Inactivation of Exonuclease 1 in mice results in DNA mismatch repair defects, increased cancer susceptibility, and male and female sterility
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- Candidate signal: noneConsensus signal: none
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- Candidate signal: ObservationalConsensus signal: Observational
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- Candidate signal: EmpiricalConsensus signal: Empirical
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- 0.069
- Threshold uncertainty score
- 0.625
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machine_predicted_unvalidated·codex-gemma-dda1882f352a
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- Teacher spread
- 0.249 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
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score_only:v0-immature-baseline· verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it
Abstract
Exonuclease 1 (Exo1) is a 5'-3' exonuclease that interacts with MutS and MutL homologs and has been implicated in the excision step of DNA mismatch repair. To investigate the role of Exo1 in mammalian mismatch repair and assess its importance for tumorigenesis and meiosis, we generated an Exo1 mutant mouse line. Analysis of Exo1(-/-) cells for mismatch repair activity in vitro showed that Exo1 is required for the repair of base:base and single-base insertion/deletion mismatches in both 5' and 3' nick-directed repair. The repair defect in Exo1(-/-) cells also caused elevated microsatellite instability at a mononucleotide repeat marker and a significant increase in mutation rate at the Hprt locus. Exo1(-/-) animals displayed reduced survival and increased susceptibility to the development of lymphomas. In addition, Exo1(-/-) male and female mice were sterile because of a meiotic defect. Meiosis in Exo1(-/-) animals proceeded through prophase I; however, the chromosomes exhibited dynamic loss of chiasmata during metaphase I, resulting in meiotic failure and apoptosis. Our results show that mammalian Exo1 functions in mutation avoidance and is essential for male and female meiosis.
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The record
- Venue
- Genes & Development
- Topic
- Genetic factors in colorectal cancer
- Field
- Medicine
- Canadian institutions
- not available
- Funders
- National Institute of General Medical SciencesNational Cancer InstituteNational Institutes of HealthYork University
- Keywords
- BiologyDNA mismatch repairDNA repairMeiosisBase excision repairMicrosatellite instabilityGeneticsChiasmaExonucleaseNucleotide excision repairPhenocopyMolecular biologyDNAMutantAlleleDNA polymeraseGene
- Has abstract in OpenAlex
- yes