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CELL REPORTS
卷 14, 期 8, 页码 1813-1818出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2016.01.063
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- ERC Advanced Grant SynDiv [669598]
- Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO/OCW) as part of the Frontiers of Nanoscience program
- EMBL
- German Research Foundation [HA5853/2-1]
Structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) protein complexes, including cohesin and condensin, play key roles in the regulation of higher-order chromosome organization. Even though SMC proteins are thought to mechanistically determine the function of the complexes, their native conformations and dynamics have remained unclear. Here, we probe the topology of Smc2-Smc4 dimers of the S. cerevisiae condensin complex with highspeed atomic force microscopy (AFM) in liquid. We show that the Smc2-Smc4 coiled coils are highly flexible polymers with a persistence length of only similar to 4 nm. Moreover, we demonstrate that the SMC dimers can adopt various architectures that interconvert dynamically over time, and we find that the SMC head domains engage not only with each other, but also with the hinge domain situated at the other end of the similar to 45-nm-long coiled coil. Our findings reveal structural properties that provide insights into the molecular mechanics of condensin complexes.
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