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Critical roles of Shugoshin and histones as tension sensors during mitosis

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Biorientation of paired sister chromosomes is required to maintain mitotic fidelity. A critical signal indicative of bipolar attachment is tension between cohesion-linked sister chromatids. Key components of the tension signaling… Click to show full abstract

Biorientation of paired sister chromosomes is required to maintain mitotic fidelity. A critical signal indicative of bipolar attachment is tension between cohesion-linked sister chromatids. Key components of the tension signaling apparatus include the Shugoshin family of proteins and the tension sensing motif of histone H3. Shugoshin proteins are recruited to chromatin to create discrete domains integral to tension sensing. Many factors involved in the chromatin association of Shugoshin proteins are well established, most strikingly through modifications found directly on centromeric and pericentric chromatin. It has been well established that phosphorylation at the centromere is essential to nucleating Shugoshin recruitment, but recent evidence revealed a role for pericentric histones and acetylation in modulating Shugoshin recruitment and activity. These data demonstrate that chromatins are not simply passive cargo during mitosis, but are instead actively involved in their segregation.

Keywords: histones tension; roles shugoshin; tension sensors; critical roles; shugoshin histones; tension

Journal Title: Current Genetics
Year Published: 2018

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