REV3

Summary

Gene Symbol: REV3
Description: Rev3p
Alias: PSO1
Species:

Top Publications

  1. ncbi The RAD6 DNA damage tolerance pathway operates uncoupled from the replication fork and is functional beyond S phase
    Georgios I Karras
    Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Am Klopferspitz 18, 82152 Martinsried, Germany
    Cell 141:255-67. 2010
  2. ncbi Ubiquitin-dependent DNA damage bypass is separable from genome replication
    Yasukazu Daigaku
    Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, Clare Hall Laboratories, Blanche Lane, South Mimms EN6 3LD, UK
    Nature 465:951-5. 2010
  3. ncbi Control of spontaneous and damage-induced mutagenesis by SUMO and ubiquitin conjugation
    Philipp Stelter
    Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Karl von Frisch Strasse, 35043 Marburg, Germany
    Nature 425:188-91. 2003
  4. ncbi PCNA mono-ubiquitination and activation of translesion DNA polymerases by DNA polymerase {alpha}
    Motoshi Suzuki
    Center for Neurological Diseases and Cancer, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
    J Biochem 146:13-21. 2009
  5. ncbi Requirement of RAD52 group genes for postreplication repair of UV-damaged DNA in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    Venkateswarlu Gangavarapu
    University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, 301 University Blvd, Galveston, TX 77555 1061, USA
    Mol Cell Biol 27:7758-64. 2007
  6. ncbi The 9-1-1 checkpoint clamp physically interacts with polzeta and is partially required for spontaneous polzeta-dependent mutagenesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    Simone Sabbioneda
    Dipartimento di Scienze Biomolecolari e Biotecnologie, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy 20133
    J Biol Chem 280:38657-65. 2005
  7. ncbi Roles of RAD6 epistasis group members in spontaneous polzeta-dependent translesion synthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    Brenda K Minesinger
    Biochemistry, Cell and Developmental Biology Program of the Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
    Genetics 169:1939-55. 2005
  8. ncbi The relative roles in vivo of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Pol eta, Pol zeta, Rev1 protein and Pol32 in the bypass and mutation induction of an abasic site, T-T (6-4) photoadduct and T-T cis-syn cyclobutane dimer
    Peter E M Gibbs
    Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York 14642, USA
    Genetics 169:575-82. 2005
  9. ncbi A role for yeast and human translesion synthesis DNA polymerases in promoting replication through 3-methyl adenine
    Robert E Johnson
    Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, 301 University Blvd, Galveston, TX 77555 1061, USA
    Mol Cell Biol 27:7198-205. 2007
  10. ncbi The mismatch repair system promotes DNA polymerase zeta-dependent translesion synthesis in yeast
    Kevin Lehner
    Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:5749-54. 2009

Research Grants

  1. Etiology of Chromosome Translocations
    Sang Eun Lee; Fiscal Year: 2010
  2. Etiology of Chromosome Translocations
    Sang Eun Lee; Fiscal Year: 2009
  3. Suppression of translocations by RecQ-like DNA helicases
    KRISTINA HILDEGARD SCHMIDT; Fiscal Year: 2010
  4. Mechanisms of Error Prone Repair of DNA Breaks
    Sang Eun Lee; Fiscal Year: 2010
  5. Mechanisms of Error Prone Repair of DNA Breaks
    Sang Eun Lee; Fiscal Year: 2009
  6. Mechanisms of Error Prone Repair of DNA Breaks
    Sang Eun Lee; Fiscal Year: 2007
  7. Mechanisms of Nonhomologous Repair of Damaged DNA
    Sang Eun Lee; Fiscal Year: 2005
  8. Suppression of translocations by RecQ-like DNA helicases
    KRISTINA HILDEGARD SCHMIDT; Fiscal Year: 2010

Scientific Experts

  • W Xiao
  • Youri I Pavlov
  • Sang Eun Lee
  • Travis J O'Brien
  • KRISTINA HILDEGARD SCHMIDT
  • Marie Guillet
  • Takashi Hishida
  • Meng Er Huang
  • Motoshi Suzuki
  • Sue Jinks-Robertson
  • Jana E Stone
  • Brenda K Minesinger
  • Amy L Abdulovic
  • Nayun Kim
  • Paola Monti
  • Robert E Johnson
  • Landon Pastushok
  • Louise Prakash
  • Satya Prakash
  • Yasukazu Daigaku
  • Thomas A Kunkel
  • Michele Giannattasio
  • Bo Zhao
  • Zhongwen Xie
  • Lindsay G Ball
  • Agnieszka Halas
  • Helle D Ulrich
  • Dongyu Guo
  • Zhigang Wang
  • Nancy Lévesque
  • Georgios I Karras
  • Christopher D Putnam
  • Paola Menichini
  • Richard D Kolodner
  • Barry Gold
  • Gilberto Fronza
  • Alberto Inga
  • Kevin Lehner
  • Ellen S Kats
  • R E Johnson
  • Philippe Pasero
  • Yong Yang
  • Rachel L Erlich
  • Brian S Plosky
  • Grace E Kissling
  • Marco Muzi-Falconi
  • Ke Zhang
  • Peter M J Burgers
  • Paolo Plevani
  • Ewa Sledziewska-Gojska
  • Agnieszka Podlaska
  • Venkateswarlu Gangavarapu
  • Kihoon Lee
  • Ayako N Sakamoto
  • Sonja Flott
  • Kingo Endo
  • Phuoc T Tran
  • Chunyan Liao
  • Roger Woodgate
  • Kristina Herzberg
  • Hengshan Zhang
  • Justyna McIntyre
  • Matthew R Northam
  • Yukinori Hirano
  • Clark C Chen
  • Leslie Barbour
  • Narottam Acharya
  • Sung Lim Yu
  • Sung-Lim Yu
  • Peter E M Gibbs
  • Simone Sabbioneda
  • I V Fedorova
  • K Anke Schürer
  • Luis Pessoa-Brandao
  • Huiyun Shen
  • Philipp Stelter
  • Natalie J Morey
  • C A Hendricks
  • Stacey Broomfield
  • K F Grossmann
  • D Guo
  • P Cejka
  • P T Tran
  • Andrei Chabes
  • Peter M Burgers
  • Shigenori Iwai
  • Aki Inase
  • Christopher Broxson
  • Dinesh Kumar
  • Sara K Binz

Detail Information

Publications81

  1. ncbi The RAD6 DNA damage tolerance pathway operates uncoupled from the replication fork and is functional beyond S phase
    Georgios I Karras
    Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Am Klopferspitz 18, 82152 Martinsried, Germany
    Cell 141:255-67. 2010
    ..We therefore propose that the RAD6 pathway acts on single-stranded gaps left behind newly restarted replication forks...
