ATM release at resected double-strand breaks provides heterochromatin reconstitution to facilitate homologous recombination.
ATM release at resected double-strand breaks provides heterochromatin reconstitution to facilitate homologous recombination.
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10.1371/journal.pgen.1003667
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发表时间:
2013
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影响因子:
4.5
通讯作者:
Löbrich M
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作者:
Geuting V;Reul C;Löbrich M
Non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ) and homologous recombination (HR) represent the two main pathways for repairing DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs). During the G2 phase of the mammalian cell cycle, both processes can operate and chromatin structure is one important factor which determines DSB repair pathway choice. ATM facilitates the repair of heterochromatic DSBs by phosphorylating and inactivating the heterochromatin building factor KAP-1, leading to local chromatin relaxation. Here, we show that ATM accumulation and activity is strongly diminished at DSBs undergoing end-resection during HR. Such DSBs remain unrepaired in cells devoid of the HR factors BRCA2, XRCC3 or RAD51. Strikingly, depletion of KAP-1 or expression of phospho-mimic KAP-1 allows repair of resected DSBs in the absence of BRCA2, XRCC3 or RAD51 by an erroneous PARP-dependent alt-NHEJ process. We suggest that DSBs in heterochromatin elicit initial local heterochromatin relaxation which is reversed during HR due to the release of ATM from resection break ends. The restored heterochromatic structure facilitates HR and prevents usage of error-prone alternative processes. Double-strand breaks (DSBs) are critical DNA lesions because they can lead to cell death or, which is even more devastating, the formation of genomic rearrangements. Cells are equipped with two main pathways to repair such lesions, homologous recombination (HR) and non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ). HR is an error-free process and completely restores the genetic information, whereas NHEJ has the potential to form genomic rearrangements. We have previously shown that the structure of the chromatin is one important factor which determines the choice between these two pathways, such that DSBs localizing to highly condensed heterochromatic regions are mainly repaired by HR and breaks in more open euchromatic DNA undergo repair by NHEJ. Here, we investigate this aspect of DSB repair pathway choice. We show that DSB end-resection, which channels DSB repair into the process of HR, counteracts the profound local relaxation which initially takes place at the break site and reconstitutes the heterochromatic structure. Cells which are genetically modified, such that they cannot reconstitute the heterochromatic structure at resected DSBs, fail to employ HR and instead repair heterochromatic DSBs by alternative NHEJ mechanisms. Thus, chromatin modifications which occur during the process of end-resection prevent error-prone repair pathways from generating genomic rearrangements.
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影响因子:
5.7
作者:
Jeggo, Penny A.;Geuting, Verena;Loebrich, Markus
通讯作者:
Loebrich, Markus
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.0915067107
发表时间:
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影响因子:
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