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Cell 2005 Dec 02;1235:787-801. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2005.08.045.
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Mitotic remodeling of the replicon and chromosome structure.

Lemaitre JM , Danis E , Pasero P , Vassetzky Y , Méchali M .


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Animal cloning by nuclear-transfer experiments frequently fails due to the inability of transplanted nuclei to support normal embryonic development. We show here that the formation of mitotic chromosomes in the egg context is crucial for adapting differentiated nuclei for early development. Differentiated erythrocyte nuclei replicate inefficiently in Xenopus eggs but do so as rapidly as sperm nuclei if a prior single mitosis is permitted. This mitotic remodeling involves a topoisomerase II-dependent shortening of chromatin loop domains and an increased recruitment of replication initiation factors onto chromatin, leading to a short interorigin spacing characteristic of early developmental stages. It also occurs within each early embryonic cell cycle and dominantly regulates initiation of DNA replication for the subsequent S phase. These results indicate that mitotic conditioning is crucial to reset the chromatin structure of differentiated adult donor cells for embryonic DNA replication and suggest that it is an important step in nuclear cloning.

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References :
Laskey, Solving mysteries of DNA replication and frog cloning. 2005, Pubmed, Xenbase