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Dynamics of de novo heterochromatin assembly and disassembly at replication forks ensures fork stability


ABSTRACT: Chromatin is dynamically reorganized when DNA replication forks are challenged. However, the process of epigenetic reorganization and its implication for fork stability is poorly understood. Here, we discover a checkpoint regulated cascade of chromatin signaling that activates 5 the histone methyltransferase EHMT2/G9a to catalyze heterochromatin assembly at stressed replication forks. Using biochemical and single molecule chromatin fiber approaches, we show that G9a together with SUV39h1 induces chromatin compaction by accumulating the repressive modifications, H3K9me1/me2/me3, in the vicinity of stressed replication forks. This closed conformation is also favored by the G9a-dependent exclusion of the H3K9-demethylase 10 JMJD1A/KDM3A, which facilitates heterochromatin disassembly upon fork restart. Untimely heterochromatin disassembly from stressed forks by KDM3A enables PRIMPOL access, triggering ssDNA gap formation and sensitizing cells towards chemotherapeutic drugs. These findings may help explaining chemotherapy resistance and poor prognosis observed in cancer patients displaying elevated level of G9a/H3K9me3.

INSTRUMENT(S): Orbitrap Eclipse

ORGANISM(S): Homo Sapiens (human) Mus Musculus (mouse)

TISSUE(S): Fibroblast, Embryonic Stem Cell

SUBMITTER: Jeroen Demmers  

LAB HEAD: Jeroen Demmers

PROVIDER: PXD041742 | Pride | 2023-05-12

REPOSITORIES: Pride

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