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Record W4409347055 · doi:10.1093/nar/gkaf273

Structure of the nucleosome-bound human BCL7A

2025· article· en· W4409347055 on OpenAlexafffund
Franck Martin, Asgar Abbas Kazrani, Julie Lafouge, Dana Mariel Diaz-Jimenez, Stéphanie Siebert, Leonie Fabbro-Burtschell, Karine Lapouge, Haydyn D. T. Mertens, C. Sauter, Alexander Leitner, Françoise Ochsenbein, Alexandre Blais, Elisa Bergamin

Bibliographic record

VenueNucleic Acids Research · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicCell Adhesion Molecules Research
Canadian institutionsSKiN HealthInstitute of Infection and ImmunityUniversity of Ottawa
FundersVermont Agency of Natural ResourcesCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchFrench Infrastructure for Integrated Structural BiologyLigue Contre le CancerUniversité de StrasbourgFondation pour la Recherche MédicaleFondation ARC pour la Recherche sur le CancerAgence Nationale de la RechercheDivision of Arctic SciencesCentre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueEquipex
KeywordsBiologyNucleosomeGeneticsComputational biologyBase sequenceEvolutionary biologyDNAHistone

Abstract

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Proteins of the BCL7 family (BCL7A, BCL7B, and BCL7C) are among the most recently identified subunits of the mammalian SWI/SNF chromatin remodeler complex and are absent from the unicellular version of this complex. Their function in the complex is unknown, and very limited structural information is available, despite the fact that they are mutated in several cancer types, most notably blood malignancies and hence medically relevant. Here, using cryo-electron microscopy in combination with biophysical and biochemical approaches, we show that BCL7A forms a stable, high-affinity complex with the nucleosome core particle (NCP) through binding of BCL7A with the acidic patch of the nucleosome via an arginine anchor motif. This interaction is impaired by BCL7A mutations found in cancer. Further, we determined that BCL7A contributes to the remodeling activity of the mSWI/SNF complex and we examined its function at the genomic level. Our findings reveal how BCL7 proteins interact with the NCP and help rationalize the impact of cancer-associated mutations. By providing structural information on the positioning of BCL7 on the NCP, our results broaden the understanding of the mechanism by which SWI/SNF recognizes the chromatin fiber.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.004
Threshold uncertainty score0.008

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.042
GPT teacher head0.394
Teacher spread0.352 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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