  2. ncbi Ubiquitin-dependent DNA damage bypass is separable from genome replication
    Yasukazu Daigaku
    Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, Clare Hall Laboratories, Blanche Lane, South Mimms EN6 3LD, UK
    Nature 465:951-5. 2010
    ..Our approach has revealed the distribution of PRR tracts in a synchronized cell population. It will allow an in-depth mechanistic analysis of how cells manage the processing of lesions to their genomes during and after replication...
  3. ncbi Control of spontaneous and damage-induced mutagenesis by SUMO and ubiquitin conjugation
    Philipp Stelter
    Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Karl von Frisch Strasse, 35043 Marburg, Germany
    Nature 425:188-91. 2003
    ..Our findings assign a function to SUMO during S phase and demonstrate how ubiquitin and SUMO, by regulating the accuracy of replication and repair, contribute to overall genomic stability...
  4. ncbi PCNA mono-ubiquitination and activation of translesion DNA polymerases by DNA polymerase {alpha}
    Motoshi Suzuki
    Center for Neurological Diseases and Cancer, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
    J Biochem 146:13-21. 2009
    ..These data suggest that nucleotide misincorporation by pol alpha induces exposure of single-stranded DNA, PCNA mono-ubiquitination and activates TLS pols...
  5. ncbi Requirement of RAD52 group genes for postreplication repair of UV-damaged DNA in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    Venkateswarlu Gangavarapu
    University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, 301 University Blvd, Galveston, TX 77555 1061, USA
    Mol Cell Biol 27:7758-64. 2007
    ..In addition, our results suggest a role for the Rad50 and Xrs2 proteins and thereby for the MRX complex in promoting PRR via both the Rad5 and Rad52 pathways...
  6. ncbi The 9-1-1 checkpoint clamp physically interacts with polzeta and is partially required for spontaneous polzeta-dependent mutagenesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    Simone Sabbioneda
    Dipartimento di Scienze Biomolecolari e Biotecnologie, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy 20133
    J Biol Chem 280:38657-65. 2005
    ..These results suggest that, in addition to its checkpoint signaling role, the 9-1-1 clamp may physically regulate Polzeta-dependent mutagenesis by controlling the access of Polzeta to damaged DNA...
  7. ncbi Roles of RAD6 epistasis group members in spontaneous polzeta-dependent translesion synthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    Brenda K Minesinger
    Biochemistry, Cell and Developmental Biology Program of the Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
    Genetics 169:1939-55. 2005
    ..A third error-free pathway relies on the presence of Mms2, but may not require PCNA...
  8. ncbi The relative roles in vivo of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Pol eta, Pol zeta, Rev1 protein and Pol32 in the bypass and mutation induction of an abasic site, T-T (6-4) photoadduct and T-T cis-syn cyclobutane dimer
    Peter E M Gibbs
    Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York 14642, USA
    Genetics 169:575-82. 2005
    ..an abasic site, T-T (6-4) photoadduct and T-T cis-syn cyclobutane dimer, by transforming strains deleted for RAD30, REV3, REV1, or POL32 with duplex plasmids carrying one of these DNA lesions located within a 28-nucleotide single-..
  9. ncbi A role for yeast and human translesion synthesis DNA polymerases in promoting replication through 3-methyl adenine
    Robert E Johnson
    Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, 301 University Blvd, Galveston, TX 77555 1061, USA
    Mol Cell Biol 27:7198-205. 2007
    ..We discuss these results in the context of previous observations that have been made for the roles of Pols eta, iota, and kappa in promoting replication through the minor-groove N2-dG adducts...
  10. ncbi The mismatch repair system promotes DNA polymerase zeta-dependent translesion synthesis in yeast
    Kevin Lehner
    Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:5749-54. 2009
    ..Finally, in contrast to its ability to remove mistakes made by replicative DNA polymerases, we show that MMR fails to efficiently correct errors introduced by Polzeta...
