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Ansari MA, Dutta S, Veettil MV, Dutta D, Iqbal J, Kumar B, Roy A, Chikoti L, Singh VV, Chandran B. Herpesvirus Genome Recognition Induced Acetylation of Nuclear IFI16 Is Essential for Its Cytoplasmic Translocation, Inflammasome and IFN-β Responses. PLoS Pathog 2015; 11:e1005019. [PMID: 26134128 PMCID: PMC4489722 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2015] [Accepted: 06/09/2015] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
Abstract
The IL-1β and type I interferon-β (IFN-β) molecules are important inflammatory cytokines elicited by the eukaryotic host as innate immune responses against invading pathogens and danger signals. Recently, a predominantly nuclear gamma-interferon-inducible protein 16 (IFI16) involved in transcriptional regulation has emerged as an innate DNA sensor which induced IL-1β and IFN-β production through inflammasome and STING activation, respectively. Herpesvirus (KSHV, EBV, and HSV-1) episomal dsDNA genome recognition by IFI16 leads to IFI16-ASC-procaspase-1 inflammasome association, cytoplasmic translocation and IL-1β production. Independent of ASC, HSV-1 genome recognition results in IFI16 interaction with STING in the cytoplasm to induce interferon-β production. However, the mechanisms of IFI16-inflammasome formation, cytoplasmic redistribution and STING activation are not known. Our studies here demonstrate that recognition of herpesvirus genomes in the nucleus by IFI16 leads into its interaction with histone acetyltransferase p300 and IFI16 acetylation resulting in IFI16-ASC interaction, inflammasome assembly, increased interaction with Ran-GTPase, cytoplasmic redistribution, caspase-1 activation, IL-1β production, and interaction with STING which results in IRF-3 phosphorylation, nuclear pIRF-3 localization and interferon-β production. ASC and STING knockdowns did not affect IFI16 acetylation indicating that this modification is upstream of inflammasome-assembly and STING-activation. Vaccinia virus replicating in the cytoplasm did not induce nuclear IFI16 acetylation and cytoplasmic translocation. IFI16 physically associates with KSHV and HSV-1 genomes as revealed by proximity ligation microscopy and chromatin-immunoprecipitation studies which is not hampered by the inhibition of acetylation, thus suggesting that acetylation of IFI16 is not required for its innate sensing of nuclear viral genomes. Collectively, these studies identify the increased nuclear acetylation of IFI16 as a dynamic essential post-genome recognition event in the nucleus that is common to the IFI16-mediated innate responses of inflammasome induction and IFN-β production during herpesvirus (KSHV, EBV, HSV-1) infections. Herpesviruses establish a latent infection in the nucleus of specific cells and reactivation results in the nuclear viral dsDNA replication and infectious virus production. Host innate responses are initiated by the presence of viral genomes and their products, and nucleus associated IFI16 protein has recently emerged as an innate DNA sensor regulating inflammatory cytokines and type I interferon (IFN) production. IFI16 recognizes the herpesvirus genomes (KSHV, EBV, and HSV-1) in the nucleus resulting in the formation of the IFI16-ASC-Caspase-1 inflammasome complex and IL-1β production. HSV-1 genome recognition by IFI16 in the nucleus also leads to STING activation in the cytoplasm and IFN-β production. However, how IFI16 initiates inflammasome assembly and activates STING in the cytoplasm after nuclear recognition of viral genome are not known. We show that herpesvirus genome recognition in the nucleus by IFI16 leads to interaction with histone acetyltransferase-p300 and IFI16 acetylation which is essential for inflammasome assembly in the nucleus and cytoplasmic translocation, activation of STING in the cytoplasm and IFN-β production. These studies provide insight into a common molecular mechanism for the innate inflammasome assembly and STING activation response pathways that result in IL-1β and IFN-β production, respectively.
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- Mairaj Ahmed Ansari
- H. M. Bligh Cancer Research Laboratories, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Chicago Medical School, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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- H. M. Bligh Cancer Research Laboratories, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Chicago Medical School, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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- H. M. Bligh Cancer Research Laboratories, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Chicago Medical School, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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- H. M. Bligh Cancer Research Laboratories, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Chicago Medical School, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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- H. M. Bligh Cancer Research Laboratories, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Chicago Medical School, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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- H. M. Bligh Cancer Research Laboratories, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Chicago Medical School, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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- H. M. Bligh Cancer Research Laboratories, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Chicago Medical School, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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- H. M. Bligh Cancer Research Laboratories, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Chicago Medical School, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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- H. M. Bligh Cancer Research Laboratories, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Chicago Medical School, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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- H. M. Bligh Cancer Research Laboratories, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Chicago Medical School, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Cutter AR, Hayes JJ. A brief review of nucleosome structure. FEBS Lett 2015; 589:2914-22. [PMID: 25980611 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2015.05.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 228] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2015] [Revised: 04/29/2015] [Accepted: 05/05/2015] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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The nucleosomal subunit organization of chromatin provides a multitude of functions. Nucleosomes elicit an initial ∼7-fold linear compaction of genomic DNA. They provide a critical mechanism for stable repression of genes and other DNA-dependent activities by restricting binding of trans-acting factors to cognate DNA sequences. Conversely they are engineered to be nearly meta-stable and disassembled (and reassembled) in a facile manner to allow rapid access to the underlying DNA during processes such as transcription, replication and DNA repair. Nucleosomes protect the genome from DNA damaging agents and provide a lattice onto which a myriad of epigenetic signals are deposited. Moreover, vast strings of nucleosomes provide a framework for assembly of the chromatin fiber and higher-order chromatin structures. Thus, in order to provide a foundation for understanding these functions, we present a review of the basic elements of nucleosome structure and stability, including the association of linker histones.
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- Amber R Cutter
- Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642, United States.
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Winogradoff D, Echeverria I, Potoyan DA, Papoian GA. The Acetylation Landscape of the H4 Histone Tail: Disentangling the Interplay between the Specific and Cumulative Effects. J Am Chem Soc 2015; 137:6245-53. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b00235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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- David Winogradoff
- Chemical
Physics Program and ‡Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College
Park, Maryland 20742, United States
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- Chemical
Physics Program and ‡Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College
Park, Maryland 20742, United States
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- Chemical
Physics Program and ‡Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College
Park, Maryland 20742, United States
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- Chemical
Physics Program and ‡Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College
Park, Maryland 20742, United States
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Lesne A, Foray N, Cathala G, Forné T, Wong H, Victor JM. Chromatin fiber allostery and the epigenetic code. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2015; 27:064114. [PMID: 25563208 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/27/6/064114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The notion of allostery introduced for proteins about fifty years ago has been extended since then to DNA allostery, where a locally triggered DNA structural transition remotely controls other DNA-binding events. We further extend this notion and propose that chromatin fiber allosteric transitions, induced by histone-tail covalent modifications, may play a key role in transcriptional regulation. We present an integrated scenario articulating allosteric mechanisms at different scales: allosteric transitions of the condensed chromatin fiber induced by histone-tail acetylation modify the mechanical constraints experienced by the embedded DNA, thus possibly controlling DNA-binding of allosteric transcription factors or further allosteric mechanisms at the linker DNA level. At a higher scale, different epigenetic constraints delineate different statistically dominant subsets of accessible chromatin fiber conformations, which each favors the assembly of dedicated regulatory complexes, as detailed on the emblematic example of the mouse Igf2-H19 gene locus and its parental imprinting. This physical view offers a mechanistic and spatially structured explanation of the observed correlation between transcriptional activity and histone modifications. The evolutionary origin of allosteric control supports to speak of an 'epigenetic code', by which events involved in transcriptional regulation are encoded in histone modifications in a context-dependent way.
