scholarly journals Versatile Cell-Based Assay for Measuring Base Excision Repair of DNA Alkylation Damage

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong Li ◽  
Peng Mao ◽  
Evelina Y. Basenko ◽  
Zachary Lewis ◽  
Michael Smerdon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dna Damage ◽  
Base Excision Repair ◽  
Cultured Cells ◽  
Excision Repair ◽  
Dna Alkylation ◽  
Model Systems ◽  
Environmental Carcinogens ◽  
Alkylation Damage ◽  
Chemotherapy Drugs ◽  
Base Excision

AbstractDNA alkylation damage induced by environmental carcinogens, chemotherapy drugs, or endogenous metabolites plays a central role in mutagenesis, carcinogenesis, and cancer therapy. Base excision repair (BER) is a conserved, front line DNA repair pathway that removes alkylation damage from DNA. The capacity of BER to repair DNA alkylation varies markedly between different cell types and tissues, which correlates with cancer risk and cellular responses to alkylation chemotherapy. The ability to measure cellular rates of alkylation damage repair by the BER pathway is critically important for better understanding of the fundamental processes involved in carcinogenesis, and also to advance development of new therapeutic strategies. Methods for assessing the rates of alkylation damage and repair, especially in human cells, are limited, prone to significant variability due to the unstable nature of some of the alkyl adducts, and often rely on indirect measurements of BER activity. Here, we report a highly reproducible and quantitative, cell-based assay, named alk-BER (alkylation Base Excision Repair) for measuring rates of BER following alkylation DNA damage. The alk-BER assay involves specific detection of methyl DNA adducts (7-methyl guanine and 3-methyl adenine) directly in genomic DNA. The assay has been developed and adapted to measure the activity of BER in fungal model systems and human cell lines. Considering the specificity and conserved nature of BER enzymes, the assay can be adapted to virtually any type of cultured cells. Alk-BER offers a cost efficient and reliable method that can effectively complement existing approaches to advance integrative research on mechanisms of alkylation DNA damage and repair.

scholarly journals Versatile cell-based assay for measuring DNA alkylation damage and its repair

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong Li ◽  
Peng Mao ◽  
Evelina Y. Basenko ◽  
Zachary Lewis ◽  
Michael J. Smerdon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dna Damage ◽  
Cultured Cells ◽  
Excision Repair ◽  
Cell Types ◽  
Dna Alkylation ◽  
Model Systems ◽  
Environmental Carcinogens ◽  
Alkylation Damage ◽  
Chemotherapy Drugs ◽  
Integrative Research

AbstractDNA alkylation damage induced by environmental carcinogens, chemotherapy drugs, or endogenous metabolites plays a central role in mutagenesis, carcinogenesis, and cancer therapy. Base excision repair (BER) is a conserved, front line DNA repair pathway that removes alkylation damage from DNA. The capacity of BER to repair DNA alkylation varies markedly between different cell types and tissues, which correlates with cancer risk and cellular responses to alkylation chemotherapy. The ability to measure cellular rates of alkylation damage repair by the BER pathway is critically important for better understanding of the fundamental processes involved in carcinogenesis, and also to advance development of new therapeutic strategies. Methods for assessing the rates of alkylation damage and repair, especially in human cells, are limited, prone to significant variability due to the unstable nature of some of the alkyl adducts, and often rely on indirect measurements of BER activity. Here, we report a highly reproducible and quantitative, cell-based assay, named alk-BER (alkylation Base Excision Repair) for measuring rates of BER following alkylation DNA damage. The alk-BER assay involves specific detection of methyl DNA adducts (7-methyl guanine and 3-methyl adenine) directly in genomic DNA. The assay has been developed and adapted to measure the activity of BER in fungal model systems and human cell lines. Considering the specificity and conserved nature of BER enzymes, the assay can be adapted to virtually any type of cultured cells. Alk-BER offers a cost efficient and reliable method that can effectively complement existing approaches to advance integrative research on mechanisms of alkylation DNA damage and repair.

scholarly journals Dynamic Compartmentalization of Base Excision Repair Proteins in Response to Nuclear and Mitochondrial Oxidative Stress

2008 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 794-807 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyra M. Griffiths ◽  
Dan Swartzlander ◽  
Kellen L. Meadows ◽  
Keith D. Wilkinson ◽  
Anita H. Corbett ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oxidative Stress ◽  
Dna Damage ◽  
Dna Repair ◽  
Base Excision Repair ◽  
Oxidative Dna Damage ◽  
Excision Repair ◽  
Intracellular Localization ◽  
Genotoxic Stress ◽  
Mitochondrial Oxidative Stress ◽  
Base Excision

