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J Biol Chem, Vol. 273, Issue 9, 5184-5189, February 27, 1998
Ultraviolet Radiation-induced Ubiquitination and Proteasomal
Degradation of the Large Subunit of RNA Polymerase II
IMPLICATIONS FOR TRANSCRIPTION-COUPLED DNA REPAIR*
Joshua N.
Ratner ,
Bhavani
Balasubramanian ,
Jeffry
Corden§,
Stephen L.
Warren¶, and
David B.
Bregman
From the Department of Pathology, Albert Einstein
College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, the
§ Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, The Johns
Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, and
¶ NeXstar Pharmaceuticals, Boulder, Colorado 80301
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ABSTRACT |
We have shown previously that UV radiation and
other DNA-damaging agents induce the ubiquitination of a portion of the
RNA polymerase II large subunit (Pol II LS). In the present study UV
irradiation of repair-competent fibroblasts induced a transient reduction of the Pol II LS level; new protein synthesis restored Pol II
LS to the base-line level within 16-24 h. In repair-deficient xeroderma pigmentosum cells, UV radiation-induced ubiquitination of Pol
II LS was followed by a sustained reduction of Pol II LS level. In both
normal and xeroderma pigmentosum cells, the ubiquitinated Pol II LS had
a hyperphosphorylated COOH-terminal domain (CTD), which is
characteristic of elongating Pol II. The portion of Pol II LS whose
steady-state level diminished most quickly had a relatively hypophosphorylated CTD. The ubiquitinated residues did not map to the
CTD. Importantly, UV-induced reduction of Pol II LS level in
repair-competent or -deficient cells was inhibited by the proteasome inhibitors lactacystin or MG132. These data demonstrate that UV-induced ubiquitination of Pol II LS is followed by its degradation in the
proteasome. These results suggest, contrary to a current model of
transcription-coupled DNA repair, that elongating Pol II complexes which arrest at intragenic DNA lesions may be aborted rather than resuming elongation after repair takes place.
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INTRODUCTION |
Ubiquitination of cellular proteins is a covalent modification
that plays several important physiological roles (1, 2). Proteins
become ubiquitinated by the sequential action of three enzymes: a
ubiquitin-activating enzyme
(E1),1 a
ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme (E2), and a ubiquitin-protein ligase (E3).
Because ubiquitinated proteins are usually targeted for
degradation in the proteasome, this modification enables cells to
control the level of many regulatory proteins (1-3). Some ubiquitinated proteins, however, are not targeted to the proteasome (4-6).
Ubiquitination plays a role in the response of the cell to DNA damage
including the accumulation of p53 (7, 8). Mammalian cells with a
temperature-sensitive E1 show increased sensitivity to ultraviolet (UV)
radiation when grown at the non-permissive temperature (9). The yeast
RAD6 gene encodes an E2 (10), and the product of the yeast
RAD23 gene possesses an NH2-terminal ubiquitin-like domain that is essential for its role in DNA repair (11). Lastly, a proteasomal subunit (SUG 1) copurifies with TFIIH, a multiprotein complex required for transcriptional initiation by RNA polymerase II (Pol II) as well as DNA repair via the nucleotide excision repair (NER) pathway (12, 13).
7-10% of the large subunit of RNA polymerase II (Pol II LS) becomes
ubiquitinated within minutes of exposing cultured human cells to UV
radiation and the anti-cancer agent cisplatin (14). These two agents
cause DNA lesions subject to repair by NER (7). Lesions induced by UV
radiation and cisplatin can stop transcription by creating a physical
block for the elongating Pol II apparatus when the lesions are located
on the transcribed strand of a gene. Such lesions are repaired more
rapidly by the NER pathway than are lesions located elsewhere in the
genome. This preferential repair, called transcription-coupled repair
(TCR), requires a functional Pol II LS (for review, see Ref. 13). Cells
from patients with Cockayne syndrome (CS) demonstrate deficient TCR and
hampered recovery of transcriptional activity after UV irradiation
(15). Two complementation groups (CS-A and CS-B) have been identified, and in both cases the defective gene has been cloned (16, 17). Interestingly, CS-A and CS-B cells also demonstrate deficient UV-induced ubiquitination of Pol II LS (14). A portion of Pol II binds
to the CS-B protein (18).
During the transcription cycle, the COOH-terminal domain (CTD) of Pol
II LS undergoes a cycle of phosphorylation/dephosphorylation (19, 20).
