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The Werner syndrome RECQ helicase targets G4 DNA in human cells to modulate transcription

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Tang, Weiliang, Robles, Ana I., Beyer, Richard P., Gray, Lucas T., Nguyen, Giang H., Oshima, Junko, Maizels, Nancy, Harris, Curtis C., Monnat, Raymond J.·2016·Human Molecular Genetics

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The Werner syndrome (WS) is a prototypic adult Mendelian progeroid syndrome in which signs of premature aging are associated with genomic instability and an elevated risk of cancer. The WRN RECQ helicase protein binds and unwinds G-quadruplex (G4) DNA substrates in vitro, and we identified significant enrichment in G4 sequence motifs at the transcription start site and 5' ends of first introns (false discovery rate < 0.001) of genes down-regulated in WS patient fibroblasts. This finding provides strong evidence that WRN binds G4 DNA structures at many chromosomal sites to modulate gene expression. WRN appears to bind a distinct subpopulation of G4 motifs in human cells, when compared with the related Bloom syndrome RECQ helicase protein. Functional annotation of the genes and miRNAs altered in WS provided new insight into WS disease pathogenesis. WS patient fibroblasts displayed altered expression of multiple, mechanistically distinct, senescence-associated gene expression programs, with altered expression of disease-associated miRNAs, and dysregulation of canonical pathways that regulate cell signaling, genome stability and tumorigenesis. WS fibroblasts also displayed a highly statistically significant and distinct gene expression signature, with coordinate overexpression of nearly all of the cytoplasmic tRNA synthetases and associated ARS-interacting multifunctional protein genes. The 'non-canonical' functions of many of these upregulated tRNA charging proteins may together promote WS disease pathogenesis. Our results identify the human WRN RECQ protein as a G4 helicase that modulates gene expression in G4-dependent fashion at many chromosomal sites and provide several new and unexpected mechanistic insights into WS disease pathogenesis.

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Authors: Tang, W., Robles, A. I., Beyer, R. P., Gray, L. T., Nguyen, G. H., Oshima, J., Maizels, N., Harris, C. C., & Monnat, R. J.
Affiliations: National Institutes of Health (US)
Chiba University (JP)
University of Washington (US)
Corresponding author: Monnat, Raymond J.
ORCID: Tang, Weiliang
Robles, Ana I.
Nguyen, Giang H.
Oshima, Junko
Maizels, Nancy
Harris, Curtis C.
Monnat, Raymond J.
Venue: Human Molecular Genetics
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published: 2016-03-16
Volume: 25
Issue: 10
Pages: 2060-2069
ISSN: 0964-6906 (ISSN-L)
1460-2083
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddw079
PMC: PMC5062591
OpenAlex: W2307754412
Cited by: 109
References: 74
Citations by year: 2026: 7 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 13 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 19 · 2017: 14 · 2016: 8
FWCI: 8.66
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: bronze
doi.org
Locations: Human Molecular Genetics (publishedVersion)
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (acceptedVersion)
PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
HighWire Press Open Archive (submittedVersion)
Funders: National Cancer Institute
National Institutes of Health
NIH (P01CA77852, 5P30ES007033, R24AG042328)
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
International Registry of Werner Syndrome
Topics: Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry
Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cell Biology › Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence
Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › DNA Repair Mechanisms
Keywords: Werner syndrome, G-quadruplex, transcriptional regulation, progeroid syndromes, premature aging, genomic instability, Bloom syndrome, senescence-associated gene expression, microRNA, tRNA synthetase, gene expression signatures, fibroblasts, pathogenesis
MeSH terms: DNA-Binding Proteins, Fibroblasts, Gene Expression Regulation, Humans, Neoplasms, Werner Syndrome, Genome, Human, MicroRNAs, Genomic Instability, RecQ Helicases, G-Quadruplexes, Nucleotide Motifs, Carcinogenesis

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