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Chromosome organization shapes replisome dynamics in Caulobacter crescentus

Suliana Manley, Chen Zhang, Laurent Casini

DNA replication in bacteria takes place on highly compacted chromosomes, where segregation, transcription, and repair must occur simultaneously. Within this dynamic environment, colocalization of sister replisomes has been observed in many bacterial specie ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Systematic inference and comparison of multi-scale chromatin sub-compartments connects spatial organization to cell phenotypes

Elisa Oricchio, Stephanie Jocelyne Sungalee, Daniele Tavernari, Giovanni Ciriello, Marco Mina

Chromatin compartmentalization reflects biological activity. However, inference of chromatin sub-compartments and compartment domains from chromosome conformation capture (Hi-C) experiments is limited by data resolution. As a result, these have been charac ...

Nature Research2021

Applying Peptide and Protein Synthesis to Study Post-translational Modifications in Epigenetics and Beyond

Beat Fierz

Epigenetics research focuses on the study of heritable gene regulatory mechanisms that do not involve changes of the DNA sequence. Such mechanisms include post-translational modifications of histone proteins that organize the genome in the nucleus into a n ...

2021

Structural transitions and mechanochemical coupling in the nucleoprotein filament explain homology selectivity and Rad51 protein cooperativity in cellular DNA repair

Daniel Migliozzi

The nucleoprotein filament (NPF) is the fundamental element of homologous recombination (HR), a major mechanism for the repair of double-strand DNA breaks in the cell. The NPF is made of the damaged DNA strand surrounded by recombinase proteins, and its se ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

DNA-segment-capture model for loop extrusion by structural maintenance of chromosome (SMC) protein complexes

Paolo De Los Rios, Alessandro Barducci

Cells possess remarkable control of the folding and entanglement topology of long and flexible chromosomal DNA molecules. It is thought that structural maintenance of chromosome (SMC) protein complexes play a crucial role in this, by organizing long DNAs i ...

2019

An extended regulatory landscape drives Tbx18 activity in a variety of prostate-associated cell lineages

Christopher Chase Bolt, Soumya Negi

The evolutionarily conserved transcription factor, Tbx18, is expressed in a dynamic pattern throughout embryonic and early postnatal life and plays crucial roles in the development of multiple organ systems. Previous studies have indicated that this dynami ...

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2019

Infrared nanospectroscopic mapping of a single metaphase chromosome

Giovanni Dietler, Andrzej Kulik, Francesco Simone Ruggeri, Ewelina Wioletta Lipiec

The integrity of the chromatin structure is essential to every process occurring within eukaryotic nuclei. However, there are no reliable tools to decipher the molecular composition of metaphase chromosomes. Here, we have applied infrared nanospectroscopy ...

Oxford University Press (OUP)2019

Single-molecule dynamics and genome-wide transcriptomics reveal that NF-kB (p65)-DNA binding times can be decoupled from transcriptional activation

Suliana Manley, Beat Fierz, David Michael Suter, Christian Sieben, Aleksandr Benke, Andrea Callegari

Transcription factors (TFs) regulate gene expression in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes by recognizing and binding to specific DNA promoter sequences. In higher eukaryotes, it remains unclear how the duration of TF binding to DNA relates to downstream tran ...

2019

Chromatin Fiber Invasion and Nucleosome Displacement by the Rap1 Transcription Factor

Rudolf Hovius, Beat Fierz, Iuliia Boichenko, Maxime Nicolas Mivelaz, Anne-Marinette Thi Phuong Hanh Cao

Pioneer transcription factors (pTFs) bind to target sites within compact chromatin, initiating chromatin remodeling and controlling the recruitment of downstream factors. The mechanisms by which pTFs overcome the chromatin barrier are not well understood. ...

2020

QstR-dependent regulation of natural competence and type VI secretion in Vibrio cholerae

Melanie Blokesch, Sandrine Stutzmann, Candice Stoudmann, Milena Jadwiga Jaskolska

During growth on chitinous surfaces in its natural aquatic environment Vibrio cholerae develops natural competence for transformation and kills neighboring non-immune bacteria using a type VI secretion system (T6SS). Activation of these two phenotypes requ ...

