液体核凝聚物机械感知和重组基因组
Yongdae Shin1, Yi-Che Chang2, Daniel S W Lee3
1Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA; Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, South Korea.
Cell
|December 1, 2018
概括
核中的生物分子液相分离机械排除了染色质,有利于更柔软的无色区域. 目标DNA可以通过凝聚凝聚在一起,作为机械活性过器.
科学领域:
- 细胞生物学
- 生物物理
- 基因组学
背景情况:
- 细胞内组织依赖于生物分子液相过渡.
- 固有无序蛋白质 (IDP) 的液态分离驱动核体的形成.
- 这些凝聚物对染色质结构的机械影响尚不清楚.
研究的目的:
- 研究液体凝聚物的物理力量如何重组色素.
- 探索机械性质在凝结物形成和色素组织中的作用.
主要方法:
- 使用基于CRISPR-Cas9的光遗传技术.
- 观察到各种IDP分离为液体凝结物.
- 开发了一个最小的物理模型来解释凝结物的行为.
主要成果:
- 在它们生长的过程中,IDP凝结物机械地排除了色素.
- 由于对硬度的敏感性,凝结物主要在低密度的无色区域形成.
- 表面张力驱动的凝聚可以机械地将目标基因组位点拉在一起.
结论:
- 核凝聚物作为机械活性染色体过器.
- 这些凝结物通过排除非向区域并集中向位置来物理操纵色素.
- 阶段分离通过机械力量对染色质产生影响.
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