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Nucleic Acids Research 2006 34(3):880-892; doi:10.1093/nar/gkj495
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Published online 2 February 2006

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Haploinsufficiency of the Mus81–Eme1 endonuclease activates the intra-S-phase and G2/M checkpoints and promotes rereplication in human cells

Takashi Hiyama1,3, Mari Katsura1, Takashi Yoshihara1, Mari Ishida1, Aiko Kinomura1, Tetsuji Tonda2, Toshimasa Asahara3 and Kiyoshi Miyagawa1,4,*

1Department of Human Genetics, Hiroshima University 1-2-3 Kasumi, Minami-ku, Hiroshima 734-8553, Japan 2Department of Environmetrics and Biometrics, Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine, Hiroshima University 1-2-3 Kasumi, Minami-ku, Hiroshima 734-8553, Japan 3Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University 1-2-3 Kasumi, Minami-ku, Hiroshima 734-8553, Japan 4Section of Radiation Biology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +81 358413503; Fax: +81 358413013; Email: miyag-tky{at}umin.ac.jp

Received November 21, 2005. Revised January 23, 2006. Accepted January 23, 2006.

The Mus81–Eme1 complex is a structure-specific endonuclease that preferentially cleaves nicked Holliday junctions, 3'-flap structures and aberrant replication fork structures. Mus81–/– mice have been shown to exhibit spontaneous chromosomal aberrations and, in one of two models, a predisposition to cancers. The molecular mechanisms underlying its role in chromosome integrity, however, are largely unknown. To clarify the role of Mus81 in human cells, we deleted the gene in the human colon cancer cell line HCT116 by gene targeting. Here we demonstrate that Mus81 confers resistance to DNA crosslinking agents and slight resistance to other DNA-damaging agents. Mus81 deficiency spontaneously promotes chromosome damage such as breaks and activates the intra-S-phase checkpoint through the ATM-Chk1/Chk2 pathways. Furthermore, Mus81 deficiency activates the G2/M checkpoint through the ATM-Chk2 pathway and promotes DNA rereplication. Increased rereplication is reversed by the ectopic expression of Cdk1. Haploinsufficiency of Mus81 or Eme1 also causes similar phenotypes. These findings suggest that a complex network of the checkpoint pathways that respond to DNA double-strand breaks may participate in some of the phenotypes associated with Mus81 or Eme1 deficiency.


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