scholarly journals Dynamics of protein binding to sites of nascent unscheduled DNA repair synthesis in non-proliferating cells

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Scalera ◽  
Ilaria Dutto ◽  
Francesca Barbazza ◽  
Raefa Abou Khouzam ◽  
Giulio Ticli ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTThe analysis of DNA repair mechanisms is of fundamental importance to understand how cells remove DNA damage and maintain their genome stability. Investigating the dynamic association of proteins at sites of active DNA synthesis has been successfully performed at DNA replication forks, providing important information on the process, and allowing the identification of new players acting at these sites. However, the applicability of these studies to DNA repair events at sites of nascent unscheduled DNA synthesis (UDS) in non-proliferating cells has been never tested. Here, we describe the analysis of dynamics association of protein participating in nucleotide excision repair (NER), and in other DNA repair processes, at sites of nascent UDS in non-proliferating cells, to avoid interference by DNA replication. Labeling with 5-ethynyl-2’-deoxyuridine (EdU) after DNA damage, followed by click reaction to biotinylate these sites, permits the analysis of dynamic association of proteins, such as DNA polymerases δ and κ, as well as PCNA, to active DNA repair synthesis sites. The suitability of this technique to identify new factors present at active UDS sites is illustrated by two examples of proteins previously unknown to participate in the UV-induced DNA repair process.

1981 ◽  
Vol 199 (2) ◽  
pp. 453-455 ◽  
Author(s):  
N Hardt ◽  
G Pedrali-Noy ◽  
F Focher ◽  
S Spadari

A radioautographic examination of nuclear DNA synthesis in unirradiated and u.v.-irradiated HeLa cells, in the presence and in the absence of aphidicolin, showed that aphidicolin inhibits nuclear DNA replication and has no detectable effect on DNA repair synthesis. Although the results establish that in u.v.-irradiated HeLa cells most of the DNA repair synthesis is not due to DNA polymerase alpha, they do not preclude a significant role for this enzyme in DNA repair processes.


Biochemistry ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 27 (19) ◽  
pp. 7247-7254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven L. Dresler ◽  
Mark G. Frattini ◽  
Rona M. Robinson-Hill

Blood ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 54 (6) ◽  
pp. 1320-1329
Author(s):  
R Lewensohn ◽  
U Ringborg

A technique has been developed for handling human bone marrow cells intended for the examination of DNA repair synthesis. DNA-repair synthesis, induced by melphalan and nitrogen mustard, was measured as the incorporation of 3H-thymidine, registered by autoradiography as unscheduled DNA synthesis (UDS). Comparison of various cell populations disclosed considerable differences in their UDS level, this generally being greatest for the blast populations. During maturation of both myelopoietic and erythropoietic cells, there was a decrease in the UDS level, which was lowest for the end-cell stage. The lymphocytes and monocytes differed considerably in their capacity for UDS. The developed technique would appear to offer an opportunity for determining the capacity for DNA-repair synthesis in malignant bone marrow cells, a factor that has been linked to sensitivity to alkylating agents.


Author(s):  
Noha Elsakrmy ◽  
Qiu-Mei Zhang-Akiyama ◽  
Dindial Ramotar

Exogenous and endogenous damage to the DNA is inevitable. Several DNA repair pathways including base excision, nucleotide excision, mismatch, homologous and non-homologous recombinations are conserved across all organisms to faithfully maintain the integrity of the genome. The base excision repair (BER) pathway functions to repair single-base DNA lesions and during the process creates the premutagenic apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) sites. In this review, we discuss the components of the BER pathway in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans and delineate the different phenotypes caused by the deletion or the knockdown of the respective DNA repair gene, as well as the implications. To date, two DNA glycosylases have been identified in C. elegans, the monofunctional uracil DNA glycosylase-1 (UNG-1) and the bifunctional endonuclease III-1 (NTH-1) with associated AP lyase activity. In addition, the animal possesses two AP endonucleases belonging to the exonuclease-3 and endonuclease IV families and in C. elegans these enzymes are called EXO-3 and APN-1, respectively. In mammalian cells, the DNA polymerase, Pol beta, that is required to reinsert the correct bases for DNA repair synthesis is not found in the genome of C. elegans and the evidence indicates that this role could be substituted by DNA polymerase theta (POLQ), which is known to perform a function in the microhomology-mediated end-joining pathway in human cells. The phenotypes observed by the C. elegans mutant strains of the BER pathway raised many challenging questions including the possibility that the DNA glycosylases may have broader functional roles, as discuss in this review.


2002 ◽  
Vol 276 (2) ◽  
pp. 284-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Svetlova ◽  
Lioudmila Solovjeva ◽  
Nadezhda Pleskach ◽  
Natalia Yartseva ◽  
Tatyana Yakovleva ◽  
...  

1993 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 1051-1058 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z Wang ◽  
X Wu ◽  
E C Friedberg

Base excision repair is an important mechanism for correcting DNA damage produced by many physical and chemical agents. We have examined the effects of the REV3 gene and the DNA polymerase genes POL1, POL2, and POL3 of Saccharomyces cerevisiae on DNA repair synthesis is nuclear extracts. Deletional inactivation of REV3 did not affect repair synthesis in the base excision repair pathway. Repair synthesis in nuclear extracts of pol1, pol2, and pol3 temperature-sensitive mutants was normal at permissive temperatures. However, repair synthesis in pol2 nuclear extracts was defective at the restrictive temperature of 37 degrees C and could be complemented by the addition of purified yeast DNA polymerase epsilon. Repair synthesis in pol1 nuclear extracts was proficient at the restrictive temperature unless DNA polymerase alpha was inactivated prior to the initiation of DNA repair. Thermal inactivation of DNA polymerase delta in pol3 nuclear extracts enhanced DNA repair synthesis approximately 2-fold, an effect which could be specifically reversed by the addition of purified yeast DNA polymerase delta to the extract. These results demonstrate that DNA repair synthesis in the yeast base excision repair pathway is catalyzed by DNA polymerase epsilon but is apparently modulated by the presence of DNA polymerases alpha and delta.


EMBO Reports ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 363-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrike Sattler ◽  
Philippe Frit ◽  
Bernard Salles ◽  
Patrick Calsou

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