moscow, 109028, Russia
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- Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.,Ontario Institute of Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Portillo-Ledesma S, Tsao LH, Wagley M, Lakadamyali M, Cosma MP, Schlick T. Nucleosome Clutches are Regulated by Chromatin Internal Parameters. J Mol Biol 2020; 433:166701. [PMID: 33181171 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2020.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2020] [Revised: 10/27/2020] [Accepted: 11/02/2020] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
Abstract
Nucleosomes cluster together when chromatin folds in the cell to form heterogeneous groups termed "clutches". These structural units add another level of chromatin regulation, for example during cell differentiation. Yet, the mechanisms that regulate their size and compaction remain obscure. Here, using our chromatin mesoscale model, we dissect clutch patterns in fibers with different combinations of nucleosome positions, linker histone density, and acetylation levels to investigate their role in clutch regulation. First, we isolate the effect of each chromatin parameter by studying systems with regular nucleosome spacing; second, we design systems with naturally-occurring linker lengths that fold onto specific clutch patterns; third, we model gene-encoding fibers to understand how these combined factors contribute to gene structure. Our results show how these chromatin parameters act together to produce different-sized nucleosome clutches. The length of nucleosome free regions (NFRs) profoundly affects clutch size, while the length of linker DNA has a moderate effect. In general, higher linker histone densities produce larger clutches by a chromatin compaction mechanism, while higher acetylation levels produce smaller clutches by a chromatin unfolding mechanism. We also show that it is possible to design fibers with naturally-occurring DNA linkers and NFRs that fold onto specific clutch patterns. Finally, in gene-encoding systems, a complex combination of variables dictates a gene-specific clutch pattern. Together, these results shed light into the mechanisms that regulate nucleosome clutches and suggest a new epigenetic mechanism by which chromatin parameters regulate transcriptional activity via the three-dimensional folded state of the genome at a nucleosome level.
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- Stephanie Portillo-Ledesma
- Department of Chemistry, New York University, 1021 Silver, 100 Washington Square East, New York, NY, 10003, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, New York University, 1021 Silver, 100 Washington Square East, New York, NY, 10003, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, New York University, 1021 Silver, 100 Washington Square East, New York, NY, 10003, USA
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- Perelman School of Medicine, Department of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania, Clinical Research Building, 415 Curie Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Perelman School of Medicine, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Clinical Research Building, 415 Curie Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), 08003 Barcelona, Spain; Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Dr Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain; Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Pg. Lluís Companys 23, 08010 Barcelona, Spain; Bioland Laboratory, Guangzhou Regenerative Medicine and Health Guangdong Laboratory, Guangzhou 510005, China; CAS Key Laboratory of Regenerative Biology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510530, China
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- Department of Chemistry, New York University, 1021 Silver, 100 Washington Square East, New York, NY, 10003, USA; New York University-East China Normal University Center for Computational Chemistry at New York University Shanghai, Room 340, Geography Building, 3663 North Zhongshan Road, Shanghai, 200062, China; Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, 251 Mercer St, New York, NY, 10012, USA.
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Lee CA, Abd-rabbo D, Reimand J. Functional and genetic determinants of mutation rate variability in regulatory elements of cancer genomes.. [DOI: 10.1101/2020.07.29.226373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/01/2023]
Abstract
ABSTRACTBackgroundCancer genomes are shaped by mutational processes with complex spatial variation at multiple scales. Entire classes of regulatory elements are affected by local variations in mutation frequency. However, the underlying mutational mechanisms with functional and genetic determinants remain poorly understood.ResultsWe characterised the mutational landscape of 1.3 million gene regulatory and chromatin architectural elements in 2,419 whole cancer genomes with transcriptional and pathway activity, functional conservation and recurrent driver events. We developed RM2, a statistical model that quantifies mutational enrichment or depletion in classes of genomic elements through genetic, trinucleotide and megabase-scale effects. We report a map of localised mutational processes affecting CTCF binding sites, transcription start sites (TSS) and tissue-specific open-chromatin regions. We show that increased mutational frequency in TSSs correlates with mRNA abundance in most cancer types, while open-chromatin regions are generally enriched in mutations. We identified ∼10,000 CTCF binding sites with core DNA motifs and constitutive binding in 66 cell types that represent focal points of local mutagenesis. We detected site-specific mutational signatures, such as SBS40 in open-chromatin regions in prostate cancer and SBS17b in CTCF binding sites in gastrointestinal cancers. We also proposed candidate drivers of localised mutagenesis: BRAF mutations associate with mutational enrichments at CTCF binding sites in melanoma, and ARID1A mutations with TSS-specific mutations in pancreatic cancer.ConclusionsOur method and catalogue of localised mutational processes provide novel perspectives to cancer genome evolution, mutagenesis, DNA repair and driver discovery. Functional and genetic correlates of localised mutagenesis provide mechanistic hypotheses for future studies.
