Genome-wide alterations of uracil distribution patterns in human DNA upon chemotherapeutic treatments
Author(s)
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Numerous anti-cancer drugs perturb thymidylate biosynthesis and lead to genomic uracil incorporation contributing to their antiproliferative effect. Still, it is not yet characterized if uracil incorporations have any positional preference. Here, we aimed to uncover genome-wide alterations in uracil pattern upon drug treatments in human cancer cell line models derived from HCT116. We developed a straightforward U-DNA sequencing method (U-DNA-Seq) that was combined with in situ super-resolution imaging. Using a novel robust analysis pipeline, we found broad regions with elevated probability of uracil occurrence both in treated and non-treated cells. Correlation with chromatin markers and other genomic features shows that non-treated cells possess uracil in the late replicating constitutive heterochromatic regions, while drug treatment induced a shift of incorporated uracil towards segments that are normally more active/functional. Data were corroborated by colocalization studies via dSTORM microscopy. This approach can be applied to study the dynamic spatio-temporal nature of genomic uracil.
Date Issued
2020-09-21
Date Acceptance
2020-08-23
Citation
eLife, 2020, 9, pp.1-37
ISSN
2050-084X
Publisher
eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
Start Page
1
End Page
37
Journal / Book Title
eLife
Volume
9
Copyright Statement
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article is distributed under the
terms of the Creative Commons
Attribution License, which
permits unrestricted use and
redistribution provided that the
original author and source are
credited.
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Cancer Research UK
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Grant Number
C37/A18784
Subjects
Science & Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Biology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics
BASE EXCISION-REPAIR
TRANSCRIPTION
5-FLUOROURACIL
REPLICATION
BROWSER
DEATH
HETEROCHROMATIN
CONSEQUENCES
DEFICIENCY
RESOLUTION
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN e60498
Date Publish Online
2020-09-21