* Institut Curie, Research Section Unité Mixte de Recherche, 144 du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 75231 Paris
Cedex 05, France; Wellcome CRC Institute, Cambridge CB21QR, United Kingdom; and § Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold
Spring Harbor, New York 11724
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Abstract |
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The subcellular distribution and posttranslational modification of human chromatin assembly factor 1 (CAF-1) have been investigated after UV irradiation of HeLa cells. In an asynchronous cell population only a subfraction of the two large CAF-1 subunits, p150 and p60, were found to exist in a chromatin-associated fraction. This fraction is most abundant during S phase in nonirradiated cells and is much reduced in G2 cells. After UV irradiation, the chromatin-associated form of CAF-1 dramatically increased in all cells irrespective of their position in the cell cycle. Such chromatin recruitment resembles that seen for PCNA, a DNA replication and repair factor. The chromatin-associated fraction of p60 was predominantly hypophosphorylated in nonirradiated G2 cells. UV irradiation resulted in the rapid recruitment to chromatin of phosphorylated forms of the p60 subunit. Furthermore, the amount of the p60 and p150 subunits of CAF-1 associated with chromatin was a function of the dose of UV irradiation. Consistent with these in vivo observations, we found that the amount of CAF-1 required to stimulate nucleosome assembly during the repair of UV photoproducts in vitro depended upon both the number of lesions and the phosphorylation state of CAF-1. The recruitment of CAF-1 to chromatin in response to UV irradiation of human cells described here supports a physiological role for CAF-1 in linking chromatin assembly to DNA repair.
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Introduction |
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IN the eukaryotic cell, genetic information is present in
the form of chromatin (van Holde, 1988; Wolffe,
1995
). The assembly and maintenance of this nucleoprotein complex is important to ensure regulated DNA
metabolism. In proliferating cells, the bulk of histone synthesis and chromatin assembly occurs during DNA replication in S phase (Krude, 1995b
; Sogo and Laskey, 1995
;
Kaufman, 1996
). However, reassembly of chromatin may
also be important after destabilizing events that may arise
during transcription (Tsukiyama and Wu, 1997
), recombination (Lichten and Goldman, 1995
), and repair (Smerdon, 1991
).
Biochemical approaches have allowed the proteins involved in assembly of the basic repeating unit of chromatin to be identified. This unit, the nucleosome core, consists of ~1.8 superhelical turns of DNA wrapped around a
histone octamer (Luger et al., 1997). Nucleosome cores
can be reconstituted in vitro simply by mixing the four
core histones with DNA. This is based on the self-assembly properties of histones to form octamers and their
transfer onto DNA which can be facilitated by salt gradient dialysis or the presence of polyanions (Laskey and
Earnshaw, 1980
). Several histone-binding proteins including nucleoplasmin, N1/N2, nucleosome assembly protein 1, DF 31, and Spt6p have the ability to facilitate regulated
deposition of histones at physiological ionic strength.
These proteins seem to act as molecular chaperones, i.e.,
they facilitate the formation of nucleosome cores without
being a component of the final reaction product. Chromatin assembly factor 1 (CAF-1)1 is also thought to function
as a molecular chaperone but, unlike the other proteins
mentioned above, CAF-1 promotes assembly of nucleosomes preferentially onto replicating DNA (Smith and
Stillman, 1989
) and is associated with newly synthesized
and modified histones H3 and H4 in cell extracts (Kaufman et al., 1995
; Verreault et al., 1996
). After the deposition of histones onto DNA, the formation of long arrays of
regularly spaced nucleosomes was shown to be facilitated
by two additional factors, recently purified from Drosophila embryo extracts, chromatin accessibility complex
(CHRAC) (Varga-Weisz et al., 1997
) and ATP-utilizing
chromatin assembly and remodeling factor (ACF) (Ito et
al., 1997
). Since all these factors were isolated using in
vitro biochemical approaches, additional cell biology studies should prove useful to determine the cellular events in
which these proteins are involved in vivo.
The three-subunit CAF-1 protein was initially purified
from human cells based upon its ability to promote chromatin assembly onto replicating DNA in the SV-40 replication system (Stillman, 1986; Smith and Stillman, 1989
).
The small subunit of CAF-1, known as RbAp48, or p48, is
part of multiple complexes involved in different aspects of
histone metabolism (Roth and Allis, 1996
; Verreault et al.,
1998
). In contrast, the two large subunits, p150 and p60, are specific to the CAF-1 protein. The immunolocalization
of the two largest subunits of CAF-1 in an asynchronous
population of cells revealed that these subunits are predominantly nuclear (Smith and Stillman, 1991
). In addition,
analysis of S phase nuclei demonstrated colocalization of
CAF-1 and replication foci (Krude, 1995a
), consistent with
a role for CAF-1 as an assembly factor during DNA replication. Complementation of nucleosome assembly in the
human cell-free DNA replication system further allowed
the identification of CAF-1 orthologues from other species, such as Drosophila, Xenopus, and Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Gaillard et al., 1996
; Kamakaka et al., 1996
; Kaufman
et al., 1997
). Although CAF-1 is not essential for S. cerevisiae viability (Enomoto et al., 1997
; Kaufman et al., 1997
),
yeast strains lacking CAF-1 exhibit silencing defects and are sensitive to UV irradiation (Enomoto et al., 1997
;
Kaufman et al., 1997
; Monson et al., 1997
; Enomoto and
Berman, 1998
).
