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ArticleJournal of molecular biology2014

Protein-mediated chromosome pairing of repetitive arrays.

Ekaterina V Mirkin, Frederick S Chang, Nancy Kleckner

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Article in Journal of molecular biology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ekaterina V MirkinDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Frederick S ChangDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Nancy KlecknerDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Electronic address: kleckner@fas.harvard.edu.
Harvard University · US

Funding

MEIOTIC CHROMOSOME SYNAPSIS AND RECOMBINATION IN YEASTR01GM044794 · NIGMS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI KLECKNER, NANCY E · 1990 to 2018
$13.8M
Breaks-independent recognition of homology in chromosomesF32GM083427 · NIGMS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI MIRKIN, EKATERINA · 2008 to 2010
$149k
NIGMS NIH HHS F32 GM083427NIGMS NIH HHS F32GM083427NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM044794NIGMS NIH HHS R01GM044794
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chromosomally integrated arrays of lacO and tetO operator sites visualized by LacI and TetR repressor proteins fused with GFP (green fluorescent protein) (or other fluorescent proteins) are widely used to monitor the behavior of chromosomal loci in various systems. However, insertion of such arrays and expression of the corresponding proteins is known to perturb genomic architecture. In several cases, juxtaposition of such arrays located on different chromosomes has been inferred to reflect pairing of the corresponding loci. Here, we report that a version of TetR-GFP mutated to disrupt GFP dimerization (TetR-A206KGFP or "TetR-kGFP") abolishes pairing of tetO arrays in vivo and brings spatial proximity of chromosomal loci marked with those arrays back to the wild-type level. These data argue that pairing of arrays is caused by GFP dimerization and thus presents an example of protein-assisted interaction in chromosomes. Arrays marked with another protein, TetR-tdTomato, which has a propensity to form intramolecular dimers instead of intermolecular dimers, also display reduced level of pairing, supporting this idea. TetR-kGFP provides an improved system for studying chromosomal loci with a low pairing background.

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Bacterial ProteinsChromosome PairingChromosomes, BacterialGreen Fluorescent ProteinsMutagenesis, InsertionalMutationProtein MultimerizationRepressor ProteinsTandem Repeat SequencesBacterial ProteinsGreen Fluorescent ProteinsRepressor Proteinstetracycline resistance-encoding transposon repressor proteinarraychromosomeGFP-LacIpairingTetR-GFP

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PMID24211468
PMCPMC3898463
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