Cross-species investigation into the requirement of XPA for nucleotide excision repair

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Kose, Cansu and Cao, Xuemei and Dewey, Evan B. and Malkoç, Mustafa and Adebali, Ogün and Sekelsky, Jeff and Lindsey-Boltz, Laura A. and Sancar, Aziz (2024) Cross-species investigation into the requirement of XPA for nucleotide excision repair. Nucleic Acids Research, 52 (2). pp. 677-689. ISSN 0305-1048 (Print) 1362-4962 (Online)

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Abstract

After reconstitution of nucleotide excision repair (excision repair) with XPA, RPA, XPC, TFIIH, XPF-ERCC1 and XPG, it was concluded that these six factors are the minimal essential components of the excision repair machinery. All six factors are highly conserved across diverse organisms spanning yeast to humans, yet no identifiable homolog of the XPA gene exists in many eukaryotes including green plants. Nevertheless, excision repair is reported to be robust in the XPA-lacking organism, Arabidopsis thaliana, which raises a fundamental question of whether excision repair could occur without XPA in other organisms. Here, we performed a phylogenetic analysis of XPA across all species with annotated genomes and then quantitatively measured excision repair in the absence of XPA using the sensitive whole-genome qXR-Seq method in human cell lines and two model organisms, Caenorhabditis elegans and Drosophila melanogaster. We find that although the absence of XPA results in inefficient excision repair and UV-sensitivity in humans, flies, and worms, excision repair of UV-induced DNA damage is detectable over background. These studies have yielded a significant discovery regarding the evolution of XPA protein and its mechanistic role in nucleotide excision repair.
Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Depositing User: Ogün Adebali
Date Deposited: 08 Jun 2024 15:55
Last Modified: 08 Jun 2024 15:55
URI: https://research.sabanciuniv.edu/id/eprint/49071

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