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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 278, Issue 23, 21267-21275, June 6, 2003
Binding Discrimination of MutS to a Set of Lesions and Compound Lesions (Base Damage and Mismatch) Reveals Its Potential Role as a Cisplatin-damaged DNA Sensing Protein*![]() ¶
From the
Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, CNRS, Rue Charles Sadron, 45071
Orléans Cedex 02, France,
Received for publication, February 7, 2003
, and in revised form, March 20, 2003.
The DNA mismatch repair (MMR) system plays a critical role in sensitizing both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells to the clinically potent anticancer drug cisplatin. It is thought to mediate cytotoxicity through recognition of cisplatin DNA lesions. This drug generates a range of lesions that may also give rise to compound lesions resulting from the misincorporation of a base during translesion synthesis. Using gel mobility shift competition assays and surface plasmon resonance, we have analyzed the interaction of Escherichia coli MutS protein with site-specifically modified DNA oligonucleotides containing each of the four cisplatin cross-links or a set of compound lesions. The major 1,2-d(GpG) cisplatin intrastrand cross-link was recognized with only a 1.5-fold specificity, whereas a 47-fold specificity was found with a natural G/T containing DNA substrate. The rate of association, kon, for binding to the 1,2-d(GpG) adduct was 3.1 x 104 M-1 s-1 and the specificity of binding was essentially dependent on koff. DNA duplexes containing a single 1,2-d(ApG), 1,3-d(GpCpG) adduct, and an interstrand cross-link of cisplatin were not preferentially recognized. Among 12 DNA substrates, each containing a different cisplatin compound lesion derived from replicative misincorporation of one base opposite either of the 1,2-intrastrand adducts, 10 were specifically recognized including those that are more likely formed in vivo based on cisplatin mutation spectra. Moreover, among these lesions, two compound lesions formed when an adenine was misincorporated opposite a 1,2-d(GpG) adduct were not substrates for the MutY-dependent mismatch repair pathway. The ability of MutS to sense differentially various platinated DNA substrates suggests that cisplatin compound lesions formed during misincorporation of a base opposite either adducted base of both 1,2-intrastrand cross-links are more plausible critical lesions for MMR-mediated cisplatin cytotoxicity.
cis-Diamminedichloroplatinum(II) (cisplatin)1 is among the most widely used anticancer chemotherapeutic agents in the treatment of many human tumors, particularly testicular and ovarian tumors (1). In the reaction between DNA and cisplatin, different types of bifunctional adducts are formed that are thought to be the key toxic lesions (2, 3, 4). Although these adducts are responsible for a variety of cellular responses including replication and/or transcription inhibition, there is not yet a clear understanding of the molecular mechanisms linking the formation of adducts and cisplatin-induced apoptosis (5, 6). Cisplatin reacts preferentially with the N-7 atoms of purine residues in DNA. The major adducts (90%) are 1,2-intrastrand cross-links at d(GpG) and d(ApG) sites and the minor adducts correspond to 1,3-intrastrand cross-links at d(GpNpG) (N being a nucleotide residue) and interstrand cross-links formed at d(GpC/GpC) sites (7, 8, 9, 10). Once formed, cisplatin lesions such as the major 1,2-intrastrand cross-links can undergo replication bypass in cells treated with cisplatin (11, 12). Because these lesions are often miscoding, they give rise to another form of lesion that is called a compound lesion (13), namely a lesion in one strand and a mismatch in the other. In both prokaryotes and eukaryotes, the pattern of cisplatin mutagenesis suggests that the major 1,2-intrastrand cross-links give rise to an array of compound lesions of which the majority are those produced when an adenine is misincorporated opposite the adducts (14, 15, 16, 17). In vitro, DNA polymerases have been shown to bypass the major cisplatin adduct in an error-prone manner. For instance, misincorporation of a guanine by yeast polymerase and misinsertion of a thymine by human polymerases and
can occur opposite the 3' adducted guanine
(18,
19); human polymerase
can also misincorporate an adenine opposite the 5'-platinated guanine
(20).
