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BIOLOGY OPEN
Volume 4, Issue 7, Pages 873-884Publisher
COMPANY BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/bio.011734
Keywords
Meiosis; Sex chromosomes; Spermatogenesis
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- Developmental Fund at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
- March of Dimes Foundation [FY13-510]
- NIH [R01GM098605, 1R21ES023942]
- American Heart Association [13GRNT16370019]
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Meiosis is precisely regulated by the factors involved in DNA damage response in somatic cells. Among them, phosphorylation of H2AX on Serine 139 (gamma H2AX) is an essential signal for the silencing of unsynapsed sex chromosomes during male meiosis. However, it remains unknown how adjacent H2AX phosphorylation on Tyrosine 142 (pTyr142) is regulated in meiosis. Here we investigate the meiotic functions of BAZ1B (WSTF), the only known Tyr142 kinase in somatic cells, using mice possessing a conditional deletion of BAZ1B. Although BAZ1B deletion causes ectopic gamma H2AX signals on synapsed autosomes during the early pachytene stage, BAZ1B is dispensable for fertility and critical events during spermatogenesis. BAZ1B deletion does not alter events on unsynapsed axes and pericentric heterochromatin formation. Furthermore, BAZ1B is dispensable for localization of the ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling protein SMARCA5 (SNF2h) during spermatogenesis despite the complex formation between BAZ1B and SMARCA5, known as the WICH complex, in somatic cells. Notably, pTyr142 is regulated independently of BAZ1B and is dephosphorylated on the sex chromosomes during meiosis in contrast with the presence of adjacent gamma H2AX. Dephosphorylation of pTyr142 is regulated by MDC1, a binding partner of gamma H2AX. These results reveal the distinct regulation of two adjacent phosphorylation sites of H2AX during meiosis, and suggest that another kinase mediates Tyr142 phosphorylation.
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