1 McGill Cancer Center, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1Y6, Canada
2 Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1Y6, Canada
Author for correspondence (e-mail: maria.zannis{at}mcgill.ca)
Accepted 14 March 2005
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Summary |
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Key words: Chromatin immunoprecipitation, Human, Replication origins, Nascent DNA abundance, Ku protein, Haploinsufficient
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Introduction |
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Initially isolated as an autoantigen in patients with systemic lupus (Mimori et al., 1981), the heterodimeric Ku protein, consisting of the Ku70 and Ku80 subunits, has been implicated in various DNA-related cellular processes, including DNA repair, transcription, recombination, telomere maintenance and DNA replication (reviewed by Tuteja and Tuteja, 2000
; Zannis-Hadjopoulos et al., 2004
). Purified as an origin binding activity (OBA) from HeLa cells (Ruiz et al., 1995
; Ruiz et al., 1999
) through its ability to bind to the minimal functional sequence of the monkey replication origin ors8 (Frappier and Zannis-Hadjopoulos, 1987
; Landry and Zannis-Hadjopoulos, 1991
; Pearson et al., 1991
; Todd et al., 1995
), OBA was identified by microsequencing as Ku80 (Ruiz et al., 1999
). Since then, several studies implicated Ku in the initiation of DNA replication (Novac et al., 2001
; Matheos et al., 2002
) [Matheos et al. (Matheos et al., 2003
), and refs therein]. In human (HeLa) cells, Ku was shown to co-fractionate with the 21S multiprotein complex competent for DNA synthesis (Vishwanatha and Baril, 1990
) and to bind replication origins in a sequence-specific manner (Toth et al., 1993
; Ruiz et al., 1999
; Novac et al., 2001
; Matheos et al., 2002
; Matheos et al., 2003
). Southwestern analysis showed that Ku80 binds specifically to A3/4 (Ruiz et al., 1999
), a version of a mammalian origin consensus sequence (Price et al., 2003
). When HeLa cell extracts were immunodepleted of Ku, a 70% decrease in in vitro DNA replication was observed (Matheos et al., 2002
), whereas Ku's association with replication origins was found to be cell cycle regulated in CV1 cells, being maximal in late G1 (Novac et al., 2001
). Ku80-/- mice were smaller than their heterozygous littermates (Nussensweig et al., 1996) and displayed an early onset of senescence (Vogel et al., 1999
). Although they were predisposed to a higher incidence of lymphomas, these knockout mice had a 13-fold decreased incidence of all other cancer examined relative to wild-type mice (2.2% vs 27.6%) (Vogel et al., 1999
).
Evidence implicating Ku in DNA replication is not limited to human or mammalian cells, but has also been identified in lower eukaryotes. In the budding yeast, S. cerevisiae, OBF2, the yeast Ku homologue, was found to be necessary in the stable formation of an ORC-like complex at ARS121 (Shakibai et al., 1996). Ku has also been implicated in determining the time of activation of telomeric DNA replication origins in S. cerevisiae, although this was interpreted as due to a potential role of Ku in chromatin remodeling (Cosgrove et al., 2002
). It was found to associate with viral DNA replication proteins, including the herpes simplex (HSV)-encoded UL9 protein, which binds OriS of HSV and is required for HSV DNA replication (Baker et al., 2000
; Murata et al., 2004
). It also coprecipitates with ICP8, a multifunctional protein important for HSV DNA replication, among other things (Taylor and Knipe, 2004
).
In this study, we examined the role of Ku in the initiation of DNA replication, using HCT116 Ku80+/- haploinsufficient cells. Their homozygous counterparts (HCT116 Ku80-/-) are nonviable, dying of massive apoptosis (Li et al., 2002). We found that the Ku80+/- cells have a prolonged G1 phase and a decreased frequency of activation of three early-firing DNA replication origins, the lamin B2, ß-globin and c-myc origins.
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Materials and Methods |
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Nuclear extract preparation and quantification
Nuclear extracts (NE) were prepared by a modification of a previously described method (Dignam et al., 1983; Pearson et al., 1994
). Briefly, cells cultured in complete medium were harvested at 60-70% confluency, following two washings with ice-cold PBS. They were resuspended in 5x packed cell volume (pcv) hypotonic buffer [10 mM HEPES-KOH, pH 7.9, 1.5 mM MgCl2, 10 mM KCl, 0.5 mM DTT and Complete protease inhibitor tablet (Roche Molecular Biochemicals, Indianapolis, IN)] and left to swell on ice for 15 minutes. After centrifugation at 500 g for 5 minutes at 4°C, they were resuspended in 2x pcv hypotonic buffer and nuclei were isolated by passage of the cells through a 21G needle five times. The nuclei were pelleted by centrifugation at 2500 g for 10 minutes at 4°C, washed once with hypotonic buffer and resuspended in 1x packed nuclear volume in hypertonic buffer (20 mM HEPES-KOH, pH 7.9, 25% glycerol, 0.42 M NaCl, 1.5 mM MgCl2, 0.2 mM EDTA, 0.5 mM DTT, and Complete protease inhibitor tablet (Roche Molecular Biochemicals)) for 30 minutes at 4°C with continuous shaking. The NE was obtained by centrifuging at maximum speed in a microcentrifuge for 15 minutes at 4°C. The concentrations of the NE were determined using the Bradford protein assay (BioRad, Hercules, CA).
