Cohesin's ATPase activity couples cohesin loading onto DNA with Smc3 acetylation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cohesin mediates sister chromatid cohesion by topologically entrapping sister DNA molecules inside its ring structure. Cohesin is loaded onto DNA by the Scc2/NIPBL-Scc4/MAU2-loading complex in a manner that depends on the adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) activity of cohesin's Smc1 and Smc3 subunits. Subsequent cohesion establishment during DNA replication depends on Smc3 acetylation by Esco1 and Esco2 and on recruitment of sororin, which "locks" cohesin on DNA by inactivating the cohesin release factor Wapl.

Results

Human cohesin ATPase mutants associate transiently with DNA in a manner that depends on the loading complex but cannot be stabilized on chromatin by depletion of Wapl. These mutants cannot be acetylated, fail to interact with sororin, and do not media

SUBMITTER: Ladurner R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4188815 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature