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Chromosome organization by one-sided and two-sided loop extrusion

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Banigan, Edward J, van den Berg, Aafke A, Brandão, Hugo B, Marko, John F, Mirny, Leonid A·2020·eLife

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SMC complexes, such as condensin or cohesin, organize chromatin throughout the cell cycle by a process known as loop extrusion. SMC complexes reel in DNA, extruding and progressively growing DNA loops. Modeling assuming two-sided loop extrusion reproduces key features of chromatin organization across different organisms. In vitro single-molecule experiments confirmed that yeast condensins extrude loops, however, they remain anchored to their loading sites and extrude loops in a ‘one-sided’ manner. We therefore simulate one-sided loop extrusion to investigate whether ‘one-sided’ complexes can compact mitotic chromosomes, organize interphase domains, and juxtapose bacterial chromosomal arms, as can be done by ‘two-sided’ loop extruders. While one-sided loop extrusion cannot reproduce these phenomena, variants can recapitulate in vivo observations. We predict that SMC complexes in vivo constitute effectively two-sided motors or exhibit biased loading and propose relevant experiments. Our work suggests that loop extrusion is a viable general mechanism of chromatin organization.

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Banigan, E. J., van den Berg, A. A., Brandão, H. B., Marko, J. F., & Mirny, L. A.
Affiliations
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
  • Institute for Medical Engineering & Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
  • Harvard University (US)
  • Northwestern University (US)
Corresponding author
Mirny, Leonid A
Venue
eLife
Published
2020-04-06
Volume
9
ISSN
2050-084X (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3014551288
Cited by
146
References
182
Citations by year
2026: 21 · 2025: 26 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 28 · 2021: 26 · 2020: 13 · 2018: 1
FWCI
6.65
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • eLife (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (acceptedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
Funders
National Institutes of Health (U54DK107980, U54CA193419, GM114190)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Nuclear Structure and Function
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › DNA Repair Mechanisms
Keywords
loop extrusion, SMC complex, condensin, cohesin, chromatin organization
MeSH terms
Bacterial Proteins, Chromatin, Chromosomes, Chromosomes, Bacterial, Interphase, Models, Molecular, Molecular Conformation, Cell Cycle Proteins, Molecular Dynamics Simulation

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