Abstract
The Cohesin complex that holds sister chromatins together until anaphase is comprised of three core subunits: Smc1 and Smc3, two long-rod-shaped proteins with an ABC-like ATPase head (nucleotide-binding domain [NBD]) and a dimerization domain linked by a 50 nm long intramolecular antiparallel coiled-coil, and Scc1, an α-kleisin subunit interconnecting the NBD domains of Smc1 and Smc3. Cohesin's stable association with chromosomes is thought to involve entrapment of chromatin fibers by its tripartite Smc1-Smc3-Scc1 ring via a poorly understood mechanism dependent on a separate Scc2/4 loading complex. A key issue concerns where entrapment initially takes place: at sites where cohesin is found stably associated or at distinct "loading" sites from which it translocates.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 12-24 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Current Biology |
Volume | 21 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 11 Jan 2011 |
Bibliographical note
AcknowledgmentsWe are grateful to Nasmyth lab members for useful discussions, R. Parton for help with microscopy, K. Nakagawa for ChIP-SEQ, B. Panaretou and K. Bloom for providing useful yeast strains and plasmids, and S. Gruber for critical reading of the manuscript. T.I. and Y.K. were supported by Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A) from MEXT. K.S. was supported by a grant of the Cell Innovation Program and Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) from the MEXT, Japan. K.N. was supported by Cancer Research UK and the Wellcome Trust.