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Ablating putative Ku70 phosphorylation sites results in defective DNA damage repair and spontaneous induction of hepatocellular carcinoma

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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Volume 49, Issue 17, Pages 9836-9850

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OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkab743

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  1. National Institutes of Health [CA092584, CA162804, GM04725]

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The study found that mutating putative Ku70 phosphorylation sites results in defective DNA damage repair, leading to genomic instability and accelerated development of HCC.
Multiple pathways mediate the repair of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs), with numerous mechanisms responsible for driving choice between the pathways. Previously, we reported that mutating five putative phosphorylation sites on the non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) factor, Ku70, results in sustained retention of human Ku70/80 at DSB ends and attenuation of DSB repair via homologous recombination (HR). In this study, we generated a knock-in mouse, in which the three conserved putative phosphorylation sites of Ku70 were mutated to alanine to ablate potential phosphorylation (Ku70(3A/3A)), in order to examine if disrupting DSB repair pathway choice by modulating Ku70/80 dynamics at DSB ends results in enhanced genomic instability and tumorigenesis. The Ku70(3A/3A) mice developed spontaneous and have accelerated chemical-induced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) compared to wild-type (Ku70(+/+)) littermates. The HCC tumors from the Ku70(3A/3A) mice have increased gamma H2AX and 8-oxo-G staining, suggesting decreased DNA repair. Spontaneous transformed cell lines from Ku70(3A/3A) mice are more radiosensitive, have a significant decrease in DNA end resection, and are more sensitive to the DNA cross-linking agent mitomycin C compared to cells from Ku70(+/+) littermates. Collectively, these findings demonstrate that mutating the putative Ku70 phosphorylation sites results in defective DNA damage repair and disruption of this process drives genomic instability and accelerated development of HCC. [GRAPHICS] .

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