Lack of gene- and strand-specific DNA repair in RNA polymerase III-transcribed human tRNA genes.
AUTOR(ES)
Dammann, R
RESUMO
UV light induces DNA lesions which are removed by nucleotide excision repair. Genes transcribed by RNA polymerase II are repaired faster than the flanking chromatin, and the transcribed strand is repaired faster than the coding strand. Transcription-coupled repair is not seen in RNA polymerase I-transcribed human rRNA genes. Since repair of genes transcribed by RNA polymerase III has not been analyzed before, we investigated DNA repair of tRNA genes after irradiation of human fibroblasts with UVC. We studied the repair of UV-induced cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers at nucleotide resolution by ligation-mediated PCR. A single-copy gene encoding selenocysteine tRNA, a tRNA valine gene, and their flanking sequences were analyzed. Protein-DNA footprinting showed that both genes were occupied by regulatory factors in vivo, and Northern blotting and nuclear run-on analysis of the tRNA indicated that these genes were actively transcribed. We found that both genes were repaired slower than RNA polymerase II-transcribed genes. No major difference between repair of the transcribed and the coding DNA strands was detected. Transcribed sequences of the tRNA genes were not repaired faster than flanking sequences. Indeed, several sequence positions in the 5' flanking region of the tRNA(Val) gene were repaired more efficiently than the gene itself. These results indicate that unlike RNA polymerase II, RNA polymerase III has no stimulatory effect on DNA repair. Since tRNA genes are covered by the regulatory factor TFIIIC and RNA polymerase III, these proteins may actually inhibit the DNA's accessibility to repair enzymes.
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