HP1-β mobilization promotes chromatin changes that initiate the DNA damage response
HP1-β mobilization promotes chromatin changes that initiate the DNA damage response
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DOI:
10.1038/nature06875
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发表时间:
2008-05-29
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64.8
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Venkitaraman, Ashok R.
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作者:
Ayoub, Nabieh;Jeyasekharan, Anand D.;Venkitaraman, Ashok R.
Minutes after DNA damage, the variant histone H2AX is phosphorylated by protein kinases of the phosphoinositide kinase family, including ATM, ATR or DNA- PK1. Phosphorylated (gamma)-H2AX - which recruits molecules that sense or signal the presence of DNA breaks, activating the response that leads to repair(2,3) - is the earliest known marker of chromosomal DNA breakage. Here we identify a dynamic change in chromatin that promotes H2AX phosphorylation in mammalian cells. DNA breaks swiftly mobilize heterochromatin protein 1 (HP1)-beta ( also called CBX1), a chromatin factor bound to histone H3 methylated on lysine 9 ( H3K9me). Local changes in histone- tail modifications are not apparent. Instead, phosphorylation of HP1-beta on amino acid Thr 51 accompanies mobilization, releasing HP1-beta from chromatin by disrupting hydrogen bonds that fold its chromodomain around H3K9me. Inhibition of casein kinase 2 ( CK2), an enzyme implicated in DNA damage sensing and repair(4-6), suppresses Thr 51 phosphorylation and HP1-beta mobilization in living cells. CK2 inhibition, or a constitutively chromatin- bound HP1-beta mutant, diminishes H2AX phosphorylation. Our findings reveal an unrecognized signalling cascade that helps to initiate the DNA damage response, altering chromatin by modifying a histone- code mediator protein, HP1, but not the code itself.