| 2000 |
Human SNM1 (DCLRE1A) is a nuclear protein involved in DNA interstrand cross-link (ICL) repair; mouse SNM1-/- embryonic stem cells and mice are sensitive to mitomycin C, and this sensitivity is complemented by transfection of human SNM1 cDNA, establishing a direct role in ICL repair. |
Gene knockout in mouse ES cells and mice, complementation by human SNM1 cDNA transfection, mitomycin C sensitivity assay |
Molecular and cellular biology |
High |
10848582
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| 2002 |
Human SNM1 (DCLRE1A) localizes to the cell nucleus in distinct patterns (diffuse, foci, or nuclear bodies), redistributes to increased foci after ionizing radiation or interstrand crosslinking agent exposure, physically associates with 53BP1 (confirmed by coimmunoprecipitation), and colocalizes with Mre11 foci after ionizing radiation. A ~220 amino acid region of hSNM1 is sufficient for focus formation when attached to a nuclear localization signal. |
Indirect immunofluorescence, coimmunoprecipitation, domain mapping with nuclear localization signal constructs |
Molecular and cellular biology |
High |
12446782
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| 2002 |
hSNM1 translation is mediated by an internal ribosome entry site (IRES) in the 5' UTR that generally suppresses translation but upregulates it during mitosis, suggesting a cell-cycle-regulated mitotic function. |
Bicistronic construct assays to demonstrate IRES activity, cell-cycle synchronization |
DNA repair |
Medium |
12509242
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| 2004 |
Mammalian SNM1 functions in an early mitotic stress checkpoint distinct from the spindle assembly checkpoint; Snm1-deficient mouse embryonic fibroblasts exposed to spindle poisons show elevated micronucleus formation, decreased mitotic delay, failure to arrest prior to chromosome condensation, supernumerary centrosomes, and decreased viability. Both Snm1 and 53BP1 coimmunoprecipitate with components of the anaphase-promoting complex (APC/cyclosome), suggesting Snm1 negatively targets the APC before chromosome condensation. |
Snm1-deficient MEFs, spindle poison treatment, micronucleus assay, coimmunoprecipitation with APC components |
Molecular and cellular biology |
High |
15542852
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| 2007 |
Recombinant hSNM1A (DCLRE1A) is a 5'-exonuclease; ectopic expression of hSNM1A (but not SNM1B/Apollo or Artemis) suppresses yeast pso2 mutant sensitivity to crosslinking agents, rescues the DSB repair defect during cross-link processing, and partially rescues spontaneous intrachromosomal recombination defects, establishing hSNM1A as a functional homolog of yeast Pso2. |
Recombinant protein exonuclease assay, yeast complementation (suppression of pso2 sensitivity), DSB repair assay, intrachromosomal recombination assay |
DNA repair |
High |
18006388
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| 2007 |
hSNM1 (DCLRE1A) protein is a single-strand 5'-exonuclease that utilizes either DNA or RNA substrates, requires a 5'-phosphate moiety, shows very little activity on double-strand substrates, functions as a monomer, and requires the conserved beta-lactamase domain for activity (site-directed mutagenesis of a conserved aspartate inactivates the exonuclease). |
Recombinant protein overproduction in insect cells, in vitro exonuclease assays, site-directed mutagenesis |
Nucleic acids research |
High |
17804464
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| 2008 |
siRNA depletion of hSNM1 in human fibroblasts increases sensitivity to mitomycin C (ICL agent) as measured by cell survival and chromosome radial formation, and this sensitivity is additive with that of Fanconi anemia (FA) cells. Depletion of hSNM1 does not disturb FANCD2 mono-ubiquitination, indicating hSNM1 acts in a pathway parallel to and distinct from the FA pathway for ICL repair. |
siRNA depletion, cell survival assay, chromosome radial formation assay, FANCD2 ubiquitination western blot, epistasis with FA cell lines |
Molecular genetics and metabolism |
High |
18180189
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| 2005 |
Snm1-deficient mice exhibit accelerated tumorigenesis and susceptibility to bacterial infections, and crossing with Trp53 null mice increases mortality and restricts tumor types to lymphomas. Snm1 functions as a tumor suppressor in mice and has a role in immunity, distinct from T- and B-cell development or immunoglobulin class switching defects. |
Snm1 knockout mice, survival analysis, tumor pathology, Trp53 double knockout epistasis, immune cell profiling |
Molecular and cellular biology |
High |
16260620
|
| 2011 |
Pso2 (yeast ortholog of SNM1A/DCLRE1A) is a structure-specific DNA hairpin opening endonuclease in addition to its known 5'-exonuclease activity; this hairpin-opening activity is required in vivo for repair of chromosomal breaks with closed hairpin ends. |
In vitro nuclease assays on multiple DNA substrate structures, in vivo genetic assay for hairpin-end chromosomal break repair in yeast |
Nucleic acids research |
High |
22102580
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| 2020 |
