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Differential spatial and structural organization of the X chromosome underlies dosage compensation in C. elegans.

Rahul Sharma, Daniel Jost, Jop Kind, Georgina Gomez-Saldivar, Bas van Steensel, Peter Askjaer, Cedric Vaillant, and Peter Meister (2014)

Genes Dev, 28(23):2591-6.

The adjustment of X-linked gene expression to the X chromosome copy number (dosage compensation [DC]) has been widely studied as a model of chromosome-widegene regulation. In Caenorhabditis elegans, DC is achieved by twofold down-regulation of gene expression from both Xs in hermaphrodites. We show that in males, the single X chromosome interacts with nuclear pore proteins, while inhermaphrodites, the DC complex (DCC) impairs this interaction and alters X localization. Our results put forward a structural model of DC in which X-specific sequences locate the X chromosome in transcriptionally active domainsin males, while the DCC prevents this in hermaphrodites.

 
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