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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-29629-2
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- Agence Nationale pour la Recherche, Investissements d'Avenir program (France Genomique Consortium) [ANR-10-EQPX-03, ANR-10-INBS-09-08]
- Canceropole Ile-de-France
- SiRIC-Curie program-SiRIC Grant [INCa-DGOS- 4654]
- CEFIPRA collaborative grant [4603-1]
- European Research Council [647344, 101019963]
- Agence Nationale pour la Recherche [ANR-14-CE10-0002-01, ANR-18-CE12-0015, ANR-21-CE12-0033-03, ANR-15-CE11-0011, ANR-18-CE12-0018]
- Fondation Bettencourt-Schueller (Coup d'Elan)
- Ligue Nationale contre le Cancer (LNCC)
- Fondation pour la recherche medicale (FRM)
- Fondation ARC
- Intramural Program of the National Institute on Aging, NIH, USA
- Electricite de France
- Fondation pour la Recherche Medicale [FRM EQU201903007785]
- European Research Council (ERC) [647344, 101019963] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-15-CE11-0011, ANR-18-CE12-0018, ANR-18-CE12-0015, ANR-21-CE12-0033] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
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This study reveals that accumulation of RNA:DNA hybrids at transcriptionally active loci induces DNA synthesis and cell toxicity. Bloom RecQ DNA helicase (BLM) plays a critical role in repair process and is recruited in a transcription-dependent manner.
DNA Double Strand breaks in transcriptionally active loci (TC-DSBs) undergo a dedicated repair pathway. Here, the authors show that excessive RNA:DNA hybrid accumulation at TC-DSBs elicits POLD3/BLM-dependent DNA synthesis that induces cell toxicity. Transcriptionally active loci are particularly prone to breakage and mounting evidence suggests that DNA Double-Strand Breaks arising in active genes are handled by a dedicated repair pathway, Transcription-Coupled DSB Repair (TC-DSBR), that entails R-loop accumulation and dissolution. Here, we uncover a function for the Bloom RecQ DNA helicase (BLM) in TC-DSBR in human cells. BLM is recruited in a transcription dependent-manner at DSBs where it fosters resection, RAD51 binding and accurate Homologous Recombination repair. However, in an R-loop dissolution-deficient background, we find that BLM promotes cell death. We report that upon excessive RNA:DNA hybrid accumulation, DNA synthesis is enhanced at DSBs, in a manner that depends on BLM and POLD3. Altogether our work unveils a role for BLM at DSBs in active chromatin, and highlights the toxic potential of RNA:DNA hybrids that accumulate at transcription-associated DSBs.
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