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Chromosoma | 1995

Well-defined genome architecture in the human sperm nucleus

Andrei O. Zalensky; M. J. Allen; A. Kobayashi; Irina A. Zalenskaya; Rod Balhorn; E. M. Bradbury

Using fluorescence in situ hybridization, conventional epifluorescence microscopy, and laser scanning confocal microscopy followed by three-dimensional reconstruction we describe a well-defined higher order packaging of the human genome in the sperm cell nucleus. This was determined by the spatial localization of centromere and telomere regions of all chromosomes and supported by localization of subtelomere sequences of chromosome 3 and the entire chromosome 2. The nuclear architecture in the human sperm is characterized by the clustering of the 23 centromeres into a compact chromocenter positioned well inside the nucleus. The ends of the chromosomes are exposed to the nuclear periphery where both the subtelomere and the telomere sequences of the chromosome arms are joined into dimers. Thus chromosomes in the human sperm nucleus are looped into a hairpin-like configuration. The biological implications of this nuclear architecture in spermatogenesis and male pronuclear formation following fertilization are discussed.


Radiation Research | 2003

Dephosphorylation of Histone γ-H2AX during Repair of DNA Double-Strand Breaks in Mammalian Cells and its Inhibition by Calyculin A

Igor Nazarov; A. N. Smirnova; Raisa Krutilina; Maria Svetlova; Lioudmila Solovjeva; A. A. Nikiforov; Shiao Li Oei; Irina A. Zalenskaya; Peter M. Yau; E. M. Bradbury; Nikolai Tomilin

Abstract Nazarov, I. B., Smirnova, A. N., Krutilina, R. I., Svetlova, M. P., Solovjeva, L. V., Nikiforov, A. A., Oei, S-L., Zalenskaya, I. A., Yau, P. M., Bradbury, E. M. and Tomilin, N. V. Dephosphorylation of Histone γ-H2AX during Repair of DNA Double-Strand Breaks in Mammalian Cells and its Inhibition by Calyculin A. Radiat. Res. 160, 309–317 (2003). The induction of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) by ionizing radiation in mammalian chromosomes leads to the phosphorylation of Ser-139 in the replacement histone H2AX, but the molecular mechanism(s) of the elimination of phosphorylated H2AX (called γ-H2AX) from chromatin in the course of DSB repair remains unknown. We showed earlier that γ-H2AX cannot be replaced by exchange with free H2AX, suggesting the direct dephosphorylation of H2AX in chromatin by a protein phosphatase. Here we studied the dynamics of dephosphorylation of γ-H2AX in vivo and found that more than 50% was dephosphorylated in 3 h, but a significant amount of γ-H2AX could be detected even 6 h after the induction of DSBs. At this time, a significant fraction of the γ-H2AX nuclear foci co-localized with the foci of RAD50 protein that did not co-localize with replication sites. However, γ-H2AX could be detected in some cells treated with methyl methanesulfonate which accumulated RAD18 protein at stalled replication sites. We also found that calyculin A inhibited early elimination of γ-H2AX and DSB rejoining in vivo and that protein phosphatase 1 was able to remove phosphate groups from γ-H2AX-containing chromatin in vitro. Our results confirm the tight association between DSBs and γ-H2AX and the coupling of its in situ dephosphorylation to DSB repair.


Radiation Research | 2001

Visualization of Focal Nuclear Sites of DNA Repair Synthesis Induced by Bleomycin in Human Cells

Nikolai Tomilin; Lioudmila Solovjeva; Maria Svetlova; Nadezhda Pleskach; Irina A. Zalenskaya; Peter M. Yau; E. M. Bradbury

