Ubiquitin and SUMO signalling in DNA repair

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy M. Thomson ◽  
Marta Guerra-Rebollo

The repair of lesions and gaps in DNA follows different pathways, each mediated by specific proteins and complexes. Post-translational modifications in many of these proteins govern their activities and interactions, ultimately determining whether a particular pathway is followed. Prominent among these modifications are the addition of phosphate or ubiquitin (and ubiquitin-like) moieties that confer new binding surfaces and conformational states on the modified proteins. The present review summarizes some of consequences of ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like modifications and interactions that regulate nucleotide excision repair, translesion synthesis, double-strand break repair and interstrand cross-link repair, with the discussion of relevant examples in each pathway.

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (10) ◽  
pp. e202101159
Author(s):  
Alexandra K Ciminera ◽  
Sarah C Shuck ◽  
John Termini

We investigated potential mechanisms by which elevated glucose may promote genomic instability. Gene expression studies, protein measurements, mass spectroscopic analyses, and functional assays revealed that elevated glucose inhibited the nucleotide excision repair (NER) pathway, promoted DNA strand breaks, and increased levels of the DNA glycation adduct N2-(1-carboxyethyl)-2ʹ-deoxyguanosine (CEdG). Glycation stress in NER-competent cells yielded single-strand breaks accompanied by ATR activation, γH2AX induction, and enhanced non-homologous end-joining and homology-directed repair. In NER-deficient cells, glycation stress activated ATM/ATR/H2AX, consistent with double-strand break formation. Elevated glucose inhibited DNA repair by attenuating hypoxia-inducible factor-1α–mediated transcription of NER genes via enhanced 2-ketoglutarate–dependent prolyl hydroxylase (PHD) activity. PHD inhibition enhanced transcription of NER genes and facilitated CEdG repair. These results are consistent with a role for hyperglycemia in promoting genomic instability as a potential mechanism for increasing cancer risk in metabolic disease. Because of the pleiotropic functions of many NER genes beyond DNA repair, these results may have broader implications for cellular pathophysiology.


Biochemistry ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 48 (32) ◽  
pp. 7565-7567 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan T. Sczepanski ◽  
Aaron C. Jacobs ◽  
Bennett Van Houten ◽  
Marc M. Greenberg

Biochemistry ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. 1053-1055 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pawel Jaruga ◽  
Yan Xiao ◽  
Vladimir Vartanian ◽  
R. Stephen Lloyd ◽  
Miral Dizdaroglu

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Bernadette Connors ◽  
Lauren Rochelle ◽  
Asela Roberts ◽  
Graham Howard

Regulation of DNA repair can be achieved through ubiquitin-mediated degradation of transiently induced proteins. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Rad4 is involved in damage recognition during nucleotide excision repair (NER) and, in conjunction with Rad23, recruits other proteins to the site of damage. We identified a synthetic interaction upon UV exposure between Rad4 and Cdc20, a protein that modulates the activity of the anaphase promoting complex (APC/C), a multisubunit E3 ubiquitin ligase complex. The moderately UV sensitive Δrad4 strain became highly sensitive when cdc20-1 was present, and was rescued by overexpression of CDC20. The double mutant is also deficient in elicting RNR3-lacZ transcription upon exposure to UV irradiation or 4-NQO compared with the Δrad4 single mutant. We demonstrate that the Δrad4/cdc20-1 double mutant is defective in double strand break repair by way of a plasmid end-joining assay, indicating that Rad4 acts to ensure that damaged DNA is repaired via a Cdc20-mediated mechanism. This study is the first to present evidence that Cdc20 may play a role in the degradation of proteins involved in nucleotide excision repair.


1992 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 3041-3049
Author(s):  
L Bardwell ◽  
A J Cooper ◽  
E C Friedberg

The RAD1 and RAD10 genes of Saccharomyces cerevisiae are two of at least seven genes which are known to be required for damage-specific recognition and/or damage-specific incision of DNA during nucleotide excision repair. RAD1 and RAD10 are also involved in a specialized mitotic recombination pathway. We have previously reported the purification of the RAD10 protein to homogeneity (L. Bardwell, H. Burtscher, W. A. Weiss, C. M. Nicolet, and E. C. Friedberg, Biochemistry 29:3119-3126, 1990). In the present studies we show that the RAD1 protein, produced by in vitro transcription and translation of the cloned gene, specifically coimmunoprecipitates with the RAD10 protein translated in vitro or purified from yeast. Conversely, in vitro-translated RAD10 protein specifically coimmunoprecipitates with the RAD1 protein. The sites of this stable and specific interaction have been mapped to the C-terminal regions of both polypeptides. This portion of RAD10 protein is evolutionarily conserved. These results are the first biochemical evidence of a specific association between any eukaryotic proteins genetically identified as belonging to a recombination or DNA repair pathway and suggest that the RAD1 and RAD10 proteins act at the same or consecutive biochemical steps in both nucleotide excision repair and mitotic recombination.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Goran Kokic ◽  
Aleksandar Chernev ◽  
Dimitry Tegunov ◽  
Christian Dienemann ◽  
Henning Urlaub ◽  
...  

AbstractGenomes are constantly threatened by DNA damage, but cells can remove a large variety of DNA lesions by nucleotide excision repair (NER)1. Mutations in NER factors compromise cellular fitness and cause human diseases such as Xeroderma pigmentosum (XP), Cockayne syndrome and trichothiodystrophy2,3. The NER machinery is built around the multisubunit transcription factor IIH (TFIIH), which opens the DNA repair bubble, scans for the lesion, and coordinates excision of the damaged DNA single strand fragment1,4. TFIIH consists of a kinase module and a core module that contains the ATPases XPB and XPD5. Here we prepare recombinant human TFIIH and show that XPB and XPD are stimulated by the additional NER factors XPA and XPG, respectively. We then determine the cryo-electron microscopy structure of the human core TFIIH-XPA-DNA complex at 3.6 Å resolution. The structure represents the lesion-scanning intermediate on the NER pathway and rationalizes the distinct phenotypes of disease mutations. It reveals that XPB and XPD bind double- and single-stranded DNA, respectively, consistent with their translocase and helicase activities. XPA forms a bridge between XPB and XPD, and retains the DNA at the 5’-edge of the repair bubble. Biochemical data and comparisons with prior structures6,7 explain how XPA and XPG can switch TFIIH from a transcription factor to a DNA repair factor. During transcription, the kinase module inhibits the repair helicase XPD8. For DNA repair, XPA dramatically rearranges the core TFIIH structure, which reorients the ATPases, releases the kinase module and displaces a ‘plug’ element from the DNA-binding pore in XPD. This enables XPD to move by ~80 Å, engage with DNA, and scan for the lesion in a XPG-stimulated manner. Our results provide the basis for a detailed mechanistic analysis of the NER mechanism.


2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. 3844-3878
Author(s):  
Sona Vodenkova ◽  
Amaya Azqueta ◽  
Andrew Collins ◽  
Maria Dusinska ◽  
Isabel Gaivão ◽  
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