  11. ncbi Role of DNA polymerase eta in the bypass of abasic sites in yeast cells
    Bo Zhao
    Graduate Center for Toxicology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
    Nucleic Acids Res 32:3984-94. 2004
    ..In cells lacking Poleta (rad30), Rev1, Polzeta (rev3), and both Poleta and Polzeta, translesion synthesis was reduced to 30%, 30%, 15% and 3% of the wild-type level, ..
  12. ncbi The yeast Shu complex couples error-free post-replication repair to homologous recombination
    Lindsay G Ball
    Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada S7N 5E5
    Mol Microbiol 73:89-102. 2009
    ..This mechanism appears to be conserved throughout eukaryotes...
  13. ncbi The effect of oxidative metabolism on spontaneous Pol zeta-dependent translesion synthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    Brenda K Minesinger
    Biochemistry, Cell and Developmental Biology Program of the Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
    DNA Repair (Amst) 5:226-34. 2006
    ..These results suggest that translesion bypass of spontaneously oxidized DNA bases can be a significant source of mutagenesis in repair compromised cells...
  14. ncbi Hypermutability of damaged single-strand DNA formed at double-strand breaks and uncapped telomeres in yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    Yong Yang
    Department of Health and Human Services, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America
    PLoS Genet 4:e1000264. 2008
    ..Hypermutability and multiple mutations associated with lesions in transient stretches of long single-strand DNA may be a source of carcinogenesis and provide selective advantage in adaptive evolution...
  15. ncbi Identification of a strand-related bias in the PCNA-mediated bypass of spontaneous lesions by yeast Poleta
    Amy L Abdulovic
    Graduate Program in Biochemistry, Cell and Developmental Biology Program, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, United States
    DNA Repair (Amst) 6:1307-18. 2007
    ..Our results suggest that there is a polymerase hierarchy between Poleta and Polzeta in the bypass of certain lesions and that the interaction of Poleta with PCNA is needed for some, but not all, spontaneous lesion bypass...
  16. ncbi Mutator alleles of yeast DNA polymerase zeta
    Ayako N Sakamoto
    Research Group for Gene Resources, Department of Ion Beam Applied Biology, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Watanuki machi 1233, Takasaki, Gunma 370 1292, Japan
    DNA Repair (Amst) 6:1829-38. 2007
    The yeast REV3 gene encodes the catalytic subunit of DNA polymerase zeta (pol zeta), a B family polymerase that performs mutagenic DNA synthesis in cells...
  17. ncbi DNA damage checkpoints are involved in postreplication repair
    Leslie Barbour
    Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5E5, Canada
    Genetics 174:1789-800. 2006
    ..variant, belongs to the error-free branch of the RAD6 postreplication repair (PRR) pathway, and is parallel to the REV3-mediated mutagenesis branch...
  18. ncbi Complex formation with Rev1 enhances the proficiency of Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA polymerase zeta for mismatch extension and for extension opposite from DNA lesions
    Narottam Acharya
    Sealy Center for Molecular Science, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX 77555 1061, USA
    Mol Cell Biol 26:9555-63. 2006
    Rev1, a Y family DNA polymerase (Pol) functions together with Polzeta, a B family Pol comprised of the Rev3 catalytic subunit and Rev7 accessory subunit, in promoting translesion DNA synthesis (TLS)...
  19. ncbi Genetic analysis of ionizing radiation-induced mutagenesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae reveals TransLesion Synthesis (TLS) independent of PCNA K164 SUMOylation and ubiquitination
    Clark C Chen
    Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit St, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    DNA Repair (Amst) 5:1475-88. 2006
    ..Of the mutations inactivating TLS polymerases, rev3 and rev1 caused equally severe defects in IR-IM whereas rad30 did not significantly affect the process...
  20. ncbi Functional and physical interaction of yeast Mgs1 with PCNA: impact on RAD6-dependent DNA damage tolerance
    Takashi Hishida
    Genome Dynamics Group, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Yamadaoka 3 1, Suita, Osaka 565 0871, Japan
    Mol Cell Biol 26:5509-17. 2006
    ..The proposed roles for Mgs1, Srs2, and modified PCNA during replication arrest highlight the importance of modulating the RAD6 and RAD52 pathways to avoid genome instability...
  21. ncbi The Saccharomyces cerevisiae Rad6 postreplication repair and Siz1/Srs2 homologous recombination-inhibiting pathways process DNA damage that arises in asf1 mutants
    Ellen S Kats
    Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Departments of Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Medicine, and Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, UC San Diego School of Medicine, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093 0669, USA
    Mol Cell Biol 29:5226-37. 2009
    ..Our results show that ASF1 probably contributes to the maintenance of genome stability through multiple mechanisms, some of which involve the PRR and HRS pathways...
  22. ncbi Anc1, a protein associated with multiple transcription complexes, is involved in postreplication repair pathway in S. cerevisiae
    Rachel L Erlich
    Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
    PLoS ONE 3:e3717. 2008
    ..Anc1's role in the PRR pathway, as well as its role in suppressing triplet repeats, point to a possible mechanism for a protein of potential medical interest...
