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Nucleic Acids Research 2009 37(6):1767-1777; doi:10.1093/nar/gkp010
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Nucleic Acids Research, 2009, Vol. 37, No. 6 1767-1777
© 2009 The Author(s)
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Genome Integrity, Repair and Replication

The formation of double-strand breaks at multiply damaged sites is driven by the kinetics of excision/incision at base damage in eukaryotic cells

Stanislav G. Kozmin1,2, Yuliya Sedletska1,2, Anne Reynaud-Angelin1,2, Didier Gasparutto3 and Evelyne Sage1,2,*

1CNRS UMR2027, 2Institut Curie, Bât. 110, Centre Universitaire, 91405 Orsay Cedex and 3INAC/SCIB UMR-E3 CEA-UJF, LAN, CEA, F-38054 Grenoble, France

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +33 1 69 86 71 87; Fax: +33 1 69 86 94 29; Email: evelyne.sage{at}curie.u-psud.fr

Received November 3, 2008. Revised December 24, 2008. Accepted January 6, 2009.

It has been stipulated that repair of clustered DNA lesions may be compromised, possibly leading to the formation of double-strand breaks (DSB) and, thus, to deleterious events. Using a variety of model multiply damaged sites (MDS), we investigated parameters that govern the formation of DSB during the processing of MDS. Duplexes carrying MDS were inserted into replicative or integrative vectors, and used to transform yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Formation of DSB was assessed by a relevant plasmid survival assay. Kinetics of excision/incision and DSB formation at MDS was explored using yeast cell extracts. We show that MDS composed of two uracils or abasic sites, were rapidly incised and readily converted into DSB in yeast cells. In marked contrast, none of the MDS carrying opposed oG and hU separated by 3–8 bp gave rise to DSB, despite the fact that some of them contained preexisting single-strand break (a 1-nt gap). Interestingly, the absence of DSB formation in this case correlated with slow excision/incision rates of lesions. We propose that the kinetics of the initial repair steps at MDS is a major parameter that direct towards the conversion of MDS into DSB. Data provides clues to the biological consequences of MDS in eukaryotic cells.


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