Recently, studies showed that the DNA mismatch repair (MMR) pathway
contributes to the cytotoxicity elicited by cisplatin. In eukaryotes, MMR has
been involved as an upstream component of a cisplatin-induced apoptotic
pathway mediated by the tumor suppressor p73 or by the retinoblastoma tumor
suppressor (21,
22). Importantly, a
relationship between the loss of a functional MMR pathway and cellular
resistance to cisplatin cytotoxicity has been established in vitro
and in vivo (23,
24,
25,
26). As cisplatin resistance
is a major reason for treatment failure, it is therefore of great interest to
understand how MMR-dependent molecular mechanisms participate in the
modulation of cellular sensitivity to the drug. Several models have been
proposed to explain the possible biochemical link between the MMR pathway and
cisplatin cytotoxicity (reviewed in Refs.
26,
27,
28,
29) but no precise mechanism
has yet been defined. An important molecular determinant of such mechanisms
was the identification of MMR proteins implicated in cisplatin cytotoxicity.
Early experiments in Escherichia coli have shown that loss of MMR
activity because of mutations in mutS or mutL was correlated
with cisplatin resistance
(30). In eukaryotes, mismatch
repair defects because of loss of either human MSH2 or MSH6 subunits of
hMutS
Because the primary role of MutS and hMutS In the present study, we investigated the binding properties of E. coli MutS protein with various platinated DNA substrates containing a single centrally located cisplatin adduct to define the precise nature of the bound adducts. Experimental conditions were used in which sensitivity was high because of the absence of carrier DNA and to low nonspecific background binding. Within the sequence context studied here, the 1,2-d(GpG) adduct is the only bifunctional cisplatin lesion that is recognized albeit with a very low relative affinity. In contrast, MutS recognized with higher specificity an extended array of cisplatin compound lesions that are likely to be formed in vivo based on cisplatin mutation spectra. Surface plasmon resonance was employed for the first time to study MutS binding kinetics to several platinated DNA substrates; the weak binding of MutS to the 1,2-d(GpG) intrastrand cross-link is essentially dependent on a fast rate of dissociation. Taken together, our interaction data with MutS and different platinated DNA substrates suggest that cisplatin compound lesions formed during misincorporation of a base opposite either adducted base of both 1,2-intrastrand cross-links are the most probable critical lesions for MMR-mediated cisplatin cytotoxicity.
MaterialsSingle-stranded 24-mer oligonucleotides, biotinylated oligonucleotides, and [ -32P]ATP were purchased
from Amersham Biosciences. T4 polynucleotide kinase was from New England
Biolabs. Untagged MutS was obtained from IntegraGen (Evry, France). Solutions
of 40% acrylamide and 2% bisacrylamide were from Bio-Rad. Cisplatin was from
Sigma. Surfactant P20 and streptavidin-coated SA sensor chips were purchased
from BIAcore AB (Uppsala, Sweden).
Protein PurificationHexameric histidine-tagged MutS protein
was prepared as previously described
(39). The host strain was BL21
(
Preparation of the glutathione S-transferase-MutY fusion protein
was carried out as previously described
(41). The host strain was BL21
(
Platination and DNA PurificationThe sequences of the
oligonucleotides are shown in Fig.
1. Single-stranded oligonucleotides including those with a
3'-biotin label were purified on a 24% denaturating polyacrylamide gel.
