Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

The CHD6 chromatin remodeler is an oxidative DNA damage response factor

  • Shaun Moore,
  • N. Daniel Berger,
  • Martijn S. Luijsterburg,
  • Cortt G. Piett,
  • Fintan K. T. Stanley,
  • Christoph U. Schräder,
  • Shujuan Fang,
  • Jennifer A. Chan,
  • David C. Schriemer,
  • Zachary D. Nagel,
  • Haico van Attikum,
  • Aaron A. Goodarzi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08111-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Oxidative DNA damage is associated with nucleosome respacing and transcriptional changes requiring chromatin remodeling enzymes. Here, the authors reveal that the CHD6 remodeler is a DNA damage response factor that relocates to damaged sites and promotes cell survival following oxidative damage.