Chromatin loading
Log phase cells (60-70% confluency), cultured in complete medium, were scraped off 100 mm plates into ice-cold PBS (Tatsumi et al., 2000). After centrifugation, they were resuspended in 1 ml of lysis buffer A (10 mM HEPES-KOH pH 7.9, 100 mM NaCl, 300 mM Sucrose, 0.1% Triton X-100) containing the Complete protease inhibitors (Roche Molecular Biochemicals) and incubated on ice for 10 minutes. Following centrifugation at 2000 g for 3 minutes at 4°C, they were washed again in buffer A, and resuspended in 100 µl of buffer B (10 mM HEPES-KOH pH 7.9, 200 mM NaCl, 300 mM Sucrose, 0.1% Triton X-100, 5 mM MgCl2) containing 1000 U of DNase I (Roche Molecular Biochemicals). Following incubation at 25°C for 30 minutes the chromatin enriched fraction was isolated by centrifugation at 2500 g for 5 minutes at 4°C. The Bradford protein assay (BioRad) was used to determine the protein concentration of the supernatant.
Western blot analysis and quantification
Western blot analysis was carried out according to standard protocols (Sambrook et al., 1989). Briefly, the indicated amounts were resuspended in SDS loading buffer (50 mM Tris-HCl, pH 6.8, 100 mM DTT, 2% SDS, 0.1% bromophenol blue, 10% glycerol), boiled for 4 minutes and loaded onto a 5% stacking/8% separating SDS-PAGE gel. Following electrophoresis and transfer onto a PVDF membrane (Millipore, Billerica, MA), the membranes were immunoblotted with either a 1/1000 dilution of anti-Ku70 (C19) or a 1/100 dilution of anti-Ku80 (C-20) (Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Santa Cruz, CA) antibody for 1 hour at room temperature (r.t.). Anti-goat horse radish peroxidase (HRP)-conjugated IgG was added (1/2000 dilution) for 20 minutes at r.t. A 1/1000 dilution of anti-p53 (FL393), -p21 (C19), -cdc6 (D12), or -cdk2 (H304; Santa Cruz Biotechnology) antibodies, along with the corresponding HRP-conjugated secondary antibody, was used to probe the membrane for their target proteins. Immunoblots were also probed with a 1/1000 dilution of either anti-actin (Sigma) or anti-MCM7 antibody (N-20; Santa Cruz Biotechnology) and 1/2000 dilution of anti-rabbit HRP-conjugated IgG, used as loading controls. Proteins were visualized using the enhanced chemiluminescence (ECL) kit according to the manufacturer's instructions (Amersham Biosciences, Arlington Heights, IL). Films of western blots were scanned and quantified using FujiFilms Image Gauge V3.3.
Isolation of nascent strand DNA
Isolation of nascent strand DNA was done as described previously (Giacca et al., 1997; Tao et al., 2000
) with the following modifications: five to six 150 mm dishes containing logarithmically growing cells cultured in complete medium were used per experiment. At 30-50% confluency, the cells were washed twice in PBS, and lysed in 5 ml Hirt's lysis buffer/plate (50 mM Tris-HCl, pH 8.0, 0.6 M NaCl, 1 mM EDTA, 0.5% SDS) (Hirt, 1967
). Following a 5 minute incubation at r.t., the lysate was decanted into a 50 ml screw cap tube and incubated o/n with 0.1 mg/ml proteinase K at 37°C. The lysate was extracted once with phenol/chloroform (1:1), and back-extracted once with chloroform:isoamyl alcohol (24:1). Following ethanol precipitation, the DNA was resuspended in 150-200 µl of RNase-free water and sheared by passage ten times through a 26G3/8 needle. Shearing increases the number of DNA ends on which the
-exonuclease enzyme kinase (New England Biolabs, Beverly, MA) can bind and digest non-nascent DNA (see below). Twenty micrograms (µg) of sheared DNA were then heat denatured, phosphorylated with 10 units (U) T4 polynucleotide kinase (New England Biolabs) and 100 µM ATP for 30 minutes at 37°C, then heat inactivated and digested with 15 U of
-exonuclease (New England Biolabs) o/n at 37°C.