The cellular response to UV irradiation is a complex
process which involves the translation of the presence of
the toxic agent into cellular signaling, part of which is the
detection and processing of DNA lesions (Herrlich et al.,
1994). Indeed, ultraviolet C (UV-C), as a genotoxic agent
(Pfeifer, 1997
), produces mutagenic lesions in DNA, including cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers and 6-4 photoproducts, which are mainly repaired by nucleotide excision repair (NER) (Sancar, 1995
; Wood, 1997
). Importantly,
studies monitoring the nuclease sensitivity of chromatin
after UV irradiation revealed that NER is accompanied by
nucleosomal rearrangements (Smerdon and Lieberman,
1978
). Insights into the coordination between NER and
chromatin assembly were obtained by in vitro studies using human cell extracts (Gaillard et al., 1996
); these studies suggested a possible role for CAF-1 in linking these two
events. The activity of CAF-1 during NER in vitro may
account for the UV-sensitive phenotype that results from
disruption of the genes encoding the CAF-1 subunits in S. cerevisiae.
To investigate the role of CAF-1 in vivo in human cells, we analyzed the subcellular distribution and posttranslational modification of CAF-1 after UV irradiation of HeLa cells. The association of the p150 and p60 subunits of CAF-1 with chromatin was found to increase substantially in irradiated cells. This occurred in parallel with the recruitment to chromatin of the DNA replication and repair factor proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA). Furthermore, biochemical analysis of the chromatin-associated form of p60 revealed that it was mostly phosphorylated after UV irradiation. Association of a phosphorylated form of p60 with chromatin occurred rapidly and in a dose- dependent manner after UV irradiation. Consistent with these in vivo observations, we found that the amount of CAF-1 required to stimulate nucleosome assembly during the repair of UV photoproducts in vitro depended upon both the number of DNA lesions and the phosphorylation state of CAF-1. This parallel between the UV response in vivo and the in vitro assay are consistent with a response mediated through DNA damage processing rather than being a mere consequence of other cellular UV responses. This paper constitutes the first report of CAF-1 recruitment to chromatin in response to UV irradiation of human cells and supports a physiological role for CAF-1 in linking chromatin assembly to DNA repair.
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Materials and Methods |
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Cell Culture, Synchronization, and UV Irradiation
HeLa cells were grown in Petri dishes (Falcon Plastics, Cockeysville, MD)
in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium (DME) supplemented with 10%
fetal calf serum, 10 mg/ml antibiotics (penicillin and streptomycin), and 2 mM
L-glutamine (GIBCO BRL, Gaithersburg, MD) at 37°C under an atmosphere of 5% CO2. For synchronization, cells grown to ~50% confluence
were arrested in early S phase with 2 mM hydroxyurea (Sigma Chemical
Co., St. Louis, MO) for 16 h then released by several washes in phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) before a final wash in fresh medium as described
(Todorov et al., 1995). FACScanTM analysis revealed that these cells remained in S phase for 10 h before entering G2 phase (3 h), mitosis (1 h),
and finally G1 phase ~14 h after release. We routinely collected early G1
cells 15.5 h after release. The proportion of cells in the various phases of
the cell cycle was determined by flow cytometry of fixed cells. For flow cytometry analysis, cells washed in PBS were collected by centrifugation after trypsinization, fixed in ethanol, washed with PBS, and then pelleted by
centrifugation at 600 g to be treated with 100 mg/ml RNase A (Boehringer
Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany) and 10 mg/ml propidium iodide (Sigma
Chemical Co.) in PBS with 0.1% Tween. Data were collected using a
FACScanTM flow cytometer (Becton Dickinson, San Jose, CA). For UV
treatment, HeLa cells grown in a glass Petri dish at a density of 5 × 104
cells/cm2 (50% confluent), were rinsed with PBS twice, PBS was removed, and then the cells were exposed to UV-C light (254 nm) from a low-pressure mercury lamp. The distance between the lamp and the dish was adjusted to obtain a fluence of 1 J/m2 per second measured using a Latarjet
Dosimeter (Institut Curie, Paris, France). The irradiation time was varied to
obtain doses from 10 to 30 J/m2. After irradiation, growth medium was
added and the cells were allowed to recover for the indicated times. Cell
cycle arrest after UV irradiation was verified by flow cytometry by comparison with nonirradiated and mock-treated cells synchronized in parallel.
Cell Extractions
Extractions were performed by a method adapted from Todorov et al.
(1995). For the immunofluorescence analysis, cells grown on coverslips
were washed first with PBS+ which contains 0.5 mM MgCl2 and 0.5 mM
CaCl2 (and then with cytoskeleton [CSK] buffer [10 mM Pipes-KOH, pH
7.0, 100 mM NaCl, 300 mM sucrose, 3 mM MgCl2 {Fey et al., 1986
}]). At
this stage, cells were either directly fixed with 4% paraformaldehyde in
PBS+ for 20 min at 24°C or subjected to various treatments: (a) for the
Triton extraction, cells were incubated in CSK buffer supplemented with
0.5% Triton X-100, 0.5 mM PMSF (Sigma Chemical Co.), and 10 mg/ml
leupeptin (Boehringer Mannheim) for 5 min at 20°C; (b) for the DNase I
digestion, 0.1 mg/ml DNase I (Grade II; Boehringer Mannheim) was
added to the same extraction buffer and incubated 5 min at 20°C. After
two washes in CSK buffer, the cells were fixed in 4% paraformaldehyde in
PBS1. For biochemical analysis, the cells were trypsinized, pelleted (600 g
for 10 min), and then washed with PBS+ and CSK buffer. Using the conditions described above, the cells in suspension were subjected to various
extraction procedures. The Triton-extracted and DNase I-treated cells
were harvested after addition of an excess of CSK buffer rapidly followed
by centrifugation to collect the pellets. After a wash in CSK buffer, the
pellets were resuspended in CSK buffer at a final dilution corresponding
to 2.5 × 104 cells/ml. An equal volume of 2× Laemmli buffer was added to
the samples before boiling for 10 min, loading on a SDS-polyacrylamide gel, and Western blotting.
Preparation of Cell-free Extracts
The procedure for preparing cytosolic extracts uses hypotonic buffer (Li
and Kelly, 1984) and the properties of these extracts depends on the physiological state of the cells. In brief, the cytosolic extract was prepared from
HeLa cells grown in dishes essentially as described (Krude et al., 1997
).
