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Schnitzler GR. Control of Nucleosome Positions by DNA Sequence and Remodeling Machines. Cell Biochem Biophys 2008; 51:67-80. [DOI: 10.1007/s12013-008-9015-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/06/2008] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Burgio G, La Rocca G, Sala A, Arancio W, Di Gesù D, Collesano M, Sperling AS, Armstrong JA, van Heeringen SJ, Logie C, Tamkun JW, Corona DFV. Genetic identification of a network of factors that functionally interact with the nucleosome remodeling ATPase ISWI. PLoS Genet 2008; 4:e1000089. [PMID: 18535655 PMCID: PMC2390755 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2008] [Accepted: 05/02/2008] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Nucleosome remodeling and covalent modifications of histones play fundamental roles in chromatin structure and function. However, much remains to be learned about how the action of ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling factors and histone-modifying enzymes is coordinated to modulate chromatin organization and transcription. The evolutionarily conserved ATP-dependent chromatin-remodeling factor ISWI plays essential roles in chromosome organization, DNA replication, and transcription regulation. To gain insight into regulation and mechanism of action of ISWI, we conducted an unbiased genetic screen to identify factors with which it interacts in vivo. We found that ISWI interacts with a network of factors that escaped detection in previous biochemical analyses, including the Sin3A gene. The Sin3A protein and the histone deacetylase Rpd3 are part of a conserved histone deacetylase complex involved in transcriptional repression. ISWI and the Sin3A/Rpd3 complex co-localize at specific chromosome domains. Loss of ISWI activity causes a reduction in the binding of the Sin3A/Rpd3 complex to chromatin. Biochemical analysis showed that the ISWI physically interacts with the histone deacetylase activity of the Sin3A/Rpd3 complex. Consistent with these findings, the acetylation of histone H4 is altered when ISWI activity is perturbed in vivo. These findings suggest that ISWI associates with the Sin3A/Rpd3 complex to support its function in vivo.
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- Giosalba Burgio
- Dipartimento di Scienze Biochimiche, Universita' degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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ATAC is a double histone acetyltransferase complex that stimulates nucleosome sliding. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2008; 15:364-72. [DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.1397] [Citation(s) in RCA: 147] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2007] [Accepted: 02/01/2008] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Maier VK, Chioda M, Rhodes D, Becker PB. ACF catalyses chromatosome movements in chromatin fibres. EMBO J 2007; 27:817-26. [PMID: 17962805 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7601902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2007] [Accepted: 10/04/2007] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Nucleosome-remodelling factors containing the ATPase ISWI, such as ACF, render DNA in chromatin accessible by promoting the sliding of histone octamers. Although the ATP-dependent repositioning of mononucleosomes is readily observable in vitro, it is unclear to which extent nucleosomes can be moved in physiological chromatin, where neighbouring nucleosomes, linker histones and the folding of the nucleosomal array restrict mobility. We assembled arrays consisting of 12 nucleosomes or 12 chromatosomes (nucleosomes plus linker histone) from defined components and subjected them to remodelling by ACF or the ATPase CHD1. Both factors increased the access to DNA in nucleosome arrays. ACF, but not CHD1, catalysed profound movements of nucleosomes throughout the array, suggesting different remodelling mechanisms. Linker histones inhibited remodelling by CHD1. Surprisingly, ACF catalysed significant repositioning of entire chromatosomes in chromatin containing saturating levels of linker histone H1. H1 inhibited the ATP-dependent generation of DNA accessibility by only about 50%. This first demonstration of catalysed chromatosome movements suggests that the bulk of interphase euchromatin may be rendered dynamic by dedicated nucleosome-remodelling factors.