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- Annick Lesne
- Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de la Matière Condensée, CNRS UMR 7600, UPMC Université Paris 06, Sorbonne Universités, F-75005, Paris, France. Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier, CNRS UMR 5535, Université de Montpellier, F-34293, Montpellier, France. CNRS GDR 3536, UPMC Université Paris 06, F-75005, Paris, France
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Zhang F, Huang Q, Yan J, Zhang X, Li J. Assessment of the effect of trichostatin A on HeLa cells through FT-IR spectroscopy. Anal Chem 2015; 87:2511-7. [PMID: 25602746 DOI: 10.1021/ac504691q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Trichostatin A (TSA) is one of histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor drugs which can suppress the enzymatic activity of deacytylases and promote the acetylation of both histone and nonhistone proteins in cells. Investigation of the effect of TSA on cellular acetylation is critical for better understanding of the antitumor drug's mechanism interacting with cancer cells. As Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) is a powerful analytical tool which can detect nondestructively and quantitatively biological samples without biotagging and biolabeling, here we employed FT-IR spectroscopy to probe the chemical and structural changes of proteins in the TSA treated cells, and with the aid of fluorescent microscopy, we could scrutinize the time-dependent and dose effects on the acetylation level promoted by TSA. Our results showed that TSA caused an elevated level of cellular acetylation and conformational/structural changes of proteins in the cells, and a higher dosage of TSA caused a higher percent of α-helix structure accompanied by an increment of acetylation level in both histones and cytoskeleton proteins. This work therefore not only validates the usefulness of FT-IR spectroscopy in the quantitative assessment of cellular acetylation but also may open an avenue to the in-depth investigation of the effect of HDAC inhibitor drugs such as TSA on cancer cells.
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- Fengqiu Zhang
- School of Nuclear Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China , Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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Zhou Y, Zhang N, Li BQ, Huang T, Cai YD, Kong XY. A method to distinguish between lysine acetylation and lysine ubiquitination with feature selection and analysis. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2015; 33:2479-90. [PMID: 25616595 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2014.1001793] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Lysine acetylation and ubiquitination are two primary post-translational modifications (PTMs) in most eukaryotic proteins. Lysine residues are targets for both types of PTMs, resulting in different cellular roles. With the increasing availability of protein sequences and PTM data, it is challenging to distinguish the two types of PTMs on lysine residues. Experimental approaches are often laborious and time consuming. There is an urgent need for computational tools to distinguish between lysine acetylation and ubiquitination. In this study, we developed a novel method, called DAUFSA (distinguish between lysine acetylation and lysine ubiquitination with feature selection and analysis), to discriminate ubiquitinated and acetylated lysine residues. The method incorporated several types of features: PSSM (position-specific scoring matrix) conservation scores, amino acid factors, secondary structures, solvent accessibilities, and disorder scores. By using the mRMR (maximum relevance minimum redundancy) method and the IFS (incremental feature selection) method, an optimal feature set containing 290 features was selected from all incorporated features. A dagging-based classifier constructed by the optimal features achieved a classification accuracy of 69.53%, with an MCC of .3853. An optimal feature set analysis showed that the PSSM conservation score features and the amino acid factor features were the most important attributes, suggesting differences between acetylation and ubiquitination. Our study results also supported previous findings that different motifs were employed by acetylation and ubiquitination. The feature differences between the two modifications revealed in this study are worthy of experimental validation and further investigation.
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- You Zhou
- a The Key Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology, Institute of Health Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine , Shanghai 200031 , P.R. China
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- b Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tianjin Key Lab of BME Measurement , Tianjin University , Tianjin 300072 , P.R. China
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- c Key Laboratory of Systems Biology , Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Shanghai 200031 , P.R. China
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- a The Key Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology, Institute of Health Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine , Shanghai 200031 , P.R. China.,d Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences , Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai , New York , NY 10029 , USA
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- e Institute of Systems Biology , Shanghai University , Shanghai 200444 , P.R. China
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- a The Key Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology, Institute of Health Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine , Shanghai 200031 , P.R. China
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Zheng Y, Cui Q. The histone H3 N-terminal tail: a computational analysis of the free energy landscape and kinetics. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 17:13689-98. [DOI: 10.1039/c5cp01858g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Extensive molecular dynamics simulations and Markov State models are used to characterize the free energy landscape and kinetics of the histone H3 N-terminal tail, which plays a critical role in regulating chromatin dynamics and gene activity.
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- Yuqing Zheng
- Graduate Program in Biophysics
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Madison
- USA
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- Graduate Program in Biophysics
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Madison
- USA
- Department of Chemistry and Theoretical Chemistry Institute
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Norman P, Parello J, Polavarapu PL, Linares M. Predicting near-UV electronic circular dichroism in nucleosomal DNA by means of DFT response theory. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 17:21866-79. [DOI: 10.1039/c5cp02481a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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It is demonstrated that time-dependent density functional theory (DFT) calculations can accurately predict changes in near-UV electronic circular dichroism (ECD) spectra of DNA as the structure is altered from the linear (free) B-DNA form to the supercoiled N-DNA form found in nucleosome core particles.
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- Patrick Norman
- Department of Physics
- Chemistry and Biology
- Linköping University
- SE-581 83 Linköping
- Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry
- Vanderbilt University
- Nashville
- USA
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- Department of Physics
- Chemistry and Biology
- Linköping University
- SE-581 83 Linköping
- Sweden
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Lete MG, Sot J, Ahyayauch H, Fernández-Rivero N, Prado A, Goñi FM, Alonso A. Histones and DNA compete for binding polyphosphoinositides in bilayers. Biophys J 2014; 106:1092-100. [PMID: 24606933 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2014.01.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2013] [Revised: 01/08/2014] [Accepted: 01/17/2014] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Recent discoveries on the presence and location of phosphoinositides in the eukaryotic cell nucleoplasm and nuclear membrane prompted us to study the putative interaction of chromatin components with these lipids in model membranes (liposomes). Turbidimetric studies revealed that a variety of histones and histone combinations (H1, H2AH2B, H3H4, octamers) caused a dose-dependent aggregation of phosphatidylcholine vesicles (large unilamellar vesicle or small unilamellar vesicle) containing negatively charged phospholipids. 5 mol % phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate (PIP) was enough to cause extensive aggregation under our conditions, whereas with phosphatidylinositol (PI) at least 20 mol % was necessary to obtain a similar effect. Histone binding to giant unilamellar vesicle and vesicle aggregation was visualized by confocal microscopy. Histone did not cause vesicle aggregation in the presence of DNA, and the latter was able to disassemble the histone-vesicle aggregates. At DNA/H1 weight ratios 0.1-0.5 DNA- and PIP-bound H1 appear to coexist. Isothermal calorimetry studies revealed that the PIP-H1 association constant was one order of magnitude higher than that of PI-H1, and the corresponding lipid/histone stoichiometries were ~0.5 and ~1, respectively. The results suggest that, in the nucleoplasm, a complex interplay of histones, DNA, and phosphoinositides may be taking place, particularly at the nucleoplasmic reticula that reach deep within the nucleoplasm, or during somatic and nonsomatic nuclear envelope assembly. The data described here provide a minimal model for analyzing and understanding the mechanism of these interactions.
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- Marta G Lete
- Unidad de Biofísica (CSIC, UPV/EHU) and Departamento de Bioquímica, Universidad del País Vasco, Leioa, Spain
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- Unidad de Biofísica (CSIC, UPV/EHU) and Departamento de Bioquímica, Universidad del País Vasco, Leioa, Spain
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- Unidad de Biofísica (CSIC, UPV/EHU) and Departamento de Bioquímica, Universidad del País Vasco, Leioa, Spain; Institut de Formation aux Carrieres de Sante de Rabat (IFCSR), Rabat, Morocco
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- Unidad de Biofísica (CSIC, UPV/EHU) and Departamento de Bioquímica, Universidad del País Vasco, Leioa, Spain
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- Unidad de Biofísica (CSIC, UPV/EHU) and Departamento de Bioquímica, Universidad del País Vasco, Leioa, Spain
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- Unidad de Biofísica (CSIC, UPV/EHU) and Departamento de Bioquímica, Universidad del País Vasco, Leioa, Spain
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- Unidad de Biofísica (CSIC, UPV/EHU) and Departamento de Bioquímica, Universidad del País Vasco, Leioa, Spain.
