Large-scale chromosome structure and spatial nuclear arrangement have been linked to control of gene expression and DNA replication and repair. Genomic techniques based on chromosome conformation capture assess contacts for millions of loci simultaneously, but do so by averaging chromosome conformat...
The Structural Maintenance of Chromosomes (SMC) complexes regulate the chromosome structures essential for proper genome regulation and cell viability. In mammals, the coordinated actions of the SMC complexes condensin I, condensin II and cohesin regulate dynamic chromosome structures throughout th...
During meiosis, Structural Maintenance of Chromosome (SMC) complexes underpin two fundamental features of meiosis: homologous recombination and chromosome segregation. While meiotic functions of the cohesin and condensin complexes have been delineated, the role of the third SMC complex, Smc5/6, rema...
To study the role of structural maintenance of chromosome (SMC)4-1 and SMC4-2 during programmed genome rearrangement in Paramecium tetraurelia. Paramecium SMC4-1 and SMC4-2 was tagged with 3 FLAG and HA at its C-terminal separately. The recombinant plasmid was microinjected into macronuclear and use...
Sumoylation is essential for progression through mitosis, but the specific protein targets and functions remain poorly understood. In this study, we used chromosome spreads to more precisely define the localization of SUMO-2/3 to the inner-centromere and protein scaffold of mitotic chromosomes. We a...
Condensin protein complexes play central roles in the three-dimensional organization of chromosomes during mitotic and meiotic cell divisions. How condensin interacts with its chromatin substrates to promote sister chromatid decatenation and segregation is largely unknown. Previous work suggested th...
Proteins contribute to the structure of chromatin and regulate its functions. The basic building block of chromatin in eukaryotes is the nucleosome containing histones. Structural maintenance of chromosomes complexes perform the assembly of genomic DNA into the higher organizational structures of in...
High expression of the structural maintenance of chromosomes 5/6 complex is associated with the positive prognosis and doxorubicin susceptibility of colon cancer
