SMC complexes can traverse physical roadblocks bigger than their ring size
B. Pradhan, R. Barth, E. Kim, I. F. Davidson, B. Bauer, T. van Laar, W. Yang, J.-K. Ryu, J. van der Torre, J.-M. Peters, C. Dekker
The paper shows that SMC complexes can extrude DNA loops around large DNA-bound obstacles, suggesting a nontopological mechanism for loop extrusion.
bioRxiv · Jul 15, 2021Biophysics