Nature Communications (Jan 2017)

Repo-Man/PP1 regulates heterochromatin formation in interphase

  • Inês J. de Castro,
  • James Budzak,
  • Maria L. Di Giacinto,
  • Lorena Ligammari,
  • Ezgi Gokhan,
  • Christos Spanos,
  • Daniela Moralli,
  • Christine Richardson,
  • Jose I. de las Heras,
  • Silvia Salatino,
  • Eric C. Schirmer,
  • Katharine S. Ullman,
  • Wendy A. Bickmore,
  • Catherine Green,
  • Juri Rappsilber,
  • Sarah Lamble,
  • Martin W. Goldberg,
  • Veronica Vinciotti,
  • Paola Vagnarelli

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14048
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Repo-Man is a chromosome-binding subunit of protein phosphatase 1 to regulate mitosis. Here, de Castro and colleagues show that Repo-Man also regulates heterochromatin during interphase, and regulates gene repression and chromatin organization.