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Condensin loop extrusion properties, roadblocks, and role in homology search in S. cerevisiae

Vinciane Piveteau, Hossein Salari, Agnes Dumont, Jerome Savocco, Chloe Dupont, Daniel Jost, and Aurele Piazza (2024)

BioRxiv.

The in vivo mechanism, regulations by cis-acting roadblocks, and biological functions of loop extrusion by eukaryotic SMC complexes are incompletely defined. Here, using Hi-C, we identified two condensin-dependent contact stripes at the Recombination Enhancer (RE) and the rDNA in S. cerevisiae. We show that oriented, unidirectional loop extrusion proceeds from these sites with an estimated processivity ∼170 kb and a density ∼0.04-0.18 that varies across the cell cycle. Centromeres and highly-transcribed RNA PolII-dependent genes are permeable condensin roadblocks. Other positionally labile elements such as replication forks and Smc5/6 complexes bound to substrates generated in the absence of Top2 also hinder loop extrusion by condensin. Cohesin is not an obstacle for condensin. Finally, a DNA double-strand break at MAT blocks condensin, which results in the rapid establishment of a long-range RE-MAT loop that juxtaposes the recombination machinery with its HMLα donor target. Hence, all budding yeast SMCs are involved in recombinational DNA repair. We propose a revised model for donor selection during MAT switching that exploits specific properties of loop extrusion by condensin. It can serve as a paradigm for the establishment of other types of selective interactions along chromosomes.
DNA recombination, 3D genome

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