Journal
EMBO JOURNAL
Volume 28, Issue 6, Pages 632-640Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2009.9
Keywords
apoptosis; ATM/Tel1; fission yeast; SSB; Tdp1
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- FRM
- CSC [ANR-06-BLAN-0271]
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-06-BLAN-0271] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
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In humans, a mutation in the tyrosyl-DNA phosphodiesterase (Tdp1) is responsible for the recessively inherited syndrome spinocerebellar ataxia with axonal neuropathy (SCAN1). Tdp1 is a well-conserved DNA repair enzyme, which processes modified 30 phospho-DNA adducts in vitro. Here, we report that in the yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, tdp1 mutant cells progressively accumulate DNA damage and rapidly lose viability in a physiological G0/quiescent state. Remarkably, this effect is independent of topoisomerase I function. Moreover, we provide evidence that Tdp1, with the polynucleotide kinase (Pnk1), processes the same naturally occurring 30-ends, produced from oxidative DNA damage in G0. We also found that one half of the dead cells lose their nuclear DNA. Nuclear DNA degradation is genetically programmed and mainly depends on the two DNA damage checkpoint responses, ATM/Tel1 and ATR/Rad3, reminiscent to programmed cell death. Diminishing the respiration rate or treating cells with a low concentration of antioxidants rescues the quiescent tdp1 mutant cells. These findings suggest that mitochondrial respiration causes neuronal cell death in the SCAN1 syndrome and in other neurological disorders.
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