KEGG   PATHWAY: ath03450
Entry
ath03450                    Pathway                                
Name
Non-homologous end-joining - Arabidopsis thaliana (thale cress)
Description
Nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ) eliminates DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) by direct ligation. NHEJ involves binding of the KU heterodimer to double-stranded DNA ends, recruitment of DNA-PKcs (MRX complex in yeast), processing of ends, and recruitment of the DNA ligase IV (LIG4)-XRCC4 complex, which brings about ligation. A recent study shows that bacteria accomplish NHEJ using just two proteins (Ku and DNA ligase), whereas eukaryotes require many factors. NHEJ repairs DSBs at all stages of the cell cycle, bringing about the ligation of two DNA DSBs without the need for sequence homology, and so is error-prone.
Class
Genetic Information Processing; Replication and repair
Pathway map
ath03450  Non-homologous end-joining
ath03450

Other DBs
GO: 0006303
Organism
Arabidopsis thaliana (thale cress) [GN:ath]
Gene
AT1G16970  KU70; ATP-dependent DNA helicase 2 subunit Ku70-like protein [KO:K10884]
AT1G48050  KU80; Ku80 family protein [KO:K10885]
AT1G10520  Pol{lambda}; DNA polymerase lambda (POLL) [KO:K03512] [EC:2.7.7.7 4.2.99.-]
AT5G57160  ATLIG4; DNA ligase IV [KO:K10777] [EC:6.5.1.1]
AT3G23100  XRCC4; DNA ligase IV-binding protein [KO:K10886]
AT2G31970  RAD50; DNA repair-recombination protein (RAD50) [KO:K10866] [EC:3.6.-.-]
AT5G54260  MRE11; DNA repair and meiosis protein (Mre11) [KO:K10865]
AT5G26680  5'-3' exonuclease family protein [KO:K04799] [EC:3.1.-.-]
Reference
  Authors
Gennery AR.
  Title
Primary immunodeficiency syndromes associated with defective DNA double-strand break repair.
  Journal
Br Med Bull 77-78:71-85 (2006)
DOI:10.1093/bmb/ldl006
Reference
  Authors
Zhang Y, Hefferin ML, Chen L, Shim EY, Tseng HM, Kwon Y, Sung P, Lee SE, Tomkinson AE.
  Title
Role of Dnl4-Lif1 in nonhomologous end-joining repair complex assembly and suppression of homologous recombination.
  Journal
Nat Struct Mol Biol 14:639-46 (2007)
DOI:10.1038/nsmb1261
Reference
  Authors
Wyman C, Kanaar R.
  Title
DNA double-strand break repair: all's well that ends well.
  Journal
Annu Rev Genet 40:363-83 (2006)
DOI:10.1146/annurev.genet.40.110405.090451
Reference
  Authors
Weller GR, Brandt VL, Roth DB.
  Title
Doing more with less in bacterial DNA repair.
  Journal
Nat Struct Mol Biol 11:1158-9 (2004)
DOI:10.1038/nsmb1204-1158
Reference
  Authors
Weller GR, Kysela B, Roy R, Tonkin LM, Scanlan E, Della M, Devine SK, Day JP, Wilkinson A, d'Adda di Fagagna F, Devine KM, Bowater RP, Jeggo PA, Jackson SP, Doherty AJ.
  Title
Identification of a DNA nonhomologous end-joining complex in bacteria.
  Journal
Science 297:1686-9 (2002)
DOI:10.1126/science.1074584
Reference
  Authors
Pitcher RS, Brissett NC, Doherty AJ.
  Title
Nonhomologous end-joining in bacteria: a microbial perspective.
  Journal
Annu Rev Microbiol 61:259-82 (2007)
DOI:10.1146/annurev.micro.61.080706.093354
KO pathway
ko03450   
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