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Gonzalez-Perez A, Sabarinathan R, Lopez-Bigas N. Local Determinants of the Mutational Landscape of the Human Genome. Cell 2020; 177:101-114. [PMID: 30901533 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2019.02.051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2018] [Revised: 02/13/2019] [Accepted: 02/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Large-scale chromatin features, such as replication time and accessibility influence the rate of somatic and germline mutations at the megabase scale. This article reviews how local chromatin structures -e.g., DNA wrapped around nucleosomes, transcription factors bound to DNA- affect the mutation rate at a local scale. It dissects how the interaction of some mutagenic agents and/or DNA repair systems with these local structures influence the generation of mutations. We discuss how this local mutation rate variability affects our understanding of the evolution of the genomic sequence, and the study of the evolution of organisms and tumors.
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- Abel Gonzalez-Perez
- Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Baldiri Reixac, 10, 08028 Barcelona, Spain; Research Program on Biomedical Informatics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
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- National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore 560065, India.
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- Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Baldiri Reixac, 10, 08028 Barcelona, Spain; Research Program on Biomedical Informatics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain; Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain.
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Thodberg M, Thieffry A, Bornholdt J, Boyd M, Holmberg C, Azad A, Workman CT, Chen Y, Ekwall K, Nielsen O, Sandelin A. Comprehensive profiling of the fission yeast transcription start site activity during stress and media response. Nucleic Acids Res 2019; 47:1671-1691. [PMID: 30566651 PMCID: PMC6393241 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gky1227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2018] [Revised: 11/09/2018] [Accepted: 11/26/2018] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
Abstract
Fission yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe, is an attractive model organism for transcriptional and chromatin biology research. Such research is contingent on accurate annotation of transcription start sites (TSSs). However, comprehensive genome-wide maps of TSSs and their usage across commonly applied laboratory conditions and treatments for S. pombe are lacking. To this end, we profiled TSS activity genome-wide in S. pombe cultures exposed to heat shock, nitrogen starvation, hydrogen peroxide and two commonly applied media, YES and EMM2, using Cap Analysis of Gene Expression (CAGE). CAGE-based annotation of TSSs is substantially more accurate than existing PomBase annotation; on average, CAGE TSSs fall 50–75 bp downstream of PomBase TSSs and co-localize with nucleosome boundaries. In contrast to higher eukaryotes, dispersed TSS distributions are not common in S. pombe. Our data recapitulate known S. pombe stress expression response patterns and identify stress- and media-responsive alternative TSSs. Notably, alteration of growth medium induces changes of similar magnitude as some stressors. We show a link between nucleosome occupancy and genetic variation, and that the proximal promoter region is genetically diverse between S. pombe strains. Our detailed TSS map constitutes a central resource for S. pombe gene regulation research.