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Fuxreiter M, Tóth-Petróczy Á, Kraut DA, Matouschek AT, Lim RYH, Xue B, Kurgan L, Uversky VN. Disordered proteinaceous machines. Chem Rev 2014; 114:6806-43. [PMID: 24702702 PMCID: PMC4350607 DOI: 10.1021/cr4007329] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2013] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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- Monika Fuxreiter
- MTA-DE
Momentum Laboratory of Protein Dynamics, Department of Biochemistry
and Molecular Biology, University of Debrecen, Nagyerdei krt. 98, H-4032 Debrecen, Hungary
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- Department
of Biological Chemistry, Weizmann Institute
of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
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- Department
of Chemistry, Villanova University, 800 East Lancaster Avenue, Villanova, Pennsylvania 19085, United States
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- Section
of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Institute for Cellular &
Molecular Biology, The University of Texas
at Austin, 2506 Speedway, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Biozentrum
and the Swiss Nanoscience Institute, University
of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse
70, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Cell Biology,
Microbiology and Molecular Biology, College
of Fine Arts and Sciences, and Department of Molecular Medicine and USF Health
Byrd Alzheimer’s Research Institute, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33612, United States
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- Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R3, Canada
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- Department of Cell Biology,
Microbiology and Molecular Biology, College
of Fine Arts and Sciences, and Department of Molecular Medicine and USF Health
Byrd Alzheimer’s Research Institute, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33612, United States
- Institute
for Biological Instrumentation, Russian
Academy of Sciences, 142290 Pushchino, Moscow Region 119991, Russia
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Andresen K, Jimenez-Useche I, Howell SC, Yuan C, Qiu X. Solution scattering and FRET studies on nucleosomes reveal DNA unwrapping effects of H3 and H4 tail removal. PLoS One 2013; 8:e78587. [PMID: 24265699 PMCID: PMC3827064 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078587] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2013] [Accepted: 09/13/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Using a combination of small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) measurements we have determined the role of the H3 and H4 histone tails, independently, in stabilizing the nucleosome DNA terminal ends from unwrapping from the nucleosome core. We have performed solution scattering experiments on recombinant wild-type, H3 and H4 tail-removed mutants and fit all scattering data with predictions from PDB models and compared these experiments to complementary DNA-end FRET experiments. Based on these combined SAXS and FRET studies, we find that while all nucleosomes exhibited DNA unwrapping, the extent of this unwrapping is increased for nucleosomes with the H3 tails removed but, surprisingly, decreased in nucleosomes with the H4 tails removed. Studies of salt concentration effects show a minimum amount of DNA unwrapping for all complexes around 50-100mM of monovalent ions. These data exhibit opposite roles for the positively-charged nucleosome tails, with the ability to decrease access (in the case of the H3 histone) or increase access (in the case of the H4 histone) to the DNA surrounding the nucleosome. In the range of salt concentrations studied (0-200mM KCl), the data point to the H4 tail-removed mutant at physiological (50-100mM) monovalent salt concentration as the mononucleosome with the least amount of DNA unwrapping.
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- Kurt Andresen
- Department of Physics, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America
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- Department of Physics, George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
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- School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America
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- Department of Physics, George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
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Peana M, Medici S, Nurchi VM, Crisponi G, Zoroddu MA. Nickel binding sites in histone proteins: Spectroscopic and structural characterization. Coord Chem Rev 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2013.02.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Mocquard-Bucher E, Galvani A, Thiriet C. Histone H4 acetylation links nucleosome turnover and nucleosome assembly: lessons from the slime moldPhysarum polycephalum. FRONTIERS IN LIFE SCIENCE 2013. [DOI: 10.1080/21553769.2013.848241] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Shimahara H, Hirano T, Ohya K, Matsuta S, Seeram SS, Tate SI. Nucleosome structural changes induced by binding of non-histone chromosomal proteins HMGN1 and HMGN2. FEBS Open Bio 2013; 3:184-91. [PMID: 23772392 PMCID: PMC3668530 DOI: 10.1016/j.fob.2013.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2013] [Revised: 03/18/2013] [Accepted: 03/20/2013] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
Abstract
Interactions between the nucleosome and the non-histone chromosomal proteins (HMGN1 and HMGN2) were studied by circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy to elucidate structural changes in the nucleosome induced by HMGN binding. Unlike previous studies that used a nucleosome extracted from living cells, in this study we utilized a nucleosome reconstituted from unmodified recombinant histones synthesized in Escherichia coli and a 189-bp synthetic DNA fragment harboring a nucleosome positioning sequence. This DNA fragment consists of 5′-TATAAACGCC-3′ repeats that has a high affinity to the histone octamer. A nucleosome containing a unique octamer-binding sequence at a specific location on the DNA was produced at sufficiently high yield for spectroscopic analysis. CD data have indicated that both HMGN1 and HMGN2 can increase the winding angle of the nucleosome DNA, but the extent of the structural changes induced by these proteins differs significantly. This suggests HMGN1 and HMGN2 would have different abilities to facilitate nucleosome remodeling. A nucleosome was reconstituted from recombinant histones and a synthetic DNA. Nucleosomes were produced at sufficiently high yield for spectroscopic analysis. A nucleosome with and without HMGN proteins was analyzed using CD spectroscopy. CD data indicate that HMGN proteins increase the winding angle of the nucleosome DNA. HMGN1 and HMGN2 may have different abilities to facilitate nucleosome remodeling.
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Key Words
- CD
- CD, circular dichroism
- HMG, high mobility group
- HMGN
- HMGN1 HMGN2, non-histone chromosomal proteins
- IPTG, isopropyl-β-d-galactopyranoside
- LB, Luria–Bertani
- MNase, micrococcal nuclease
- NMR, nuclear magnetic resonance
- Nucleosome
- PCR, polymerase chain reaction
- RP-HPLC, reverse phase high performance liquid chromatography
- Reconstitution
- SDS–PAGE, sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis
- Unmodified recombinant histones
- phH2A, phH2B, phH3, and phH4, vectors for the gene expression of all four recombinant human core histones H2A, H2B, H3, and H4, respectively
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- Hideto Shimahara
- Corresponding author. Tel.: +81 761 51 1478; fax: +81 761 51 1455.
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Bintu L, Ishibashi T, Dangkulwanich M, Wu YY, Lubkowska L, Kashlev M, Bustamante C. Nucleosomal elements that control the topography of the barrier to transcription. Cell 2013; 151:738-749. [PMID: 23141536 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2012.10.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 115] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2012] [Revised: 08/08/2012] [Accepted: 09/18/2012] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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The nucleosome represents a mechanical barrier to transcription that operates as a general regulator of gene expression. We investigate how each nucleosomal component-the histone tails, the specific histone-DNA contacts, and the DNA sequence-contributes to the strength of the barrier. Removal of the tails favors progression of RNA polymerase II into the entry region of the nucleosome by locally increasing the wrapping-unwrapping rates of the DNA around histones. In contrast, point mutations that affect histone-DNA contacts at the dyad abolish the barrier to transcription in the central region by decreasing the local wrapping rate. Moreover, we show that the nucleosome amplifies sequence-dependent transcriptional pausing, an effect mediated through the structure of the nascent RNA. Each of these nucleosomal elements controls transcription elongation by affecting distinctly the density and duration of polymerase pauses, thus providing multiple and alternative mechanisms for control of gene expression by chromatin remodeling and transcription factors.
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- Lacramioara Bintu
- Jason L. Choy Laboratory of Single-Molecule Biophysics and Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- QB3 Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Jason L. Choy Laboratory of Single-Molecule Biophysics and Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; QB3 Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
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du Preez LL, Patterton HG. Secondary structures of the core histone N-terminal tails: their role in regulating chromatin structure. Subcell Biochem 2013; 61:37-55. [PMID: 23150245 DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4525-4_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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The core histone N-terminal tails dissociate from their binding positions in nucleosomes at moderate salt concentrations, and appear unstructured in the crystal. This suggested that the tails contributed minimally to chromatin structure. However, in vitro studies have shown that the tails were involved in a range of intra- and inter-nucleosomal as well as inter-fibre contacts. The H4 tail, which is essential for chromatin compaction, was shown to contact an adjacent nucleosome in the crystal. Acetylation of H4K16 was shown to abolish the ability of a nucleosome array to fold into a 30 nm fibre. The application of secondary structure prediction software has suggested the presence of extended structured regions in the histone tails. Molecular Dynamics studies have further shown that sections of the H3 and H4 tails assumed α-helical and β-strand content that was enhanced by the presence of DNA, and that post-translational modifications of the tails had a major impact on these structures. Circular dichroism and NMR showed that the H3 and H4 tails exhibited significant α-helical content, that was increased by acetylation of the tail. There is thus strong evidence, both from biophysical and from computational approaches, that the core histones tails, particularly that of H3 and H4, are structured, and that these structures are influenced by post-translational modifications. This chapter reviews studies on the position, binding sites and secondary structures of the core histone tails, and discusses the possible role of the histone tail structures in the regulation of chromatin organization, and its impact on human disease.
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- Louis L du Preez
- Advanced Biomolecular Research Cluster, University of the Free State, 339, Bloemfontein, 9300, South Africa
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White RH, Keberlein M, Jackson V. A mutational mimic analysis of histone H3 post-translational modifications: specific sites influence the conformational state of H3/H4, causing either positive or negative supercoiling of DNA. Biochemistry 2012; 51:8173-88. [PMID: 23003102 DOI: 10.1021/bi300872t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Histone H3 has specific sites of post-translational modifications that serve as epigenetic signals to cellular machinery to direct various processes. Mutational mimics of these modifications (glutamine for acetylation, methionine and leucine for methylation, and glutamic acid for phosphorylation) were constructed at the relevant sites of the major histone variant, H3.2, and their effects on the conformational equilibrium of the H3/H4 tetramer at physiological ionic strength were determined when bound to or free of DNA. The deposition vehicle used for this analysis was NAP1, nucleosome assembly protein 1. Acetylation mimics in the N-terminus preferentially stabilized the left-handed conformer (DNA negatively supercoiled), and mutations within the globular region preferred the right-handed conformer (DNA positively supercoiled). The methylation mimics in the N-terminus tended to maintain characteristics similar to those of wild-type H3/H4; i.e., the conformational equilibrium maintains similar levels of both left- and right-handed conformers. Phosphorylation mimics facilitated a mixed effect, i.e., when at serines, the left-handed conformer, and at threonines, a mixture of both conformers. When double mutations were present, the conformational equilibrium was shifted dramatically, either leftward or rightward depending on the specific sites. In contrast, these mutations tended not to affect the direction and extent of supercoiling for variants H3.1 and H3.3. Variant H3.3 promoted only the left-handed conformer, and H3.1 tended to maintain both conformers. Additional experiments indicate the importance of a propagation mechanism for ensuring the formation of a particular superhelical state over an extended region of the DNA. The potential relevance of these results to the maintenance of epigenetic information on a gene is discussed.
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- Rachel H White
- Department of Biochemistry, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
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Shi SP, Qiu JD, Sun XY, Suo SB, Huang SY, Liang RP. A method to distinguish between lysine acetylation and lysine methylation from protein sequences. J Theor Biol 2012; 310:223-30. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2012.06.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2012] [Revised: 05/21/2012] [Accepted: 06/25/2012] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Regulation of the H4 tail binding and folding landscapes via Lys-16 acetylation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2012; 109:17857-62. [PMID: 22988066 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1201805109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDP) are a broad class of proteins with relatively flat energy landscapes showing a high level of functional promiscuity, which are frequently regulated through posttranslational covalent modifications. Histone tails, which are the terminal segments of the histone proteins, are prominent IDPs that are implicated in a variety of signaling processes, which control chromatin organization and dynamics. Although a large body of work has been done on elucidating the roles of posttranslational modifications in functional regulation of IDPs, molecular mechanisms behind the observed behaviors are not fully understood. Using extensive atomistic molecular dynamics simulations, we found in this work that H4 tail mono-acetylation at LYS-16, which is a key covalent modification, induces a significant reorganization of the tail's conformational landscape, inducing partial ordering and enhancing the propensity for alpha-helical segments. Furthermore, our calculations of the potentials of mean force between the H4 tail and a DNA fragment indicate that contrary to the expectations based on simple electrostatic reasoning, the Lys-16 mono-acetylated H4 tail binds to DNA stronger than the unacetylated protein. Based on these results, we propose a molecular mechanism for the way Lys-16 acetylation might lead to experimentally observed disruption of compact chromatin fibers.
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Collepardo-Guevara R, Schlick T. Crucial role of dynamic linker histone binding and divalent ions for DNA accessibility and gene regulation revealed by mesoscale modeling of oligonucleosomes. Nucleic Acids Res 2012; 40:8803-17. [PMID: 22790986 PMCID: PMC3467040 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks600] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Monte Carlo simulations of a mesoscale model of oligonucleosomes are analyzed to examine the role of dynamic-linker histone (LH) binding/unbinding in high monovalent salt with divalent ions, and to further interpret noted chromatin fiber softening by dynamic LH in monovalent salt conditions. We find that divalent ions produce a fiber stiffening effect that competes with, but does not overshadow, the dramatic softening triggered by dynamic-LH behavior. Indeed, we find that in typical in vivo conditions, dynamic-LH binding/unbinding reduces fiber stiffening dramatically (by a factor of almost 5, as measured by the elasticity modulus) compared with rigidly fixed LH, and also the force needed to initiate chromatin unfolding, making it consistent with those of molecular motors. Our data also show that, during unfolding, divalent ions together with LHs induce linker-DNA bending and DNA–DNA repulsion screening, which guarantee formation of heteromorphic superbeads-on-a-string structures that combine regions of loose and compact fiber independently of the characteristics of the LH–core bond. These structures might be important for gene regulation as they expose regions of the DNA selectively. Dynamic control of LH binding/unbinding, either globally or locally, in the presence of divalent ions, might constitute a mechanism for regulation of gene expression.
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Peng Z, Mizianty MJ, Xue B, Kurgan L, Uversky VN. More than just tails: intrinsic disorder in histone proteins. MOLECULAR BIOSYSTEMS 2012; 8:1886-901. [DOI: 10.1039/c2mb25102g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Shi SP, Qiu JD, Sun XY, Suo SB, Huang SY, Liang RP. PLMLA: prediction of lysine methylation and lysine acetylation by combining multiple features. MOLECULAR BIOSYSTEMS 2012; 8:1520-7. [DOI: 10.1039/c2mb05502c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Fowler CB, Evers DL, O'Leary TJ, Mason JT. Antigen retrieval causes protein unfolding: evidence for a linear epitope model of recovered immunoreactivity. J Histochem Cytochem 2011; 59:366-81. [PMID: 21411808 DOI: 10.1369/0022155411400866] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Antigen retrieval (AR), in which formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue sections are briefly heated in buffers at high temperature, often greatly improves immunohistochemical staining. An important unresolved question regarding AR is how formalin treatment affects the conformation of protein epitopes and how heating unmasks these epitopes for subsequent antibody binding. The objective of the current study was to use model proteins to determine the effect of formalin treatment on protein conformation and thermal stability in relation to the mechanism of AR. Sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis was used to identify the presence of protein formaldehyde cross-links, and circular dichroism spectropolarimetry was used to determine the effect of formalin treatment and high-temperature incubation on the secondary and tertiary structure of the model proteins. Results revealed that for some proteins, formalin treatment left the native protein conformation unaltered, whereas for others, formalin denatured tertiary structure, yielding a molten globule protein. In either case, heating to temperatures used in AR methods led to irreversible protein unfolding, which supports a linear epitope model of recovered protein immunoreactivity. Consequently, the core mechanism of AR likely centers on the restoration of normal protein chemical composition coupled with improved accessibility to linear epitopes through protein unfolding.
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- Carol B Fowler
- Department of Biophysics, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Rockville, Maryland 20850, USA
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Potoyan DA, Papoian GA. Energy landscape analyses of disordered histone tails reveal special organization of their conformational dynamics. J Am Chem Soc 2011; 133:7405-15. [PMID: 21517079 DOI: 10.1021/ja1111964] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Histone tails are highly flexible N- or C-terminal protrusions of histone proteins which facilitate the compaction of DNA into dense superstructures known as chromatin. On a molecular scale histone tails are polyelectrolytes with high degree of conformational disorder which allows them to function as biomolecular "switches", regulating various genetic processes. Unfortunately, their intrinsically disordered nature creates obstacles for comprehensive experimental investigation of both the structural and dynamical aspects of histone tails, because of which their conformational behaviors are still not well understood. In this work we have carried out ∼3 microsecond long all atom replica exchange molecular dynamics (REMD) simulations for each of four histone tails, H4, H3, H2B, and H2A, and probed their intrinsic conformational preferences. Our subsequent free energy landscape analysis demonstrated that most tails are not fully disordered, but show distinct conformational organization, containing specific flickering secondary structural elements. In particular, H4 forms β-hairpins, H3 and H2B adopt α-helical elements, while H2A is fully disordered. We rationalized observed patterns of conformational dynamics of various histone tails using ideas from physics of polyelectrolytes and disordered systems. We also discovered an intriguing re-entrant contraction-expansion of the tails upon heating, which is caused by subtle interplay between ionic screening and chain entropy.