After rinsing twice in PBS buffer, cells were allowed to swell for 10 min in
20 ml of ice-cold extraction buffer E (20 mM Hepes-KOH, pH 7.8, 5 mM potassium acetate, 0.5 mM MgCl2, and 0.5 mM DTT) per dish and excess
buffer was removed. All subsequent steps were carried out at 4°C. Mitotic
cells that detached from the dish under the hypotonic conditions were discarded and interphase cells were then scraped off the plates and disrupted
them with 25 strokes in a Dounce homogenizer (1-ml Dounce tissue
grinder; Wheaton, Millville, NJ) using a loose-fitting pestle. Nuclei were
pelleted at 1,500 g for 3 min and the supernatant was recentrifuged at
14,000 g for 20 min at 4°C. The cytosolic extract was then aliquoted and
frozen in liquid nitrogen. For nuclear extract, pelleted nuclei were resuspended at 1.5 × 108 nuclei/ml in buffer E supplemented with NaCl to
reach a final concentration of 0.6 M and incubated for 90 min at 4°C. Nuclear material was pelleted by centrifugation at 14,000 g for 20 min and the
supernatant corresponding to the interphasic nuclear extract was collected. Aliquots were frozen in drops in liquid nitrogen. Mitotic extracts
were prepared as previously described (Marheineke and Krude, 1998
).
Antibodies
Monoclonal antibodies against the two large subunits of human CAF-1,
p150 (mAb1), and p60 (mAb96) (Smith and Stillman, 1989) were kindly
provided by B. Stillman (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring
Harbor, NY). The rabbit polyclonal antibody, pAb1, directed against the
p60 subunit was used to reveal both phosphorylated and nonphosphorylated forms of the p60 subunit as described (Marheineke and Krude,
1998
). The specificity of pAb1 and mAb96 was verified by Western blotting (see Fig. 5) as well as by a double immunofluorescence labeling of
fixed HeLa cells (data not shown). Double immunofluorescence assays
were also carried out using pAb1 and mAb1 (Marheineke and Krude,
1998
) (data not shown). The other monoclonal antibodies used were:
PC10 (Dako, Carpinteria, CA) specific for PCNA, mAb 414 (Berkeley
Antibody Co., Richmond, CA) detecting three nucleoporins nup62,
nup175, and nup270 (Berkeley Antibody Co.) and an anti-NuMa antibody
(Calbiochem-Novabiochem, La Jolla, CA) detecting the nuclear mitotic
apparatus also called nuclear matrix-associated protein (NuMA).
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Immunofluorescence Microscopy
Paraformaldehyde-fixed cells were first permeabilized with 0.2% Triton
X-100 in PBS for 5 min and blocked in 5% BSA, 0.1% Tween in PBS
(blocking buffer) for 10 min. Specific antibodies were added at the appropriate dilution in blocking buffer and incubated for 1 h at room temperature. For the double staining with PCNA, a second fixation step in methanol at 20°C for 10 min was included before addition of the anti-PCNA
antibody to optimize recognition as reported earlier (Aboussekhra and
Wood, 1995
). To visualize the primary antibodies, fluorescein- or Texas red-conjugated goat anti-rabbit or anti-mouse IgG antibodies were used
(Jackson ImmunoResearch Laboratories, West Grove, PA) and 1 µg/ml
4',6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI) (Sigma Chemical Co.) was added
for DNA staining. The coverslips mounted in Vectashield (Vector Laboratories, Burlingame, CA) were observed using an epifluorescence photomicroscope (model DMR; Leica, Deerfield, IL) equipped with an
HBO100 mercury lamp (Osram, Germany), 63× objective lenses, and a
chilled charge-coupled device camera (Hamamatsu Phototonics, Hamamatsu City, Japan). Confocal analysis was carried out using an inverted
microscope (Leica), and scanning was performed with an optical confocal
scanner LEICA TCS 4. The images were produced using the Adobe Photoshop 4 software program (San Jose, CA).
Repair/Chromatin Assembly Reaction In Vitro
pBS plasmid (pBluescript KS; Stratagene, La Jolla, CA) isolated using a
plasmid purification kit (QIAGEN, Santa Clarita, CA) was irradiated on
ice with UV-C light (254 nm) from a low-pressure mercury lamp at various fluences (Wood et al., 1995). According to Wood et al. (1995)
, a fluence of 100 J/m2 induces roughly one photoproduct in 1,000 bp (~0.75 cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer and 0.25 [6-4] photoproduct). It can thus be estimated for our plasmids that on average approximately four photoproducts will be present for 150 J/m2 and eight for 300 J/m2. The cytosolic
extracts were used in 25 µl DNA repair reactions at 37°C essentially as described (Gaillard et al., 1996
). In brief, reactions contained 100 µg of proteins contributed by the extract, 150 ng of nontreated or UV-C-irradiated
pBS plasmid, 5 mM MgCl2, 40 mM Hepes-KOH, pH 7.8, 0.5 mM DTT, 4 mM
ATP, 20 µM each of dGTP, dATP, and dTTP, 8 µM dCTP and 2 µCi [
-32P]
dCTP (3,000 Ci/mmol), 40 mM phosphocreatine, 2 µg creatine phosphokinase (Type 1; Sigma Chemical Co.), and various sources of CAF-1. Reactions were stopped by the addition of EDTA to 15 mM, SDS to 0.35%,
and 100 µg/ml RNase A (Boehringer Mannheim). After treatment with
200 µg/ml proteinase K (Boehringer Mannheim), DNA was isolated and
subjected to electrophoresis (1.2% agarose, in TAE buffer) for DNA topology analysis. Ethidium bromide staining of the gel allowed verification
of DNA recovery. The autoradiographs revealed the migration pattern of
the plasmids labeled during the reaction. Quantification was carried out
using a PhosphorImager and ImageQuant software (Molecular Dynamics,
Sunnyvale, CA).
