Xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) C is involved in the recognition of a variety of bulky DNA-distorting lesions in nucleotide excision repair. Here, we show that XPC plays an unexpected and multifaceted role in cell protection from oxidative DNA damage. XP-C primary keratinocytes and fibroblasts are hypersensitive to the killing effects of DNA-oxidizing agents and this effect is reverted by expression of wild-type XPC. Upon oxidant exposure, XP-C primary keratinocytes and fibroblasts accumulate 8,5 0 -cyclopurine 2 0 -deoxynucleosides in their DNA, indicating that XPC is involved in their removal. In the absence of XPC, a decrease in the repair rate of 8-hydroxyguanine (8-OH-Gua) is also observed. We demonstrate that XPC-HR23B complex acts as cofactor in base excision repair of 8-OH-Gua, by stimulating the activity of its specific DNA glycosylase OGG1. In vitro experiments suggest that the mechanism involved is a combination of increased loading and turnover of OGG1 by XPC-HR23B complex. The accumulation of endogenous oxidative DNA damage might contribute to increased skin cancer risk and account for internal cancers reported for XP-C patients.
Mismatch repair (MMR) corrects replication errors. It requires the MSH2, MSH6, MLH1, and PMS2 proteins which comprise the MutSalpha and MutLalpha heterodimers. Inactivation of MSH2 or MLH1 in human tumors greatly increases spontaneous mutation rates. Oxidation produces many detrimental DNA alterations against which cells deploy multiple protective strategies. The Ogg-1 DNA glycosylase initiates base excision repair (BER) of 8-oxoguanine (8-oxoG) from 8-oxoG:C pairs. The Myh DNA glycosylase removes mismatched adenines incorporated opposite 8-oxoG during replication. Subsequent BER generates 8-oxoG:C pairs, a substrate for excision by Ogg-1. MTH1-an 8-oxodGTPase which eliminates 8-oxodGTP from the dNTP pool-affords additional protection by minimizing 8-oxodGMP incorporation during replication. Here we show that the dNTP pool is, nevertheless, an important source of DNA 8-oxoG and that MMR provides supplementary protection by excising incorporated 8-oxodGMP. Incorporated 8-oxodGMP contributes significantly to the mutator phenotype of MMR-deficient cells. Thus, although BER of 8-oxoG is independent of Msh2, both steady-state and H(2)O(2)-induced DNA 8-oxoG levels are higher in Msh2-defective cells than in their repair-proficient counterparts. Increased expression of MTH1 in MMR-defective cells significantly reduces steady-state and H(2)O(2)-induced DNA 8-oxoG levels. This reduction dramatically diminishes the spontaneous mutation rate of Msh2(-/-) MEFs.
Mammalian cells possess two distinct pathways for completion of base excision repair (BER): the DNA polymerase beta (Pol beta)-dependent short-patch pathway (replacement of one nucleotide), which is the main route, and the long-patch pathway (resynthesis of 2-6 nucleotides), which is PCNA-dependent. To address the issue of how these two pathways share their role in BER the ability of Pol beta-defective mammalian cell extracts to repair a single abasic site constructed in a circular duplex plasmid molecule was tested in a standard in vitro repair reaction. Pol beta-deficient extracts were able to perform both BER pathways. However, in the case of the short-patch BER, the repair kinetics was significantly slower than with Pol beta-proficient extracts, while the efficiency of the long-patch synthesis was unaffected by the loss of Pol beta. The repair synthesis was fully dependent on PCNA for the replacement of long patches. These data give the first evidence that in cell extracts DNA polymerases other than Pol beta are specifically involved in the long-patch BER. These DNA polymerases are also able to perform short-patch BER in the absence of PCNA, although less efficiently than Pol beta. These findings lead to a novel model whereby the two BER pathways are characterized by different protein requirements, and a functional redundancy at the level of DNA polymerases provides cells with backup systems.
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