RIOX1-demethylated cGAS regulates ionizing radiation-elicited DNA repair

Abstract

Exposure to radiation causes DNA damage; hence, continuous surveillance and timely DNA repair are important for genome stability. Epigenetic modifications alter the chromatin architecture, thereby affecting the efficiency of DNA repair. However, how epigenetic modifiers coordinate with the DNA repair machinery to modulate cellular radiosensitivity is relatively unknown. Here, we report that loss of the demethylase ribosomal oxygenase 1 (RIOX1) restores cell proliferation and reduces cell death after exposure to ionizing radiation. Furthermore, RIOX1 depletion enhances homologous recombination (HR) repair but not nonhomologous end-joining (NHEJ) repair in irradiated bone marrow cells and oral mucosal epithelial cells. Mechanistic study demonstrates that RIOX1 removes monomethylation at K491 of cyclic GMP-AMP synthase (cGAS) to release cGAS from its interaction with the methyl-lysine reader protein SAGA complex-associated factor 29 (SGF29), which subsequently enables cGAS to interact with poly(ADP-ribosyl)ated poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase 1 (PARP1) at DNA break sites, thereby blocking PARP1-mediated recruitment of Timeless. High expression of RIOX1 maintains cGAS K491me at a low level, which impedes HR repair and reduces cellular tolerance to ionizing radiation. This study highlights a novel RIOX1-dependent mechanism involved in the non-immune function of cGAS that is essential for the regulation of ionizing radiation-elicited HR repair.

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Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China)(81672674)