Phosphorylation Analysis
20-400 U of Lambda protein phosphatase (New England Biolabs, Beverly, MA) were used to treat 100 ng of recombinant human CAF-1 protein
purified from baculovirus-infected Sf9 cells (Kaufman et al., 1995). When
indicated, as a control to limit the phosphatase reaction and produce intermediate phosphorylated forms of recombinant CAF-1, 25 mM
-glycerophosphate (Sigma Chemical Co.) was added. Mock-treated samples
were incubated similarly, but without Lambda phosphatase. Phosphorylation was monitored by Western blotting as shown in Fig. 8. All treated
samples were adjusted to 25 mM
-glycerophosphate (Sigma Chemical
Co.) and frozen before use. We reached in the repair/chromatin assembly
reaction in vitro a 10 mM final concentration of
-glycerophosphate.
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Western Analysis
Protein samples in 1× Laemmli buffer were separated in SDS-7% polyacrylamide gels (Laemmli, 1970) to resolve both the p150 and the various
phosphorylated forms of p60. Protein transfer to nitrocellulose membrane
(0.45 µm; Schleicher & Schuell, Keene, NH) was achieved in 48 mM Tris,
39 mM glycine, 0.03% SDS, and 20% ethanol using a semi-dry electroblotting system (Bio-Rad, Hercules, CA). Ponceau S (Rhone-Poulenc,
Lyon, France) staining allowed to verify protein recovery. After blocking
in 5% non-fat dry milk in Tris-buffered saline (TBS; 136 mM NaCl, 2.7 mM KCl, 25 mM Tris, pH 8), antibodies were added in blocking buffer
plus 0.1% Tween 20, incubated for 1 h, and then washed in 0.1% Tween 20 in TBS. The primary antibodies were detected with horseradish peroxidase-conjugated anti-mouse or anti-rabbit secondary antibodies (Jackson
ImmunoResearch Laboratories), and the Supersignal substrate detection
kit (Pierce Chemical Co., Rockford, IL). For semiquantitative analysis,
various amounts of recombinant CAF-1 were processed in parallel and
linearity of signal was verified.
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UV Irradiation Induces an Increase in the Triton-resistant Nuclear Pool of the Two Large Subunits of CAF-1
An asynchronous population of HeLa cells was subjected
to a short pulse of UV-C irradiation (30 J/m2 at 254 nm, a
dose previously used to detect UV response in HeLa cells)
(Carty et al., 1994). After a 2-h recovery period, the subcellular localization of the two large subunits of CAF-1
was monitored using either monoclonal antibodies (mAb1
for p150 and mAb96 for p60; Smith and Stillman, 1991
) or
polyclonal antibodies (pAb1 for p60; Marheineke and
Krude, 1998
). Consistent with a previous report (Smith
and Stillman, 1991
), control cells before irradiation displayed a nuclear staining whose intensity varied in individual cells. After UV irradiation, the staining became reproducibly more intense in all nuclei irrespective of their position in the cell cycle (Fig. 1 A). However, this effect
was not dramatic.
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Some DNA repair proteins such as the PCNA (see below) become resistant to extraction with the nonionic detergent Triton X-100 after UV irradiation of cells, a phenomenon that is thought to reflect the association of the
repair proteins with insoluble nuclear structures at the
sites of DNA repair (Cox, 1997). This prompted us to find
out whether CAF-1 also became resistant to extraction by
nonionic detergent during DNA repair. Control and UV-irradiated cells grown on coverslips were permeabilized
with Triton X-100 before formaldehyde fixation and analysis by immunofluorescence (see Materials and Methods).
Strikingly, in control cells, the signal for both the p150 and
p60 subunits of CAF-1 showed a considerable variation in
intensity among individual cells (Fig. 1 B, left). The most
extreme situation under these extraction conditions was seen in a few cells which showed hardly any residual intranuclear staining, except for a rim at the periphery of the
nucleus (Fig. 1 B, arrowheads). Remarkably, after UV irradiation, the entire cell population displayed a strong nuclear staining that was resistant to Triton extraction (Fig. 1
B). Thus, detergent extraction revealed the existence of a
Triton-resistant nuclear pool of CAF-1 which increased in
every cell upon UV irradiation.
A Parallel Behavior for the p60 Subunit of CAF-1 and PCNA
For the p60 subunit of CAF-1, either the monoclonal mAb96 (Fig. 1, p60) or the polyclonal antibody pAb1 (Fig. 2, p60*) allowed us to visualize a Triton-resistant nuclear pool of CAF-1 that increased in every cell upon UV irradiation. It was thus possible to perform a double staining with a monoclonal antibody raised against PCNA and the polyclonal antibody (pAb1) directed against the p60 subunit of CAF-1 (see Materials and Methods). The detection of PCNA allowed us to identify S phase cells in an asynchronous population of control cells and to ensure that the irradiated cells responded properly to UV irradiation (Bravo, 1987; Toschi, 1988).
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In an asynchronous population of control cells, only the S phase cells exhibit high levels of Triton-resistant p60 subunit of CAF-1 and PCNA (Fig. 2 A, no UV, p60* and PCNA). In some cells where the number of PCNA foci were not very numerous, the p60 subunit of CAF-1 and PCNA clearly colocalized (Fig 2 B, p60* and PCNA). Double-staining with an antibody that detects three nucleoporins (mAb414) allowed us to verify that the nuclear envelope was preserved in cells that displayed a weak p60 staining following Triton extraction (Fig. 2 B, p60* and pore). In striking contrast, all cells in an asynchronous population exhibited intense p60 and PCNA staining after UV irradiation. These data suggest that CAF-1, like PCNA, is mobilized for a function required during both DNA replication and nucleotide excision repair.
