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Acetylation by Tip60 is required for selective histone variant exchange at DNA lesions
Thomas Kusch1, Laurence Florens, W Hayes Macdonald
1Stowers Institute for Medical Research, 1000 East 50th Street, Kansas City, MO 64110, USA. tnk@stowers-institute.org
Abstract:
Phosphorylation of the human histone variant H2A.X and H2Av, its homolog in Drosophila melanogaster, occurs rapidly at sites of DNA double-strand breaks. Little is known about the function of this phosphorylation or its removal during DNA repair. Here, we demonstrate that the Drosophila Tip60 (dTip60) chromatin-remodeling complex acetylates nucleosomal phospho-H2Av and exchanges it with an unmodified H2Av. Both the histone acetyltransferase dTip60 as well as the adenosine triphosphatase Domino/p400 catalyze the exchange of phospho-H2Av. Thus, these data reveal a previously unknown mechanism for selective histone exchange that uses the concerted action of two distinct chromatin-remodeling enzymes within the same multiprotein complex.
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