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- Davit A Potoyan
- Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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Lee JY, Wei S, Lee TH. Effects of histone acetylation by Piccolo NuA4 on the structure of a nucleosome and the interactions between two nucleosomes. J Biol Chem 2011; 286:11099-109. [PMID: 21282115 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m110.192047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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We characterized the effect of histone acetylation on the structure of a nucleosome and the interactions between two nucleosomes. In this study, nucleosomes reconstituted with the Selex "Widom 601" sequence were acetylated with the Piccolo NuA4 complex, which acetylates mainly H4 N-terminal tail lysine residues and some H2A/H3 N-terminal tail lysine residues. Upon the acetylation, we observed directional unwrapping of nucleosomal DNA that accompanies topology change of the DNA. Interactions between two nucleosomes in solution were also monitored to discover multiple transient dinucleosomal states that can be categorized to short-lived and long-lived (∼1 s) states. The formation of dinucleosomes is strongly Mg(2+)-dependent, and unacetylated nucleosomes favor the formation of long-lived dinucleosomes 4-fold as much as the acetylated ones. These results suggest that the acetylation of histones by Piccolo NuA4 disturbs not only the structure of a nucleosome but also the interactions between two nucleosomes. Lastly, we suggest a structural model for a stable dinucleosomal state where the two nucleosomes are separated by ∼2 nm face-to-face and rotated by 34° with respect to each other.
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- Ju Yeon Lee
- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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Yang D, Arya G. Structure and binding of the H4 histone tail and the effects of lysine 16 acetylation. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2010; 13:2911-21. [PMID: 21157623 DOI: 10.1039/c0cp01487g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The H4 histone tail plays a critical role in chromatin folding and regulation--it mediates strong interactions with the acidic patch of proximal nucleosomes and its acetylation at lysine 16 (K16) leads to partial unfolding of chromatin. The molecular mechanism associated with the H4 tail/acidic patch interactions and its modulation via K16 acetylation remains unknown. Here we employ a combination of molecular dynamics simulations, molecular docking calculations, and free energy computations to investigate the structure of the H4 tail in solution, the binding of the H4 tail with the acidic patch, and the effects of K16 acetylation. The H4 tail exhibits a disordered configuration except in the region Ala15-Lys20, where it exhibits a strong propensity for an α-helical structure. This α-helical region is found to dock very favorably into the acidic patch groove of a nucleosome with a binding free energy of approximately -7 kcal mol(-1). We have identified the specific interactions that stabilize this binding as well as the associated energetics. The acetylation of K16 is found to reduce the α-helix forming propensity of the H4 tail and K16's accessibility for mediating external interactions. More importantly, K16 acetylation destabilizes the binding of the H4 tail at the acidic patch by mitigating specific salt bridges and longer-ranged electrostatic interactions mediated by K16. Our study thus provides new microscopic insights into the compaction of chromatin and its regulation via posttranslational modifications of histone tails, which could be of interest to chromatin biology, cancer, epigenetics, and drug design.
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- Darren Yang
- Department of NanoEngineering, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0448, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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Sprigg L, Li A, Choy FYM, Ausió J. Interaction of Daunomycin with Acetylated Chromatin. J Med Chem 2010; 53:6457-65. [DOI: 10.1021/jm1007853] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Lyndsay Sprigg
- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, V8W 3P6, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, V8W 3P6, Canada
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- Department of Biology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, V8W 3P6, Canada
- Center for Biomedical Research, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, V8W 3N5, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, V8W 3P6, Canada
- Center for Biomedical Research, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, V8W 3N5, Canada
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Li A, Yu Y, Lee SC, Ishibashi T, Lees-Miller SP, Ausió J. Phosphorylation of histone H2A.X by DNA-dependent protein kinase is not affected by core histone acetylation, but it alters nucleosome stability and histone H1 binding. J Biol Chem 2010; 285:17778-88. [PMID: 20356835 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m110.116426] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Phosphorylation of the C-terminal end of histone H2A.X is the most characterized histone post-translational modification in DNA double-stranded breaks (DSB). DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK) is one of the three phosphatidylinositol 3 kinase-like family of kinase members that is known to phosphorylate histone H2A.X during DNA DSB repair. There is a growing body of evidence supporting a role for histone acetylation in DNA DSB repair, but the mechanism or the causative relation remains largely unknown. Using bacterially expressed recombinant mutants and stably and transiently transfected cell lines, we find that DNA-PK can phosphorylate Thr-136 in addition to Ser-139 both in vitro and in vivo. Furthermore, the phosphorylation reaction is not inhibited by the presence of H1, which in itself is a substrate of the reaction. We also show that, in contrast to previous reports, the ability of the enzyme to phosphorylate these residues is not affected by the extent of acetylation of the core histones. In vitro assembled nucleosomes and HeLa S3 native oligonucleosomes consisting of non-acetylated and acetylated histones are equally phosphorylated by DNA-PK. We demonstrate that the apparent differences in the extent of phosphorylation previously observed can be accounted for by the differential chromatin solubility under the MgCl(2) concentrations required for the phosphorylation reaction in vitro. Finally, we show that although H2A.X does not affect nucleosome conformation, it has a de-stabilizing effect that is enhanced by the DNA-PK-mediated phosphorylation and results in an impaired histone H1 binding.
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- Andra Li
- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia V8W 3P6, Canada
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Dryhurst D, Ishibashi T, Rose KL, Eirín-López JM, McDonald D, Silva-Moreno B, Veldhoen N, Helbing CC, Hendzel MJ, Shabanowitz J, Hunt DF, Ausió J. Characterization of the histone H2A.Z-1 and H2A.Z-2 isoforms in vertebrates. BMC Biol 2009; 7:86. [PMID: 20003410 PMCID: PMC2805615 DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-7-86] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2009] [Accepted: 12/14/2009] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Within chromatin, the histone variant H2A.Z plays a role in many diverse nuclear processes including transcription, preventing the spread of heterochromatin and epigenetic transcriptional memory. The molecular mechanisms of how H2A.Z mediates its effects are not entirely understood. However, it is now known that H2A.Z has two protein isoforms in vertebrates, H2A.Z-1 and H2A.Z-2, which are encoded by separate genes and differ by 3 amino acid residues. RESULTS We report that H2A.Z-1 and H2A.Z-2 are expressed across a wide range of human tissues, they are both acetylated at lysine residues within the N-terminal region and they exhibit similar, but nonidentical, distributions within chromatin. Our results suggest that H2A.Z-2 preferentially associates with H3 trimethylated at lysine 4 compared to H2A.Z-1. The phylogenetic analysis of the promoter regions of H2A.Z-1 and H2A.Z-2 indicate that they have evolved separately during vertebrate evolution. CONCLUSIONS Our biochemical, gene expression, and phylogenetic data suggest that the H2A.Z-1 and H2A.Z-2 variants function similarly yet they may have acquired a degree of functional independence.
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- Deanna Dryhurst
- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology and The Center for Biomedical Research, University of Victoria, Petch Building, Victoria, BC, V8W 3P6, Canada.
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Zoroddu MA, Peana M, Medici S, Casella L, Monzani E, Costa M. Nickel binding to histone H4. Dalton Trans 2009; 39:787-93. [PMID: 20066223 DOI: 10.1039/b916019c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Nickel compounds influence carcinogenesis by interfering with a variety of cellular targets. It has been found that nickel is a potent inhibitor in vivo of histone H4 acetylation, in both yeast and mammalian cells. It has preference to specific lysine residues in the H4 N-terminal -S(1)GRGK(5)GGK(8)GLGK(12)GGAK(16)RH(18)RKVL(22) tail, in which the sites of acetylation are clustered. About the nature of the structural changes induced by histone acetylation on H4, it has been recently demonstrated that acetylation induces an increase in alpha-helical conformation of the acetylated N-terminal tail of H4. It causes a shortening of the tail and, such an effect, may have an important structural and functional implication as a mechanism of transcriptional regulation. Here we report a study on the conformational changes induced by carcinogenic nickel compounds on the histone H4 protein. From a circular dichroism study we found that nickel is able to induce a secondary structure in the protein. In particular, nickel has the same effect as acetylation: it induces an increase in alpha-helical conformation of the non-acetylated histone H4. The alpha-helical increase that occurs upon nickel interaction with histone H4 should decrease the ability of histone acetyl transferase to recognize and bind to the histone tail and thus affect the ability of the enzyme to further modify the lysine residues. The shortening of the distance between adjacent amino acids, caused by the translation from an extended to a helical conformation, could disrupt the histone recognition motif; this may eventually compromise the entire "histone code".
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- Maria Antonietta Zoroddu
- Department of Chemistry & Pharmacy Faculty, University of Sassari, via Vienna 2, 07100, Sassari, Italy.