A relatively hypophosphorylated form of Pol II LS (IIa) preferentially
binds to most promoters. Promoter clearance and transcript elongation
are associated with phosphorylation of the CTD to yield a
hyperphosphorylated (IIo) form. The CTD is an essential component of
Pol II LS. It is comprised of a heptapeptide with the consensus
sequence Tyr-Ser-Pro-Thr-Ser-Pro-Ser repeated 52 times in mammalian
cells. Many proteins involved in transcriptional regulation (21, 22) as
well as pre-mRNA processing (23-25) bind to the CTD, and it
appears likely that the phosphorylation status of the CTD helps
determine which proteins will bind (26). Studies of CTD phosphorylation
have been assisted by the characterization of monoclonal antibodies
(mAbs) that recognize distinct epitopes within the repeated
heptapeptide (27, 28). Some mAbs recognize a phosphorylated Ser residue
(H5 or H14) and others recognize a dephosphorylated Ser residue (8WG16)
within the repeated
heptapeptide.2
Because the status of Pol II LS after the cell has sustained DNA damage
may affect NER as well as the recovery of transcription, we wished to
determine the metabolic fate of Pol II LS subsequent to UV-induced
ubiquitination. In the present study we establish that UV-induced
ubiquitination of a portion of Pol II LS is followed by transient
diminution of its steady-state level. Whereas the ubiquitinated Pol II
LS molecules have a hyperphosphorylated CTD, the portion that appears
to diminish most rapidly has a hypophosphorylated CTD. In
repair-competent fibroblasts, new protein synthesis permits recovery of
base-line Pol II LS level. In repair-deficient xeroderma pigmentosum
(XP) cells, the loss of Pol II LS is sustained. Proteasome inhibitors
block the loss of Pol II LS in repair-competent or -deficient cells.
The ubiquitinated residues are not located in the CTD.
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EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURES |
Cell Culture--
Cell culture was performed as described
previously (14). The following XP fibroblast lines were used: DNA
repair-competent, GM5659C and GM639D; XP-A, GM2009; XP-C, GM671; XP-D,
GM8207; and XP-G, GM3021 from the National Institute of General Medical
Sciences Human Genetic Mutant Cell Repository (Camden, NJ). They were
maintained in Eagle's minimal essential medium (Sigma) supplemented
with 15% fetal bovine serum, 2 mM L-glutamine,
and 1 × penicillin-streptomycin-neomycin (Sigma). UV irradiation
at 254 nm was performed as described previously (14).
For individual experiments, the following agents were added to the cell
culture media 1 h before UV irradiation and were maintained in the
media after irradiation: cycloheximide, 20 mg/ml (Sigma); MG132, 1 µM (Peptides International, Louisville, KY); and
lactacystin, 5 µM (Prof. E. J. Corey, Harvard).
Pol II LS Immunoblot Analysis--
6% SDS-PAGE and Western
immunoblot analysis of whole cell extracts of cultured cells were
performed as described previously (14) with the following mAbs directed
against Pol II LS: H5 and H14 (27), ARNA 3 (Research Diagnostics,
Flanders, NJ), and 8WG16 (QED Biosciences, San Diego, CA). Protein
bands were visualized via chemiluminescence (Pierce) after blotting
with peroxidase-conjugated goat anti-mouse IgM for H5 (diluted
1:10,000) and H14 (diluted 1:20,000) or horseradish
peroxidase-conjugated goat anti-mouse IgG for 8WG16 and ARNA 3 (diluted
1:10,000).
The cell fractionation experiment was performed by extracting
fibroblasts with TD buffer (0.5% Triton X-100, 0.5% sodium
deoxycholate, 50 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.5, 150 mM
NaCl, 1 mM phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride) as described
previously (27). Insoluble material was solubilized with SDS-PAGE
sample buffer, and equicellular amounts of TD extractable and
unextractable material were subjected to immunoblot analysis.
Mapping Pol II LS Ubiquitination Sites to a Non-CTD
Domain--
HeLa cells were stably transfected with two different
constructs expressing -amanitin-resistant Pol II LS: pHA-Wt, which expresses a hemagglutinin (HA)-tagged, -amanitin resistant,
full-length murine Pol II LS; and pHA-D31, which is identical to pHA-Wt
except that the CTD has only 31 heptapeptide repeats such that all 8 CTD lysine residues are removed. The HeLa cells were transfected via
lipofection with LipofectAMINE (Life Technologies, Inc.), and then
cells expressing the -amanitin-resistant Pol II LS were selected
with 2 mg/ml -amanitin. Clones of cells expressing pHA-Wt or pHA-D31
were then UV irradiated, allowed to recover at 37 °C, and were
subjected to lysis in hot 1% SDS, 50 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.5, 150 mM NaCl, 1 mM phenylmethylsulfonyl
fluoride. Lysates were incubated in a boiling water bath for 5 min and
then diluted with 6 volumes of cold 0.5% Triton X-100, 0.5% sodium
deoxycholate, 50 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.5, 150 mM
NaCl, 1 mM phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride and placed in on
ice. Immunoprecipitation was performed as described previously (14)
with anti-HA mAb 12CA5 (Babco, Richmond, CA) non-covalently coupled to
protein G-Sepharose beads (Pharmacia Biotech Inc.). Immunoprecipitated
material was then subjected to immunoblot analysis with mAb H14.
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RESULTS |
UV Radiation Temporarily Reduces Pol II LS Level in
Repair-competent Cells--
Because ubiquitinated proteins are often
targeted to the proteasome, we investigated whether UV-induced
ubiquitination of Pol II LS was followed by its degradation.
