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A cohesin traffic pattern genetically linked to gene regulation

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NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 29, Issue 12, Pages 1239-+

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NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41594-022-00890-9

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Cohesin-mediated loop extrusion is blocked at specific cis-elements, resulting in patterns of loops and domain boundaries along chromosomes. Transcription termination sites of active genes form cohesin-dependent boundaries without accumulating cohesin, while start sites of transcriptionally active genes form cohesin-bound boundaries. Disrupting the traffic pattern of cohesin by removing CTCF renders cells sensitive to knockout of genes involved in transcription initiation.
Cohesin-mediated loop extrusion has been shown to be blocked at specific cis-elements, including CTCF sites, producing patterns of loops and domain boundaries along chromosomes. Here we explore such cis-elements, and their role in gene regulation. We find that transcription termination sites of active genes form cohesin- and RNA polymerase II-dependent domain boundaries that do not accumulate cohesin. At these sites, cohesin is first stalled and then rapidly unloaded. Start sites of transcriptionally active genes form cohesin-bound boundaries, as shown before, but are cohesin-independent. Together with cohesin loading, possibly at enhancers, these sites create a pattern of cohesin traffic that guides enhancer-promoter interactions. Disrupting this traffic pattern, by removing CTCF, renders cells sensitive to knockout of genes involved in transcription initiation, such as the SAGA complexes, and RNA processing such DEAD/H-Box RNA helicases. Without CTCF, these factors are less efficiently recruited to active promoters.

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