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Query: UMLS:C0043346 (xeroderma pigmentosum)
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When UV-irradiated cultured diploid human fibroblasts were permeabilized with Brij-58 then separated from soluble material by centrifugation, conservative DNA repair synthesis could be restored by a soluble factor obtained from the supernatant of similarly treated HeLa cells. Extensive purification of this factor yielded a 10.2 S, 220,000-dalton polypeptide with the DNA polymerase and 3'- to 5'-exonuclease activities reported for DNA polymerase delta II (Crute, J. J., Wahl, A. F., and Bambara, R. A. (1986) Biochemistry 25, 26-36). Monoclonal antibody to KB cell DNA polymerase alpha, while binding to HeLa DNA polymerase alpha, did not bind to the HeLa DNA polymerase delta. Moreover, at micromolar concentrations N2-(p-n-butylphenyl)-2'-deoxyguanosine 5'-triphosphate (BuPdGTP) and 2-(p-n-butylanilino)-2'-deoxyadenosine 5'-triphosphate (BuAdATP) were potent inhibitors of DNA polymerase alpha, but did not inhibit the DNA polymerase delta. Neither purified DNA polymerase alpha nor beta could promote repair DNA synthesis in the permeabilized cells. Furthermore, under conditions which inhibited purified DNA polymerase alpha by greater than 90%, neither monoclonal antibodies to DNA polymerase alpha, BuPdGTP, nor BuAdATP was able to inhibit significantly the DNA repair synthesis mediated by the DNA polymerase delta. Thus, it appears that a major portion of DNA repair synthesis induced by UV irradiation might be catalyzed by DNA polymerase delta. When xeroderma pigmentosum human diploid fibroblasts were utilized, DNA repair synthesis dependent upon ultraviolet light could be restored by addition of both T4 endonuclease V and DNA polymerase delta, but not by addition of either one alone. This result suggests that cytosol-depleted permeabilized DNA repair-defective human fibroblasts and HeLa DNA polymerase delta might be exploited to provide a functional assay for purifying active DNA repair factors from DNA repair-proficient cells without a preknowledge of their function.
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PMID:DNA repair synthesis in human fibroblasts requires DNA polymerase delta. 333 6

2-Chloro-2'-deoxyadenosine (cladribine), an analog of deoxyadenosine, is an important new drug for the treatment of hairy cell leukemia and other forms of adult and pediatric leukemia. By a gel-shift binding assay, we identified an activity in HeLa nuclear extracts that recognizes and binds to oligonucleotides substituted with 2-chloroadenine (ClAde). The activity was specific for ClAde residues because control oligomers did not readily compete out the complex. The binding factor was a monomeric protein that was resistant to inactivation by heating at 45 degrees C but sensitive to heating at 65 degrees C, proteinase K treatment, and 5 mM ZnCl2. This protein, designated ClAde recognition protein (CARP), appeared to be related to a protein that recognized other forms of DNA damage. Gel-shift binding reactions with ultraviolet (UV)-irradiated oligomers revealed a UV-specific protein/DNA complex that had an electrophoretic mobility similar to that of the CARP/DNA complex, and CARP binding to ClAde-containing oligomers was readily competed out by UV-irradiated DNA. Moreover, CARP activity was present in extracts prepared from UV-sensitive xeroderma pigmentosum group A cells but not in a subset of cells from group E, suggesting that CARP was similar to a previously described repair associated factor, xeroderma pigmentosum-E binding factor. Our findings support a possible repair process for ClAde residues incorporated into cellular DNA.
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PMID:A human factor that recognizes DNA substituted with 2-chloroadenine, an antileukemic purine analog. 764 63

