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Spontaneous homologous recombination is induced by collapsed replication forks that are caused by endogenous DNA single-strand breaks.

Molecular and cellular biology ·Vol. 25 ·No. 16 ·2005-08-00 ·Pages 7158-69

Saleh-Gohari N, Bryant HE, Schultz N, Parker KM, Cassel TN, Helleday T

Abstract

Homologous recombination is vital to repair fatal DNA damage during DNA replication. However, very little is known about the substrates or repair pathways for homologous recombination in mammalian cells. Here, we have compared the recombination products produced spontaneously with those produced following induction of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) with the I-SceI restriction endonuclease or after stalling or collapsing replication forks following treatment with thymidine or camptothecin, respectively. We show that each lesion produces different spectra of recombinants, suggesting differential use of homologous recombination pathways in repair of these lesions. The spontaneous spectrum most resembled the spectra produced at collapsed replication forks formed when a replication fork runs into camptothecin-stabilized DNA single-strand breaks (SSBs) within the topoisomerase I cleavage complex. We found that camptothecin-induced DSBs and the resulting recombination repair require replication, showing that a collapsed fork is the substrate for camptothecin-induced recombination. An SSB repair-defective cell line, EM9 with an XRCC1 mutation, has an increased number of spontaneous gammaH2Ax and RAD51 foci, suggesting that endogenous SSBs collapse replication forks, triggering recombination repair. Furthermore, we show that gammaH2Ax, DSBs, and RAD51 foci are synergistically induced in EM9 cells with camptothecin, suggesting that lack of SSB repair in EM9 causes more collapsed forks and more recombination repair. Furthermore, our results suggest that two-ended DSBs are rare substrates for spontaneous homologous recombination in a mammalian fibroblast cell line. Interestingly, all spectra showed evidence of multiple homologous recombination events in 8 to 16% of clones. However, there was no increase in homologous recombination genomewide in these clones nor were the events dependent on each other; rather, we suggest that a first homologous recombination event frequently triggers a second event at the same locus in mammalian cells.

MeSH Terms
Animals Blotting, Southern Camptothecin/pharmacology Cell Cycle Cell Line Chromatids Cricetinae DNA Damage DNA Fragmentation DNA Repair DNA Replication DNA Topoisomerases, Type I/metabolism DNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism Fibroblasts/metabolism Genome Histones/metabolism Microscopy, Fluorescence Models, Biological Models, Genetic Mutation Protein Binding Rad51 Recombinase Recombination, Genetic X-ray Repair Cross Complementing Protein 1
Chemicals
DNA-Binding Proteins Histones X-ray Repair Cross Complementing Protein 1 Xrcc1 protein, mouse gamma-H2AX protein, mouse Rad51 Recombinase DNA Topoisomerases, Type I Camptothecin
Authors & Affiliations
6 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID
Saleh-Gohari Nasrollah
Institute for Cancer Studies, University of Sheffield Medical School, UK.
Bryant Helen E
Schultz Niklas
Parker Kayan M
Cassel Tobias N
Helleday Thomas
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Article Info
Journal
Molecular and cellular biology
Abbr.
Mol Cell Biol
ISSN
0270-7306
DOI
10.1128/MCB.25.16.7158-7169.2005
Published
2005-08-00
Pages
7158-69
Language
English
Region
United States
NLM ID
8109087
PMCID
PMC1190269
Subset
IM
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PubMed source DOI: 10.1128/MCB.25.16.7158-7169.2005 PMC Full Text View journal details
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