PMID- 28847818 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20180404 LR - 20240210 IS - 1471-2970 (Electronic) IS - 0962-8436 (Print) IS - 0962-8436 (Linking) VI - 372 IP - 1731 DP - 2017 Oct 5 TI - SUMO, a small, but powerful, regulator of double-strand break repair. LID - 10.1098/rstb.2016.0281 [doi] LID - 20160281 AB - The response to a DNA double-stranded break in mammalian cells is a process of sensing and signalling the lesion. It results in halting the cell cycle and local transcription and in the mediation of the DNA repair process itself. The response is launched through a series of post-translational modification signalling events coordinated by phosphorylation and ubiquitination. More recently modifications of proteins by Small Ubiquitin-like MOdifier (SUMO) isoforms have also been found to be key to coordination of the response (Morris et al. 2009 Nature462, 886-890 (doi:10.1038/nature08593); Galanty et al. 2009 Nature462, 935-939 (doi:10.1038/nature08657)). However our understanding of the role of SUMOylation is slight compared with our growing knowledge of how ubiquitin drives signal amplification and key chromatin interactions. In this review we consider our current knowledge of how SUMO isoforms, SUMO conjugation machinery, SUMO proteases and SUMO-interacting proteins contribute to directing altered chromatin states and to repair-protein kinetics at a double-stranded DNA lesion in mammalian cells. We also consider the gaps in our understanding.This article is part of the themed issue 'Chromatin modifiers and remodellers in DNA repair and signalling'. CI - (c) 2017 The Author(s). FAU - Garvin, Alexander J AU - Garvin AJ AD - Birmingham Centre for Genome Biology and Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, Medical and Dental School, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK. FAU - Morris, Joanna R AU - Morris JR AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-9762-8133 AD - Birmingham Centre for Genome Biology and Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, Medical and Dental School, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK j.morris.3@bham.ac.uk. LA - eng GR - 19062/CRUK_/Cancer Research UK/United Kingdom PT - Journal Article PT - Review PL - England TA - Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci JT - Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences JID - 7503623 RN - 0 (Small Ubiquitin-Related Modifier Proteins) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - *DNA Breaks, Double-Stranded MH - *DNA Repair MH - Humans MH - Mammals/*genetics MH - Small Ubiquitin-Related Modifier Proteins/*metabolism MH - *Sumoylation PMC - PMC5577459 OTO - NOTNLM OT - SUMO OT - SUMO protease OT - double-strand break repair OT - ubiquitin COIS- The authors have no competing interests. EDAT- 2017/08/30 06:00 MHDA- 2018/04/05 06:00 PMCR- 2017/08/28 CRDT- 2017/08/30 06:00 PHST- 2017/04/05 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2017/08/30 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2017/08/30 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2018/04/05 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2017/08/28 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - rstb.2016.0281 [pii] AID - rstb20160281 [pii] AID - 10.1098/rstb.2016.0281 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2017 Oct 5;372(1731):20160281. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0281.