The Triton-resistant Nuclear Fraction of CAF-1 p150 and p60 Is Associated with Chromatin
We then investigated the nature of the nuclear retention of the p150 and p60 subunits of CAF-1. Cells were treated with DNase I in the presence of detergent. Disappearance of the p150 and p60 signals paralleled degradation of DNA as shown by DAPI staining (Fig. 3, compare p150, p60*, and DNA). The disappearance of the staining cannot be attributed to a disruption of the nuclear envelope during the DNase I treatment since staining of the nuclear pores in the envelope with a nucleoporin-specific antibody was preserved (Fig. 3 A, pore). These data demonstrate that the Triton-resistant p150 and p60 subunits of CAF-1 are associated with chromatin.
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The Chromatin-associated Fraction of the p60 Subunit of CAF-1 Increased Dramatically after UV Irradiation of G2 Cells
To further analyze the role of CAF-1 in the response to
UV-induced DNA damage, HeLa cells were synchronized
in the G2 phase of the cell cycle (Fig. 4 A, FACScanTM
G2). After UV irradiation, we observed that cells were delayed in their cell cycle progression (Fig. 4 A, FACScansTM
G2[UV] and G2/M) consistent with the activation of the
G2-DNA damage checkpoint (for review see Nurse, 1997). Triton extraction and immunofluorescence analysis were
then carried out to compare control G2 cells (Fig. 4 A,
FACScanTM G2) and G2 cells irradiated with UV (Fig. 4
A, FACScansTM G2[UV]). The Triton-extracted G2 cells
displayed a very weak nuclear staining for both p150 and
p60 with either monoclonal (mAb1 and mAb96) or polyclonal antibodies (pAb1 for p60) (Fig. 4 B, left). This pattern was similar to the one observed for the Triton-
extracted cells indicated by the arrows in Fig. 1. Therefore,
our synchronization procedure did not promote the recruitment of p60 and p150 to Triton-resistant nuclear
structures. After UV-C irradiation (30-J/m2 pulse, 2-h recovery), a strong nuclear staining could be detected in all
cells (Fig. 4 B, right). This strong nuclear staining in response to UV irradiation, reflected numerous discrete
sites as revealed by confocal microscopy analysis (Fig. 4 B,
p60*) which were clearly distinct in size and number from
the replication sites described for late S phase nuclei
(O'Keefe et al., 1992
). Since indirect immunofluorescence
is strongly dependent upon the conformation and accessibility of the epitopes in the cell, we also investigated biochemically whether changes in total concentration and/or
posttranslational modification of CAF-1 occurred in response to UV irradiation.
Phosphorylated Forms of the p60 Subunit Are Enriched in the Triton-resistant Fraction of CAF-1 from UV-irradiated Cells
The p60 subunit of CAF-1 consists of multiple phosphorylated forms that can be resolved by SDS-PAGE (Smith
and Stillman, 1991). These various forms can be detected
with the polyclonal antibody (pAb1, Marheineke and
Krude, 1998
) in recombinant CAF-1 purified from baculovirus-infected insect cells (Fig. 5 A). In contrast, when
used on the same filter, a monoclonal antibody raised
against the p60 subunit of CAF-1 purified from human
cells (mAb96), detected only slow migrating forms of the
p60 subunit (Fig. 5 A, mAb96). These forms correspond to
phosphorylated forms of p60 as revealed by phosphatase
treatment (Fig. 5 A, compare
and +). Thus, mAb96 is
specific for phosphorylated form(s) of the p60 subunit in
Western blots. In contrast, the monoclonal antibody
against the p150 subunit of CAF-1 used in this study
(mAb1) detected p150 irrespective of the phosphatase
treatment used (Fig. 5 A and data not shown).
No major cell cycle-dependent changes in p60 phosphorylation could be detected in total cell lysates either from asynchronous cells or cells enriched in various stages of the cell cycle (Fig. 6 A) (data not shown). In G2 cells, a single band was detected for p150 and multiple bands in equal proportion for p60 (Fig. 5 B, Total). In these control G2 cells, Triton extracted most of the p150 and p60 molecules (Fig. 5 B, Triton-resistant) which is consistent with our immunofluorescence data (Fig. 4 B, no UV). Strikingly though, the various phosphorylated forms of p60 were preferentially extracted by Triton in G2 control cells leading to drastic removal of the phosphorylated forms (Fig. 5 B, p60, compare Total with Triton-resistant).
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To determine the fate of CAF-1 subunits during the cellular response to UV irradiation, cell populations enriched
in G1 or G2 cells were treated with UV and, after a 2-h recovery period, the cells were processed to estimate first
whether any change could be detected in the phosphorylation state of p60 in a total lysate (Fig. 6 A). For both G1
and G2 cells a comparable distribution of various forms of
p60 could be detected without major change after UV irradiation. We then analyzed on parallel samples, the fraction
of p150, p60, and PCNA molecules that had become resistant to Triton extraction by Western blotting (Fig. 6 B). In
these experiments, the appearance of Triton-resistant
PCNA served as a positive control to monitor the cellular
response to UV irradiation (Fig. 6 B, PCNA). Consistent
with previous reports (Toschi, 1988; Aboussekhra and
Wood, 1995), the PCNA protein became Triton-resistant after UV irradiation of both G1 and G2 cells (Fig. 6 B,
PCNA). Interestingly, unlike in G2 cells, in nonirradiated
G1 cells the phosphorylated forms of the p60 subunit of
CAF-1 were not selectively extracted by Triton (Fig. 6 B,
p60 and pAb1). This is in striking contrast with nonirradiated G2 cells in which phosphorylated p60 was almost
completely absent from the detergent-resistant structures (Fig. 5 B and Fig. 6 B, G2). However, after UV irradiation
of both G1 and G2 cells, an increase in the Triton-resistant
phosphorylated forms of p60 was observed (Fig. 6 B, p60
and pAb1). For both normal G1 and UV-irradiated G2
cells, we analyzed the nuclear retention of the p60 subunit
of CAF-1 using DNase I as described in Fig. 3. As a control, the same blots were reprobed to detect the presence of the NuMA protein (Lydersen and Pettijohn, 1980), a
protein whose association with the nuclear matrix is insensitive to DNase I treatment (Fig. 6 C). In the Triton-resistant fraction, we found that both phosphorylated forms of
the p60 subunit, present in normal G1 cells and UV-irradiated G2 cells, behaved similarly and were sensitive to
DNase I treatment (Fig. 6 C). We conclude that, in both
cases, the phosphorylated form of p60 is associated with
chromatin.
