Journal
DNA REPAIR
Volume 10, Issue 10, Pages 1023-1033Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2011.07.011
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Hairpin end; alt-NHEJ; Ac element excision
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- USDA NRICGP [04-35301-14740]
- University of California Davis Genome Center DNA Technologies Core
- UC Davis's NIH MCB [T32 GM070377]
- Elsie Taylor Stocking Memorial Fellowship
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The transposases of DNA transposable elements catalyze the excision of the element from the host genome, but are not involved in the repair of the resulting double-strand break. To elucidate the role of various host DNA repair and damage response proteins in the repair of the hairpin-ended double strand breaks (DSBs) generated during excision of the maize Ac element in Arabidopsis thaliana, we deep-sequenced hundreds of thousands of somatic excision products from a variety of repair- or response-defective mutants. We find that each of these repair/response defects negatively affects the preservation of the ends, resulting in an enhanced frequency of deletions, insertions, and inversions at the excision site. The spectra of the resulting repair products demonstrate, not unexpectedly, that the canonical nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ) proteins DNA ligase IV and KU70 play an important role in the repair of the lesion generated by Ac excision. Our data also indicate that auxiliary NHEJ repair proteins such as DNA ligase VI and DNA polymerase lambda are routinely involved in the repair of these lesions. Roles for the damage response kinases ATM and ATR in the repair of transposition-induced DSBs are also discussed. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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