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- Verena K Maier
- Molekularbiologie, Adolf-Butenandt Institut, Ludwig Maximilian Universität, Munich, Germany
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Keuling A, Yang F, Hanna S, Wang H, Tully T, Burnham A, Locke J, McDermid HE. Mutation analysis of Drosophila dikar/CG32394, homologue of the chromatin-remodelling gene CECR2. Genome 2007; 50:767-77. [PMID: 17893736 DOI: 10.1139/g07-050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The mammalian CECR2 protein contains a highly conserved bromodomain and forms a chromatin-remodelling complex with the ISWI homologue SNF2L. Mutation of the mouse CECR2 homologue results in a neural tube defect. Here we describe the characterization of the Drosophila melanogaster homologue of CECR2. Originally annotated as 2 genes, dikar and CG32394 now appear to encode both a long dikar/CG32394 transcript homologous to CECR2 and a truncated transcript missing the bromodomain. This truncated transcript may be specific to Diptera, as it is predicted from the genomic sequences of several other dipteran species but it is not predicted in the honey bee, Apis mellifera, and it is not found in mammals. Five different P element-mediated 5' deletions of the Drosophila dikar gene were generated. All mutants were homozygous-viable and the 3 mutants examined further displayed continued, albeit aberrant, transcription of dikar/CG32394. In a previous study, a dikar insertion mutation was associated with long-term memory deficits. However, the 2 deletion mutants tested here showed normal long-term memory, suggesting that the memory deficit associated with the dikar P element insertion is not due to disruption of dikar. No genetic interaction was seen between Iswi and dikar mutations. This study therefore suggests that the lack of a visible phenotype in dikar mutants is due to compensation by a second gene, possibly acf1.
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- Angela Keuling
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Nightingale KP, Baumann M, Eberharter A, Mamais A, Becker PB, Boyes J. Acetylation increases access of remodelling complexes to their nucleosome targets to enhance initiation of V(D)J recombination. Nucleic Acids Res 2007; 35:6311-21. [PMID: 17881376 PMCID: PMC2094086 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm650] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Targeted chromatin remodelling is essential for many nuclear processes, including the regulation of V(D)J recombination. ATP-dependent nucleosome remodelling complexes are important players in this process whose activity must be tightly regulated. We show here that histone acetylation regulates nucleosome remodelling complex activity to boost RAG cutting during the initiation of V(D)J recombination. RAG cutting requires nucleosome mobilization from recombination signal sequences. Histone acetylation does not stimulate nucleosome mobilization per se by CHRAC, ACF or their catalytic subunit, ISWI. Instead, we find the more open structure of acetylated chromatin regulates the ability of nucleosome remodelling complexes to access their nucleosome templates. We also find that bromodomain/acetylated histone tail interactions can contribute to this targeting at limited concentrations of remodelling complex. We therefore propose that the changes in higher order chromatin structure associated with histone acetylation contribute to the correct targeting of nucleosome remodelling complexes and this is a novel way in which histone acetylation can modulate remodelling complex activity.
