Targeted disruption of NBS1 reveals its roles in mouse development and DNA repair

AUTOR(ES)

Kang, Jian

FONTE

Oxford University Press

RESUMO

Nijmegen breakage syndrome (NBS) is an autosomal recessive hereditary disease that shares some common defects with ataxia–telangiectasia. The gene product mutated in NBS, named NBS1, is a component of the Mre11 complex that is involved in DNA strand-break repair. To elucidate the physiological roles of NBS1, we disrupted the N-terminal exons of the NBS1 gene in mice. NBS1m/m mice are viable, growth retarded and hypersensitive to ionizing radiation (IR). NBS1m/m mice exhibit multiple lymphoid developmental defects, and rapidly develop thymic lymphoma. In addition, female NBS1m/m mice are sterile due to oogenesis failure. NBS1m/m cells are impaired in cellular responses to IR and defective in cellular proliferation. Most systematic and cellular defects identified in NBS1m/m mice recapitulate those in NBS patients, and are essentially identical to those observed in Atm–/– mice. In contrast to Atm–/– mice, spermatogenesis is normal in NBS1m/m mice, indicating that distinct roles of ATM have differential requirement for NBS1 activity. Thus, NBS1 and ATM have overlapping and distinct functions in animal development and DNA repair.

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