Nucleotide Pool Depletion Induces G-Quadruplex-Dependent Perturbation of Gene Expression.
Nucleotide Pool Depletion Induces G-Quadruplex-Dependent Perturbation of Gene Expression.
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核苷酸池的耗竭诱导基因表达的G-四链体依赖性扰动。
DOI:
10.1016/j.celrep.2015.11.039
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发表时间:
2015-12-22
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8.8
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Sale JE
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作者:
Papadopoulou C;Guilbaud G;Schiavone D;Sale JE
Nucleotide pool imbalance has been proposed to drive genetic instability in cancer. Here, we show that slowing replication forks by depleting nucleotide pools with hydroxyurea (HU) can also give rise to both transient and permanent epigenetic instability of a reporter locus, BU-1, in DT40 cells. HU induces stochastic formation of Bu-1low variants in dividing cells, which have lost the H3K4me3 present in untreated cells. This instability is potentiated by an intragenic G quadruplex, which also promotes local H2Ax phosphorylation and transient heterochromatinization. Genome-wide, gene expression changes induced by HU significantly overlap with those resulting from loss of the G4-helicases FANCJ, WRN, and BLM. Thus, the effects of global replication stress induced by nucleotide pool depletion can be focused by local replication impediments caused by G quadruplex formation to induce epigenetic instability and changes in gene expression, a mechanism that may contribute to selectable transcriptional changes in cancer. Hydroxyurea (HU) stochastically perturbs gene expression G quadruplex (G4) formation potentiates HU-induced epigenetic changes HU induces G4-dependent DNA damage and heterochromatin formation HU and G4 helicase mutations cause similar changes in expression Slowing replication forks by depleting nucleotide pools enhances the ability of G quadruplexes to stochastically perturb gene expression during replication. Papadopoulou et al. find that a common global replication stressor interacts with local DNA secondary structures to cause epigenetic instability.