Functional relation among RecQ family helicases RecQL1, RecQL5, and BLM in cell growth and sister chromatid exchange formation |
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| Authors: | Wang Wensheng Seki Masayuki Narita Yoshiyasu Nakagawa Takayuki Yoshimura Akari Otsuki Makoto Kawabe Yoh-ichi Tada Shusuke Yagi Hideki Ishii Yutaka Enomoto Takemi |
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| Affiliation: | Molecular Cell Biology Laboratory, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University, Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8578, Japan. |
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| Abstract: | Human RECQL1 and RECQL5 belong to the RecQ family that includes Bloom syndrome, Werner syndrome, and Rothmund-Thomson syndrome causative genes. Cells derived from individuals suffering from these syndromes show significant levels of genomic instability. However, neither RECQL1 nor RECQL5 has been related to a disease, and nothing is known about the functions of RecQL1 and RecQL5. We generated here RECQL1(-/-), RECQL5(-/-), RECQL1(-/-)/RECQL5(-/-), RECQL1(-/-)/BLM(-/-), and RECQL5(-/-)/BLM(-/-) cells from chicken B-lymphocyte line DT40 cells. Although BLM(-/-) DT40 cells showed a slow-growth phenotype, a higher sensitivity to methyl methanesulfonate than the wild type, and an approximately 10-fold increase in the frequency of sister chromatid exchange (SCE) compared to wild-type cells, RECQL1(-/-), RECQL5(-/-), and RECQL1(-/-)/RECQL5(-/-) cells showed no significant difference from the wild-type cells in growth, sensitivity to DNA-damaging agents, and the frequency of SCE. However, both RECQL1(-/-)/BLM(-/-) and RECQL5(-/-)/BLM(-/-) cells grew more slowly than BLM(-/-) cells because of the increase in the population of dead cells, indicating that RecQL1 and RecQL5 are somehow involved in cell viability under the BLM function-impaired condition. Surprisingly, RECQL5(-/-)/BLM(-/-) cells showed a higher frequency of SCE than BLM(-/-) cells, indicating that RecQL5 suppresses SCE under the BLM function-impaired condition. |
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