The Hrq1 helicase (RecQ4 subfamily) physically interacts with Pso2 (yeast ortholog of SNM1A/DCLRE1A) through their N-terminal domains and stimulates Pso2 nuclease activity, including translesion nuclease activity through site-specific ICLs in vitro; this stimulation requires Hrq1 catalytic activity and is specific to eukaryotic RecQ4 subfamily helicases. |
Genetic epistasis, in vitro nuclease assays (gel-based and smFRET), biochemical interaction mapping, domain analysis |
The Journal of biological chemistry |
High |
32371399
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| 2021 |
A structure of SNM1B/Apollo with two nucleotides bound to its active site reveals a 5' phosphate binding pocket that is important for catalysis and is a key determinant of endo- versus exonuclease activity across the SNM1 family including SNM1A; base modifications planar to the nucleobase are accommodated by the open active site architecture, while axial lesions are not well tolerated. |
X-ray crystallography (product-state structure), mutagenesis of phosphate-binding pocket residues, in vitro nuclease assays on modified substrates |
Nucleic acids research |
Medium |
34387694
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| 2022 |
Yeast Pso2 (ortholog of DCLRE1A/SNM1A) is dual-localized to both the nucleus and mitochondria; it contains one mitochondrial targeting sequence (MTS) and two nuclear localization signals (NLS1 and NLS2), with MTS essential for mitochondrial import and either NLS sufficient for nuclear import. Genotoxic agents enhance mitochondrial abundance of Pso2. Ablation of MTS abrogates mitochondrial import and raises nuclear levels, while disruption of both NLS motifs blocks nuclear import and enhances mitochondrial translocation, establishing competitive regulation between MTS and NLS. |
Subcellular fractionation, fluorescence imaging, mutational analysis of MTS and NLS sequences, in vitro and in vivo localization assays |
G3 (Bethesda, Md.) |
High |
35482533
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| 2023 |
Yeast Pso2 undergoes SUMOylation on residues K97 and K575 (catalyzed by Siz1 and Siz2 SUMO E3 ligases, with Siz1 dominant) specifically in response to methyl methanesulfonate (MMS) but not ICL-forming agents; SUMOylation markedly increases Pso2 abundance in mitochondria without affecting nuclear translocation, and SUMOylation-defective mutants (K97R/K575R) fail to translocate to mitochondria after MMS treatment and fail to suppress MMS-induced mitochondrial DNA damage. |
In vivo SUMOylation assays, site-directed mutagenesis of SUMO consensus sites, subcellular fractionation, genetic analysis of SUMO E3 ligase mutants, next-generation sequencing of mitochondrial DNA damage |
Molecular microbiology |
High |
37649278
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| 2013 |
Pso2 (yeast ortholog of DCLRE1A) is phosphorylated by the Sak1 kinase in vitro, coimmunoprecipitates with Sak1 after DNA damage (8-MOP+UVA treatment), and Sak1 interacts with the C-terminal β-CASP domain of Pso2 in two-hybrid assays; epistasis analysis shows SAK1 and PSO2 act in the same ICL repair pathway, while PSO2 and RAD52/RAD50/XRS2 act epistatically, and PSO2 and MRE11 act in distinct repair pathways on the same substrate. |
Yeast two-hybrid screen, in vitro kinase assay, coimmunoprecipitation, genetic epistasis with DNA damaging agents |
Journal of photochemistry and photobiology. B, Biology |
Medium |
24362320
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| 2025 |
DCLRE1A (human SNM1A) was identified via CRISPRi screen as a key effector of CAG repeat contraction following Cas12a-induced staggered cuts within repeat tracts; DCLRE1A recognizes and binds structures generated by Cas12a, interacts with SLX4 to promote pure contractions, and interacts with POLI to generate inverted repeats via template switching mechanisms. |
CRISPRi genome-wide screen, DNA binding assays, co-immunoprecipitation/interaction assays, editing outcome analysis |
bioRxivpreprint |
Medium |
bio_10.1101_2025.11.18.689026
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| 2024 |
CSB (Cockayne Syndrome B/ERCC6) directly interacts with SNM1A (DCLRE1A) through a specific interaction between the winged-helix domain of CSB and the nuclease core of SNM1A; CSB enhances SNM1A resection through ICLs, increases SNM1A affinity for damaged DNA substrates, and alters substrate conformation to enhance ICL processing. CSB was observed preferentially as a dimer when colocalized with SNM1A at ICLs. |
Biochemical interaction mapping (domain-level), in vitro nuclease resection assays through ICLs, single-molecule studies on site-specific ICL substrates |
bioRxivpreprint |
Medium |
bio_10.1101_2024.09.05.611390
|
| 1999 |
Overexpression of SNM1 cDNA (human homolog, alias KIAA0086) in CHO cells does not render them more resistant to DNA crosslinking agents (mafosfamide, melphalan, mitomycin C), indicating that overexpression of SNM1 alone is not sufficient to confer ICL resistance in this cellular context. |
Transfection of human SNM1 cDNA into CHO cells, cell survival assay with crosslinking agents |
Anticancer research |
Low |
10470107
|