FANCD2 Maintains Fork Stability in BRCA1/2-Deficient Tumors and Promotes Alternative End-Joining DNA Repair
BRCA1/2 proteins function in homologous recombination (HR)-mediated DNA repair and cooperate with Fanconi anemia (FA) proteins to maintain genomic integrity through replication fork stabilization. Loss of BRCA1/2 proteins results in DNA repair deficiency and replicative stress, leading to genomic in...
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| Vydáno v: | Cell reports (Cambridge) Ročník 15; číslo 11; s. 2488 - 2499 |
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| Médium: | Journal Article |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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United States
Elsevier Inc
14.06.2016
Elsevier |
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| ISSN: | 2211-1247, 2211-1247 |
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| Shrnutí: | BRCA1/2 proteins function in homologous recombination (HR)-mediated DNA repair and cooperate with Fanconi anemia (FA) proteins to maintain genomic integrity through replication fork stabilization. Loss of BRCA1/2 proteins results in DNA repair deficiency and replicative stress, leading to genomic instability and enhanced sensitivity to DNA-damaging agents. Recent studies have shown that BRCA1/2-deficient tumors upregulate Polθ-mediated alternative end-joining (alt-EJ) repair as a survival mechanism. Whether other mechanisms maintain genomic integrity upon loss of BRCA1/2 proteins is currently unknown. Here we show that BRCA1/2-deficient tumors also upregulate FANCD2 activity. FANCD2 is required for fork protection and fork restart in BRCA1/2-deficient tumors. Moreover, FANCD2 promotes Polθ recruitment at sites of damage and alt-EJ repair. Finally, loss of FANCD2 in BRCA1/2-deficient tumors enhances cell death. These results reveal a synthetic lethal relationship between FANCD2 and BRCA1/2, and they identify FANCD2 as a central player orchestrating DNA repair pathway choice at the replication fork.
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•Loss of FANCD2 and BRCA1/2 is synthetic lethal•FANCD2 maintains fork stability in BRCA1/2-deficient cells•FANCD2 promotes alternative end joining (alt-EJ)•FANCD2 overexpression confers resistance to PARP inhibitors
Kais et al. show that BRCA1/2-deficient tumors have a compensatory increase in FANCD2 activity. FANCD2 stabilizes stalled replication forks and promotes alternative end joining (alt-EJ) in BRCA1/2-deficient tumors. Loss of FANCD2 in these tumors results in severe DNA repair defects and enhanced cell death. |
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| Bibliografie: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 Co-first author |
| ISSN: | 2211-1247 2211-1247 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.celrep.2016.05.031 |