SAF-A promotes origin licensing and replication fork progression to ensure robust DNA replication.
J Cell Sci
; 135(2)2022 01 15.
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ABSTRACT
The organisation of chromatin is closely intertwined with biological activities of chromosome domains, including transcription and DNA replication status. Scaffold-attachment factor A (SAF-A), also known as heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein U (HNRNPU), contributes to the formation of open chromatin structure. Here, we demonstrate that SAF-A promotes the normal progression of DNA replication and enables resumption of replication after inhibition. We report that cells depleted of SAF-A show reduced origin licensing in G1 phase and, consequently, reduced origin activation frequency in S phase. Replication forks also progress less consistently in cells depleted of SAF-A, contributing to reduced DNA synthesis rate. Single-cell replication timing analysis revealed two distinct effects of SAF-A depletion first, the boundaries between early- and late-replicating domains become more blurred; and second, SAF-A depletion causes replication timing changes that tend to bring regions of discordant domain compartmentalisation and replication timing into concordance. Associated with these defects, SAF-A-depleted cells show elevated formation of phosphorylated histone H2AX (γ-H2AX) and tend to enter quiescence. Overall, we find that SAF-A protein promotes robust DNA replication to ensure continuing cell proliferation.
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Replicação do DNA
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2022
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