Catalytically inactive DNA ligase IV promotes DNA repair in living cells

NJ Goff, M Brenière, CJ Buehl, AJ de Melo… - Nucleic Acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
… this short-range NHEJ complex requires DNA ligase IV (Lig4), … Lig4 complex promotes the
activity of DNA ligase III (Lig3). … of the ligase complex (but not its ligase activity) is sufficient to …

Structural role for DNA Ligase IV in promoting the fidelity of non-homologous end joining

BM Stinson, SM Carney, JC Walter… - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
… interactions of the NHEJ-specific DNA Ligase IV (Lig4) within … Ku and DNA-PKcs are sufficient
for LR complex formation, but other … For this purpose, we developed a three-color single-…

Altered DNA ligase activity in human disease

AE Tomkinson, T Naila, S Khattri Bhandari - Mutagenesis, 2020 - academic.oup.com
… have lower levels of mitochondrial DNA ligase IIIα, … NHEJ proteins including DNA PKcs
and DNA ligase IV/XRCC4. While these three core components are sufficient to join duplex DNA

Human DNA ligases I and III have stand-alone end-joining capability, but differ in ligation efficiency and specificity

JR McNally, AM Ames, SJ Admiraal… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
DNA ligases III and IV (LIG3, LIG4) have long been credited … by 14 bp of duplex DNA were
found to be of sufficient length, … reaction reached saturation at low concentrations of the 3′-…

The molecular basis and disease relevance of non-homologous DNA end joining

B Zhao, E Rothenberg, DA Ramsden… - … Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2020 - nature.com
NHEJ proteins directly or indirectly (Fig. 1). Direct ligation of the DNA ends is performed by
the XRCC4–DNA ligase 4 (… two DNA ends together suggests this enzyme is also sufficient to …

Alternative non-homologous end-joining: error-prone DNA repair as cancer's achilles' heel

D Caracciolo, C Riillo, MT Di Martino, P Tagliaferri… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
… synthesis, which generates sufficiently long de novo microhomologies … levels of core C-NHEJ
components such as Artemis and DNA ligase IV were downregulated while DNA ligase III

Structural basis of long-range to short-range synaptic transition in NHEJ

S Chen, L Lee, T Naila, S Fishbain, A Wang… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PKcs), DNA ligase IV (… Third, we identified two
conserved loops in the middle HEAT … The resolution of the linker loop was not good enough to …

Repair of DNA double-strand breaks by the nonhomologous end joining pathway

BM Stinson, JJ Loparo - Annual review of biochemistry, 2021 - annualreviews.org
… end joining (NHEJ), which pairs DNA ends in a multiprotein … Ultimately, DNA ligase IV (LIG4),
which forms a constitutive … (80), supporting the idea that sufficient XLF tail length appears to …

The importance of DNAPKcs for blunt DNA end joining is magnified when XLF is weakened

M Cisneros-Aguirre, FW Lopezcolorado, LJ Tsai… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
… /80 (KU), XRCC4, DNA Ligase 4 (LIG4), XLF, and DNAPKcs … bridge DNA ends via interactions
with other proteins in the C-NHEJ … To test this hypothesis, we examined three sites in the …

Nonhomologous DNA end joining of nucleosomal substrates in a purified system

CA Gerodimos, G Watanabe, MR Lieber - DNA repair, 2021 - Elsevier
… biochemical NHEJ system to compare the joining of free DNADNA ligase IV were purified
from High Five cells using three-… DSB DNA ends at an already accessible site is not sufficient