Rapid Dose-dependent Response of CAF-1 to UV Irradiation
When cells are subjected to UV irradiation, a stress response is induced (Herrlich et al., 1994), cell cycle progression is arrested (Fig. 4 A), and lesions in the DNA are repaired. To gain some insight into the role of CAF-1 in this
cellular response to UV irradiation, we first examined the
kinetics of appearance of the phosphorylated forms of the
p60 subunit of CAF-1 in the Triton-resistant fraction of
G2 cells. As shown in Fig. 7 A, a UV dose of 30 J/m2 induced a significant accumulation of phosphorylated CAF-1
p60 as early as 30 min after UV irradiation, which is also
clear from the densitometric scans corresponding to the
individual lanes of this Western blot. This increase in
phosphorylation occurred in parallel to an increase in the
Triton-resistant fraction of p150 detected by Western blotting the same samples (Fig. 7 A, top). Thus, the appearance of Triton-resistant and phosphorylated CAF-1 subunits occurred as an early event after UV irradiation, consistent with the timing of early repair events (Pfeifer,
1997
). We also noticed that these changes persisted for
several hours postirradiation, a period during which the
cells were still arrested in G2 phase of the cell cycle (data
not shown). The accumulation of Triton-resistant phosphorylated forms of the p60 subunit of CAF-1 was also detected for lower UV doses (Fig. 7 B). A dose of 10 J/m2 already induced a significant increase in the amount of p60
protein retained after Triton extraction. The appearance
of Triton-resistant CAF-1 p60 proportional to the UV
dose (Fig. 7 B) was consistent with a possible stoichiometric targeting of CAF-1 to sites of DNA lesion/repair.
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Phosphorylation Stimulates the Stoichiometric Action of CAF-1 In Vitro
We used an in vitro assay for chromatin assembly coupled
to UV-induced DNA synthesis (Gaillard et al., 1996) to
test whether CAF-1 functions either catalytically or stoichiometrically with respect to the number of lesions
present in the DNA substrate. A cytosolic extract derived
from nonirradiated HeLa cells grown in tissue culture
dishes was prepared as described in Materials and Methods.
When added to our extract in the presence of a radiolabeled nucleotide, DNA synthesis preferentially occurred
in the UV-irradiated plasmid when compared with a control nonirradiated plasmid (Fig. 8 A, compare with
+ UV). Since DNA recovery at the end of these reactions
was comparable (Fig. 8 A, Total DNA), these data demonstrated that our extract was competent to process UV photoducts. Under these conditions, we did not detect in the
labeled/repaired plasmid DNA a significant proportion of
supercoiled molecules. This could reflect either a defect in
chromatin assembly (the accumulation of supercoiled molecules is proportional to the number of nucleosomes formed on a circular DNA molecule) (Germond et al.,
1979
), or a defect in ligation of repaired molecules. Western blotting analysis of an aliquot removed from these reaction mixtures showed that only traces of the p60 subunit
of CAF-1 were provided by the extract (Fig. 8 C, p60,
lanes 1 and 2), whereas the p150 was at an undetectable level (data not shown). Since the p150 and p60 subunits of
CAF-1 are both essential for chromatin assembly in vitro
(Kaufman et al., 1995
), these data suggested that the limiting factor for supercoiling in this system was CAF-1. Nucleosome assembly and supercoiling of the repaired plasmid could indeed be complemented by the addition of
purified recombinant CAF-1 (Fig. 8 A, CAF-1). Importantly, this supercoiling was preferentially observed on labeled/repaired material compared with the bulk population of plasmid DNA (Fig. 8 A, compare Labeled with
Total DNA). A careful titration of the amount of CAF-1
added per reaction allowed us to define the amount of
CAF-1 required to achieve maximal supercoiling (Fig. 8 A,
lane 7).
To proceed further and analyze the competence of various phosphorylated forms of CAF-1, the same amounts of
the recombinant protein were treated (a) with Lambda
phosphatase to completely dephosphorylate p60 (Fig. 8 B,
lane 1); (b) with the phosphatase in the presence of -glycerophosphate to produce phosphorylation intermediates
of p60 (Fig. 8 B, lane 2); or (c) mock-treated (Fig. 8 B, lane
3). We also compared the migration properties of the p60
subunit in our recombinant complex with respect to the
p60 subunit from mitotic extracts (Fig. 8 B, lane 4) or interphasic nuclear extracts (Fig. 8 B, lane 6). These data
showed that the migration properties of the recombinant
form were very distinct from those of the mitotic p60 and
rather could be compared with the forms with the lowest
migration properties in the interphasic nuclear extract. We
thus used in the in vitro assay the three different forms of
recombinant CAF-1 as produced in Fig. 8 B, lanes 1, 2, and
3. Under the limiting condition defined in Fig. 8 A, we
found that when CAF-1 was treated with phosphatase before its addition to the extract, it was somewhat less active
in promoting nucleosome assembly on labeled/repaired
DNA (Fig. 8 C, lane 4). The fact that CAF-1 remained dephosphorylated was verified by Western blotting of an aliquot removed at the end of each reaction (Fig. 8 C, p60).