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- Malte Thodberg
- Department of Biology and Biotech Research and Innovation Centre, The Bioinformatics Centre, University of Copenhagen, DK2100 Copenhagen N, Denmark
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- Department of Biology and Biotech Research and Innovation Centre, The Bioinformatics Centre, University of Copenhagen, DK2100 Copenhagen N, Denmark
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- Department of Biology and Biotech Research and Innovation Centre, The Bioinformatics Centre, University of Copenhagen, DK2100 Copenhagen N, Denmark
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- Department of Biology and Biotech Research and Innovation Centre, The Bioinformatics Centre, University of Copenhagen, DK2100 Copenhagen N, Denmark
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- Department of Biology, Cell cycle and genome stability Group, University of Copenhagen, DK2100 Copenhagen N, Denmark
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- Department of Biology and Biotech Research and Innovation Centre, The Bioinformatics Centre, University of Copenhagen, DK2100 Copenhagen N, Denmark
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- Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, DK2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Biology and Biotech Research and Innovation Centre, The Bioinformatics Centre, University of Copenhagen, DK2100 Copenhagen N, Denmark
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- Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institute, SE14183 Huddinge, Sweden
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- Department of Biology, Cell cycle and genome stability Group, University of Copenhagen, DK2100 Copenhagen N, Denmark
- Correspondence may also be addressed to Olaf Nielsen. Tel: +45 26 41 06 66; Fax: +45 3532 1281;
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- Department of Biology and Biotech Research and Innovation Centre, The Bioinformatics Centre, University of Copenhagen, DK2100 Copenhagen N, Denmark
- To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +45 3532 1281; Fax: +45 3532 1281;
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Portillo-Ledesma S, Schlick T. Bridging chromatin structure and function over a range of experimental spatial and temporal scales by molecular modeling. WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-COMPUTATIONAL MOLECULAR SCIENCE 2019; 10. [PMID: 34046090 DOI: 10.1002/wcms.1434] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Chromatin structure, dynamics, and function are being intensely investigated by a variety of methods, including microscopy, X-ray diffraction, nuclear magnetic resonance, biochemical crosslinking, chromosome conformation capture, and computation. A range of experimental techniques combined with modeling is clearly valuable to help interpret experimental data and, importantly, generate configurations and mechanisms related to the 3D organization and function of the genome. Contact maps, in particular, as obtained by a variety of chromosome conformation capture methods, are of increasing interest due to their implications on genome structure and regulation on many levels. In this perspective, using seven examples from our group's studies, we illustrate how molecular modeling can help interpret such experimental data. Specifically, we show how computed contact maps related to experimental systems can be used to explain structures of nucleosomes, chromatin higher-order folding, domain segregation mechanisms, gene organization, and the effect on chromatin structure of external and internal fiber parameters, such as nucleosome positioning, presence of nucleosome free regions, histone posttranslational modifications, and linker histone binding. We argue that such computations on multiple spatial and temporal scales will be increasingly important for the integration of genomic, epigenomic, and biophysical data on chromatin structure and related cellular processes.
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- Stephanie Portillo-Ledesma
- Department of Chemistry, New York University, 1001 Silver, 100 Washington Square East, New York, New York, 10003, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, New York University, 1001 Silver, 100 Washington Square East, New York, New York, 10003, USA.,Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, 251 Mercer St, New York, New York, 10012, USA.,New York University-East China Normal University Center for Computational Chemistry at New York University Shanghai, Room 340, Geography Building, 3663 North Zhongshan Road, Shanghai, 200062, China
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Somatic and Germline Mutation Periodicity Follow the Orientation of the DNA Minor Groove around Nucleosomes. Cell 2019; 175:1074-1087.e18. [PMID: 30388444 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2018] [Revised: 08/27/2018] [Accepted: 10/01/2018] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Mutation rates along the genome are highly variable and influenced by several chromatin features. Here, we addressed how nucleosomes, the most pervasive chromatin structure in eukaryotes, affect the generation of mutations. We discovered that within nucleosomes, the somatic mutation rate across several tumor cohorts exhibits a strong 10 base pair (bp) periodicity. This periodic pattern tracks the alternation of the DNA minor groove facing toward and away from the histones. The strength and phase of the mutation rate periodicity are determined by the mutational processes active in tumors. We uncovered similar periodic patterns in the genetic variation among human and Arabidopsis populations, also detectable in their divergence from close species, indicating that the same principles underlie germline and somatic mutation rates. We propose that differential DNA damage and repair processes dependent on the minor groove orientation in nucleosome-bound DNA contribute to the 10-bp periodicity in AT/CG content in eukaryotic genomes.