The role of UV light-induced photoproducts in initiating base substitution mutation in human cells was examined by determining the frequency and spectrum of mutation in a supF tRNA gene in a shuttle vector plasmid transfected into DNA repair deficient cells (xeroderma pigmentosum complementation group A). To compare the role of two major UV-induced photoproducts, cis-syn cyclobutane-type pyrimidine dimers (CPDs) and pyrimidine (6-4) pyrimidone photoproducts (6-4PPs), each photoproduct was removed from UV-irradiated plasmid by photoreactivation before transfection. Removal of either CPDs or 6-4PPs by in vitro photoreactivation reduced the mutation frequency while keeping the mutation distribution and the predominance of G:C-A:T transitions as UV-irradiated plasmid without photoreactivation, indicating that both cytosine-containing CPDs and 6-4PPs were premutagenic lesions for G:C-A:T transitions. On the other hand, A:T-G:C transitions were not recovered from plasmids after the removal of 6-4PPs, whereas this type of mutation occurred at a significant level (11%) after the removal of CPDs. Thus, the premutagenic lesions for the A:T-G:C transition are 6-4PPs. Removal of both CPDs and 6-4PPs resulted in the disappearance of mutational hot spots and random distribution of mutation as observed in unirradiated control plasmids. However, the mutational spectrum of photoreactivated plasmids differed significantly from that of unirradiated plasmids. A characteristic feature is a high portion of A:T-T:A transversions (11%) in the photoreactivated plasmid. This mutation is due to nondipyrimidinic "minor" photoproducts, and the mutation spectrum suggests that TA*, the major photoproduct of thymidylyl-(3'-5')-deoxyadenosine, is the premutagenic lesion for this mutation. This is the first report revealing the distinct mutagenic roles of the major UV photoproducts and "minor" photoproducts by the use of (6-4)photolyase.
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PMID:Respective roles of cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers, (6-4)photoproducts, and minor photoproducts in ultraviolet mutagenesis of repair-deficient xeroderma pigmentosum A cells. 1074 46

Xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) patients with inherited defects in nucleotide excision repair (NER) are unable to excise from their DNA bulky photoproducts induced by UV radiation and therefore develop accelerated actinic damage, including cancer, on sun-exposed tissue. Some XP patients also develop a characteristic neurodegeneration believed to result from their inability to repair neuronal DNA damaged by endogenous metabolites since the harmful UV radiation in sunlight does not reach neurons. Free radicals, which are abundant in neurons, induce DNA lesions that, if unrepaired, might cause the XP neurodegeneration. Searching for such a lesion, we developed a synthesis for 8,5'-(S)-cyclo-2'-deoxyadenosine (cyclo-dA), a free radical-induced bulky lesion, and incorporated it into DNA to test its repair in mammalian cell extracts and living cells. Using extracts of normal and mutant Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells to test for NER and adult rat brain extracts to test for base excision repair, we found that cyclo-dA is repaired by NER and not by base excision repair. We measured host cell reactivation, which reflects a cell's capacity for NER, by transfecting CHO and XP cells with DNA constructs containing a single cyclo-dA or a cyclobutane thymine dimer at a specific site on the transcribed strand of a luciferase reporter gene. We found that, like the cyclobutane thymine dimer, cyclo-dA is a strong block to gene expression in CHO and human cells. Cyclo-dA was repaired extremely poorly in NER-deficient CHO cells and in cells from patients in XP complementation group A with neurodegeneration. Based on these findings, we propose that cyclo-dA is a candidate for an endogenous DNA lesion that might contribute to neurodegeneration in XP.
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PMID:The oxidative DNA lesion 8,5'-(S)-cyclo-2'-deoxyadenosine is repaired by the nucleotide excision repair pathway and blocks gene expression in mammalian cells. 1080 36