The preparation and purification of oligonucleotides containing single
1,2-d(GpG), d(ApG), or d(GpCpG) cisplatin intrastrand cross-links and the
synthesis of the cisplatin interstrand cross-link was as described
(42). The single-stranded
purine-rich oligonucleotide 5'-AGGAGTAGAGATCGAGAGAGTAAG-3' was
5'-end labeled with T4 polynucleotide kinase and
[
Electrophoretic Mobility Shift Competition AssaysMutS (21 nM) was incubated in binding buffer (100 mM NaCl, 5 mM MgCl2, 10 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.5, 0.1 mM EDTA, 1 mM dithiothreitol, 80 µg/ml acetylated bovine serum albumin, and 2% glycerol) with mixtures of 32P-labeled duplex GG/CT (2 nM) and particular unlabeled duplex competitors at varying concentrations as indicated in 20 µl. Reactions were allowed to reach equilibrium by incubation at 4 °C for 20 min. Gel loading buffer was added, and the reaction mixture was loaded on a 6% native polyacrylamide gel (37.5:1, acrylamide:bisacrylamide (w/w); 45 mM Tris borate, 0.5 mM EDTA, pH 8.3). Gels were electrophoresed for 1 h at 4 °C at 13 V/cm, dried, and exposed to an Amersham Biosciences PhosphorImager screen overnight. The fraction bound (radioactivity of the bound complex/total radioactivity) was determined by ImageQuant 5.1 software (Amersham Biosciences). Data analysis were carried out as described (43). We determined the concentration of various competitors necessary to decrease by 2-fold the amount of DNA shifted in the absence of competitor by linear regression of plots of the fraction of DNA bound in the absence of competitor divided by the fraction of DNA bound in the presence of competitor as a function of the competitor concentration. Direct Binding ExperimentsVarying concentrations of MutS (0 to 100 nM) were used to titrate 32P-labeled duplex GG/CT or G*G*/CT (2 nM) in binding conditions as described above with the exception that no competitor DNA was present. The subsequent steps were the same as described under "Electrophoretic Mobility Shift Competition Assay." The fraction bound was calculated and plotted as a function of the protein concentration. Data were least-squares fitted to an equation for a simple two-state binding process (44) using Origin 6.0 software (Microcal, Northampton, MA). Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) MeasurementsSPR measurements were performed on a BIAcore 2000 at 15 °C using a streptavidincoated chip and duplex DNA containing a 3'-biotin on the nonadducted purine-rich strand. 24-Mer oligonucleotides used for SPR were the same as those presented in Fig. 1 with the exception that the purine-rich strand oligonucleotides have a 3'-biotin. Various biotinylated duplexes were prepared by mixing biotinylated purine-rich strand with a 3-fold molar excess of pyrimidine-rich strand in annealing buffer at 75 °C followed by cooling to 4 °C. Platinated and unplatinated biotinylated DNA duplexes were bound to the streptavidin-coated SA sensor chip by injecting 10 µl of 750 mM NaCl, 10 mM HEPES-KOH, pH 7.4, 3 mM EDTA, 0.005% surfactant P20, and 1.7 µM biotinylated duplexes GG/CC, G*G*/CC, GG/CT, G*G*/CT, GG/TC, or G*G*/TC. MutS protein was injected at a flow rate of 20 µl/min in running buffer (100 mM NaCl, 5 mM MgCl2, 10 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.5, 0.1 mM EDTA, 1 mM dithiothreitol, 0.0005% Tween 20, and 2% glycerol). Two washes of 10 µl of running buffer containing 0.04% SDS were used to regenerate the surface after each injection of MutS. Binding to each duplex was assayed at five different concentrations of MutS (01000 µM). To obtain kinetic parameters, late association phases and early dissociation phases of the resulting sensorgrams were fit to the Langmuir binding model using BIAevaluation software (version 2.0). The ratio of bound MutS per duplex DNA substrate was deduced from the stoichiometry formula (MutS response x DNA Mr)/(DNA response x MutS Mr), where MutS response is the maximal response (in RU) obtained at the plateau level, DNA response (in RU) corresponds to the plateau value for a DNA substrate, and DNA and MutS Mr are molecular weights of the DNA substrate and MutS, respectively. To check the chemical stability of bound platinum residue within biotinylated duplexes, the platinated pyrimidine-rich strand was 5'-32P-end labeled followed by hybridization with matched or mismatched complementary biotinylated strand. Labeled duplexes were then incubated in 100 mM NaCl, 5 mM MgCl2, 5 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.5, 0.5 mM EDTA at 25 °C for 24 h and loaded on a 24% denaturating polyacrylamide gel. After migration no product corresponding to unplatinated pyrimidine-rich strand was detected indicating that the platinum residue was not displaced from the strand. MutY Adenine Glycosylase AssayRadiolabeled double-stranded 24-mer oligonucleotides GG/CC, GG/AC, and G*G*/AC were prepared and purified as described above (with the purine-rich strand 5'-32P-end-labeled). Reactions were as previously described with minor modifications (41). Briefly, duplexes (40 fmol) were incubated with MutY (130 ng) at room temperature in 10 µl of reaction buffer containing 20 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.5, 50 µg/ml bovine serum albumin, and 10 mM EDTA followed by the addition of 2 µl of 2.5 M NaOH and heating at 95 °C for 5 min at the times indicated. The denaturated samples were electrophoresed on a 24% denaturating polyacrylamide gel followed by quantification by phosphorimaging.
