Journal: Cancer Research
Article Title: Functional and Clinical Characterization of Variants of Uncertain Significance Identifies a Hotspot for Inactivating Missense Variants in RAD51C
doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-22-2319
Figure Lengend Snippet: Evaluation of 173 RAD51C missense variants by HDR assay. A, DR-GFP reporter assay showing the range of HDR activity for 173 missense variants in CL-V4B cells, measured as fold change in GFP-positive cells (normalized to 1–5 scale, WT = 5 and p.Leu138Phe = 1). Neutral (>2.5 scale, gray bars), deleterious (<1.25 scale, red bars), and intermediate effects (>1.25, <2.5 scale, light gray bars). Purple, L138F and C135Y deleterious controls. Amino acid changes in one letter code are labeled on the x -axis in clusters (black, blue, and orange) in order of presentation on the bar chart. Error bars, SEM of three independent experiments. B, Illustration of the location of missense variants within the RAD51C linear sequence identifying a deleterious variant hotspot. Key functional domains of RAD51C are indicated and neutral (blue), deleterious (orange), and intermediate (green) variants are shown at top. C, Circos plot of the RAD51C variants and functional assay (HDR, cisplatin and olaparib sensitivity, binding to XRCC3, RAD51D, and XRCC2) results. RAD51C variants are indicated by residue position in the outer ring. Track 1 shows the final score based on all functional assays. For HDR, variants were classified as neutral (light blue; ≥51.1% relative to WT), intermediate (green; 48.7%–26.8%), or deleterious (orange; ≤22.7%). Cisplatin sensitivity was classified as neutral (≥83.5% relative to WT), intermediate (43%–82%), or deleterious (≤13.1%). Olaparib sensitivity was classified as neutral (≥ 80.4% relative to WT), intermediate (78.7%–51.7%), or deleterious (≤42%). Dark blue, interactions with XRCC3, RAD51D, and XRCC2; yellow, partial interaction; red, no interaction.
Article Snippet: RAD51C expression was assessed by Western blotting with anti-RAD51C mouse mAb (mAb F11; Santa Cruz Biotechnology) and anti-FLAG mouse monoclonal (mAB M2; Sigma; ref. ).
Techniques: Reporter Assay, Activity Assay, Labeling, Sequencing, Variant Assay, Functional Assay, Binding Assay, Residue