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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 277, Issue 47, Pages 45149-45153Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M209123200
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- NCI NIH HHS [CA-62203] Funding Source: Medline
- NCRR NIH HHS [RR01192] Funding Source: Medline
- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM59150] Funding Source: Medline
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Cohesin is a conserved multiprotein complex that plays an essential role in sister chromatid cohesion. During interphase, cohesin is required for the establishment of cohesion following DNA replication. Because cohesin mutants resulted in increased sensitivity to DNA damage, a role for cohesin in DNA repair was also suggested. However, it was unclear whether this was due to general perturbation of cohesion or whether cohesin has a specialized role at the damage site. We therefore used a laser microbeam to create DNA damage at discrete sites in the cell nucleus and observed specific in vivo assembly of proteins at these sites by immunofluorescent detection. We observed that human cohesin is recruited to the damage site immediately after damage induction. Analysis of mutant cells revealed that cohesin recruitment to the damage site is dependent on the DNA double-strand break repair factor Mre11/Rad50 but not ATM or Nbs1. Consistently, Mre11/Rad50 and cohesin interact with each other in an interphase-specific manner. This interaction peaks in S/G(2) phase, during which cohesin is recruited to the DNA damage. Our results demonstrate the S/G(2)-specific and Mre11/Rad50-dependent recruitment of human cohesin to DNA damage, suggesting a specialized subfunction for cohesin in cell cycle-specific DNA double strand break repair.
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