Opposing ISWI- and CHD-class chromatin remodeling activities orchestrate heterochromatic DNA repair

Karolin Klement, Martijn S. Luijsterburg, Jordan B. Pinder, Chad S. Cena, Victor Del Nero, Christopher M. Wintersinger, Graham Dellaire, Haico van Attikum, Aaron A. Goodarzi

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Abstract

Heterochromatin is a barrier to DNA repair that correlates strongly with elevated somatic mutation in cancer. CHD class II nucleosome remodeling activity (specifically CHD3.1) retained by KAP-1 increases heterochromatin compaction and impedes DNA doublestrand break (DSB) repair requiring Artemis. This obstruction is alleviated by chromatin relaxation via ATMdependent KAP-1S824 phosphorylation (pKAP-1) and CHD3.1 dispersal from heterochromatic DSBs; however, how heterochromatin compaction is actually adjusted after CHD3.1 dispersal is unknown. In this paper, we demonstrate that Artemis-dependent DSB repair in heterochromatin requires ISWI (imitation switch)-class ACF1-SNF2H nucleosome remodeling. Compacted chromatin generated by CHD3.1 after DNA replication necessitates ACF1-SNF2H- mediated relaxation for DSB repair. ACF1-SNF2H requires RNF20 to bind heterochromatic DSBs, underlies RNF20- mediated chromatin relaxation, and functions downstream of pKAP-1-mediated CHD3.1 dispersal to enable DSB repair. CHD3.1 and ACF1-SNF2H display counteractive activities but similar histone affinities (via the plant homeodomains of CHD3.1 and ACF1), which we suggest necessitates a two-step dispersal and recruitment system regulating these opposing chromatin remodeling activities during DSB repair.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)717-733
Number of pages17
JournalJournal of Cell Biology
Volume207
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014

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  • Cell Biology

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