Repair-competent fibroblasts were subjected to UV irradiation and
allowed to recover at 37 °C for 1-24 h. Whole cell extracts from
equivalent numbers of cells were prepared and subjected to Western
immunoblot analysis with H14, a mAb that binds specifically to Pol II
LS (Fig. 1A, lanes 1-6). The H14 immunoreactive band from unirradiated cells is
characteristically broad because H14 recognizes the hyperphosphorylated
(IIo), hypophosphorylated (IIa), and intermediate forms of Pol II LS
(Fig. 1A, lane 1). 1 h after a dose of UV
radiation which would be expected to kill 10-25% of repair-competent
fibroblasts (29, 30), ubiquitinated forms of Pol II LS could be
identified (Fig. 1A, lane 2). These forms migrate
more slowly than IIo and have been demonstrated previously to represent
ubiquitinated Pol II LS (14). In addition, the samples isolated 1-8 h
after UV irradiation have a less broad Pol II LS band in which the
relatively hypophosphorylated (IIa) forms appear preferentially
diminished (lanes 2-4). By 16-24 h after UV irradiation,
the band width and intensity more closely resemble the unirradiated
sample (lanes 5 and 6). This loss of Pol II LS
was not appreciated in earlier studies (14) most likely because
sublethally irradiated HeLa cells divide and resynthesize Pol II LS
very rapidly. Similar results were obtained when cell extracts were
normalized for total protein content (data not shown).

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Fig. 1.
Analysis of UV-induced ubiquitination and
diminution of the differently phosphorylated subtypes of Pol II LS
(e.g. IIo, IIa). Repair-competent (GM639D) and XP-D
(GM8207) fibroblasts were subjected to the indicated dose of UV
radiation and then allowed to recover at 37 °C for the indicated
time intervals. Whole cell extracts were then subjected to 6% SDS-PAGE
and immunoblot analysis with a panel of mAbs directed against distinct
Pol II LS epitopes. Panel A, UV radiation induces
ubiquitination of the hyperphosphorylated (IIo) form of Pol II LS and
diminution of the hypophosphorylated forms (IIa). Immunoblots are with
H14, a mAb that recognizes IIo, IIa, and Pol II LS forms with
intermediate levels of CTD phosphorylation (lanes 1-12), or
H5, a mAb specific for IIo (lanes 13-24). Panel
B, UV radiation induces a reduction in Pol II LS protein level
rather than a change in CTD phosphorylation. Immunoblots are with mAb
ARNA 3 (lanes 1-12) directed against a non-CTD epitope of
Pol II LS or 8WG16 (lanes 13-24) directed against a
non-phosphorylated CTD epitope.
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Because H14 recognizes a phosphorylated CTD epitope,2 the
UV-induced diminution of hypophosphorylated Pol II LS forms detected in
Fig. 1A, lanes 2-4, could be caused by the
altered steady-state level of the protein or altered phosphorylation
status of the CTD. For example, if Pol II LS were acted upon by a
kinase subsequent to UV irradiation, the broad Pol II LS band might be
narrowed because of a shift of all Pol II LS forms toward IIo. To
investigate why the Pol II LS band became narrower after UV radiation,
the cell extracts were subjected to immunoblot analysis with different anti-Pol II LS mAbs. The level of hypophosphorylated (IIa) forms diminishes when the Pol II LS is detected with H14 as well as ARNA 3 (Fig. 1B, lanes 1-6), which recognizes a non-CTD
epitope (31), or 8WG16 (Fig. 1B, lanes 13-18),
which recognizes a non-phosphorylated CTD epitope (28). These data
support a UV-induced loss of Pol II LS protein rather than a change in
phosphorylation status.
In addition, the same samples were immunoblotted with H5, which is
specific for the hyperphosphorylated (IIo) form of Pol II LS (27). The
ubiquitinated forms reacted with H5 (Fig. 1A, lanes
14-17) as well as with H14 (Fig. 1A, lanes
2-5), indicating that the ubiquitinated forms were also
hyperphosphorylated even though the forms whose steady-state level
diminishes after UV irradiation were relatively hypophosphorylated (see
"Discussion").
UV Radiation Induces a Sustained Reduction of Pol II LS Level in
XP-D Cells--
We also performed a UV time course in an NER-defective
xeroderma pigmentosum group D (XP-D) fibroblast cell line. In Fig. 1,
A and B, it can be seen that ubiquitination and
deubiquitination occur with similar kinetics in the repair-competent
and XP-D cells. However, in the XP-D cell line the UV-induced
diminution of the hypophosphorylated forms of Pol II LS is sustained.
The broad Pol II LS band seen in the unirradiated base line is not
restored by 16-24 h as it is in the repair-competent cells (compare
Fig. 1A, lane 12 with lane 6, or Fig.
