Assessing kinetics and recruitment of DNA repair factors using high content screens

Barbara Martinez-Pastor, Giorgia G. Silveira, Thomas L. Clarke, Dudley Chung, Yuchao Gu, Claudia Cosentino, Lance S. Davidow, Gadea Mata, Sylvana Hassanieh, Jayme Salsman, Alberto Ciccia, Narkhyun Bae, Mark T. Bedford, Diego Megias, Lee L. Rubin, Alejo Efeyan, Graham Dellaire, Raul Mostoslavsky

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Abstract

Repair of genetic damage is coordinated in the context of chromatin, so cells dynamically modulate accessibility at DNA breaks for the recruitment of DNA damage response (DDR) factors. The identification of chromatin factors with roles in DDR has mostly relied on loss-of-function screens while lacking robust high-throughput systems to study DNA repair. In this study, we have developed two high-throughput systems that allow the study of DNA repair kinetics and the recruitment of factors to double-strand breaks in a 384-well plate format. Using a customized gain-of-function open-reading frame library (“ChromORFeome” library), we identify chromatin factors with putative roles in the DDR. Among these, we find the PHF20 factor is excluded from DNA breaks, affecting DNA repair by competing with 53BP1 recruitment. Adaptable for genetic perturbations, small-molecule screens, and large-scale analysis of DNA repair, these resources can aid our understanding and manipulation of DNA repair.

Original languageEnglish
Article number110176
JournalCell Reports
Volume37
Issue number13
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 28 2021

Bibliographical note

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We would like to thank all the members of the Mostoslavsky lab for helpful discussions and critical reading of the manuscript. We also thank Cari Sagum for technical help, David Root and Federica Piccioni from the Broad Institute Genetics Perturbation Platform for help with developing the ChromORFeome library, and the Bioinformatics Core, Mol. Bio. Department at MGH (NIDDK P30 DK040561). MMI laser cut technology was provided by the Program in Membrane Biology Microscopy Core, which is partially supported by the Boston Area Diabetes Endocrinology Research Center ( P30DK057521 ) and the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Center for the Study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease ( P30DK043351 ). High-throughput laser-induced DNA damage was performed in the Confocal and Specialized Microscopy Shared Resource of the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at Columbia University, supported by NIH grant P30 CAO13696 . B.M-P. is supported by an M + Vision Advanced Fellowship Marie Curie COFUND FP7. G.G.S. is supported by an MGH Cancer Center Excellence Award, D.C. was supported by a Nova Scotia Graduate Scholarship , and T.L.C is supported by the Charles King Trust Postdoctoral Fellowship, Simeon J. Fortin Charitable Foundation, Bank of America, N.A., Trustee. A.C. is supported by NIH grant GM117064 , and M.T.B. is supported by a CPRIT PAAC grant RP180804 . R.M. is the Laurel Schwartz Endowed Chair in Oncology. This work is supported by NIEHS grant R21ES027931 to R.M., a Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada ( NSERC ) Discovery Grant RGPIN-2020-04034 to G.D, and a EU H-2020 Program Grant (ERC-2014-STG-638891) to A.E.

Funding Information:
We would like to thank all the members of the Mostoslavsky lab for helpful discussions and critical reading of the manuscript. We also thank Cari Sagum for technical help, David Root and Federica Piccioni from the Broad Institute Genetics Perturbation Platform for help with developing the ChromORFeome library, and the Bioinformatics Core, Mol. Bio. Department at MGH (NIDDK P30 DK040561). MMI laser cut technology was provided by the Program in Membrane Biology Microscopy Core, which is partially supported by the Boston Area Diabetes Endocrinology Research Center (P30DK057521) and the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Center for the Study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (P30DK043351). High-throughput laser-induced DNA damage was performed in the Confocal and Specialized Microscopy Shared Resource of the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at Columbia University, supported by NIH grant P30 CAO13696. B.M-P. is supported by an M + Vision Advanced Fellowship Marie Curie COFUND FP7. G.G.S. is supported by an MGH Cancer Center Excellence Award, D.C. was supported by a Nova Scotia Graduate Scholarship, and T.L.C is supported by the Charles King Trust Postdoctoral Fellowship, Simeon J. Fortin Charitable Foundation, Bank of America, N.A. Trustee. A.C. is supported by NIH grant GM117064, and M.T.B. is supported by a CPRIT PAAC grant RP180804. R.M. is the Laurel Schwartz Endowed Chair in Oncology. This work is supported by NIEHS grant R21ES027931 to R.M. a Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grant RGPIN-2020-04034 to G.D, and a EU H-2020 Program Grant (ERC-2014-STG-638891) to A.E. R.M. and B.M.-P. designed the study, and R.M. B.M.-P. and G.G.S. wrote the manuscript. B.M.-P. G.G.S. T.L.C. D.C. Y.G. C.C. L.S.D. S.H. J.S. and N.B. conducted experiments. R.M. G.D. M.T.B. L.L.R. A.C. and A.E. supervised experiments. D.M. and G.M. designed and performed machine learning analysis. D.C. G.G.S. J.S. and G.D. designed and performed live imaging experiments. L.D. and L.L.R. contributed to the execution and analysis of the DNA repair screen. All authors read and edited the manuscript. The authors declare no competing interests.

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ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • General Biochemistry,Genetics and Molecular Biology

PubMed: MeSH publication types

  • Journal Article
  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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