Publication Date:
2010-12-17
Description:
Classical non-homologous DNA end-joining (NHEJ) is a major mammalian DNA double-strand-break (DSB) repair pathway. Deficiencies for classical NHEJ factors, such as XRCC4, abrogate lymphocyte development, owing to a strict requirement for classical NHEJ to join V(D)J recombination DSB intermediates. The XRCC4-like factor (XLF; also called NHEJ1) is mutated in certain immunodeficient human patients and has been implicated in classical NHEJ; however, XLF-deficient mice have relatively normal lymphocyte development and their lymphocytes support normal V(D)J recombination. The ataxia telangiectasia-mutated protein (ATM) detects DSBs and activates DSB responses by phosphorylating substrates including histone H2AX. However, ATM deficiency causes only modest V(D)J recombination and lymphocyte developmental defects, and H2AX deficiency does not have a measurable impact on these processes. Here we show that XLF, ATM and H2AX all have fundamental roles in processing and joining DNA ends during V(D)J recombination, but that these roles have been masked by unanticipated functional redundancies. Thus, combined deficiency of ATM and XLF nearly blocks mouse lymphocyte development due to an inability to process and join chromosomal V(D)J recombination DSB intermediates. Combined XLF and ATM deficiency also severely impairs classical NHEJ, but not alternative end-joining, during IgH class switch recombination. Redundant ATM and XLF functions in classical NHEJ are mediated by ATM kinase activity and are not required for extra-chromosomal V(D)J recombination, indicating a role for chromatin-associated ATM substrates. Correspondingly, conditional H2AX inactivation in XLF-deficient pro-B lines leads to V(D)J recombination defects associated with marked degradation of unjoined V(D)J ends, revealing that H2AX has a role in this process.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3058373/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3058373/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Zha, Shan -- Guo, Chunguang -- Boboila, Cristian -- Oksenych, Valentyn -- Cheng, Hwei-Ling -- Zhang, Yu -- Wesemann, Duane R -- Yuen, Grace -- Patel, Harin -- Goff, Peter H -- Dubois, Richard L -- Alt, Frederick W -- AI007376/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI020047/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI076210/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- K08 AI089972/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- K08 AI089972-01/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- P01 AI076210/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- P01 AI076210-03/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI020047/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI020047-28/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- England -- Nature. 2011 Jan 13;469(7329):250-4. doi: 10.1038/nature09604. Epub 2010 Dec 15.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Children's Hospital, the Immune Disease Institute and the Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21160472" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Ataxia Telangiectasia Mutated Proteins
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Cell Cycle Proteins/genetics/*metabolism
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Cell Line, Transformed
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Chromatin/metabolism
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Chromosomes, Mammalian/genetics/metabolism
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*DNA Breaks, Double-Stranded
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*DNA Repair
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DNA-Binding Proteins/deficiency/genetics/*metabolism
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Embryo, Mammalian/embryology/metabolism
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*Gene Rearrangement, B-Lymphocyte/genetics
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Histones/*metabolism
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Mice
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Precursor Cells, B-Lymphoid/cytology/metabolism
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Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases/deficiency/genetics/*metabolism
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*Recombination, Genetic
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Tumor Suppressor Proteins/deficiency/genetics/*metabolism
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
