Sakofsky Cynthia J, Roberts Steven A, Malc Ewa, Mieczkowski Piotr A, Resnick Michael A, Gordenin Dmitry A, Malkova Anna
Department of Biology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1324, USA; Department of Biology, School of Science, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN 46202-5132, USA.
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA.
Cell Rep. 2014 Jun 12;7(5):1640-1648. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2014.04.053. Epub 2014 May 29.
Clusters of simultaneous multiple mutations can be a source of rapid change during carcinogenesis and evolution. Such mutation clusters have been recently shown to originate from DNA damage within long single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) formed at resected double-strand breaks and dysfunctional replication forks. Here, we identify double-strand break (DSB)-induced replication (BIR) as another powerful source of mutation clusters that formed in nearly half of wild-type yeast cells undergoing BIR in the presence of alkylating damage. Clustered mutations were primarily formed along the track of DNA synthesis and were frequently associated with additional breakage and rearrangements. Moreover, the base specificity, strand coordination, and strand bias of the mutation spectrum were consistent with mutations arising from damage in persistent ssDNA stretches within unconventional replication intermediates. Altogether, these features closely resemble kataegic events in cancers, suggesting that replication intermediates during BIR may be the most prominent source of mutation clusters across species.
同时发生的多个突变簇可能是癌症发生和进化过程中快速变化的一个来源。最近研究表明,此类突变簇源自切除双链断裂处形成的长单链DNA(ssDNA)以及功能失调的复制叉内的DNA损伤。在此,我们确定双链断裂(DSB)诱导的复制(BIR)是突变簇的另一个强大来源,在存在烷基化损伤的情况下,近一半经历BIR的野生型酵母细胞中形成了突变簇。成簇突变主要沿着DNA合成轨迹形成,并且经常与额外的断裂和重排相关。此外,突变谱的碱基特异性、链协调性和链偏向性与非常规复制中间体中持续单链DNA片段损伤引起的突变一致。总之,这些特征与癌症中的kataegic事件极为相似,表明BIR过程中的复制中间体可能是跨物种突变簇最主要的来源。