The ATM signaling cascade promotes recombination-dependent pachytene arrest in mouse spermatocytes
Pacheco, Sarai (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina "Vicent Villar Palasí")
Marcet-Ortega, Marina (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina "Vicent Villar Palasí")
Lange, Julian (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)
Jasin, Maria (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)
Keeney, Scott (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)
Roig, Ignasi (Ignasi) (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Biologia Cel·lular, de Fisiologia i d'Immunologia)

Fecha:	2015
Resumen:	Most mutations that compromise meiotic recombination or synapsis in mouse spermatocytes result in arrest and apoptosis at the pachytene stage of the first meiotic prophase. Two main mechanisms are thought to trigger arrest: one independent of the double-strand breaks (DSBs) that initiate meiotic recombination, and another activated by persistent recombination intermediates. Mechanisms underlying the recombination-dependent arrest response are not well understood, so we sought to identify factors involved by examining mutants deficient for TRIP13, a conserved AAA+ ATPase required for the completion of meiotic DSB repair. We find that spermatocytes with a hypomorphic Trip13 mutation (Trip13<sup>mod/mod</sup>) arrest with features characteristic of early pachynema in wild type, namely, fully synapsed chromosomes without incorporation of the histone variant H1t into chromatin. These cells then undergo apoptosis, possibly in response to the arrest or in response to a defect in sex body formation. However, TRIP13-deficient cells that additionally lack the DSB-responsive kinase ATM progress further, reaching an H1t-positive stage (i. e. , similar to mid/late pachynema in wild type) despite the presence of unrepaired DSBs. TRIP13-deficient spermatocytes also progress to an H1t-positive stage if ATM activity is attenuated by hypomorphic mutations in Mre11 or Nbs1 or by elimination of the ATM-effector kinase CHK2. These mutant backgrounds nonetheless experience an apoptotic block to further spermatogenic progression, most likely caused by failure to form a sex body. DSB numbers are elevated in Mre11 and Nbs1 hypomorphs but not Chk2 mutants, thus delineating genetic requirements for the ATM-dependent negative feedback loop that regulates DSB numbers. The findings demonstrate for the first time that ATM-dependent signaling enforces the normal pachytene response to persistent recombination intermediates. Our work supports the conclusion that recombination defects trigger spermatocyte arrest via pathways than are genetically distinct from sex body failure-promoted apoptosis and confirm that the latter can function even when recombination-dependent arrest is inoperative. Implications of these findings for understanding the complex relationships between spermatocyte arrest and apoptosis are discussed.
Ayudas:	Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación BES-2011-045381 Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación BFU2010-18965 Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2010/BE1 00718
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Lengua:	Anglès
Documento:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Materia:	Adenosine triphosphatases ; Animals ; Apoptosis ; Ataxia telangiectasia mutated proteins ; Cell cycle checkpoints ; Cell cycle proteins ; Checkpoint kinase 2 ; Chromosome pairing ; DNA breaks, Double-Stranded ; DNA repair ; DNA repair enzymes ; DNA-binding proteins ; Male ; Mice ; Mutation ; Nuclear proteins ; Pachytene stage ; Recombination, Genetic ; Signal transduction ; Spermatocytes
Publicado en:	PLoS Genetics, Vol. 11, issue 3 (2015) , art. e1005017, ISSN 1553-7404

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005017
PMID: 25768017

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