ABSTRACT DNAs harbored in both nuclei and mitochondria of eukaryotic cells are subject to continuous oxidative damage resulting from normal metabolic activities or environmental insults. Oxidative DNA damage is primarily reversed by the base excision repair (BER) pathway, initiated by N-glycosylase apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) lyase proteins. To execute an appropriate repair response, BER components must be distributed to accommodate levels of genotoxic stress that may vary considerably between nuclei and mitochondria, depending on the growth state and stress environment of the cell. Numerous examples exist where cells respond to signals, resulting in relocalization of proteins involved in key biological transactions. To address whether such dynamic localization contributes to efficient organelle-specific DNA repair, we determined the intracellular localization of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae N-glycosylase/AP lyases, Ntg1 and Ntg2, in response to nuclear and mitochondrial oxidative stress. Fluorescence microscopy revealed that Ntg1 is differentially localized to nuclei and mitochondria, likely in response to the oxidative DNA damage status of the organelle. Sumoylation is associated with targeting of Ntg1 to nuclei containing oxidative DNA damage. These studies demonstrate that trafficking of DNA repair proteins to organelles containing high levels of oxidative DNA damage may be a central point for regulating BER in response to oxidative stress.

scholarly journals Base excision repair of oxidative DNA damage and association with cancer and aging

2008 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Maynard ◽  
S. H. Schurman ◽  
C. Harboe ◽  
N. C. de Souza-Pinto ◽  
V. A. Bohr
Keyword(s):  
Dna Damage ◽  
Base Excision Repair ◽  
Oxidative Dna Damage ◽  
Excision Repair ◽  
Base Excision

scholarly journals The Nucleotide Sequence, DNA Damage Location, and Protein Stoichiometry Influence the Base Excision Repair Outcome at CAG/CTG Repeats

Biochemistry ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 51 (18) ◽  
pp. 3919-3932 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agathi-Vasiliki Goula ◽  
Christopher E. Pearson ◽  
Julie Della Maria ◽  
Yvon Trottier ◽  
Alan E. Tomkinson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dna Damage ◽  
Nucleotide Sequence ◽  
Base Excision Repair ◽  
Excision Repair ◽  
Ctg Repeats ◽  
Damage Location ◽  
Base Excision

scholarly journals The Effect ofMsh2Knockdown on Toxicity Induced bytert-Butyl-hydroperoxide, Potassium Bromate, and Hydrogen Peroxide in Base Excision Repair Proficient and Deficient Cells

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Cooley ◽  
R. H. Elder ◽  
A. C. Povey
Keyword(s):  
Dna Damage ◽  
Base Excision Repair ◽  
Oxidative Dna Damage ◽  
Excision Repair ◽  
Shrna Expression ◽  
Cellular Toxicity ◽  
Dna Mismatch ◽  
Shrna Expression Vector ◽  
Repair Systems ◽  
Base Excision

The DNA mismatch repair (MMR) and base excision repair (BER) systems are important determinants of cellular toxicity following exposure to agents that cause oxidative DNA damage. To examine the interactions between these different repair systems, we examined whether toxicity, induced byt-BOOH and KBrO3, differs in BER proficient (Mpg+/+,Nth1+/+) and deficient (Mpg−/−,Nth1−/−) mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) followingMsh2knockdown of between 79 and 88% using an shRNA expression vector.Msh2knockdown inNth1+/+cells had no effect ont-BOOH and KBrO3induced toxicity as assessed by an MTT assay; knockdown inNth1−/−cells resulted in increased resistance tot-BOOH and KBrO3, a result consistent with Nth1 removing oxidised pyrimidines.Msh2knockdown inMpg+/+cells had no effect ont-BOOH toxicity but increased resistance to KBrO3; inMpg−/−cells,Msh2knockdown increased cellular sensitivity to KBrO3but increased resistance to t-BOOH, suggesting a role forMpgin removing DNA damage induced by these agents. MSH2 dependent and independent pathways then determine cellular toxicity induced by oxidising agents. A complex interaction between MMR and BER repair systems, that is, exposure dependent, also exists to determine cellular toxicity.

Roles of base excision repair enzymes Nth1p and Apn2p from Schizosaccharomyces pombe in processing alkylation and oxidative DNA damage

DNA Repair ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (11) ◽  
pp. 1270-1280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takanori Sugimoto ◽  
Emi Igawa ◽  
Haruna Tanihigashi ◽  
Mayumi Matsubara ◽  
Hiroshi Ide ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dna Damage ◽  
Schizosaccharomyces Pombe ◽  
Base Excision Repair ◽  
Oxidative Dna Damage ◽  
Excision Repair ◽  
Repair Enzymes ◽  
Base Excision
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