Interestingly, when
-glycerophosphate was initially present during the phosphatase treatment to produce phosphorylation intermediates of p60, supercoiling was comparable to the control (Fig. 8 C, compare lane 3 with 5). We
can thus discard possible effects due to contaminants in
the phosphatase preparation, and further conclude that
even intermediate phosphorylation forms can be competent in the assay. Since the phosphorylation state of the recombinant CAF-1 protein purified from baculovirus-
infected Sf9 cells may not necessarily reflect the precise
modification of the protein present in UV-irradiated
HeLa cells, we verified that similar observations could be
made when using equivalent amounts of CAF-1 from
HeLa cell nuclear extracts (data not shown). A close examination of the supercoiling obtained using plasmids irradiated at 150 and 300 J/m2 for various amounts and
forms of CAF-1 (Fig. 9 A as indicated) suggested that the
number of labeled/repaired sites could be a critical parameter for CAF-1 requirement (Fig. 9 A, compare 150 with
300 J/m2). Quantification of the data further evidenced the
correlation between the number of labeled repaired sites
and the requirement of CAF-1 as well as the importance
of the form of CAF-1 provided in the reaction (Fig. 9 B).
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Dynamic reorganization of chromatin structure is a recurrent feature associated with many changes in cellular physiology. During NER, changes in nucleosome structure are
likely to occur (Smerdon, 1991) both to make the DNA lesion accessible to the repair machinery and to facilitate
reformation of a regular chromatin structure following the
repair process (Gaillard et al., 1996
, 1997
). Although
CAF-1 was originally identified as a protein that promotes
nucleosome assembly during DNA replication in vitro
(Smith and Stillman, 1989
), CAF-1 is thought to play a
similar role during the repair of DNA damage (Gaillard et
al., 1996
; Kaufman et al., 1997
). This paper provides the
first evidence that the activity of CAF-1 is regulated in response to DNA damage in mammalian cells.
Comparison of the Behavior of p60 and p150 Subunits of CAF-1 to PCNA
The behavior of the p60 and p150 subunits of CAF-1
shares a number of similarities with that of PCNA, an essential protein of proliferating cells which plays crucial
roles in both DNA replication and repair (Cox, 1997).
Both the p150 and p60 subunits of CAF-1 rapidly become
resistant to detergent extraction during DNA replication or repair of nuclei (Figs. 2, 6, and 7). Furthermore, the
characteristics of the UV response (timing and dose dependence), for the binding of p150 and phosphorylated
p60 to chromatin (Fig. 7) is strikingly similar to those observed for PCNA during NER (Miura et al., 1992
; Prosperi
et al., 1993
; Aboussekhra and Wood, 1995
). Interestingly, both the timing and UV dose response are somewhat distinct from those reported for the p34 subunit of replication
protein A whose phosphorylation is only detected with
higher doses and at a later time after UV irradiation (Liu
and Weaver, 1993
; Carty et al., 1994
). Overall, our data
provide in vivo support for a dual role of CAF-1 during S
phase and DNA repair. It is intriguing that this parallel between PCNA and CAF-1 may extend beyond their dual function in DNA replication and DNA repair, since both
proteins also play a role in the inheritance of transcriptionally silent heterochromatin.
In Drosophila, chromosomal translocations that bring
euchromatic genes next to heterochromatin generally result in transcriptional silencing (Pirrotta, 1997). The silent
state is rather stable through mitosis but, with a low frequency, the translocated gene can switch to the expressed
state, which can also be inherited in a stable fashion. This
form of chromosomal position effect, known as position
effect variegation in Drosophila, is functionally analogous
to the silencing of reporter genes introduced next to telomeric heterochromatin in S. cerevisiae (Aparicio et al.,
1991
). Interestingly, a PCNA mutation in Drosophila, mus
209 (mutagen-sensitive 209), results in suppression of position-effect variegation (Henderson et al., 1994
; Yamamoto
et al., 1997
), i.e., heterochromatin-mediated silencing is
impaired. This may relate to the unexpected function of
CAF-1 in silencing recently uncovered through genetic
studies in S. cerevisiae (Enomoto et al., 1997
; Kaufman et
al., 1997
; Monson et al., 1997
; Enomoto and Berman,
1998
). These findings suggest that the role of CAF-1 during nucleotide excision repair may be critical in either restoring or setting de novo repressive chromatin structures.
PCNA also plays a role in repair mechanisms other than
NER such as double-strand break repair (Ayyagari et al.,
1995
; Henderson and Glover, 1998
) and one of the base
excision repair pathways (Frosina et al., 1996
). Our previous work using Drosophila embryo extracts (Gaillard et al.,
1997
) would suggest that the DNA synthesis event is not
strictly required for an assembly machinery to be recruited
to specific repair sites. Thus, CAF-1 may be recruited by
DNA structures and/or protein factors present during earlier stages of repair. The parallel behavior of CAF-1 with
PCNA could thus imply some interaction between these
molecules within such a complex. This raises the possibility that CAF-1 may also play some role in DNA repair
pathways other than NER. The binding of CAF-1 to chromatin and the phosphorylation of the p60 subunit of CAF-1
described here may provide useful markers to monitor the
CAF-1 response to various genotoxic agents in repair-proficient cells or cells with mutations in various DNA repair
pathways (Friedberg et al., 1995
).
