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Quantitative Super-Resolution Microscopy Reveals the Relationship between CENP-A Stoichiometry and Centromere Physical Size
Centromeric chromatin is thought to play a critical role in ensuring the faithful segregation of chromosomes during mitosis. However, our understanding of this role is presently limited by our poor understanding of the structure and composition of this unique chromatin. The nucleosomal variant, CENP...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10649757/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37958853 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms242115871 |
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author | Li, Yaqian Wang, Jiabin Chen, Xuecheng Czajkowsky, Daniel M. Shao, Zhifeng |
author_facet | Li, Yaqian Wang, Jiabin Chen, Xuecheng Czajkowsky, Daniel M. Shao, Zhifeng |
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description | Centromeric chromatin is thought to play a critical role in ensuring the faithful segregation of chromosomes during mitosis. However, our understanding of this role is presently limited by our poor understanding of the structure and composition of this unique chromatin. The nucleosomal variant, CENP-A, localizes to narrow regions within the centromere, where it plays a major role in centromeric function, effectively serving as a platform on which the kinetochore is assembled. Previous work found that, within a given cell, the number of microtubules within kinetochores is essentially unchanged between CENP-A-localized regions of different physical sizes. However, it is unknown if the amount of CENP-A is also unchanged between these regions of different sizes, which would reflect a strict structural correspondence between these two key characteristics of the centromere/kinetochore assembly. Here, we used super-resolution optical microscopy to image and quantify the amount of CENP-A and DNA within human centromere chromatin. We found that the amount of CENP-A within CENP-A domains of different physical sizes is indeed the same. Further, our measurements suggest that the ratio of CENP-A- to H3-containing nucleosomes within these domains is between 8:1 and 11:1. Thus, our results not only identify an unexpectedly strict relationship between CENP-A and microtubules stoichiometries but also that the CENP-A centromeric domain is almost exclusively composed of CENP-A nucleosomes. |
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spelling | pubmed-106497572023-11-01 Quantitative Super-Resolution Microscopy Reveals the Relationship between CENP-A Stoichiometry and Centromere Physical Size Li, Yaqian Wang, Jiabin Chen, Xuecheng Czajkowsky, Daniel M. Shao, Zhifeng Int J Mol Sci Communication Centromeric chromatin is thought to play a critical role in ensuring the faithful segregation of chromosomes during mitosis. However, our understanding of this role is presently limited by our poor understanding of the structure and composition of this unique chromatin. The nucleosomal variant, CENP-A, localizes to narrow regions within the centromere, where it plays a major role in centromeric function, effectively serving as a platform on which the kinetochore is assembled. Previous work found that, within a given cell, the number of microtubules within kinetochores is essentially unchanged between CENP-A-localized regions of different physical sizes. However, it is unknown if the amount of CENP-A is also unchanged between these regions of different sizes, which would reflect a strict structural correspondence between these two key characteristics of the centromere/kinetochore assembly. Here, we used super-resolution optical microscopy to image and quantify the amount of CENP-A and DNA within human centromere chromatin. We found that the amount of CENP-A within CENP-A domains of different physical sizes is indeed the same. Further, our measurements suggest that the ratio of CENP-A- to H3-containing nucleosomes within these domains is between 8:1 and 11:1. Thus, our results not only identify an unexpectedly strict relationship between CENP-A and microtubules stoichiometries but also that the CENP-A centromeric domain is almost exclusively composed of CENP-A nucleosomes. MDPI 2023-11-01 /pmc/articles/PMC10649757/ /pubmed/37958853 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms242115871 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Communication Li, Yaqian Wang, Jiabin Chen, Xuecheng Czajkowsky, Daniel M. Shao, Zhifeng Quantitative Super-Resolution Microscopy Reveals the Relationship between CENP-A Stoichiometry and Centromere Physical Size |
title | Quantitative Super-Resolution Microscopy Reveals the Relationship between CENP-A Stoichiometry and Centromere Physical Size |
title_full | Quantitative Super-Resolution Microscopy Reveals the Relationship between CENP-A Stoichiometry and Centromere Physical Size |
title_fullStr | Quantitative Super-Resolution Microscopy Reveals the Relationship between CENP-A Stoichiometry and Centromere Physical Size |
title_full_unstemmed | Quantitative Super-Resolution Microscopy Reveals the Relationship between CENP-A Stoichiometry and Centromere Physical Size |
title_short | Quantitative Super-Resolution Microscopy Reveals the Relationship between CENP-A Stoichiometry and Centromere Physical Size |
title_sort | quantitative super-resolution microscopy reveals the relationship between cenp-a stoichiometry and centromere physical size |
topic | Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10649757/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37958853 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms242115871 |
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