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  1. Article ; Online: Analysis of Meiotic Sister Chromatid Cohesion in Caenorhabditis elegans.

    Severson, Aaron F

    Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)

    2016  Volume 1515, Page(s) 65–95

    Abstract: In sexually reproducing organisms, the formation of healthy gametes (sperm and eggs) requires the proper establishment and release of meiotic sister chromatid cohesion (SCC). SCC tethers replicated sisters from their formation in premeiotic S phase until ...

    Abstract In sexually reproducing organisms, the formation of healthy gametes (sperm and eggs) requires the proper establishment and release of meiotic sister chromatid cohesion (SCC). SCC tethers replicated sisters from their formation in premeiotic S phase until the stepwise removal of cohesion in anaphase of meiosis I and II allows the separation of homologs and then sisters. Defects in the establishment or release of meiotic cohesion cause chromosome segregation errors that lead to the formation of aneuploid gametes and inviable embryos. The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is an attractive model for studies of meiotic sister chromatid cohesion due to its genetic tractability and the excellent cytological properties of the hermaphrodite gonad. Moreover, mutants defective in the establishment or maintenance of meiotic SCC nevertheless produce abundant gametes, allowing analysis of the pattern of chromosome segregation. Here I describe two approaches for analysis of meiotic cohesion in C. elegans. The first approach relies on cytology to detect and quantify defects in SCC. The second approach relies on PCR and restriction digests to identify embryos that inherited an incorrect complement of chromosomes due to aberrant meiotic chromosome segregation. Both approaches are sensitive enough to identify rare errors and precise enough to reveal distinctive phenotypes resulting from mutations that perturb meiotic SCC in different ways. The robust, quantitative nature of these assays should strengthen phenotypic comparisons of different meiotic mutants and enhance the reproducibility of data generated by different investigators.
    MeSH term(s) Anaphase/genetics ; Animals ; Caenorhabditis elegans/genetics ; Cell Cycle Proteins/genetics ; Cell Cycle Proteins/isolation & purification ; Chromatids/genetics ; Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone/genetics ; Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone/isolation & purification ; Chromosome Segregation/genetics ; Meiosis/genetics ; Molecular Biology/methods ; Sister Chromatid Exchange/genetics ; Cohesins
    Chemical Substances Cell Cycle Proteins ; Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone
    Language English
    Publishing date 2016-10-28
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ISSN 1940-6029
    ISSN (online) 1940-6029
    DOI 10.1007/978-1-4939-6545-8_5
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  2. Article: Securin Regulates the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Separase.

    Sorensen Turpin, Christopher G / Sloan, Dillon / LaForest, Marian / Klebanow, Lindsey Uehlein / Mitchell, Diana / Severson, Aaron F / Bembenek, Joshua N

    bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

    2023  

    Abstract: Separase is a key regulator of the metaphase to anaphase transition with multiple functions. Separase cleaves cohesin to allow chromosome segregation and localizes to vesicles to promote exocytosis in mid-anaphase. The anaphase promoting complex/ ... ...

    Abstract Separase is a key regulator of the metaphase to anaphase transition with multiple functions. Separase cleaves cohesin to allow chromosome segregation and localizes to vesicles to promote exocytosis in mid-anaphase. The anaphase promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C) activates separase by ubiquitinating its inhibitory chaperone, securin, triggering its degradation. How this pathway controls the exocytic function of separase has not been investigated. During meiosis I, securin is degraded over several minutes, while separase rapidly relocalizes from kinetochore structures at the spindle and cortex to sites of action on chromosomes and vesicles at anaphase onset. The loss of cohesin coincides with the relocalization of separase to the chromosome midbivalent at anaphase onset. APC/C depletion prevents separase relocalization, while securin depletion causes precocious separase relocalization. Expression of non-degradable securin inhibits chromosome segregation, exocytosis, and separase localization to vesicles but not to the anaphase spindle. We conclude that APC/C mediated securin degradation controls separase localization. This spatiotemporal regulation will impact the effective local concentration of separase for more precise targeting of substrates in anaphase.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-12-19
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Preprint
    DOI 10.1101/2023.12.12.571338
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  3. Article ; Online: Strategies for Efficient Genome Editing Using CRISPR-Cas9.

