Structural maintenance of chromosome (SMC) complexes play roles in cohesion, condensation, replication, transcription, and DNA repair. Their cores are composed of SMC proteins with a unique structure consisting of an ATPase head, long arm, and hinge. SMC complexes form long rod-like structures, which can change to ring-like and elbow-bent conformations upon binding ATP, DNA, and other regulatory factors. These SMC dynamic conformational changes are involved in their loading, translocation, and DNA loop extrusion. Here, we examined the binding and role of the PpNSE5 regulatory factor of Physcomitrium patens PpSMC5/6 complex. We found that the PpNSE5 C-terminal half (aa230-505) is required for binding to its PpNSE6 partner, while the N-terminal half (aa1-230) binds PpSMC subunits. Specifically, the first 71 amino acids of PpNSE5 were required for binding to PpSMC6. Interestingly, the PpNSE5 binding required the PpSMC6 head-proximal joint region and PpSMC5 hinge-proximal arm, suggesting a long distance between binding sites on PpSMC5 and PpSMC6 arms. Therefore, we hypothesize that PpNSE5 either links two antiparallel SMC5/6 complexes or binds one SMC5/6 in elbow-bent conformation, the later model being consistent with the role of NSE5/NSE6 dimer as SMC5/6 loading factor to DNA lesions. In addition, we generated the P. patens Ppnse5KO1 mutant line with an N-terminally truncated version of PpNSE5, which exhibited DNA repair defects while keeping a normal number of rDNA repeats. As the first 71 amino acids of PpNSE5 are required for PpSMC6 binding, our results suggest the role of PpNSE5-PpSMC6 interaction in SMC5/6 loading to DNA lesions.

Institute of Experimental Botany Czech Academy of Sciences Na Karlovce 1 16000 Prague Czech Republic

Mendel Centre for Plant Genomics and Proteomics Central European Institute of Technology Masaryk University Kamenice 5 62500 Brno Czech Republic

National Centre for Biomolecular Research Faculty of Science Masaryk University Kamenice 5 62500 Brno Czech Republic

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