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XB-ART-51912
Elife 2016 Mar 07;5:e13722. doi: 10.7554/eLife.13722.
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The cell proliferation antigen Ki-67 organises heterochromatin.

Sobecki M , Mrouj K , Camasses A , Parisis N , Nicolas E , Llères D , Gerbe F , Prieto S , Krasinska L , David A , Eguren M , Birling MC , Urbach S , Hem S , Déjardin J , Malumbres M , Jay P , Dulic V , Lafontaine DLj , Feil R , Fisher D .


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Antigen Ki-67 is a nuclear protein expressed in proliferating mammalian cells. It is widely used in cancer histopathology but its functions remain unclear. Here, we show that Ki-67 controls heterochromatin organisation. Altering Ki-67 expression levels did not significantly affect cell proliferation in vivo. Ki-67 mutant mice developed normally and cells lacking Ki-67 proliferated efficiently. Conversely, upregulation of Ki-67 expression in differentiated tissues did not prevent cell cycle arrest. Ki-67 interactors included proteins involved in nucleolar processes and chromatin regulators. Ki-67 depletion disrupted nucleologenesis but did not inhibit pre-rRNA processing. In contrast, it altered gene expression. Ki-67 silencing also had wide-ranging effects on chromatin organisation, disrupting heterochromatin compaction and long-range genomic interactions. Trimethylation of histone H3K9 and H4K20 was relocalised within the nucleus. Finally, overexpression of human or Xenopus Ki-67 induced ectopic heterochromatin formation. Altogether, our results suggest that Ki-67 expression in proliferating cells spatially organises heterochromatin, thereby controlling gene expression.

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Species referenced: Xenopus
Genes referenced: b2m cdh1 ctnnb1 dclk1 fzr1 gnl3 mki67 npy4r pes1 trim39


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