    Farboud, Behnom / Severson, Aaron F / Meyer, Barbara J

    Genetics

    2018  Volume 211, Issue 2, Page(s) 431–457

    Abstract: The targetable DNA endonuclease CRISPR-Cas9 has transformed analysis of biological processes by enabling robust genome editing in model and nonmodel organisms. Although rules directing Cas9 to its target DNA via a guide RNA are straightforward, wide ... ...

    Abstract The targetable DNA endonuclease CRISPR-Cas9 has transformed analysis of biological processes by enabling robust genome editing in model and nonmodel organisms. Although rules directing Cas9 to its target DNA via a guide RNA are straightforward, wide variation occurs in editing efficiency and repair outcomes for both imprecise error-prone repair and precise templated repair. We found that imprecise and precise DNA repair from double-strand breaks (DSBs) is asymmetric, favoring repair in one direction. Using this knowledge, we designed RNA guides and repair templates that increased the frequency of imprecise insertions and deletions and greatly enhanced precise insertion of point mutations in
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; CRISPR-Cas Systems ; Caenorhabditis elegans/genetics ; Gene Editing/methods
    Language English
    Publishing date 2018-11-30
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2167-2
    ISSN 1943-2631 ; 0016-6731
    ISSN (online) 1943-2631
    ISSN 0016-6731
    DOI 10.1534/genetics.118.301775
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  4. Article ; Online: Divergent kleisin subunits of cohesin specify mechanisms to tether and release meiotic chromosomes.

    Severson, Aaron F / Meyer, Barbara J

    eLife

    2014  Volume 3, Page(s) e03467

    Abstract: We show that multiple, functionally specialized cohesin complexes mediate the establishment and two-step release of sister chromatid cohesion that underlies the production of haploid gametes. In C. elegans, the kleisin subunits REC-8 and COH-3/4 differ ... ...

    Abstract We show that multiple, functionally specialized cohesin complexes mediate the establishment and two-step release of sister chromatid cohesion that underlies the production of haploid gametes. In C. elegans, the kleisin subunits REC-8 and COH-3/4 differ between meiotic cohesins and endow them with distinctive properties that specify how cohesins load onto chromosomes and then trigger and release cohesion. Unlike REC-8 cohesin, COH-3/4 cohesin becomes cohesive through a replication-independent mechanism initiated by the DNA double-stranded breaks that induce crossover recombination. Thus, break-induced cohesion also tethers replicated meiotic chromosomes. Later, recombination stimulates separase-independent removal of REC-8 and COH-3/4 cohesins from reciprocal chromosomal territories flanking the crossover site. This region-specific removal likely underlies the two-step separation of homologs and sisters. Unexpectedly, COH-3/4 performs cohesion-independent functions in synaptonemal complex assembly. This new model for cohesin function diverges from that established in yeast but likely applies directly to plants and mammals, which utilize similar meiotic kleisins.
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Caenorhabditis elegans/cytology ; Caenorhabditis elegans/metabolism ; Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins/metabolism ; Cell Cycle Proteins/metabolism ; Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone/metabolism ; Chromosomes/metabolism ; Crossing Over, Genetic ; DNA Breaks, Double-Stranded ; DNA Replication ; Meiosis ; Protein Subunits/metabolism ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae/cytology ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae/metabolism ; Sister Chromatid Exchange ; Cohesins
    Chemical Substances Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins ; Cell Cycle Proteins ; Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone ; Protein Subunits
    Language English
    Publishing date 2014-08-29
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2687154-3
    ISSN 2050-084X ; 2050-084X
    ISSN (online) 2050-084X
    ISSN 2050-084X
    DOI 10.7554/eLife.03467
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  5. Article ; Online: Oocyte Meiotic Spindle Assembly and Function.

    Severson, Aaron F / von Dassow, George / Bowerman, Bruce

    Current topics in developmental biology

    2016  Volume 116, Page(s) 65–98

    Abstract: Gametogenesis in animal oocytes reduces the diploid genome content of germline precursors to a haploid state in gametes by discarding ¾ of the duplicated chromosomes through a sequence of two meiotic cell divisions called meiosis I and II. The assembly ... ...