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Supek F, Lehner B. Scales and mechanisms of somatic mutation rate variation across the human genome. DNA Repair (Amst) 2019; 81:102647. [PMID: 31307927 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2019.102647] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Cancer genome sequencing has revealed that somatic mutation rates vary substantially across the human genome and at scales from megabase-sized domains to individual nucleotides. Here we review recent work that has both revealed the major mutation biases that operate across the genome and the molecular mechanisms that cause them. The default mutation rate landscape in mammalian genomes results in active genes having low mutation rates because of a combination of factors that increase DNA repair: early DNA replication, transcription, active chromatin modifications and accessible chromatin. Therefore, either an increase in the global mutation rate or a redistribution of mutations from inactive to active DNA can increase the rate at which consequential mutations are acquired in active genes. Several environmental carcinogens and intrinsic mechanisms operating in tumor cells likely cause cancer by this second mechanism: by specifically increasing the mutation rate in active regions of the genome.
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- Fran Supek
- Genome Data Science, Institut de Recerca Biomedica (IRB Barcelona), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Baldiri Reixac 10, 08028, Barcelona, Spain; Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Passeig Lluís Companys 23, 08010 Barcelona, Spain.
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- Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Passeig Lluís Companys 23, 08010 Barcelona, Spain; Systems Biology Program, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Doctor Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain; Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
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Mesoscale modeling reveals formation of an epigenetically driven HOXC gene hub. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2019; 116:4955-4962. [PMID: 30718394 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1816424116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Gene expression is orchestrated at the structural level by nucleosome positioning, histone tail acetylation, and linker histone (LH) binding. Here, we integrate available data on nucleosome positioning, nucleosome-free regions (NFRs), acetylation islands, and LH binding sites to "fold" in silico the 55-kb HOXC gene cluster and investigate the role of each feature on the gene's folding. The gene cluster spontaneously forms a dynamic connection hub, characterized by hierarchical loops which accommodate multiple contacts simultaneously and decrease the average distance between promoters by ∼100 nm. Contact probability matrices exhibit "stripes" near promoter regions, a feature associated with transcriptional regulation. Interestingly, while LH proteins alone decrease long-range contacts and acetylation alone increases transient contacts, combined LH and acetylation produce long-range contacts. Thus, our work emphasizes how chromatin architecture is coordinated strongly by epigenetic factors and opens the way for nucleosome resolution models incorporating epigenetic modifications to understand and predict gene activity.
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Nonmutational mechanism of inheritance in the Archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2018; 115:12271-12276. [PMID: 30425171 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1808221115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Epigenetic phenomena have not yet been reported in archaea, which are presumed to use a classical genetic process of heritability. Here, analysis of independent lineages of Sulfolobus solfataricus evolved for enhanced fitness implicated a non-Mendelian basis for trait inheritance. The evolved strains, called super acid-resistant Crenarchaeota (SARC), acquired traits of extreme acid resistance and genome stability relative to their wild-type parental lines. Acid resistance was heritable because it was retained regardless of extensive passage without selection. Despite the hereditary pattern, in one strain, it was impossible for these SARC traits to result from mutation because its resequenced genome had no mutation. All strains also had conserved, heritable transcriptomes implicated in acid resistance. In addition, they had improved genome stability with absent or greatly decreased mutation and transposition relative to a passaged control. A mechanism that would confer these traits without DNA sequence alteration could involve posttranslationally modified archaeal chromatin proteins. To test this idea, homologous recombination with isogenic DNA was used to perturb native chromatin structure. Recombination at up-regulated loci from the heritable SARC transcriptome reduced acid resistance and gene expression in the majority of recombinants. In contrast, recombination at a control locus that was not part of the heritable transcriptome changed neither acid resistance nor gene expression. Variation in the amount of phenotypic and expression changes across individuals was consistent with Rad54-dependent chromatin remodeling that dictated crossover location and branch migration. These data support an epigenetic model implicating chromatin structure as a contributor to heritable traits.
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Rodriguez Y, Howard MJ, Cuneo MJ, Prasad R, Wilson SH. Unencumbered Pol β lyase activity in nucleosome core particles. Nucleic Acids Res 2017; 45:8901-8915. [PMID: 28911106 PMCID: PMC5587807 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkx593] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2017] [Revised: 06/23/2017] [Accepted: 06/30/2017] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Packaging of DNA into the nucleosome core particle (NCP) is considered to exert constraints to all DNA-templated processes, including base excision repair where Pol β catalyzes two key enzymatic steps: 5'-dRP lyase gap trimming and template-directed DNA synthesis. Despite its biological significance, knowledge of Pol β activities on NCPs is still limited. Here, we show that removal of the 5'-dRP block by Pol β is unaffected by NCP constraints at all sites tested and is even enhanced near the DNA ends. In contrast, strong inhibition of DNA synthesis is observed. These results indicate 5'-dRP gap trimming proceeds unperturbed within the NCP; whereas, gap filling is strongly limited. In the absence of additional factors, base excision repair in NCPs will stall at the gap-filling step.
