Bacillus Subtilis SMC Complexes Juxtapose Chromosome Arms as They Travel from Origin to Terminus
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Wang, Xindan
Brandão, Hugo B.
Rudner, David Z.
Le, Tung
Laub, Michael T
Date Issued
February 2017
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Science
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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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Wang, Xindan, et al. “Bacillus Subtilis SMC Complexes Juxtapose Chromosome Arms as They Travel from Origin to Terminus.” Science, vol. 355, no. 6324, Feb. 2017, pp. 524–27.
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Abstract
Structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) complexes play critical roles in chromosome dynamics in virtually all organisms, but how they function remains poorly understood. In the bacterium Bacillus subtilis, SMC-condensin complexes are topologically loaded at centromeric sites adjacent to the replication origin. Here we provide evidence that these ring-shaped assemblies tether the left and right chromosome arms together while traveling from the origin to the terminus (>2 megabases) at rates >50 kilobases per minute. Condensin movement scales linearly with time, providing evidence for an active transport mechanism. These data support a model in which SMC complexes function by processively enlarging DNA loops. Loop formation followed by processive enlargement provides a mechanism by which condensin complexes compact and resolve sister chromatids in mitosis and by which cohesin generates topologically associating domains during interphase. Keywords: SMC; ParB; condensin; cohesion; loop extrusion; TAD
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology
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https://doi.org/10.1126/SCIENCE.AAI8982
