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  • High NaCl causes Mre11 to leave the nucleus, disrupting DNA damage signaling and repair. 12684226

    High NaCl causes DNA double-strand breaks and cell cycle arrest, but the mechanism of its genotoxicity has been unclear. In this study, we describe a novel mechanism that contributes to this genotoxicity. The Mre11 exonuclease complex is a central component of DNA damage response. This complex assembles at sites of DNA damage, where it processes DNA ends for subsequent activation of repair and initiates cell cycle checkpoints. However, this does not occur with DNA damage caused by high NaCl. Rather, following high NaCl, Mre11 exits from the nucleus, DNA double-strand breaks accumulate in the S and G2 phases of the cell cycle, and DNA repair is inhibited. Furthermore, the exclusion of Mre11 from the nucleus by high NaCl persists following UV or ionizing radiation, also preventing DNA repair in response to those stresses, as evidenced by absence of H2AX phosphorylation at places of DNA damage and by impaired repair of damaged reporter plasmids. Activation of chk1 by phosphorylation on Ser345 generally is required for DNA damage-induced cell cycle arrest. However, chk1 does not become phosphorylated during high NaCl-induced cell cycle arrest. Also, high NaCl prevents ionizing and UV radiation-induced phosphorylation of chk1, but cell cycle arrest still occurs, indicating the existence of alternative mechanisms for the S and G2/M delays. DNA breaks that occur normally during processes such as DNA replication and transcription, as well as damages to DNA induced by genotoxic stresses, ordinarily are rapidly repaired. We propose that inhibition of this repair by high NaCl results in accumulation of DNA damage, accounting for the genotoxicity of high NaCl, and that cell cycle delay induced by high NaCl slows accumulation of DNA damage until the DNA damage-response network can be reactivated.
    Document Type:
    Reference
    Product Catalog Number:
    07-164
    Product Catalog Name:
    Anti-phospho-H2A.X (Ser139) Antibody
  • 5M NaCl - DAM1661107

    Document Type:
    Certificate of Analysis
    Lot Number:
    DAM1661107
    Product Catalog Number:
    20-159
    Product Catalog Name:
    5M NaCl - for use in Chromatin Immunoprecipitation (ChIP)
  • 5M NaCl - 3191234

    Document Type:
    Certificate of Analysis
    Lot Number:
    3191234
    Product Catalog Number:
    20-159
    Product Catalog Name:
    5M NaCl - for use in Chromatin Immunoprecipitation (ChIP)
  • 5M NaCl - Any-lot

    Document Type:
    Certificate of Analysis
    Lot Number:
    Any-lot
    Product Catalog Number:
    20-159
    Product Catalog Name:
    5M NaCl - for use in Chromatin Immunoprecipitation (ChIP)
  • Taste discrimination between NaCl and KCl is disrupted by amiloride in inbred mice with amiloride-insensitive chorda tympani nerves. 15821286

    The amiloride-sensitive salt transduction pathway is thought to be critical for the discrimination between sodium and nonsodium salts in rodents. In rats, lingual application of amiloride appears to render NaCl qualitatively indistinguishable from KCl. In this study, we tested four strains of mice for salt discriminability. In one strain (C57BL/6J), chorda tympani nerve (CT) responses to NaCl are attenuated by amiloride, and in the other three strains (BALB/cByJ, 129P3/J, DBA/2J) they are not. Under water-restriction conditions, these mice (7 mice/strain) were trained in a gustometer to lick for water from one reinforcement spout in response to a five-lick presentation of NaCl and to lick from another in response to KCl [salt concentration was varied (0.1-1 M) to render intensity irrelevant]. Mice were then tested with the stimuli dissolved in amiloride hydrochloride, and the latter was used as the reinforcer as well. Each concentration of amiloride (0.1-100 microM) was used on 2 separate days with control sessions interposed. Mice from all four strains were able to discriminate NaCl from KCl reliably. Amiloride impaired this discrimination in a dose-dependent fashion. Moreover, performance on NaCl trials appeared to be more affected by amiloride than that on KCl trials in all four strains. Thus, in contrast to the predictions based on CT recordings, discrimination in all four strains appeared to depend on the amiloride-sensitive transduction pathway, which, in the case of BALB/cByJ, 129P3/J, and DBA/2J (and perhaps C57BL/6 as well), may exist in taste buds innervated by nerves other than the CT.
    Document Type:
    Reference
    Product Catalog Number:
    5001
  • Cells adapted to high NaCl have many DNA breaks and impaired DNA repair both in cell culture and in vivo. 14983007

    Acute exposure of cells in culture to high NaCl damages DNA and impairs its repair. However, after several hours of cell cycle arrest, cells multiply in the hypertonic medium. Here, we show that, although adapted cells proliferate rapidly and do not become apoptotic, they nevertheless contain numerous DNA breaks, which do not elicit a DNA damage response. Thus, in adapted cells, Mre11 exonuclease is mainly present in the cytoplasm, rather than nucleus, and histone H2AX and chk1 are not phosphorylated, as they normally would be in response to DNA damage. Also, the adapted cells are deficient in repair of luciferase reporter plasmids damaged by UV irradiation. On the other hand, the DNA damage response activates rapidly when the level of NaCl is reduced. Then, Mre11 moves into the nucleus, and H2AX and chk1 become phosphorylated. Renal inner medullary cells in vivo are normally exposed to a variable, but always high, level of NaCl. As with adapted cells in culture, inner medullary cells in normal mice exhibit numerous DNA breaks. These DNA breaks are rapidly repaired when the NaCl level is decreased by injection of the diuretic furosemide. Moreover, repair of DNA breaks induced by ionizing radiation is inhibited in the inner medulla. Histone H2AX does not become phosphorylated, and repair synthesis is not detectable in response to total body irradiation unless NaCl is lowered by furosemide. Thus, both in cell culture and in vivo, although cells adapt to high NaCl, their DNA is damaged and its repair is inhibited.
    Document Type:
    Reference
    Product Catalog Number:
    07-164
    Product Catalog Name:
    Anti-phospho-H2A.X (Ser139) Antibody