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Molecular and Cellular Biology, November 2006, p. 8032-8041, Vol. 26, No. 21
0270-7306/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/MCB.01291-06
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Role for RAD18 in Homologous Recombination in DT40 Cells{triangledown}

Dávid Szüts,1 Laura J. Simpson,1 Sarah Kabani,1 Mitsuyoshi Yamazoe,2 and Julian E. Sale1*

Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Division of Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2QH, United Kingdom,1 CREST Research Project, Radiation Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Konoe Yoshida, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan2

Received 14 July 2006/ Returned for modification 8 August 2006/ Accepted 14 August 2006

RAD18 is an E3 ubiquitin ligase that catalyzes the monoubiquitination of PCNA, a modification central to DNA damage bypass and postreplication repair in both yeast and vertebrates. Although current evidence suggests that homologous recombination provides an essential backup in vertebrate rad18 mutants, we show that in chicken DT40 cells this is not the case and that RAD18 plays a role in the recombination reaction itself. Gene conversion tracts in the immunoglobulin locus of rad18 cells are shorter and are associated with an increased frequency of deletions and duplications. rad18 cells also exhibit reduced efficiency of gene conversion induced by targeted double-strand breaks in a reporter construct. Blocking an early stage of the recombination reaction by disruption of XRCC3 not only suppresses immunoglobulin gene conversion but also prevents the aberrant immunoglobulin gene rearrangements associated with RAD18 deficiency, reverses the elevated sister chromatid exchange of the rad18 mutant, and reduces its sensitivity to DNA damage. Together, these data suggest that homologous recombination is toxic in the absence of RAD18 and show that, in addition to its established role in postreplication repair, RAD18 is also required for the orderly completion of gene conversion.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Division of Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2QH, United Kingdom. Phone: 44 (0)1223 252941. Fax: 44 (0)1223 412178. E-mail: jes{at}mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk.

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 21 August 2006.

Molecular and Cellular Biology, November 2006, p. 8032-8041, Vol. 26, No. 21
0270-7306/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/MCB.01291-06
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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