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Condensin and cohesin complexity: the expanding repertoire of functions.

Nature reviews. Genetics ·Vol. 11 ·No. 6 ·2010-06-00 ·Pages 391-404

Wood AJ, Severson AF, Meyer BJ

Abstract

Condensin and cohesin complexes act in diverse nuclear processes in addition to their widely known roles in chromosome compaction and sister chromatid cohesion. Recent work has elucidated the contribution of condensin and cohesin to interphase genome organization, control of gene expression, metazoan development and meiosis. Despite these wide-ranging functions, several themes have come to light: both complexes establish higher-order chromosome structure by inhibiting or promoting interactions between distant genomic regions, both complexes influence the chromosomal association of other proteins, and both complexes achieve functional specialization by swapping homologous subunits. Emerging data are expanding the range of processes in which condensin and cohesin are known to participate and are enhancing our knowledge of how chromosome architecture is regulated to influence numerous cellular functions.

MeSH Terms
Adenosine Triphosphatases/metabolism,physiology Animals Cell Cycle Proteins/metabolism,physiology Chromatin Assembly and Disassembly/physiology Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone/metabolism,physiology DNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism,physiology Gene Expression Regulation/physiology Genome/physiology Humans Meiosis/genetics,physiology Models, Biological Multiprotein Complexes/metabolism,physiology
Chemicals
Cell Cycle Proteins Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone DNA-Binding Proteins Multiprotein Complexes cohesins condensin complexes Adenosine Triphosphatases
Authors & Affiliations
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Wood Andrew J
Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720-3204, USA.
Severson Aaron F
Meyer Barbara J
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Article Info
Journal
Nature reviews. Genetics
Abbr.
Nat Rev Genet
ISSN
1471-0064
Published
2010-06-00
Epub
2010-00-05
Pages
391-404
Language
English
Region
England
NLM ID
100962779
PMCID
PMC3491780
Subset
IM
Grants
NIGMS NIH HHS · R01 GM030702 · United States
NIGMS NIH HHS · R01 GM030702-30 · United States
Howard Hughes Medical Institute · United States
Wellcome Trust · United Kingdom
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