Decreased DNA repair efficiency by loss or disruption of p53 function preferentially affects removal of cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers from non-transcribed strand and slow repair sites in transcribed strand.
The tumor suppressor protein p53 plays a central role in modulating the cellular responses to DNA damage. Several recent studies, undertaken with the whole genomic DNA or full-length gene segments, have shown that p53 is involved in nucleotide excision repair and it selectively influences the adduct removal from the non-transcribed strand in the genome. In this study, we have analyzed the damage induction at nucleotide resolution by ligase-mediated polymerase chain reaction and compared the repair of ultraviolet radiation-induced cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers within exon 8 of p53 gene in normal and Li-Fraumeni syndrome fibroblasts as well as in normal and human papillomavirus 16 E6 and E7 protein-expressing human mammary epithelial cells. The results demonstrate that (i) loss or disruption of p53 function decreases efficiency of DNA repair, by preferentially affecting the repair of non-transcribed strand and of intrinsically slow repair sites in transcribed strand; (ii) mutant p53 protein affects DNA repair, at least of non-transcribed strand, in a dominant negative manner; and (iii) pRb does not have an effect on the repair of DNA damage within transcribed or non-transcribed strand. The overall data suggest that p53 could regulate excision repair or related events through direct protein-protein interaction.
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Department of Radiology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA.
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D002478:Cells, Cultured; D004260:DNA Repair; D006801:Humans; D011740:Pyrimidine Dimers / Q000378:metabolism; D014158:Transcription, Genetic; D016159:Tumor Suppressor Protein p53 / Q000502:physiology*
D011740:Pyrimidine Dimers; D016159:Tumor Suppressor Protein p53