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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5498
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-12-13
pubmed:abstractText
Genetic disorders affecting cellular responses to DNA damage are characterized by high rates of translocations involving antigen receptor loci and increased susceptibility to lymphoid malignancies. We report that the Nijmegen breakage syndrome protein (NBS1) and histone gamma-H2AX, which associate with irradiation-induced DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs), are also found at sites of VDJ (variable, diversity, joining) recombination-induced DSBs. In developing thymocytes, NBS1 and gamma-H2AX form nuclear foci that colocalize with the T cell receptor alpha locus in response to recombination activating gene (RAG) protein-mediated VDJ cleavage. Our results suggest that surveillance of T cell receptor recombination intermediates by NBS1 and gamma-H2AX may be important for preventing oncogenic translocations.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0036-8075
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
8
pubmed:volume
290
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1962-5
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-3-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11110662-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:11110662-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:11110662-Cell Nucleus, pubmed-meshheading:11110662-DNA Damage, pubmed-meshheading:11110662-DNA-Binding Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11110662-Fluorescent Antibody Technique, pubmed-meshheading:11110662-Gene Rearrangement, alpha-Chain T-Cell Antigen Receptor, pubmed-meshheading:11110662-Genes, T-Cell Receptor alpha, pubmed-meshheading:11110662-Histones, pubmed-meshheading:11110662-Homeodomain Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11110662-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:11110662-Mice, Transgenic, pubmed-meshheading:11110662-Microscopy, Confocal, pubmed-meshheading:11110662-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:11110662-Nuclear Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11110662-Phosphorylation, pubmed-meshheading:11110662-Recombination, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:11110662-T-Lymphocytes
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Response to RAG-mediated VDJ cleavage by NBS1 and gamma-H2AX.
pubmed:affiliation
Experimental Immunology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article