TLSCHECK

"Regulation of pol-eta by phosphorylation, ubiquitination and SUMOylation"

 Coordinatore CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE 

 Organization address address: Piazzale Aldo Moro 7
city: ROMA
postcode: 185

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Stefano
Cognome: Lussignoli
Email: send email
Telefono: +39 0382 546367
Fax: +39 0382 546370

 Nazionalità Coordinatore Italy [IT]
 Totale costo 100˙000 €
 EC contributo 100˙000 €
 Programma FP7-PEOPLE
Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
 Code Call FP7-PEOPLE-2011-CIG
 Funding Scheme MC-CIG
 Anno di inizio 2012
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2012-03-01   -   2016-02-29

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE

 Organization address address: Piazzale Aldo Moro 7
city: ROMA
postcode: 185

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Stefano
Cognome: Lussignoli
Email: send email
Telefono: +39 0382 546367
Fax: +39 0382 546370

IT (ROMA) coordinator 100˙000.00

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defect    recruitment    damage    pathways    cancer    tls    pcna    xpv    ubiquitination    function    poleta    polymerases    pathway    activation    domains    checkpoint    dna    replication   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Xeroderma pigmentosum variant (XPV) is an autosomal recessive genetic disorder that results in enhancced predisposition to skin cancers. XPV results from a defect in the translesion synthesis (TLS) polymerase poleta. TLS allows bypass of unrepaired damage permitting completion of replication. Poleta is phosphorylated and ubiquitinated and can interact with ubiquitin and SUMO, two post-translational modifications that are important in a number of DNA repair pathways, via multiple domains. Mutants in those domains show a defect in DNA damage checkpoint activation, pointing out an unexpected connection between TLS and one of the DNA damage surveillance mechanisms. TLS is regulated by ubiquitination of the proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA). While PCNA ubiquitination is essential for TLS, new evidence suggests that is not needed for the initial recruitment of the polymerases to chromatin. The objective of this proposal is to identify how poleta’s function is modulated by interaction of a number of unknown factors with its different domains, ensuring both its recruitment when needed and its inhibition when its action would be deleterious for normal replication. I propose to dissect the checkpoint activation cascade to unveil the role of poleta in this pathway, analyze known factors involved in both the ubiquitination and SUMOylation pathways and to conduct a proteomic study of poleta to identify novel interactors which will be assayed for TLS functionality in vivo. Insight into the function of a core cancer protection pathway, plus the potential identification of new and important partners controlling poleta will lead to finding new diagnostically relevant biomarkers for XPV patients in whom mutations in poleta have not been found. In the long-term, Y-family polymerases are likely candidate targets for synthetic lethality strategies in cancer treatment and thus a mechanistic understanding of their function will be essential to designing rational therapies.'

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