Periodic Reporting for period 1 - TorsionAtLamina (TWISTING THE BOUNDARIES: ROLE OF TOPOISOMERASE 1 AT THE NUCLEAR LAMINA)
Période du rapport: 2020-09-01 au 2022-08-31
The goal of this project was to understand the relationship between DNA Topoisomerases and genome interaction with the nuclear lamina. DNA Topoisomerases were investigated for a potential role in controlling DNA-NL interaction using a specific technique called pA-DamID. I also tried to directly measure the torsional stress on chromatin, identifying the effects of both local and genome wide chromatin context in modulation of torsional stress and DNA structures that are topology dependent.
These results were shown to several international conferences and really appreciated from the scientific community. At the end of the action I was collecting them in a manuscript that hopefully will be published in a high impact factor journal. These results will also allow me to open an original research line and apply for fundings that hopefully will allow me to be an independent scientist.
This work identified for the first time a new role for DNA Topoisomerase 2B in controlling genome organisation at level of DNA-NL interactions. This will open a new field of investigation. Many questions need to be answered. What are the consequences of this genome reshaping induced by Top2B loss of function? How does this affect genome stability and cell identity? In addition to this, the finding that LBR modulated DNA-NL interactions similarly to Top2B also suggests that I identified a new genetic interaction between these two proteins. This is important because it is very likely, that these two proteins work together in several important process that usually involve massive genome re-organisation like differentiation and oncogene induced senescence. I intend to investigate the role of these proteins in such processes in the near future. Thus, this study will pave the way to future works that can have strong relevance and impact on how we understand and target DNA topoisomerases and their potential genetic partners.