Stable Cell Line Engineering
For VectorBuilder's cell line engineering services, we can design and construct optimal vectors for precise genome targeting, package viral vectors at high titer, and efficiently introduce vectors to your cells of interest via various transfection, electroporation, and transduction techniques, to produce your desired genetic modifications. We will then perform antibiotic selection, cell sorting, and sub-culturing to deliver fully verified and QC'ed cell pools or single clones to you ready to use. All cells are guaranteed with desired genotypes, contaminant-free, and authenticated according to ATCC standards.
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The KU-PARP14 axis differentially regulates DNA resection at stalled replication forks by MRE11 and EXO1
Ashna Dhoonmoon, Claudia M. Nicolae & George-Lucian Moldovan.
Nature Communications, 2022, doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-32756-5
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Abstract: Suppression of nascent DNA degradation has emerged as an essential role of the BRCA pathway in genome protection.In BRCA-deficient cells, the MRE11 nuclease is responsible for both resection of reversed replication forks, and accumulation of single stranded DNA gaps behind forks. Here, we show that the mono-ADP-ribosyltransferase PARP14 is a critical co-factor of MRE11. PARP14 is recruited to nascent DNA upon replication stress in BRCA-deficient cells, and through its catalytic activity, mediates the engagement of MRE11. Loss or inhibition of PARP14 suppresses MRE11-mediated fork degradation and gap accumulation, and promotes genome stability and chemoresistance of BRCA-deficient cells. Moreover, we show that the KU complex binds reversed forks and protects them against EXO1-catalyzed degradation. KU recruits the PARP14-MRE11 complex, which initiates partial resection to release KU and allow long-range resection by EXO1. Our work identifies a multistep process of nascent DNA processing at stalled replication forks in BRCA-deficient cells.
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A lysine-rich cluster in the N-BAR domain of ARF GTPase-activating protein ASAP1 is necessary for binding and bundling actin filaments
Anjelika Gasilina, et al.
Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2022, doi: 10.1016/j.jbc.2022.101700
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Abstract: Actin filament maintenance is critical for both normal cell homeostasis and events associated with malignant transformation. The ADP-ribosylation factor GTPase-activating protein ASAP1 regulates the dynamics of filamentous actin_x0002_based structures, including stress fibers, focal adhesions, and circular dorsal ruffles. Here, we have examined the molecular basis for ASAP1 association with actin. Using a combination of structural modeling, mutagenesis, and in vitro and cell-based assays, we identify a putative-binding interface between the N-Bin-Amphiphysin-Rvs (BAR) domain of ASAP1 and actin filaments. We found that neutralization of charges and charge reversal at positions 75, 76, and 79 of ASAP1 reduced the binding of ASAP1 BAR-pleckstrin homology tandem to actin filaments and abrogated actin bundle formation in vitro. In addition, overexpression of actin-binding defective ASAP1 BAR-pleckstrin homology [K75, K76, K79] mutants prevented cellular actin remodeling in U2OS cells. Exogenous expression of [K75E, K76E, K79E] mutant of full-length ASAP1 did not rescue the reduction of cellular actin fibers consequent to knockdown of endogenous ASAP1. Taken together, our results support the hypothesis that the lysine-rich cluster in the N-BAR domain of ASAP1 is important for regulating actin filament organization.
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