TY - JOUR
T1 - Nick-dependent and -independent Processing of Large DNA Loops in Human Cells
AU - McCulloch, Scott D.
AU - Gu, Liya
AU - Li, Guo Min
PY - 2003/12/12
Y1 - 2003/12/12
N2 - DNA loop heterologies are products of normal DNA metabolism and can lead to severe genomic instability if unrepaired. To understand how human cells process DNA loop structures, a set of circular heteroduplexes containing a 30-nucleotide loop were constructed and tested for repair in vitro by human cell nuclear extracts. We demonstrate here that, in addition to the previously identified 5′ nick-directed loop repair pathway (Littman, S. J., Fang, W. H., and Modrich, P. (1999) J. Biol. Chem. 274, 7474-7481), human cells can process large DNA loop heterologies in a loop-directed manner. The loop-directed repair specifically removes the loop structure and occurs only in the looped strand, and appears to require limited DNA synthesis. Like the nick-directed loop repair, the loop-directed repair is independent of many known DNA repair pathways, including DNA mismatch repair and nucleotide excision repair. In addition, our data also suggest that an aphidicolin-sensitive DNA polymerase is involved in the excision step of the nick-directed loop repair pathway.
AB - DNA loop heterologies are products of normal DNA metabolism and can lead to severe genomic instability if unrepaired. To understand how human cells process DNA loop structures, a set of circular heteroduplexes containing a 30-nucleotide loop were constructed and tested for repair in vitro by human cell nuclear extracts. We demonstrate here that, in addition to the previously identified 5′ nick-directed loop repair pathway (Littman, S. J., Fang, W. H., and Modrich, P. (1999) J. Biol. Chem. 274, 7474-7481), human cells can process large DNA loop heterologies in a loop-directed manner. The loop-directed repair specifically removes the loop structure and occurs only in the looped strand, and appears to require limited DNA synthesis. Like the nick-directed loop repair, the loop-directed repair is independent of many known DNA repair pathways, including DNA mismatch repair and nucleotide excision repair. In addition, our data also suggest that an aphidicolin-sensitive DNA polymerase is involved in the excision step of the nick-directed loop repair pathway.
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U2 - 10.1074/jbc.M309025200
DO - 10.1074/jbc.M309025200
M3 - Article
C2 - 14522965
AN - SCOPUS:0348010306
SN - 0021-9258
VL - 278
SP - 50803
EP - 50809
JO - Journal of Biological Chemistry
JF - Journal of Biological Chemistry
IS - 50
ER -