Effect of Single-Strand DNA Breaks on Transcription of Nucleosomes

Moscow University Biological Sciences Bulletin - Tập 77 - Trang 216-222 - 2023
N. S. Gerasimova1, M. S. Akhtar2, V. M. Studitskii1,3
1Department of Bioengineering, School of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
2Molecular and Structural Biology Division, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India
3Cancer Epigenetics Team, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, United States

Tóm tắt

Previous studies have revealed the inhibitory effect of single-strand breaks in a non-template DNA strand (NT-SSB) on RNA polymerase (RNAP) transcription through the nucleosome. The observed effect was explained within the model of chromatin transcription mechanism with the formation of intranucleosomal DNA loops (i-loops), intermediates, in which the enzyme is locked in the DNA loop on the histone octamer. According to the model, NT-SSBs reduce the tension in the DNA structure caused by transcription, thus stabilizing DNA-histone interactions and inhibiting RNAP. In this work, the boundaries of such i-loops have been determined. It has been found that the formation of contacts between DNA and histones behind RNAP occurs at a distance of more than 17 base pairs from the active center of the enzyme.

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