The fork protection complex promotes parental histone recycling and epigenetic memory

Sebastian Jespersen Charlton, Valentin Flury, Yutaka Kanoh, Aitana Victoria Genzor, Leonie Kollenstart, Wantong Ao, Peter Brøgger, Melanie Bianca Weisser, Marek Adamus, Nicolas Alcaraz, Charlotte M Delvaux de Fenffe, Francesca Mattiroli, Guillermo Montoya, Hisao Masai, Anja Groth, Geneviève Thon

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The inheritance of parental histones across the replication fork is thought to mediate epigenetic memory. Here, we reveal that fission yeast Mrc1 (CLASPIN in humans) binds H3-H4 tetramers and operates as a central coordinator of symmetric parental histone inheritance. Mrc1 mutants in a key connector domain disrupted segregation of parental histones to the lagging strand comparable to Mcm2 histone-binding mutants. Both mutants showed clonal and asymmetric loss of H3K9me-mediated gene silencing. AlphaFold predicted co-chaperoning of H3-H4 tetramers by Mrc1 and Mcm2, with the Mrc1 connector domain bridging histone and Mcm2 binding. Biochemical and functional analysis validated this model and revealed a duality in Mrc1 function: disabling histone binding in the connector domain disrupted lagging-strand recycling while another histone-binding mutation impaired leading strand recycling. We propose that Mrc1 toggles histones between the lagging and leading strand recycling pathways, in part by intra-replisome co-chaperoning, to ensure epigenetic transmission to both daughter cells.

Originele taal-2Engels
Pagina's (van-tot)5029-5047.e21
TijdschriftCell
Volume187
Nummer van het tijdschrift18
DOI's
StatusGepubliceerd - 05 sep. 2024

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