Relative Binding Affinities of MutS for Cisplatin Bifunctional Adducts within the Context of Homoduplex DNAWe were first interested in determining whether bifunctional adducts of cisplatin could be recognized by the bacterial MutS within the context of homoduplex DNA. For this purpose we designed 24-mer oligonucleotide duplexes (Fig. 1) containing each of the four cisplatin bifunctional adducts considered as critical lesions for drug cytotoxicity: the 1,2-intrastrand d(GpG) and d(ApG) cross-links, the 1,3-d(GpCpG) intrastrand cross-link, and the interstrand cross-link formed at a d(GC/GC) site. To determine the relative affinities of purified E. coli MutS for the different platinated duplexes, we performed competition experiments using an electrophoretic mobility shift assay. We compared the abilities of the various platinated unlabeled 24-mer duplexes to compete with 32P-labeled G/T containing duplex GG/CT. In agreement with previous data (45), the dissociation constant (Kd) for MutS with the duplex GG/CT was found to be 19 ± 3 nM as determined by direct titration experiments (data not shown). We confirmed that tagged MutS protein yielded the same results as untagged protein for all the binding experiments presented in this study. Fig. 2A shows typical competition experiments for which the 32P-labeled duplex GG/CT was mixed with different amounts of the unlabeled duplex competitors GG/CT, GG/CC, and G*G*/CC that contained the major 1,2-intrastrand cisplatin cross-link. As expected, addition of unlabeled duplex GG/CT competes away the binding of MutS to the probe as judged by the decrease of the bound DNA (migrating with reduced electrophoretic mobility). Duplexes GG/CC and G*G*/CC inhibit weakly the binding of MutS to the probe, with the platinated duplex showing slightly greater inhibition. Data from competition experiments were plotted as the fractional binding of labeled duplex GG/CT in the absence of competitor relative to binding at various competitor concentrations as a function of competitor DNA concentrations as previously reported (43) (Fig. 2B). The concentration of competitor duplexes necessary to reduce GG/CT binding by 50% was used to determine the specificity for various competitors relative to homoduplex DNA substrates. MutS was found to recognize specifically the homoduplex G*G*/CC containing a cisplatin 1,2-d(GpG) adduct. However, the 1,2-d(GpG) intrastrand cross-link is recognized with only a 1.5-fold specificity (Table I), whereas the duplex GG/CT containing a natural G/T mismatch is bound by MutS with a 47-fold higher preference (Table II). The adduct recognition appears to be sequence-independent as MutS binding was the same when the nature of the base pairs flanking the platination site was changed (CGGC or TGGT as central sequence for the purine-rich strand) or when the entire sequence was changed by using oligonucleotides previously studied in binding experiments with hMutS
(34,
35) (data not shown). These
data for MutS and those of Duckett et al.
(34) for hMutS show
weak binding to the 1,2-d(GpG) intrastrand cross-link with 30- and 10-fold,
respectively, weaker efficiencies as compared with a single G/T mispair.
Following the same procedure, recognition of DNA substrates containing other cisplatin bifunctional adducts were tested. Competitors containing either a 1,2-d(ApG) intrastrand cross-link, a 1,3-d(GpCpG) intrastrand cross-link, or an interstrand cross-link formed at a d(GC/GC) site compete less efficiently with the labeled G/T heteroduplex than the corresponding unplatinated competitors as deduced from the values of specificity reported in Table I. This implies that the 1,2-d(GpG) intrastrand adduct is the unique cisplatin bifunctional adduct recognized specifically by MutS. This suggests that 1,2-d(GpG) intrastrand cross-link is the lesion recognized in vitro by MutS in globally cisplatin-modified DNA (38).
