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online publication date 21 Nov 2006
doi: 10.1242/jcs.03291
Research Article
Werner syndrome protein participates in a complex with RAD51, RAD54, RAD54B and ATR in response to ICL-induced replication arrest
Marit Otterlei*,
Per Bruheim,
Byungchan Ahn,
Wendy Bussen,
Parimal Karmakar,
Kathy Baynton,
and
Vilhelm A. Bohr
* Author for correspondence (e-mail: marit.otterlei{at}ntnu.no)
Werner syndrome (WS) is a rare genetic disorder characterized by genomic instability caused by defects in the WRN gene encoding a member of the human RecQ helicase family. RecQ helicases are involved in several DNA metabolic pathways including homologous recombination (HR) processes during repair of stalled replication forks. Following introduction of interstrand DNA crosslinks (ICL), WRN relocated from nucleoli to arrested replication forks in the nucleoplasm where it interacted with the HR protein RAD52. In this study, we use fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) and immune-precipitation experiments to demonstrate that WRN participates in a multiprotein complex including RAD51, RAD54, RAD54B and ATR in cells where replication has been arrested by ICL. We verify the WRN-RAD51 and WRN-RAD54B direct interaction in vitro. Our data support a role for WRN also in the recombination step of ICL repair.

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