Brc1-mediated DNA repair and damage tolerance |
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| Authors: | Sheedy Daniel M Dimitrova Dora Rankin Jessica K Bass Kirstin L Lee Karen M Tapia-Alveal Claudia Harvey Susan H Murray Johanne M O'Connell Matthew J |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Oncological Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA. |
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| Abstract: | The structural maintenance of chromosome (SMC) proteins are key elements in controlling chromosome dynamics. In eukaryotic cells, three essential SMC complexes have been defined: cohesin, condensin, and the Smc5/6 complex. The latter is essential for DNA damage responses; in its absence both repair and checkpoint responses fail. In fission yeast, the UV-C and ionizing radiation (IR) sensitivity of a specific hypomorphic allele encoding the Smc6 subunit, rad18-74 (renamed smc6-74), is suppressed by mild overexpression of a six-BRCT-domain protein, Brc1. Deletion of brc1 does not result in a hypersensitivity to UV-C or IR, and thus the function of Brc1 relative to the Smc5/6 complex has remained unclear. Here we show that brc1Delta cells are hypersensitive to a range of radiomimetic drugs that share the feature of creating lesions that are an impediment to the completion of DNA replication. Through a genetic analysis of brc1Delta epistasis and by defining genes required for Brc1 to suppress smc6-74, we find that Brc1 functions to promote recombination through a novel postreplication repair pathway and the structure-specific nucleases Slx1 and Mus81. Activation of this pathway through overproduction of Brc1 bypasses a repair defect in smc6-74, reestablishing resolution of lesions by recombination. |
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