Resection is responsible for loss of transcription around a double-strand break in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

  1. Nicola Manfrini
  2. Michela Clerici
  3. Maxime Wery
  4. Chiara Vittoria Colombo
  5. Marc Descrimes
  6. Antonin Morillon
  7. Fabrizio d'Adda di Fagagna
  8. Maria Pia Longhese  Is a corresponding author
  1. National Institute of Molecular Genetics Romeo ed Enrica Invernizzi"", Italy
  2. Università di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
  3. Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
  4. FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology Foundation, Italy

Abstract

Emerging evidence indicate that the mammalian checkpoint kinase ATM induces transcriptional silencing in cis to DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) through a poorly understood mechanism. Here we show that in Saccharomyces cerevisiae a single DSB causes transcriptional inhibition of proximal genes independently of Tel1/ATM and Mec1/ATR. Since the DSB ends undergo nucleolytic degradation (resection) of their 5'-ending strands, we investigated the contribution of resection in this DSB-induced transcriptional inhibition. We discovered that resection-defective mutants fail to stop transcription around a DSB, and the extent of this failure correlates with the severity of the resection defect. Furthermore, Rad9 and generation of γH2A reduce this DSB-induced transcriptional inhibition by counteracting DSB resection. Therefore, the conversion of the DSB ends from double-stranded to single-stranded DNA, which is necessary to initiate DSB repair by homologous recombination, is responsible for loss of transcription around a DSB in S. cerevisiae.

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  1. Nicola Manfrini

    National Institute of Molecular Genetics Romeo ed Enrica Invernizzi"", Milan, Italy
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  2. Michela Clerici

    Dipartimento di Biotecnologie e Bioscienze, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
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  3. Maxime Wery

    Institut Curie, Dynamics of Genetic Information: Fundamental Basis and Cancer, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
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  4. Chiara Vittoria Colombo

    Dipartimento di Biotecnologie e Bioscienze, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
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  5. Marc Descrimes

    Institut Curie, Dynamics of Genetic Information: Fundamental Basis and Cancer, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
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  6. Antonin Morillon

    Institut Curie, Dynamics of Genetic Information: Fundamental Basis and Cancer, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
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  7. Fabrizio d'Adda di Fagagna

    IFOM Foundation, FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology Foundation, Milan, Italy
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  8. Maria Pia Longhese

    Dipartimento di Biotecnologie e Bioscienze, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
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    mariapia.longhese@unimib.it
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© 2015, Manfrini et al.

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  1. Nicola Manfrini
  2. Michela Clerici
  3. Maxime Wery
  4. Chiara Vittoria Colombo
  5. Marc Descrimes
  6. Antonin Morillon
  7. Fabrizio d'Adda di Fagagna
  8. Maria Pia Longhese
(2015)
Resection is responsible for loss of transcription around a double-strand break in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
eLife 4:e08942.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.08942

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