Active DNA demethylation promotes cell fate specification and the DNA damage response

Neurons harbor high levels of single-strand DNA breaks (SSBs) that are targeted to neuronal enhancers, but the source of this endogenous damage remains unclear. Using two systems of postmitotic lineage specification-induced pluripotent stem cell-derived neurons and transdifferentiated macrophages-we show that thymidine DNA glycosylase (TDG)-driven excision of methylcytosines oxidized with ten-eleven translocation enzymes (TET) is a source of SSBs. Although macrophage differentiation favors short-patch base excision repair to fill in single-nucleotide gaps, neurons also frequently use the long-patch subpathway. Disrupting this gap-filling process using anti-neoplastic cytosine analogs triggers a DNA damage response and neuronal cell death, which is dependent on TDG. Thus, TET-mediated active DNA demethylation promotes endogenous DNA damage, a process that normally safeguards cell identity but can also provoke neurotoxicity after anticancer treatments.

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CommentIn: Science. 2022 Dec 2;378(6623):948-949. - PMID 36454845

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:378

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Science (New York, N.Y.) - 378(2022), 6623 vom: 02. Dez., Seite 983-989

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wang, Dongpeng [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Wei [VerfasserIn]
Callen, Elsa [VerfasserIn]
Pavani, Raphael [VerfasserIn]
Zolnerowich, Nicholas [VerfasserIn]
Kodali, Srikanth [VerfasserIn]
Zong, Dali [VerfasserIn]
Wong, Nancy [VerfasserIn]
Noriega, Santiago [VerfasserIn]
Nathan, William J [VerfasserIn]
Matos-Rodrigues, Gabriel [VerfasserIn]
Chari, Raj [VerfasserIn]
Kruhlak, Michael J [VerfasserIn]
Livak, Ferenc [VerfasserIn]
Ward, Michael [VerfasserIn]
Caldecott, Keith [VerfasserIn]
Di Stefano, Bruno [VerfasserIn]
Nussenzweig, André [VerfasserIn]

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5-Methylcytosine
6R795CQT4H
EC 3.2.2.-
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, N.I.H., Intramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Thymine DNA Glycosylase

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Date Completed 06.12.2022

Date Revised 19.09.2023

published: Print-Electronic

CommentIn: Science. 2022 Dec 2;378(6623):948-949. - PMID 36454845

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1126/science.add9838

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NLM349674647