    Abstract Gametogenesis in animal oocytes reduces the diploid genome content of germline precursors to a haploid state in gametes by discarding ¾ of the duplicated chromosomes through a sequence of two meiotic cell divisions called meiosis I and II. The assembly of the microtubule-based spindle structure that mediates this reduction in genome content remains poorly understood compared to our knowledge of mitotic spindle assembly and function. In this review, we consider the diversity of oocyte meiotic spindle assembly and structure across animal phylogeny, review recent advances in our understanding of how animal oocytes assemble spindles in the absence of the centriole-based microtubule-organizing centers that dominate mitotic spindle assembly, and discuss different models for how chromosomes are captured and moved to achieve chromosome segregation during oocyte meiotic cell division.
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Caenorhabditis elegans ; Centrosome/metabolism ; Centrosome/ultrastructure ; Chromosomes/metabolism ; Female ; Kinetochores/physiology ; Meiosis ; Microtubules/metabolism ; Microtubules/ultrastructure ; Oocytes/cytology ; Oocytes/physiology ; Spindle Apparatus/physiology ; Spindle Apparatus/ultrastructure
    Language English
    Publishing date 2016-01-23
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural ; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. ; Review
    ISSN 1557-8933 ; 0070-2153
    ISSN (online) 1557-8933
    ISSN 0070-2153
    DOI 10.1016/bs.ctdb.2015.11.031
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  6. Article ; Online: Condensin I protects meiotic cohesin from WAPL-1 mediated removal.

    Hernandez, Margarita R / Davis, Michael B / Jiang, Jianhao / Brouhard, Elizabeth A / Severson, Aaron F / Csankovszki, Györgyi

    PLoS genetics

    2018  Volume 14, Issue 5, Page(s) e1007382

    Abstract: Condensin complexes are key determinants of higher-order chromatin structure and are required for mitotic and meiotic chromosome compaction and segregation. We identified a new role for condensin in the maintenance of sister chromatid cohesion during C. ... ...

    Abstract Condensin complexes are key determinants of higher-order chromatin structure and are required for mitotic and meiotic chromosome compaction and segregation. We identified a new role for condensin in the maintenance of sister chromatid cohesion during C. elegans meiosis. Using conventional and stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy we show that levels of chromosomally-bound cohesin were significantly reduced in dpy-28 mutants, which lack a subunit of condensin I. SYP-1, a component of the synaptonemal complex central region, was also diminished, but no decrease in the axial element protein HTP-3 was observed. Surprisingly, the two key meiotic cohesin complexes of C. elegans were both depleted from meiotic chromosomes following the loss of condensin I, and disrupting condensin I in cohesin mutants increased the frequency of detached sister chromatids. During mitosis and meiosis in many organisms, establishment of cohesion is antagonized by cohesin removal by Wapl, and we found that condensin I binds to C. elegans WAPL-1 and counteracts WAPL-1-dependent cohesin removal. Our data suggest that condensin I opposes WAPL-1 to promote stable binding of cohesin to meiotic chromosomes, thereby ensuring linkages between sister chromatids in early meiosis.
    MeSH term(s) Adenosine Triphosphatases/genetics ; Adenosine Triphosphatases/metabolism ; Animals ; Caenorhabditis elegans/genetics ; Caenorhabditis elegans/metabolism ; Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins/genetics ; Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins/metabolism ; Cell Cycle Proteins/genetics ; Cell Cycle Proteins/metabolism ; Chromatids/genetics ; Chromatids/metabolism ; Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone/genetics ; Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone/metabolism ; Chromosome Segregation/genetics ; DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics ; DNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism ; In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence ; Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins/genetics ; Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins/metabolism ; Meiosis/genetics ; Multiprotein Complexes/genetics ; Multiprotein Complexes/metabolism ; Mutation ; Nuclear Proteins/genetics ; Nuclear Proteins/metabolism ; RNA Interference ; Synaptonemal Complex/genetics ; Synaptonemal Complex/metabolism ; Cohesins
    Chemical Substances Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins ; Cell Cycle Proteins ; Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone ; DNA-Binding Proteins ; Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins ; Multiprotein Complexes ; Nuclear Proteins ; condensin complexes ; wapl-1 protein, C elegans ; Adenosine Triphosphatases (EC 3.6.1.-)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2018-05-16
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2186725-2
    ISSN 1553-7404 ; 1553-7390
    ISSN (online) 1553-7404
    ISSN 1553-7390
    DOI 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007382
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  7. Article ; Online: Blue light photodynamic therapy with 5-aminolevulinic acid in refractory mycosis fungoides: A prospective, open-label study.

