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Journal Article
The threat of programmed DNA damage to neuronal genome integrity and plasticity
2022
Overview
The neuronal genome is particularly sensitive to loss or attenuation of DNA repair, and many neurological diseases ensue when DNA repair is impaired. It is well-established that the neuronal genome is subjected to stochastic DNA damage, most likely because of extensive oxidative stress in the brain. However, recent studies have identified unexpected high levels of ‘programmed’ DNA breakage in neurons, which we propose arise during physiological DNA metabolic processes intrinsic to neuronal development, differentiation and maintenance. The role of programmed DNA breaks in normal neuronal physiology and disease remains relatively unexplored thus far. However, bulk and single-cell sequencing analyses of neurodegenerative diseases have revealed age-related somatic mutational signatures that are enriched in regulatory regions of the genome. Here, we explore a paradigm of DNA repair in neurons, in which the genome is safeguarded from erroneous impacts of programmed genome breakage intrinsic to normal neuronal function.
Normal cellular processes can cause DNA breaks which become substrates for the cell’s DNA repair machinery. Focusing on neurons, this Perspective article explores the role of this ‘programmed’ DNA damage and its repair in health, ageing and neurodegenerative disease.
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group US,Nature Publishing Group
Subject
/ 45/15
/ 45/22
/ 45/43
/ 45/47
/ 631/208
/ Age
/ Animal Genetics and Genomics
/ Animals
/ Ataxia
/ Biomedical and Life Sciences
/ Disease
/ DNA
/ DNA Topoisomerases - metabolism
/ Genome
/ Genomes
/ Humans
/ Mutation
/ Nervous System Diseases - genetics
/ Nervous System Diseases - physiopathology
/ Neurons
/ Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid
/ Repair
