title: Multifactorial contributions to an acute DNA damage response by BRCA1/BARD1-containing complexes.
abstract: The BRCA1 gene product and its stoichiometric binding partner, BARD1, play a vital role in the cellular response to DNA damage. However, how they acquire specific biochemical functions after DNA damage is poorly understood. Following exposure to genotoxic stress, DNA damage-specific interactions were observed between BRCA1/BARD1 and the DNA damage-response proteins, TopBP1 and Mre11/Rad50/NBS1. Two distinct DNA damage-dependent super complexes emerged; their activation was dependent, in part, on the actions of specific checkpoint kinases, and each super complex contributed to a distinctive aspect of the DNA damage response. The results support a new, multifactorial model that describes how genotoxic stress enables BRCA1 to execute a diverse set of DNA damage-response functions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School and The Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
authors.forename: Roger A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Greenberg
authors.forename: Bijan
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Sobhian
authors.forename: Shailja
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pathania
authors.forename: Sharon B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Cantor
authors.forename: Yoshihiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nakatani
authors.forename: David M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Livingston
mesh_terms: D017766:Acid Anhydride Hydrolases; D019313:BRCA1 Protein / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D002453:Cell Cycle; D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D004249:DNA Damage; D004260:DNA Repair; D045643:DNA Repair Enzymes / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D000076228:MRE11 Homologue Protein; D009687:Nuclear Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D011485:Protein Binding; D025521:Tumor Suppressor Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D044767:Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D019313:BRCA1 Protein; D002352:Carrier Proteins; D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; C121766:MRE11 protein, human; C112156:NBN protein, human; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; C110513:TOPBP1 protein, human; D025521:Tumor Suppressor Proteins; C102449:BARD1 protein, human; D044767:Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases; D000076228:MRE11 Homologue Protein; D017766:Acid Anhydride Hydrolases; C112158:RAD50 protein, human; D045643:DNA Repair Enzymes