Abstract Tomilin, N. V., Solovjeva, L. V., Svetlova, M. P., Pleskach, N. M., Zalenskaya, I. A., Yau, P. M. and Bradbury, E. M. Visualization of Focal Nuclear Sites of DNA Repair Synthesis Induced by Bleomycin in Human Cells. Radiat. Res. 156, 347–354 (2001). In this study, we examined DNA repair synthesis in human cells treated with the radiomimetic drug bleomycin, which efficiently induces double-strand breaks (DSBs). Using tyramide-biotin to amplify fluorescent signals, discrete nuclear foci from the incorporation of 5-iododeoxyuridine (IdU) were detected in proliferating human cells treated with bleomycin. We believe this comes from the repair of DSBs. An increase in the number of foci (>5 per nucleus) was detected in a major fraction (75%) of non-S-phase cells labeled for 30 min with IdU 1 h after the end of bleomycin treatment. The fraction of cells with multiple IdU-containing foci was found to decrease 18 h after treatment. The average number of foci per nucleus detected 1 h after bleomycin treatment was found to decrease twofold between 1 and 3.5 h, indicating that the foci may be associated with the slow component of DSB repair. The presence of DSBs in bleomycin-treated cells was confirmed using antibodies against phosphorylated histone H2AX (γ-H2AX), which is strictly associated with this type of DNA damage. After treatment with bleomycin, non-S-phase cells also displayed heterogeneous nuclear foci containing tightly bound proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA), suggesting an ongoing process of unscheduled DNA synthesis. PCNA is known to be involved in base excision repair, but a fraction of the PCNA foci may also be associated with DNA synthesis occurring during the repair of DSBs.


Oncogene | 2003

Protection of internal (TTAGGG)n repeats in Chinese hamster cells by telomeric protein TRF1

Raisa Krutilina; A. N. Smirnova; Olga Mudrak; Nadezhda Pleskach; Maria Svetlova; Shiao Li Oei; Peter M. Yau; E. M. Bradbury; Andrey Olegovich Zalensky; Nikolai Tomilin

Chinese hamster cells have large interstitial (TTAGGG) bands (ITs) which are unstable and should be protected by an unknown mechanism. Here, we expressed in Chinese hamster V79 cells green fluorescent protein (GFP)-tagged human TRF1, and found that a major fraction of GFP-TRF1 bound to ITs is diffusionally mobile. This fraction strongly decreases after treatment of cells with wortmannin, a protein kinase inhibitor, and this drug also increases the frequency of chromosome aberrations. Ionizing radiation does not induce detectable translocation of GFP-TRF1 to the sites of random double-strand breaks visualized using antibodies against histone γ-H2AX. TRF1 is known to be eliminated from telomeres by overexpression of tankyrase 1 which induces TRF1 poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation. We transfected V79 cells by plasmid encoding tankyrase 1 and found that the frequency of chromosome rearrangements is increased in these cells independently of their treatment by IR. Taken together, our results suggest that TRF1 is involved in sequence-specific protection of internal nontelomeric (TTAGGG)n repeats.


Chromosoma | 1996

Activity banding of human chromosomes as shown by histone acetylation

John W. Breneman; Peter M. Yau; Roy R. Swiger; Raymond L. Teplitz; H. A. Smith; James D. Tucker; E. M. Bradbury

The expression of genes in mammalian cells depends on many factors including position in the cell cycle, stage of differentiation, age, and environmental influences. As different groups of genes are expressed, their packaging within chromatin changes and may be detected at the chromsomal level. The organization of DNA within a chromosome is determined to a large extent by the positively charged, highly conserved histones. Histone subtypes and the reversible chemical modifications of histones have been associated with gene activity. Active or potentially active genes have been associated with hyperacetylated histones and inactive genes with nonacetylated histones. Sodium butyrate increases the acetylation levels of histones in cell cultures and acts as both an inducer of gene activity and as a cell-cycle block. We describe a method to label the interphase distribution of DNA associated with various histone acetylation stages on chromosomes. Nucleosomes from untreated and butyrate-treated HeLa cells were fractionated by their acetylation level and the associated DNA labeled, and hybridized to normal human chromosomes. In the sodium butyrate-treated cells the resulting banding patterns of the high- and low-acetylated fractions were strikingly different. DNA from low-acetylated chromatin labeled several pericentric regions, whereas hybridization with DNA from highly acetylated chromatin resulted in a pattern similar to inverse G-bands on many chromsomes. The results from noninduced cells at both high and low acetylation levels were noticeably different from their induced counterparts. The capture and hybridization of DNA from interphase chromatin at different acetylation states provides a “snap-shot” of the distribution of gene activity on chromosomes at the time of cell harvest.


