“…It has been confirmed in previous studies that SMARCAD1 and its orthologs mainly function by altering the structure of chromatin (Awad et al, 2010;Byeon et al, 2013;Steglich et al, 2015;Lee et al, 2017). They can not only regulate gene expression by promoting dissociation of nucleosomes, but also make an important contribution to gene silencing of centromeres, telomeres, and other regions (Neves-Costa et al, 2009;Rowbotham et al, 2011;Yu et al, 2011;Durand-Dubief et al, 2012;Steglich et al, 2015;Lee et al, 2017;Ding et al, 2018;Jahn et al, 2018). SMARCAD1 and its orthologs mediated gene silencing is mainly achieved by maintaining heterochromatin markers on nucleosomes (Durand-Dubief et al, 2012;Taneja et al, 2017;Sachs et al, 2019) or recruiting the methyltransferase G9a to modify newly synthesized histones (such as H3K9me3) for establishing heterochromatin de novo during DNA replication (Rowbotham et al, 2011;Yu et al, 2011).…”