-exonuclease digests DNA, but not RNA, such as non-replicating DNA; nascent DNA is protected by its RNA primer.
To separate nascent DNA from Okazaki fragments, heat denatured DNA that had been treated with -exonuclease was subjected to electrophoresis on 1% non-denaturing agarose gel and stained with 0.01% methylene blue (Sigma). Regions containing either 0.5-1 kb or 1-2 kb DNA were excised and the DNA was extracted using a QiaExII extraction kit according to the manufacturer's protocol (Qiagen, Valencia, CA). DNA was eluted from the beads in 250 µl distilled water (dH2O) and used in the LightCycler instrument (Roche Diagnostics, Basel, Switzerland) to quantitate the abundance of nascent DNA. Results were expressed as `molecules/20 µg genomic DNA' to normalize between the two cell lines.
In vivo crosslinking and chromatin fragmentation
Ten plates (15 cm) of cells at 60-70% confluency were washed with pre-warmed PBS and treated with 1% formaldehyde for 10 minutes to crosslink proteins and DNA in vivo (Ritzi et al., 1998; Novac et al., 2001
; Novac et al., 2002
); they were then washed and scraped into ice-cold PBS, and resuspended in lysis buffer (50 mM HEPES-KOH pH 7.5, 140 mM NaCl, 1% Triton X-100, 2 mM EDTA, Complete protease inhibitors tablet) (Roche Molecular Biochemicals). Following passage through a 21G needle three times, the nuclei were harvested by centrifugation at 2500 g for 5 minutes at 4°C. Nuclei were then resuspended in one packed nuclear volume of lysis buffer (i.e. 100 µl of buffer per 100 µl of nuclei), and sonicated ten times for 30 seconds each until fragments of DNA of less than 1 kb were obtained. Chromatin size was monitored by electrophoresis.
For cell counting, one untreated plate was scraped into PBS and resuspended well. The cells were then counted with a hematocytometer, and this number was used to derive the total number of treated cells.
Immunoprecipitations
Immunoprecipitations were carried out essentially as described by the manufacturers, with minor modifications (Santa Cruz Biotechnology; Roche Molecular Biochemicals). Briefly, sheared chromatin lysates from 2x107 cells were pre-cleared by incubation with 50 µl of protein G agarose (Roche Molecular Biochemicals) to reduce background caused by nonspecific adsorption to the beads. Pre-cleared lysates were incubated for 6 hours with either 20 µg of anti-Ku80 (C-20; Santa Cruz), or anti-Ku70 (C-19; Santa Cruz), anti-Orc2 antibody (Quintana et al., 1997) (a generous gift from Anindya Dutta, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, VA) or normal goat serum at 4°C with constant shaking. Protein G agarose (50 µl) was added and incubated o/n at 4°C. The pelleted beads were washed successively twice with 1 ml of lysis buffer for 15 minutes each at 4°C, followed by 1 ml of WB1 (50 mM Tris-HCl pH 7.5, 500 mM NaCl, 0.1% NP40, 0.05% sodium deoxycholate, Complete protease inhibitors tablet) (Roche Molecular Biochemicals), 1 ml of WB2 (50 mM Tris-HCl pH 7.5, 0.1% NP40, 0.05% sodium deoxycholate, Complete protease inhibitors tablet) (Roche Molecular Biochemicals) and 1 ml of sterile TE lacking any protease inhibitors. The beads were resuspended in 200 µl TE/1% SDS, incubated at r.t. for 15 minutes and centrifuged at 1000 g for 1 minute at r.t. Half of the supernatant was then incubated o/n at 65°C to reverse the crosslinks, followed by 100 µg of proteinase K at 55°C for 2 hours. The DNA was purified using QIAquick PCR purification kit (Qiagen, Valencia, CA) and eluted in 100 µl 10 mM Tris-HCl (pH 8.0). The remaining half of the supernatant was boiled for 10 minutes in SDS-PAGE loading buffer and subjected to electrophoresis on a 5% stacking/8% separating SDS-PAGE gel for western blot analysis.
