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MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 29, Issue 4, Pages 1000-1006Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.01131-08
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- National Cancer Institute [CA57569]
- Medical Research Foundation
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Nijmegen breakage syndrome arises from hypomorphic mutations in the NBN gene encoding nibrin, a component of the MRE11/RAD50/nibrin (MRN) complex. In mammalian cells, the MRN complex localizes to the nucleus, where it plays multiple roles in the cellular response to DNA double-strand breaks. In the current study, sequences in mouse nibrin required to direct the nuclear localization of the MRN complex were identified by site-specific mutagenesis. Unexpectedly, nibrin was found to contain both nuclear localizing signal (NLS) sequences and a nuclear export signal (NES) sequence whose functions were confirmed by mutagenesis. Both nuclear import and export sequences were active in vivo. Disruption of either the NLS or NES sequences of nibrin significantly altered the cellular distribution of nibrin and Mre11 and impaired survival after exposure to ionizing radiation. Mutation of the NES sequence in nibrin slowed the turnover of phosphorylated nibrin after irradiation, indicating that nuclear export of nibrin may function, in part, to downregulate posttranslationally modified MRN complex components after DNA damage responses are complete.
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