  23. ncbi Identification of APN2, the Saccharomyces cerevisiae homolog of the major human AP endonuclease HAP1, and its role in the repair of abasic sites
    R E Johnson
    Sealy Center for Molecular Science, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas 77555 1061, USA
    Genes Dev 12:3137-43. 1998
    ..apn1Delta apn2Delta strain displays a highly elevated level of MMS-induced mutagenesis, which is dependent on the REV3, REV7, and REV1 genes...
  24. ncbi Yeast DNA polymerase zeta (zeta) is essential for error-free replication past thymine glycol
    Robert E Johnson
    Sealy Center for Molecular Science, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas 77555 1061, USA
    Genes Dev 17:77-87. 2003
    ..Intriguingly, however, disruption of the REV3 gene, which encodes the catalytic subunit of Polzeta, causes early embryonic lethality in mice...
  25. ncbi Suppression of genetic defects within the RAD6 pathway by srs2 is specific for error-free post-replication repair but not for damage-induced mutagenesis
    Stacey Broomfield
    Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Saskatchewan, 107 Wiggins Road, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5E5, Canada
    Nucleic Acids Res 30:732-9. 2002
    ..rather independent subpathways: two error-free (represented by RAD5 and POL30) and one error-prone (represented by REV3)...
  26. ncbi Translesion synthesis by yeast DNA polymerase zeta from templates containing lesions of ultraviolet radiation and acetylaminofluorene
    D Guo
    Graduate Center for Toxicology, 306 Health Sciences Research Building, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
    Nucleic Acids Res 29:2875-83. 2001
    ..Secondly, more efficient bypass of these lesions may require nucleotide incorporation by other DNA polymerases followed by extension DNA synthesis by Polzeta...
  27. ncbi Role of DNA polymerase zeta in the bypass of a (6-4) TT photoproduct
    R E Johnson
    Sealy Center for Molecular Science, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas 77555 1061, USA
    Mol Cell Biol 21:3558-63. 2001
    ....
  28. ncbi The Saccharomyces cerevisiae RAD6 group is composed of an error-prone and two error-free postreplication repair pathways
    W Xiao
    Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7N 5E5 Canada
    Genetics 155:1633-41. 2000
    ..can be exclusively divided into three rather than two independent subpathways represented by the RAD5, POL30, and REV3 genes; the REV3 pathway is largely mutagenic, whereas the RAD5 and the POL30 pathways are deemed error free...
  29. ncbi Genetic interactions between error-prone and error-free postreplication repair pathways in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    W Xiao
    Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
    Mutat Res 435:1-11. 1999
    ..In addition, mutagenenic effects and genetic interactions of the mms2 mutator and rev3 anti-mutator were examined with respect to forward mutations, frameshift reversions as well as amber and ochre ..
  30. ncbi MMS2, encoding a ubiquitin-conjugating-enzyme-like protein, is a member of the yeast error-free postreplication repair pathway
    S Broomfield
    Department of Microbiology, University of Saskatchewan, 107 Wiggins Road, Saskatoon, SK Canada S7N 5E5
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 95:5678-83. 1998
    ..The rad6 and rad18 mutants are defective in both pathways, and the rev3 mutant affects only the mutagenesis pathway, but a yeast gene that is involved only in error-free postreplication ..
  31. ncbi The Saccharomyces cerevisiae RAD30 gene, a homologue of Escherichia coli dinB and umuC, is DNA damage inducible and functions in a novel error-free postreplication repair mechanism
    J P McDonald
    Section on DNA Replication, Repair and Mutagenesis, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 2725, USA
    Genetics 147:1557-68. 1997
    ..While rad6 and rad18 are both epistatic to rad30, no epistasis was observed with rev1, rev3, rev7 or rad5, all of which are members of the RAD6 epistasis group...
  32. ncbi Thymine-thymine dimer bypass by yeast DNA polymerase zeta
    J R Nelson
    Department of Biophysics, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester Medical Center, New York 14642, USA
    Science 272:1646-9. 1996
    The REV3 and REV7 genes of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae are required for DNA damage-induced mutagenesis. The Rev3 and Rev7 proteins were shown to form a complex with DNA polymerase activity...
  33. ncbi Specificity of the yeast rev3 delta antimutator and REV3 dependency of the mutator resulting from a defect (rad1 delta) in nucleotide excision repair
    H Roche
    Department of Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
    Genetics 137:637-46. 1994
    The yeast REV3 gene has been predicted to encode a DNA polymerase specializing in translesion synthesis. This polymerase likely participates in spontaneous mutagenesis, as rev3 mutants have an antimutator phenotype...
  34. ncbi In vivo consequences of putative active site mutations in yeast DNA polymerases alpha, epsilon, delta, and zeta
    Y I Pavlov
    Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA
    Genetics 159:47-64. 2001
    ..Strains with same substitution in Rev3, the catalytic subunit of Pol zeta, are nearly UV immutable, suggesting severe loss of function...
  35. ncbi Dissection of the functions of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae RAD6 postreplicative repair group in mutagenesis and UV sensitivity
    P Cejka
    Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Charles University, 128 44 Prague, Czech Republic
    Genetics 159:953-63. 2001
    ..of strains expressing various alleles of the RAD6 gene and single and multiple mutants of the RAD6, RAD5, RAD18, REV3, and MMS2 genes from the RAD6 repair group...