1B, lane 24 with lane 18). The fact
that the diminution of Pol II LS from XP-D cells can be demonstrated in
the immunoblots performed with H14, ARNA 3, and 8WG16 provides further
proof that UV induces a net loss of protein rather than a change in CTD
phosphorylation. Furthermore, the XP-D data demonstrate the
preferential binding of mAb H5 to the IIo form of Pol II LS and its
ability to recognize the ubiquitinated forms of Pol II LS (compare Fig.
1A, lanes 19 and 20 with lanes
7 and 8).
Reduction of Pol II LS Level Is the Result of Proteasomal
Degradation--
If the UV-induced down-regulation of the Pol II LS
steady-state level was caused by protein degradation, recovery of Pol
II LS to the base-line level in repair-competent cells should require new protein synthesis. A UV time course performed in the presence of
the protein synthesis inhibitor cycloheximide demonstrated that this is
indeed the case (Fig. 2).

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Fig. 2.
Regeneration of base-line levels of Pol II LS
after UV irradiation requires new protein synthesis.
Repair-competent (GM639D) fibroblasts were preincubated with
cycloheximide (20 µg/ml, 1 h, lanes 7-12) and then
UV irradiated and incubated at 37 °C in the presence of
cycloheximide (20 µg/ml) for the indicated times. An identical time
course was also performed without cycloheximide (lanes
1-5). Whole cell extracts were then subjected to 6% SDS-PAGE and
immunoblot analysis with anti-Pol II LS mAb (H14). To control for the
effect of cycloheximide, unirradiated samples were collected at the 24-h time point ( , lanes 6 and
12).
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Using pharmacologic agents that block the ability of the proteasome to
degrade ubiquitinated proteins we demonstrated that the ubiquitinated
Pol II LS was targeted to the proteasome. Both the specific and
irreversible proteasomal inhibitor lactacystin (32) and the reversible
albeit less specific inhibitor MG132 (33) led to less loss of Pol II LS
1-9 h after UV irradiation (Fig. 3,
compare lanes 8-11 with lanes 2-5 and compare
lanes 20-23 with lanes 14-17). In the absence
of UV irradiation the inhibitors did not alter the level of Pol II LS
(Fig. 3, lanes 6, 12, 18, and
24).

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Fig. 3.
Inhibitors of the proteasome block UV-induced
degradation of Pol II LS. Panel A, repair-competent
fibroblasts (GM639D) were pretreated with the specific proteasomal
inhibitor lactacystin at a concentration of 5 µM for
1 h and then subjected to UV irradiation plus incubation at
37 °C in the presence of lactacystin for the indicated time
intervals (lanes 7-12). A control UV time course was
carried out without added lactacystin (lanes 1-6).
Panel B, XP-D fibroblasts were treated with the proteasomal
inhibitor MG132 at 1 µM for 1 h and then subjected
to UV irradiation plus incubation at 37 °C in the presence of MG132
for the indicated time intervals (lanes 19-24). A control
UV time course was carried out without added MG132 (lanes
13-18). To control for the affect of lactacystin and MG132,
unirradiated samples were also collected at the 9 h time points
( , lanes 6, 12, 18, and
24). In all cases, whole cell extracts were subjected to 6%
SDS-PAGE and immunoblot analysis with anti-Pol II LS mAb (H14).
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Characterization of the Ubiquitinated Fraction of Pol II
LS--
The ubiquitinated portion of Pol II LS was shown to be
hyperphosphorylated (IIo) by virtue of its immunoreactivity with mAb H5
(Fig. 1A). Whereas many studies have shown that Pol II LS
that is actively engaged in transcriptional elongation is in the IIo form, we have shown previously that a portion of IIo is also present in
a transcriptionally quiescent extrachromosomal location where splicing
factors are also located (23, 27). These two different pools of IIo
differ substantially in their ability to be extracted from mammalian
nuclei with non-ionic detergents (27). The non-chromosomal (transcriptionally inactive) form is considerably more resistant to
detergent extraction than the non-speckle-associated form. We
demonstrated that the ubiquitinated form of Pol II LS is readily extractable with non-ionic detergent (Fig.
4). None of the ubiquitinated IIo was
detected in the detergent-inextractable fraction, even when long
exposures of the immunoblot were examined (data not shown). This is
consistent with ubiquitinated IIo being the transcriptionally active
(elongating) form of Pol II LS.

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Fig. 4.
The form of Pol II LS which is ubiquitinated
is extractable with non-ionic detergents. Repair-competent (639D)
fibroblasts were subjected to the indicated dose of UV radiation and
then allowed to recover at 37 °C for the indicated time intervals. Cells were extracted with TD buffer containing 0.5% Triton X-100 and
0.5% sodium deoxycholate (see "Experimental Procedures"). The
TD-unextracted material was solubilized in SDS-PAGE sample buffer, and
equicellular amounts of soluble and insoluble material from each time
point were subjected to 6% SDS-PAGE and immunoblot analysis with mAb
H14.
