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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 104, Issue 52, Pages 20902-20907Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0708541104
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double-strand break repair; genome rearrangements
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XRCC4-null mice have a more severe phenotype than KU80-null mice. Here, we address whether this difference in phenotype is connected to nonhomologous end-joining (NHEJ). We used intrachromosomal substrates to monitor NHEJ of two distal double-strand breaks (DSBs) targeted by I-Scel, in living cells. In xrcc4-defective XR-1 cells, a residual but significant end-joining process exists, which primarily uses microhomologies distal from the DSB. However, NHEJ efficiency was strongly reduced in xrcc4-defective XR-1 cells versus complemented cells, contrasting with KU-deficient xrs6 cells, which showed levels of end-joining similar to those of complemented cells. Nevertheless, sequence analysis of the repair junctions indicated that the accuracy of end-joining was strongly affected in both xrcc4-deficient and KU-deficient cells. More specifically, these data showed that the KU80/XRCC4 pathway is conservative and not intrinsically error-prone but can accommodate non-fully complementary ends at the cost of limited mutagenesis.
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