Incidence and Persistence of 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine Within a Hairpin Intermediate Exacerbates a Toxic Oxidation Cycle Associated with Trinucleotide Repeat Expansion

Overview

Journal DNA Repair (Amst)

Publisher Elsevier

Specialties Biochemistry
Molecular Biology

Date 2011 Jul 6

PMID 21727036

Citations 35

Authors

Daniel A Jarem

Nicole R Wilson

Kelly M Schermerhorn

Sarah Delaney

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Abstract

The repair protein 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine glycosylase (OGG1) initiates base excision repair (BER) in mammalian cells by removing the oxidized base 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine (8-oxoG) from DNA. Interestingly, OGG1 has been implicated in somatic expansion of the trinucleotide repeat (TNR) sequence CAG/CTG. Furthermore, a 'toxic oxidation cycle' has been proposed for age-dependent expansion in somatic cells. In this cycle, duplex TNR DNA is (1) oxidized by endogenous species; (2) BER is initiated by OGG1 and the DNA is further processed by AP endonuclease 1 (APE1); (3) a stem-loop hairpin forms during strand-displacement synthesis by polymerase β (pol β); (4) the hairpin is ligated and (5) incorporated into duplex DNA to generate an expanded CAG/CTG region. This expanded region is again subject to oxidation and the cycle continues. We reported previously that the hairpin adopted by TNR repeats contains a hot spot for oxidation. This finding prompted us to examine the possibility that the generation of a hairpin during a BER event exacerbates the toxic oxidation cycle due to accumulation of damage. Therefore, in this work we used mixed-sequence and TNR substrates containing a site-specific 8-oxoG lesion to define the kinetic parameters of human OGG1 (hOGG1) activity on duplex and hairpin substrates. We report that hOGG1 activity on TNR duplexes is indistinguishable from a mixed-sequence control. Thus, BER is initiated on TNR sequences as readily as non-repetitive DNA in order to start the toxic oxidation cycle. However, we find that for hairpin substrates hOGG1 has reduced affinity and excises 8-oxoG at a significantly slower rate as compared to duplexes. Therefore, 8-oxoG is expected to accumulate in the hairpin intermediate. This damage-containing hairpin can then be incorporated into duplex, resulting in an expanded TNR tract that now contains an oxidative lesion. Thus, the cycle restarts and the DNA can incrementally expand.

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