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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6641
pubmed:dateCreated
1997-8-18
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
The discovery of homologues from the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae of the human Ku DNA-end-binding proteins (HDF1 and KU80) has established that this organism is capable of non-homologous double-strand end joining (NHEJ), a form of DNA double-strand break repair (DSBR) active in mammalian V(D)J recombination. Identification of the DNA ligase that mediates NHEJ in yeast will help elucidate the function of the four mammalian DNA ligases in DSBR, V(D)J recombination and other reactions. Here we show that S. cerevisiae has two typical DNA ligases, the known DNA ligase I homologue CDC9 and the previously unknown DNA ligase IV homologue DNL4. dnl4 mutants are deficient in precise and end-processed NHEJ. DNL4 and HDF1 are epistatic in this regard, with the mutation of each having equivalent effects. dnl4 mutants are complemented by overexpression of Dnl4 but not of Cdc9, and deficiency of Dnl4 alone does not impair either cell growth or the Cdc9-mediated responses to ionizing and ultraviolet radiation. Thus, S. cerevisiae has two distinct and separate ligation pathways.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Carboxy-Lyases, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/DNA, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/DNA, Fungal, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/DNA Ligases, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/DNA ligase (ATP), http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/DNA-Binding Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Fungal Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Recombinant Fusion Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/YKU70 protein, S cerevisiae, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/high affinity DNA-binding factor..., http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/phosphoribosylaminoimidazole...
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0028-0836
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
31
pubmed:volume
388
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
495-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1997
pubmed:articleTitle
Yeast DNA ligase IV mediates non-homologous DNA end joining.
pubmed:affiliation
Washington University School of Medicine, Division of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Pathology, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't