Transcription-coupled repair: a multifunctional signaling pathway.
Transcription-coupled repair: a multifunctional signaling pathway.
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转录偶联修复:多功能信号通路。
DOI:
10.1101/sqb.2000.65.561
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发表时间:
2000
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Leadon,SA
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Leadon,SA
CS is a rare sun-sensitivity disorder with a recessive inheritance pattern. It is characterized by severe growth defects with cachexia, neuronal demyelination, mental retardation, microcephaly, skeletal and retinal abnormalities, and dental caries, but no cancer predisposition. More than 140 CS cases have been reported, and cells from affected individuals define five complementation groups. Most patients exhibit only CS symptoms and belong to groups A and B (CSA and CSB). The CSA gene codes for a protein belonging to the WD-repeat family (Henning et al. 1995), whose members regulate diverse cellular functions, including cell division, signal transduction, mRNA modification, and transcription. The product of the CSB gene (Troelstra et al. 1992) contains a region of multiple ATP-ase/putative helicase motifs characteristic of the expanding and diverse SNF2 protein family. Members of this family can have roles in chromatin remodeling or maintenance, activation or repression of transcription, and DNA recombination or repair.The gene products defective in CS are required for the TCR of both UV-and ionizing-radiation-induced DNA (Venema et al. 1990; Leadon and Cooper 1993). Since CSB encodes a putative helicase (Troelstra et al. 1992), its product may unwind DNA and thus displace a stalled RNA polymerase complex from the DNA, allowing repair proteins access to the lesion. It is also possible that the CSA gene product acts as a general mediator that recruits repair proteins to the damaged site. Since the sole representatives of CS group A and B mutants studied so far are equally devoid of the ability to target repair of UV damage to active genes (Venema et al. 1990; Leadon and Cooper 1993), the requirement for both gene products in this process appears to be absolute in mammalian cells. However, the finding that the CSA mutant cell line is only partially defective in preferential repair of ionizing radiation damage provides the first evidence of separable roles for the two gene products (Leadon and Cooper 1993). In very rare cases, complementation analyses have assigned some CS patients to xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) groups B, D, or G; some of these XP/CS patients also present an XP phenotype. The XPB (Weeda et al.