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[Cancer Research 61, 4842-4850, June 15, 2001]
© 2001 American Association for Cancer Research

Molecular Biology and Genetics

Homology-directed DNA Repair, Mitomycin-C Resistance, and Chromosome Stability Is Restored with Correction of a Brca1 Mutation1

Mary Ellen Moynahan2, Tracy Y. Cui3 and Maria Jasin

Department of Medicine [M. E. M.] and Cell Biology Program [T. Y. C., M. J.], Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10021

Chromosomal breaks occur spontaneously as a result of normal DNA metabolism and after exposure to DNA-damaging agents. A major pathway involved in chromosomal double-strand break repair is homologous recombination. In this pathway, a DNA sequence with similarity to a damaged chromosome directs the repair of the damage. The protein products of the hereditary breast cancer susceptibility genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2, interact with the Rad51 protein, a central component of homologous repair pathways. We have recently shown that this interaction is significant by demonstrating that Brca1- and BRCA2-deficient cells are defective in homology-directed chromosomal break repair. We confirm that Brca1-deficient embryonic stem (ES) cells are defective in gene targeting and homology-directed repair of an I-Sce I-induced chromosome break. The phenotypic paradigm that defines homology-directed repair mutants is extended to these Brca1-deficient cells by the demonstration of 100-fold sensitivity to the interstrand cross-linking agent mitomycin-C and spontaneous chromosome instability. Interestingly, although chromosome aberrations were evident, aneuploidy was not observed. Repair phenotypes are partially restored by expression of a Brca1 transgene, whereas correction of one mutated Brca1 allele through gene targeting fully restores mitomycin-C resistance and chromosome stability. We conclude that the inability to properly repair strand breaks by homology-directed repair gives rise to defects in chromosome maintenance that promote genetic instability and, it is likely, tumorigenesis.




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