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FANCI functions as a repair/apoptosis switch in response to DNA crosslinks.

Developmental cell | 2021

Cells counter DNA damage through repair or apoptosis, yet a direct mechanism for this choice has remained elusive. When facing interstrand crosslinks (ICLs), the ICL-repair protein FANCI heterodimerizes with FANCD2 to initiate ICL excision. We found that FANCI alternatively interacts with a pro-apoptotic factor, PIDD1, to enable PIDDosome (PIDD1-RAIDD-caspase-2) formation and apoptotic death. FANCI switches from FANCD2/repair to PIDD1/apoptosis signaling in the event of ICL-repair failure. Specifically, removing key endonucleases downstream of FANCI/FANCD2, increasing ICL levels, or allowing damaged cells into mitosis (when repair is suppressed) all suffice for switching. Reciprocally, apoptosis-committed FANCI reverts from PIDD1 to FANCD2 after a failed attempt to assemble the PIDDosome. Monoubiquitination and deubiquitination at FANCI K523 impact interactor selection. These data unveil a repair-or-apoptosis switch in eukaryotes. Beyond ensuring the removal of unrepaired genomes, the switch's bidirectionality reveals that damaged cells can offset apoptotic defects via de novo attempts at lesion repair.

Pubmed ID: 34256011 RIS Download

Antibodies used in this publication

Associated grants

  • Agency: NHLBI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R37 HL052725
  • Agency: NHLBI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 HL052725
  • Agency: NIGMS NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 GM107257
  • Agency: NIGMS NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R35 GM131780
  • Agency: NIGMS NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 GM135301
  • Agency: NCI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 CA178162

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