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Active localization of the retinoblastoma protein in chromatin and its response to S phase DNA damage

  • Dror Avni
  • , Hong Yang
  • , Fabio Martelli
  • , Francesco Hofmann
  • , Wael M. ElShamy
  • , Shridar Ganesan
  • , Ralph Scully
  • , David M. Livingston*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
  • IRCCS Istituto Dermopatico dell'Immacolata - Roma
  • Novartis
  • Harvard University

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Abstract

The Rb protein suppresses development of an abnormal state of endoreduplication arising after S phase DNA damage. In diploid, S phase cells, the activity of protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) licenses the stable association of un(der)phosphorylated Rb with chromatin. After damage, chromatin-associated pRb is attracted to certain chromosomal replication initiation sites in the order in which they normally fire. Like S phase DNA damage in Rb-/- cells, specific interruption of PP2A function in irradiated, S phase wt cells also elicited a state of endoreduplication. Thus, PP2A normally licenses the recruitment of Rb to chromatin sites in S phase from which, after DNA damage, it relocalizes to selected replication control sites and suppresses abnormal, postdamage rereplicative activity.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)735-746
Number of pages12
JournalMolecular Cell
Volume12
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Sep 2003
Externally publishedYes

Funding

FundersFunder number
National Cancer InstituteK01CA079576
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Lady Tata Memorial Trust

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