1. Erroneous identification of APOBEC3-edited chromosomal DNA in cancer genomics
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Caval, Mohamed S. Bouzidi, Jean-Pierre Vartanian, Michel Henry, Rodolphe Suspène, Simon Wain-Hobson, Rétrovirologie Moléculaire, Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP), and This work was supported by grants from the Institut Pasteur, INCa and the CNRS. VC and MSB were supported by OSEO and the Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer.
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MESH: Neoplasm Proteins ,CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes ,Cancer Research ,[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] ,MESH: beta Catenin ,Cytidine ,medicine.disease_cause ,Nucleic Acid Denaturation ,Genome ,Polymerase Chain Reaction ,law.invention ,Cytosine Deaminase ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,MESH: Liver Neoplasms ,law ,APOBEC Deaminases ,APOBEC3A ,MESH: Carcinoma, Hepatocellular ,Polymerase chain reaction ,Cells, Cultured ,beta Catenin ,Genetics ,Recombination, Genetic ,Mutation ,Liver Neoplasms ,MESH: APOBEC Deaminases ,Temperature ,MESH: CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes ,APOBEC3 ,DNA, Neoplasm ,MESH: Temperature ,MESH: Hepatitis C, Chronic ,Nuclear DNA ,Neoplasm Proteins ,Oncology ,MESH: Recombination, Genetic ,MESH: Interferon-alpha ,MESH: Cytidine ,MESH: Cells, Cultured ,MESH: Mutation ,Carcinoma, Hepatocellular ,MESH: Hepatitis B, Chronic ,MESH: DNA, Neoplasm ,Context (language use) ,Genomics ,MESH: Nucleic Acid Denaturation ,Biology ,MESH: Phytohemagglutinins ,Hepatitis B, Chronic ,Cytidine Deaminase ,medicine ,Humans ,3DPCR ,Phytohemagglutinins ,MESH: Cytidine Deaminase ,cancer genomics ,MESH: Humans ,MESH: Cytosine Deaminase ,hypermutation ,Interferon-alpha ,MESH: Interleukin-2 ,MESH: Polymerase Chain Reaction ,Genetics and Genomics ,Hepatitis C, Chronic ,chemistry ,Interleukin-2 ,DNA - Abstract
International audience; Background: The revolution in cancer genomics shows that the dominant mutations are CG->TA transitions. The sources of these mutations are probably two host cell cytidine deaminases APOBEC3A and APOBEC3B. The former in particular can access nuclear DNA and monotonously introduce phenomenal numbers of C->T mutations in the signature 5'TpC context. These can be copied as G->A transitions in the 5'GpA context.Methods: DNA hypermutated by an APOBEC3 enzyme can be recovered by a technique called 3DPCR, which stands for differential DNA denaturation PCR. This method exploits the fact that APOBEC3-edited DNA is richer in A+T compared with the reference. We explore explicitly 3DPCR error using cloned DNA.Results: Here we show that the technique has a higher error rate compared with standard PCR and can generate DNA strands containing both C->T and G->A mutations in a 5'GpCpR context. Sequences with similar traits have been recovered from human tumour DNA using 3DPCR.Conclusions: Differential DNA denaturation PCR cannot be used to identify fixed C->T transitions in cancer genomes. Presently, the overall mutation frequency is ∼10(4)-10(5) base substitutions per cancer genome, or 0.003-0.03 kb(-1). By contrast, the 3DPCR error rate is of the order of 4-20 kb(-1) owing to constant selection for AT DNA and PCR-mediated recombination. Accordingly, sequences recovered by 3DPCR harbouring mixed C->T and G->A mutations associated with the 5'GpC represent artefacts.
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- 2014
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