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JOURNAL OF PROTEOME RESEARCH
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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.2c00296
Keywords
mobile elements; proteomics; proteogenomics; Cnidaria; PIWI; piRNA; LINE-1; Tudor; chromatin proteome; mass spectrometry
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- NIH
- [P41 RR011823]
- [R01 HL079442]
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The study finds that nvp63 may play a role in controlling genome stability in response to DNA damage, particularly those induced by the activation of transposable elements.
The transcription factors p63 and p73 have high similarity to the tumor suppressor protein p53. While the importance of p53 in DNA damage control is established, the functions of p63 or p73 remain elusive. Here, we analyzed nvp63, the cnidarian homologue of p63, that is expressed in the mesenteries of the starlet sea anemone Nematostella vectensis and that is activated in response to DNA damage. We used ultraviolet light (UV) to induce DNA damage and determined the chromatin-bound proteome with quantitative, bottom-up proteomics. We found that genotoxic stress or nvp63 knockdown recruited the protein nvPIWIL1, a homologue of the piRNA-binding PIWI protein family. Knockdown nvPIWIL1 increased protein expression from open reading frames (ORFs) that overlap with class I and II transposable element DNA sequences in the genome of N. vectensis. UV irradiation induced apoptosis, and apoptosis was reduced in the absence of nvp63 but increased with the loss of nvPIWIL1. Loss of nvp63 increased the presence of class I LTR and non-LTR retrotransposon but not of class II DNA transposon-associated protein products. These results suggest that an evolutionary early function of nvp63 might be to control genome stability in response to activation of transposable elements, which induce DNA damage during reintegration in the genome.
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