Clustered DNA damage induces pan-nuclear H2AX phosphorylation mediated by ATM and DNA-PK.

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Clustered DNA damage induces pan-nuclear H2AX phosphorylation mediated by ATM and DNA-PK.

Nucleic Acids Res. 2013 Apr 24;

Authors: Meyer B, Voss KO, Tobias F, Jakob B, Durante M, Taucher-Scholz G

Abstract
DNA double-strand breaks (DSB) are considered as the most deleterious DNA lesions, and their repair is further complicated by increasing damage complexity. However, the molecular effects of clustered lesions are yet not fully understood. As the locally restricted phosphorylation of H2AX to form ?H2AX is a key step in facilitating efficient DSB repair, we investigated this process after localized induction of clustered damage by ionizing radiation. We show that in addition to foci at damaged sites, H2AX is also phosphorylated in undamaged chromatin over the whole-cell nucleus in human and rodent cells, but this is not related to apoptosis. This pan-nuclear ?H2AX is mediated by the kinases ataxia telangiectasia mutated and DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK) that also phosphorylate H2AX at DSBs. The pan-nuclear response is dependent on the amount of DNA damage and is transient even under conditions of impaired DSB repair. Using fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP), we found that MDC1, but not 53BP1, binds to the nuclear-wide ?H2AX. Consequently, the accumulation of MDC1 at DSBs is reduced. Altogether, we show that a transient dose-dependent activation of the kinases occurring on complex DNA lesions leads to their nuclear-wide distribution and H2AX phosphorylation, yet without eliciting a full pan-nuclear DNA damage response.

PMID: 23620287 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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