Investigating the role of the TG mutation in XPC gene on expression of the transcriptional co-activator PGC-1a

• Grant number: 16/15407-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Effective date (Start): May 01, 2017
• Effective date (End): December 31, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Biochemistry - Molecular Biology
• Acordo de Cooperação: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Nadja Cristhina de Souza Pinto
• Grantee: Mateus Prates Mori
• Host Institution: Instituto de Química (IQ). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) is an inherited autosomal recessive syndrome with a 1,000 fold elevated skin cancer rate in areas exposed to UV light. XP is caused by mutations in one of seven genes (XPA-XPG) of nucleotide excision repair (NER) pathway or in one translesion DNA polymerase (POLH). The XPC protein is a lesion recognition factor in NER, but it has also been shown to interact and stimulate DNA gycosylases OGG1, TDG and SMUG1, to act as transcriptional co-activator and on energy metabolism adaptation. Using XP-C cells we have recently demonstrated that these cells show increased mitochondrial H2O2 production with an adaptive shift between respiratory complexes I and II, leading to increased sensibility towards mitochondrial stress. A surprising finding was a very significant decrease in expression of the transcriptional coactivator PGC-1a (PPARGC1A), which has a major role in controlling mitochondrial biogenesis. In four different XP-C cell lines tested, reduction of PPARGC1A expression was detected in three, all of them carrying the c.1643_1644delTG mutation (”TG) in XPC. In an XP-C cell line carrying a different mutation, we did not observed a reduction of PPARGC1A expression, regardless of nearly absent XPC protein levels, in agreement with results showing that siRNA-mediated XPC knockdown did not alter PPARGC1A expression. Results from other genetic diseases suggest that some mutations can generate new non-coding RNA, with a gain-of-function new molecular phenotype. In this context we propose to investigate: i) the correlation between the ”TG mutation and PPARGC1A expression, expanding the investigation towards other mutations in XPC; ii) the possible epigenetic regulation of this repression; iii) the functional consequences resulting from this possible association between ”TG mutation and the repression of PPARGC1A expression. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

MORI, MATEUS PRATES; DE SOUZA-PINTO, NADJA CRISTHINA. PPRC1, but not PGC-1 alpha, levels directly correlate with expression of mitochondrial proteins in human dermal fibroblasts. GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, v. 43, n. 1, 2020. (16/15407-7, 17/04372-0, 10/51906-1)

MORI, MATEUS PRATES; DE SOUZA-PINTO, NADJA CRISTHINA. Role of mitochondrial dysfunction in the pathophysiology of DNA repair disorders. Cell Biology International, v. 42, n. 6, SI, p. 643-650, JUN 2018. (17/04372-0, 16/15407-7)

FREIRE, T. S.; MORI, M. P.; MIRANDA, J. N. F. A.; MUTA, L. Y. M.; MACHADO, F. T.; MORENO, N. C.; SOUZA-PINTO, N. C.. Increased H2O2 levels and p53 stabilization lead to mitochondrial dysfunction in XPC-deficient cells. Carcinogenesis, v. 42, n. 11, p. 1380-1389, NOV 2021. (17/04372-0, 18/04471-1, 10/51906-1, 18/26555-2, 19/00480-9, 16/15407-7)

MORI, MATEUS PRATES; DE SOUZA-PINTO, NADJA CRISTHINA. PPRC1, but not PGC-1 alpha, levels directly correlate with expression of mitochondrial proteins in human dermal fibroblasts. GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, v. 43, p. 10-pg., 2020-01-01. (16/15407-7, 10/51906-1, 17/04372-0)

MATEUS PRATES MORI; NADJA CRISTHINA DE SOUZA-PINTO. PPRC1, but not PGC-1α, levels directly correlate with expression of mitochondrial proteins in human dermal fibroblasts. GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, v. 43, n. 1, 2020-07-03. (17/04372-0, 16/15407-7, 10/51906-1)

MORI, MATEUS PRATES; DE SOUZA-PINTO, NADJA CRISTHINA. Role of mitochondrial dysfunction in the pathophysiology of DNA repair disorders. Cell Biology International, v. 42, n. 6, p. 8-pg., 2018-06-01. (16/15407-7, 17/04372-0)