Mammalian Exo1 encodes both structural and catalytic functions that play distinct roles in essential biological processes

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Mammalian Exonuclease 1 (EXO1) is an evolutionarily conserved, multifunctional exonuclease involved in DNA damage repair, replication, immunoglobulin diversity, meiosis, and telomere maintenance. It has been assumed that EXO1 participates in these processes primarily through its exonuclease activity, but recent studies also suggest that EXO1 has a structural function in the assembly of higher-order protein complexes. To dissect the enzymatic and nonenzymatic roles of EXO1 in the different biological processes in vivo, we generated an EXO1-E109K knockin (Exo1EK) mouse expressing a stable exonuclease-deficient protein and, for comparison, a fully EXO1-deficient (Exo1null) mouse. In contrast to Exo1null/null mice, Exo1EK/EK mice retained mismatch repair activity and displayed normal class switch recombination and meiosis. However, both Exo1-mutant lines showed defects in DNA damage response including DNA double-strand break repair (DSBR) through DNA end resection, chromosomal stability, and tumor suppression, indicating that the enzymatic function is required for those processes. On a transformation-related protein 53 (Trp53)-null background, the DSBR defect caused by the E109K mutation altered the tumor spectrum but did not affect the overall survival as compared with p53-Exo1null mice, whose defects in both DSBR and mismatch repair also compromised survival. The separation of these functions demonstrates the differential requirement for the structural function and nuclease activity of mammalian EXO1 in distinct DNA repair processes and tumorigenesis in vivo.

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Schaetzlein, S., Chahwan, R., Avdievich, E., Roa, S., Wei, K., Eoff, R. L., … Edelmann, W. (2013). Mammalian Exo1 encodes both structural and catalytic functions that play distinct roles in essential biological processes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110(27). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1308512110

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