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Originally published In Press as doi:10.1074/jbc.M205189200 on June 25, 2002
J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 277, Issue 37, 34549-34555, September 13, 2002
Targeted Disruption of Np95 Gene Renders
Murine Embryonic Stem Cells Hypersensitive to DNA Damaging
Agents and DNA Replication Blocks*
Masahiro
Muto §,
Yasuyoshi
Kanari §¶,
Eiko
Kubo ,
Tamami
Takabe ,
Takayuki
Kurihara ,
Akira
Fujimori , and
Kouichi
Tatsumi **
From the Research Center for Radiation Safety,
National Institute of Radiological Sciences, 4-9-1 Anagawa,
Inage-ku, Chiba-shi, Chiba 263-8555, Japan and the
Division of Basic Sciences, Medical Research
Institute, Kanazawa Medical University, Ishikawa 920-0293, Japan
NP95, which contains a ubiquitin-like domain, a
cyclin A/E-Cdk2 phosphorylation site, a retinoblastoma (Rb) binding
motif, and a ring finger domain, has been shown to be
colocalized as foci with proliferating cell nuclear antigen in
early and mid-S phase nuclei. We established Np95 nulligous
embryonic stem cells by replacing the exons 2-7 of the
Np95 gene with a neo cassette and by selecting out a
spontaneously occurring homologous chromosome crossing over with a
higher concentration of neomycin. Np95-null cells were more
sensitive to x-rays, UV light,
N-methyl-N''-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (MNNG), and hydroxyurea than embryonic stem wild type
(Np95+/+) or heterozygously inactivated
(Np95+/ ) cells. Expression of transfected
Np95 cDNA in Np95-null cells restored the
resistance to x-rays, UV, MNNG, or hydroxyurea concurrently to a level
similar to that of Np95+/ cells, although
slightly below that of wild type (Np95+/+)
cells. These findings suggest that NP95 plays a role in the repair of
DNA damage incurred by these agents. The frequency of spontaneous
sister chromatid exchange was significantly higher for
Np95-null cells than for Np95+/+
cells or Np95+/ cells (p < 0.001). We conclude that NP95 functions as a common component in the
multiple response pathways against DNA damage and replication arrest
and thereby contributes to genomic stability.
*
This work was supported by a Grant for the Project Research
"Genetic Control of Biodefense Mechanisms against Radiation" from the Science and Technology Agency, Japan, and in part by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Grant 09680540) from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture of Japan.The costs of publication of this
article were defrayed in part by the
payment of page charges. The article
must therefore be hereby marked
"advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section
1734 solely to indicate this fact.
The nucleotide sequence(s) reported in this paper has been submitted to the GenBankTM/EBI Data Bank with accession number(s) AB066245
§
These authors contributed equally to this study.
¶
Present address: Dept. of Immunology, Kinki University School
of Medicine 377-2 Ohno-Higashi, Sayama, Osaka 589-8511, Japan.
**
To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel.:
81-43-206-3091; Fax: 81-43-251-4593; E-mail:
tatsumi@nirs.go.jp.
Copyright © 2002 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

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