Research Papers: Chromosome:
Chromatin determinants of the inner-centromere rely on replication factors with functions that impart cohesion
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Abstract
Takuya Abe1, Ryotaro Kawasumi1,2, Hiroshi Arakawa1, Tetsuya Hori3, Katsuhiko Shirahige4, Ana Losada5, Tatsuo Fukagawa3 and Dana Branzei1
1 IFOM, The FIRC Institute for Molecular Oncology Foundation, Milan, Italy
2 Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Minamiosawa, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo, Japan
3 Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan
4 Laboratory of Genome Structure and Function, Research Center for Epigenetic Disease, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, University of Tokyo, Yayoi Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, Japan
5 Chromosome Dynamics Group, Molecular Oncology Program, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain
Correspondence to:
Dana Branzei, email:
Keywords: sister chromatid cohesion; inner-centromere; replication stress; DDX11; Tim-Tipin; Chromosome Section
Received: August 23, 2016 Accepted: September 06, 2016 Published: September 12, 2016
Abstract
Replication fork-associated factors promote genome integrity and protect against cancer. Mutations in the DDX11 helicase and the ESCO2 acetyltransferase also cause related developmental disorders classified as cohesinopathies. Here we generated vertebrate model cell lines of these disorders and cohesinopathies-related genes. We found that vertebrate DDX11 and Tim-Tipin are individually needed to compensate for ESCO2 loss in chromosome segregation, with DDX11 also playing complementary roles with ESCO2 in centromeric cohesion. Our study reveals that overt centromeric cohesion loss does not necessarily precede chromosome missegregation, while both these problems correlate with, and possibly originate from, inner-centromere defects involving reduced phosphorylation of histone H3T3 (pH3T3) in the region. Interestingly, the mitotic pH3T3 mark was defective in all analyzed replication-related mutants with functions in cohesion. The results pinpoint mitotic pH3T3 as a postreplicative chromatin mark that is sensitive to replication stress and conducts with different kinetics to robust centromeric cohesion and correct chromosome segregation.
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