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Huntington's disease (HD) is an age-dependent neurodegenerative disease. DNA repair pathways have recently been implicated as the most predominant modifiers of age of onset in HD patients. We report that endogenous huntingtin protein directly participates in oxidative DNA damage repair. Using novel chromobodies to detect endogenous human huntingtin in live cells, we show that localization of huntingtin to DNA damage sites is dependent on the kinase activity of ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM) protein. Super-resolution microscopy and biochemical assays revealed that huntingtin co-localizes with and scaffolds proteins of the DNA damage response pathway in response to oxidative stress. In HD patient fibroblasts bearing typical clinical HD allele lengths, we demonstrate that there is deficient oxidative DNA damage repair. We propose that DNA damage in HD is caused by dysfunction of the mutant huntingtin protein in DNA repair, and accumulation of DNA oxidative lesions due to elevated reactive oxygen species may contribute to the onset of HD.

Huntingtin is a scaffolding protein in the ATM oxidative DNA damage response complex