Abstract
AbstractPartitioning of active gene loci to the nuclear envelope (NE) is a mechanism by which organisms increase the speed of adaptation and metabolic robustness to fluctuating resources in the environment. In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, adaptation to nutrient depletion or other stresses, manifests as relocalization of active gene loci from nucleoplasm to the NE, resulting in more efficient transport and translation of mRNA. The mechanism by which this partitioning occurs remains a mystery. Here, we demonstrate that the yeast inositol depletion-responsive gene locus INO1 partitions to the nuclear envelope, driven by local histone acetylation-induced polymer-polymer phase separation from the nucleoplasmic phase. This demixing is consistent with recent evidence for chromatin phase separation by acetylation-mediated dissolution of multivalent histone association and fits a physical model where increased bending stiffness of acetylated chromatin polymer causes its phase separation from de-acetylated chromatin. Increased chromatin spring stiffness could explain nucleation of transcriptional machinery at active gene loci.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology,General Chemistry,Multidisciplinary
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4 articles.
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