Cell Reports (May 2016)

Multiomic Analysis of the UV-Induced DNA Damage Response

  • Stefan Boeing,
  • Laura Williamson,
  • Vesela Encheva,
  • Ilaria Gori,
  • Rebecca E. Saunders,
  • Rachael Instrell,
  • Ozan Aygün,
  • Marta Rodriguez-Martinez,
  • Juston C. Weems,
  • Gavin P. Kelly,
  • Joan W. Conaway,
  • Ronald C. Conaway,
  • Aengus Stewart,
  • Michael Howell,
  • Ambrosius P. Snijders,
  • Jesper Q. Svejstrup

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 7
pp. 1597 – 1610

Abstract

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Summary: In order to facilitate the identification of factors and pathways in the cellular response to UV-induced DNA damage, several descriptive proteomic screens and a functional genomics screen were performed in parallel. Numerous factors could be identified with high confidence when the screen results were superimposed and interpreted together, incorporating biological knowledge. A searchable database, bioLOGIC, which provides access to relevant information about a protein or process of interest, was established to host the results and facilitate data mining. Besides uncovering roles in the DNA damage response for numerous proteins and complexes, including Integrator, Cohesin, PHF3, ASC-1, SCAF4, SCAF8, and SCAF11, we uncovered a role for the poorly studied, melanoma-associated serine/threonine kinase 19 (STK19). Besides effectively uncovering relevant factors, the multiomic approach also provides a systems-wide overview of the diverse cellular processes connected to the transcription-related DNA damage response. : Boeing et al. investigate the UV-induced DNA damage response by combining a range of proteomic and genomic screens. A function in this response for the melanoma driver STK19 as well as a number of other factors are uncovered.