Monoubiquitylation of histone H2B contributes to the bypass of DNA damage during and after DNA replication

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Abstract

DNA lesion bypass is mediated by DNA damage tolerance (DDT) pathways and homologous recombination (HR). The DDT pathways, which involve translesion synthesis and template switching (TS), are activated by the ubiquitylation (ub) of PCNA through components of the RAD6-RAD18 pathway,whereas the HR pathway is independent of RAD18. However, it is unclear how these processes are coordinated within the context of chromatin. Here we show that Bre1, an ubiquitin ligase specific for histone H2B, is recruited to chromatin in a manner coupled to replication of damaged DNA. In the absence of Bre1 or H2Bub, cells exhibit accumulation of unrepaired DNA lesions. Consequently, the damaged forks become unstable and resistant to repair. We provide physical, genetic, and cytological evidence that H2Bub contributes toward both Rad18-dependent TS and replication fork repair by HR. Using an inducible system of DNA damage bypass, we further show that H2Bub is required for the regulation of DDT after genome duplication. We propose that Bre1-H2Bub facilitates fork recovery and gap-filling repair by controlling chromatin dynamics in response to replicative DNA damage.

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Hung, S. H., Wong, R. P., Ulrich, H. D., & Kao, C. F. (2017). Monoubiquitylation of histone H2B contributes to the bypass of DNA damage during and after DNA replication. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114(11), E2205–E2214. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1612633114

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