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- Yesenia Rodriguez
- From the Laboratory of Genome Integrity and Structural Biology, NIEHS-NIH, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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- From the Laboratory of Genome Integrity and Structural Biology, NIEHS-NIH, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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- From the Laboratory of Genome Integrity and Structural Biology, NIEHS-NIH, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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- From the Laboratory of Genome Integrity and Structural Biology, NIEHS-NIH, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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Terekhanova NV, Seplyarskiy VB, Soldatov RA, Bazykin GA. Evolution of Local Mutation Rate and Its Determinants. Mol Biol Evol 2017; 34:1100-1109. [PMID: 28138076 PMCID: PMC5850301 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msx060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Mutation rate varies along the human genome, and part of this variation is explainable by measurable local properties of the DNA molecule. Moreover, mutation rates differ between orthologous genomic regions of different species, but the drivers of this change are unclear. Here, we use data on human divergence from chimpanzee, human rare polymorphism, and human de novo mutations to predict the substitution rate at orthologous regions of non-human mammals. We show that the local mutation rates are very similar between human and apes, implying that their variation has a strong underlying cryptic component not explainable by the known genomic features. Mutation rates become progressively less similar in more distant species, and these changes are partially explainable by changes in the local genomic features of orthologous regions, most importantly, in the recombination rate. However, they are much more rapid, implying that the cryptic component underlying the mutation rate is more ephemeral than the known genomic features. These findings shed light on the determinants of mutation rate evolution. Key words local mutation rate, molecular evolution, recombination rate.
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- Nadezhda V. Terekhanova
- Sector for Molecular Evolution, Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the RAS (Kharkevich Institute), Moscow, Russia
- M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Sector for Molecular Evolution, Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the RAS (Kharkevich Institute), Moscow, Russia
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- Sector for Molecular Evolution, Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the RAS (Kharkevich Institute), Moscow, Russia
- M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Sector for Molecular Evolution, Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the RAS (Kharkevich Institute), Moscow, Russia
- M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
- Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Skolkovo, Russia
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Lim B, Mun J, Kim SY. Intrinsic Molecular Processes: Impact on Mutagenesis. Trends Cancer 2017; 3:357-371. [PMID: 28718413 DOI: 10.1016/j.trecan.2017.03.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2017] [Revised: 03/23/2017] [Accepted: 03/23/2017] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Mutations provide resources for genome evolution by generating genetic variability. In addition, mutations act as a driving force leading to disease pathogenesis, and thus have important implications for disease diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment. Understanding the mechanisms underlying how mutations occur is therefore of prime importance for elucidating evolutionary and pathogenic processes. Recent genomics studies have revealed that mutations occur non-randomly across the human genome. In particular, the distribution of mutations is highly associated with intrinsic molecular processes including transcription, chromatin organization, DNA replication timing, and DNA repair. Interplay between intrinsic processes and extrinsic mutagenic exposure may thus imprint a characteristic mutational landscape on tumors. We discuss the impact of intrinsic molecular processes on mutation acquisition in cancer.
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- Byungho Lim
- Research Center for Drug Discovery Technology, Division of Drug Discovery Research, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Daejeon, Korea
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- Personalized Genomic Medicine Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), Daejeon, Korea; Department of Functional Genomics, University of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea
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- Personalized Genomic Medicine Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), Daejeon, Korea; Department of Functional Genomics, University of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea.
