ERC Advanced Grant · 2020
Mechanism, regulation and functions of genome folding through loop extrusion by cohesin-NIPBL
Since its discovery 150 years ago, DNA has been intensely studied. As a result, it is understood in some detail how genomic DNA is replicated, repaired and segregated, and entire genomes can be sequenced. However, how DNA is folded in chromosomes has remained a mystery. It has been proposed that this is achieved by a process called loop extrusion. This hypothesis proposes that SMC complexes, multi-subunit ATPases present in all kingdoms of life, reel genomic DNA into loops, thus bringing distant loci into proximity. This process is thought to have important structural and regulatory functions, such as the separation of bacterial genomes and the folding of eukaryotic DNA into loops and…
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