Micromechanics of human mitotic chromosomes

Physical Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Sun, Mingxuan ^a   Kawamura, Ryo ^b   Marko, John F ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 79951860623     PISSN: 14783967     EISSN: 14783975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1478-3975/8/1/015003     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Hirano T 1995 Biochemical and genetic dissection of mitotic chromosome condensation Trends Biol. Sci. 20 357-61
2. Marko J F and Siggia E D 1997 Polymer models of mei (Pubitemid 27469383)
3. Shintomi K and Hirano T 2010 Sister chromatid resolution: A cohesin releasing network and beyond Chromosoma 119 459-67
4. Maeshima K and Laemmli U K 2003 A two-step scaffolding model for mitotic chromosome assembly Dev. Cell 4 467-80 (Pubitemid 36437555)
5. Kireeva N, Lakonishok M, Kireev I, Hirano T and Belmont A S 2004 Visualization of early chromosome condensation: A hierarchical folding, axial glue model of chromosome structure J. Cell Biol. 13 775-85 (Pubitemid 39263782)
6. Hirano T and Mitchison T J 1994 A heterodimeric coiled-coil protein required for mitotic chromosome condensation in vitro Cell 79 449-58 (Pubitemid 24346060)
7. Ono T, Losada A, Hirano M, Myers M P, Neuwald A F and Hirano T 2003 Differential contributions of condensin I and condensin II to mitotic chromosome architecture in vertebrate cells Cell 115 109-21 (Pubitemid 37255322)
8. Hudson D F, Vagnarelli P, Gassmann R and Earnshaw W C 2003 Condensin is required for nonhistone protein assembly and structural integrity of vertebrate mitotic chromosomes Dev. Cell 5 323-36 (Pubitemid 37006475)
9. Hirota T, Gerlich D, Koch B, Ellenberg J and Peters J M 2004 Distinct functions of condensin I and II in mitotic chromosome assembly J. Cell Sci. 117 6435-45 (Pubitemid 40214569)
10. Strick T R, Kawaguchi T and Hirano T 2003 Real-time detection of single-molecule DNA compaction by condensin I Curr. Biol. 14 847-80
11. Nasmyth K and Haering C H 2009 Cohesin: Its roles and mechanisms Annu. Rev. Genet. 43 525-58
12. Wendt K S and Peters J M 2009 How cohesin and CTCF cooperate in regulating gene expression Chromosome Res. 17 201-14
13. Vagnarelli P, Hudson D F, Ribeiro S A, Trinkle-Mulcahy L, Spence J M, Lai F, Farr C J, Lamond A I and EarnshawWC 2006 Condensin and Repo-Man-PP1 co-operate in the regulation of chromosome architecture during mitosis Nat. Cell Biol. 8 1133-42 (Pubitemid 44473609)
14. Hudson D F, Marshall K M and Earnshaw W C 2009 Condensin: Architect of mitotic chromosomes Chromosome Res. 17 131-44
15. Eltsov M, Maclellan K M, Maeshima K, Frangakis A S and Dubochet J 2008 Analysis of cryo-electron microscopy images does not support the existence of 30-nm chromatin fibers in mitotic chromosomes in situ Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 105 19732-7
16. Nicklas R B 1963 A quantitative study of chromosomal elasticity and its influence on chromosome movement Chromosoma 14 276-95
17. Nicklas R B 1983 Measurements of the force produced by the mitotic spindle in anaphase J. Cell Biol. 97 542-8 (Pubitemid 13041017)
18. Houchmandzadeh B, Marko J F, Chatenay D and Libchaber A 1997 Elasticity and structure of eukaryote chromosomes studied by micromanipulation and micropipette aspiration J. Biol Chem. 139 1-12 (Pubitemid 27444076)
19. Poirier M, Eroglu S, Chatenay D and Marko J F 2000 Reversible and irreversible unfolding of mitotic newt chromosomes by applied force Mol. Biol. Cell 11 269-76 (Pubitemid 30075522)
20. Poirier M G and Marko J F 2003 Micromechanical studies of mitotic chromosomes Curr. Top. Dev. Biol. 55 75-141 (Pubitemid 137639478)
21. Almagro S, Riveline D, Hirano T, Houchmandzadeh B and Dimitrov S 2004 The mitotic chromosome is an assembly of rigid elastic axes organized by structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) proteins and surrounded by a soft chromatin envelope J. Biol. Chem. 279 5118-26 (Pubitemid 38220528)
