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Fam72a enforces error-prone DNA repair during antibody diversification

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NATURE
卷 600, 期 7888, 页码 329-+

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DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-04093-y

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  1. Ministere de l'Enseignement Superieur et de la Recherche, France
  2. Fondation ARC [ARCPJA32020060002061]
  3. La Ligue Contre le Cancer
  4. Fondation Recherche Medicale [EQU201903007818]
  5. Institut National du Cancer [INCa_13852]
  6. Ligue Nationale contre le Cancer (Equipe labellisee)
  7. Agence Nationale de la Recherche [ANR-10-LABX-0030-INRT, ANR-10-IDEX-0002-02]

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The study revealed that the interaction between FAM72A and UNG2 regulates class-switch recombination and somatic hypermutation in B cells. This finding suggests a new mechanism for controlling DNA repair processes and immune responses, providing insights into the balance between error-prone and error-free repair pathways.
Efficient humoral responses rely on DNA damage, mutagenesis and error-prone DNA repair. Diversification of B cell receptors through somatic hypermutation and class-switch recombination are initiated by cytidine deamination in DNA mediated by activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID)(1) and by the subsequent excision of the resulting uracils by uracil DNA glycosylase (UNG) and by mismatch repair proteins(1-3). Although uracils arising in DNA are accurately repaired(1-4), how these pathways are co-opted to generate mutations and double-strand DNA breaks in the context of somatic hypermutation and class-switch recombination is unknown(1-3). Here we performed a genome-wide CRISPR-Cas9 knockout screen for genes involved in class-switch recombination and identified FAM72A, a protein that interacts with the nuclear isoform of UNG (UNG2)(5) and is overexpressed in several cancers(5). We show that the FAM72A-UNG2 interaction controls the levels of UNG2 and that class-switch recombination is defective in Fam72a(-/-) B cells due to the upregulation of UNG2. Moreover, we show that somatic hypermutation is reduced in Fam72a(-/-) B cells and that its pattern is skewed upon upregulation of UNG2. Our results are consistent with a model in which FAM72A interacts with UNG2 to control its physiological level by triggering its degradation, regulating the level of uracil excision and thus the balance between error-prone and error-free DNA repair. Our findings have potential implications for tumorigenesis, as reduced levels of UNG2 mediated by overexpression of Fam72a would shift the balance towards mutagenic DNA repair, rendering cells more prone to acquire mutations.

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