MutS Recognition of Cisplatin Intrastrand Cross-links When a Mismatched
Thymine Is Opposite One Platinated Guanine hMutS
In contrast to the stimulation by the adduct to binding of MutS with the duplex G*G*/CT, a DNA substrate containing a cisplatin 1,2-d(ApG) intrastrand cross-link with a T opposite the platinated guanine competes with the same order of magnitude as the corresponding unplatinated heteroduplex (Fig. 4, Table II). Thus, the 1,2-d(ApG) intrastrand cross-link can be recognized because of the presence of the misincorporated thymine opposite the adducted guanine. MutS Recognizes an Extensive Set of Cisplatin 1,2-Intrastrand Cross-link/Base MismatchesResults on cisplatin mutagenicity in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells indicate that several different compound lesions can be produced and that adenine or guanine rather than thymine are preferentially mispaired opposite 1,2-intrastrand adducts (14, 15, 16, 17). To identify the compound lesions specifically bound by a MMR binding activity, we analyzed interaction of MutS with platinated duplexes containing all other possible mispaired bases opposite the 5'- or the 3'-platinated base of the 1,2-d(GpG) or -d(ApG) cross-links. Again, the abilities of various mismatched DNA substrates with or without a 1,2-intrastrand cross-link to compete with radiolabeled duplex GG/CT were compared by competition experiments; the relative binding affinities for MutS are reported in Table II. The trend in affinity for mismatches is G/T > G/G > G/A for unplatinated duplexes in the GG series and G/T > G/G >A/C > A/A > G/A for unplatinated duplexes in the AG series. This order of affinity qualitatively agrees with that reported previously, and the specific recognition of these mismatches by MutS is consistent with their repair both in vitro and in vivo (46, 47). Among nine platinated duplexes of the GG and AG series with G/G, G/A, A/A, and A/C mismatches, seven are specifically bound by MutS (Table II). This result illustrates the capacity of MutS to bind DNA containing a large variety of cisplatin compound lesions. Mutagenesis studies have shown that d(GpG) and d(ApG) adducts primarily induced, respectively, G to T and A to T transversions and less frequently G to C and A to C transversions, with a preponderance located at the 5'-modified base in prokaryotes (14). Our finding that MutS recognizes specifically the 1,2-d(GpG) adduct when the complementary strand contains an adenine or a guanine opposite the 5'-platinated guanine and the d(ApG) adduct with a mispaired adenine opposite the 5'-platinated adenine strengthens the likelihood of a role of such compound lesions in mechanisms linking cisplatin cytotoxicity and MMR. Among the seven platinated duplexes with mispaired bases opposite either modified base that we have found to act as specific competitors, five are more effective than the corresponding unadducted heteroduplexes. The increase in affinity occurs with the major cisplatin adduct for all G/A and G/G mispairs tested and is independent of the mispair location (opposite 3'- or 5'-platinated guanine). As compared with the mismatched duplexes, the presence of 1,2-d(GpG) adduct increased the specificity of MutS by 5-, 3-, and 2-fold for the duplexes G*G*/CG, G*G*/AC, and G*G*/GC, respectively. This effect also occurs with 1,2-d(ApG) adduct in the case of the duplex A*G*/TA. Inversely, the presence of this adduct can decrease the relative ability of a mismatched substrate to compete, as observed with the competitor A*G*/TG. An even more dramatic effect was observed with the duplexes A*G*/CC and A*G*/GC as the presence of the adduct abolishes MutS recognition of A/C and A/G mismatches, respectively. These results indicate that the nature of the 1,2-intrastrand adduct can play a differential role in mismatch recognition of cisplatin compound lesions. SPR Analysis of MutS Binding to Platinated DNA SubstratesWe used SPR to examine the kinetics of binding of MutS to oligonucleotide duplexes containing either a 1,2-d(GpG) intrastrand cross-link or a 1,2-d(GpG) adduct with a mismatched thymine opposite either the 5'- or 3'-platinated guanine. For binding of platinated and unplatinated 24-base pair duplexes to the Biacore streptavidin chip, a biotin residue was added to the 3' end of the unadducted purine-rich strand. Because platinum has affinity for sulfur donors (48), we showed that the stability of the 1,2-d(GpG) adduct within a duplex was unaffected by the presence of a sulfur-containing biotin residue (see "Experimental Procedures"). After immobilizing the appropriate biotinylated duplexes to separate flow cells, MutS was injected over the surfaces. As shown in Fig. 5A, the maximum level of binding of MutS to the heteroduplex GG/CT is much