  36. ncbi Deletion of the MAG1 DNA glycosylase gene suppresses alkylation-induced killing and mutagenesis in yeast cells lacking AP endonucleases
    W Xiao
    Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada S7N 5E5
    Mutat Res 487:137-47. 2001
    ..These results allow us to delineate base lesion flow within the BER pathway and link AP sites to other DNA damage repair and tolerance pathways...
  37. ncbi The in vivo characterization of translesion synthesis across UV-induced lesions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: insights into Pol zeta- and Pol eta-dependent frameshift mutagenesis
    Amy L Abdulovic
    Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
    Genetics 172:1487-98. 2006
    ..Finally, the examination of frameshift reversion spectra indicates a hierarchy between Pol eta and Pol zeta with respect to the bypass of UV-induced lesions...
  38. ncbi A novel function of DNA polymerase zeta regulated by PCNA
    Matthew R Northam
    Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198, USA
    EMBO J 25:4316-25. 2006
    ....
  39. ncbi Pol32, a subunit of Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA polymerase delta, suppresses genomic deletions and is involved in the mutagenic bypass pathway
    Meng Er Huang
    UMR6061 CNRS, Genetique et Developpement, Faculte de Medecine, 35043 Rennes, France
    Genetics 160:1409-22. 2002
    ..Here, by measuring the CAN1 forward mutation rate, we found that either POL32 or REV3 (which encodes the Pol zeta catalytic subunit) inactivation produces overlapping antimutator effects against rad ..
  40. ncbi UBC13, a DNA-damage-inducible gene, is a member of the error-free postreplication repair pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    J Brusky
    Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
    Curr Genet 37:168-74. 2000
    ..We also found that ubc13 is synergistic to the error-prone PRR pathway mutation rev3, indicating that UBC13 is in a pathway alternative to REV3 mutagenesis...
  41. ncbi DNA polymerase zeta is essential for hexavalent chromium-induced mutagenesis
    Travis J O'Brien
    Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20037, USA
    Mutat Res 663:77-83. 2009
    ..Wild-type yeast and strains deficient in TLS polymerases (i.e. Polzeta (rev3), Poleta (rad30)) were exposed to Cr(VI) and monitored for cell survival and forward mutagenesis at the CAN1 locus...
  42. ncbi dUTP incorporation into genomic DNA is linked to transcription in yeast
    Nayun Kim
    Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
    Nature 459:1150-3. 2009
    ..These results show an unexpected relationship between transcription and the fidelity of DNA synthesis, and raise intriguing cell biological issues with regard to nucleotide pool compartmentalization...
  43. ncbi Constitutive fusion of ubiquitin to PCNA provides DNA damage tolerance independent of translesion polymerase activities
    Landon Pastushok
    Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
    Nucleic Acids Res 38:5047-58. 2010
    ..Ub cause elevated spontaneous mutagenesis, which is a defining characteristic of REV3-dependent TLS activity...
  44. ncbi Defects in DNA lesion bypass lead to spontaneous chromosomal rearrangements and increased cell death
    Kristina H Schmidt
    Department of Cell Biology, Microbiology and Molecular Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
    Eukaryot Cell 9:315-24. 2010
    b>Rev3 polymerase and Mph1 DNA helicase participate in error-prone and error-free pathways, respectively, for the bypassing of template lesions during DNA replication...
  45. ncbi Lesion bypass by S. cerevisiae Pol ? alone
    Jana E Stone
    Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Laboratory of Structural Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, DHHS, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
    DNA Repair (Amst) 10:826-34. 2011
    ..The results are consistent with the hypothesis that, in addition to extending aberrant termini created by other DNA polymerases, Pol ? has the potential to be the sole DNA polymerase involved in TLS...
  46. ncbi Exo1 competes with repair synthesis, converts NER intermediates to long ssDNA gaps, and promotes checkpoint activation
    Michele Giannattasio
    Dipartimento di Scienze Biomolecolari e Biotecnologie, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Milano, 20133, Italy
    Mol Cell 40:50-62. 2010
    ..Our work has significant implications for understanding the coordination between repair of DNA lesions and checkpoint pathways to preserve genome stability...
  47. ncbi Loss of H3 K79 trimethylation leads to suppression of Rtt107-dependent DNA damage sensitivity through the translesion synthesis pathway
    Nancy Lévesque
    Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, Child and Family Research Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia V5Z 4H4, Canada
    J Biol Chem 285:35113-22. 2010
    ..These data revealed a multifaceted functional relationship between Rtt107 and Dot1 in the DNA damage response and maintenance of genome integrity...
  48. ncbi Two Mms2 residues cooperatively interact with ubiquitin and are critical for Lys63 polyubiquitination in vitro and in vivo
    Landon Pastushok
    Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
    FEBS Lett 581:5343-8. 2007
    ..Taken together, this study identifies key residues of the Mms2-Ub interface and provides direct experimental evidence that Mms2 physical association with Ub is correlated with its ability to promote Lys63-linked Ub chain assembly...
  49. ncbi Post-replication repair suppresses duplication-mediated genome instability
    Christopher D Putnam
    Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California, United States of America
    PLoS Genet 6:e1000933. 2010
    ..Our analysis is consistent with models in which PRR prevents replication damage from becoming double strand breaks (DSBs) and/or regulates the activity of HR on DSBs...
