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Lecture 14 - Maintenance of Genomic Integrity Flashcards

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How what 3 ways can DNA damage occur?

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  • copying error during DNA replication
  • spontaneous depurination
  • exposure to different agents e.g. background ionising radiation, UV light, tobacco products
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What are the 5 major types of DNA repair?

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  1. direct reversal of damage
  2. base excision - corrects DNA damage caused by reactive oxygen species deamination, hydroxylation, spontaneous depurination
  3. Nucleotide excision repair - removes adducts that produce large distortions in DNA
  4. Homologous recombination repair and non homologous end joining - repairs DNA double strand breaks
  5. DNA mismatch repair - repairs copy error made during replication
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Name types of DNA damage

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  • 7-methyl guanine
  • O6 alkyl guanine
  • UV induced thymine dimers
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-

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  • enzymatic reversal

- removal and replacement of damage

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What are the three DNA damage substrates and their repair enzymes that can reversed?

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  • UV dimers reversed by photolyase and visible light
  • O6 alkyl guanine reverse by alkyl transferase
  • DNA strand break reverse by ligases
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What are the 3 substrates for base excision repair?

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  • alkylated cytosine
  • spontaneous hydrolytic depurination of DNA
  • formation of DNA adducts after exposure to reactive small metabolites
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Describe the process of base excision repair

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  • the altered DNA base is excised in free form by a DNA glycosylase
  • the resulting abasic site is corrected by the concerted actin of:
  • an apurinic endonuclease
  • a DNA polymerase
  • a DNA ligase
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What are the four steps of removal and replacement of a damaged base?
What enzymes are involved in each step?

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  1. Removal = DNA glycosylase
  2. removal of apurinic site = apurinic endonuclease
  3. addition of new nucleotides = DNA polymerase
  4. ligation = DNA ligase
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What dose nucleotide excision repair operate on?
What does it recognise?
What does it remove?

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  • dsDNA, cannot act on ssDNA
  • it is non-specific, it recognises general distoriotns rather than specific adducts
  • will remove and repair large adducts e.g. thymine dimers
  • it is very efficient and error free
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What are the four steps enzymes of nucleotide excision repair?

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  1. endonuclease
  2. exonuclease - removes several or tens of nucleotides
  3. polymerase
  4. ligase
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What is daughter strand gap repair?

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  1. dimers remain after ‘repair’
  2. this is really a tolerance mechanism
  3. dimers are removed later from he double stranded DNA by excision repair
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12
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What is xerderma pigmentosum?

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  • autosomal recessive disorder
  • patients show extreme sun sensitivity
  • patients develop many skin tumours
  • cultured skin fibroblasts show increases sensitivity to UV light
  • cells can be shown to have defect in DNA nucleotide excision repair
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What is the defect in XP?

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  • all deficient in NER, some have problem with daughter strand gap repair, many show unscheduled DNA synthesis
  • excision deficient XP patients there is failure to excise the damage
  • therefore the thymine dimer remains in situ
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Describe the steps of nucleotide excision repair

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  1. XPC (+XPE) recognise dimer
  2. XPB, XPD recruited to unwind DNA (helicases)
  3. XPF and XPG cleave
  4. polymerisation
  5. ligation
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Mutation and Cancer in XP

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  • XP cells show a high mutation rate
  • mutation probably due to unexcised dimers and, therefore, incorrect bases incorporated opposite damage
  • this mutation represents a step towards cancer development
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16
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Which gene is often mutated in XP?

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PTCH1 (patch one)

17
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What are some of the variants of XP?

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  • not deficient in nucleotide excision repair
  • not very sensitive to killing by UV, but cells are hypermutable
  • sensitive to UV can be enhanced by caffeine
  • defect in replication of DNA following UV exposure of cells (daughter strand gap repair)
  • deficient in an enzyme DNA polymerase h, which is able to replicate DNA past UV photoproducts - translation synthesis
18
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What main repair mechanism of BRCA1 and BRCA2 involved in?

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double strand DNA break repair

19
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What are the differences in primary sequences of BRCA1 and BRCA2?

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BRCA1 = BRCT domains are found in many prairie proteins, as pairs of with an FHA domain 
BRCA2 = BRC repeats mediated binding to Rad51
20
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What findings suggested that BRCA1 and BRCA2 were involved in DNA DSB repair?

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  • increased gamma ray sensitivity of BRCA1/2 -ve human cells and mice cells
  • increased sensitivity to gamma ray sensitive suggests a defect in DNA DSB repair
21
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By what two processes can DSB’s be repaired?

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  • non-homologous end joining (NHEJ)

- homologous recombination repair (HRR)

22
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Describe homologous recombination repair and how BRCA2 and BCRA1 are involved

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  • Rad51 coats ssDNA to form nucleoprotein filament that invades and pairs with homologous DNA duplex - initiating strand exchange
  • availability and activity of Rad51 is regulated by BRCA2
  • BRCA2 binds to Rad51 through the eight BRC repeats in BRCA2
  • BRCA2 controls intracellular movement and function of Rad51
  • release of Rad51 is triggered by DNA damage by phosphorylation of Rad51 or BRCA2
  • BRCA1 is also required for HRR
  • mechanism through interaction with and removal of 53BP1 at sides to DSB, prior to resection and recombination
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Describe the steps of non-homologous end joining

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  • recognising of DNA ends
  • end synapsis
  • end processing
  • microhomology-based pairing
  • flap removal
  • gap filling and end ligation
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Describe the characteristics of NHEJ

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  • Rad51 independent
  • BRCA2 not required for DNA DSB
  • V(D)J recombination is normal in BRCA deficient mice
  • NHEJ is an error prone process
25
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Give an overview of the roles of BCRA 1 and and BRCA2 in DNA damage responses

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  • BRCA2 occurs quite specifically through control of Rad51 recombinase in homologous recombination
  • BRCA1 occurs in a much wider front, but links upstream sensing and signalling of damage, through 53BP1 in recombination repair
  • BRCA1 also has roles in cell cycle checkpoints
26
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How to PARP inhibitors work?

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  • used to treated HRR deficient tumour cells
  • PARP1 usually acts to repair ssDNA breaks
  • this is inhibited by PARP inhibitors
  • when it reaches the replication fork, allows a dsDNA break forms
  • this cannot be repaired in these tumours, cell death
27
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What kind of an enzyme is Rad51

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recombinase

28
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What does DNA mismatch repair do?

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repairs copy errors made during DNA replication

  • mismatch repair genes reapir base-base mismatch
  • and repaired insertion deletion loops which arise as a consequence of polymerase slippage during replication. slippage cases gains or losses in repetitive DNA. also called micro satellite instability
  • genes that have microsattelites int heir coding region have an increase risk of mutation in HNPCC
29
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What mutation is found in hereditary non polyposis colorectal cancer?

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mutation in mistmatch repair genes

30
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What is the mutator phenotype hypothesis in HNPCC?

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  • microsattelite instability - led to mutator phenotype hypothesis
  • postulates that mismatch repair defects lead to mutation in other genes, including those known to play a role in the adenoma-carcinoma sequence
  • therefore, the increased mutation rate is then the cause of accelerated tumurigenesis
  • the mutator phenotype plays a role in tumour progression rather than in initiation

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