higher as compared with that of the perfectly paired duplex, as expected for a mismatch binding protein. As deduced at saturation binding obtained at a higher protein concentration (RUmax = 650, data not shown), MutS as a dimer was found to bind to the heteroduplex in a 1:1 manner, in agreement with previous studies (40, 49). Adding a cisplatin 1,2-intrastrand adduct to the GG/CC homoduplex results in an increase of the plateau level. A similar increase occurred when the mismatched thymine was opposite the 3'-platinated guanine. Examination of the association and dissociation phases shows that the kinetic parameters responsible for the affinity increase are different for homoduplex and heteroduplex: with the homoduplex, this increase relates to variations of the dissociation rate, whereas for the heteroduplex it is the association step that is changed. In contrast, when the mismatched thymine is opposite the 5'-modified guanine, the plateau level of the platinated heteroduplex is lower (Fig. 5B). In this case, MutS dissociation is more rapid as compared with the corresponding unplatinated mismatched duplex GG/TC. The SPR data are in qualitative agreement with results obtained from competition experiments.
The association and dissociation rate constants and the relative affinities of MutS for the different DNA substrates were determined by injecting increasing concentrations of MutS through the cells (data not shown). Most of the kinetograms were fitted with a 1:1 Langmuir model. The association rate for the MutS-G*G*/CT complex was not determined because of a complex biphasic type of interaction; a fit of the dissociation phase using a single exponential decay model provided the dissociation rate constant for this platinated substrate. Summary of data are reported in Fig. 5C. Our thermodynamic parameters compare well with those previously obtained with G/T-containing DNA substrates (50). The dissociation rate of MutS from the platinated homoduplex is 2-fold lower as compared with the corresponding unplatinated duplex and the affinity decrease for duplex G*G*/TC is related to a 4.8-fold increase in MutS dissociation as compared with duplex GG/TC. Thus, these data confirmed that the variations in the dissociation phase can explain the differences in MutS affinity for duplexes G*G*/CC and G*G*/TC as compared with their corresponding unplatinated duplexes. Compound Lesions with Adenine Opposite Either Platinated Guanine of the Major Cisplatin Intrastrand Cross-link Are Not Substrates for the Bacterial DNA Glycosylase MutYAlthough MutS recognizes specifically a 1,2-d(GpG) cisplatin cross-link when an adenine is opposite either platinated guanine, it is possible that in vivo, these lesions are primarily substrates for MutY, a DNA glycosylase responsible for the first step of base excision repair of adenine misincorporated opposite guanine or opposite the damaged guanine, 8-oxoguanine (51). Due to its glycosylase activity, it is difficult to study the binding of MutY with DNA substrates containing a G/A mismatch. Therefore, we compared the glycosylase activity of MutY with the same 24-mer duplexes as above containing a mispaired adenine opposite unplatinated or platinated guanine in a 1,2-d(GpG) cross-link. In the experimental conditions used here, apurinic sites generated by the removal of mispaired adenines by MutY were chemically converted to strand breaks. The resulting fragmented products were then analyzed on a denaturating gel. As shown in Fig. 6A, the 24-mer double-stranded oligonucleotide GG/AC bearing a mismatched adenine yields a product comigrating with a 12-mer oligonucleotide thus showing the glycosylase activity of MutY. No cleavage was detected with the corresponding matched duplex GG/CC. Incubation of MutY with a DNA substrate containing a mispaired adenine opposite the 5'-platinated guanine of 1,2-d(GpG) cross-link did not result in cleavage. The same result was obtained with duplex G*G*/CA (data not shown). This loss of activity could result from either a lack of duplex recognition by MutY or an inhibition of the glycosylase activity by cisplatin. To test the former hypothesis, we compared the efficiency of competitor duplexes GG/CC or G*G*/AC in inhibiting the cleavage reaction of the G/A mispair-containing duplex (Fig. 6B). We found that duplexes G*G*/AC inhibited the cleavage reaction but with the same efficiency as the matched duplex GG/CC. The same result was obtained with duplexes G*G*/CA (data not shown). Thus the major cisplatin intrastrand cross-link abolishes the specific recognition of a G/A mispair by MutY. Although competition between MutS and MutY does occur for the repair of G/A mispairs, our data show that it no longer occurs in the presence of a 1,2-d(GpG) cisplatin cross-link.
