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. 2019 Sep 16;9:13381. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-49821-7

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Effect of human VRK1 pathogenic variants on chromatin substrates: histones H3, forming part of nucleosomes, and H2AX associated to the initial reaction to DNA damage. (a) Phosphorylation of histone H3 in Thr3 by different VRK1 variant proteins. The H3T3 phosphorylation was detected in immunoblots with a phosphospecific antibody. (b) Phosphorylation of histone H2AX by different VRK1 pathogenic variant proteins performed by in vitro radioactive kinase assay. The graph shows the ratio of phosphorylated and non-phosphorylated substrates for each protein. The statistical study of the variables, protein level and time is a covariance analysis by least-square non-linear regression to detect the correlation between the change in protein as a function of time. The assays were performed in triplicate and are represented individually as dots in the graph. Wild type VRK1 was the reference value. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.005, ***p < 0.0005. Western blots with the proteins used in kinase assays are shown in Supplementary Fig. S7.