title: The levels of repair of endonuclease III-sensitive sites, 6-4 photoproducts and cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers differ in a point mutant for RAD14, the Saccharomyces cerevisiae homologue of the human gene defective in XPA patients.
abstract: In the accompanying paper we demonstrated that endonuclease III-sensitive sites in the MAT alpha and HML alpha loci of Saccharomyces cerevisiae are repaired by the Nucleotide Excision Repair (NER) pathway. In the current report we investigated the repair of endonuclease III sites, 6-4 photoproducts and cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPDs) in a rad14-2 point mutant and in a rad14 deletion mutant. The RAD14 gene is the yeast homologue of the human gene that complements the defect in cells from xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) patients belonging to complementation group A. In the point mutant we observed normal repair of endonuclease III site (i.e. as wild type), but no removal of CPDs at the MAT alpha and HML alpha loci. Similar experiments were undertaken using the recently created rad14 deletion mutant. Here, neither endonuclease III sites nor CPDs were repaired in MATa or HMRa. Thus the point mutant appears to produce a gene product that permits the repair of endonuclease III sites, but prevents the repair of CPDs. Previously it was found that in the genome overall, repair of 6-4 photoproducts was less impaired that repair of CPDs in the point mutant. The deletion mutant repairs neither CPDs nor 6-4 photoproducts in the genome overall. This finding is consistent with the RAD14 protein being involved in lesion recognition in yeast. A logical interpretation is that the rad14-2 point mutant produces a modified protein that enables the cell to repair endonuclease III sites and 6-4 photoproducts much more efficiently than CPDs. This modified protein may aid studies designed to elucidate the role of the RAD14 protein in lesion recognition.
authors.affiliation: School of Biological Sciences, University College of Swansea, Swansea, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: S H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Reed
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: McCready
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Boiteux
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Waters
mesh_terms: D004260:DNA Repair / Q000502:physiology*; D045643:DNA Repair Enzymes; D004271:DNA, Fungal / Q000235:genetics* / Q000528:radiation effects; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D043224:Deoxyribonuclease (Pyrimidine Dimer); D004706:Endodeoxyribonucleases / Q000502:physiology; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology; D005800:Genes, Fungal / Q000235:genetics* / Q000528:radiation effects; D006801:Humans; D017354:Point Mutation; D011740:Pyrimidine Dimers; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000235:genetics*; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D017384:Sequence Deletion; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D014466:Ultraviolet Rays; D051760:Xeroderma Pigmentosum Group A Protein
chemical_list: D004271:DNA, Fungal; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D005656:Fungal Proteins; D011740:Pyrimidine Dimers; C072975:RAD14 protein, S cerevisiae; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; C497314:XPA protein, human; D051760:Xeroderma Pigmentosum Group A Protein; D004706:Endodeoxyribonucleases; D043224:Deoxyribonuclease (Pyrimidine Dimer); D045643:DNA Repair Enzymes