UMMS Affiliation
Program in Systems Biology; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Publication Date
2019-01-03
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins | Biochemistry | Computational Biology | Molecular Biology | Structural Biology | Systems Biology
Abstract
The inactive X chromosome (Xi) in female mammals adopts an atypical higher-order chromatin structure, manifested as a global loss of local topologically associated domains (TADs), A/B compartments and formation of two mega-domains. Here we demonstrate that the non-canonical SMC family protein, SmcHD1, which is important for gene silencing on Xi, contributes to this unique chromosome architecture. Specifically, allelic mapping of the transcriptome and epigenome in SmcHD1 mutant cells reveals the appearance of sub-megabase domains defined by gene activation, CpG hypermethylation and depletion of Polycomb-mediated H3K27me3. These domains, which correlate with sites of SmcHD1 enrichment on Xi in wild-type cells, additionally adopt features of active X chromosome higher-order chromosome architecture, including A/B compartments and partial restoration of TAD boundaries. Xi chromosome architecture changes also occurred following SmcHD1 knockout in a somatic cell model, but in this case, independent of Xi gene derepression. We conclude that SmcHD1 is a key factor in defining the unique chromosome architecture of Xi.
Keywords
Chromatin structure, Chromosomes, Dosage compensation, Epigenetic memory
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DOI of Published Version
10.1038/s41467-018-07907-2
Source
Nat Commun. 2019 Jan 3;10(1):30. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-07907-2. Link to article on publisher's site
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Nature communications
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PubMed ID
30604745
Repository Citation
Gdula MR, Nesterova TB, Pintacuda G, Godwin J, Zhan Y, Ozadam H, McClellan M, Moralli D, Krueger F, Green CM, Reik W, Kriaucionis S, Heard E, Dekker J, Brockdorff N. (2019). The non-canonical SMC protein SmcHD1 antagonises TAD formation and compartmentalisation on the inactive X chromosome. Open Access Publications by UMMS Authors. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07907-2. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/oapubs/3713
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