Use of yeast transformation by oligonucleotides to study DNA lesion bypass in vivo

Author(s):  
Chie Otsuka ◽  
Keita Kobayashi ◽  
Naho Kawaguchi ◽  
Nozomu Kunitomi ◽  
Kei Moriyama ◽  
...  
2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph T.P. Yeeles

Reconstitution experiments using replication proteins from a number of different model organisms have firmly established that, in vitro, DNA replication is semi-discontinuous: continuous on the leading strand and discontinuous on the lagging strand. The mechanism by which DNA is replicated in vivo is less clear. In fact, there have been many observations of discontinuous replication in the absence of exogenous DNA-damaging agents. It has also been proposed that replication is discontinuous on the leading strand at least in part because of DNA lesion bypass. Several recent studies have revealed mechanistic details of pathways where replication of the leading strand introduces discontinuities. These mechanisms and their potential contributions to observations of discontinuous replication in vivo will be discussed.


DNA Repair ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 103230
Author(s):  
Dayong Wu ◽  
Ananya Banerjee ◽  
Shurui Cai ◽  
Na Li ◽  
Chunhua Han ◽  
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1995 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. 6729-6735 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Liu ◽  
W Zhou ◽  
P W Doetsch

Dihydrouracil (DHU) is a major base damage product formed from cytosine following exposure of DNA to ionizing radiation under anoxic conditions. To gain insight into the DNA lesion structural requirements for RNA polymerase arrest or bypass at various DNA damages located on the transcribed strand during elongation, DHU was placed onto promoter-containing DNA templates 20 nucleotides downstream from the transcription start site. In vitro, single-round transcription experiments carried out with SP6 and T7 RNA polymerases revealed that following a brief pause at the DHU site, both enzymes efficiently bypass this lesion with subsequent rapid generation of full-length runoff transcripts. Direct sequence analysis of these transcripts indicated that both RNA polymerases insert primarily adenine opposite to the DHU site, resulting in a G-to-A transition mutation in the lesion bypass product. Such bypass and insertion events at DHU sites (or other types of DNA damages), if they occur in vivo, have a number of important implications for both the repair of such lesions and the DNA damage-induced production of mutant proteins at the level of transcription (transcriptional mutagenesis).


2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 260-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Austin T. Raper ◽  
Andrew J. Reed ◽  
Varun V. Gadkari ◽  
Zucai Suo

2004 ◽  
Vol 24 (16) ◽  
pp. 6900-6906 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Todd Washington ◽  
Irina G. Minko ◽  
Robert E. Johnson ◽  
Lajos Haracska ◽  
Thomas M. Harris ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT Rev1, a member of the Y family of DNA polymerases, functions in lesion bypass together with DNA polymerase ζ (Polζ). Rev1 is a highly specialized enzyme in that it incorporates only a C opposite template G. While Rev1 plays an indispensable structural role in Polζ-dependent lesion bypass, the role of its DNA synthetic activity in lesion bypass has remained unclear. Since interactions of DNA polymerases with the DNA minor groove contribute to the nearly equivalent efficiencies and fidelities of nucleotide incorporation opposite each of the four template bases, here we examine the possibility that unlike other DNA polymerases, Rev1 does not come into close contact with the minor groove of the incipient base pair, and that enables it to incorporate a C opposite the N 2-adducted guanines in DNA. To test this idea, we examined whether Rev1 could incorporate a C opposite the γ-hydroxy-1,N 2-propano-2′deoxyguanosine DNA minor-groove adduct, which is formed from the reaction of acrolein with the N 2 of guanine. Acrolein, an α,β-unsaturated aldehyde, is generated in vivo as the end product of lipid peroxidation and from other oxidation reactions. We show here that Rev1 efficiently incorporates a C opposite this adduct from which Polζ subsequently extends, thereby completing the lesion bypass reaction. Based upon these observations, we suggest that an important role of the Rev1 DNA synthetic activity in lesion bypass is to incorporate a C opposite the various N 2-guanine DNA minor-groove adducts that form in DNA.


2017 ◽  
Vol 114 (11) ◽  
pp. E2205-E2214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shih-Hsun Hung ◽  
Ronald P. Wong ◽  
Helle D. Ulrich ◽  
Cheng-Fu Kao

DNA lesion bypass is mediated by DNA damage tolerance (DDT) pathways and homologous recombination (HR). The DDT pathways, which involve translesion synthesis and template switching (TS), are activated by the ubiquitylation (ub) of PCNA through components of the RAD6-RAD18 pathway, whereas the HR pathway is independent of RAD18. However, it is unclear how these processes are coordinated within the context of chromatin. Here we show that Bre1, an ubiquitin ligase specific for histone H2B, is recruited to chromatin in a manner coupled to replication of damaged DNA. In the absence of Bre1 or H2Bub, cells exhibit accumulation of unrepaired DNA lesions. Consequently, the damaged forks become unstable and resistant to repair. We provide physical, genetic, and cytological evidence that H2Bub contributes toward both Rad18-dependent TS and replication fork repair by HR. Using an inducible system of DNA damage bypass, we further show that H2Bub is required for the regulation of DDT after genome duplication. We propose that Bre1-H2Bub facilitates fork recovery and gap-filling repair by controlling chromatin dynamics in response to replicative DNA damage.


2015 ◽  
Vol 112 (10) ◽  
pp. E1096-E1105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Million-Weaver ◽  
Ariana N. Samadpour ◽  
Daniela A. Moreno-Habel ◽  
Patrick Nugent ◽  
Mitchell J. Brittnacher ◽  
...  

We previously reported that lagging-strand genes accumulate mutations faster than those encoded on the leading strand inBacillus subtilis. Although we proposed that orientation-specific encounters between replication and transcription underlie this phenomenon, the mechanism leading to the increased mutagenesis of lagging-strand genes remained unknown. Here, we report that the transcription-dependent and orientation-specific differences in mutation rates of genes require theB. subtilisY-family polymerase, PolY1 (yqjH). We find that without PolY1, association of the replicative helicase, DnaC, and the recombination protein, RecA, with lagging-strand genes increases in a transcription-dependent manner. These data suggest that PolY1 promotes efficient replisome progression through lagging-strand genes, thereby reducing potentially detrimental breaks and single-stranded DNA at these loci. Y-family polymerases can alleviate potential obstacles to replisome progression by facilitating DNA lesion bypass, extension of D-loops, or excision repair. We find that the nucleotide excision repair (NER) proteins UvrA, UvrB, and UvrC, but not RecA, are required for transcription-dependent asymmetry in mutation rates of genes in the two orientations. Furthermore, we find that the transcription-coupling repair factor Mfd functions in the same pathway as PolY1 and is also required for increased mutagenesis of lagging-strand genes. Experimental and SNP analyses ofB. subtilisgenomes show mutational footprints consistent with these findings. We propose that the interplay between replication and transcription increases lesion susceptibility of, specifically, lagging-strand genes, activating an Mfd-dependent error-prone NER mechanism. We propose that this process, at least partially, underlies the accelerated evolution of lagging-strand genes.


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