title: Inhibition of nucleotide excision repair by anti-XPA monoclonal antibodies which interfere with binding to RPA, ERCC1, and TFIIH.
abstract: The xeroderma pigmentosum group A protein (XPA) binds to three nucleotide excision repair (NER) factors: RPA, ERCC1, and TFIIH. XPA also binds preferentially to UV- or chemical carcinogen-damaged DNA. In this study, we prepared anti-XPA monoclonal antibodies and examined their effects on NER. Two clones inhibited cell-free NER reactions. The mode of inhibition appeared to differ; one clone inhibited both 5' and 3' incisions equally while the other inhibited the 5' incision more. The two clones inhibited the binding of XPA to RPA, ERCC1, and TFIIH. They did not inhibit the binding to damaged DNA either. These results suggest that the interaction of XPA with these NER factors is essential to the NER pathway. The epitopes of these antibodies were located outside of the binding regions for these NER factors. Steric hindrance or conformational changes of XPA brought about by the binding of anti-XPA IgG possibly cause the inhibitory effects.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, 1-3 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.
authors.forename: Masafumi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Saijo
authors.forename: Toshiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Matsuda
authors.forename: Isao
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kuraoka
authors.forename: Kiyoji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tanaka
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology; D004247:DNA / Q000378:metabolism; D004249:DNA Damage; D004260:DNA Repair; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors* / Q000378:metabolism*; D004720:Endonucleases / Q000378:metabolism*; D018604:Epitope Mapping; D006801:Humans; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D051379:Mice; D051716:Replication Protein A; D051758:Transcription Factor TFIIH; D019473:Transcription Factors, TFII / Q000378:metabolism*; D051760:Xeroderma Pigmentosum Group A Protein
chemical_list: D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; C497167:RPA1 protein, human; D051716:Replication Protein A; C497168:Rpa1 protein, mouse; D019473:Transcription Factors, TFII; C497314:XPA protein, human; D051760:Xeroderma Pigmentosum Group A Protein; C497315:Xpa protein, mouse; D051758:Transcription Factor TFIIH; D004247:DNA; C071447:ERCC1 protein, human; D004720:Endonucleases; C499360:Ercc1 protein, mouse