  50. ncbi Low-fidelity DNA synthesis by the L979F mutator derivative of Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA polymerase zeta
    Jana E Stone
    Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Research, NIH, DHHS, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
    Nucleic Acids Res 37:3774-87. 2009
    ..Saccharomyces cerevisiae Pol zeta in which phenyalanine was substituted for the conserved Leu-979 in the catalytic (Rev3) subunit...
  51. ncbi Abasic sites in the transcribed strand of yeast DNA are removed by transcription-coupled nucleotide excision repair
    Nayun Kim
    Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 2771, USA
    Mol Cell Biol 30:3206-15. 2010
    ..Such transcription-coupled NER of AP sites may explain previously suggested links between the BER pathway and transcription...
  52. ncbi 3-Methyl-3-deazaadenine, a stable isostere of N3-methyl-adenine, is efficiently bypassed by replication in vivo and by transcription in vitro
    Paola Monti
    Molecular Mutagenesis and DNA Repair Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, National Cancer Research Institute IST, 16132 Genova, Italy
    DNA Repair (Amst) 10:861-8. 2011
    ..We conclude that, in these experimental systems, 3-m-c(3)A is efficiently bypassed by replication in vivo and by transcription in vitro...
  53. ncbi Error-free RAD52 pathway and error-prone REV3 pathway determines spontaneous mutagenesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    Kingo Endo
    Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
    Genes Genet Syst 82:35-42. 2007
    ..gene in haploid cells or heterozygous diploid cells, we characterized the effects of mutations in the RAD52 and REV3 genes of Saccharomyces cerevisiae in spontaneous mutagenesis...
  54. ncbi Effects of hexavalent chromium on the survival and cell cycle distribution of DNA repair-deficient S. cerevisiae
    Travis J O'Brien
    Molecular and Cellular Oncology Program, Department of Pharmacology, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20037, USA
    DNA Repair (Amst) 1:617-27. 2002
    ..Wild-type, translesion synthesis (rev3) and excision repair (apn1, ntg1, ntg2, rad1) mutants exhibited similar survival following Cr(VI) treatment (0-50mM)..
  55. ncbi S. cerevisiae has three pathways for DNA interstrand crosslink repair
    K F Grossmann
    Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics, Oregon Health Sciences University, Mail Code L103, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, OR 97201, USA
    Mutat Res 487:73-83. 2001
    Yeast mutants, snm1 (pso2-1), rev3 (pso1-1), and rad51, which display significant sensitivity to interstrand crosslinks (ICLs) have low relative sensitivity to other DNA damaging agents...
  56. ncbi Phosphorylation of Rad55 on serines 2, 8, and 14 is required for efficient homologous recombination in the recovery of stalled replication forks
    Kristina Herzberg
    Section of Microbiology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616 8665, USA
    Mol Cell Biol 26:8396-409. 2006
    ..These results suggest that Rad55-S2,8,14 phosphorylation activates recombinational repair, allowing for faster recovery after genotoxic stress...
  57. ncbi Genomic screening in vivo reveals the role played by vacuolar H+ ATPase and cytosolic acidification in sensitivity to DNA-damaging agents such as cisplatin
    Chunyan Liao
    Pharmaceutical Science Research Division, King s College London, Franklin Wilkins Building, 150 Stamford Street, London SE1 9NH, UK
    Mol Pharmacol 71:416-25. 2007
    ..The increased loss in cell viability induced by cisplatin at lower pH in V-ATPase mutants supports this hypothesis. The loss in viability seen in wild-type cells under the same conditions was far less dramatic...
  58. ncbi CDC7/DBF4 functions in the translesion synthesis branch of the RAD6 epistasis group in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    Luis Pessoa-Brandao
    Molecular Biology Program, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado 80262, USA
    Genetics 167:1597-610. 2004
    ..Several genes have been determined to function in separate branches within this group, including RAD5, REV3/REV7 (Pol zeta), RAD30 (Pol eta), and POL30 (PCNA)...
  59. ncbi Saccharomyces cerevisiae Sae2- and Tel1-dependent single-strand DNA formation at DNA break promotes microhomology-mediated end joining
    Kihoon Lee
    Department of Molecular Medicine and Institute of Biotechnology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 15355 Lambda Drive, San Antonio, TX 78245, USA
    Genetics 176:2003-14. 2007
    ..3' flap removal by Rad1/Rad10, Nej1, and DNA synthesis by multiple polymerases including Pol4, Rad30, Rev3, and Pol32. The mismatch repair proteins, Rad52 group genes, and Rad27 are dispensable for MMEJ...
  60. ncbi Delineating the requirements for spontaneous DNA damage resistance pathways in genome maintenance and viability in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    Natalie J Morey
    Department of Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
    Genetics 164:443-55. 2003
    ..In diploids, the presence of PRR alone may confer a lethal mutation load or, alternatively, PRR alone may be insufficient to deal with potentially lethal, replication-blocking lesions...
  61. ncbi Saccharomyces cerevisiae polymerase zeta functions in mitochondria
    Hengshan Zhang
    Department of Cancer Genetics, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York 14263, USA
    Genetics 172:2683-8. 2006
    ..Supporting this evidence, both polymerase zeta and Rev1p were found to be localized in the mitochondria. This is the first report demonstrating that the DNA polymerase zeta and Rev1 proteins function in the mitochondria...