8,5'-Cyclopurine-2'-deoxynucleotides, which are strong blocks to mammalian DNA and RNA polymerases, represent a novel class of oxidative DNA lesion in that they are specifically repaired by nucleotide excision repair but not by base excision repair or direct enzymatic reversion. Previous studies using thin layer chromatography of (32)P-postlabeled DNA digests have detected several bulky oxidative lesions of unknown structure, called I-compounds, in DNA from normal mammalian organs. We investigated whether any of these type II I-compounds contained 8,5'-cyclo-2'-deoxyadenosine (cA). Two previously detected type II I-compounds were found to be dinucleotides of the sequence pAp-cAp and pCp-cAp. Furthermore, a modification of the technique resulted in detection of two additional I-compounds, pTp-cAp and pGp-cAp. Each I-compound isolated from neonatal rat liver DNA matched authentic (32)P-labeled cA-containing chromatographic standards under nine different chromatographic conditions. Their levels increased significantly after normal birth. The (32)P-postlabeling technique used here is capable of detecting 1-5 lesions/diploid mammalian cell. Thus, it should now be possible to detect changes of cA levels resulting from low level ionizing radiation and other conditions associated with oxidative stress, and to assess cA levels in tissues from patients with the genetic disease xeroderma pigmentosum who are unable to carry out nucleotide excision repair.
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PMID:A 32P-postlabeling assay for the oxidative DNA lesion 8,5'-cyclo-2'-deoxyadenosine in mammalian tissues: evidence that four type II I-compounds are dinucleotides containing the lesion in the 3' nucleotide. 1145 70

8,5'-Cyclo-2'-deoxypurine (cPu) lesions result from the action of the hydroxyl radical on DNA. These lesions represent a unique class of oxidative DNA lesions in that they are repaired by the nucleotide excision repair (NER) pathway but not by base excision repair (BER) or direct repair. Previous work has shown that cyclopurines can block mammalian DNA and RNA polymerases. Thus, these lesions are of interest because of their potential role in the neurodegeneration as well as internal cancers observed in patients with xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) who lack the capacity to carry out NER. In the present work, we found that the S-isomer of 8,5'-cyclo-2'-deoxyadenosine (cA) can prevent binding of the TATA binding protein (TBP) to the TATA box from the CMV promoter. To assess the functional importance of this effect in living cells, we transfected constructs containing a single cA in the CMV TATA box into XP cells to determine the effect of the lesion on gene expression in vivo. Using this approach, we found that the lesion reduced gene expression by approximately 75%. This effect was comparable to the effect of an inactivating mutation of the TATA box in the same promoter. These findings identify an additional biological effect of cyclopurine lesions in mammalian cells, which is the ability to interfere with transcription by preventing transcription factor binding to cognate recognition sequences. In addition, the approach we used in this study represents a novel method for assessing the effects of DNA lesions in non-transcribed sequences on gene expression in living cells.
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PMID:A single 8,5'-cyclo-2'-deoxyadenosine lesion in a TATA box prevents binding of the TATA binding protein and strongly reduces transcription in vivo. 1253 Oct 24

2-Chloro-2'-deoxyadenosine (CldAdo, cladribine) is a clinically important nucleoside analog for adult and pediatric leukemias. We previously described an activity in HeLa cell nuclear extracts that specifically recognized CldAMP-substituted oligomers. The factor was present in extracts prepared from repair-deficient xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) complementation group A cells, but not from group E--which are defective in damaged DNA-binding (DDB) protein--suggesting a possible repair process for incorporated analogs. Here we examined XP lymphoblast survival after CldAdo treatment using a cell proliferation assay. Control CEM leukemia cells and immortalized normal human lymphoblasts exhibited similar cytotoxicity profiles at each concentration tested. However, a 2.1-fold increase in sensitivity to CldAdo was detected in XP-E (5) cells lacking a functional DDB subunit. XP-A, XP-D and XP-G cell lines also had increased sensitivity to CldAdo, ranging from 1.61- to 1.91-fold greater compared to normal lymphoblasts. Our findings suggest that the clinical efficacy of CldAdo may be attenuated by repair mechanisms that target and remove such altered nucleic acids from cellular DNA.
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PMID:Nucleotide excision repair-deficient human cells in culture exhibit decreased survival after 2-chlorodeoxyadenosine treatment. 1292 46

