DNA Excision Repair and DNA Damage-Induced Apoptosis Are Linked to Poly(ADP-Ribosyl)ation but Have Different Requirements for p53
AUTOR(ES)
Beneke, Ralph
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) is a DNA binding zinc finger protein that catalyzes the transfer of ADP-ribose residues from NAD+ to itself and different chromatin constituents, forming branched ADP-ribose polymers. The enzymatic activity of PARP is induced upon DNA damage and the PARP protein is cleaved during apoptosis, which suggested a role of PARP in DNA repair and DNA damage-induced cell death. We have generated transgenic mice that lack PARP activity in thymocytes owing to the targeted expression of a dominant negative form of PARP. In the presence of single-strand DNA breaks, the absence of PARP activity correlated with a strongly increased rate of apoptosis compared to cells with intact PARP activity. We found that blockage of PARP activity leads to a drastic increase of p53 expression and activity after DNA damage and correlates with an accelerated onset of Bax expression. DNA repair is almost completely blocked in PARP-deficient thymocytes regardless of p53 status. We found the same increased susceptibility to apoptosis in PARP null mice, a similar inhibition of DNA repair kinetics, and the same upregulation of p53 in response to DNA damage. Thus, based on two different experimental in vivo models, we identify a direct, p53-independent, functional connection between poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation and the DNA excision repair machinery. Furthermore, we propose a p53-dependent link between PARP activity and DNA damage-induced cell death.
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