Nucleosome density shapes kilobase-scale regulation by a mammalian chromatin remodeler

© 2023. The Author(s)..

Nearly all essential nuclear processes act on DNA packaged into arrays of nucleosomes. However, our understanding of how these processes (for example, DNA replication, RNA transcription, chromatin extrusion and nucleosome remodeling) occur on individual chromatin arrays remains unresolved. Here, to address this deficit, we present SAMOSA-ChAAT: a massively multiplex single-molecule footprinting approach to map the primary structure of individual, reconstituted chromatin templates subject to virtually any chromatin-associated reaction. We apply this method to distinguish between competing models for chromatin remodeling by the essential imitation switch (ISWI) ATPase SNF2h: nucleosome-density-dependent spacing versus fixed-linker-length nucleosome clamping. First, we perform in vivo single-molecule nucleosome footprinting in murine embryonic stem cells, to discover that ISWI-catalyzed nucleosome spacing correlates with the underlying nucleosome density of specific epigenomic domains. To establish causality, we apply SAMOSA-ChAAT to quantify the activities of ISWI ATPase SNF2h and its parent complex ACF on reconstituted nucleosomal arrays of varying nucleosome density, at single-molecule resolution. We demonstrate that ISWI remodelers operate as density-dependent, length-sensing nucleosome sliders, whose ability to program DNA accessibility is dictated by single-molecule nucleosome density. We propose that the long-observed, context-specific regulatory effects of ISWI complexes can be explained in part by the sensing of nucleosome density within epigenomic domains. More generally, our approach promises molecule-precise views of the essential processes that shape nuclear physiology.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:30

Enthalten in:

Nature structural & molecular biology - 30(2023), 10 vom: 01. Okt., Seite 1571-1581

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Abdulhay, Nour J [VerfasserIn]
Hsieh, Laura J [VerfasserIn]
McNally, Colin P [VerfasserIn]
Ostrowski, Megan S [VerfasserIn]
Moore, Camille M [VerfasserIn]
Ketavarapu, Mythili [VerfasserIn]
Kasinathan, Sivakanthan [VerfasserIn]
Nanda, Arjun S [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Ke [VerfasserIn]
Chio, Un Seng [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Ziling [VerfasserIn]
Goodarzi, Hani [VerfasserIn]
Narlikar, Geeta J [VerfasserIn]
Ramani, Vijay [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

9007-49-2
Adenosine Triphosphatases
Chromatin
DNA
EC 3.6.1.-
Histones
Journal Article
Nucleosomes
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 23.10.2023

Date Revised 16.02.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/s41594-023-01093-6

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM36194358X