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A rapid method of genomic array analysis of scaffold/matrix attachment regions (S/MARs) identifies a 2.5-Mb region of enhanced scaffold/matrix attachment at a human neocentromere

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posted on 2024-06-04, 13:31 authored by Huseyin Sumer, Jeffrey CraigJeffrey Craig, Mandy Sibson, KH Andy Choo
Human neocentromeres are fully functional centromeres that arise at previously noncentromeric regions of the genome. We have tested a rapid procedure of genomic array analysis of chromosome scaffold/matrix attachment regions (S/MARs), involving the isolation of S/MAR DNA and hybridization of this DNA to a genomic BAC/PAC array. Using this procedure, we have defined a 2.5-Mb domain of S/MAR-enriched chromatin that fully encompasses a previously mapped centromere protein-A (CENP-A)-associated domain at a human neocentromere. We have independently verified this procedure using a previously established fluorescence in situ hybridization method on salt-treated metaphase chromosomes. In silico sequence analysis of the S/MAR-enriched and surrounding regions has revealed no outstanding sequence-related predisposition. This study defines the S/MAR-enriched domain of a higher eukaryotic centromere and provides a method that has broad application for the mapping of S/MAR attachment sites over large genomic regions or throughout a genome.

History

Journal

Genome research

Volume

13

Pagination

1737-1743

Location

Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.

Open access

  • Yes

ISSN

1088-9051

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2003, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

Issue

7

Publisher

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press