STAG2 Promotes the Myelination Transcriptional Program in Oligodendrocytes

Overview

Journal Elife

Specialty Biology

Date 2022 Aug 12

PMID 35959892

Authors

Ningyan Cheng

Guanchen Li

Mohammed Kanchwala

Bret M Evers

Chao Xing

Hongtao Yu

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Abstract

Cohesin folds chromosomes via DNA loop extrusion. Cohesin-mediated chromosome loops regulate transcription by shaping long-range enhancer-promoter interactions, among other mechanisms. Mutations of cohesin subunits and regulators cause human developmental diseases termed cohesinopathy. Vertebrate cohesin consists of SMC1, SMC3, RAD21, and either STAG1 or STAG2. To probe the physiological functions of cohesin, we created conditional knockout (cKO) mice with deleted in the nervous system. cKO mice exhibit growth retardation, neurological defects, and premature death, in part due to insufficient myelination of nerve fibers. cKO oligodendrocytes exhibit delayed maturation and downregulation of myelination-related genes. loss reduces promoter-anchored loops at downregulated genes in oligodendrocytes. Thus, STAG2-cohesin generates promoter-anchored loops at myelination-promoting genes to facilitate their transcription. Our study implicates defective myelination as a contributing factor to cohesinopathy and establishes oligodendrocytes as a relevant cell type to explore the mechanisms by which cohesin regulates transcription.

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