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Cis and Trans Regulatory Mechanisms of ecDNA Segregation
Yipeng Xie1, Jun Yi Stanley Lim1, Wenyue Liu2
1Children's Medical Center Research Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.
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Extrachromosomal DNAs (ecDNAs) attach to chromosomes during mitosis for random segregation and promote cancer heterogeneity. However, the mechanism governing ecDNA-chromosome mitotic interactions remains poorly understood. This study shows that ecDNAs tether to histone H3 lysine 27 acetylation (H3K27ac)-marked chromatin during mitosis. Depleting H3K27ac disrupts this interaction. Diverse bromodomain proteins, as H3K27ac readers, stabilise ecDNA-chromosome binding in a context-dependent and complementary manner. Although disrupting the Mediator complex in asynchronous cells detaches ecDNAs from mitotic chromosomes, Mediator and active Pol II are absent from ecDNAs during mitosis, suggesting that ecDNAs are transcriptionally silent during mitosis. Instead, inactive Pol II mediates ecDNA attachment. Furthermore, CRISPR interference targeting transcriptional regulatory elements on ecDNA impairs ecDNA segregation. Mis-segregated ecDNAs were expelled into the cytosol, leading to diminished oncogene expression and a reversal of therapy resistance. Our research provides universal cis and trans regulatory mechanisms of ecDNA segregation, offering deeper insight into ecDNA-driven oncogenesis.
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