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Taneva SG, Bañuelos S, Falces J, Arregi I, Muga A, Konarev PV, Svergun DI, Velázquez-Campoy A, Urbaneja MA. A Mechanism for Histone Chaperoning Activity of Nucleoplasmin: Thermodynamic and Structural Models. J Mol Biol 2009; 393:448-63. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2009.08.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2009] [Revised: 08/04/2009] [Accepted: 08/07/2009] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Healy S, Heightman TD, Hohmann L, Schriemer D, Gravel RA. Nonenzymatic biotinylation of histone H2A. Protein Sci 2009; 18:314-28. [PMID: 19160459 DOI: 10.1002/pro.37] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Holocarboxylase synthetase (HCS, eukaryotic enzyme) and BirA (prokaryotic) are biotin protein ligases that catalyze the ATP-dependent attachment of biotin to apocarboxylases via the reactive intermediate, bio-5'-AMP. In this study, we examined the in vitro mechanism of biotin attachment to histone H2A in the presence of HCS and BirA. The experiment derives from our observations that HCS is found in the nucleus of cells in addition to the cytoplasm, and it has the ability to attach biotin to histones in vitro (Narang et al., Hum Mol Genet 2004; 13:15-23). Using recombinant HCS or BirA, the rate of biotin attachment was considerably slower with histone H2A than with the biotin binding domain of an apocarboxylase. However, on incubation of recombinant H2A with chemically synthesized bio-5'-AMP, H2A was observed to be rapidly labeled with biotin in the absence of enzyme. Nonenzymatic biotinylation of a truncated apocarboxylase (BCCP87) has been previously reported (Streaker and Beckett, Protein Sci 2006; 15:1928-1935), though at a much slower rate than we observe for H2A. The specific attachment sites of nonenzymatically biotinylated recombinant H2A at different time points were identified using mass spectrometry, and were found to consist of a similar pattern of biotin attachment as seen in the presence of HCS, with preference for lysines in the highly basic N-terminal region of the histone. None of the lysine sites within H2A resembles the biotin attachment consensus sequence seen in carboxylases, suggesting a novel mechanism for histone biotinylation.
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- Shannon Healy
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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Ishibashi T, Dryhurst D, Rose KL, Shabanowitz J, Hunt DF, Ausió J. Acetylation of vertebrate H2A.Z and its effect on the structure of the nucleosome. Biochemistry 2009; 48:5007-17. [PMID: 19385636 DOI: 10.1021/bi900196c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Purified histone H2A.Z from chicken erythrocytes and a sodium butyrate-treated chicken erythroleukemic cell line was used as a model system to identify the acetylation sites (K4, K7, K11, K13, and K15) and quantify their distribution in this vertebrate histone variant. To understand the role played by acetylation in the modulation of the H2A.Z nucleosome core particle (NCP) stability and conformation, an extensive analysis was conducted on NCPs reconstituted from acetylated forms of histones, including H2A.Z and recombinant H2A.Z (K/Q) acetylation mimic mutants. Although the overall global acetylation of core histones destabilizes the NCP, we found that H2A.Z stabilizes the NCP regardless of its state of acetylation. Interestingly and quite unexpectedly, we found that the change in NCP conformation induced by global histone acetylation is dependent on H2A/H2A.Z acetylation. This suggests that acetylated H2A variants act synergistically with the acetylated forms of the core histone complement to alter the particle conformation. Furthermore, the simultaneous occurrence of H2A.Z and H2A in heteromorphic NCPs that most likely occurs in vivo slightly destabilizes the NCP, but only in the presence of acetylation.
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- Toyotaka Ishibashi
- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology and The Center for Biomedical Research, University of Victoria, Petch Building, Victoria, BC, Canada V8W 3P6
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Eukaryotic DNA is packaged into a nucleoprotein structure known as chromatin, which is comprised of DNA, histones, and nonhistone proteins. Chromatin structure is highly dynamic, and can shift from a transcriptionally inactive state to an active form in response to intra- and extracellular signals. A major factor in chromatin architecture is the covalent modification of histones through the addition of chemical moieties, such as acetyl, methyl, ubiquitin, and phosphate groups. The acetylation of the amino-terminal tails of histones is a process that is highly conserved in eukaryotes, and was one of the earliest histone modifications characterized. Since its identification in 1964, a large body of evidence has accumulated demonstrating that histone acetylation plays an important role in transcription. Despite our ever-growing understanding of the nuclear processes involved in nucleosome acetylation, however, the exact biochemical mechanisms underlying the downstream effects of histone acetylation have yet to be fully elucidated. To date, histone acetylation has been proposed to function in 2 nonmutually exclusive manners: by directly altering chromatin structure, and by acting as a molecular tag for the recruitment of chromatin-modifying complexes. Here, we discuss recent research focusing on these 2 potential roles of histone acetylation and clarify what we actually know about the function of this modification.
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- Jennifer K Choi
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, 2350 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver, BCV6T1Z3, Canada
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Peterson S, Jackson V. Acetylation of H4 suppresses the repressive effects of the N-termini of histones H3/H4 and facilitates the formation of positively coiled DNA. Biochemistry 2008; 47:7053-65. [PMID: 18543948 DOI: 10.1021/bi8004945] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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We have studied the role of the N-termini of histones H3/H4 in the regulation of the conformational changes that occur in H3/H4 during their deposition on DNA by NAP1 (nucleosome assembly protein 1). Removal of the N-termini extensively increased the right-handed conformation of H3/H4 as assayed by the increased levels of positive coils that were formed on DNA. The osmolytes, TMAO, betaine, sarcosine, alanine, glycine, and proline to varying degrees, facilitated the formation of positive coils. The denaturant, urea (0.6 M), blocked the osmolyte effects, causing a preference of H3/H4 to form negative coils (the left-handed conformation). Acetylated H3/H4 also formed high levels of positive coils, and it is proposed that both the osmolytes and acetylation promote the formation of an alpha-helix in the N-termini. This structural change may ultimately explain a unique feature of transcription through nucleosomes, i.e., that H2A/H2B tends to be more mobile than H3/H4. By using combinations of H3 and H4 that were either acetylated or the N-termini removed, it was also determined that the N-terminus of H4 is primarily responsible for repressing the formation of positive coils. Additional gradient analyses indicate that NAP1 establishes an equilibrium with the H3/H4-DNA complexes. This equilibrium facilitates a histone saturation of the DNA, a unique state that promotes the right-handed conformation. NAP1 persists in the binding of the complexes through interaction with the N-terminus of H3, which may be a mechanism for subsequent remodeling of the nucleosome during transcription and replication.
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- Sharon Peterson
- Department of Biochemistry, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226, USA
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MBD4-mediated glycosylase activity on a chromatin template is enhanced by acetylation. Mol Cell Biol 2008; 28:4734-44. [PMID: 18519584 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.00588-08] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The ability of the MBD4 glycosylase to excise a mismatched base from DNA has been assessed in vitro using DNA substrates with different extents of cytosine methylation, in the presence or absence of reconstituted nucleosomes. Despite the enhanced ability of MBD4 to bind to methylated cytosines, the efficiency of its glycosylase activity on T/G mismatches was slightly dependent on the extent of methylation of the DNA substrate. The reduction in activity caused by competitor DNA was likewise unaffected by the methylation status of the substrate or the competitor. Our results also show that MBD4 efficiently processed T/G mismatches within the nucleosome. Furthermore, the glycolytic activity of the enzyme was not affected by the positioning of the mismatch within the nucleosome. However, histone hyperacetylation facilitated the efficiency with which the bases were excised from the nucleosome templates, irrespective of the position of the mismatch relative to the pseudodyad axis of symmetry of the nucleosome.
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sNASP, a histone H1-specific eukaryotic chaperone dimer that facilitates chromatin assembly. Biophys J 2008; 95:1314-25. [PMID: 18456819 DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.108.130021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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NASP has been described as a histone H1 chaperone in mammals. However, the molecular mechanisms involved have not yet been characterized. Here, we show that this protein is not only present in mammals but is widely distributed throughout eukaryotes both in its somatic and testicular forms. The secondary structure of the human somatic version consists mainly of clusters of alpha-helices and exists as a homodimer in solution. The protein binds nonspecifically to core histone H2A-H2B dimers and H3-H4 tetramers but only forms specific complexes with histone H1. The formation of the NASP-H1 complexes is mediated by the N- and C-terminal domains of histone H1 and does not involve the winged helix domain that is characteristic of linker histones. In vitro chromatin reconstitution experiments show that this protein facilitates the incorporation of linker histones onto nucleosome arrays and hence is a bona fide linker histone chaperone.
