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Healing the wounds inflicted by Sleeping Beauty transposition by double-strand break repair in mammalian somatic cells

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posted on 2023-06-07, 13:54 authored by Z. Izsvak, E. E. Stuwe, D. Fiedler, A. Katzer, Penny Jeggo, Z. Ivics
The Sleeping Beauty (SB) element is a useful tool to probe transposon-host interactions in vertebrates. We investigated requirements of DNA repair factors for SB transposition in mammalian cells. Factors of nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ), including Ku, DNA-PKcs, and Xrcc4 as well as Xrcc3/Rad51C, a complex that functions during homologous recombination, are required for efficient transposition. NHEJ plays a dominant role in repair of transposon excision sites in somatic cells. Artemis is dispensable for transposition, consistent with the lack of a hairpin structure at excision sites. Ku physically interacts with the SB transposase. DNA-PKcs is a limiting factor for transposition and, in addition to repair, has a function in transposition that is independent from its kinase activity. ATM is involved in excision site repair and affects transposition rates. The overlapping but distinct roles of repair factors in transposition and in V(D)J recombination might influence the outcomes of these mechanistically similar processes.

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  • Published

Journal

Molecular Cell

ISSN

1097-2765

Volume

13

Page range

279-290

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2007-03-20

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