END-PROCESSING NUCLEASES AND PHOSPHODIESTERASES: AN ELITE SUPPORTING CAST FOR THE NON-HOMOLOGOUS END JOINING PATHWAY OF DNA DOUBLE-STRAND BREAK REPAIR

Publication date: Available online 18 May 2016
Source:DNA Repair
Author(s): Vijay Menon, Lawrence Povirk
Nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ) is an error-prone DNA double-strand break repair pathway that is active throughout the cell cycle. A substantial fraction of NHEJ repair events show deletions and, less often, insertions in the repair joints, suggesting an end-processing step comprising the removal of mismatched or damaged nucleotides by nucleases and other phosphodiesterases, as well as subsequent strand extension by polymerases. A wide range of nucleases, including Artemis, Metnase, APLF, Mre11, CtIP, APE1, APE2 and WRN, are biochemically competent to carry out such double-strand break end processing, and have been implicated in NHEJ by at least circumstantial evidence. Several additional DNA end-specific phosphodiesterases, including TDP1, TDP2 and aprataxin are available to resolve various non-nucleotide moieties at DSB ends. This review summarizes the biochemical specificities of these enzymes and the evidence for their participation in the NHEJ pathway.



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