In eucaryotic cells, DNA is bound to various proteins and forms a complex nucleoprotein structure called chromatin. Indispensable and ubiquitous chromatin components are histones, small proteins of highly conserved primary structure. Two molecules of each H2A, H2B, H3 and H4 type, form the nucleosomal core around which a 146 base pair (bp) stretch of DNA is wrapped. Histone H1 is bound to about...

The gene mutated in Bloom's syndrome, BLM, is important in the repair of damaged replication forks, and it has both pro- and anti-recombinogenic roles in homologous recombination (HR). At damaged forks, BLM interacts with RAD51 recombinase, the essential enzyme in HR that catalyzes homology-dependent strand invasion. We have previously shown that defects in BLM modification by the small ubiquit...

Purpose: To determine the effect of formononetin (FMNT) in proliferation, drug resistance, and DNA damage myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN), to evaluate potential FMNT as a therapeutic target.
 Methods: Cell viability curves colony formation assays were used characterize proliferation HEL or HEL/R cells. Flow cytometry was conducted assess apoptosis cells, while western blotting performed ...

The rapid accumulation of signaling and repair factors in the vicinity of DNA lesions is an integral part of the cellular DNA damage response (DDR) to DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs).1,2 This is initiated by posttranslational modifications of core histones, to which various effector proteins bind. The priming modification is ATM-mediated phosphorylation of histone H2AX at Ser-139 (γ-H2AX), a ma...

Heart development requires a precise temporal regulation of gene expression in cardiomyoblasts. Therefore, the transcriptional changes differentiating cells can lead to congenital heart diseases. Although genetic mutations underlie most these alterations, exposure environmental contaminants, such as bisphenol A (BPA), has been recently considered risk factor well. In this study we investigated ...

We have previously reported that Monad, a novel WD40 repeat protein, potentiates apoptosis induced by tumor necrosis factor-alpha and cycloheximide. By affinity purification and mass spectrometry, RNA polymerase II-associated protein 3 (RPAP3) was identified as a Monad binding protein and may function with Monad as a novel modulator of apoptosis pathways. Here we report that Reptin, a highly co...

Histone H2AX promotes DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair and immunoglobulin heavy chain (IgH) class switch recombination (CSR) in B-lymphocytes. CSR requires activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) and involves joining of DSB intermediates by end joining. We find that AID-dependent IgH locus chromosome breaks occur at high frequency in primary H2AX-deficient B cells activated for CSR and ...

Osteosarcoma is a kind of high-risk sarcoma of the skeleton typically observed in people under 25 years old. Currently, radiotherapy is widely applied in cancer treatment. However, osteosarcoma is radioresistant and accordingly new, more effective radiosensitizers are needed. miRNAs have been reported to play an important role in osteosarcoma radiosensitivity. We examined the modulating effect ...