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ArticleMolecular cell2025

Off-pore Nup98 condensates mobilize heterochromatic breaks and exclude Rad51.

Chiara Merigliano, Taehyun Ryu, Jakub Cibulka, Chetan C Rawal, Colby D See, Anik Mitra, Trevor W Reynolds, Nadejda L Butova, Christopher P Caridi, Xiao Li and 7 more

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Article in Molecular cell, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 6 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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17 authors.

Chiara MeriglianoDepartment of Biological Sciences, Molecular and Computational Biology Section, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.
Taehyun RyuDepartment of Biological Sciences, Molecular and Computational Biology Section, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA; Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Jakub CibulkaDepartment of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5/A7, Brno 62500, Czech Republic.
Chetan C RawalDepartment of Biological Sciences, Molecular and Computational Biology Section, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.
Colby D SeeDepartment of Biological Sciences, Molecular and Computational Biology Section, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.
Anik MitraDepartment of Biological Sciences, Molecular and Computational Biology Section, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.
Trevor W ReynoldsDepartment of Biological Sciences, Molecular and Computational Biology Section, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.
Nadejda L ButovaDepartment of Biological Sciences, Molecular and Computational Biology Section, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.
Christopher P CaridiDepartment of Biological Sciences, Molecular and Computational Biology Section, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.
Xiao LiDepartment of Biological Sciences, Molecular and Computational Biology Section, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, Canada.
Jeff WangDepartment of Biochemistry and Structural Biology and Greehey Children's Cancer Research Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA.
Changfeng DengDepartment of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
David M ChenowethDepartment of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Patrick SungDepartment of Biochemistry and Structural Biology and Greehey Children's Cancer Research Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA.
Maya CapelsonDepartment of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182, USA.
Lumír KrejčíDepartment of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5/A7, Brno 62500, Czech Republic; National Centre for Biomolecular Research, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5/A4, 62500 Brno, Czech Republic.
Irene ChioloDepartment of Biological Sciences, Molecular and Computational Biology Section, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA. Electronic address: chiolo@usc.edu.

Funding

Resource Component: Acquisition, maintenance and distribution of Drosophila stocksP40OD018537 · OD · TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY · PI Annette L. Parks · 2014 to 2026
$13.5M
DROSOPHILA GENOMICS RESOURCE CENTERP40OD010949 · OD · TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY · PI Andrew Zelhof · 2012 to 2026
$9.4M
Tumor cell instrinsic DNA damage signaling to the immune responseP01CA265794 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI Roger A Greenberg · 2023 to 2026
$8.5M
Mechanisms of DNA Homology-directed Genome Repair and Tumor SuppressionR35CA241801 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI SUNG, PATRICK · 2019 to 2025
$6.0M
Cancer Biology Training ProgramT32CA148724 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI Pei Wang, Feng-Chun Yang · 2011 to 2026
$3.3M
Roles of nuclear architecture and phase separation in heterochromatin repair dynamicsR01GM117376 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI CHIOLO, IRENE E · 2015 to 2023
$3.3M
Nuclear Pore Complexes As Scaffolds For Genome Architecture And Epigenetic MaintenanceR01GM124143 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI CAPELSON, MAYA · 2017 to 2025
$3.0M
Peptide Mimics of the Collagen Triple HelixR01AR077094 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI CHENOWETH, DAVID MICHAEL · 2021 to 2025
$2.7M
South Texas Medical Scientist Training Program (STX-MSTP)T32GM145432 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI Jose E Cavazos, Ratna K Vadlamudi · 2023 to 2026
$2.3M
CBI: Chemistry Biology InterfaceT32GM118289 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI FORSBURG, SUSAN L · 2016 to 2020
$1.2M
South Texas Medical Scientist Training Program (STX-MSTP)T32GM113896 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI CAVAZOS, JOSE E · 2018 to 2022
$1.1M
Nuclear actin filaments and phase separation: new drivers of heterochromatin repairR01ES037530 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI Irene E Chiolo · 2025 to 2026
$1.1M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA265794NCI NIH HHS R35 CA241801NCI NIH HHS T32 CA148724NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR077094NIEHS NIH HHS F31 ES036878NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES037530NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM117376NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM124143NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM113896NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM118289NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM145432NIH HHS P40 OD010949NIH HHS P40 OD018537
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Phase separation forms membraneless compartments, including heterochromatin "domains" and repair foci. Pericentromeric heterochromatin mostly comprises repeated sequences prone to aberrant recombination. In Drosophila cells, "safe" homologous recombination (HR) repair of these sequences requires their relocalization to the nuclear periphery before Rad51 recruitment and strand invasion. How this mobilization initiates is unknown, and the contribution of phase separation is unclear. Here, we show that Nup98 nucleoporin is recruited to repair sites before relocalization by Sec13 or Nup88, and downstream of the Smc5/6 complex and heterochromatin protein 1 (HP1). Remarkably, Nup98 condensates are immiscible with HP1 condensates, and they are required and sufficient to mobilize repair sites and exclude Rad51, thus preventing aberrant recombination while promoting HR repair. Disrupting this pathway results in heterochromatin repair defects and widespread chromosome rearrangements, revealing an "off-pore" role for nucleoporins and phase separation in nuclear dynamics and genome integrity in a multicellular eukaryote.

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Drosophila melanogasterDrosophila ProteinsHeterochromatinNuclear Pore Complex ProteinsRad51 RecombinaseRecombinational DNA RepairAnimalsCell Cycle ProteinsChromobox Protein Homolog 5Chromosomal Proteins, Non-HistoneDNA Breaks, Double-StrandedCell Cycle ProteinsChromobox Protein Homolog 5Chromosomal Proteins, Non-HistoneDrosophila ProteinsHeterochromatinnuclear pore complex protein 98Nuclear Pore Complex ProteinsRad51 Recombinasedouble-strand break repairdropletsheterochromatin repairhomologous recombinationnuclear dynamicsnucleoplasmic nucleoporinsNup88Nup98 condensatesphase separationSec13

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