Real-time PCR quantification of immunoprecipitated DNA
Immunoprecipitated DNA was quantified using the LightCycler FastStart DNA Master SYBR Green I kit (Roche Molecular Biochemicals) according to the manufacturer's instructions. Briefly, 2 µl of 10x Master SYBR Green mix was combined with 2 µl of 10 µM of each primer and 2 or 4 µl of either nascent or immunoprecipitated DNA in a total volume of 20 µl. The cycling conditions consisted of an initial 10 minute denaturation step at 99°C, followed by 40 cycles of the following cycling conditions: 99°C for 10 seconds, annealing temperature (as indicated in Table 1) for 10 seconds, and 72°C for 15 seconds. All primer sets used and their annealing temperature are listed in Table 1.
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Results |
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Cell cycle analysis of Ku80+/- cells
The effect of Ku80 deficiency on cell cycle progression was examined using asynchronous cultures of Ku80+/- cells (Fig. 3). Flow cytometry was used to measure the fraction of both parental HCT116 and Ku80+/- cells in each phase of the cell cycle (Fig. 3B). A significant (P=0.026) decrease of 8.8% in the number of S-phase cells was observed in Ku80+/- cells, accompanied by an increase of 10.6% in the number of G1 cells (P=0.09; Fig. 3B). Furthermore, no decrease in cell viability was observed in Ku80+/- cells, as measured by trypan blue exclusion and flow cytometry (data not shown). By continuous bromodeoxyuridine incorporation for 48 hours, the number of cycling cells in Ku80+/- cells was found to be nonsignificantly reduced by 2.3% compared with wild-type HCT116 cells (P=0.87) (data not shown).
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Once cells entered S-phase, the rate of progression through S and entry into G2/M was similar for both Ku80+/- and HCT116 cells. The increase in the percentage of HCT116 cells entering the G2/M phase for each of the synchronized cultures (G2/M in Fig. 3B) proceeded such that there was a 5.9% increase from S2 to S4, 30.5% from S4 to S6 and 14.6% from S6 to the S8 culture (Fig. 3B,
G2/M column of HCT116). When comparing the Ku80+/- cells, a similar pattern was observed, starting with the S4 culture: a 7.0% increase from S4 to S6, and a 28.6% increase from S6 to S8. Considering that Ku80+/- cells were delayed by 2 hours in entering S-phase, the similarity in the kinetics of entry into G2/M between the two cell lines indicates that S-phase proceeded as in the wild-type (HCT116) cells and that Ku80-deficiency did not influence the elongation step of DNA replication.
Synchronization of cells using drugs that arrest at different phases of the cell cycle can also be used to determine the step at which a protein functions. The double cell-cycle block with mimosine used here arrests cells in late G1 (Krude, 1999; Novac et al., 2001
; Biard et al., 2003
) (Fig. 3A, late G1 analysis), before origin firing. If Ku80 functions during S-phase, then treatment of Ku80+/- cells with the thymidine/hydroxyurea double block, which arrests cells at the onset of S-phase (Merrill, 1998
; Biard et al., 2003
), would result in a delay in cell cycle progression similar to that of mimosine. However, when tested, hydroxyurea had no effect on the cell cycle progression of Ku80+/- following removal of the drug (data not shown), further supporting the notion that Ku functions before origin firing.
Some cell cycle synchronization drugs, including mimosine and hydroxyurea, have been correlated with an increase in DNA breaks (Mikhailov et al., 2000; Szuts and Krude, 2004
). To examine whether the different phenotypes of Ku80+/- cells might be due to any induced DNA breaks, the association of Ku80, Ku70 and the single-stranded DNA binding protein, RPA70, to the DNA-containing chromatin fractions were measured in drug-treated and untreated Ku80+/- cells (Fig. 4). If these drugs induced DNA breaks that elicited the nonhomologous end-joining (NHEJ) pathway, then an increase in the amount of Ku protein bound to the DNA and present in the chromatin-enriched fraction would be expected, whereas if they induced the exposure of single-stranded DNA, then RPA70 would become enriched in the chromatin fraction. However, immunoblot analysis of the Ku and RPA70 proteins in chromatin-enriched extracts revealed no significant differences between the mimosine- (Fig. 4A, lanes 3 and 4) and hydroxyurea-treated (Fig. 4A, lanes 5 and 6) cells compared with an asynchronous culture (Fig. 4A, lanes 1 and 2; Fig. 4B), indicating that the differential effect of these two drugs on S-phase entry was not due to the induction of DNA breaks. Actin was used as a loading control (Fig. 4A).