22. Poirier M G, Eroglu S and Marko J F 2002 The bending rigidity of mitotic chromosomes Mol. Biol. Cell 13 2170-9 (Pubitemid 34651500)
23. Houchmandzadeh B and Dimitrov S 1999 Elasticity measurements show the existence of thin rigid cores inside mitotic chromosomes J. Cell Biol. 145 215-23 (Pubitemid 29198296)
24. Marko J F 2008 Micromechanical studies of mitotic chromosomes Chromosome Res. 16 469-97 (Pubitemid 351644864)
25. Poirier M G and Marko J F 2002 Mitotic chromosomes are chromatin networks without a mechanically contiguous protein scaffold Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 99 15393-97 (Pubitemid 35403945)
26. Maniotis A J et al 2005 Chromatin organization measured by AluI restriction enzyme changes with malignancy and is regulated by the extracellular matrix and the cytoskeleton Am. J. Pathol. 166 1187-203 (Pubitemid 40524442)
27. Pope L H, Xiong C and Marko J F 2006 Proteolysis of mitotic chromosomes induces gradual and anisotropic decondensation correlated with a reduction of elastic modulus and structural sensitivity to rarely cutting restriction enzymes Mol. Biol. Cell 17 104-13 (Pubitemid 43049465)
28. Kawamura R, Pope L H, Christensen M O, Sun M, Terekhova K, Boege F, Mielke C, Andersen A H and Marko J F 2010 Mitotic chromosomes are constrained by topoisomerase II-sensitive DNA entanglements J. Cell. Biol. 188 653-63
29. Kruithof M, Chien F T, Routh A, Logie C, Rhodes D and van Noort J 2009 Single-molecule force spectroscopy reveals a highly compliant helical folding for the 30-nm chromatin fiber Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 16 534-40
30. Polach K J and Widom J 1995 Mechanism of protein access to specific DNA sequences in chromatin: A dynamic equilibrium model for gene regulation J. Mol. Biol. 254 130-49
31. Anderson J D and Widom J 2000 Sequence and position-dependence of the equilibrium accessibility of nucleosomal DNA target sites J. Mol. Biol. 296 979-87
32. Belmont A S 2001 Visualizing chromosome dynamics with GFP Trends Cell Biol. 11 250-7 (Pubitemid 32441735)
33. Strukov Y G and Belmont A S 2009 Mitotic chromosome structure: Reproducibility of folding and symmetry between sister chromatids Biophys. J. 96 1617-28
34. Ehrlich M, Gama Sosa M A, Huang L-H, Midgett R M, Kuo K C, McCune R A and Gehrke C 1982 Amount and distribution of 5-methylcytosine in human DNA from different types of tissues or cells Nucleic Acids Res. 10 2709-21
35. Paliulis L V and Nicklas R B 2004 Kinetochore rearrangement in meiosis II requires attachment to the spindle Curr. Biol. 14 2124-9
36. Ribeiro S A et al 2009 Condensin regulates the stiffness of vertebrate centromeres Mol. Biol. Cell 20 2371-80
37. Marango J et al 2008 The MMSET protein is a histone methyltransferase with characteristics of a transcriptional corepressor Blood 111 3145-54
38. Mannini L, Menga S and Musio A 2010 The expanding universe of cohesin functions: A new genome stability caretaker involved in human disease and cancer Hum. Mutat. 31 623-30
39. Lammerding J, Fong L G, Ji J Y, Reue K, Stewart C L, Young S G and Lee R T 2006 Lamins A and C but not lamin B1 regulate nuclear mechanics J. Biol. Chem. 281 25768-80 (Pubitemid 44401965)
40. Goldman R D et al 2004 Accumulation of mutant lamin A causes progressive changes in nuclear architecture in Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 101 8963-8 (Pubitemid 38781594)
41. Shimi T et al 2008 The A- and B-type nuclear lamin networks: Microdomains involved in chromatin organization and transcription Genes Dev. 22 3409-21
42. Taimen P et al 2009 A progeria mutation reveals functions for lamin A in nuclear assembly, architecture, and chromosome organization Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 106 20788-93