Recognition of cisplatin-DNA adducts by MutS or its human homolog MutS is thought to be a necessary event in the biochemical processes
linking the MMR system with drug cytotoxicity. In this study, we have examined
the ability of MutS to specifically recognize cisplatin-modified matched or
mismatched DNA substrates. Cisplatin generates a range of bifunctional DNA lesions but our study showed that MutS-specific recognition is limited to the most abundant 1,2-d(GpG) adduct (Table I). The fact that MutS does not recognize specifically a d(ApG) adduct is unexpected because the DNA structure induced by both adducts is considered to be very similar. Indeed these adducts induced a bending and an unwinding of the DNA helix to the same extent (2), but distortions are more pronounced for the 5'-adducted base pair of the 1,2-d(ApG) adduct as compared with the 1,2-d(GpG) cross-link indicating structural differences at the nucleotide level (52). On the other hand, because mispair recognition by MutS was previously shown to be affected by the nature of the flanking base pairs (46, 53), it is possible that the different chemical nature of the 5' base pair of the cross-linked d(GpG) and d(ApG) sites may also play a role. In contrast to the 1,2-d(ApG) adduct, the structures of 1,3-intrastrand and interstrand cross-links differ significantly from that of the major cisplatin lesion (2, 10) and these adducts were not preferentially recognized by MutS (Table I). These data demonstrate the ability of MutS to distinguish between 1,2-d(GpG) intrastrand cross-links and other bifunctional cisplatin lesions and hence illustrate its potential role as a cisplatin DNA damage sensor.
In our assay conditions enabling high affinity and specificity, competition
binding analysis revealed that the 1,2-d(GpG) intrastrand cross-link is poorly
recognized by MutS with a 1.5-fold specificity as compared with an equivalent
unadducted DNA substrate (Fig.
2B). Despite this relatively weak affinity, this binding
might be sufficient for MMR-dependent processing of the 1,2-d(GpG) cross-link
as a G/A mismatch, which shows that similar binding is known to be repaired by
MMR in vitro and in vivo
(46,
53). On the other hand, this
adduct can also interact with a variety of cellular proteins as demonstrated
in eukaryotes (for reviews see Refs.
54 and
55), and as a consequence MMR
binding activity to this adduct might be less favored. In this case, SPR
kinetic data can be helpful to predict the result of the competition between
different cisplatin DNA damage-binding proteins. Indeed, the competition of
two proteins for a platinated DNA substrate has recently been correlated to
their rates of association. Box B of the high mobility group box protein 1
(HMGB1) whose kon is close to the diffusion limit
(
Several observations both in vitro and in vivo are
consistent with the existence of a variety of cisplatin compound lesions that
are formed during replicative bypass of 1,2-intrastrand cross-links with
misincorporation of a base opposite one of the adducted purines. In the course
of this work, all three possible mispaired bases opposite the adducted purines
(T, G, A and G, A, C opposite the adducted guanines and adenine, respectively)
were tested for binding with MutS. We found that all the compound lesions with
1,2-d(GpG) cross-link and four of six with the 1,2-d(ApG) intrastrand adduct
were specifically recognized by MutS (Table
II). Duplexes containing the 1,2-d(GpG) intrastrand cross-link
were recognized more efficiently when a mispaired base was opposite either
platinated guanine; the ability of the protein to bind DNA substrates with the
1,2-d(ApG) intrastrand adduct was dependent on a mismatched base opposite the
adduct except in two cases. These results are similar to other reports that
have shown that a substrate with O(6)-methylguanine opposite a
thymine is preferentially bound by MutS
(61) and hMutS
We cannot exclude the in vivo recognition of compound lesions by
binding proteins other than MutS. In particular, a subset of compound lesions
could be substrates for other mismatch processing pathways. To address this
question, we showed that significant cisplatin compound lesions containing G/A
mispairs are not recognized by the MutY-dependent mismatch repair pathway
indicating that recognition of such lesions could be restricted to MutS.
