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CELL
Volume 115, Issue 1, Pages 109-121Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(03)00724-4
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- NCI NIH HHS [CA45508] Funding Source: Medline
- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM53926] Funding Source: Medline
- NLM NIH HHS [R01 LM006747, LM06747] Funding Source: Medline
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The canonical condensin complex (henceforth condensin I) plays an essential role in mitotic chromosome assembly and segregation from yeast to humans. We report here the identification of a second condensin complex (condensin II) from vertebrate cells. Condensins I and II share the same pair of structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) subunits but contain different sets of non-SMC subunits. siRNA-mediated depletion of condensin I- or condensin II-specific subunits in HeLa cells produces a distinct, highly characteristic defect in chromosome morphology. Simultaneous depletion of both complexes causes the severest defect. In Xenopus egg extracts, condensin I function is predominant, but lack of condensin II results in the formation of irregularly shaped chromosomes. Condensins I and II show different distributions along the axis of chromosomes assembled in vivo and in vitro. We propose that the two condensin complexes make distinct mechanistic contributions to mitotic chromosome architecture in vertebrate cells.
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