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2: Excision Repair Pathways Flashcards

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Examples of exogenous damage to DNA?

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  • UV
  • X-rays
  • Chemicals
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What is meant by “endogenous damage to DNA”

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Damage that occurs within the organism/genome, for example, metabolism, DNA replication errors, and fork stalling

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What are the classes/types of DNA damage?

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  • loss of base (apurinic/apyrimidinic site)
  • small adducts, eg addition of O2 or methyl group
  • Bulky adducts, eg addition of large chemical group
  • Single strand breaks
  • Double strand breaks
  • Mismatched bases
  • Crosslinks
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What are the three excision repair pathways?

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  • Nucleotide excision repair (NER)
  • Base excision repair (BER)
  • Mismatch repair (MMR)
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What are the 3 key steps/mechanisms of all excision repair pathways?

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  • IDENTIFICATION (of damaged DNA)
  • REMOVAL (of damaged segment)
  • REPAIR (of damaged segment)
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What is a small adduct? What is the consequence if it goes unrepaired?

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A small chemical that gets added to a base.
If unrepaired, it may cause a mismatch during DNA replication.

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Give an example of a small adduct and the cause o it?

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Oxidative stress may cause an addition of oxygen to guanine, to 8-oxoguanine

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What kinds of DNA damage might Base Excision Repair correct?

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  • oxidation
  • deamination
  • simple alkylation
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T or F: Base excision repair only corrects mutagenic base lesions?

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False, it can correct both mutagenic and cytotoxic lesions

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What does 8-oxoguanine incorrectly pair to instead of cytosine?

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Adenine

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What does cytosine become after it undergoes deamination, and which repair pathway corrects it?

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Cytosine -> Uracil (H2O in, NH3 out)
Corrected by base excision repair

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What kinds of damage can alkylation generate?

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  • promutagenic bases
  • cytotoxic lesions
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What is an example of a promutagenic base lesions caused by alkylation that can be repaired by BER?

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O6-methylguanine (6-meG)
Allows pairing with T instead of C

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What are 2 examples of cytotoxic lesions caused by alkylation and which repair pathway fixes them?

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  • N7-methylguanine (7-meG)
  • N3-methyladenine (3-meA)
    Blocks DNA polymerases

Corrected by base excision repair

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Briefly outline the steps of the base excision repair pathway

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  • Recognition of DNAdamage by DNA glycolysase
  • Assembling complexes, and incision of damage by AP Endonuclease (APE)
  • Resynthesisto replace damage site by polymerase and ligase
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What is the difference between mono- and bi-functional glycosylases?

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Monofunctional just excises the base, whereas I functional excises the base and cuts the backbone

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How do monofunctional glycosylases work?

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Uses H2O for nucleophilic attack on N-glycosidic bond

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How do bifunctional glycosylases work?

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Uses an amino group of lysine chain, forming an intermediate with cleaves the DNA backbone 3’ to the lesion.
Leaves a 5’ phosphate and a 3’-a,b-unsaturated aldehyde

Excises the base and cuts the backbone

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What does APE1 do

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Ensures backbone is cleaved and termini are correct so following enzymes can bind.

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What does APE1 do following a monofunctional DNA glycosylase?

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APE1 recognises the AP site generated by the monofunctional glycosylase
APE1 cleaves the backbone, resulting in the formation of a single nucleotide hap flaked by 3’-hydroxyl and 5’-deoxyribosephosphate (5’-dRP) ends

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What does APE1 do following a bifunctional glycosylase?

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The backbone is cleaved by the glycosylase
APE1 cleaves the 3’-a,b-unsaturated aldehyde to generate a 3’hydroxyl end alongside the 5’P

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What is the functional of DNA polymerase beta in the BER pathway?

