Nature Communications (May 2020)

Disruption of ATRX-RNA interactions uncovers roles in ATRX localization and PRC2 function

  • Wenqing Ren,
  • Nicole Medeiros,
  • Robert Warneford-Thomson,
  • Phillip Wulfridge,
  • Qingqing Yan,
  • Joyce Bian,
  • Simone Sidoli,
  • Benjamin A. Garcia,
  • Emmanuel Skordalakes,
  • Eric Joyce,
  • Roberto Bonasio,
  • Kavitha Sarma

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15902-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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ATRX is an RNA binding protein that mediates targeting of polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) to genomic sites. Here the authors identify the RNA binding region and show that the RNA binding is required for ATRX localization and for its recruitment of PRC2 to a subset of polycomb targets.