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Mapping the Sites of Ubiquitination to a Non-CTD
Domain--
Because the ability of Pol II LS to be ubiquitinated
appears to depend on the phosphorylation status of the CTD, we wished to determine whether ubiquitination was also localized to this important regulatory domain. The CTD of Pol II LS is comprised of 52 tandem repeats of a heptapeptide with the consensus sequence Tyr-Ser-Pro-Thr-Ser-Pro-Ser. All covalent modifications of Pol II LS
besides ubiquitination, including serine/threonine phosphorylation, tyrosine phosphorylation, and O-linked glycosylation, have
been mapped to the CTD (34-36). We therefore wished to determine
whether ubiquitination maps to this domain of Pol II LS.
We were able to replace functionally the Pol II LS of HeLa cells with a
truncated molecule in which all potential ubiquitination sites within
the CTD were removed. Ubiquitination occurs exclusively on lysine
residues (1). The CTD includes 8 lysines all of which are located in
the COOH-terminal third of the CTD (comprising heptapeptide repeats
34-52) (37). Truncation of more than half of the CTD prevents its
normal function, but truncation of the portion of the CTD including all
8 lysine residues yields a molecule capable of supporting a viable cell
(38). Furthermore, a mutated variant of mouse Pol II LS has been cloned
which will render cells resistant to the transcriptional inhibitor
-amanitin. This mutant bears a single amino acid change at a non-CTD
amino acid (39). In a cell expressing both WT (human) Pol II LS and
mutant (mouse) Pol II LS, only the mutant will function in the presence
of -amanitin (40). The amino acid sequences of WT mouse and human
Pol II LS are nearly identical; there are only two sequence
differences, neither of which involves CTD lysine residues (37).
We therefore isolated HeLa cells stably transfected with
-amanitin-resistant Pol II LS expression constructs bearing either full-length CTD with all 52 heptapeptide repeats (WT) or a truncated CTD with only 31 of 52 heptapeptide repeats which therefore lacked all
8 CTD lysine residues ( 31). These constructs were HA epitope tagged
so the product of the transfected construct could be separated from the
host Pol II LS via specific immunoprecipitation. After UV irradiation,
both WT and truncated HA-tagged Pol II LS molecules demonstrated
ubiquitination thus proving that non-CTD lysine residues were being
ubiquitinated (Fig. 5).

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Fig. 5.
UV-induced ubiquitination does not occur on
CTD lysine residues. HeLa cells were transfected with constructs
expressing an HA epitope-tagged Pol II LS with a single amino acid
change such that it is resistant to the transcriptional inhibitor
-amanitin (38). The constructs expressed either a Pol II LS with a
full-length CTD (WT, 52 heptapeptide repeats) or a CTD truncated such
that no lysine residues remained ( 31-31 heptapeptide repeats).
Stably transfected cell lines were selected by growth in -amanitin
as described under "Experimental Procedures." Panel A,
two clones each of WT (6 and 8) and 31 (1 and 2) were subjected to
UV irradiation and allowed to recover at 37 °C for 15 min. Plates of
cells were then lysed, immunoprecipitated with anti-HA antibody 12CA5,
and subjected to 6% SDS-PAGE and immunoblot analysis with mAb H14. Panel B, WT or 31 cells were irradiated and allowed to
recover for 1-24 h as indicated before being lysed, immunoprecipitated with anti-HA, and subjected to immunoblot analysis with mAb H14. The
positions of IIo, IIa, and ubiquitinated forms of Pol II LS are
indicated. The truncated IIo and IIa forms from 31 migrated further
into the SDS-PAGE gel than those of WT.
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UV-induced Ubiquitination of Pol II LS in XP Cells--
To address
the question of whether UV-induced ubiquitination of Pol II LS plays a
mechanistic role in NER, we investigated Pol II LS ubiquitination in
fibroblast cell lines established from patients with XP complementation
groups A through G. Each complementation group lacks a functional gene
product required for a mechanistic "step" of NER (7). In addition
several forms yield defects in TCR (XP-B, -D, and -G) (13). If
ubiquitination of Pol II LS plays a mechanistic role in NER or TCR,
ubiquitinated Pol II LS might accumulate to unusually high levels in
one or more of the XP subtypes, or the kinetics of the
appearance/disappearance of ubiquitinated Pol II LS might be
altered.
In Fig. 6A, UV time courses of
two different repair-competent human fibroblast lines are shown
(lanes 1-5 and 6-10). Ubiquitinated forms of
Pol II LS are induced within 1 h after UV irradiation and diminish
thereafter until they become undetectable by 16-24 h. In all XP cells,
ubiquitination and deubiquitination occurred to an extent similar to
that seen in repair-competent cells and with similar kinetics
(lanes 11-25). The results of XP-B, -D, -E, and -F cells
(data not shown) were the same as those shown for XP-A and -G cells.
These results do not support a mechanistic role for ubiquitination of
Pol II LS in NER.

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Fig. 6.
