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XB-ART-44595
Mol Cell Biol 2011 Nov 01;3122:4623-32. doi: 10.1128/MCB.05715-11.
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Nucleosome disruption by DNA ligase III-XRCC1 promotes efficient base excision repair.

Odell ID , Barbour JE , Murphy DL , Della-Maria JA , Sweasy JB , Tomkinson AE , Wallace SS , Pederson DS .


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Each day, approximately 20,000 oxidative lesions form in the DNA of every nucleated human cell. The base excision repair (BER) enzymes that repair these lesions must function in a chromatin milieu. We have determined that the DNA glycosylase hNTH1, apurinic endonuclease (APE), and DNA polymerase β (Pol β), which catalyze the first three steps in BER, are able to process their substrates in both 601- and 5S ribosomal DNA (rDNA)-based nucleosomes. hNTH1 formed a discrete ternary complex that was displaced by the addition of APE, suggesting an orderly handoff of substrates from one enzyme to the next. In contrast, DNA ligase IIIα-XRCC1, which completes BER, was appreciably active only at concentrations that led to nucleosome disruption. Ligase IIIα-XRCC1 was also able to bind and disrupt nucleosomes containing a single base gap and, because of this property, enhanced both its own activity and that of Pol β on nucleosome substrates. Collectively, these findings provide insights into rate-limiting steps that govern BER in chromatin and reveal a unique role for ligase IIIα-XRCC1 in enhancing the efficiency of the final two steps in the BER of lesions in nucleosomes.

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Species referenced: Xenopus
Genes referenced: rcc1 xrcc1

References [+] :
Almeida, A unified view of base excision repair: lesion-dependent protein complexes regulated by post-translational modification. 2007, Pubmed