Abundance of nascent DNA in 0.5-1 kb and 1-2 kb DNA fractions
In view of the prolonged G1 phase observed in Ku80+/- cells and to determine whether Ku80 deficiency had an effect on the frequency of initiation of DNA replication, the activities of three early-firing replication origins, the lamin B2, ß-globin and c-myc origins, were examined. These three origins have been previously characterized in detail and their activities have been fine-mapped (Fig. 5A) (Giacca et al., 1994; Abdurashidova et al., 2000
; Tao et al., 2000
; Kamath and Leffak, 2001
). In the case of the ß-globin and c-myc origins, the dominant replication initiation sites were examined, hereafter referred to as BG40.9 and Myc11, respectively, as per their original designation (Tao et al., 2000
; Kamath and Leffak, 2001
). BG72 and Myc1 are the corresponding non-origin containing regions. The lamin B2 origin was previously mapped to the initiating nucleotide (Giacca et al., 1994
; Abdurashidova et al., 2000
) and real-time PCR primers spanning the initiation site (LB2) as well as a region lacking origin activity (LB2C1), used as control, were previously described (Ladenburger et al., 2002
). Real-time PCR primers for the ß-globin and c-myc regions were designed and tested for the absence of nonspecific PCR products that would interfere with the quantification (Fig. 5B). None of the primer pairs produced nonspecific PCR products either in the absence of DNA or in DNA-containing samples (Fig. 5B). The melting temperatures of the different amplicons were
82°C for BG40.9,
81°C for BG72,
94°C for Myc11 and
86°C for Myc1. For quantification purposes, a standard curve for all primers was constructed, using genomic DNA that was isolated from serum-starved HCT116 cells (Fig. 5C). The similarity in slopes of the standard curves indicates that the primer sets have comparable efficiencies, thus permitting comparisons of the results between the different primer sets.
Origin activity was measured by determining the abundance of nascent DNA using -exonuclease and quantitative PCR (Tao et al., 2000
);
-exonuclease digests any DNA lacking an RNA primer (Gerbi and Bielinsky, 1997
), thus minimizing the background that would be caused by degraded genomic DNA. Previously, origin activity was measured by determining the abundance of origin-containing sequences within genomic DNA of 1-2 kb in length. Here, we assessed the abundance of origin-containing sequences within
-exonuclease-treated DNA of 0.5-1 kb in length because it represents DNA closer to the origin, and compared the results with those obtained from the 1-2 kb fraction. Nascent DNA from HCT116 asynchronous cells was prepared by treating 20 µg genomic DNA with
-exonuclease followed by size fractionation on a neutral agarose gel. Fractions containing DNA of 0.5-1 kb and 1-2 kb were analyzed by realtime PCR, whereas fractions containing DNA less than 500 bp in length were excluded to avoid the potential presence of Okazaki fragments. Within the origin-containing regions of lamin B2, ß-globin and c-myc, the 0.5-1 kb fraction were 2-fold more abundant in nascent DNA compared with the 1-2 kb fraction (P=0.02; Fig. 6, see supplementary material Table S1). The respective origin-lacking regions of LB2C1, BG72 and Myc1 were 3-, 2.4-, and 1.4-fold more abundant, respectively, in the 0.5-1 kb fraction relative to the 1-2 kb fraction. These results showed that nascent DNA was more abundant in the 0.5-1 kb fraction of
-exonuclease DNA. In both sets of DNA fractions, the origin-containing regions of LB2, BG40.9 and Myc11 were more than eightfold more abundant than their respective origin-lacking regions of LB2C1, BG72 and Myc1, indicating that the nascent DNA preparation was of good quality.
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Decreased replication initiation events in Ku80+/- cells
Activities of the lamin B2, ß-globin and c-myc replication origins were assessed by measuring the abundance of short nascent DNA (0.5-1 kb) in these regions. At all three origins examined, Ku80+/- cells had decreased abundance of nascent DNA molecules compared with their wild-type counterparts (Fig. 7, supplementary material Table S2). At the region spanning the lamin B2 origin (LB2), there was 4.5-fold decrease in nascent DNA (P=0.014, Fig. 7A), whereas regions spanning the ß-globin and c-myc origins had a 3.4- and 4.3-fold decrease, respectively (P=0.002, Fig. 7B; and P=0.011, Fig. 7C, respectively). The origin-lacking regions (considered as background) for all three origins were 20- to 39-fold less than their respective origins with no pronounced differences between the wildtype and deficient cells (Fig 7A-C). This indicated similar extraction efficiencies between the two cell lines.
