The Gamma-H2A.X: is It Just a Surrogate Marker of Double-strand Breaks or Much More?

Overview

Journal Environ Mol Mutagen

Specialties Environmental Health
Molecular Biology

Date 2007 Dec 21

PMID 18095327

Citations 51

Authors

Ismail Hassan Ismail

Michael J Hendzel

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Abstract

In recent years, several histone modifications have been implicated in the cellular response to DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs). One of the best characterized histone modifications important in DSB repair is the phosphorylation of histone H2A variant, H2A.X. In response to DSBs, H2A.X is phosphorylated and this phosphorylation is required for DSB signaling and the retention of repair proteins at the break site. Despite the existing picture that the function of H2A.X is to promote DNA repair, very recent data suggest that the phosphorylation of histone H2A.X has additional functions. This is analogous to histone H3 phosphorylation on serine 10, which participates in seemingly incompatible functions--transcriptional activation and mitosis. In this review, we discuss the role of histone H2A.X in maintaining genomic stability and review emerging evidence that histone H2A.X is multifunctional.

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