Phosphorylation of the canonical histone H2A marks foci of damaged DNA in malaria parasite
M. Goyal, A. Heinberg, V. Mitesser, S. Kandelis-Shalev, B. K. Singh, R. Dzikowski
This study shows that Plasmodium falciparum phosphorylates PfH2A in response to DNA damage, forming foci that mark damaged chromatin and enabling a direct DNA repair assay.
bioRxiv · Nov 6, 2020Microbiology