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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Volume 46, Issue 9, Pages 4515-4532Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gky162
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- National Institutes of Health [ES011163, GM058728, ES019935]
- NASA [NNX15AD63G]
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health [UL1TR000454]
- Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
- NIH/NCI [P30CA138292]
- Maiola Family Fund for lung cancer research
- Intramural Research Program of the NIH, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
- NASA [804565, NNX15AD63G] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
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Base excision repair (BER), which is initiated by DNA N-glycosylase proteins, is the frontline for repairing potentially mutagenic DNA base damage. The NTHL1 glycosylase, which excises DNA base damage caused by reactive oxygen species, is thought to be a tumor suppressor. However, in addition to NTHL1 loss-of-function mutations, our analysis of cancer genomic datasets reveals that NTHL1 frequently undergoes amplification or upregulation in some cancers. Whether NTHL1 overexpression could contribute to cancer phenotypes has not yet been explored. To address the functional consequences of NTHL1 overexpression, we employed transient overexpression. Both NTHL1 and a catalytically-dead NTHL1 (CATmut) induce DNA damage and genomic instability in non-transformed human bronchial epithelial cells (HBEC) when overexpressed. Strikingly, overexpression of either NTHL1 or CATmut causes replication stress signaling and a decrease in homologous recombination (HR). HBEC cells that overexpress NTHL1 or CATmut acquire the ability to grow in soft agar and exhibit loss of contact inhibition, suggesting that a mechanism independent of NTHL1 catalytic activity contributes to acquisition of cancer-related cellular phenotypes. We provide evidence that NTHL1 interacts with the multifunctional DNA repair protein XPG suggesting that interference with HR is a possible mechanism that contributes to acquisition of early cellular hallmarks of cancer.
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