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Article Dans Une Revue EMBO Journal Année : 1998

Altered control of cellular proliferation in the absence of mammalian brahma (SNF2α)

Anne Camus
C. Muchardt
Charles Babinet
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Moshe Yaniv
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Résumé

The mammalian SWI-SNF complex is an evolutionarily conserved, multi-subunit machine, involved in chromatin remodelling during transcriptional activation. Within this complex, the BRM (SNF2alpha) and BRG1 (SNF2beta) proteins are mutually exclusive subunits that are believed to affect nucleosomal structures using the energy of ATP hydrolysis. In order to characterize possible differences in the function of BRM and BRG1, and to gain further insights into the role of BRM-containing SWI-SNF complexes, the mouse BRM gene was inactivated by homologous recombination. BRM-/- mice develop normally, suggesting that an observed up-regulation of the BRG1 protein can functionally replace BRM in the SWI-SNF complexes of mutant cells. Nonetheless, adult mutant mice were approximately 15% heavier than control littermates. This may be caused by increased cell proliferation, as demonstrated by a higher mitotic index detected in mutant livers. This is supported further by the observation that mutant embryonic fibroblasts were significantly deficient in their ability to arrest in the G0/G1 phase of the cell cycle in response to cell confluency or DNA damage. These studies suggest that BRM participates in the regulation of cell proliferation in adult mice.

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hal-03048893 , version 1 (09-12-2020)

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José Reyes, J. Barra, Anne Camus, C. Muchardt, Charles Babinet, et al.. Altered control of cellular proliferation in the absence of mammalian brahma (SNF2α). EMBO Journal, 1998, 17 (23), pp.6979-6991. ⟨10.1093/EMBOJ/17.23.6979⟩. ⟨hal-03048893⟩

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