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Differential requirement for the ATPase domain of the Cockayne syndrome group B gene in the processing of UV-induced DNA damage and 8-oxoguanine lesions in human cells 总被引:3,自引:2,他引:1
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Rebecca R. Selzer Simon Nyaga Jingsheng Tuo Alfred May Meltem Muftuoglu Mette Christiansen Elisabetta Citterio Robert M. Brosh Jr Vilhelm A. Bohr 《Nucleic acids research》2002,30(3):782-793
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Cockayne syndrome (CS) is a devastating progeria most often caused by mutations in the CSB gene encoding a SWI/SNF family chromatin remodeling protein. Although all CSB mutations that cause CS are recessive, the complete absence of CSB protein does not cause CS. In addition, most CSB mutations are located beyond exon 5 and are thought to generate only C-terminally truncated protein fragments. We now show that a domesticated PiggyBac-like transposon PGBD3, residing within intron 5 of the CSB gene, functions as an alternative 3′ terminal exon. The alternatively spliced mRNA encodes a novel chimeric protein in which CSB exons 1–5 are joined in frame to the PiggyBac transposase. The resulting CSB-transposase fusion protein is as abundant as CSB protein itself in a variety of human cell lines, and continues to be expressed by primary CS cells in which functional CSB is lost due to mutations beyond exon 5. The CSB-transposase fusion protein has been highly conserved for at least 43 Myr since the divergence of humans and marmoset, and appears to be subject to selective pressure. The human genome contains over 600 nonautonomous PGBD3-related MER85 elements that were dispersed when the PGBD3 transposase was last active at least 37 Mya. Many of these MER85 elements are associated with genes which are involved in neuronal development, and are known to be regulated by CSB. We speculate that the CSB-transposase fusion protein has been conserved for host antitransposon defense, or to modulate gene regulation by MER85 elements, but may cause CS in the absence of functional CSB protein. 相似文献
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Miria Stefanini Heather Fawcett Elena Botta Tiziana Nardo Alan R. Lehmann 《Human genetics》1996,97(4):418-423
Cockayne syndrome (CS) is an autosomal recessive disorder with dwarfism, mental retardation, sun sensitivity and a variety
of other features. Cultured CS cells are hypersensitive to ultraviolet (UV) light, and following UV irradiation, CS cells
are unable to restore RNA synthesis rates to normal levels. This has been attributed to a specific deficiency in CS cells
in the ability to repair damage in actively transcribed regions of DNA at the rapid rate seen in normal cells. We have used
the failure of recovery of RNA synthesis, following UV irradiation of CS cells, in a complementation test. Cells of different
CS donors are fused. Restoration of normal RNA synthesis rates in UV-irradiated heterodikaryons indicates that the donors
are in different complementation groups, whereas a failure to effect this recovery implies that they are in the same group.
In an analysis of cell strains from 22 CS donors from several countries and different racial groups, we have assigned five
cell strains to the CS-A group and the remaining 17 to CS-B. No obvious racial, clinical or cellular distinctions could be
made between individuals in the two groups. Our analysis will assist the identification of mutations in the recently cloned
CSA and CSB genes and the study of structure-function relationships.
Received: 19 June 1995 相似文献
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《DNA Repair》2014
Cockayne syndrome (CS) is a debilitating and complex disorder that results from inherited mutations in the CS complementation genes A and B, CSA and CSB. The links between the molecular functions of the CS genes and the complex pathophysiology of CS are as of yet poorly understood and are the subject of intense debate. While mouse models reflect the complexity of CS, studies on simpler genetic models might shed new light on the consequences of CS mutations. Here we describe a functional homolog of the human CSA gene in Caenorhabditis elegans. Similar to its human counterpart, mutations in the nematode csa-1 gene lead to developmental growth defects as a consequence of DNA lesions. 相似文献
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Untangling the relationships between DNA repair pathways by silencing more than 20 DNA repair genes in human stable clones 总被引:3,自引:1,他引:2
Biard DS 《Nucleic acids research》2007,35(11):3535-3550
Much effort has long been devoted to unraveling the coordinated cellular response to genotoxic insults. In view of the difficulty of obtaining human biological samples of homogeneous origin, I have established a set of stable human clones where one DNA repair gene has been stably silenced by means of RNA interference. I used pEBVsiRNA plasmids that greatly enhance long-term gene silencing in human cells. My older clones reached >500 days in culture. Knock-down HeLa clones maintained a gene silencing phenotype for an extended period in culture, demonstrating that I was able to mimic cells from cancer-prone syndromes. I have silenced >20 genes acting as sensors/transducers (ATM, ATR, Rad50, NBS1, MRE11, PARG and KIN17), or of different DNA repair pathways. In HeLa cells, I have switched off the expression of genes involved in nucleotide excision repair (XPA, XPC, hHR23A, hHR23B, CSA and CSB), nonhomologous end-joining (DNA-PKcs, XRCC4 and Ligase IV), homologous recombination repair (Rad51 and Rad54), or base excision repair (Ogg1 and Ligase III). These cells displayed the expected DNA repair phenotype. We could envisage untangling the complex network between the different DNA repair pathways. In this study, no viral vehicles, with their attendant ethical and safety concerns, were used. 相似文献
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The cockayne syndrome group B gene product is involved in cellular repair of 8-hydroxyadenine in DNA
Tuo J Jaruga P Rodriguez H Dizdaroglu M Bohr VA 《The Journal of biological chemistry》2002,277(34):30832-30837
Cockayne syndrome (CS) is a human disease characterized by sensitivity to sunlight, severe neurological abnormalities, and accelerated aging. CS has two complementation groups, CS-A and CS-B. The CSB gene encodes the CSB protein with 1493 amino acids. We previously reported that the CSB protein is involved in cellular repair of 8-hydroxyguanine, an abundant lesion in oxidatively damaged DNA and that the putative helicase motif V/VI of the CSB may play a role in this process. The present study investigated the role of the CSB protein in cellular repair of 8-hydroxyadenine (8-OH-Ade), another abundant lesion in oxidatively damaged DNA. Extracts of CS-B-null cells and mutant cells with site-directed mutation in the motif VI of the putative helicase domain incised 8-hydroxyadenine in vitro less efficiently than wild type cells. Furthermore, CS-B-null and motif VI mutant cells accumulated more 8-hydroxyadenine in their genomic DNA than wild type cells after exposure to gamma-radiation at doses of 2 or 5 Gy. These results suggest that the CSB protein contributes to cellular repair of 8-OH-Ade and that the motif VI of the putative helicase domain of CSB is required for this activity. 相似文献