    Severson, Kevin J / Cumsky, Helen J L / Brumfiel, Caitlin M / Janeczek, Monica C / Ginos, Brenda F / Kosiorek, Heidi E / Besch-Stokes, Jake / Patel, Meera H / Rule, William G / DiCaudo, David J / Rosenthal, Allison C / Pittelkow, Mark R / Mangold, Aaron R

    Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

    2021  Volume 85, Issue 4, Page(s) 969–971

    MeSH term(s) Aminolevulinic Acid/therapeutic use ; Humans ; Mycosis Fungoides/drug therapy ; Photochemotherapy ; Photosensitizing Agents/therapeutic use ; Prospective Studies ; Skin Neoplasms/drug therapy
    Chemical Substances Photosensitizing Agents ; Aminolevulinic Acid (88755TAZ87)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-01-23
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Letter
    ZDB-ID 603641-7
    ISSN 1097-6787 ; 0190-9622
    ISSN (online) 1097-6787
    ISSN 0190-9622
    DOI 10.1016/j.jaad.2021.01.053
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  8. Article ; Online: Divergent kleisin subunits of cohesin specify mechanisms to tether and release meiotic chromosomes

    Aaron F Severson / Barbara J Meyer

    eLife, Vol

    2014  Volume 3

    Abstract: We show that multiple, functionally specialized cohesin complexes mediate the establishment and two-step release of sister chromatid cohesion that underlies the production of haploid gametes. In C. elegans, the kleisin subunits REC-8 and COH-3/4 differ ... ...

    Abstract We show that multiple, functionally specialized cohesin complexes mediate the establishment and two-step release of sister chromatid cohesion that underlies the production of haploid gametes. In C. elegans, the kleisin subunits REC-8 and COH-3/4 differ between meiotic cohesins and endow them with distinctive properties that specify how cohesins load onto chromosomes and then trigger and release cohesion. Unlike REC-8 cohesin, COH-3/4 cohesin becomes cohesive through a replication-independent mechanism initiated by the DNA double-stranded breaks that induce crossover recombination. Thus, break-induced cohesion also tethers replicated meiotic chromosomes. Later, recombination stimulates separase-independent removal of REC-8 and COH-3/4 cohesins from reciprocal chromosomal territories flanking the crossover site. This region-specific removal likely underlies the two-step separation of homologs and sisters. Unexpectedly, COH-3/4 performs cohesion-independent functions in synaptonemal complex assembly. This new model for cohesin function diverges from that established in yeast but likely applies directly to plants and mammals, which utilize similar meiotic kleisins.
    Keywords cohesin ; sister chromatid cohesion ; meiosis ; gametogenesis ; kleisin ; aneuploidy ; Medicine ; R ; Science ; Q ; Biology (General) ; QH301-705.5
    Subject code 570
    Language English
    Publishing date 2014-08-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
    Document type Article ; Online
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  9. Article ; Online: Condensin and cohesin complexity: the expanding repertoire of functions.

    Wood, Andrew J / Severson, Aaron F / Meyer, Barbara J

    Nature reviews. Genetics

    2010  Volume 11, Issue 6, Page(s) 391–404

    Abstract: Condensin and cohesin complexes act in diverse nuclear processes in addition to their widely known roles in chromosome compaction and sister chromatid cohesion. Recent work has elucidated the contribution of condensin and cohesin to interphase genome ... ...

    Abstract Condensin and cohesin complexes act in diverse nuclear processes in addition to their widely known roles in chromosome compaction and sister chromatid cohesion. Recent work has elucidated the contribution of condensin and cohesin to interphase genome organization, control of gene expression, metazoan development and meiosis. Despite these wide-ranging functions, several themes have come to light: both complexes establish higher-order chromosome structure by inhibiting or promoting interactions between distant genomic regions, both complexes influence the chromosomal association of other proteins, and both complexes achieve functional specialization by swapping homologous subunits. Emerging data are expanding the range of processes in which condensin and cohesin are known to participate and are enhancing our knowledge of how chromosome architecture is regulated to influence numerous cellular functions.
    MeSH term(s) Adenosine Triphosphatases/metabolism ; Adenosine Triphosphatases/physiology ; Animals ; Cell Cycle Proteins/metabolism ; Cell Cycle Proteins/physiology ; Chromatin Assembly and Disassembly/physiology ; Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone/metabolism ; Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone/physiology ; DNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism ; DNA-Binding Proteins/physiology ; Gene Expression Regulation/physiology ; Genome/physiology ; Humans ; Meiosis/genetics ; Meiosis/physiology ; Models, Biological ; Multiprotein Complexes/metabolism ; Multiprotein Complexes/physiology ; Cohesins
    Chemical Substances Cell Cycle Proteins ; Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone ; DNA-Binding Proteins ; Multiprotein Complexes ; condensin complexes ; Adenosine Triphosphatases (EC 3.6.1.-)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2010-05-05
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't ; Review
    ZDB-ID 2035157-4
    ISSN 1471-0064 ; 1471-0056
    ISSN (online) 1471-0064
    ISSN 1471-0056
    DOI 10.1038/nrg2794
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  10. Article: Myosin and the PAR proteins polarize microfilament-dependent forces that shape and position mitotic spindles in Caenorhabditis elegans.