The 8,5'-cyclopurine-2'-deoxynucleosides (cPu) are unique oxidatively induced DNA lesions in that they are specifically repaired by NER. In the absence of NER, a possible mechanism for cPu removal is spontaneous glycosidic bond hydrolysis followed by enzymic processing. Such a mechanism could be significant if the glycosidic bond in cPu were substantially destabilized, as shown for other DNA lesions. Therefore, we investigated the stability of the glycosidic bond in a cPu, (5'S)-8,5'-cyclo-2'-deoxyadenosine (S-cdA) against acid hydrolysis. For comparison, we also studied 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyadenosine (8-OH-dA). We found that the glycosidic bond in S-cdA is approximately 40-fold more resistant to glycosidic bond hydrolysis compared to dA. Interestingly, under the same conditions, the glycosidic bond in 8-OH-dA was even more stable than in S-cdA. These studies effectively rule out any mechanism for the removal of S-cdA or 8-OH-dA from DNA that requires spontaneous glycosidic bond hydrolysis, and further support the proposed role of cPu in the neurodegeneration observed in xeroderma pigmentosum patients who lack NER. Of broader significance, since NER does not function in non-transcribed DNA sequences of terminally differentiated cells, including neurons, cPu are expected to accumulate in such sequences even in individuals with normal NER, which could be important in the ageing process.
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PMID:The oxidatively induced DNA lesions 8,5'-cyclo-2'-deoxyadenosine and 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyadenosine are strongly resistant to acid-induced hydrolysis of the glycosidic bond. 1769 95

Tissue damage caused by oxidative stress has been implicated in aging, carcinogenesis, atherosclerosis and neurodegeneration. In xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) and Cockayne syndrome (CS), oxidative stress is associated with promoted occurrence of skin cancers and progressive neurodegeneration, because decreased DNA repair and persistent DNA damage can result in augmented oxidative nucleotide damage. Oxidative nucleotide damage has been investigated mainly in isolated human skin and blood cells or their cell lines, in which CS cells may be more sensitive to oxidative DNA lesions than XP cells. However, cells from patients with XP group A (XPA) show defective repair of 8, 5'-(S)-cyclo-2'-deoxyadenosine, a free radical-induced endogenous DNA lesion and antioxidant system seems to be disturbed variously in cells from XP patients. We have neuropathologically investigated the involvement of oxidative stress in the brains of XPA and CS autopsy cases and clarified the enhanced lipid peroxidation and protein glycation in the pallidal and cerebellar degeneration. Also, oxidative nucleotide damage with reduced expression of superoxide dismutases has been identified in the basal ganglia lesions, lending further weight involvement of oxidative stress in neurodegeneration in XPA patients. Additionally, we are developing ELISA analysis of oxidative stress markers in the urine and cerebrospinal fluid from XP patients, which will aid with further data on oxidative stress in pathogenesis of XP.
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PMID:Roles of oxidative stress in xeroderma pigmentosum. 1918 Nov 17

Xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) is a genetic disorder associated with defects in nucleotide excision repair, which eliminates a wide variety of helix-distorting types of DNA damage including sunlight-induced pyrimidine dimers. In addition to skin disease, approximately 30% of XP patients develop progressive neurological disease, which has been hypothesized to be associated with the accumulation of a particular type of oxidatively generated DNA damage called purine 8,5'-cyclo-2'-deoxynucleosides (purine cyclonucleosides). However, there are no currently available methods to detect purine cyclonucleosides in DNA without the need for DNA hydrolysis. In this study, we generated a novel monoclonal antibody (CdA-1) specific for purine cyclonucleosides in single-stranded DNA that recognizes 8,5'-cyclo-2'-deoxyadenosine (cyclo-dA). An immunoassay using CdA-1 revealed a linear dose response between known amounts of cyclo-dA in oligonucleotides and the antibody binding to them. The quantitative immunoassay revealed that treatment with Fenton-type reagents (CuCl(2)/H(2)O(2)/ascorbate) efficiently produces cyclo-dA in DNA in a dose-dependent manner. Moreover, immunofluorescent analysis using CdA-1 enabled the visualization of cyclo-dA in human osteosarcoma cells, which had been transfected with oligonucleotides containing cyclo-dA. Thus, the CdA-1 antibody is a valuable tool for the detection and quantification of cyclo-dA in DNA, and may be useful for characterizing the mechanism(s) underlying the development of XP neurological disease.
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PMID:Quantitative and in situ detection of oxidatively generated DNA damage 8,5'-cyclo-2'-deoxyadenosine using an immunoassay with a novel monoclonal antibody. 2447 31


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