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Item Physiologic Responses to Dietary Sulfur Amino Acid Restriction in Mice Are Influenced by Atf4 Status and Biological Sex(Oxford University Press, 2021-04-08) Jonsson, William O.; Margolies, Nicholas S.; Mirek, Emily T.; Zhang, Qian; Linden, Melissa A.; Hill, Cristal M.; Link, Christopher; Bithi, Nazmin; Zalma, Brian; Levy, Jordan L.; Pettit, Ashley P.; Miller, Joshua W.; Hine, Christopher; Morrison, Christopher D.; Gettys, Thomas W.; Miller, Benjamin F.; Hamilton, Karyn L.; Wek, Ronald C.; Anthony, Tracy G.; Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of MedicineBackground: Dietary sulfur amino acid restriction (SAAR) improves body composition and metabolic health across several model organisms in part through induction of the integrated stress response (ISR). Objective: We investigate the hypothesis that activating transcription factor 4 (ATF4) acts as a converging point in the ISR during SAAR. Methods: Using liver-specific or global gene ablation strategies, in both female and male mice, we address the role of ATF4 during dietary SAAR. Results: We show that ATF4 is dispensable in the chronic induction of the hepatokine fibroblast growth factor 21 while being essential for the sustained production of endogenous hydrogen sulfide. We also affirm that biological sex, independent of ATF4 status, is a determinant of the response to dietary SAAR. Conclusions: Our results suggest that auxiliary components of the ISR, which are independent of ATF4, are critical for SAAR-mediated improvements in metabolic health in mice.Item PIF1 HELICASE AND POLYMERASE ZETA (ζ) CHARACTERIZE TWO PATHWAYS OF MUTAGENESIS ASSOCIATED WITH BREAK INDUCED REPLICATION.(Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2012-04-13) Ayyar, Sandeep; Sakofsky, Cynthia; Deem, Angie; Malkova, AnnaThe fidelity of DNA synthesis differs among the various processes in which it is involved. While normal S-phase DNA replication is highly accu-rate, DNA synthesis associated with DNA repair is often error-prone. Recent-ly, we have analyzed the accuracy of Break-induced replication, which is a unique cellular process that mimics normal DNA replication in its processivity and rate, but is initiated at double-strand breaks (DSBs) rather than at repli-cation origins. We have demonstrated that BIR is associated with approxi-mately a thousand-fold increase of the rate of frameshift mutations as com-pared to spontaneous events. Here we have identified 5’ – 3’ helicase Pif1p and translesion polymerase Pol ζ as the two major components in promoting frameshift mutations associated with BIR. We have also employed a rever-sion assay using base substitution reporter ura 3-29 to demonstrate that BIR elevates base substitution mutations by a fold of 400 over normal DNA repli-cation. This mutagenic character led us to explore the mode of repair synthesis associated with BIR.Our data suggests that BIR maybe following an unusual, conservative mode of synthesis very different from the usual semiconserva-tive mode of synthesis followed by normal S-phase DNA replication.