    Severson, Aaron F / Bowerman, Bruce

    The Journal of cell biology

    2003  Volume 161, Issue 1, Page(s) 21–26

    Abstract: In Caenorhabditis elegans, the partitioning proteins (PARs), microfilaments (MFs), dynein, dynactin, and a nonmuscle myosin II all localize to the cortex of early embryonic cells. Both the PARs and the actomyosin cytoskeleton are required to polarize the ...

    Abstract In Caenorhabditis elegans, the partitioning proteins (PARs), microfilaments (MFs), dynein, dynactin, and a nonmuscle myosin II all localize to the cortex of early embryonic cells. Both the PARs and the actomyosin cytoskeleton are required to polarize the anterior-posterior (a-p) body axis in one-cell zygotes, but it remains unknown how MFs influence embryonic polarity. Here we show that MFs are required for the cortical localization of PAR-2 and PAR-3. Furthermore, we show that PAR polarity regulates MF-dependent cortical forces applied to astral microtubules (MTs). These forces, which appear to be mediated by dynein and dynactin, produce changes in the shape and orientation of mitotic spindles. Unlike MFs, dynein, and dynactin, myosin II is not required for the production of these forces. Instead, myosin influences embryonic polarity by limiting PAR-3 to the anterior cortex. This in turn produces asymmetry in the forces applied to MTs at each pole and allows PAR-2 to accumulate in the posterior cortex of a one-cell zygote and maintain asymmetry.
    MeSH term(s) Actin Cytoskeleton/drug effects ; Actin Cytoskeleton/metabolism ; Actin Cytoskeleton/ultrastructure ; Animals ; Bridged Bicyclo Compounds, Heterocyclic/pharmacology ; Caenorhabditis elegans/embryology ; Caenorhabditis elegans/metabolism ; Caenorhabditis elegans/ultrastructure ; Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins/genetics ; Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins/metabolism ; Cell Compartmentation/drug effects ; Cell Compartmentation/genetics ; Cell Polarity/drug effects ; Cell Polarity/genetics ; Centrosome/metabolism ; Centrosome/ultrastructure ; Contractile Proteins ; Dynactin Complex ; Dyneins/genetics ; Dyneins/metabolism ; Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental/drug effects ; Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental/genetics ; Microfilament Proteins/deficiency ; Microfilament Proteins/genetics ; Microtubule-Associated Proteins/genetics ; Microtubule-Associated Proteins/metabolism ; Mitosis/drug effects ; Mitosis/physiology ; Mutation/genetics ; Myosin Type II/deficiency ; Myosin Type II/genetics ; Nocodazole/pharmacology ; Profilins ; Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases ; Spindle Apparatus/drug effects ; Spindle Apparatus/metabolism ; Spindle Apparatus/ultrastructure ; Thiazoles/pharmacology ; Thiazolidines ; Zygote/drug effects ; Zygote/metabolism ; Zygote/ultrastructure
    Chemical Substances Bridged Bicyclo Compounds, Heterocyclic ; Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins ; Contractile Proteins ; Dynactin Complex ; Microfilament Proteins ; Microtubule-Associated Proteins ; Profilins ; Thiazoles ; Thiazolidines ; par-2 protein, C elegans ; PAR-3 protein, C elegans (EC 2.7.11.1) ; Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases (EC 2.7.11.1) ; Myosin Type II (EC 3.6.1.-) ; Dyneins (EC 3.6.4.2) ; Nocodazole (SH1WY3R615) ; latrunculin A (SRQ9WWM084)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2003-04-14
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
    ZDB-ID 218154-x
    ISSN 1540-8140 ; 0021-9525
    ISSN (online) 1540-8140
    ISSN 0021-9525
    DOI 10.1083/jcb.200210171
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