  62. ncbi The S. cerevisiae Mag1 3-methyladenine DNA glycosylase modulates susceptibility to homologous recombination
    C A Hendricks
    Division of Bioengineering and Environmental Health, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
    DNA Repair (Amst) 1:645-59. 2002
    ..Disruption of REV3 (required for polymerase zeta (Pol zeta)) in mag1 rad4 cells causes increased susceptibility to methylation-induced ..
  63. ncbi Interactions between mutations for sensitivity to psoralen photoaddition (pso) and to radiation (rad) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    J A Henriques
    J Bacteriol 148:248-56. 1981
    ..photoaddition, which induces both deoxyribonucleic acid interstrand cross-links and monoadditions, the pso1 mutation is epistatic to the rad6, rad52, and pso2 mutations, whereas it is synergistic to rad3...
  64. ncbi A mutation in EXO1 defines separable roles in DNA mismatch repair and post-replication repair
    Phuoc T Tran
    Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
    DNA Repair (Amst) 6:1572-83. 2007
    ..Lastly, by using a compound exo1 mutant that was defective for interaction with Mlh1p and deficient for nuclease activity, we provide further evidence that Exo1p plays both structural and catalytic roles during MMR...
  65. ncbi Interactions of Exo1p with components of MutLalpha in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    P T Tran
    Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland 97201, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 98:9760-5. 2001
    ..Finally, our results show that much of the increase in spontaneous mutation observed in an exo1Delta strain is REV3-dependent, in turn suggesting that Exo1p is also involved in one or more MMR-independent mutation avoidance pathways...
  66. ncbi Overlapping specificities of base excision repair, nucleotide excision repair, recombination, and translesion synthesis pathways for DNA base damage in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    R L Swanson
    Departments of Biochemistry, Department of Radiation Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
    Mol Cell Biol 19:2929-35. 1999
    ..cerevisiae. In addition, the fact that these responses to induced and spontaneous damage depend upon the simultaneous loss of Ntg1p, Ntg2p, and Apn1p suggests a physiological role for the AP lyase activity of Ntg1p and Ntg2p in vivo...
  67. ncbi Eukaryotic DNA polymerases in DNA replication and DNA repair
    P M Burgers
    Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
    Chromosoma 107:218-27. 1998
    ..The role of DNA polymerase beta in base-excision repair is well established for mammalian systems, but in yeast, DNA polymerase delta appears to fulfill that function...
  68. ncbi Mutagenesis of benzo[a]pyrene diol epoxide in yeast: requirement for DNA polymerase zeta and involvement of DNA polymerase eta
    Zhongwen Xie
    Graduate Center for Toxicology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40536, USA
    Biochemistry 42:11253-62. 2003
    ..In rev3 mutant cells lacking Pol(zeta), (+/-)-anti-BPDE-induced mutagenesis was mostly abolished, leading to a great ..
  69. ncbi Translesion synthesis of acetylaminofluorene-dG adducts by DNA polymerase zeta is stimulated by yeast Rev1 protein
    Dongyu Guo
    Graduate Center for Toxicology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
    Nucleic Acids Res 32:1122-30. 2004
    ..Consistent with the in vitro results, both Polzeta and Rev1 were found to be equally important for error-prone translesion synthesis across from AAF-dG DNA adducts in yeast cells...
  70. ncbi Phosphorylation of Slx4 by Mec1 and Tel1 regulates the single-strand annealing mode of DNA repair in budding yeast
    Sonja Flott
    MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit, James Black Centre, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 5EH, United Kingdom
    Mol Cell Biol 27:6433-45. 2007
    ..These results indicate that Slx4 has multiple functions in responding to DNA damage and that a subset of these are regulated by Mec1/Tel1-dependent phosphorylation...
  71. ncbi ATR homolog Mec1 controls association of DNA polymerase zeta-Rev1 complex with regions near a double-strand break
    Yukinori Hirano
    Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey 07103, USA
    Curr Biol 16:586-90. 2006
    ..Polzeta consists of two subunits, one encoded by REV3 (the catalytic subunit) and the other encoded by REV7...
  72. ncbi Rev1 and Polzeta influence toxicity and mutagenicity of Me-lex, a sequence selective N3-adenine methylating agent
    Paola Monti
    Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, National Cancer Research Institute IST, L go R Benzi, 10, 16132 Genova, Italy
    DNA Repair (Amst) 7:431-8. 2008
    ..the contribution of translesion synthesis (TLS) DNA polymerases in the bypass of Me-lex-induced lesions, the REV3 and REV1 genes were independently deleted in the parental yeast strain and in different DNA repair-deficient ..
  73. ncbi Analysis of the spontaneous mutator phenotype associated with 20S proteasome deficiency in S. cerevisiae
    Justyna McIntyre
    Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02 106 Warsaw, Poland
    Mutat Res 593:153-63. 2006
    ..Taken together, our findings strongly support the idea that proteolytic activity is involved in modulating the balance between TLS mechanisms functioning during DNA replication in S. cerevisiae...
  74. ncbi Evaluation of the roles of Pol zeta and NHEJ in starvation-associated spontaneous mutagenesis in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    Agnieszka Halas
    Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
    Curr Genet 55:245-51. 2009
    ..in starvation-associated spontaneous base substitutions and frameshifts, using yeast mutants carrying deletions of REV3 (encoding the catalytic subunit of Pol zeta), YKU80 (encoding a protein involved in the initiation of NHEJ), or ..
