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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Castejón-Griñán, María
• Cerdido, Sonia
• Sánchez-Beltrán, José
• Lambertos, Ana
• Abrisqueta, Marta
• Herraiz, Cecilia
• Jiménez-Cervantes, Celia
• García-Borrón, José Carlos

Titel

Melanoma-associated melanocortin 1 receptor variants confer redox signaling-dependent protection against oxidative DNA damage

Ist Teil von

• Redox biology, 2024-06, Vol.72, p.103135, Article 103135

Ort / Verlag

Netherlands: Elsevier B.V

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Cutaneous melanoma, a lethal skin cancer, arises from malignant transformation of melanocytes. Solar ultraviolet radiation (UVR) is a major environmental risk factor for melanoma since its interaction with the skin generates DNA damage, either directly or indirectly via oxidative stress. Pheomelanin pigments exacerbate oxidative stress in melanocytes by UVR-dependent and independent mechanisms. Thus, oxidative stress is considered to contribute to melanomagenesis, particularly in people with pheomelanic pigmentation. The melanocortin 1 receptor gene (MC1R) is a major melanoma susceptibility gene. Frequent MC1R variants (varMC1R) associated with fair skin and red or yellow hair color display hypomorphic signaling to the cAMP pathway and are associated with higher melanoma risk. This association is thought to be due to production of photosensitizing pheomelanins as well as deficient induction of DNA damage repair downstream of varMC1R. However, the data on modulation of oxidative DNA damage repair by MC1R remain scarce. We recently demonstrated that varMC1R accelerates clearance of reactive oxygen species (ROS)-induced DNA strand breaks in an AKT-dependent manner. Here we show that varMC1R also protects against ROS-dependent formation of 8-oxodG, the most frequent oxidative DNA lesion. Since the base excision repair (BER) pathway mediates clearance of these DNA lesions, we analyzed induction of BER enzymes in human melanoma cells of varMC1R genotype. Agonist-mediated activation of both wildtype (wtMC1R) and varMC1R significantly induced OGG and APE-1/Ref1, the rate-limiting BER enzymes responsible for repair of 8-oxodG. Moreover, we found that NADPH oxidase (NOX)-dependent generation of ROS was responsible for AKT activation and oxidative DNA damage repair downstream of varMC1R. These observations provide a better understanding of the functional properties of melanoma-associated MC1R alleles and may be useful for the rational development of strategies to correct defective varMC1R responses for efficient photoprotection and melanoma prevention in fair-skinned individuals. [Display omitted] •Melanoma-associated MC1R variants activate AKT to protect DNA from oxidative damage.•AKT activation downstream of variant MC1R involves NOX-dependent generation of ROS.•The variant MC1R-NOX-ROS-AKT pathway induces key base excision repair enzymes.•AKT activity may allow MC1R variant cells to withstand chronic oxidative stress.