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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 286, Issue 20, Pages 17530-17535Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M111.241570
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- National Science Foundation [MCB-0745229]
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Div Of Molecular and Cellular Bioscience [0745229] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Global genomic repair (GGR) and transcription coupled repair (TCR) are two pathways of nucleotide excision repair (NER) that differ in the damage recognition step. How NER factors, especially GGR factors, access DNA damage in the chromatin of eukaryotic cells has been poorly understood. Dot1, a histone methyltransferase required for methylation of histone H3 lysine 79 (H3K79), has been shown to confer yeast cells with resistance to DNA-damaging agents and play a role in activation of DNA damage checkpoints. Here, we show that Dot1 and H3K79 methylation are required for GGR in both nucleosomal core regions and internucleosomal linker DNA, but play no role in TCR. H3K79 trimethylation contributes to but is not absolutely required for GGR, and lower levels of H3K79 methylation (mono- and dimethylation) also promote GGR. Our results also indicate that the roles of Dot1 and H3K79 methylation in GGR are not achieved by either activating DNA damage checkpoints or regulating the expression of the GGR-specific factor Rad16. Rather, the methylated H3K79 may serve as a docking site for the GGR machinery on the chromatin. Our studies identified a novel GGR-specific NER factor and unveiled the critical link between a covalent histone modification and GGR.
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