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Lim B, Mun J, Kim YS, Kim SY. Variability in Chromatin Architecture and Associated DNA Repair at Genomic Positions Containing Somatic Mutations. Cancer Res 2017; 77:2822-2833. [PMID: 28408367 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-16-3033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2016] [Revised: 01/20/2017] [Accepted: 03/31/2017] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Dynamic chromatin structures result in differential chemical reactivity to mutational processes throughout the genome. To identify chromatin features responsible for mutagenesis, we compared chromatin architecture around single-nucleotide variants (SNV), insertion/deletions (indels), and their context-matched, nonmutated positions. We found epigenetic differences between genomic regions containing missense SNVs and those containing frameshift indels across multiple cancer types. Levels of active histone marks were higher around frameshift indels than around missense SNV, whereas repressive histone marks exhibited the reverse trend. Accumulation of repressive histone marks and nucleosomes distinguished mutated positions (both SNV and indels) from the context-matched, nonmutated positions, whereas active marks were associated with substitution- and cancer type-specific mutagenesis. We also explained mutagenesis based on genome maintenance mechanisms, including nucleotide excision repair (NER), mismatch repair (MMR), and DNA polymerase epsilon (POLE). Regional NER variation correlated strongly with chromatin features; NER machineries exhibited shifted or depleted binding around SNV, resulting in decreased NER at mutation positions, especially at sites of recurrent mutations. MMR-deficient tumors selectively acquired SNV in regions with high active histone marks, especially H3K36me3, whereas POLE-deficient tumors selectively acquired indels and SNV in regions with low active histone marks. These findings demonstrate the importance of fine-scaled chromatin structures and associated DNA repair mechanisms in mutagenesis. Cancer Res; 77(11); 2822-33. ©2017 AACR.
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- Byungho Lim
- Personalized Genomic Medicine Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon, Korea
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- Personalized Genomic Medicine Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon, Korea.,Department of Functional Genomics, University of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea
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- Department of Functional Genomics, University of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea.,Genome Editing Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon, Korea
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- Personalized Genomic Medicine Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon, Korea. .,Department of Functional Genomics, University of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea
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Multiplexing Genetic and Nucleosome Positioning Codes: A Computational Approach. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0156905. [PMID: 27272176 PMCID: PMC4896621 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2015] [Accepted: 05/20/2016] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Eukaryotic DNA is strongly bent inside fundamental packaging units: the nucleosomes. It is known that their positions are strongly influenced by the mechanical properties of the underlying DNA sequence. Here we discuss the possibility that these mechanical properties and the concomitant nucleosome positions are not just a side product of the given DNA sequence, e.g. that of the genes, but that a mechanical evolution of DNA molecules might have taken place. We first demonstrate the possibility of multiplexing classical and mechanical genetic information using a computational nucleosome model. In a second step we give evidence for genome-wide multiplexing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Schizosacharomyces pombe. This suggests that the exact positions of nucleosomes play crucial roles in chromatin function.
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Nucleotide excision repair is impaired by binding of transcription factors to DNA. Nature 2016; 532:264-7. [PMID: 27075101 DOI: 10.1038/nature17661] [Citation(s) in RCA: 196] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2015] [Accepted: 03/15/2016] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Somatic mutations are the driving force of cancer genome evolution. The rate of somatic mutations appears to be greatly variable across the genome due to variations in chromatin organization, DNA accessibility and replication timing. However, other variables that may influence the mutation rate locally are unknown, such as a role for DNA-binding proteins, for example. Here we demonstrate that the rate of somatic mutations in melanomas is highly increased at active transcription factor binding sites and nucleosome embedded DNA, compared to their flanking regions. Using recently available excision-repair sequencing (XR-seq) data, we show that the higher mutation rate at these sites is caused by a decrease of the levels of nucleotide excision repair (NER) activity. Our work demonstrates that DNA-bound proteins interfere with the NER machinery, which results in an increased rate of DNA mutations at the protein binding sites. This finding has important implications for our understanding of mutational and DNA repair processes and in the identification of cancer driver mutations.
