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ArticleMolecular biology of the cell2010

Enhanced H2AX phosphorylation, DNA replication fork arrest, and cell death in the absence of Chk1.

Mary E Gagou, Pedro Zuazua-Villar, Mark Meuth

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Article in Molecular biology of the cell, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 101 papers.

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mary E GagouInstitute for Cancer Studies, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom.
Pedro Zuazua-Villar
Mark Meuth
University of Sheffield · GB

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

H2AX phosphorylation at serine 139 (gammaH2AX) is a sensitive indicator of both DNA damage and DNA replication stress. Here we show that gammaH2AX formation is greatly enhanced in response to replication inhibitors but not ionizing radiation in HCT116 or SW480 cells depleted of Chk1. Although H2AX phosphorylation precedes the induction of apoptosis in such cells, our results suggest that cells containing gammaH2AX are not committed to death. gammaH2AX foci in these cells largely colocalize with RPA foci and their formation is dependent upon the essential replication helicase cofactor Cdc45, suggesting that H2AX phosphorylation occurs at sites of stalled forks. However Chk1-depleted cells released from replication inhibitors retain gammaH2AX foci and do not appear to resume replicative DNA synthesis. BrdU incorporation only occurs in a minority of Chk1-depleted cells containing gammaH2AX foci after release from thymidine arrest and, in cells incorporating BrdU, DNA synthesis does not occur at sites of gammaH2AX foci. Furthermore activated ATM and Chk2 persist in these cells. We propose that the gammaH2AX foci in Chk1-depleted cells may represent sites of persistent replication fork damage or abandonment that are unable to resume DNA synthesis but do not play a direct role in the Chk1 suppressed death pathway.

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DNA ReplicationApoptosisCaspase 3Cell CycleCell Cycle ProteinsCell DeathCell Line, TumorCheckpoint Kinase 1Flow CytometryGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHistonesHumansPhosphorylationProtein KinasesRNA, Small InterferingSerineCaspase 3CDC45 protein, humanCell Cycle ProteinsCheckpoint Kinase 1CHEK1 protein, humanH2AX protein, humanHistonesProtein KinasesRNA, Small InterferingSerine

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PMID20053681
PMCPMC2828961
OpenAlexW2163280499

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