UV radiation induces ubiquitination of Pol II
LS in XP cells. Repair-competent human fibroblasts (GM639D and
GM5659) or fibroblasts from individuals with the DNA repair deficiency syndrome XP were subjected to the indicated dose of UV radiation followed by 1-24 h of recovery at 37 °C. Whole cell extracts were subjected to 6% SDS-PAGE followed by immunoblot analysis with the Pol
II LS-specific mAb H14. Results are shown for cells capable (panel A) or incapable (panel B) of recovering
transcriptional activity after sustaining UV-induced DNA damage.
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However, in all XP cell types in which no residual NER activity remains
(i.e. all types except XP-C, see below) there is a sustained
loss of Pol II LS forms less phosphorylated than IIo beginning by
1 h after UV irradiation and easily detectable by 8 h after
UV irradiation (lanes 18 and 23). In fibroblasts
with normal levels of NER and TCR there was a transient loss of less phosphorylated forms of Pol II LS at 1-8 h after UV irradiation (lanes 2, 3, and 7) which subsequently
returned to base-line levels. Similarly in XP-C cells, which are
deficient in "genome overall" NER but which maintain TCR (41), the
level of less than maximally phosphorylated Pol II LS forms transiently
diminishes but subsequently (and reproducibly) returns to at least
base-line levels (lanes 12-15). Furthermore, when
repair-competent fibroblasts were subjected to a higher dose of UV
radiation (which would be expected to kill most cells; see Ref. 30) the
loss of less phosphorylated forms of Pol II LS was also sustained
(lanes 27-30).
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DISCUSSION |
This study establishes that UV radiation induces ubiquitination of
a fraction of Pol II LS which is followed by the degradation of a
fraction of Pol II LS in the proteasome. Another recent study identified a specific ubiquitin-protein ligase (Rsp5) capable of
ubiquitinating Pol II LS in vitro and in vivo
(43). The ability to inhibit the UV-induced reduction of Pol II LS
steady-state level with MG132 or lactacystin, two proteasomal
inhibitors, supports the conclusion that degradation takes place in the
proteasome (Fig. 3).
Thus DNA repair-competent cells appear capable of temporarily
down-regulating their Pol II LS level upon transcriptional arrest and
then reaccumulating new Pol II LS when transcription resumes (Figs. 1
and 6). In repair-deficient cells or in those repair-competent cells
subjected to a lethal (50 J/m2) UV dose, Pol II LS levels
remain low (Fig. 6). In XP-C cells, which maintain the ability to
repair DNA damage and therefore recover transcriptional activity
through TCR (they are only deficient in genome overall repair), Pol II
LS levels also return to the base-line level within 16-24 h (Fig. 6).
Evidence for post-transcriptional regulation of the Pol II LS level
already exists in Caenorhabditis elegans (44). In mammalian
cells, -amanitin and actinomycin D can also trigger Pol II LS
degradation (45). Pol II LS is a component of the nuclear matrix, and
its degradation may render DNA more susceptible to fragmentation of the
sort observed during apoptosis (46).
The results of this study are complicated by the fact that multiple
phosphorylated forms of Pol II LS exist. Although the form that gets
ubiquitinated is highly phosphorylated, the forms whose steady-state
level decreases most rapidly are less phosphorylated (e.g.
see Fig. 1A). Because mAb H5, which is specific for highly phosphorylated Pol II LS (27), reacts with the ubiquitinated forms of
Pol II LS (Fig. 1A, lanes 14-17 and
20-23) it can be concluded that the ubiquitinated form of
Pol II LS is also highly phosphorylated. Furthermore, an antibody that
recognizes a non-phosphorylated CTD epitope (mAb 8WG16) does not react
with the ubiquitinated forms (Fig. 1B, lanes
14-17 and 20-23). It should be noted that both H14
and 8WG16 recognize overlapping broad Pol II LS bands because the CTD
of one Pol II LS molecule may have phosphorylated as well as
non-phosphorylated heptapeptides. Presumably, the number and identity
of phosphorylated versus non-phosphorylated residues among
the approximately 250 serines, threonines, and tyrosines within the CTD
determine the migration rate in SDS-PAGE.
A plausible interpretation of these steady-state results is that
UV-induced ubiquitination and subsequent degradation of Pol IIo prevent
its being recycled (via dephosphorylation) to the IIa form so that the
steady-state level of IIa diminishes. The pool of IIa gets converted to
IIo via the action of one or more CTD kinases. Some CTD kinases
phosphorylate IIa to IIo during the normal transcription cycle, and
others may be activated by heat shock or other cellular stresses (47,
48). In the present study, some reduction in the level of Pol IIo did
become apparent when resynthesis of Pol II LS was prevented with
cycloheximide (Fig. 2) or when XP-D cells were irradiated so that
transcription could not resume (see Fig. 1A).
Although the present study does not demonstrate directly that the
fraction of Pol II LS which gets ubiquitinated and degraded is stalled
at intragenic lesions, the results are consistent with this conclusion.