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- Karl P. Nightingale
- Institute of Biomedical Research, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK, Institute of Cancer Research, 237 Fulham Road, London, SW3 6JB, UK, Adolf Butenandt Institute for Molecular Biology, Schillerstrasse 44, D-80336 Munich, Germany and Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
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- Institute of Biomedical Research, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK, Institute of Cancer Research, 237 Fulham Road, London, SW3 6JB, UK, Adolf Butenandt Institute for Molecular Biology, Schillerstrasse 44, D-80336 Munich, Germany and Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
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- Institute of Biomedical Research, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK, Institute of Cancer Research, 237 Fulham Road, London, SW3 6JB, UK, Adolf Butenandt Institute for Molecular Biology, Schillerstrasse 44, D-80336 Munich, Germany and Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
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- Institute of Biomedical Research, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK, Institute of Cancer Research, 237 Fulham Road, London, SW3 6JB, UK, Adolf Butenandt Institute for Molecular Biology, Schillerstrasse 44, D-80336 Munich, Germany and Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
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- Institute of Biomedical Research, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK, Institute of Cancer Research, 237 Fulham Road, London, SW3 6JB, UK, Adolf Butenandt Institute for Molecular Biology, Schillerstrasse 44, D-80336 Munich, Germany and Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
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- Institute of Biomedical Research, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK, Institute of Cancer Research, 237 Fulham Road, London, SW3 6JB, UK, Adolf Butenandt Institute for Molecular Biology, Schillerstrasse 44, D-80336 Munich, Germany and Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
- *To whom correspondence should be addressed. 44 113 343 314744 113 343 3167
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Ferreira R, Eberharter A, Bonaldi T, Chioda M, Imhof A, Becker PB. Site-specific acetylation of ISWI by GCN5. BMC Mol Biol 2007; 8:73. [PMID: 17760996 PMCID: PMC2045673 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2199-8-73] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2007] [Accepted: 08/30/2007] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Background The tight organisation of eukaryotic genomes as chromatin hinders the interaction of many DNA-binding regulators. The local accessibility of DNA is regulated by many chromatin modifying enzymes, among them the nucleosome remodelling factors. These enzymes couple the hydrolysis of ATP to disruption of histone-DNA interactions, which may lead to partial or complete disassembly of nucleosomes or their sliding on DNA. The diversity of nucleosome remodelling factors is reflected by a multitude of ATPase complexes with distinct subunit composition. Results We found further diversification of remodelling factors by posttranslational modification. The histone acetyltransferase GCN5 can acetylate the Drosophila remodelling ATPase ISWI at a single, conserved lysine, K753, in vivo and in vitro. The target sequence is strikingly similar to the N-terminus of histone H3, where the corresponding lysine, H3K14, can also be acetylated by GCN5. The acetylated form of ISWI represents a minor species presumably associated with the nucleosome remodelling factor NURF. Conclusion Acetylation of histone H3 and ISWI by GCN5 is explained by the sequence similarity between the histone and ISWI around the acetylation site. The common motif RKT/SxGx(Kac)xPR/K differs from the previously suggested GCN5/PCAF recognition motif GKxxP. This raises the possibility of co-regulation of a nucleosome remodelling factor and its nucleosome substrate through acetylation of related epitopes and suggests a direct crosstalk between two distinct nucleosome modification principles.
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- Roger Ferreira
- Adolf-Butenandt-Institut, Molekularbiologie, 80336 München, Germany
- European Patent Office – Biotechnology, D-80339 München, Germany
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- Adolf-Butenandt-Institut, Molekularbiologie, 80336 München, Germany
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- Adolf-Butenandt-Institut, Molekularbiologie, 80336 München, Germany
- Max-Planck Institut für Biochemie, D-82152 Martinsried, Germany
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- Adolf-Butenandt-Institut, Molekularbiologie, 80336 München, Germany
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- Adolf-Butenandt-Institut, Molekularbiologie, 80336 München, Germany
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Grinstein E, Du Y, Santourlidis S, Christ J, Uhrberg M, Wernet P. Nucleolin regulates gene expression in CD34-positive hematopoietic cells. J Biol Chem 2007; 282:12439-49. [PMID: 17255095 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m608068200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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CD34 glycoprotein in human hematopoiesis is expressed on a subset of progenitor cells capable of self-renewal, multilineage differentiation, and hematopoietic reconstitution. Nucleolin is an abundant multifunctional phosphoprotein of growing eukaryotic cells, involved in regulation of gene transcription, chromatin remodeling, and RNA metabolism, whose transcripts are enriched in murine hematopoietic stem cells, as opposed to differentiated tissue. Here we show that, in human CD34-positive hematopoietic cells, nucleolin activates endogenous CD34 and Bcl-2 gene expression, and cell surface CD34 protein expression is thereby enhanced by nucleolin. Nucleolin-mediated activation of CD34 gene transcription results from direct sequence-specific interactions with the CD34 promoter region. Nucleolin expression prevails in CD34-positive cells mobilized into peripheral blood (PB), as opposed to CD34-negative peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs). Therefore, in intact CD34-positive mobilized PB cells, a recruitment of nucleolin to the CD34 promoter region takes place, accompanied by nucleosomal determinants of gene activity, which are absent from the CD34 promoter region in CD34-negative PBMCs. Our data show that nucleolin acts as a component of the gene regulation program of CD34-positive hematopoietic cells and provide further insights into processes by which human CD34-positive hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells are maintained.