Chromatin Association and the Phosphorylation of the p60 Subunit of CAF-1 in Response to UV Irradiation
The changes in CAF-1 after UV irradiation reported here
provide a novel element to the cellular response to UV irradiation. We defined two features of this CAF-1 response
to UV irradiation: (a) the chromatin retention of both the
p150 and p60 subunits of CAF-1 and (b) the predominance of phosphorylated forms of p60 in this chromatin-associated fraction. The chromatin association most likely
reflects an interaction with a protein component of chromatin, rather than with DNA itself, since the CAF-1 protein purified from human cells was reported to present no
apparent affinity for either single- or double-stranded
DNA (Smith and Stillman, 1989). The p60 subunit of
CAF-1 has been previously shown to exist in various phosphorylated forms in asynchronous cells, (Smith and Stillman, 1991
) and several consensus sites for protein kinase
C, casein kinase 2, and tyrosine kinase phosphorylation can be found. However, no information is available concerning the possible physiological significance of the posttranslational modification of p60. Although the relative
abundance of the nonphosphorylated and phosphorylated
forms of p60 in the chromatin-associated fraction was
found to vary during the cell cycle, a significant increase in
phosphorylated p60 bound to chromatin occurred in response to UV irradiation in G1, S, or G2 phase (Fig. 6 and
data not shown). Whether the chromatin-associated phosphorylated forms of p60 that are constitutively present
in G1 and S phase serve similar functions to those found
after UV irradation remains to be determined. It is not
as yet clear whether the sites of p60 phosphorylation in normal and UV-irradiated cells are the same or, for that
matter, whether phosphorylation of the p60 subunit of
CAF-1 plays a similar function during normal progression
through S phase and in the cellular response to UV irradiation.
In normal interphasic cells, it is remarkable that the phosphorylation of the Triton-resistant form of the p60 subunit
of CAF-1 is high in G1, progressively decreases throughout
S phase, and is essentially absent during G2. The significance of this observation is unclear but this progressive dephosphorylation of CAF-1 could potentially serve as a
marking system to avoid DNA rereplication. Alternatively,
since progression through S phase is accompanied by a decrease in the number of DNA replication foci, the level of
p60 phosphorylation may simply be an indication of the
amount of CAF-1 actively involved in nucleosome assembly at the DNA replication fork. This in turn would suggest that
p60 phosphorylation may modulate the nucleosome assembly activity of CAF-1 in normal cells. In that respect, it is
also interesting to note that a distinct modified form only
observed in mitosis (see Fig. 8 B) was reported to be impaired in nucleosome depostion during complementary
strand synthesis (Marheineke and Krude, 1998).
Our data do not preclude the possibility of a de novo phosphorylation of the p60 subunit of CAF-1 in response to UV irradiation. However, the increase in the phosphorylated form of p60 that is associated with chromatin after UV irradiation may be simply mediated through recruitment of a preexisting pool of phosphorylated molecules. This mechanism of recruitment could be advantageous for a rapid response to UV damage. Importantly, although both phosphorylated and nonphosphorylated forms of p60 are present in roughly equal amounts in G2 cells (Fig. 5 B, Total), phosphorylated p60 is almost completely absent from the chromatin-associated pool (Fig. 5 B and Fig. 6). Thus, phosphorylation of p60 per se is not sufficient to trigger association of CAF-1 with chromatin. Remarkably, the fraction of the p60 subunit of CAF-1 recruited to chromatin appeared to be proportional with the UV dose applied to the cells (Fig. 7). These data suggest that the UV signal triggering this recruitment could operate via the sensing of the UV lesion/repair sites into DNA which would be consistent with our data in vitro (Fig. 8).
Importance of the Phosphorylated Form of the p60 Subunit of CAF-1 in Interphase
Our data in vitro argue that phosphorylation of CAF-1 increases the ability of the factor to promote nucleosome assembly during nucleotide excision repair (Fig. 8). Although this effect is rather modest in vitro, it may become important in vivo under conditions of severe DNA damage, when the concentrations of CAF-1 and repair factors may be limiting. Potentially, the modification by phosphorylation of CAF-1 may be important for its role in nucleosome assembly activity during both DNA synthesis and DNA repair.
Phosphorylation of the p60 subunit may facilitate either binding or dissociation of CAF-1 from acetylated core histones H3 and H4. Alternatively, phosphorylation of p60 may promote recognition of the specific protein factors or DNA structures necessary to attract the CAF-1 protein to sites of DNA repair. Finally, in addition to its effect on the nucleosome assembly activity of CAF-1, the increase in phosphorylation of the p60 subunit of CAF-1 in response to UV irradiation may act as a signal to prevent progression through the cell cycle until DNA lesions have been repaired and/or the chromatin structure has been restored to its original state. This potential signaling function of phosphorylated CAF-1 would provide an interesting link between cell cycle regulation and DNA repair. These issues should be explored in the future.
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Footnotes |
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Address correspondence to G. Almouzni, Institut Curie, Research Section UMR 144 du CNRS, 26 rue d'Ulm, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France. Tel.: (33) 1 42 34 64 10. Fax: (33) 1 42 34 64 21. E-mail: almouzni{at}curie.fr
Received for publication 29 May 1998 and in revised form 11 September 1998.
We thank J.-P. Quivy, J.G. Moggs (both from Institut Curie, Paris, France), T. Krude (University of Cambridge Wellcome/CRC Institute, Cambridge, UK), and A. Annunziato (Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA) for critical reading, I. Coulter (Institut Curie) for useful suggestions, and our colleagues, especially S. Nocentini (Institut Curie), for numerous stimulating discussions. We are most grateful to B. Stillman (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY) and his laboratory for the generous collaboration in providing us with antibodies as well as recombinant human CAF-1. We thank D. Rouillard (Institut Curie) for FACScanTM analysis.
This work was supported by the Association pour la Recherche sur le Cancer (ARC), an Action Thématique et Incitative sur programme et Equipes (ATIPE) no. 7, "Biologie du Developpement" from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, and the European Economic Community. E. Martini has been supported by la Ligue National Contre le Cancer and ARC fellowships, K. Marheineke is supported by a Marie Curie Research Fellowship of the European Union, and A. Verreault is a postdoctoral fellow of the Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research.
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Abbreviations used in this paper |
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CAF-1, chromatin assembly factor 1; CSK, cytoskeleton; DAPI, 4',6-diamidino-2-phenylindole; NER, nucleotide excision repair; NuMa, nuclear matrix-associated protein; PCNA, proliferating cell nuclear antigen; UV-C, ultraviolet C.
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