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Fucito A, Lucchetti C, Giordano A, Romano G. Genetic and epigenetic alterations in breast cancer: what are the perspectives for clinical practice? Int J Biochem Cell Biol 2007; 40:565-75. [PMID: 18061512 PMCID: PMC2729585 DOI: 10.1016/j.biocel.2007.10.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2007] [Revised: 10/04/2007] [Accepted: 10/05/2007] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The worldwide incidence of breast cancer affects 1.2 million women each year. In contrast to the high occurrence of this malady, a decline in mortality is reported among industrialized countries. In this respect, both awareness campaigns and substantial progress achieved in therapy and diagnosis allowed for the enhancement of the survival rate in patients with breast cancer. Undoubtedly, oncology research programs played a relevant role in the improvement of therapeutics and diagnostics for breast cancer. Major strides were reported, especially over the last decade and a half, in better understanding molecular and cellular biology events involved in breast cancer pathogenesis and progression of the disease. However, therapeutic approaches for the treatment of patients with breast cancer need further improvement. Therapeutic interventions can chronically compromise both the state of health and quality of life of breast cancer survivors. In addition, current therapeutic approaches have not significantly improved the survival rate in patients with metastatic disease. On these grounds, it is necessary to develop more efficient therapeutics and diagnostic tools, which can improve the health and quality of life of breast cancer survivors and increase the survival rate in patients with metastatic disease. In this respect, the field of cancer research has placed a particular emphasis on the elucidation of genetic and epigenetic alterations that may lead to the pathogenesis of breast cancer and contribute to its progression.
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- Alfredo Fucito
- Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
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Acetylation mimics within individual core histone tail domains indicate distinct roles in regulating the stability of higher-order chromatin structure. Mol Cell Biol 2007; 28:227-36. [PMID: 17938198 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.01245-07] [Citation(s) in RCA: 129] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Nucleosome arrays undergo salt-dependent self-association into large oligomers in a process thought to recapitulate essential aspects of higher-order tertiary chromatin structure formation. Lysine acetylation within the core histone tail domains inhibits self-association, an effect likely related to its role in facilitating transcription. As acetylation of specific tail domains may encode distinct functions, we investigated biochemical and self-association properties of model nucleosome arrays containing combinations of native and mutant core histones with lysine-to-glutamine substitutions to mimic acetylation. Acetylation mimics within the tail domains of H2B and H4 caused the largest inhibition of array self-association, while modification of the H3 tail uniquely affected the stability of DNA wrapping within individual nucleosomes. In addition, the effect of acetylation mimics on array self-association is inconsistent with a simple charge neutralization mechanism. For example, acetylation mimics within the H2A tail can have either a positive or negative effect on self-association, dependent upon the acetylation state of the other tails and nucleosomal repeat length. Finally, we demonstrate that glutamine substitutions and lysine acetylation within the H4 tail domain have identical effects on nucleosome array self-association. Our results indicate that acetylation of specific tail domains plays distinct roles in the regulation of chromatin structure.
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Vijayalakshmi M, Shivashankar GV, Sowdhamini R. Simulations of SIN Mutations and Histone Variants in Human Nucleosomes Reveal Altered Protein-DNA and Core Histone Interactions. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2007; 25:207-218. [DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2007.10507170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Ferreira H, Flaus A, Owen-Hughes T. Histone modifications influence the action of Snf2 family remodelling enzymes by different mechanisms. J Mol Biol 2007; 374:563-79. [PMID: 17949749 PMCID: PMC2279226 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2007.09.059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2007] [Revised: 08/27/2007] [Accepted: 09/10/2007] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Alteration of chromatin structure by chromatin modifying and remodelling activities is a key stage in the regulation of many nuclear processes. These activities are frequently interlinked, and many chromatin remodelling enzymes contain motifs that recognise modified histones. Here we adopt a peptide ligation strategy to generate specifically modified chromatin templates and used these to study the interaction of the Chd1, Isw2 and RSC remodelling complexes with differentially acetylated nucleosomes. Specific patterns of histone acetylation are found to alter the rate of chromatin remodelling in different ways. For example, histone H3 lysine 14 acetylation acts to increase recruitment of the RSC complex to nucleosomes. However, histone H4 tetra-acetylation alters the spectrum of remodelled products generated by increasing octamer transfer in trans. In contrast, histone H4 tetra-acetylation was also found to reduce the activity of the Chd1 and Isw2 remodelling enzymes by reducing catalytic turnover without affecting recruitment. These observations illustrate a range of different means by which modifications to histones can influence the action of remodelling enzymes.
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- Helder Ferreira
- Division of Gene Regulation and Expression, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 5EH, UK
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Eirín-López JM, Ishibashi T, Ausió J. H2A.Bbd: a quickly evolving hypervariable mammalian histone that destabilizes nucleosomes in an acetylation-independent way. FASEB J 2007; 22:316-26. [PMID: 17726088 DOI: 10.1096/fj.07-9255com] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Molecular evolutionary analyses revealed that histone H2A.Bbd is a highly variable quickly evolving mammalian replacement histone variant, in striking contrast to all other histones. At the nucleotide level, this variability appears to be the result of a larger amount of nonsynonymous variation, which affects to a lesser extent, the structural domain of the protein comprising the histone fold. The resulting amino acid sequence diversity can be predicted to affect the internucleosomal and intranucleosomal histone interactions. Our phylogenetic analysis has allowed us to identify several of the residues involved. The biophysical characterization of nucleosomes reconstituted with recombinant mouse H2A.Bbd and their comparison to similar data obtained with human H2A.Bbd clearly support this notion. Despite the high interspecific amino acid sequence variability, all of the H2A.Bbd variants exert similar structural effects at the nucleosome level, which result in an unfolded highly unstable nucleoprotein complex. Such structure resembles that previously described for the highly dynamically acetylated nucleosomes associated with transcriptionally active regions of the genome. Nevertheless, the structure of nucleosome core particles reconstituted from H2A.Bbd is not affected by the presence of a hyperacetylated histone complement. This suggests that replacement by H2A.Bbd provides an alternative mechanism to unfold chromatin structure, possibly in euchromatic regions, in a way that is not dependent on acetylation.
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- José María Eirín-López
- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Petch Building, 258a, Victoria, BC, Canada V8W 3P6
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Wang X, Hayes JJ. Site-specific binding affinities within the H2B tail domain indicate specific effects of lysine acetylation. J Biol Chem 2007; 282:32867-76. [PMID: 17711854 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m706035200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Acetylation of specific lysines within the core histone tail domains plays a critical role in regulating chromatin-based activities. However, the structures and interactions of the tail domains and the molecular mechanisms by which acetylation directly alters chromatin structures are not well understood. To address these issues we developed a chemical method to quantitatively determine binding affinities of specific regions within the individual tail domains in model chromatin complexes. Examinations of specific sites within the H2B tail domain indicate that this tail contains distinct structural elements and binds within nucleosomes with affinities that would reduce the activity of tail-binding proteins 10-50-fold from that deduced from peptide binding studies. Moreover, we find that mutations mimicking lysine acetylation do not cause a global weakening of tail-DNA interactions but rather the results suggest that acetylation leads to a much more subtle and specific alteration in tail interactions than has been assumed. In addition, we provide evidence that acetylation at specific sites in the tail is not additive with several events resulting in similar, localized changes in tail binding.
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- Xiaodong Wang
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
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Maffey AH, Ishibashi T, He C, Wang X, White AR, Hendy SC, Nelson CC, Rennie PS, Ausió J. Probasin promoter assembles into a strongly positioned nucleosome that permits androgen receptor binding. Mol Cell Endocrinol 2007; 268:10-9. [PMID: 17316977 DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2007.01.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2006] [Revised: 12/06/2006] [Accepted: 01/03/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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The promoter of the murine probasin (PB) gene exhibits strong androgen receptor (AR)-specific and tissue-specific regulation and is considered a promising candidate for gene therapy treatment of advanced prostate cancer. To characterize the determinants of chromatin specificity of the PB promoter with the AR we initially investigated the in vitro interactions of recombinant AR DNA binding domain (AR-DBD) with reconstituted nucleosomes incorporating the proximal PB promoter (nucleotides -268 to -76). We demonstrate that a DNA fragment of this promoter region exhibits strong nucleosome positioning. The phased DNA sequence protected by the histone octamer includes four androgen receptor response elements (AREs) which are arranged as two sets of class I and class II sites spaced approximately 90bp apart. Class I AREs form classical contacts with the AR, whereas class II AREs contain atypical binding sequences and have been shown to stabilize AR binding to adjacent class I sites, resulting in synergistic transcriptional activation and increased hormone sensitivity. We used DNase 1 footprinting and electrophoretic mobility shift assays (EMSA) to show that the AR-DBD binds to its cognate sequences independently of their nucleosomal organization. In addition, we show that the ability of the AR-DBD to interact with the nucleosomal PB promoter is not affected by histone acetylation. Thus the AR-DBD is able to bind to its cognate sequences within the PB promoter in a way that is indifferent to the presence or absence of histones and nucleosomal structure.
