26The decompaction and re-establishment of chromatin organization immediately after mitosis is 27 essential for genome regulation. The mechanisms underlying chromatin structure control in
40All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission.(which was not peer-reviewed) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.The copyright holder for this preprint . http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/350033 doi: bioRxiv preprint first posted online Jun. 27, 2018; (which was not peer-reviewed) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.
85All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission.(which was not peer-reviewed) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. (Fig. 1a-c). Cells were 93 simultaneously labelled with methyl-14 C containing thymidine during the experiment. After
94MNase digestion, Methyl-14 C released into the supernatant was used as a measure of 95 compaction status of the cells ( Supplementary Fig. 1a). The more decompacted and accessible 96 the chromatin is, the more methyl-14 C is released in to the supernatant. Notably, the compaction 97 state of both control and siSET8 cells in mitosis were very similar (judged by the amount of 98 methyl-14 C released in the supernatant) (Fig. 1d) Supplementary Fig. 1d), it was evident that signal strength 111 All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission.(which was not peer-reviewed) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.The copyright holder for this preprint . http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/350033 doi: bioRxiv preprint first posted online Jun. 27, 2018; 6 was higher in siSET8 cells. These data are consistent with the overall loss of chromatin 112 compaction in the absence of SET8 as also observed in the MNase assay (Fig. 1d) Supplementary Fig. 3a, b). In agreement with our MNase 128 digestion analysis (Fig. 1b), we detected a significantly lower mean FRET efficiency in siSET8 129 cells in G1 phase, but not at G2/M phases, compared to siControl cells ( Supplementary Fig. 3c, 130 d). Consistent with these results, transmission electron microscopy analysis of siControl and 131 siSET8 cells also revealed a reduction in chromatin density throughout the nucleus in SET8 132 depleted cells in G1 phase (Fig. 1g, h). Altogether these results indicate a major role for SET8 in (which was not peer-reviewed) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.The copyright holder for this preprint . http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/350033 doi: bioRxiv preprint first posted online Jun. 27, 2018; 7 SET8 is responsible for the methylation of histone H4 at lysine 20, which has previously been 138 implicated in chromatin compaction in in vitro assays 17 . Furthermore, H4-tail interaction with 139 an acidic patch on H2A/H2B histones on neighboring nucleosomes has also been suggested to 140 be important for maintaining ...