Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

Serine-linked PARP1 auto-modification controls PARP inhibitor response

  • Evgeniia Prokhorova,
  • Florian Zobel,
  • Rebecca Smith,
  • Siham Zentout,
  • Ian Gibbs-Seymour,
  • Kira Schützenhofer,
  • Alessandra Peters,
  • Joséphine Groslambert,
  • Valentina Zorzini,
  • Thomas Agnew,
  • John Brognard,
  • Michael L. Nielsen,
  • Dragana Ahel,
  • Sébastien Huet,
  • Marcin J. Suskiewicz,
  • Ivan Ahel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24361-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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PARP inhibitors function by trapping PARP1 protein on DNA breaks, which has cytotoxic consequences to cancer cells. Here the authors identify three serine residues within PARP1 as key sites whose efficient HPF1-dependent modification counters PARP1 trapping and contributes to inhibitor tolerance.