Encodes HTA5, a histone H2A protein. H2AX is a meiosis-specific isoform of histone H2A. Upon DSB formation, rapid accumulation of phosphorylated H2AX (γ-H2AX) occurs around the break site. H2AX foci accumulate in early G2. Immunolocalization studies in spread preparations of wild-type meiocytes at G2/early leptotene revealed the accumulation of numerous rather diffuse γ-H2AX foci throughout the chromatin. However, their accumulation is not contemporaneous with that of AtSPO11-1. At 3 h post-S, no γ-H2AX foci are detected. During the 3- to 5-h window when AtSPO11-1 foci rapidly disappear, there is an equally swift accumulation of γ-H2AX to a maximum of >50 diffuse foci. The level of γH2AX then remains constant for a further 13 h before undergoing a gradual decrease to 10
Computational Description
H2AXA; FUNCTIONS IN: DNA binding; INVOLVED IN: nucleosome assembly; LOCATED IN: nucleus; EXPRESSED IN: 23 plant structures; EXPRESSED DURING: 13 growth stages; CONTAINS InterPro DOMAIN/s: Histone H2A (InterPro:IPR002119), Histone-fold (InterPro:IPR009072), Histone core (InterPro:IPR007125); BEST Arabidopsis thaliana protein match is: gamma histone variant H2AX (TAIR:AT1G54690.1); Has 3916 Blast hits to 3911 proteins in 363 species: Archae - 0; Bacteria - 0; Metazoa - 2550; Fungi - 318; Plants - 612; Viruses - 4; Other Eukaryotes - 432 (source: NCBI BLink).