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Abundance of origin-associated Ku in Ku80+/- cells
In light of the decreased activity of the lamin B2, ß-globin and c-myc origins observed in Ku80+/- cells (Fig. 7), as well as the decreased association of Ku with these origins (Fig. 8), we examined whether Ku's recruitment to these origins was altered. ChIP analysis was performed using cells synchronized to late G1 by mimosine (Fig. 9, see supplementary material Table S4), when the association of Ku with replication origins is maximal (Novac et al., 2001). Analysis of the lamin B2 origin-containing region (LB2) revealed that Ku80+/- cells had a 1.5-fold decrease in the association of Ku80 to this region relative to wildtype (HCT116) cells (P=0.003, Fig. 9A). Likewise, the in vivo association of Ku70 to LB2 was decreased by 2.1-fold in Ku80+/- cells (P=0.002, Fig. 9A). Similar results were also obtained for the ß-globin and c-myc origin-containing regions. Specifically, for the ß-globin origin, the association of Ku80 with BG40.9 was decreased by 2.3-fold in Ku80+/- cells (P=0.025), and that of Ku70 was decreased by 1.5-fold (P=0.014, Fig. 9B). The association of Ku80 with the c-myc origin, Myc11, was decreased by 2.5-fold in Ku80+/- cells (P=0.03), and that of Ku70 was decreased by 1.7-fold (P=0.02, Fig. 9C).
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A comparison of the abundance of origin-containing DNA and their origin-lacking regions for each of the immunoprecipitates gives a measure of the specificity of binding of Ku to DNA replication origins. In the case of the wild-type HCT116 cells, the origin-containing LB2 region was 12.3- and 21-fold more abundant in Ku80 and Ku70 immunoprecipitates, respectively, than the control region, LB2C1 (Fig. 9A). Similarly, the abundance of the origin-containing region, BG40.9, was 6.9- and eightfold higher in the Ku80 and Ku70 immunoprecipitates, respectively, than the origin-lacking region, BG72 (Fig. 9B). Finally, for the c-myc locus, the abundance of the origin-containing region, Myc11, exceeded that of the origin-lacking region, Myc1, by 7- and 11-fold for the immunoprecipitates of Ku80 and Ku70, respectively (Fig. 9C). In the case of the Ku80+/- cells, all origin-containing sequences were at least 2.6-fold more abundant than their origin-lacking regions for the anti-Ku immunoprecipitates. These results indicate that the in vivo association of Ku proteins with the three replication origins examined is specific.
Because all origin-lacking regions are more than 4 kb away from the origin-containing sequences, and the DNA used in the ChIP assay was sonicated to <1 kb in length, then the abundance of the origin-lacking regions represent 'background' or DNA that was not digested by -exonuclease. Therefore, comparison of the abundance of these origin-lacking regions gives a measure of extraction efficiency between the two cell lines. The abundance of the origin-lacking regions was comparable for all immunoprecipitates and for both cell lines (Fig. 9). Thus, the differences observed between the origin-containing and their respective origin-lacking regions in the ChIP assays represent biological differences as opposed to technical ones.
When asynchronous cell cultures of HCT116 and Ku80+/- were similarly analyzed by ChIP for the association of Ku80 and Ku70 to the three origins, no significant differences between the two cell lines could be detected (data not shown).
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Discussion |
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The general effect of Ku80 deficiency on cell cycle progression was assessed in asynchronous cultures of Ku80+/- cells, and revealed a significant decrease in the number of S-phase cells and an increase in those in G1 phase (Fig. 3B). This is similar to the pattern observed in Orc2/- cells (Dhar et al., 2001b
), indicating that Ku80 deficiency affected cell cycle progression. Orc2
/- cells express a truncated form of the Orc2 protein, a member of the hexameric ORC complex, at 10% of the level present in wild-type cells (Dhar et al., 2001b
). The truncated Orc2 protein lacks the first 73 amino acid residues at the N-terminus, and results in the production of cells that have a prolonged G1 phase and longer doubling time (Dhar et al., 2001b
). Hence, the prolonged G1 phase observed in Ku80+/- cells may be characteristic of cells deficient for DNA replication initiators. Although the mechanism by which the cells induce this delay has not been determined, it does not seem to be mediated through p53 nor p21, as their expression was not significantly altered in Ku80+/- cells (Fig. 1). Moreover, the lack of a difference in the expression levels of Cdc6 and Cdk2 between Ku80+/- and HCT116 cells suggests that the effect of Ku on DNA replication is not indirect, through alteration of the level of expression of these initiator proteins.