It is known that UV-induced DNA lesions constitute a potent block to
transcription at which elongating Pol II becomes stably arrested (49).
The large subunit of arrested Pol II would be expected to exist in the
IIo form. Western immunoblot analysis demonstrated that ubiquitinated
Pol II LS reacts with mAb H5, which is specific for the IIo form.
Although a previous study demonstrated a transcriptionally quiescent
fraction of H5-immunoreactive Pol II LS present in structures called
speckles or interchromatin granule clusters (27), we utilized the
extractability of non-speckle-associated IIo with non-ionic detergent
to strengthen the argument that the ubiquitinated IIo is not present in
the speckles (Fig. 6). Furthermore, we have shown previously that
UV-induced ubiquitination of Pol II LS is deficient in CS-A and CS-B
fibroblasts, which have a defect in TCR. Thus it seems quite likely
that elongating Pol II LS that arrests at intragenic DNA lesions
becomes ubiquitinated and gets degraded in the proteasome. Future
studies will be aimed at demonstrating directly that the stalled Pol II
molecules get ubiquitinated.
The results presented here also establish that ubiquitination occurs on
non-CTD lysine residues (Fig. 5). It will be of interest to determine
whether the ubiquitinated lysine residues are located within DNA
binding domains and whether ubiquitination per se promotes dissociation of the stalled Pol II from the DNA before Pol II LS
degradation in the proteasome.
A current model of TCR in eukaryotes suggests that arrested transcripts
back up, possibly assisted by elongation factor SII, then resume
elongating after the lesion has been repaired (50, 51). This model is
supported by the stability of DNA·Pol II·pre-mRNA ternary
complexes arrested at intragenic lesions in in vitro DNA damage systems as well as by the belief that it would be metabolically wasteful for cells to abort partially elongated RNA transcripts. An
important implication of the results presented in this study is that an
elongating Pol II complex that arrests at an intragenic lesion will not
finish elongating the interrupted transcript after repair takes place.
If Pol II LS is ubiquitinated and degraded in the proteasome it
suggests that the arrested transcript is aborted. Thus eukaryotic Pol
II LS may behave as Escherichia coli RNA polymerase behaves.
In E. coli the product of the mfd gene, TRCF,
releases the arrested DNA·RNA polymerase·RNA ternary complex and
recruits the bacterial NER apparatus (the
UvrA2UvrB1 complex) to the intragenic lesion
(52).
Two lines of evidence (in addition to the results presented in this
study) support the idea that SII, although essential for allowing Pol
II to negotiate intrinsic pause sites, may be less important for TCR
and/or the ability of cellular transcription levels to resume base-line
levels after being arrested by UV-induced DNA damage. First, yeast with
mutated SII does not demonstrate a deficiency in TCR (53), suggesting
that SII is not essential for either the preferential repair of
intragenic DNA lesions or the ability of transcription to resume once
such lesions have been repaired. Second, a recent in vitro
study leads to the conclusion that SII may be more effective at
allowing Pol II to bypass lesions that cause the slowing of
transcriptional elongation than allowing Pol II to bypass
transcriptional arrest sites (54). In this study, a bulky
N-2-acetylaminofluorene-DNA adduct located on the transcribed strand served as an absolute block to elongating Pol II.
SII did not increase the ability of Pol II to transcribe through such a
lesion. SII did however improve the ability of Pol II to read through a
transcriptional pause site created by placing the N-2-acetylaminofluorene adduct on the non-transcribed DNA
strand. In another study, N-2-acetylaminofluorene located on
the transcribed strand promoted the dissociation of the stalled ternary
Pol II·DNA·RNA complex (55). Furthermore, although an elegant
in vitro study demonstrated that SII promoted the retrograde
(3' to 5') movement of Pol II from a T-T dimer, SII failed to displace
stalled Pol II sufficiently to permit repair of the T-T dimer by
photolyase (56).
The stalled Pol II complex appears to help recruit the repair apparatus
to intragenic damage sites. It also appears to play a role in
UV-induced signal transduction (57) and may inhibit basal transcription
by binding up nuclear transcription factors such as the TATA
box-binding protein, TBP (42). The ability to disassemble this complex,
perhaps by degradation of Pol II LS, could be a critical step in the
resolution of DNA damage response of the cell and the restoration of
basal transcription after DNA repair is completed.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS |
We thank Errol C. Friedberg, Jan H. J.
Hoeijmakers, and Alain J. van Gool for generosity and useful
suggestions. We thank Michael Dahmus for a critical review of the
manuscript. We also acknowledge Alfred L. Goldberg, Arthur L. Haas,
Avram Hershko, Cecile M. Pickart, Irwin A. Rose, and Keith D. Wilkinson
for stimulating discussions.
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FOOTNOTES |
*
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.
