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ReviewEssays in biochemistry2025

DNA double strand break repair: a model of specificity and complexity in SUMO signalling.

Jai S Bhachoo, Alexander J Garvin

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Jai S BhachooSUMO Biology Lab, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, U.K.ORCID 0009-0001-4030-1866
Alexander J GarvinSUMO Biology Lab, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, U.K.ORCID 0000-0002-2669-3170

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Among the ubiquitin-like superfamily, small ubiquitin-like modifiers (SUMOs) are the most well-understood. However, in comparison with the prototypical small modifier ubiquitin, our understanding of the SUMO system lags. SUMOylation is often characterised as 'simple' in comparison with ubiquitination, with fewer SUMO-specific writers, readers and erasers compared with the ubiquitin machinery. A key divergence between ubiquitin and SUMO is that the SUMOylation system utilises a group of related SUMOs (SUMO1- 5), each possessing distinct functions. SUMO paralogs share conjugation, recognition and deconjugation machinery, yet signalling can employ each to perform specific cellular functions. This illustrates a complex layer of molecular discrimination that is far from simple. The repair of DNA double-stranded breaks (DSBs) - highly toxic DNA lesions generated from both endogenous and external sources - serves as a fascinating exemplar of specificity in SUMO signalling. This review focuses on how signalling specificity is achieved during SUMO-DSB repair. Examples of how different branches of SUMO signalling can direct discrete DSB-repair outcomes through modulation of key repair factors, including the RAP80-BRCA1-A complex, RNF168 and CtIP, are described in further detail.

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DNA Breaks, Double-StrandedDNA RepairSignal TransductionSmall Ubiquitin-Related Modifier ProteinsAnimalsHumansSumoylationSmall Ubiquitin-Related Modifier ProteinschromatinDNA synthesis and repairSUMOylationubiquitin ligasesubiquitin proteasome systemubiquitin signalling

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