Similarly, in eukaryotes, binding activity of human cell extracts with two
cisplatin compound lesions (a mismatched thymine opposite either adducted
guanine in a 1,2-d(GpG) adduct) seemed strictly dependent on hMutS
Models have been proposed to explain the connection between the MMR pathway
and cytotoxicity of cisplatin
(26,
27,
28,
29). Some of them include
molecular mechanisms initially proposed for recognition of cisplatin DNA
damage by protein such as HMG box proteins. In these models, a first
obligatory step is a relatively tight binding of a protein to a cisplatin
lesion but not to compound lesions. As a consequence, the resulting
nucleoprotein complex could block replication past an adduct leading to either
a cytotoxic response and/or inhibition of the nucleotide excision repair by
shielding the lesion, therefore allowing its persistence in the genome. As
shown in the present study, the fact that MutS recognized poorly the major
cisplatin 1,2-d(GpG) intrastrand cross-link reduces considerably the
likelihood of such models. Our interaction study is more consistent with other
models whereby compound lesions are the critical lesions. A well known model
already proposed for cisplatin and other DNA damaging agents is called the
futile repair model (29). It
was proposed that MMR could be capable of repeatedly initiating repair of the
mispaired base opposite a cisplatin adduct within the newly replicated strand
leading to the accumulation of secondary cytotoxic lesions (DNA strand breaks)
(24,
26). Another attractive model
involves an antirecombinogenic activity of MMR. Such a possibility has been
recently proposed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and is thought to
involve a RAD52-dependent recombinational bypass during replication
(27). In bacterial cells,
recombination has recently been implicated in the replicative bypass of
cisplatin lesions (64). One
possibility is that MutS binds to cisplatin compound lesions that could be
formed during recombination bypass, leading to inhibition of survival mediated
by recombination-dependent bypass. In this context, the fact that MutS binds
less efficiently to the 1,2-d(ApG) intrastrand adduct than to the 1,2-d(GpG)
intrastrand cross-link when they are part of a compound lesion could
contribute to a higher proportion of error-prone bypass of 1,2-d(ApG) adducts
that could explain in part the higher mutagenic effect of this adduct in MMR
proficient bacterial cells
(14,
15). It would be of interest
to investigate cisplatin mutagenesis in mismatch repair deficient cells to
ascertain such a relationship. As an alternative to the models presented
above, a more direct signaling pathway has been proposed
(28); in such a model, the
assembly of the eukaryotic hMutS The results presented here have identified critical primary DNA lesions of cisplatin, which recognition is a prerequisite step in the chain of events leading to cisplatin cytotoxicity mediated by MMR. Correlation have been established between loss of MMR in cancer cells and resistance or tolerance to cisplatin. Continued investigations into the molecular mechanisms by which MMR pathways can modulate the cellular response to cisplatin may be helpful to improve the therapeutic use of this drug and in the design of new platinum-based drugs.
* This work was supported in part by the Ligue contre le Cancer, Association pour la Recherche sur le Cancer, and COST Chemistry Actions D20. The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.
¶ On leave at Genoscope from the Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique. Present address: IntegraGen, 4, rue Pierre Fontaine, 91000 Evry,
France. || To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel.: 33-2-38-25-55-44; Fax: 33-2-38-63-15-17; E-mail: malinge{at}cnrs-orleans.fr.
1 The abbreviations used are: cisplatin,
cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II); MMR, DNA mismatch repair; RU,
response unit; SPR, surface plasmon resonance; HMG, high mobility group.
We thank F. Culard and M.-J. Giraud-Panis for critical reading of the manuscript, M. Marinus and S. Yonei for the MutS and MutY expression vectors, respectively, C. Marcaillou for expert technical assistance, and J. Weissenbach for helpful encouragement.
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