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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Volume 38, Issue 9, Pages 2878-2890Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp1247
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- Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA)
- Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique
- Association pour la Recherche contre le Cancer [1118]
- Electricite de France
- DEUTSCHE Forschungsgeimeinschaft [EP11/8-1]
- Fondation pour la Recherche Medicale
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How DNA repair machineries detect and access, within the context of chromatin, lesions inducing little or no distortion of the DNA structure is a poorly understood process. Removal of oxidized bases is initiated by a DNA glycosylase that recognises and excises the damaged base, initiating the base excision repair (BER) pathway. We show that upon induction of 8-oxoguanine, a mutagenic product of guanine oxidation, the mammalian 8-oxoguanine DNA glycosylase OGG1 is recruited together with other proteins involved in BER to euchromatin regions rich in RNA and RNA polymerase II and completely excluded from heterochromatin. The underlying mechanism does not require direct interaction of the protein with the oxidized base, however, the release of the protein from the chromatin fraction requires completion of repair. Inducing chromatin compaction by sucrose results in a complete but reversible inhibition of the in vivo repair of 8-oxoguanine. We conclude that after induction of oxidative DNA damage, the DNA glycosylase is actively recruited to regions of open chromatin allowing the access of the BER machinery to the lesions, suggesting preferential repair of active chromosome regions.
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