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- Allison H Maffey
- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3055, Petch Building, Victoria, BC, Canada V8W 3P6
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Hildmann C, Riester D, Schwienhorst A. Histone deacetylases—an important class of cellular regulators with a variety of functions. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2007; 75:487-97. [PMID: 17377789 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-007-0911-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 137] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2007] [Revised: 02/26/2007] [Accepted: 02/26/2007] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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The elucidation of mechanisms of chromatin remodeling, particular transcriptional activation, and repression by histone acetylation and deacetylation has shed light on the role of histone deacetylases (HDAC) as a new kind of therapeutic target for human cancer treatment. HDACs, in general, act as components of large corepressor complexes that prevent the transcription of several tumor suppression genes. In addition, they appear to be also involved in the deacetylation of nonhistone proteins. This paper reviews the most recent insights into the diverse biological roles of HDACs as well as the evolution of this important protein family.
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- Christian Hildmann
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Preparative Molecular Biology, Institute for Microbiology and Genetics, Grisebachstr. 8, 37077, Göttingen, Germany
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Sharma S, Ding F, Dokholyan NV. Multiscale modeling of nucleosome dynamics. Biophys J 2007; 92:1457-70. [PMID: 17142268 PMCID: PMC1796817 DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.106.094805] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2006] [Accepted: 11/02/2006] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Nucleosomes form the fundamental building blocks of chromatin. Subtle modifications of the constituent histone tails mediate chromatin stability and regulate gene expression. For this reason, it is important to understand structural dynamics of nucleosomes at atomic levels. We report a novel multiscale model of the fundamental chromatin unit, a nucleosome, using a simplified model for rapid discrete molecular dynamics simulations and an all-atom model for detailed structural investigation. Using a simplified structural model, we perform equilibrium simulations of a single nucleosome at various temperatures. We further reconstruct all-atom nucleosome structures from simulation trajectories. We find that histone tails bind to nucleosomal DNA via strong salt-bridge interactions over a wide range of temperatures, suggesting a mechanism of chromatin structural organization whereby histone tails regulate inter- and intranucleosomal assemblies via binding with nucleosomal DNA. We identify specific regions of the histone core H2A/H2B-H4/H3-H3/H4-H2B/H2A, termed "cold sites", which retain a significant fraction of contacts with adjoining residues throughout the simulation, indicating their functional role in nucleosome organization. Cold sites are clustered around H3-H3, H2A-H4 and H4-H2A interhistone interfaces, indicating the necessity of these contacts for nucleosome stability. Essential dynamics analysis of simulation trajectories shows that bending across the H3-H3 is a prominent mode of intranucleosomal dynamics. We postulate that effects of salts on mononucleosomes can be modeled in discrete molecular dynamics by modulating histone-DNA interaction potentials. Local fluctuations in nucleosomal DNA vary significantly along the DNA sequence, suggesting that only a fraction of histone-DNA contacts make strong interactions dominating mononucleosomal dynamics. Our findings suggest that histone tails have a direct functional role in stabilizing higher-order chromatin structure, mediated by salt-bridge interactions with adjacent DNA.
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- Shantanu Sharma
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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De Leon Gatti M, Wlaschin KF, Nissom PM, Yap M, Hu WS. Comparative transcriptional analysis of mouse hybridoma and recombinant Chinese hamster ovary cells undergoing butyrate treatment. J Biosci Bioeng 2007; 103:82-91. [PMID: 17298905 DOI: 10.1263/jbb.103.82] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2006] [Accepted: 10/24/2006] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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DNA microarray based transcriptome analysis has become widely used in biomedical research; however, the lack of DNA sequence information available for Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells has hampered the application of microarrays for this cell line widely used for recombinant therapeutic protein production. We have constructed an expressed sequence tag (EST) based CHO DNA microarray and employed it for comparative transcriptome analysis of CHO cells and mouse hybridoma cells treated with sodium butyrate. Cross-species hybridization of CHO transcripts to mouse DNA microarrays was also performed to assess the utility of cross-species microarray. The average identity among probe sequences present on both the CHO and mouse microarray was 89.6%. Although cross-species hybridization yielded non-contradicting results when compared with the same-species arrays, decreased sensitivity was observed and resulted in fewer differentially expressed genes being confidently identified. The comparatively small number of genes probed using the CHO microarray and the low number of genes identified as differentially expressed in the cross-species hybridization limited physiological interpretation of the response of CHO cells to sodium butyrate treatment. Nevertheless, when all results are combined, mouse hybridoma and CHO cells can be seen to respond similarly to butyrate treatment, affecting histone modification, chaperones, lipid metabolism, and protein processing. To further develop the utility of microarray technology in cell culture process development, an expansion of current CHO cell sequencing efforts to increase the coverage of genes on available microarrays is warranted.
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- Marcela De Leon Gatti
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 421 Washington Ave SE., Minneapolis, MN 55455-0132, USA
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The position effect variegation in Drosophila and Schizosaccharomyces pombe, and higher-order chromatin structure regulation in yeast, is orchestrated by modifier genes of the Su(var) group, (e.g., histone deacetylases ([HDACs]), protein phosphatases) and enhancer E(Var) group (e.g., ATP [adenosine 5'-triphosphate]-dependent nucleosome remodeling proteins). Higher-order chromatin structure is regulated in part by covalent modification of the N-terminal histone tails of chromatin, and histone tails in turn serve as platforms for recruitment of signaling modules that include nonhistone proteins such as heterochromatin protein (HP1) and NuRD. Because the enzymes governing chromatin structure through covalent modifications of histones (acetylation, methylation, phosphorylation, ubiquitination) can also target nonhistone substrates, a mechanism is in place by which epigenetic regulatory processes can affect the function of these alternate substrates. The posttranslational modification of histones, through phosphorylation and acetylation at specific residues, alters chromatin structure in an orchestrated manner in response to specific signals and is considered the basis of a "histone code." In an analogous manner, specific residues within transcription factors form a signaling module within the transcription factor to determine genetic target specificity and cellular fate. The architecture of these signaling cascades in transcription factors (SCITs) are poorly understood. The regulation of estrogen receptor (ERalpha) by enzymes that convey epigenetic signals is carefully orchestrated and is reviewed here.
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- Jennifer E Leader
- Kimmel Cancer Center, Department of Cancer Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, 233 South 10th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA
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McManus KJ, Hendzel MJ. The relationship between histone H3 phosphorylation and acetylation throughout the mammalian cell cycleThis paper is one of a selection of papers published in this Special Issue, entitled 27th International West Coast Chromatin and Chromosome Conference, and has undergone the Journal's usual peer review process. Biochem Cell Biol 2006; 84:640-57. [PMID: 16936834 DOI: 10.1139/o06-086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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During interphase, histone amino-terminal tails play important roles in regulating the extent of DNA compaction. Post-translational modifications of the histone tails are intimately associated with regulating chromatin structure: phosphorylation of histone H3 is associated with proper chromosome condensation and dynamics during mitosis, while multiple H2B, H3, and H4 tail acetylations destabilize the chromatin fiber and are sufficient to decondense chromatin fibers in vitro. In this study, we investigate the spatio-temporal dynamics of specific histone H3 phosphorylations and acetylations to better understand the interplay of these post-translational modifications throughout the cell cycle. Using a panel of antibodies that individually, or in combination, recognize phosphorylated serines 10 and 28 and acetylated lysines 9 and 14, we define a series of changes associated with histone H3 that occur as cells progress through the cell cycle. Our results establish that mitosis appears to be a period of the cell cycle when many modifications are highly dynamic. Furthermore, they suggest that the upstream histone acetyltransferases/deacetylases and kinase/phosphatases are temporally regulated to alter their function globally during specific cell cycle time points.
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- Kirk J McManus
- Department of Oncology, University of Alberta, Cross Cancer Institute, 11560 University Avenue, Edmonton, AB T6G 1Z2, Canada
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