Nature Communications (Oct 2021)

Inner nuclear protein Matrin-3 coordinates cell differentiation by stabilizing chromatin architecture

  • Hye Ji Cha,
  • Özgün Uyan,
  • Yan Kai,
  • Tianxin Liu,
  • Qian Zhu,
  • Zuzana Tothova,
  • Giovanni A. Botten,
  • Jian Xu,
  • Guo-Cheng Yuan,
  • Job Dekker,
  • Stuart H. Orkin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26574-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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Interactions between chromatin and nuclear components and whether these interactions affect development is not well understood. Here the authors show inner nuclear protein Matrin-3 (Matr3) loss leads to accelerated erythroid maturation, and that Matr3 is involved in chromosomal structure organization and compartmentalization to negatively regulate cell differentiation.