期刊
MOLECULAR CELL
卷 63, 期 4, 页码 662-673出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2016.06.020
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资金
- NCI [CA097096]
- AHA Grant [14PRE20380258]
- Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas [RP130297, RP150102]
- Grady F. Saunders Research Professorship
- DOD [BC141727]
- NIEHS [R00ES02633]
- Burroughs Welcome Fund Career Award for Medical Scientists
- [T32 CA09480]
DNA polymerase theta (Pol theta)-mediated end joining (TMEJ) has been implicated in the repair of chromosome breaks, but its cellular mechanism and role relative to canonical repair pathways are poorly understood. We show that it accounts for most repairs associated with microhomologies and is made efficient by coupling a microhomology search to removal of non-homologous tails and microhomology-primed synthesis across broken ends. In contrast to non-homologous end joining (NHEJ), TMEJ efficiently repairs end structures expected after aborted homology-directed repair (5' to 3' resected ends) or replication fork collapse. It typically does not compete with canonical repair pathways but, in NHEJ-deficient cells, is engaged more frequently and protects against translocation. Cell viability is also severely impaired upon combined deficiency in Pol theta and a factor that antagonizes end resection (Ku or 53BP1). TMEJ thus helps to sustain cell viability and genome stability by rescuing chromosome break repair when resection is misregulated or NHEJ is compromised.
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