“…In this regard, budding and fission yeast as well as DT40 vertebrate cells deficient in Hat1, the HAT enzyme that acetylates such positions on free histone H4, are sensitive to DBS DNA-damaging agents. 92,93 Consistent with the notion that Hat1 has a role in nucleosome assembly during DSB repair, mutant cells that are defective in both Hat1 and Asf1 have been shown to be epistatic, suggesting that they function together in the same pathway. 92 However, as indicated above, the recruitment of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Hat1 to the DSB repair sites, with kinetics similar to other recombinational repair factors, suggests that Hat1 may act, in addition to chromatin restoration, to facilitate DNA repair.…”