Major roles for pyrimidine dimers, nucleotide excision repair, and ATR in the alternative splicing response to UV irradiation

We have previously found that UV irradiation promotes RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) hyperphosphorylation and subsequent changes in alternative splicing (AS). We show now that UV-induced DNA damage is not only necessary but sufficient to trigger the AS response and that photolyase-mediated removal of th...

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Autores: Muñoz, Manuel Javier, Nieto Moreno, Nicolás, Giono, Luciana E., Cambindo Botto, Adrián E., Dujardin, Gwendal, Bastianello, Giulia, Lavore, Stefania, Torres Méndez, Antonio, Menck, Carlos Frederico Martins, Blencowe, Benjamin J., Irimia Martínez, Manuel, Foiani, Marco, Kornblihtt, Alberto R.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:10230/34709
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/34709
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2017.02.066
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:ATR
DNA damage
Potorous photolyase
UV irradiation
Alternative splicing
Cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers
Global genome repair
Nucleotide excision repair
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Sumario:We have previously found that UV irradiation promotes RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) hyperphosphorylation and subsequent changes in alternative splicing (AS). We show now that UV-induced DNA damage is not only necessary but sufficient to trigger the AS response and that photolyase-mediated removal of the most abundant class of pyrimidine dimers (PDs) abrogates the global response to UV. We demonstrate that, in keratinocytes, RNAPII is the target, but not a sensor, of the signaling cascade initiated by PDs. The UV effect is enhanced by inhibition of gap-filling DNA synthesis, the last step in the nucleotide excision repair pathway (NER), and reduced by the absence of XPE, the main NER sensor of PDs. The mechanism involves activation of the protein kinase ATR that mediates the UV-induced RNAPII hyperphosphorylation. Our results define the sequence UV-PDs-NER-ATR-RNAPII-AS as a pathway linking DNA damage repair to the control of both RNAPII phosphorylation and AS regulation.