Genome control by SMC complexes

C Hoencamp, BD Rowland - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2023 - nature.com
Many cellular processes require large-scale rearrangements of chromatin structure.
Structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) protein complexes are molecular machines …

Loo** 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 …

The Smc5/6 complex is a DNA loop-extruding motor

B Pradhan, T Kanno, M Umeda Igarashi, MS Loke… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) protein complexes are essential for the
spatial organization of chromosomes. Whereas cohesin and condensin organize …

CTCF is a DNA-tension-dependent barrier to cohesin-mediated loop extrusion

IF Davidson, R Barth, M Zaczek, J van der Torre… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
In eukaryotes, genomic DNA is extruded into loops by cohesin. By restraining this process,
the DNA-binding protein CCCTC-binding factor (CTCF) generates topologically associating …

All eukaryotic SMC proteins induce a twist of− 0.6 at each DNA loop extrusion step

R Janissen, R Barth, IF Davidson, JM Peters… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Eukaryotes carry three types of structural maintenance of chromosome (SMC) protein
complexes, condensin, cohesin, and SMC5/6, which are ATP-dependent motor proteins that …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] SMC complexes can traverse physical roadblocks bigger than their ring size

B Pradhan, R Barth, E Kim, IF Davidson, B Bauer… - Cell reports, 2022 - cell.com
Ring-shaped structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) complexes like condensin and
cohesin extrude loops of DNA. It remains, however, unclear how they can extrude DNA …

A walk through the SMC cycle: From catching DNAs to sha** the genome

R Oldenkamp, BD Rowland - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
SMC protein complexes are molecular machines that provide structure to chromosomes.
These complexes bridge DNA elements and by doing so build DNA loops in cis and hold …

DNA packaging by molecular motors: from bacteriophage to human chromosomes

B Prevo, WC Earnshaw - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Dense packaging of genomic DNA is crucial for organismal survival, as DNA length always
far exceeds the dimensions of the cells that contain it. Organisms, therefore, use …

Chromosome compaction is triggered by an autonomous DNA-binding module within condensin

A Pastic, ML Nosella, A Kochhar, ZH Liu… - Cell Reports, 2024 - cell.com
The compaction of chromatin into mitotic chromosomes is essential for faithful transmission
of the genome during cell division. In eukaryotes, chromosome morphogenesis is regulated …