Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
Volume 22, Issue 13, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms22136957
Keywords
TLS; DNA repair; poly(A) RNA polymerase; translesion; lesion bypass
Funding
- Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute, Florida, USA (FAMRI) [032001]
- Israel Science Foundation [684/12]
- Minerva Foundation [120855]
- Federal German Ministry for Education and Research
- Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute, Florida, USA
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TENT4A plays a critical role in regulating multiple biological pathways, specifically in translesion DNA synthesis, by modulating mRNA stability and translation of DNA polymerase eta and RAD18 E3 ligase. Additionally, TENT4A indirectly regulates RAD18 through the tumor suppressor CYLD and the long non-coding antisense RNA PAXIP1-AS2, leading to dysregulation of TLS in endometrial cancer genomes.
TENT4A (PAPD7) is a non-canonical poly(A) polymerase, of which little is known. Here, we show that TENT4A regulates multiple biological pathways and focuses on its multilayer regulation of translesion DNA synthesis (TLS), in which error-prone DNA polymerases bypass unrepaired DNA lesions. We show that TENT4A regulates mRNA stability and/or translation of DNA polymerase eta and RAD18 E3 ligase, which guides the polymerase to replication stalling sites and monoubiquitinates PCNA, thereby enabling recruitment of error-prone DNA polymerases to damaged DNA sites. Remarkably, in addition to the effect on RAD18 mRNA stability via controlling its poly(A) tail, TENT4A indirectly regulates RAD18 via the tumor suppressor CYLD and via the long non-coding antisense RNA PAXIP1-AS2, which had no known function. Knocking down the expression of TENT4A or CYLD, or overexpression of PAXIP1-AS2 led each to reduced amounts of the RAD18 protein and DNA polymerase eta, leading to reduced TLS, highlighting PAXIP1-AS2 as a new TLS regulator. Bioinformatics analysis revealed that TLS error-prone DNA polymerase genes and their TENT4A-related regulators are frequently mutated in endometrial cancer genomes, suggesting that TLS is dysregulated in this cancer.
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