University of Massachusetts Medical School Faculty Publications
Title
Genome-wide mapping of human DNA replication by optical replication mapping supports a stochastic model of eukaryotic replication
UMMS Affiliation
Program in Bioinformatics and Integrated Biology; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Publication Date
2021-07-15
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Cell Biology | Genetics and Genomics | Molecular Biology
Abstract
The heterogeneous nature of eukaryotic replication kinetics and the low efficiency of individual initiation sites make mapping the location and timing of replication initiation in human cells difficult. To address this challenge, we have developed optical replication mapping (ORM), a high-throughput single-molecule approach, and used it to map early-initiation events in human cells. The single-molecule nature of our data and a total of > 2,500-fold coverage of the human genome on 27 million fibers averaging approximately 300 kb in length allow us to identify initiation sites and their firing probability with high confidence. We find that the distribution of human replication initiation is consistent with inefficient, stochastic activation of heterogeneously distributed potential initiation complexes enriched in accessible chromatin. These observations are consistent with stochastic models of initiation-timing regulation and suggest that stochastic regulation of replication kinetics is a fundamental feature of eukaryotic replication, conserved from yeast to humans.
Keywords
eukaryotic replication kinetics
DOI of Published Version
10.1016/j.molcel.2021.05.024
Source
Wang W, Klein KN, Proesmans K, Yang H, Marchal C, Zhu X, Borrman T, Hastie A, Weng Z, Bechhoefer J, Chen CL, Gilbert DM, Rhind N. Genome-wide mapping of human DNA replication by optical replication mapping supports a stochastic model of eukaryotic replication. Mol Cell. 2021 Jul 15;81(14):2975-2988.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2021.05.024. Epub 2021 Jun 21. PMID: 34157308; PMCID: PMC8286344. Link to article on publisher's site
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Journal/Book/Conference Title
Molecular cell
PubMed ID
34157308
Repository Citation
Wang W, Klein KN, Proesmans K, Yang H, Marchal C, Zhu X, Borrman TM, Hastie A, Weng Z, Bechhoefer J, Chen C, Gilbert DM, Rhind NR. (2021). Genome-wide mapping of human DNA replication by optical replication mapping supports a stochastic model of eukaryotic replication. University of Massachusetts Medical School Faculty Publications. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molcel.2021.05.024. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/faculty_pubs/2064