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SUBMITTER: Golfier S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7316503 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Golfier Stefan S Quail Thomas T Kimura Hiroshi H Brugués Jan J
eLife 20200512
Loop extrusion by structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) complexes has been proposed as a mechanism to organize chromatin in interphase and metaphase. However, the requirements for chromatin organization in these cell cycle phases are different, and it is unknown whether loop extrusion dynamics and the complexes that extrude DNA also differ. Here, we used <i>Xenopus</i> egg extracts to reconstitute and image loop extrusion of single DNA molecules during the cell cycle. We show that loops fo ...[more]