Abstract

The broad long-term objective of the proposed research is to determine how aberrant base excision repair (BER) is linked to cancer.
The Specific Aims of this project are: 1. To test the hypothesis that cellular transforming activity is a common property of the Pol ~ cancerassociated variants. We will focus on variants we have not yet characterized and complete the characterization of interesting Pol ~ tumor-associated variants. We will use a combined genetic, biochemical and cell biological approach to identify the mechanism of cellular transformation that is employed by the variants. 2. To test the hypothesis that cancer-associated variants induce tumorigenesis in mice. """"""""Knock-in"""""""" mice will be constructed using standard methods. Tumorigenesis will be monitored as a function of age and also in the presence of one or more DNA damaging agents. 3. To test the hypothesis that a combination of aberrant BER and viral infection leads to tumorigenesis. The mice constructed in Aim 3 will be used in a skin model of HPV to determine if viral proteins synergize with aberrant BER to decrease the rate or latency or increase the rate of tumorigenesis or metastasis. Various other mice with deficiencies in BER will also be characterized in this aim. 4. To test the hypothesis that microRNAs are important in the regulation of BER. To test the hypothesis that alterations in microRNA target sites in BER genes results in aberrant BER that is linked to cancer. We will characterize known germ line single nucleotide polymorph isms in conserved micro RNA target sites within the 3'UTRs of specific BER genes. We will also determine if microRNA targets are altered in human tumors.

Public Health Relevance

BER is the guardian of the genome. In the previous funding period, we showed that aberrant BER that results from variant forms of Pol ~ found in tumors is linked to cancer. In the next funding period, we will examine specific mechanisms regarding the role of Pol ~ variants in inducing cellular transformation. We will also determine if aberrant BER synergizes with viral genes to promote carcinogenesis. These studies have the potential to provide mechanistic insight into the link between aberrant BER viruses and cancer.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Type
Research Program Projects (P01)
Project #
5P01CA016038-39
Application #
8380153
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZCA1-GRB-S)
Project Start
Project End
Budget Start
2012-07-01
Budget End
2013-06-30
Support Year
39
Fiscal Year
2012
Total Cost
$315,164
Indirect Cost
$122,605

  Institution

Name
Yale University
Department
Type
DUNS #
043207562
City
New Haven
State
CT
Country
United States
Zip Code
06520

  Publications

Zhang, Pengwei; Monteiro da Silva, Gabriel; Deatherage, Catherine et al. (2018) Cell-Penetrating Peptide Mediates Intracellular Membrane Passage of Human Papillomavirus L2 Protein to Trigger Retrograde Trafficking. Cell 174:1465-1476.e13
Inoue, Takamasa; Zhang, Pengwei; Zhang, Wei et al. (2018) ?-Secretase promotes membrane insertion of the human papillomavirus L2 capsid protein during virus infection. J Cell Biol 217:3545-3559
Vallery, Tenaya K; Withers, Johanna B; Andoh, Joana A et al. (2018) Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus mRNA Accumulation in Nuclear Foci Is Influenced by Viral DNA Replication and Viral Noncoding Polyadenylated Nuclear RNA. J Virol 92:
Hayes, Karen E; Barr, Jamie A; Xie, Mingyi et al. (2018) Immunoprecipitation of Tri-methylated Capped RNA. Bio Protoc 8:
Park, Richard; Miller, George (2018) Epstein-Barr Virus-Induced Nodules on Viral Replication Compartments Contain RNA Processing Proteins and a Viral Long Noncoding RNA. J Virol 92:
Singh, Gatikrushna; Fritz, Sarah M; Ranji, Arnaz et al. (2017) Isolation of Cognate RNA-protein Complexes from Cells Using Oligonucleotide-directed Elution. J Vis Exp :
Martinez, Ivan; Hayes, Karen E; Barr, Jamie A et al. (2017) An Exportin-1-dependent microRNA biogenesis pathway during human cell quiescence. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 114:E4961-E4970
Lipovsky, Alex; Erden, Asu; Kanaya, Eriko et al. (2017) The cellular endosomal protein stannin inhibits intracellular trafficking of human papillomavirus during virus entry. J Gen Virol 98:2821-2836
Lee, Nara; Yario, Therese A; Gao, Jessica S et al. (2016) EBV noncoding RNA EBER2 interacts with host RNA-binding proteins to regulate viral gene expression. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 113:3221-6
DiMaio, Daniel (2016) Thank You, Edward. Merci, Louis. PLoS Pathog 12:e1005320

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