Positional Stability of Single Double-strand Breaks in Mammalian Cells

Overview

Journal Nat Cell Biol

Specialty Cell Biology

Date 2007 May 9

PMID 17486118

Citations 268

Authors

Evi Soutoglou

Jonas F Dorn

Kundan Sengupta

Maria Jasin

Andre Nussenzweig

Thomas Ried

Gaudenz Danuser

Tom Misteli

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Abstract

Formation of cancerous translocations requires the illegitimate joining of chromosomes containing double-strand breaks (DSBs). It is unknown how broken chromosome ends find their translocation partners within the cell nucleus. Here, we have visualized and quantitatively analysed the dynamics of single DSBs in living mammalian cells. We demonstrate that broken ends are positionally stable and unable to roam the cell nucleus. Immobilization of broken chromosome ends requires the DNA-end binding protein Ku80, but is independent of DNA repair factors, H2AX, the MRN complex and the cohesion complex. DSBs preferentially undergo translocations with neighbouring chromosomes and loss of local positional constraint correlates with elevated genomic instability. These results support a contact-first model in which chromosome translocations predominantly form among spatially proximal DSBs.

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