Separation of intra-S checkpoint protein contributions to DNA replication fork protection and genomic stability in normal human fibroblasts

The ATR-dependent intra-S checkpoint protects DNA replication forks undergoing replication stress. The checkpoint is enforced by ATR-dependent phosphorylation of CHK1, which is mediated by the TIMELESS-TIPIN complex and CLASPIN. Although loss of checkpoint proteins is associated with spontaneous chromosomal instability, few studies have examined the contribution of these proteins to unchallenged DNA metabolism in human cells that have not undergone carcinogenesis or crisis. Furthermore, the TIMELESS-TIPIN complex and CLASPIN may promote replication fork protection independently of CHK1 activation. Normal human fibroblasts (NHF) were depleted of ATR, CHK1, TIMELESS, TIPIN or CLASPIN and chromosomal aberrations, DNA synthesis, activation of the DNA damage response (DDR) and clonogenic survival were evaluated. This work demonstrates in NHF lines from two individuals that ATR and CHK1 promote chromosomal stability by different mechanisms that depletion of CHK1 produces phenotypes that resemble more closely the depletion of TIPIN or CLASPIN than the depletion of ATR, and that TIMELESS has a distinct contribution to suppression of chromosomal instability that is independent of its heterodimeric partner, TIPIN. Therefore, ATR, CHK1, TIMELESS-TIPIN and CLASPIN have functions for preservation of intrinsic chromosomal stability that are separate from their cooperation for activation of the intra-S checkpoint response to experimentally induced replication stress. These data reveal a complex and coordinated program of genome maintenance enforced by proteins known for their intra-S checkpoint function.

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