bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/374033; this version posted July 21, 2018. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. 1 Nuclear pore density controls heterochromatin reorganization during 2 senescence 3 4 Charlene Boumendil1, Priya Hari2, Karl C. F. Olsen1, Juan Carlos Acosta2, Wendy A. 5 Bickmore1* 6 7 1MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute oF Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University 8 of Edinburgh, Crewe Road South, Edinburgh EH4 2XU 9 10 2Cancer Research UK Edinburgh Centre, Institute oF Genetics and Molecular Medicine, 11 University oF Edinburgh, Crewe Road South, Edinburgh EH4 2XR 12 13 *correspondence to WAB, MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute oF Genetics and Molecular 14 Medicine, University oF Edinburgh, Crewe Road South, Edinburgh EH4 2XU. 15
[email protected] 16 17 18 19 Abstract 20 Oncogene induced senescence (OIS) is a cell cycle arrest program triggered by oncogenic signalling. 21 An important characteristic oF OIS is activation oF the senescence associated secretory phenotype 22 (SASP)1 which can reinForce cell cycle arrest, lead to paracrine senescence but also promote tumour 23 progression2–4. Concomitant with cell cycle arrest and the SASP activation, OIS cells undergo a striking 24 nuclear chromatin reorganization, with loss oF heterochromatin From the nuclear periphery and the 25 appearance oF internal senescence-associated heterochromatin Foci (SAHF)5. The mechanisms by 26 which SAHF are Formed, and their role in cell cycle arrest and expression oF the SASP, remain poorly 27 understood.