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Publication : Deficiency in the response to DNA double-strand breaks in mouse early preimplantation embryos.

First Author  Yukawa M Year  2007
Journal  Biochem Biophys Res Commun Volume  358
Issue  2 Pages  578-84
PubMed ID  17498656 Mgi Jnum  J:122445
Mgi Id  MGI:3714420 Doi  10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.04.162
Citation  Yukawa M, et al. (2007) Deficiency in the response to DNA double-strand breaks in mouse early preimplantation embryos. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 358(2):578-84
abstractText  DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are caused by various environmental stresses, such as ionizing radiation and DNA-damaging agents. When DSBs occur, cell cycle checkpoint mechanisms function to stop the cell cycle until all DSBs are repaired; the phosphorylation of H2AX plays an important role in this process. Mouse preimplantation-stage embryos are hypersensitive to ionizing radiation, and X-irradiated mouse zygotes are arrested at the G2 phase of the first cell cycle. To investigate the mechanisms responding to DNA damage at G2 in mouse preimplantation embryos, we examined G2/M checkpoint and DNA repair mechanisms in these embryos. Most of the one- and two-cell embryos in which DSBs had been induced by gamma-irradiation underwent a delay in cleavage and ceased development before the blastocyst stage. In these embryos, phosphorylated H2AX (gamma-H2AX) was not detected in the one- or two-cell stages by immunocytochemistry, although it was detected after the two-cell stage during preimplantation development. These results suggest that the G2/M checkpoint and DNA repair mechanisms have insufficient function in one- and two-cell embryos, causing hypersensitivity to gamma-irradiation. In addition, phosphorylated ataxia telangiectasia mutated protein and DNA protein kinase catalytic subunits, which phosphorylate H2AX, were detected in the embryos at one- and two-cell stages, as well as at other preimplantation stages, suggesting that the absence of gamma-H2AX in one- and two-cell embryos depends on some factor(s) other than these kinases.
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