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JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY
卷 188, 期 4, 页码 491-503出版社
ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200908026
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- National Institutes of Health (NIH) [RO1 GM63671, R01 GM085186, 1K99CA140854-01]
- Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research
- National Cancer Institute [T32CA09043]
- G.W. Hooper Research Foundation
In an RNA interference screen interrogating regulators of mouse embryonic stem (ES) cell chromatin structure, we previously identified 62 genes required for ES cell viability. Among these 62 genes were Smc2 and -4, which are core components of the two mammalian condensin complexes. In this study, we show that for Smc2 and -4, as well as an additional 49 of the 62 genes, knockdown (KD) in somatic cells had minimal effects on proliferation or viability. Upon KD, Smc2 and -4 exhibited two phenotypes that were unique to ES cells and unique among the ES cell-lethal targets: metaphase arrest and greatly enlarged interphase nuclei. Nuclear enlargement in condensin KD ES cells was caused by a defect in chromatin compaction rather than changes in DNA content. The altered compaction coincided with alterations in the abundance of several epigenetic modifications. These data reveal a unique role for condensin complexes in interphase chromatin compaction in ES cells.
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