Doklady Biochemistry and Biophysics | 2003

Early immobilization of nuclease FEN1 and accumulation of hRAD18 protein at stalled DNA replication forks in mammalian cells.

Andrey Nikiforov; Lioudmila Sasina; Maria Svetlova; Ljudmila Solovjeva; Shiao Li Oei; E. M. Bradbury; Nikolai Tomilin

1 Radiation and chemical carcinogens induce lesions in DNA template strands which block usual eukaryotic DNA polymerases δ and ε (Pol δ and Pol ε ) and lead to the stalling of movement of replication forks [1]. Replication block can be eliminated either through lesion bypass using special DNA polymerases, e.g., DNA polymerase η ( Pol η ) [2, 3], which is able to incorporate normal nucleotides opposite the lesions (trans-lesion synthesis), or through gene conversion when an undamaged daughter strand of the second DNA duplex is used as a template [4, 5]. In budding yeast, both pathways of lesion bypass (also called postreplication repair; PR) are controlled by the RAD6/RAD18 complex [6], which ubiquitylate the factor of processivity of Pol δ PCNA [7]. In mammalian cells, Pol η is accumulated at stalled replication forks [3], but initial signal of switching of normal replication to lesion bypass has not been established.


Other Information: PBD: [1997] | 1997

Structural biology of disease-associated repetitive DNA sequences and protein-DNA complexes involved in DNA damage and repair

Goutam Gupta; S.V. Santhana Mariappan; Xian Chen; Paolo Catasti; Louis A. Silks; Robert K. Moyzis; E. M. Bradbury; Angel E. Garcia

This project is aimed at formulating the sequence-structure-function correlations of various microsatellites in the human (and other eukaryotic) genomes. Here the authors have been able to develop and apply structure biology tools to understand the following: the molecular mechanism of length polymorphism microsatellites; the molecular mechanism by which the microsatellites in the noncoding regions alter the regulation of the associated gene; and finally, the molecular mechanism by which the expansion of these microsatellites impairs gene expression and causes the disease. Their multidisciplinary structural biology approach is quantitative and can be applied to all coding and noncoding DNA sequences associated with any gene. Both NIH and DOE are interested in developing quantitative tools for understanding the function of various human genes for prevention against diseases caused by genetic and environmental effects.


Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1995

Loss of the catalytic subunit of the DNA-dependent protein kinase in DNA double-strand-break-repair mutant mammalian cells.

Scott Peterson; Akihiro Kurimasa; Mitsuo Oshimura; W.S. Dynan; E. M. Bradbury; David J. Chen


Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1995

Hairpins are formed by the single DNA strands of the fragile X triplet repeats: Structure and biological implications

Xian Chen; S. V. Santhana Mariappan; Paolo Catasti; Robert L. Ratliff; Robert K. Moyzis; Ali Laayoun; Steven S. Smith; E. M. Bradbury; Goutam Gupta


Nucleic Acids Research | 1997

AFM analysis of DNA-protamine complexes bound to mica

M. J. Allen; E. M. Bradbury; Rod Balhorn

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Goutam Gupta

Los Alamos National Laboratory

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Nikolai Tomilin

Russian Academy of Sciences

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Maria Svetlova

Russian Academy of Sciences

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Shiao Li Oei

Free University of Berlin

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Paolo Catasti

Los Alamos National Laboratory

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Robert K. Moyzis

Los Alamos National Laboratory

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Raisa Krutilina

Russian Academy of Sciences

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Angel E. Garcia

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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