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Altered primary chromatin structures and their implications in cancer development. Cell Oncol (Dordr) 2016; 39:195-210. [PMID: 27007278 DOI: 10.1007/s13402-016-0276-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/02/2016] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Cancer development is a complex process involving both genetic and epigenetic changes. Genetic changes in oncogenes and tumor-suppressor genes are generally considered as primary causes, since these genes may directly regulate cellular growth. In addition, it has been found that changes in epigenetic factors, through mutation or altered gene expression, may contribute to cancer development. In the nucleus of eukaryotic cells DNA and histone proteins form a structure called chromatin which consists of nucleosomes that, like beads on a string, are aligned along the DNA strand. Modifications in chromatin structure are essential for cell type-specific activation or repression of gene transcription, as well as other processes such as DNA repair, DNA replication and chromosome segregation. Alterations in epigenetic factors involved in chromatin dynamics may accelerate cell cycle progression and, ultimately, result in malignant transformation. Abnormal expression of remodeler and modifier enzymes, as well as histone variants, may confer to cancer cells the ability to reprogram their genomes and to yield, maintain or exacerbate malignant hallmarks. At the end, genetic and epigenetic alterations that are encountered in cancer cells may culminate in chromatin changes that may, by altering the quantity and quality of gene expression, promote cancer development. METHODS During the last decade a vast number of studies has uncovered epigenetic abnormalities that are associated with the (anomalous) packaging and remodeling of chromatin in cancer genomes. In this review I will focus on recently published work dealing with alterations in the primary structure of chromatin resulting from imprecise arrangements of nucleosomes along DNA, and its functional implications for cancer development. CONCLUSIONS The primary chromatin structure is regulated by a variety of epigenetic mechanisms that may be deregulated through gene mutations and/or gene expression alterations. In recent years, it has become evident that changes in chromatin structure may coincide with the occurrence of cancer hallmarks. The functional interrelationships between such epigenetic alterations and cancer development are just becoming manifest and, therefore, the oncology community should continue to explore the molecular mechanisms governing the primary chromatin structure, both in normal and in cancer cells, in order to improve future approaches for cancer detection, prevention and therapy, as also for circumventing drug resistance.
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Babbitt GA, Coppola EE, Alawad MA, Hudson AO. Can all heritable biology really be reduced to a single dimension? Gene 2016; 578:162-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2015.12.043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2015] [Revised: 12/16/2015] [Accepted: 12/17/2015] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Nakatani Y, Mello CC, Hashimoto SI, Shimada A, Nakamura R, Tsukahara T, Qu W, Yoshimura J, Suzuki Y, Sugano S, Takeda H, Fire A, Morishita S. Associations between nucleosome phasing, sequence asymmetry, and tissue-specific expression in a set of inbred Medaka species. BMC Genomics 2015; 16:978. [PMID: 26584643 PMCID: PMC4653950 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-015-2198-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2015] [Accepted: 11/07/2015] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Transcription start sites (TSSs) with pronounced and phased nucleosome arrays downstream and nucleosome-depleted regions upstream of TSSs are observed in various species. RESULTS We have characterized sequence variation and expression properties of this set of TSSs (which we call "Nucleocyclic TSSs") using germline and somatic cells of three medaka (Oryzias latipes) inbred isolates from different locations. We found nucleocyclic TSSs in medaka to be associated with higher gene expression and characterized by a clear boundary in sequence composition with potentially-nucleosome-destabilizing A/T-enrichment upstream (p < 10(-60)) and nucleosome- accommodating C/G-enrichment downstream (p < 10(-40)) that was highly conserved from an ancestor. A substantial genetic distance between the strains facilitated the in-depth analysis of patterns of fixed mutations, revealing a localization-specific equilibrium between the rates of distinct mutation categories that would serve to maintain the conserved sequence anisotropy around TSSs. Downstream of nucleocyclic TSSs, C to T, T to C, and other mutation rates on the sense strand increased around first nucleosome dyads and decreased around first linkers, which contrasted with genomewide mutational patterns around nucleosomes (p < 5 %). C to T rates are higher than G to A rates around nucleosome associated with germline nucleocyclic TSS sites (p < 5 %), potentially due to the asymmetric effect of transcription-coupled repair. CONCLUSIONS Our results demonstrate an atypical evolutionary process surrounding nucleocyclic TSSs.
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- Yoichiro Nakatani
- Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, 277-0882, Japan.
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- Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305-5324, USA.
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- Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, 920-1192, Japan.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan.
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- Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, 277-0882, Japan.
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- Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, 277-0882, Japan.
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- Department of Medical Genome Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 108-8639, Japan.
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- Department of Medical Genome Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 108-8639, Japan.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan.
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- Departments of Pathology and Genetics, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305-5324, USA.
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- Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, 277-0882, Japan.
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