title: A naturally occurring genetic variant of human XRCC2 (R188H) confers increased resistance to cisplatin-induced DNA damage.
abstract: Homologous recombination, a major double strand break repair pathway, plays critical roles in maintaining genome stability. Genetic polymorphisms in HR genes have been implicated in cancer risk. We report a novel assay system for evaluating polymorphisms in human homologous recombination genes using a panel of chicken DT40 repair mutants. We established mutant cell lines complemented with either wild-type or variant cDNAs of three human genes, RAD51, XRCC2, and XRCC3, and assessed their sensitivity to cisplatin and mitomycin C. DT40 mutants complemented with RAD51 coding and 5'UTR variants, and with a XRCC3 coding variant showed equivalent sensitivity as those with wild-type cDNAs. Interestingly, Xrcc2(-/-) DT40 cells complemented with variant XRCC2 (R188H) were more tolerant to cisplatin than those with wild-type XRCC2. Considering that the XRCC2 (R188H) allele reduces risk to epithelial ovarian cancer, the increased XRCC2 activity with the R188H polymorphism may have clinical benefit in preventing cancer risk.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Genomic Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Yoshida, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan.
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Danoy
authors.forename: Eiichiro
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Sonoda
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lathrop
authors.forename: Shunichi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Takeda
authors.forename: Fumihiko
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Matsuda
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001402:B-Lymphocytes / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D002460:Cell Line; D002645:Chickens; D002945:Cisplatin / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D004249:DNA Damage / Q000502:physiology*; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D009154:Mutation; D051135:Rad51 Recombinase / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; C110901:X-ray repair cross complementing protein 3; C113187:XRCC2 protein, human; C495153:RAD51 protein, human; D051135:Rad51 Recombinase; D002945:Cisplatin