Abstract
Usher syndrome (USH) is a rare autosomal recessive disease characterized by the combination of hearing loss, visual impairment due to retinitis pigmentosa, and in some cases vestibular dysfunctions. Studies published in the 1980s reported that USH is associated with cellular radiosensitivity. However, the molecular basis of this particular phenotype has not yet been documented. The aim of this study was therefore to document the radiosensitivity of USH1—a subset of USH—by examining the radiation-induced nucleo-shuttling of ATM (RIANS), as well as the functionality of the repair and signaling pathways of the DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) in three skin fibroblasts derived from USH1 patients. The clonogenic cell survival, the micronuclei, the nuclear foci formed by the phosphorylated forms of the X variant of the H2A histone (ɣH2AX), the phosphorylated forms of the ATM protein (pATM), and the meiotic recombination 11 nuclease (MRE11) were used as cellular and molecular endpoints. The interaction between the ATM and USH1 proteins was also examined by proximity ligation assay. The results showed that USH1 fibroblasts were associated with moderate but significant radiosensitivity, high yield of micronuclei, and impaired DSB recognition but normal DSB repair, likely caused by a delayed RIANS, suggesting a possible sequestration of ATM by some USH1 proteins overexpressed in the cytoplasm. To our knowledge, this report is the first radiobiological characterization of cells from USH1 patients at both molecular and cellular scales.
Highlights
Introduction1. IntroduUcsthioenr syndrome (USH) is the most frequent cause of combined deafness and blindness
There is increasing evidence that the repair and signaling of the DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs)—the radiation-induced DNA damage the most strongly linked to the radiation-induced (RI) cell death [25]; the aforementioned USH proteins are not known to be involved in these processes
The USH proteins are mostly localized in the cytoplasm, which contradicts the current paradigm that the radiosensitivity phenotype should be associated with the defect of DSB repair and signaling, whose proteins are generally localized in the nucleus [25]
Summary
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