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ArticleScientific reports2022

Fold-change of chromatin condensation in yeast is a conserved property.

Katreena Yamin, Swati Bijlani, Judith Berman, Awakash Soni, Joseph Shlomai, Bijoy Mukut Buragohain, Michal Werbner, Meital Gal-Tanamy, Avi Matityahu, Itay Onn

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Article in Scientific 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, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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10 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Katreena YaminChromosome Instability and Dynamics Lab, The Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel.
Swati BijlaniShmunis School of Biomedical and Cancer Research, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Judith BermanShmunis School of Biomedical and Cancer Research, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Awakash SoniDepartment of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada and the Kuvin Center for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
Joseph ShlomaiDepartment of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada and the Kuvin Center for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
Bijoy Mukut BuragohainChromosome Instability and Dynamics Lab, The Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel.
Michal WerbnerMolecular Virology Lab, The Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel.
Meital Gal-TanamyMolecular Virology Lab, The Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel.
Avi MatityahuChromosome Instability and Dynamics Lab, The Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel.
Itay OnnChromosome Instability and Dynamics Lab, The Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel. Itay.Onn@biu.ac.il.
Bar-Ilan University · ILHebrew University of Jerusalem · ILTel Aviv University · IL

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

During mitosis, chromatin is condensed and organized into mitotic chromosomes. Condensation is critical for genome stability and dynamics, yet the degree of condensation is significantly different between multicellular and single-cell eukaryotes. What is less clear is whether there is a minimum degree of chromosome condensation in unicellular eukaryotes. Here, we exploited two-photon microscopy to analyze chromatin condensation in live and fixed cells, enabling studies of some organisms that are not readily amenable to genetic modification. This includes the yeasts Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Schizosaccharomyces pombe, Kluyveromyces lactis, and Candida albicans, as well as a protist Trypanosoma brucei. We found that mitotic chromosomes in this range of species are condensed about 1.5-fold relative to interphase chromatin. In addition, we used two-photon microscopy to reveal that chromatin reorganization in interphase human hepatoma cells infected by the hepatitis C virus is decondensed compared to uninfected cells, which correlates with the previously reported viral-induced changes in chromatin dynamics. This work demonstrates the power of two-photon microscopy to analyze chromatin in a broad range of cell types and conditions, including non-model single-cell eukaryotes. We suggest that similar condensation levels are an evolutionarily conserved property in unicellular eukaryotes and important for proper chromosome segregation. Furthermore, this provides new insights into the process of chromatin condensation during mitosis in unicellular organisms as well as the response of human cells to viral infection.

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ChromatinSchizosaccharomycesChromosomesHumansInterphaseMitosisSaccharomyces cerevisiaeChromatin

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