Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

SAMHD1 deacetylation by SIRT1 promotes DNA end resection by facilitating DNA binding at double-strand breaks

  • Priya Kapoor-Vazirani,
  • Sandip K. Rath,
  • Xu Liu,
  • Zhen Shu,
  • Nicole E. Bowen,
  • Yitong Chen,
  • Ramona Haji-Seyed-Javadi,
  • Waaqo Daddacha,
  • Elizabeth V. Minten,
  • Diana Danelia,
  • Daniela Farchi,
  • Duc M. Duong,
  • Nicholas T. Seyfried,
  • Xingming Deng,
  • Eric A. Ortlund,
  • Baek Kim,
  • David S. Yu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34578-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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SAMHD1 has a dNTPase-independent resection function in genome maintenance. Here the authors show that SAMHD1 is deacetylated at conserved K354 by SIRT1 to facilitate direct binding with ssDNA to promote DNA end resection and homologous recombination.