Comparative analyses of the cell cycle kinetics of wild-type HCT116 and Ku80+/- cells, by measuring the proportion of cells in each phase of the cell cycle following mimosine arrest and release, indicated that Ku80+/- cells display a 2 hour delay in S-phase entry (Fig. 3A). However, their progression through S-phase and entry into G2/M mirrored that of wild-type HCT116 (Fig. 3B). This indicates that Ku is not involved in the elongation step of DNA replication, consistent with previous results (Matheos et al., 2002). Furthermore, when Ku80+/- cells were synchronized with hydroxyurea (HU), no delay in entry into S-phase was observed (data not shown). HU inhibits ribonucleotide reductase, which converts ribo- to deoxyribo-nucleotides used for DNA synthesis (Huberman, 1981
), whereas mimosine inhibits the expression of serine hydroxymethyltransferase (SHMT) (Lin et al., 1996
; Oppenheim et al., 2000
; Perry et al., 2005
), an enzyme involved in the conversion of serine to glycine and 5,6,7,8-tetrahydrofolate to 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate. The latter folate is used in the production of purines, required for synthesis of the RNA primers during initiation of DNA replication, as well as for general DNA synthesis (reviewed by Rosenblatt and Fenton, 2001
). These drugs have been reported to arrest cells at different phases of the cell cycle: mimosine at late G1 (Biard et al., 2003
; Lalande, 1990
; Krek and DeCaprio, 1995
) and during S-phase (Gilbert et al., 1995
), and HU at the onset of S-phase (Maurer-Schultze et al., 1988
; Merrill, 1998
). A double cell-cycle block, using thymidine and then either mimosine or HU, arrested the cells either in late G1 (Fig. 3A, late G1) or at the onset of S-phase, respectively (Biard et al., 2003
). Consequently, cells released from mimosine arrest have to initiate DNA replication, whereas those released from HU arrest only have to elongate already initiated, RNA-primed DNA chains. Because Ku is not involved in the elongation of DNA replication (Fig. 3B) and associates with origins at late G1, the delay observed in mimosine-, but not HU-treated Ku80+/- cells might be the result of its requirement to initiate DNA replication. Considering that most origins fire early in S-phase (McAlear et al., 1989
; Nakayasu and Berezney, 1989
), the G1 delay in Ku80+/- cells may reflect the postponing of entry into S-phase until all the origins are bound by Ku.
Because Ku is also an end binding protein involved in NHEJ and mimosine is associated with increased DNA breaks (Mikhailov et al., 2000), the G1 delay observed in mimosine-treated Ku80+/- cells might be attributed to the requirement of the cells to repair any DNA breaks before entry into S-phase. Such a scenario would infer an increase in the number of Ku heterodimers bound to DNA, which would result in enrichment of the DNA-containing chromatin with Ku. However, the chromatin fractions from untreated and mimosine- or HU-treated Ku80+/- cells showed no detectable increase in Ku80's or Ku70's association (Fig. 4), suggesting that Ku is not required for the repair of mimosine- or hydroxyurea-induced damage. Furthermore, analysis of the abundance of RPA70 in these chromatin extracts did not reveal a detectable increase in its association with chromatin, indicating that any DNA damage induced by a 12 hour exposure to the drugs was not substantial.
Further support for a role of Ku in the initiation of DNA replication (Novac et al., 2001; Matheos et al., 2002
; Matheos et al., 2003
) is provided by the observed decrease in origin usage, reflected by a significant 3.4-4.5-fold decrease in nascent strand DNA abundance in Ku80+/- cells (Fig. 7). Unlike Orc2
/- cells, in which 10% of Orc2 protein was sufficient for initiation of chromosomal DNA replication, 25% of Ku80, present in Ku80+/- cells, is apparently insufficient. This might be a reflection of the multiple functions of Ku in vivo, which may result in less Ku being available for DNA replication. Alternatively, the differences in the results obtained with the Ku80+/- and Orc2
/- cells might be due to the different methods employed in the two studies to assess abundance of nascent DNA.
Previous studies have shown a specific association of Ku with the replication origins in monkey (CV1) and mouse embryonic fibroblast (MEF) cells (Novac et al., 2001), as well as in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells (Matheos et al., 2003
). In this study, ChIP analyses revealed the specific association of Ku with the lamin B2, ß-globin and c-myc origins of DNA replication in vivo in human cells (Figs 8 and 9). Orc2 protein, a subunit of the ORC complex and a marker of origins (Ladenburger et al., 2002
), was also found to be associated with these human origins in asynchronous cultures, further verifying them as bona fide origins (Fig. 8). Indeed, a footprint of Orc2 at the lamin B2 origin has previously been described (Abdurashidova et al., 2003
), substantiating the use of Orc2 and the lamin B2 origin as positive controls in those experiments (Fig. 8). In these experiments, asynchronous cultures were used to eliminate the possibility of any artifacts arising from the use of cell synchronization drugs.
