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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL
Volume 29, Issue 3, Pages 339-355Publisher
AMER SOC CELL BIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E17-08-0511
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- National Institutes of Health [GM118189]
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Cohesin is a conserved protein complex required for sister chromatid cohesion, chromosome condensation, DNA damage repair, and regulation of transcription. Although cohesin functions to tether DNA duplexes, the contribution of its individual domains to this activity remains poorly understood. We interrogated the Smc3p subunit of cohesin by random insertion mutagenesis. Analysis of a mutant in the Smc3p hinge revealed an unexpected role for this domain in cohesion maintenance and condensation. Further investigation revealed that the Smc3p hinge functions at a step following cohesin's stable binding to chromosomes and independently of Smc3p's regulation by the Eco1p acetyltransferase. Hinge mutant phenotypes resemble loss of Pds5p, which binds opposite the hinge near Smc3p's head domain. We propose that a specific conformation of the Smc3p hinge and Pds5p cooperate to promote cohesion maintenance and condensation.
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