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- Title
Epigenetic control of chromosome-associated lncRNA genes essential for replication and stability.
- Authors
Heskett, Michael B.; Vouzas, Athanasios E.; Smith, Leslie G.; Yates, Phillip A.; Boniface, Christopher; Bouhassira, Eric E.; Spellman, Paul T.; Gilbert, David M.; Thayer, Mathew J.
- Abstract
ASARs are long noncoding RNA genes that control replication timing of entire human chromosomes in cis. The three known ASAR genes are located on human chromosomes 6 and 15, and are essential for chromosome integrity. To identify ASARs on all human chromosomes we utilize a set of distinctive ASAR characteristics that allow for the identification of hundreds of autosomal loci with epigenetically controlled, allele-restricted behavior in expression and replication timing of coding and noncoding genes, and is distinct from genomic imprinting. Disruption of noncoding RNA genes at five of five tested loci result in chromosome-wide delayed replication and chromosomal instability, validating their ASAR activity. In addition to the three known essential cis-acting chromosomal loci, origins, centromeres, and telomeres, we propose that all mammalian chromosomes also contain "Inactivation/Stability Centers" that display allele-restricted epigenetic regulation of protein coding and noncoding ASAR genes that are essential for replication and stability of each chromosome. Heskett et al. describe several members of a class of long non-coding RNAs, known as ASARs, which show distinct epigenetic regulation between subclonal lineages and are essential for normal DNA replication timing and stability of human autosomes.
- Subjects
CENTROMERE; HUMAN chromosomes; GENOMIC imprinting; LINCRNA; EPIGENETICS; DNA replication; TELOMERES
- Publication
Nature Communications, 2022, Vol 13, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2041-1723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41467-022-34099-7