The cohesin complex prevents the end-joining of distant DNA double-strand ends in S phase: Consequences on genome stability maintenance

DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair is essential for genome stability maintenance, but the joining of distant DNA double strand ends (DSEs) inevitably leads to genome rearrangements. Therefore, DSB repair should be tightly controlled to secure genome stability while allowing genetic variability. Te...

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Published in:Nucleus (Austin, Tex.) Tex.), 2016-07, Vol.7 (4), p.339-345
Main Authors: Gelot, Camille, Guirouilh-Barbat, Josée, Lopez, Bernard S.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Animals
Cancer
Cohesin
DNA Breaks, Double-Stranded
double-strand breaks repair
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Genetics
genome rearrangements
Genomic Instability
Human genetics
Humans
Life Sciences
NHEJ
replication stress
S Phase - genetics
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Summary:DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair is essential for genome stability maintenance, but the joining of distant DNA double strand ends (DSEs) inevitably leads to genome rearrangements. Therefore, DSB repair should be tightly controlled to secure genome stability while allowing genetic variability. Tethering of the proximal ends of a 2-ended DSB limits their mobility, protecting thus against their joining with a distant DSE. However, replication stress generates DSBs with only one DSE, on which tethering is impossible. Consistently, we demonstrated that the joining of 2 DSBs only 3.2 kb apart is repressed in the S, but not the G1, phase, revealing an additional mechanism limiting DNA ends mobility in S phase. The cohesin complex, by maintaining the 2 sister chromatids linked, limits DSEs mobility and thus represses the joining of distant DSEs, while allowing that of adjacent DSEs. At the genome scale, the cohesin complex protects against deletions, inversions, translocations and chromosome fusion.
ISSN:1949-1034
1949-1042
DOI:10.1080/19491034.2016.1194159