Cohesin depleted cells rebuild active and inactive nuclear compartments after mitosis
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ABSTRACT: Nuclear functions are essentially linked to nuclear compartmentalization. This study demonstrates that cohesin rings as anchors of chromatin loops are dispensable to rebuild a functional nuclear compartmentalization in cohesin depleted cells after passing through mitosis and formation of one daughter cell with a multilobulated nucleus (MLN). Super-resolved microscopy reveals co-aligned active and inactive nuclear compartments (ANC/INC) in these postmitotic nuclei, likely corresponding to A and B compartments, detected with Hi-C. MLN carry chromosome territories, built from chromatin domain clusters, pervaded by a system of interchromatin channels harboring splicing speckles. Channels are lined by transcriptionally competent chromatin, whereas repressed chromatin with higher compaction locates in the interior of chromatin clusters. MLN pass through S-phase with typical early and mid-to-late replication patterns. Sites of DNA synthesis become physically larger, consistent with a model where cohesin dependent loop extrusion tends to compact intervals of replicating chromatin, whereas their genomic boundaries are associated with compartmentalization.
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
PROVIDER: GSE145099 | GEO | 2020/10/05
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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