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CELL
Volume 132, Issue 3, Pages 422-433Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2008.01.011
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- Medical Research Council [MC_U120027516, MC_U120074328, MC_U120036884] Funding Source: Medline
- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM59150] Funding Source: Medline
- MRC [MC_U120027516, MC_U120074328, MC_U120036884] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [MC_U120036884, MC_U120027516, MC_U120074328] Funding Source: researchfish
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Cohesins mediate sister chromatid cohesion, which is essential for chromosome segregation and postreplicative DNA repair. In addition, cohesins appear to regulate gene expression and enhancer-promoter interactions. These noncanonical functions remained unexplained because knowledge of cohesin-binding sites and functional interactors in metazoans was lacking. We show that the distribution of cohesins on mammalian chromosome arms is not driven by transcriptional activity, in contrast to S. cerevisiae. Instead, mammalian cohesins occupy a subset of DNase I hypersensitive sites, many of which contain sequence motifs resembling the consensus for CTCF, a DNA-binding protein with enhancer blocking function and boundary-element activity. We find cohesins at most CTCF sites and show that CTCF is required for cohesin localization to these sites. Recruitment by CTCF suggests a rationale for noncanonical cohesin functions and, because CTCF binding is sensitive to DNA methylation, allows cohesin positioning to integrate DNA sequence and epigenetic state.
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