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Terumi Kohwi-Shigematsu

Guest Senior Scientist

Biological Systems and Engineering

  • BioEngineering & BioMedical Sciences

Building: 977, Room 142E
Mail Stop: 977
Phone: (510) 486-4983
Fax: (510) 486-4545
TKohwi-Shigematsu@lbl.gov

Research Interests

We have been studying a protein, SATB1, which functions as a chromatin organizer in thymocytes and activated T cells. SATB1 has a nuclear distribution resembling a cage-like structure, surrounding heterochromatin. SATB1 folds chromatin by tethering specialized genomic DNA segments, which bear an unusual physical property (base-unpairing region; BURs), to the SATB1 cage-like structure. SATB1 targets chromatin remodeling/modifying enzymes, such as HDAC1 and ISWI to BURs, and thereby regulates regional histone modification status and nucleosome positioning. Having such a function, SATB1 ablation leads to disruption of hundreds of genes, resulting in an arrest in T cell development. Our laboratory is examining the function of SATB1, its homolog SATB2, and other proteins with DNA binding specificity similar to the SATB family proteins, to see if any of them has the ability to reorganize chromatin as ES cells commit to specific cell lineages. We are interested in determining which sets of genes are targeted, how chromatin is functionally organized via looping, and how chromatin structure is marked by epigenetic modification during ES cell differentiation into the neuronal and T cell lineages.

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