Publication Date:
2014-12-06
Description:
During differentiation, thousands of genes are repositioned toward or away from the nuclear envelope. These movements correlate with changes in transcription and replication timing. Using synthetic (TALE) transcription factors, we found that transcriptional activation of endogenous genes by a viral trans-activator is sufficient to induce gene repositioning toward the nuclear interior in embryonic stem cells. However, gene relocation was also induced by recruitment of an acidic peptide that decondenses chromatin without affecting transcription, indicating that nuclear reorganization is driven by chromatin remodeling rather than transcription. We identified an epigenetic inheritance of chromatin decondensation that maintained central nuclear positioning through mitosis even after the TALE transcription factor was lost. Our results also demonstrate that transcriptional activation, but not chromatin decondensation, is sufficient to change replication timing.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Therizols, Pierre -- Illingworth, Robert S -- Courilleau, Celine -- Boyle, Shelagh -- Wood, Andrew J -- Bickmore, Wendy A -- 102560/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- MC_PC_U127527202/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2014 Dec 5;346(6214):1238-42. doi: 10.1126/science.1259587.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Crewe Road, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK. ; MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Crewe Road, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK. wendy.bickmore@igmm.ed.ac.uk.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25477464" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Cell Differentiation/*genetics
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Cell Line
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Cell Nucleus/*genetics/metabolism/ultrastructure
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Chromatin/*metabolism
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*Chromatin Assembly and Disassembly
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DNA Replication
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Embryonic Stem Cells/*cytology/metabolism
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*Epigenesis, Genetic
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Mice
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Nuclear Envelope/genetics/metabolism/ultrastructure
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Trans-Activators/*metabolism
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*Transcriptional Activation
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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