Analysis of the association of Ku with replication origins in Ku80+/- cells revealed a significant 1.5-2.5-fold decrease for both subunits of the Ku heterodimer (Fig. 9). Although relatively moderate, this decrease correlated with a significant decrease in origin activity (Fig. 7). This relatively moderate decrease might also explain the inability to detect it in asynchronous cells, in which the majority of cells are not in late G1 phase, thus masking the phenotype of those that are. In asynchronous cultures, only 25% of cells were present in G1. Combined with the low affinity of the Ku80 antibody for its target protein (Santa Cruz Biotechnology, personal communication), this makes detection of a difference in the association of Ku with origins in Ku80+/- and HCT116 cells difficult. However, 75% of cells arrest at late G1 when synchronized with mimosine, thus facilitating the detection of differences between the two cell lines. Synchronization also avoided the potential bias that can arise by the prolonged doubling time of Ku80+/- cells. If asynchronous cultures were used, the observed decrease in Ku's association with origins in Ku80+/- cells might have been caused by (or attributed to) a decrease in the number of cells in late G1. By synchronizing the cells, however, this observed decrease can be attributed to a decrease in the number of Ku molecules binding to replication origins.
The DNA association profile of Ku with origin-containing and -lacking regions shows sequence-specific binding. ChIP analyses revealed that the association of Ku with LB2, BG40.9 and Myc11 was more than eightfold greater than its association with LB2C1, BG72 and Myc1 (Fig. 9). Furthermore, the general association of Ku80 with chromatin was decreased by 33% in Ku80+/- cells (Fig. 2), whereas its association with origins was decreased by up to 60% (Fig. 9). Such binding patterns suggest a sequence specific, nonrandom binding of Ku to origins of DNA replication. Others identified a sequence specific binding capacity for the Ku heterodimer by different techniques. In one study, Ku was footprinted on A3/4, a version of a mammalian DNA replication consensus sequence (Schild-Poulter et al., 2003). A separate study found that Ku bound DNA microcircles containing the NRE1 element, a transcriptional repressor (Giffin et al., 1996
), while another study found that mutation of a Ku binding site abolished its binding to the human oxidoreductase gene (Xu et al., 2004
).
Although the exact role of Ku in initiation of DNA replication has not been determined yet, it is unlikely that the observed phenotypes in this study are solely due to its function in DNA repair. First, neither the expressions of p53 nor p21 proteins, two regulators of the G1/S checkpoint in case of DNA damage, were affected by Ku80 deficiency (Fig. 1). Second, the progression through S-phase was indistinguishable between the Ku80+/- and HCT116 cell lines (Fig. 3B). This is important since DNA repair can take place during any phase of the cell cycle, whereas DNA initiation occurs only at the beginning of S-phase. Several other studies have suggested that Ku deficiency leads to cell cycle arrest by a mechanism independent of its DNA repair function. Nussensweig et al. (Nussensweig et al., 1996) observed that Ku80-/- mice are smaller than their wild-type counterparts and that this was not due to a decrease in the number of cells present in organs, but rather a decrease in the cell size. Arrington et al. (Arrington et al., 2000) observed that the inability of Ku80-/- MEF cells to traverse the G2/M cell cycle checkpoint after treatment with H2O2 was not due to Ku's DNA repair function. Furthermore, Rockwood et al. (Rockwood et al., 2003
) identified a decrease in mutant frequency and chromosomal rearrangements in Ku80-null mice relative to their wild-type littermates, which they attributed to an increase in homologous recombination repair of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs), arguing against the deleterious effect of Ku-deficiency in DNA repair. Finally, Park et al. (Park et al., 2004
) described a role for Ku in DNA replication following ionizing radiation-induced DNA damage, in which it stabilizes the association of PCNA with chromatin, independently of DNA-PK kinase activity.
From the data presented here and the published studies discussed, a model for Ku's role in initiation of DNA replication can be proposed: through its sequence-specific binding capacity, Ku recognizes and binds to origins of DNA replication, and unwinds them using its DNA helicase activity (Tuteja et al., 1990; Tuteja et al., 1994
), thus permitting recruitment of other DNA replication proteins to the origin. These proteins include Orc2, DNA polymerases
,
and
, PCNA, topoisomerase II, RFC and RPA (Matheos et al., 2002
). Alternatively, Ku may be necessary for stabilizing the interaction of DNA replication proteins with DNA (Park et al., 2004
), as has been proposed in the budding yeast (Shakibai et al., 1996
). The conservation of the DNA replication function of Ku through evolution, from the herpes simplex virus, to the yeast S. cerevisiae and to mammals, such as rodents and humans, infers its significance to cell survival.
This is the first study to show that decreased association of Ku in vivo with human replication origins correlates with a decreased frequency of initiation events at those origins. Further studies aiming to address the DNA replication function of Ku by purifying Ku-containing complexes, deciphering their contents and characterizing their DNA replication activities, will aid in the determination of the function of Ku in the process of initiation of DNA replication.
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