Enzyme mechanism-based, oxidative DNA-protein cross-links formed with DNA polymerase ? in vivo.
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ABSTRACT: Free radical attack on the C1' position of DNA deoxyribose generates the oxidized abasic (AP) site 2-deoxyribonolactone (dL). Upon encountering dL, AP lyase enzymes such as DNA polymerase ? (Pol?) form dead-end, covalent intermediates in vitro during attempted DNA repair. However, the conditions that lead to the in vivo formation of such DNA-protein cross-links (DPC), and their impact on cellular functions, have remained unknown. We adapted an immuno-slot blot approach to detect oxidative Pol?-DPC in vivo. Treatment of mammalian cells with genotoxic oxidants that generate dL in DNA led to the formation of Pol?-DPC in vivo. In a dose-dependent fashion, Pol?-DPC were detected in MDA-MB-231 human cells treated with the antitumor drug tirapazamine (TPZ; much more Pol?-DPC under 1% O2 than under 21% O2) and even more robustly with the "chemical nuclease" 1,10-copper-ortho-phenanthroline, Cu(OP)2. Mouse embryonic fibroblasts challenged with TPZ or Cu(OP)2 also incurred Pol?-DPC. Nonoxidative agents did not generate Pol?-DPC. The cross-linking in vivo was clearly a result of the base excision DNA repair pathway: oxidative Pol?-DPC depended on the Ape1 AP endonuclease, which generates the Pol? lyase substrate, and they required the essential lysine-72 in the Pol? lyase active site. Oxidative Pol?-DPC had an unexpectedly short half-life (? 30 min) in both human and mouse cells, and their removal was dependent on the proteasome. Proteasome inhibition under Cu(OP)2 treatment was significantly more cytotoxic to cells expressing wild-type Pol? than to cells with the lyase-defective form. That observation underscores the genotoxic potential of oxidative Pol?-DPC and the biological pressure to repair them.
SUBMITTER: Quinones JL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4507217 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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