Atypical genotoxicity of carcinogenic nickel(II): Linkage to dNTP biosynthesis, DNA-incorporated rNMPs, and impaired repair of TOP1-DNA crosslinks.

Autor: Krawic C; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA., Luczak MW; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA., Valiente S; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA., Zhitkovich A; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. Electronic address: anatoly_zhitkovich@brown.edu.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The Journal of biological chemistry [J Biol Chem] 2023 Dec; Vol. 299 (12), pp. 105385. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Oct 25.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2023.105385
Abstrakt: Cancer is a genetic disease requiring multiple mutations for its development. However, many carcinogens are DNA-unreactive and nonmutagenic and consequently described as nongenotoxic. One of such carcinogens is nickel, a global environmental pollutant abundantly emitted by burning of coal. We investigated activation of DNA damage responses by Ni and identified this metal as a replication stressor. Genotoxic stress markers indicated the accumulation of ssDNA and stalled replication forks, and Ni-treated cells were dependent on ATR for suppression of DNA damage and long-term survival. Replication stress by Ni resulted from destabilization of RRM1 and RRM2 subunits of ribonucleotide reductase and the resulting deficiency in dNTPs. Ni also increased DNA incorporation of rNMPs (detected by a specific fluorescent assay) and strongly enhanced their genotoxicity as a result of repressed repair of TOP1-DNA protein crosslinks (TOP1-DPC). The DPC-trap assay found severely impaired SUMOylation and K48-polyubiquitination of DNA-crosslinked TOP1 due to downregulation of specific enzymes. Our findings identified Ni as the human carcinogen inducing genome instability via DNA-embedded ribonucleotides and accumulation of TOP1-DPC which are carcinogenic abnormalities with poor detectability by the standard mutagenicity tests. The discovered mechanisms for Ni could also play a role in genotoxicity of other protein-reactive carcinogens.
Competing Interests: Conflict of interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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Databáze: MEDLINE