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  • “tidies up” the 5’-deoxyribosephosphate end created by APE1 after the action of monofunctional glycosylase, to a 5’P end
  • adds the missing nucleotide
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What is the role of DNA ligase III

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Seals the nick between 3’OH 5’P
Common in all pathways

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What is the role of XRCC1

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Acts as ‘scaffolding’ for proteins to bind during the action of DNA ligase III

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What happens if the DNA ends are resistant to DNA poly Beta?
DNA polymerase delta/epsilon adds bases to the ‘OH end, into the single nucleotide gap. Creates a FLAP structure which can be excised by FEN1/PCNA , ends can be sealed by ligase I.
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What is the difference between short- and long-patch base excision repair?
Short - single nucleotide gap generated and filled Long - a gap of 2-10 nucleotides generated and filled
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When might short- and long- patch BER be used?
Short -in proliferating and non-proliferating cells Long - following replication in proliferating cells
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What proteins are used in short-patch BER?
DNA glycosylase APE1 DNA polyB DNA ligase 1 or 3 (PARP1, XRCC1)
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What proteins are used in long-patch BER?
DNA glycosylase APE1 DNA poly e PCNA FEN1 Ligase 1
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What are the consequences if a bulky adduct goes unrepaired?
Distorts DNA helix Blocks DNA replication Stalls transcription
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What factors may induce bulky DNA lesions?
UV irradiation Environmental mutagens Chemotherapeutic agents
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What does nucleotide excision repair correct?
Bulky DNA lesions Eg pyrimidine dimers formed from covalent bonds
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T or F: in NER, enzymes that recognise adducts are specific to each type of damage
False: one set of enzymes can recognise many substrates, they are all bulky and destabilize the DNA duplex
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Outline the process of nucleotide excision repair
- RECOGNITION: repair recognition complexes recognise DNA damage - ASSEMBLING complexes and INCISION of the damage, via DNA helicases and nucleuses - RESYNTHESIS to replace damage site via polymerase and ligase
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What are the two types of nucleotide excision repair
Global genome repair and transcription coupled repair
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What is the difference between GG-NER and TC-NER
Global genome - contains XPC, detects DNA damage anywhere in genome Transcription coupled - detected by polyII, repair performed on transcribed strand. Contains CSA and CSB.
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Which proteins are specific to transcription coupled NER?
CSA and CSB
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Describe the formation and action of the pre-incision complex in NER
- TFIIH has helicase activity to unwind DNA around adduct - XPD subunit stalls at damage site - recruits further proteins to form pre-incision complex - XPA positions proteins and recruits ERCC1 and XPF to perform 5’ incision - DNA synthesis initiated. XPG performs 3’ incision
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List proteins that make up the pre-incision complex in NER
XPD TFIIH XPA ERCC1 XPF XPG PCNA RNA poly o/e/k
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How may dna damage occur during replication
- DNA polymerase adding incorrect base - Slippage can occur in areas of repeated nucleotides
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What does mismatch repair correct?
Errors in DNA replication: - single base mismatches - small IDLs - larger IDLs
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Describe how strand slippage may result in DNA damage during dna replication
- newly synthesised loop slips out in an area of single, di-, or tri-nucleotide repeats - an extra nucleotide is added to the strand Or - template strand loops out - a nucleotide is omitted on the new strand.
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Describe the steps of mismatch repair
- MutS (a or b) heterodimer binds mismatch and clamps shut (uses ATP), following along after DNA polymerase during replication - PMS2 makes single strand break - Exo1 excises new DNA - Polymerase copies template - Ligase seals ends
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Which heterodimer recognises these DNA damages, and what proteins make up the dimer: 1. Single base mismatch 2. Small IDLs 3. Larger IDLs
1. MutSa: MSH2/MSH6 2. MutSa: MSH2/MSH6 3. MutSb: MSH2/MSH3
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Describe the 3 different types of MutL heterodimers and what they do
- MutLa: intrinsic endonuclease activity - MutLb: accessory factor for MutLa - MutLy: is used instead of MutLa in resolution of meitotic recombination intermediates
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Which hereditary syndrome is associated with MSI in CRC and ovarian cancer? Which mutations are common in this syndrome?
Lynch syndrome, aka hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) Mutations in MSH2 or MLH1
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What is the consequence of having mutations in MLH1 or MSH2
- inability to correct frame shift mutations - causes microsatellite instability - replication errors are not repaired, leading to accumulation of further mutations

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