Oxford University Press2018

Spatial organization of DNA sequences directs the assembly of bacterial chromatin by a nucleoid-associated protein

Giovanni Dietler, Aleksandre Japaridze, Sylvain Renevey

Structural differentiation of bacterial chromatin depends on cooperative binding of abundant nucleoid-associated proteins at numerous genomic DNA sites and stabilization of distinct long-range nucleoprotein structures. Histone-like nucleoid-structuring pro ...

American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)2017

Rv3852 (H-NS) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Is Not Involved in Nucleoid Compaction and Virulence Regulation

Stewart Cole, Claudia Sala, Andrej Benjak, Anthony Vocat, Gaëlle Séraphine Kolly, Andréanne Lupien, Nina Theres Odermatt

A handful of nucleoid-associated proteins (NAPs) regulate the vast majority of genes in a bacterial cell. H-NS, the histone-like nucleoid-structuring protein, is one of these NAPs and protects Escherichia coli from foreign gene expression. Though lacking a ...

American Society for Microbiology2017

Transcription facilitated genome-wide recruitment of topoisomerase I and DNA gyrase

Stewart Cole, Claudia Sala, Wareed Ahmed

Movement of the transcription machinery along a template alters DNA topology resulting in the accumulation of supercoils in DNA. The positive supercoils generated ahead of transcribing RNA polymerase (RNAP) and the negative supercoils accumulating behind i ...

Public Library Science2017

Hyperplectonemes: A Higher Order Compact and Dynamic DNA Self-Organization

Giovanni Dietler, Paolo De Los Rios, Giovanni Longo, Fabrizio Benedetti, Aleksandre Japaridze

Bacterial chromosome has a compact structure that dynamically changes its shape in response to bacterial growth rate and growth phase. Determining how chromatin remains accessible to DNA binding proteins, and transcription machinery is crucial to understan ...

American Chemical Society2017

Functional Characterization of Nucleoid Associated Proteins Acting as Global Transcription Factors in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Nina Theres Odermatt

The fatal lung disease tuberculosis is caused by the airborne Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a versatile pathogen adapted to rapidly changing environments. Instead of being eradicated by phagocytic cells of its human host, bacilli tune macrophages to support ...

EPFL2017

Transcription-induced supercoiling explains formation of self-interacting chromatin domains in S-pombe

Yannis Burnier, Julien Dorier, Fabrizio Benedetti, Andrzej Stasiak

The question of how self-interacting chromatin domains in interphase chromosomes are structured and generated dominates current discussions on eukaryotic chromosomes. Numerical simulations using standard polymer models have been helpful in testing the vali ...

Oxford University Press (OUP)2017

Spatial confinement induces hairpins in nicked circular DNA

Giovanni Dietler, Aleksandre Japaridze, Enzo Orlandini

In living cells, DNA is highly confined in space with the help of condensing agents, DNA binding proteins and high levels of supercoiling. Due to challenges associated with experimentally studying DNA under confinement, little is known about the impact of ...

Oxford University Press (OUP)2017

What shapes eukaryotic transcriptional bursting?

Felix Naef, Damien Lionel Nicolas, Nicholas Edward Phillips

Isogenic cells in a common environment present a large degree of heterogeneity in gene expression. Part of this variability is attributed to transcriptional bursting: the stochastic activation and inactivation of promoters that leads to the discontinuous p ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2017

The HoxD cluster is a dynamic and resilient TAD boundary controlling the segregation of antagonistic regulatory landscapes

Denis Duboule, Lucille Delisle, Pierre Raymond Fabre, Leonardo Beccari, Edgardo Rodriguez Carballo

The mammalian HoxD cluster lies between two topologically associating domains (TADs) matching distinct enhancer-rich regulatory landscapes. During limb development, the telomeric TAD controls the early transcription of Hoxd genes in forearm cells, whereas ...

2017

Large scale genomic reorganization of topological domains at the HoxD locus

Denis Duboule, Marion Leleu, Daniël Noordermeer, Lucille Delisle, Pierre Raymond Fabre, Leonardo Beccari, Benjamin Howard Mormann

BACKGROUND: The transcriptional activation of HoxD genes during mammalian limb development involves dynamic interactions with two topologically associating domains (TADs) flanking the HoxD cluster. In particular, the activation of the most posterior HoxD g ...

2017