Artículo
5-Aza-2'-deoxycytidine causes replication lesions that require Fanconi anemia-dependent homologous recombination for repair
Autor/es | Orta Vázquez, Manuel Luis
Calderón Montaño, José Manuel Domínguez García, Inmaculada Pastor Carrillo, Nuria María Burgos Morón, Estefanía López Lázaro, Miguel Cortés, Felipe Mateos Cordero, Santiago Helleday, Thomas |
Departamento | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Biología Celular Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Farmacología |
Fecha de publicación | 2013 |
Fecha de depósito | 2017-04-27 |
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Resumen | 5-Aza-2'-deoxycytidine (5-azadC) is a DNA methyltransferase (DNMT) inhibitor increasingly used in treatments of hematological diseases and works by being incorporated into DNA and trapping DNMT. It is unclear what DNA ... 5-Aza-2'-deoxycytidine (5-azadC) is a DNA methyltransferase (DNMT) inhibitor increasingly used in treatments of hematological diseases and works by being incorporated into DNA and trapping DNMT. It is unclear what DNA lesions are caused by 5-azadC and if such are substrates for DNA repair. Here, we identify that 5-azadC induces DNA damage as measured by γ-H2AX and 53BP1 foci. Furthermore, 5-azadC induces radial chromosomes and chromatid breaks that depend on active replication, which altogether suggest that trapped DNMT collapses oncoming replication forks into double-strand breaks. We demonstrate that RAD51-mediated homologous recombination (HR) is activated to repair 5-azadC collapsed replication forks. Fanconi anemia (FA) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder, and deaths are often associated with leukemia. Here, we show that FANCG-deficient cells fail to trigger HR-mediated repair of 5-azadC-induced lesions, leading to accumulation of chromatid breaks and inter-chromosomal radial fusions as well as hypersensitivity to the cytotoxic effects of 5-azadC. These data demonstrate that the FA pathway is important to protect from 5-azadC-induced toxicity. Altogether, our data demonstrate that cytotoxicity of the epigenetic drug 5-azadC can, at least in part, be explained by collapsed replication forks requiring FA-mediated HR for repair. |
Agencias financiadoras | Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (MEC). España Junta de Andalucía |
Identificador del proyecto | BFU2007- 61301
BIO-120 |
Cita | Orta Vázquez, M.L., Calderón Montaño, J.M., Domínguez García, I., Pastor Carrillo, N.M., Burgos Morón, E., López Lázaro, M.,...,Helleday, T. (2013). 5-Aza-20-deoxycytidine causes replication lesions that require Fanconi anemia-dependent homologous recombination for repair. Nucleic Acids Research, 41 (11), 5827-5836. |
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