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Autophosphorylation and ATM activation: additional sites add to the complexity.

The recognition and signaling of DNA double strand breaks involves the participation of multiple proteins, including the protein kinase ATM (mutated in ataxia-telangiectasia). ATM kinase is activated in the vicinity of the break and is recruited to the break site by the Mre11-Rad50-Nbs1 complex, where it is fully activated. In human cells, the activation process involves autophosphorylation on three sites (Ser(367), Ser(1893), and Ser(1981)) and acetylation on Lys(3016). We now describe the identification of a new ATM phosphorylation site, Thr(P)(1885) and an additional autophosphorylation site, Ser(P)(2996), that is highly DNA damage-inducible. We also confirm that human and murine ATM share five identical phosphorylation sites. We targeted the ATM phosphorylation sites, Ser(367) and Ser(2996), for further study by generating phosphospecific antibodies against these sites and demonstrated that phosphorylation of both was rapidly induced by radiation. These phosphorylations were abolished by a specific inhibitor of ATM and were dependent on ATM and the Mre11-Rad50-Nbs1 complex. As found for Ser(P)(1981), ATM phosphorylated at Ser(367) and Ser(2996) localized to sites of DNA damage induced by radiation, but ATM recruitment was not dependent on phosphorylation at these sites. Phosphorylation at Ser(367) and Ser(2996) was functionally important because mutant forms of ATM were defective in correcting the S phase checkpoint defect and restoring radioresistance in ataxia-telangiectasia cells. These data provide further support for the importance of autophosphorylation in the activation and function of ATM in vivo.[1]

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  1. Autophosphorylation and ATM activation: additional sites add to the complexity. Kozlov, S.V., Graham, M.E., Jakob, B., Tobias, F., Kijas, A.W., Tanuji, M., Chen, P., Robinson, P.J., Taucher-Scholz, G., Suzuki, K., So, S., Chen, D., Lavin, M.F. J. Biol. Chem. (2011) [Pubmed]
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