RAD51AP1 mediates RAD51 activity through nucleosome interaction

Autor: Weixing Zhao, Platon Selemenakis, Bo Wu, Yuxin Huang, Dauren S. Alimbetov, Claudia Wiese, Elena Pires, Neelam Sharma
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
0301 basic medicine
Genome instability
EMSA
electrophoretic mobility shift assay

RAD51
Biochemistry
Histones
chemistry.chemical_compound
PVDF
polyvinylidene difluoride

mononucleosomes
Histone octamer
homologous recombination DNA repair
synaptic complex assembly
ANOVA
analysis of variance

Chemistry
NCP
nucleosome core particle

RAD51AP1
RNA-Binding Proteins
Hop2
homologous pairing 2

Telomere
Chromatin
Cell biology
Nucleosomes
DNA-Binding Proteins
PALB2
partner and localizer of BRCA2

Research Article
MNase
micrococcal nuclease

NAP1
nucleosome-associated protein 1

ATP
adenosine triphosphate

SEC
size-exclusion chromatography

MBP
maltose-binding protein

Genomic Instability
HPLC
high-pressure liquid chromatography

03 medical and health sciences
Protein Domains
Nucleosome
Humans
AA
amino acid

Molecular Biology
Mnd1
meiotic nuclear divisions 1

UAF1
USP1-associated factor 1

MMC
mitomycin C

030102 biochemistry & molecular biology
Recombinational DNA Repair
D-loop
displacement-loop

Cell Biology
DNA Repair Pathway
DNA-binding domain
DNA
Ni-NTA
nickel nitrilotriacetic acid

Nucleoprotein
Chromosome Pairing
030104 developmental biology
RAD51AP1
RAD51-associated protein 1

BSA
bovine serum albumin

Rad51 Recombinase
HR
homologous recombination

Homologous recombination
Zdroj: The Journal of Biological Chemistry
ISSN: 1083-351X
0021-9258
Popis: RAD51-associated protein 1 (RAD51AP1) is a key protein in the homologous recombination (HR) DNA repair pathway. Loss of RAD51AP1 leads to defective HR, genome instability, and telomere erosion. RAD51AP1 physically interacts with the RAD51 recombinase and promotes RAD51-mediated capture of donor DNA, synaptic complex assembly, and displacement-loop formation when tested with nucleosome-free DNA substrates. In cells, however, DNA is packaged into chromatin, posing an additional barrier to the complexities of the HR reaction. In this study, we show that RAD51AP1 binds to nucleosome core particles (NCPs), the minimum basic unit of chromatin in which approximately two superhelical turns of 147 bp double-stranded DNA are wrapped around one histone octamer with no free DNA ends remaining. We identified a C-terminal region in RAD51AP1, including its previously mapped DNA-binding domain, as critical for mediating the association between RAD51AP1 and both the NCP and the histone octamer. Using in vitro surrogate assays of HR activity, we show that RAD51AP1 is capable of promoting duplex DNA capture and initiating joint-molecule formation with the NCP and chromatinized template DNA, respectively. Together, our results suggest that RAD51AP1 directly assists in the RAD51-mediated search for donor DNA in chromatin. We present a model, in which RAD51AP1 anchors the DNA template through affinity for its nucleosomes to the RAD51-ssDNA nucleoprotein filament.
Databáze: OpenAIRE