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- Edgar Grinstein
- Institute of Transplantation Diagnostics and Cellular Therapeutics, Heinrich Heine University Medical Center, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany.
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Simon MD, Chu F, Racki LR, de la Cruz CC, Burlingame AL, Panning B, Narlikar GJ, Shokat KM. The site-specific installation of methyl-lysine analogs into recombinant histones. Cell 2007; 128:1003-12. [PMID: 17350582 PMCID: PMC2932701 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2006.12.041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 395] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2006] [Revised: 10/26/2006] [Accepted: 12/14/2006] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Histone lysine residues can be mono-, di-, or trimethylated. These posttranslational modifications regulate the affinity of effector proteins and may also impact chromatin structure independent of their role as adaptors. In order to study histone lysine methylation, particularly in the context of chromatin, we have developed a chemical approach to install analogs of methyl lysine into recombinant proteins. This approach allows for the rapid generation of large quantities of histones in which the site and degree of methylation can be specified. We demonstrate that these methyl-lysine analogs (MLAs) are functionally similar to their natural counterparts. These methylated histones were used to examine the influence of specific lysine methylation on the binding of effecter proteins and the rates of nucleosome remodeling. This simple method of introducing site-specific and degree-specific methylation into recombinant histones provides a powerful tool to investigate the biochemical mechanisms by which lysine methylation influences chromatin structure and function.
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- Matthew D. Simon
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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Stephens GE, Xiao H, Lankenau DH, Wu C, Elgin SCR. Heterochromatin protein 2 interacts with Nap-1 and NURF: a link between heterochromatin-induced gene silencing and the chromatin remodeling machinery in Drosophila. Biochemistry 2007; 45:14990-9. [PMID: 17154536 PMCID: PMC2534143 DOI: 10.1021/bi060983y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Heterochromatin protein 2 (HP2) is a nonhistone chromosomal protein from Drosophila melanogaster that binds to heterochromatin protein 1 (HP1) and has been implicated in heterochromatin-induced gene silencing. Heretofore, HP1 has been the only known binding partner of HP2, a large protein devoid of sequence motifs other than a pair of AT hooks. In an effort to identify proteins that interact with HP2 and assign functions to its various domains, nuclear proteins were fractionated under nondenaturing conditions. On separation of nuclear proteins, nucleosome assembly protein 1 (Nap-1) has an overlapping elution profile with HP2 (assayed by Western blot) and has been identified by mass spectrometry in fractions with HP2. Upon probing fractions in which HP2 and Nap-1 are both present, we find that the nucleosome remodeling factor (NURF), an ISWI-dependent chromatin remodeling complex, is also present. Results from coimmunoprecipitation experiments suggest that HP2 interacts with Nap-1 as well as with NURF; NURF appears to interact directly with both HP2 and Nap-1. Three distinct domains within HP2 mediate the interaction with NURF, allowing us to assign NURF binding domains in addition to the AT hooks and HP1 binding domains already mapped in HP2. Mutations in Nap-1 are shown to suppress position effect variegation, suggesting that Nap-1 functions to help to assemble chromatin into a closed form, as does HP2. On the basis of these interactions, we speculate that HP2 may cooperate with these factors in the remodeling of chromatin for silencing.
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- Gena E. Stephens
- Department of Biology, Washington University, CB-1229, St. Louis, MO 63130
- Correspondence to be sent to: Gena E. