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A dynamic mode of mitotic bookmarking by transcription factors

  1. Sheila S Teves
  2. Luye An
  3. Anders S Hansen
  4. Liangqi Xie
  5. Xavier Darzacq
  6. Robert Tjian  Is a corresponding author
  1. University of California, Berkeley, United States
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.22280
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  1. Sheila S Teves
  2. Luye An
  3. Anders S Hansen
  4. Liangqi Xie
  5. Xavier Darzacq
  6. Robert Tjian
(2016)
A dynamic mode of mitotic bookmarking by transcription factors
eLife 5:e22280.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.22280
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Abstract

During mitosis, transcription is shut off, chromatin condenses, and most transcription factors (TFs) are reported to be excluded from chromosomes. How do daughter cells re-establish the original transcription program? Recent discoveries that a select set of TFs remain bound on mitotic chromosomes suggest a potential mechanism for maintaining transcriptional programs through the cell cycle termed mitotic bookmarking. Here we report instead that many TFs remain associated with chromosomes in mouse embryonic stem cells, and that the exclusion previously described is largely a fixation artifact. In particular, most TFs we tested are significantly enriched on mitotic chromosomes. Studies with Sox2 reveal that this mitotic interaction is more dynamic than in interphase and is facilitated by both DNA binding and nuclear import. Furthermore, this dynamic mode results from lack of transcriptional activation rather than decreased accessibility of underlying DNA sequences in mitosis. The nature of the cross-linking artifact prompts careful re-examination of the role of TFs in mitotic bookmarking.

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The following data sets were generated
    1. Sheila Teves
    (2016) Global accessibility of mitotic chromosomes
    Publicly available at the NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus (accession no: GSE85184).
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE85184
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  1. Sheila S Teves

    Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
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  2. Luye An

    Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
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  3. Anders S Hansen

    Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
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  4. Liangqi Xie

    Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
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  5. Xavier Darzacq

    Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
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  6. Robert Tjian

    Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
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    Robert Tjian, President of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (2009-present), one of the three founding funders of eLife, and a member of eLife's Board of Directors.
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

  • Robert Tjian

Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research

  • Sheila S Teves

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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© 2016, Teves et al.

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  1. Sheila S Teves
  2. Luye An
  3. Anders S Hansen
  4. Liangqi Xie
  5. Xavier Darzacq
  6. Robert Tjian
(2016)
A dynamic mode of mitotic bookmarking by transcription factors
eLife 5:e22280.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.22280

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