Genome folding through loop extrusion by SMC complexes

IF Davidson, JM Peters - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2021 - nature.com
Genomic DNA is folded into loops and topologically associating domains (TADs), which
serve important structural and regulatory roles. It has been proposed that these genomic …

Looping the genome with SMC complexes

E Kim, R Barth, C Dekker - Annual review of biochemistry, 2023 - annualreviews.org
SMC (structural maintenance of chromosomes) protein complexes are an evolutionarily
conserved family of motor proteins that hold sister chromatids together and fold genomes …

Real-time imaging of DNA loop extrusion by condensin

M Ganji, IA Shaltiel, S Bisht, E Kim, A Kalichava… - Science, 2018 - science.org
It has been hypothesized that SMC protein complexes such as condensin and cohesin
spatially organize chromosomes by extruding DNA into large loops. We directly visualized …

The structural basis for cohesin–CTCF-anchored loops

Y Li, JHI Haarhuis, Á Sedeño Cacciatore… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Cohesin catalyses the folding of the genome into loops that are anchored by CTCF. The
molecular mechanism of how cohesin and CTCF structure the 3D genome has remained …

Organization of chromosomal DNA by SMC complexes

S Yatskevich, J Rhodes, K Nasmyth - Annual review of genetics, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) complexes are key organizers of
chromosome architecture in all kingdoms of life. Despite seemingly divergent functions, such …

Cryo-EM structure of the human cohesin-NIPBL-DNA complex

Z Shi, H Gao, X Bai, H Yu - Science, 2020 - science.org
As a ring-shaped adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) machine, cohesin organizes the
eukaryotic genome by extruding DNA loops and mediates sister chromatid cohesion by …

A hold-and-feed mechanism drives directional DNA loop extrusion by condensin

IA Shaltiel, S Datta, L Lecomte, M Hassler… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) protein complexes structure genomes by
extruding DNA loops, but the molecular mechanism that underlies their activity has …

Emerging evidence of chromosome folding by loop extrusion

G Fudenberg, N Abdennur, M Imakaev… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2017 - symposium.cshlp.org
Chromosome organization poses a remarkable physical problem with many biological
consequences: How can molecular interactions between proteins at the nanometer scale …

CTCF and R-loops are boundaries of cohesin-mediated DNA looping

H Zhang, Z Shi, EJ Banigan, Y Kim, H Yu, X Bai… - Molecular cell, 2023 - cell.com
Cohesin and CCCTC-binding factor (CTCF) are key regulatory proteins of three-dimensional
(3D) genome organization. Cohesin extrudes DNA loops that are anchored by CTCF in a …

Human condensin I and II drive extensive ATP-dependent compaction of nucleosome-bound DNA

M Kong, EE Cutts, D Pan, F Beuron, T Kaliyappan… - Molecular cell, 2020 - cell.com
Structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) complexes are essential for genome
organization from bacteria to humans, but their mechanisms of action remain poorly …