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- Title
Persistent TFIIH binding to non-excised DNA damage causes cell and developmental failure.
- Authors
Muniesa-Vargas, Alba; Davó-Martínez, Carlota; Ribeiro-Silva, Cristina; van der Woude, Melanie; Thijssen, Karen L.; Haspels, Ben; Häckes, David; Kaynak, Ülkem U.; Kanaar, Roland; Marteijn, Jurgen A.; Theil, Arjan F.; Kuijten, Maayke M. P.; Vermeulen, Wim; Lans, Hannes
- Abstract
Congenital nucleotide excision repair (NER) deficiency gives rise to several cancer-prone and/or progeroid disorders. It is not understood how defects in the same DNA repair pathway cause different disease features and severity. Here, we show that the absence of functional ERCC1-XPF or XPG endonucleases leads to stable and prolonged binding of the transcription/DNA repair factor TFIIH to DNA damage, which correlates with disease severity and induces senescence features in human cells. In vivo, in C. elegans, this prolonged TFIIH binding to non-excised DNA damage causes developmental arrest and neuronal dysfunction, in a manner dependent on transcription-coupled NER. NER factors XPA and TTDA both promote stable TFIIH DNA binding and their depletion therefore suppresses these severe phenotypical consequences. These results identify stalled NER intermediates as pathogenic to cell functionality and organismal development, which can in part explain why mutations in XPF or XPG cause different disease features than mutations in XPA or TTDA. Hereditary nucleotide excision repair deficiencies cause different cancerous and progeroid disorders of which the exact etiology is not understood. This study finds that prolonged binding of DNA repair factor TFIIH to DNA damage contributes to a more severe phenotype caused by DNA repair deficiency.
- Subjects
EXCISION repair; DNA repair; DNA damage; PHENOTYPES; CAENORHABDITIS elegans; ENDONUCLEASES
- Publication
Nature Communications, 2024, Vol 15, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2041-1723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41467-024-47935-9