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DNA repair protein involved in heart and blood development.

ABSTRACT: Apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1, a key enzyme in repairing abasic sites in DNA, is an embryonic lethal in mice. We are examining its role in embryogenesis in zebra fish. Zebra fish contain two genomic copies (zfAPEX1a and zfAPEX1b) with identical coding sequences. zfAPEX1b lacks introns. Recombinant protein (ZAP1) is highly homologous with and has the same enzymatic properties as its human orthologue. ZAP1 is highly expressed throughout development. Embryos microinjected with morpholino oligonucleotide (MO) targeting the translation start site die at approximately the midblastula transition (MBT) without apoptosis. They are rescued with mRNA for human wild-type APEX1 but not for APEX1 encoding endonuclease-defective protein. Rescued embryos develop dysmorphic hearts, pericardial edema, few erythrocytes, small eyes, and abnormal notochords. Although the hearts in rescued embryos form defective loops ranging from no loop to one that is abnormally shaped, cardiac myosin (cmlc2) is present and contraction occurs. Embryos microinjected with MO targeting zfAPEX1a intron-exon junctions also pass the MBT with similar abnormalities. We conclude that AP endonuclease 1 is involved in both repairing DNA and regulating specific early stages of embryonic development.

SUBMITTER: Wang Y

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1636828 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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DNA repair protein involved in heart and blood development.

Wang Yi Y Shupenko Craig C CC Melo Luisa F LF Strauss Phyllis R PR

Molecular and cellular biology 20060911 23

Apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1, a key enzyme in repairing abasic sites in DNA, is an embryonic lethal in mice. We are examining its role in embryogenesis in zebra fish. Zebra fish contain two genomic copies (zfAPEX1a and zfAPEX1b) with identical coding sequences. zfAPEX1b lacks introns. Recombinant protein (ZAP1) is highly homologous with and has the same enzymatic properties as its human orthologue. ZAP1 is highly expressed throughout development. Embryos microinjected with morpholino oli ...[more]

PMID: 16966376

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Project description:Free radical attack on C1' of deoxyribose forms the oxidized abasic (AP) site 2-deoxyribonolactone (dL). In vitro, dL traps the major base excision DNA repair enzyme DNA polymerase beta (Pol?) in covalent DNA-protein crosslinks (DPC) via the enzyme's N-terminal lyase activity acting on 5'-deoxyribose-5-phosphate residues. We previously demonstrated formation of Pol?-DPC in cells challenged with oxidants generating significant levels of dL. Proteasome inhibition under 1,10-copper-ortho-phenanthroline (CuOP) treatment significantly increased Pol?-DPC accumulation and trapped ubiquitin in the DPC, with Pol? accounting for 60-70 % of the total ubiquitin signal. However, the identity of the remaining oxidative ubiquityl-DPC remained unknown. In this report, we surveyed whether additional AP lyases are trapped in oxidative DPC in mammalian cells in culture. Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase 1 (PARP1), Ku proteins, DNA polymerase ? (Pol?), and the bifunctional 8-oxoguanine DNA glycosylase 1 (OGG1), were all trapped in oxidative DPC in mammalian cells. We also observed significant trapping of Pol?, PARP1, and OGG1 in cells treated with the alkylating agent methylmethane sulfonate (MMS), in addition to dL-inducing agents. Ku proteins, in contrast, followed a pattern of trapping similar to that for Pol?: MMS failed to produce Ku-DPC, while treatment with CuOP or (less effectively) H2O2 gave rise to significant Ku-DPC. Unexpectedly, NEIL1 and NEIL3 were trapped following H2O2 treatment, but not detectably in cells exposed to CuOP. The half-life of all the AP lyase-DPC ranged from 15-60 min, consistent with their active repair. Accordingly, CuOP treatment under proteasome inhibition significantly increased the observed levels of DPC in cultured mammalian cells containing PARP1, Ku protein, Pol?, and OGG1 proteins. As seen for Pol?, blocking the proteasome led to the accumulation of DPC containing ubiquitin. Thus, the ubiquitin-dependent proteolytic mechanisms that control Pol?-DPC removal may also apply to a broad array of oxidative AP lyase-DPC, preventing their toxic accumulation in cells.

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DNA repair protein involved in heart and blood development.

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DNA repair protein involved in heart and blood development.

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