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Unraveling quiescence-specific repressive chromatin domains

Current Genetics volume 65, pages 1145–1151 (2019)Cite this article

Abstract

Quiescence is a highly conserved inactive life stage in which the cell reversibly exits the cell cycle in response to external cues. Quiescence is essential for diverse processes such as the maintenance of adult stem cell stores, stress resistance, and longevity, and its misregulation has been implicated in cancer. Although the non-cycling nature of quiescent cells has made obtaining sufficient quantities of quiescent cells for study difficult, the development of a Saccharomyces cerevisiae model of quiescence has recently enabled detailed investigation into mechanisms underlying the quiescent state. Like their metazoan counterparts, quiescent budding yeast exhibit widespread transcriptional silencing and dramatic chromatin condensation. We have recently found that the structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) complex condensin binds throughout the quiescent budding yeast genome and induces the formation of large chromatin loop domains. In the absence of condensin, quiescent cell chromatin is decondensed and transcription is de-repressed. Here, we briefly discuss our findings in the larger context of the genome organization field.

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S.G.S. has been supported by Grants F32GM120962 from NIGMS and T32CA009657 from NCI, and T.T. and S.G.S. were supported by NIGMS R01GM111428.

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Swygert, S.G., Tsukiyama, T. Unraveling quiescence-specific repressive chromatin domains. Curr Genet 65, 1145–1151 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00294-019-00985-9

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Keywords

  • Quiescence
  • Condensin
  • CIDs
  • TADs
  • Chromatin compaction
  • Cohesin
  • Micro-C XL