Monoubiquitunated PCNA mediates recruitment of the translesion polymerase to the DNA damaged site

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R-GGA-353243
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Reaction [binding]
Species
Gallus gallus
Compartment
nucleoplasm
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5/5
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Monoubiquitunated PCNA mediates recruitment of the translesion polymerase to the DNA damaged site
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Proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) is a DNA polymerase cofactor and regulator of replication linked functions. Upon DNA damage, vertebrate PCNA is modified at the conserved K164 residue by ubiquitin. Ubiquitinated PCNA mediates error prone replication across lesions via recruitment of translesion polymerases. The PCNA (K164R) mutation not only renders cells sensitive to DNA damaging agents but also strongly reduces activation-induced deaminase(AID) dependent single nucleotide substitutions in the immunoglobulin light chain locus. Somatic hypermutation of Ig genes is initiated by transcription coupled cytidine deamination in the Ig loci. Rad6/Rad18 mediated ubiquitination of PCNA, thus, is a major regulatory point controlling the fidelity of DNA lesions for immunoglobulin hypermutation during the mutagenesis phase of secondary Ig diversification. Thus, an unanticipated role for Rad18, the major participant of error-free HR-mediated DNA repair; in regulating error-prone damage bypass has been identified.
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Bachl, J, Ertongur, I, Jungnickel, B

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2006
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Cancer Res 2005
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DNA Repair (Amst) 2006
12374756 RAD18 and RAD54 cooperatively contribute to maintenance of genomic stability in vertebrate cells

Yamashita, YM, Okada, T, Matsusaka, T, Sonoda, E, Zhao, GY, Araki, K, Tateishi, S, Yamaizumi, M, Takeda, S

EMBO J 2002
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Arakawa, H, Moldovan, GL, Saribasak, H, Saribasak, NN, Jentsch, S, Buerstedde, JM

PLoS Biol 2006
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monoubiquitinated PCNA [nucleoplasm] (Gallus gallus)
Authored
Saxena, A  (2008-07-07)
Reviewed
Borowiec, JA  (2009-04-24)
Created
Saxena, A  (2008-06-12)
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