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DNA Damage Checkpoint Responses in the S Phase of Synchronized Diploid Human Fibroblasts
Author(s) -
Chastain Paul D.,
Brylawski Bruna P.,
Zhou Yingchun C.,
Rao Shangbang,
Chu Haitao,
Ibrahim Joseph G.,
Kaufmann William K.,
CordeiroStone Marila
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
photochemistry and photobiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.818
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1751-1097
pISSN - 0031-8655
DOI - 10.1111/php.12361
Subject(s) - replicon , dna damage , g2 m dna damage checkpoint , microbiology and biotechnology , dna replication , phosphorylation , chek1 , dna , biology , dna synthesis , chemistry , cell cycle , genetics , cell cycle checkpoint , cell , plasmid
We investigated the hypothesis that the strength of the activation of the intra‐S DNA damage checkpoint varies within the S phase. Synchronized diploid human fibroblasts were exposed to either 0 or 2.5 J m −2 UVC in early, mid‐ and late‐S phase. The endpoints measured were the following: (1) radio‐resistant DNA synthesis ( RDS ), (2) induction of Chk1 phosphorylation, (3) initiation of new replicons and (4) length of replication tracks synthesized after irradiation. RDS analysis showed that global DNA synthesis was inhibited by approximately the same extent (30 ± 12%), regardless of when during S phase the fibroblasts were exposed to UVC . Western blot analysis revealed that the UVC ‐induced phosphorylation of checkpoint kinase 1 (Chk1) on serine 345 was high in early and mid S but 10‐fold lower in late S. DNA fiber immunostaining studies indicated that the replication fork displacement rate decreased in irradiated cells at the three time points examined; however, replicon initiation was inhibited strongly in early and mid S, but this response was attenuated in late S. These results suggest that the intra‐S checkpoint activated by UVC ‐induced DNA damage is not as robust toward the end of S phase in its inhibition of the latest firing origins in human fibroblasts.