Mutation of the zebrafish nucleoporin elys sensitizes tissue progenitors to replication stress.
Mutation of the zebrafish nucleoporin elys sensitizes tissue progenitors to replication stress.
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DOI:
10.1371/journal.pgen.1000240
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发表时间:
2008-10
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影响因子:
4.5
通讯作者:
Pack M
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作者:
Davuluri G;Gong W;Yusuff S;Lorent K;Muthumani M;Dolan AC;Pack M
The recessive lethal mutation flotte lotte (flo) disrupts development of the zebrafish digestive system and other tissues. We show that flo encodes the ortholog of Mel-28/Elys, a highly conserved gene that has been shown to be required for nuclear integrity in worms and nuclear pore complex (NPC) assembly in amphibian and mammalian cells. Maternal elys expression sustains zebrafish flo mutants to larval stages when cells in proliferative tissues that lack nuclear pores undergo cell cycle arrest and apoptosis. p53 mutation rescues apoptosis in the flo retina and optic tectum, but not in the intestine, where the checkpoint kinase Chk2 is activated. Chk2 inhibition and replication stress induced by DNA synthesis inhibitors were lethal to flo larvae. By contrast, flo mutants were not sensitized to agents that cause DNA double strand breaks, thus showing that loss of Elys disrupts responses to selected replication inhibitors. Elys binds Mcm2-7 complexes derived from Xenopus egg extracts. Mutation of elys reduced chromatin binding of Mcm2, but not binding of Mcm3 or Mcm4 in the flo intestine. These in vivo data indicate a role for Elys in Mcm2-chromatin interactions. Furthermore, they support a recently proposed model in which replication origins licensed by excess Mcm2-7 are required for the survival of human cells exposed to replication stress. DNA replication is a complex process that requires activation of cell cycle checkpoints and DNA repair pathways. Genetic analyses in fungi have suggested that nucleoporins, the proteins that make up the nuclear pore complex (NPC), play a role in the cellular response to agents that disrupt cell proliferation or damage DNA. Here we show that mutation of the Elys nucleoporin causes widespread apoptosis in the intestine and other tissues of zebrafish flotte lotte (flo) mutants. Intestinal apoptosis occurs in the absence of the DNA damage marker γH2X, and levels of chromatin bound Mcm2, a component of the DNA replication helicase, were also reduced in flo mutants. These findings suggested that flo intestinal cells cannot repair endogenous replication errors. Consistent with this idea, flo mutants were highly sensitized to treatment with DNA replication inhibitors such as hydroxyurea, UV irradiation, or cisplatin, but not agents that cause DNA double strand breaks, such as γ-irradiation or camptothecin. These data point to a conserved role for nucleoporins in the cellular response to replication stress in eukaryote cells.
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