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ArticleEMBO reports2022

FACT maintains nucleosomes during transcription and stem cell viability in adult mice.

Imon Goswami, Poorva Sandlesh, Aimee Stablewski, Ilya Toshkov, Alfiya F Safina, Mikhail Magnitov, Jianmin Wang, Katerina Gurova

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Article in EMBO reports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Imon Goswami *Department of Cell Stress Biology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4537-1636
Poorva Sandlesh *Department of Cell Stress Biology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, USA.
Aimee StablewskiTransgenic Shared Facility, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9774-429X
Ilya ToshkovBuffalo BioLabs, Buffalo, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0371-0740
Alfiya F SafinaDepartment of Cell Stress Biology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, USA.
Mikhail MagnitovInstitute of Gene Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
Jianmin WangDepartment of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, USA.
Katerina GurovaDepartment of Cell Stress Biology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9189-0712
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center · USBuffalo BioLabs · USInstitute of Gene Biology · RU

Funding

Two-Spirit Films in Indigenous Cancer HealthP30CA016056 · NCI · ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE CORP · PI Dean G. Tang · 1985 to 2026
$116.6M
Modulation of cancer specific transcriptional factors with small moleculesR01CA197967 · NCI · ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE CORP · PI GUROVA, KATERINA V · 2015 to 2019
$2.0M
Acquisition of High Performance Data and Computing Infrastructure to Advance Biomedical ResearchS10OD024973 · OD · STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO · PI FURLANI, THOMAS · 2019 to 2019
$1.0M
Safety and anti-cancer efficacy of FACT inactivation in miceR21CA198395 · NCI · ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE CORP · PI GUROVA, KATERINA V · 2015 to 2016
$420k
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA016056NCI NIH HHS R01 CA197967NCI NIH HHS R21 CA198395NIH HHS S10 OD024973
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Preservation of nucleosomes during replication has been extensively studied, while the maintenance of nucleosomes during transcription has gotten less attention. The histone chaperone FACT has a role in transcription elongation, although whether it disassembles or assembles nucleosomes during this process is unclear. To elucidate the function of FACT in mammals, we deleted the Ssrp1 subunit of FACT in adult mice. FACT loss is lethal, possibly due to the loss of the earliest progenitors in bone marrow and intestine, while more differentiated cells are not affected. Using cells isolated from several tissues, we show that FACT loss reduces the viability of stem cells but not of cells differentiated in vitro. FACT depletion increases chromatin accessibility in a transcription-dependent manner in adipose mesenchymal stem cells, indicating that nucleosomes are lost in these cells during transcription in the absence of FACT. We also observe activation of interferon (IFN) signaling and the accumulation of immunocytes in organs sensitive to FACT loss. Our data indicate that FACT maintains chromatin integrity during transcription in mammalian adult stem cells, suggesting that chromatin transcription in stem cells and differentiated cells is different.

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High Mobility Group ProteinsNucleosomesAnimalsCell SurvivalDNA-Binding ProteinsMammalsMiceStem CellsTranscriptional Elongation FactorsTranscription, GeneticDNA-Binding ProteinsHigh Mobility Group ProteinsNucleosomesTranscriptional Elongation FactorsnucleosomeSPT16SSRP1stem celltranscription

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PMID35179289
PMCPMC8982582
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