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Abstract
Although essential for epigenetic inheritance, the transfer of parental histone (H3-H4) 2 tetramers that contain epigenetic modifications to replicating DNA strands is poorly understood. Here, we show that the Mcm2-Ctf4-Polα axis facilitates the transfer of parental (H3-H4) 2 tetramers to lagging-strand DNA at replication forks. Mutating the conserved histone-binding domain of the Mcm2 subunit of the CMG (Cdc45-MCM-GINS) DNA helicase, which translocates along the leading-strand template, results in a marked enrichment of parental (H3-H4) 2 on leading strand, due to the impairment of the transfer of parental (H3-H4) 2 to lagging strands. Similar effects are observed in Ctf4 and Polα primase mutants that disrupt the connection of the CMG helicase to Polα that resides on lagging-strand template. Our results support a model whereby parental (H3-H4) 2 complexes displaced from nucleosomes by DNA unwinding at replication forks are transferred by the CMG-Ctf4-Polα complex to lagging-strand DNA for nucleosome assembly at the original location. How parental histone H3-H4 tetramers are transferred to replicating DNA strands for epigenetic inheritance remains largely unknown. Gan et al. show that parental H3-H4 tetramers bind to Mcm2, which travels along the leading-strand template, and are then transferred to the lagging strand by the Mcm2-Ctf4-Polα complex for nucleosome assembly.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 140-151.e3 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Molecular Cell |
Volume | 72 |
Issue number | 1 |
Early online date | 20 Sept 2018 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 4 Oct 2018 |
Keywords
- nucleosome assembly
- epigenetic inheritance
- DNA replication
- histone modifications
- Mcm2
- Ctf4
- Pol1
- parental histone transfer
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Molecular Biology
- Cell Biology
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Functional Dissection of the Eukaryotic Replisome (Senior Investigator Award)
Labib, K. (Investigator)
1/04/14 → 29/02/20
Project: Research