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COMMUNICATIONS BIOLOGY
Volume 3, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-020-0784-9
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- JSPS KAKENHI [JP17H01408, JP18H05534, JP18H05531, JP16H04744, JP18K19479, JP17K15043, JP19K23714, JP19K23736, JP19K21184]
- JST CREST [JPMJCR16G1]
- JST ERATO grant [JPMJER1901]
- Platform Project for Supporting Drug Discovery and Life Science Research (Basis for Supporting Innovative Drug Discovery and Life Science Research (BINDS)) from AMED [JP19am0101076]
- Takeda Science Foundation
- AMED CREST grant [JP16gm0510007]
- Mitsubishi Foundation
- JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists [JP16J10043]
- University of Tokyo
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In the nucleus, genomic DNA is wrapped around histone octamers to form nucleosomes. In principle, nucleosomes are substantial barriers to transcriptional activities. Nuclear non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) are proposed to function in chromatin conformation modulation and transcriptional regulation. However, it remains unclear how ncRNAs affect the nucleosome structure. Eleanors are clusters of ncRNAs that accumulate around the estrogen receptor-alpha (ESR1) gene locus in long-term estrogen deprivation (LTED) breast cancer cells, and markedly enhance the transcription of the ESR1 gene. Here we detected nucleosome depletion around the transcription site of Eleanor2, the most highly expressed Eleanor in the LTED cells. We found that the purified Eleanor2 RNA fragment drastically destabilized the nucleosome in vitro. This activity was also exerted by other ncRNAs, but not by poly(U) RNA or DNA. The RNA-mediated nucleosome destabilization may be a common feature among natural nuclear RNAs, and may function in transcription regulation in chromatin. The Eleanor cluster of non-coding RNAs is localised upstream of estrogen receptor-alpha (ESR1) gene locus in estrogen-deprived breast cancer cells. Fujita et al find that RNA fragments of Eleanor2 and of other non-coding RNAs are able to destabilise nucleosomes in vitro, suggesting a role in transcriptional regulation.
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