  75. ncbi Requirement of HSM3 gene for spontaneous mutagenesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    I V Fedorova
    Laboratory of Eucaryote Genetics, Division of Molecular and Radiation Biophysics, Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, RAS, Orlova Roscha, Gatchina 188350, Leningrad District, Russia
    Mutat Res 554:67-75. 2004
    ..mutants was observed in slowly dividing cells in the rad1, rad2, rad14, rad54, and pms1, but it was absent in the rev3, pol2 and pol3 mutants...
  76. ncbi Yeast MPH1 gene functions in an error-free DNA damage bypass pathway that requires genes from Homologous recombination, but not from postreplicative repair
    K Anke Schürer
    Department of Molecular Genetics and Preparative Molecular Biology, Institute for Microbiology and Genetics, University of Gottingen, D 37077 Gottingen, Germany
    Genetics 166:1673-86. 2004
    ..The dependence of the mph1 mutator phenotype on REV3 and REV1 and the synergy with mutations in base and nucleotide excision repair suggest an involvement of MPH1 in ..
  77. ncbi Eukaryotic Y-family polymerases bypass a 3-methyl-2'-deoxyadenosine analog in vitro and methyl methanesulfonate-induced DNA damage in vivo
    Brian S Plosky
    Laboratory of Genomic Integrity, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 3371, USA
    Nucleic Acids Res 36:2152-62. 2008
    ..contributes to the survival of cells exposed to methyl methanesulfonate (MMS) and in the absence of Mag1, Rad30 and Rev3, human polymerases eta, iota and kappa are capable of restoring MMS-resistance to the normally MMS-sensitive strain.
  78. ncbi dUTPase activity is critical to maintain genetic stability in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    Marie Guillet
    CEA, DSV Département de Radiobiologie et Radiopathologie, UMR 217 CNRS Radiobiologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, BP 6, 92265 Fontenay aux Roses, France
    Nucleic Acids Res 34:2056-66. 2006
    ..the dut1-1 strain mutation spectrum showed that cytosines are preferentially incorporated in front of AP sites in a Rev3-dependent manner during translesion synthesis...
  79. ncbi MPH1, a yeast gene encoding a DEAH protein, plays a role in protection of the genome from spontaneous and chemically induced damage
    J Scheller
    Abteilung Molekulare Genetik und Präparative Molekularbiologie, Institut fur Mikrobiologie und Genetik, Georg August Universitat Gottingen, 37077 Gottingen, Germany
    Genetics 155:1069-81. 2000
    ..The mutator phenotype was dependent on REV3 and RAD6. The mutant was sensitive to MMS, EMS, 4-NQO, and camptothecin, but not to UV light and X rays...
  80. ncbi Role of Saccharomyces cerevisiae chromatin assembly factor-I in repair of ultraviolet radiation damage in vivo
    J C Game
    Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
    Genetics 151:485-97. 1999
    ..We find an increased loss of telomeric gene silencing in rad6Delta cac1Delta and rad18Delta cac1Delta double mutants, suggesting that CAF-I and multiple factors in the postreplicative repair pathway influence chromosome structure...

Research Grants17

  1. Etiology of Chromosome Translocations
    Sang Eun Lee; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ..This application will identify and characterize damage- surveillance and other mechanisms that suppress chromosome translocation to understand the defects in blood cancers and develop novel preventive and/or therapeutic strategies. ..
  2. Etiology of Chromosome Translocations
    Sang Eun Lee; Fiscal Year: 2009
    ..This application will identify and characterize damage- surveillance and other mechanisms that suppress chromosome translocation to understand the defects in blood cancers and develop novel preventive and/or therapeutic strategies. ..
  3. Suppression of translocations by RecQ-like DNA helicases
    KRISTINA HILDEGARD SCHMIDT; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ....
  4. Mechanisms of Error Prone Repair of DNA Breaks
    Sang Eun Lee; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ..The information gleaned from the proposal will also provide a logical framework as to how cells tolerate cancer therapeutic agent-induced DNA lesions and shed lights on the prevention and improved therapeutic intervention of cancers. ..
  5. Mechanisms of Error Prone Repair of DNA Breaks
    Sang Eun Lee; Fiscal Year: 2009
    ..The information gleaned from the proposal will also provide a logical framework as to how cells tolerate cancer therapeutic agent-induced DNA lesions and shed lights on the prevention and improved therapeutic intervention of cancers. ..
  6. Mechanisms of Error Prone Repair of DNA Breaks
    Sang Eun Lee; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..Since the components of DSB repair are conserved from yeast to humans, the insights garnered from our research will be valuable for dissecting the equivalent process in human cells and will be of relevance to public health. ..
  7. Mechanisms of Nonhomologous Repair of Damaged DNA
    Sang Eun Lee; Fiscal Year: 2005
    ..Furthermore, since DSB repair by NHEJ is remarkably conserved from yeast to humans, these studies will help to dissect the similar pathways in humans. ..
  8. Suppression of translocations by RecQ-like DNA helicases
    KRISTINA HILDEGARD SCHMIDT; Fiscal Year: 2010
    ....