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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
卷 279, 期 53, 页码 55433-55442出版社
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M409827200
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BLM has been implicated in DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair, but its precise role remains obscure. To explore this, we generated BLM-/- and BLM(-/-)LIG4(-/-) cells from the human pre-B cell line Nalm-6. BLM-/- cells exhibited retarded growth, increased mutation rates, and hypersensitivity to agents that block replication fork progression. Interestingly, these phenotypes were significantly suppressed by deletion of LIG4, suggesting that nonhomologous end-joining (NHEJ) is unfavorable for integrity and survival of cells lacking BLM. We propose that the absence of BLM leads to accumulation of replication-associated, one-ended DSBs, which are deleterious to cells and lead to genomic instability when repaired by NHEJ. In addition, the NHEJ pathway per se was marginally affected by BLM deficiency, as evidenced by x-ray sensitivity and I-SceI-based DSB repair assays. More intriguingly, however, these experiments revealed the presence of an alternative, DNA ligase IV-independent end-joining pathway, which was significantly affected by the loss of BLM. Collectively, our results provide the first evidence for genetic interactions between BLM and NHEJ in human cells.
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