GTP signaling links metabolism, DNA repair, and responses to genotoxic stress
Document Type
Article
Abstract
How cell metabolism regulates DNA repair is incompletely understood. Here, we define a GTP-mediated signaling cascade that links metabolism to DNA repair and has significant therapeutic implications. GTP, but not other nucleotides, regulates the activity of Rac1, a G protein, that promotes the dephosphorylation of serine 323 on Abl-interactor 1 (Abi-1) by protein phosphatase 5 (PP5). Dephosphorylated Abi-1, a protein previously not known to activate DNA repair, promotes non-homologous end joining. In patients and mouse models of glioblastoma, Rac1 and dephosphorylated Abi-1 mediate DNA repair and resistance to standard of care genotoxic treatments. The GTP-Rac1-PP5-Abi-1 signaling axis is not limited to brain cancer, as GTP supplementation promotes DNA repair and Abi-1-S323 dephosphorylation in non-malignant cells and protects mouse tissues from genotoxic insult. This unexpected ability of GTP to regulate DNA repair independently of deoxynucleotide pools has important implications for normal physiology and cancer treatment.
Publication Date
4-13-2023
Publication Title
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology
PubMed ID
37090571
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1101/2023.04.12.536297
Recommended Citation
Zhou, Weihua; Zhao, Zitong; Lin, Angelica; Yang, John; Xu, Jie; Kari, Wilder-Romans; Yang, Annabel; Li, Jing; Solanki, Sumeet; Speth, Jennifer; Walker, Natalie; Scott, Andrew J.; Kothari, Ayesha U.; Yao, Yangyang; Peterson, Erik R.; Korimerla, Navyateja; Werner, Christian K.; Liang, Jessica; Jacobson, Janna; Palavalasa, Sravya; Obrien, Alexandra M.; Elaimy, Ameer L.; Ferris, Sean P.; Zhao, Shuang G.; Sarkaria, Jann N.; Győrffy, Balázs; Zhang, Shuqun; Al-Holou, Wajd N.; Umemura, Yoshie; Morgan, Meredith A.; Lawrence, Theodore S.; and Lyssiotis, Costas A., "GTP signaling links metabolism, DNA repair, and responses to genotoxic stress" (2023). Neurology. 1450.
https://scholar.barrowneuro.org/neurology/1450