Supported by Grant CA73549 from the NCI, National Institutes
of Health, and by Grant 96-59 from the James S. McDonnell Foundation. To whom correspondence should be addressed: Dept. of Pathology, Albert
Einstein College of Medicine, F717N, 1300 Morris Park Ave., Bronx, NY
10461. Tel.: 718-430-2222; Fax: 718-430-8867; E-mail: bregman{at}aecom.yu.edu.
1
The abbreviations used are: E1,
ubiquitin-activating enzyme; E2, ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme; E3,
ubiquitin-protein ligase; Pol II, RNA polymerase II; NER, nucleotide
excision repair; LS, large subunit; TCR, transcription-coupled repair;
CS, Cockayne syndrome; CTD, COOH-terminal domain of Pol II LS; IIa,
hypophosphorylated Pol II LS; IIo, hyperphosphorylated Pol II LS; mAb,
monoclonal antibody; XP, xeroderma pigmentosum; PAGE, polyacrylamide
gel electrophoresis; HA, hemagglutinin; WT, wild type.
2
Patturajan, M., Schulte, R. J., Sefton, B. M.,
Berezney, R., Vincent, M., Bensaude, O., Warren, S. L., and Corden, J. L. (1998) J. Biol. Chem. 273, 4689-4694.
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F. E. Kleiman, F. Wu-Baer, D. Fonseca, S. Kaneko, R. Baer, and J. L. Manley
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R. D. Kennedy, J. E. Quinn, P. B. Mullan, P. G. Johnston, and D. P. Harkin
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R. J. Sims III, R. Belotserkovskaya, and D. Reinberg
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H. de Waard, J. de Wit, J.-O. Andressoo, C. T. M. van Oostrom, B. Riis, A. Weimann, H. E. Poulsen, H. van Steeg, J. H. J. Hoeijmakers, and G. T. J. van der Horst
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A. Moisan, C. Larochelle, B. Guillemette, and L. Gaudreau
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J. Reid and J. Q. Svejstrup
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T. G. Gillette, F. Gonzalez, A. Delahodde, S. A. Johnston, and T. Kodadek
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R. D. Chapman, B. Palancade, A. Lang, O. Bensaude, and D. Eick
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S. Tornaletti, S. M. Patrick, J. J. Turchi, and P. C. Hanawalt
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S. D. Desai, H. Zhang, A. Rodriguez-Bauman, J.-M. Yang, X. Wu, M. K. Gounder, E. H. Rubin, and L. F. Liu
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H. Xiao, Y. Mao, S. D. Desai, N. Zhou, C.-Y. Ting, J. Hwang, and L. F. Liu
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A. V. Kuznetsova, J. Meller, P. O. Schnell, J. A. Nash, M. L. Ignacak, Y. Sanchez, J. W. Conaway, R. C. Conaway, and M. F. Czyzyk-Krzeska
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J. Q. Svejstrup
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V. Rapic-Otrin, M. P. McLenigan, D. C. Bisi, M. Gonzalez, and A. S. Levine
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K.-B. Lee, D. Wang, S. J. Lippard, and P. A. Sharp
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H. D. Ulrich
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D. A. P. Rockx, R. Mason, A. van Hoffen, M. C. Barton, E. Citterio, D. B. Bregman, A. A. van Zeeland, H. Vrieling, and L. H. F. Mullenders
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L. Lommel, M. E. Bucheli, and K. S. Sweder
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S.E. TSUTAKAWA and P.K. COOPER
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S. L. Beaudenon, M. R. Huacani, G. Wang, D. P. McDonnell, and J. M. Huibregtse
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S. Tornaletti, D. Reines, and P. C. Hanawalt
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A. Mitsui and P. A. Sharp
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M. Ljungman
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T. G. Rossman and Z. Wang
Expression cloning for arsenite-resistance resulted in isolation of tumor-suppressor fau cDNA: possible involvement of the ubiquitin system in arsenic carcinogenesis
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G. Wang, J. Yang, and J. M. Huibregtse
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A. Chang, S. Cheang, X. Espanel, and M. Sudol
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F. Galbiati, D. Volonte, C. Minetti, D. B. Bregman, and M. P. Lisanti
Limb-girdle Muscular Dystrophy (LGMD-1C) Mutants of Caveolin-3 Undergo Ubiquitination and Proteasomal Degradation. TREATMENT WITH PROTEASOMAL INHIBITORS BLOCKS THE DOMINANT NEGATIVE EFFECT OF LGMD-1C MUTANTS AND RESCUES WILD-TYPE CAVEOLIN-3
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A. T. Yarnell, S. Oh, D. Reinberg, and S. J. Lippard
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K.-B. Lee, D. Wang, S. J. Lippard, and P. A. Sharp
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L. Lommel, M. E. Bucheli, and K. S. Sweder
Transcription-coupled repair in yeast is independent from ubiquitylation of RNA pol II: Implications for Cockayne's syndrome
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D. A. P. Rockx, R. Mason, A. van Hoffen, M. C. Barton, E. Citterio, D. B. Bregman, A. A. van Zeeland, H. Vrieling, and L. H. F. Mullenders
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