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Título: | DNA knots occur in intracellular chromatin |
Autor: | Valdés, Antonio CSIC ORCID ; Segura, Joana CSIC ORCID ; Dyson, Sílvia CSIC ORCID ; Martínez-García, Belén CSIC ORCID ; Roca, Joaquim CSIC ORCID | Fecha de publicación: | 25-ene-2018 | Editor: | Oxford University Press | Citación: | Nucleic Acids Research 46(2): 650–660 (2017) | Resumen: | In vivo DNA molecules are narrowly folded within chromatin fibers and self-interacting chromatin domains. Therefore, intra-molecular DNA entanglements (knots) might occur via DNA strand passage activity of topoisomerase II. Here, we assessed the presence of such DNA knots in a variety of yeast circular minichromosomes. We found that small steady state fractions of DNA knots are common in intracellular chromatin. These knots occur irrespective of DNA replication and cell proliferation, though their abundance is reduced during DNA transcription. We found also that in vivo DNA knotting probability does not scale proportionately with chromatin length: it reaches a value of ∼0.025 in domains of ∼20 nucleosomes but tends to level off in longer chromatin fibers. These figures suggest that, while high flexibility of nucleosomal fibers and clustering of nearby nucleosomes facilitate DNA knotting locally, some mechanism minimizes the scaling of DNA knot formation throughout intracellular chromatin. We postulate that regulation of topoisomerase II activity and the fractal architecture of chromatin might be crucial to prevent a potentially massive and harmful self-entanglement of DNA molecules in vivo. | Versión del editor: | https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkx1137 | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/174216 | DOI: | 10.1093/nar/gkx1137 | ISSN: | 0305-1048 | E-ISSN: | 1362-4962 |
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