a Confocal micrographs (maximum intensity projections) of Nocodazole-arrested RPE-1 wild type, MDC1 knock-out (ΔMDC1) and CIP2A knock-out (ΔCIP2A) cells, irradiated with 1 Gy and stained for TOPBP1 and CIP2A. b Quantification of the experiment in a. CIP2A/TOPBP1 foci were manually counted. Each data point represents one mitotic cell (no IR WT: n = 52, ΔMDC1: n = 56, ΔCIP2A: n = 51, IR WT: n = 80, ΔMDC1: n = 61, ΔCIP2A: n = 53, pooled from three independent experiments) and bars represent the median. Statistical significance was assessed with the Kruskal-Wallis test and Dunn’s multiple comparison test (α = 0.05). c Flag-immunoprecipitation from 293FT cells transfected with Flag-tagged full-length CIP2A and HA-tagged MDC1 wild type (WT) and Ser168/Ser196 double mutant (S168A/S196A). d Quantification of CIP2A-MDC1 proximity by in situ PLA in U2OS wild type (WT) and U2OS MDC1 knock-out cells (ΔMDC1), arrested in mitosis by Nocodazole and mock treated or treated with 1 Gy of IR. Each data point represents one cell (WT -IR: n = 131, WT + IR: n = 114, ΔMDC1 -IR: n = 85, ΔMDC1 + IR n = 54, pooled from two independent experiments), and bars represent median. Statistical significance was assessed by Kruskal-Wallis test and Dunn’s multiple comparison test (α = 0.05). e Confocal micrographs (maximum intensity projections) of Nocodazole-arrested U2OS ΔMDC1 cells stably transfected with GFP-tagged wild type and S168A/S196A mutated MDC1, stained for CIP2A and TOPBP1 1 h treatment with 1 Gy of IR. f Quantitative analysis of GFP-MDC1 and CIP2A co-localization by SQUASSH: Left graph: object size colocalization (area of object overlap divided by total object area). Right graph: object number colocalization (fraction of objects in each channel that overlap ≥ 50%). Data points represent individual mitotic cells (n = 24, except S168A/196 A object number: n = 21, pooled from three independent experiments). Bars and error bars represent mean and SD. Statistical significance was assessed by unpaired t-tests with Welch’s correction (α = 0.05). Source data are provided as a Source Data file.