Oocyte Elimination Through DNA Damage Signaling from CHK1/CHK2 to p53 and p63.
Autor: | Rinaldi VD; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01605., Bloom JC; Department of Biomedical Sciences and Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850., Schimenti JC; Department of Biomedical Sciences and Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850 jcs92@cornell.edu. |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Zdroj: | Genetics [Genetics] 2020 Jun; Vol. 215 (2), pp. 373-378. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Apr 09. |
DOI: | 10.1534/genetics.120.303182 |
Abstrakt: | Eukaryotic organisms have evolved mechanisms to prevent the accumulation of cells bearing genetic aberrations. This is especially crucial for the germline, because fecundity and fitness of progeny would be adversely affected by an excessively high mutational incidence. The process of meiosis poses unique problems for mutation avoidance because of the requirement for SPO11-induced programmed double-strand breaks (DSBs) in recombination-driven pairing and segregation of homologous chromosomes. Mouse meiocytes bearing unrepaired meiotic DSBs or unsynapsed chromosomes are eliminated before completing meiotic prophase I. In previous work, we showed that checkpoint kinase 2 (CHK2; CHEK2), a canonical DNA damage response protein, is crucial for eliminating not only oocytes defective in meiotic DSB repair ( e.g. , Trip13 Gt mutants), but also Spo11 -/- oocytes that are defective in homologous chromosome synapsis and accumulate a threshold level of spontaneous DSBs. However, rescue of such oocytes by Chk2 deficiency was incomplete, raising the possibility that a parallel checkpoint pathway(s) exists. Here, we show that mouse oocytes lacking both p53 (TRP53) and the oocyte-exclusive isoform of p63, TAp63, protects nearly all Spo11 -/- and Trip13 Gt/Gt oocytes from elimination. We present evidence that checkpoint kinase I (CHK1; CHEK1), which is known to signal to TRP53, also becomes activated by persistent DSBs in oocytes, and to an increased degree when CHK2 is absent. The combined data indicate that nearly all oocytes reaching a threshold level of unrepaired DSBs are eliminated by a semiredundant pathway of CHK1/CHK2 signaling to TRP53/TAp63. (Copyright © 2020 by the Genetics Society of America.) |
Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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