Histone H2A and H2B are monoubiquitinated at AID-targeted loci.
Somatic hypermutation introduces base substitutions into the rearranged and expressed immunoglobulin (Ig) variable regions to promote immunity. This pathway requires and is initiated by the Activation Induced Deaminase (AID) protein, which deaminates cytidine to produce uracils and UG mismatches at...
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| author | Glen M Borchert Nathaniel W Holton Kevin A Edwards Laura A Vogel Erik D Larson |
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| description | Somatic hypermutation introduces base substitutions into the rearranged and expressed immunoglobulin (Ig) variable regions to promote immunity. This pathway requires and is initiated by the Activation Induced Deaminase (AID) protein, which deaminates cytidine to produce uracils and UG mismatches at the Ig genes. Subsequent processing of uracil by mismatch repair and base excision repair factors contributes to mutagenesis. While selective for certain genomic targets, the chromatin modifications which distinguish hypermutating from non-hypermutating loci are not defined.Here, we show that AID-targeted loci in mammalian B cells contain ubiquitinated chromatin. Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) analysis of a constitutively hypermutating Burkitt's B cell line, Ramos, revealed the presence of monoubiquitinated forms of both histone H2A and H2B at two AID-associated loci, but not at control loci which are expressed but not hypermutated. Similar analysis using LPS activated primary murine splenocytes showed enrichment of the expressed V(H) and Sgamma3 switch regions upon ChIP with antibody specific to AID and to monoubiquitinated H2A and H2B. In the mechanism of mammalian hypermutation, AID may interact with ubiquitinated chromatin because confocal immunofluorescence microscopy visualized AID colocalized with monoubiquitinated H2B within discrete nuclear foci.Our results indicate that monoubiquitinated histones accompany active somatic hypermutation, revealing part of the histone code marking AID-targeted loci. This expands the current view of the chromatin state during hypermutation by identifying a specific nucleosome architecture associated with somatic hypermutation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d2c9cbad8afc4ac1a876c16802966ec22022-12-22T03:39:17ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032010-07-0157e1164110.1371/journal.pone.0011641Histone H2A and H2B are monoubiquitinated at AID-targeted loci.Glen M BorchertNathaniel W HoltonKevin A EdwardsLaura A VogelErik D LarsonSomatic hypermutation introduces base substitutions into the rearranged and expressed immunoglobulin (Ig) variable regions to promote immunity. This pathway requires and is initiated by the Activation Induced Deaminase (AID) protein, which deaminates cytidine to produce uracils and UG mismatches at the Ig genes. Subsequent processing of uracil by mismatch repair and base excision repair factors contributes to mutagenesis. While selective for certain genomic targets, the chromatin modifications which distinguish hypermutating from non-hypermutating loci are not defined.Here, we show that AID-targeted loci in mammalian B cells contain ubiquitinated chromatin. Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) analysis of a constitutively hypermutating Burkitt's B cell line, Ramos, revealed the presence of monoubiquitinated forms of both histone H2A and H2B at two AID-associated loci, but not at control loci which are expressed but not hypermutated. Similar analysis using LPS activated primary murine splenocytes showed enrichment of the expressed V(H) and Sgamma3 switch regions upon ChIP with antibody specific to AID and to monoubiquitinated H2A and H2B. In the mechanism of mammalian hypermutation, AID may interact with ubiquitinated chromatin because confocal immunofluorescence microscopy visualized AID colocalized with monoubiquitinated H2B within discrete nuclear foci.Our results indicate that monoubiquitinated histones accompany active somatic hypermutation, revealing part of the histone code marking AID-targeted loci. This expands the current view of the chromatin state during hypermutation by identifying a specific nucleosome architecture associated with somatic hypermutation.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2905439?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Glen M Borchert Nathaniel W Holton Kevin A Edwards Laura A Vogel Erik D Larson Histone H2A and H2B are monoubiquitinated at AID-targeted loci. PLoS ONE |
| title | Histone H2A and H2B are monoubiquitinated at AID-targeted loci. |
| title_full | Histone H2A and H2B are monoubiquitinated at AID-targeted loci. |
| title_fullStr | Histone H2A and H2B are monoubiquitinated at AID-targeted loci. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Histone H2A and H2B are monoubiquitinated at AID-targeted loci. |
| title_short | Histone H2A and H2B are monoubiquitinated at AID-targeted loci. |
| title_sort | histone h2a and h2b are monoubiquitinated at aid targeted loci |
| url | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2905439?pdf=render |
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