Nature Communications (May 2017)

Histone variant H2A.J accumulates in senescent cells and promotes inflammatory gene expression

  • Kévin Contrepois,
  • Clément Coudereau,
  • Bérénice A. Benayoun,
  • Nadine Schuler,
  • Pierre-François Roux,
  • Oliver Bischof,
  • Régis Courbeyrette,
  • Cyril Carvalho,
  • Jean-Yves Thuret,
  • Zhihai Ma,
  • Céline Derbois,
  • Marie-Claire Nevers,
  • Hervé Volland,
  • Christophe E. Redon,
  • William M. Bonner,
  • Jean-François Deleuze,
  • Clotilde Wiel,
  • David Bernard,
  • Michael P. Snyder,
  • Claudia E. Rübe,
  • Robert Olaso,
  • François Fenaille,
  • Carl Mann

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14995
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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Senescence of mammalian cells is characterized by proliferative arrest and expression of an inflammatory phenotype. Here the authors show the H2A variant H2A.J, found only in mammals, accumulates following persistent DNA damage or natural aging.