RESUMO
Signaling proteins often contain multiple modular protein-protein interaction domains of the same type. The Saccharomyces cerevisiae checkpoint kinase Rad53 contains two phosphothreonine-binding forkhead-associated (FHA) domains. To investigate if the precise position of these domains relative to each other is important, we created three rad53 alleles in which FHA1 and FHA2 domains were individually or simultaneously transposed to the opposite location. All three mutants were approximately 100-fold hypersensitive to DNA lesions whose survival requires intact Rad53 FHA domain functions, but they were not hypersensitive to DNA damage that is addressed in an FHA domain-independent manner. FHA domain-transposed Rad53 could still be recruited for activation by upstream kinases but then failed to autophosphorylate and activate FHA domain-dependent downstream functions. The results indicate that precise FHA domain positions are important for their roles in Rad53, possibly via regulation of the topology of oligomeric Rad53 signaling complexes.
Assuntos
Proteínas de Ciclo Celular/metabolismo , Proteínas Serina-Treonina Quinases/metabolismo , Estrutura Terciária de Proteína , Proteínas de Saccharomyces cerevisiae/metabolismo , Proteínas de Ciclo Celular/química , Proteínas de Ciclo Celular/genética , Quinase do Ponto de Checagem 2 , Metanossulfonato de Metila/farmacologia , Proteínas Serina-Treonina Quinases/química , Proteínas Serina-Treonina Quinases/genética , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/efeitos dos fármacos , Saccharomyces cerevisiae/fisiologia , Proteínas de Saccharomyces cerevisiae/química , Proteínas de Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genética , Transdução de Sinais/fisiologia , Transformação GenéticaRESUMO
Bleomycins are small glycopeptide cancer chemotherapeutics that give rise to 3'-modified DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs). In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, DSBs are predominantly repaired by RAD52-dependent homologous recombination (HR) with some support by Yku70/Yku80 (KU)-dependent pathways. The main DSB repair function of KU is believed to be as part of the non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ) pathway, but KU also functions in a "chromosome healing" pathway that seals DSBs by de novo telomere addition. We report here that rad52Deltayku70Delta double mutants are considerably more bleomycin hypersensitive than rad52Deltalig4Delta cells that lack the NHEJ-specific DNA ligase 4. Moreover, the telomere-specific KU mutation yku80-135i also dramatically increases rad52Delta bleomycin hypersensitivity, almost to the level of rad52Deltayku80Delta. The results indicate that telomere-specific functions of KU play a more prominent role in the repair of bleomycin-induced damage than its NHEJ functions, which could have important clinical implications for bleomycin-based combination chemotherapies.
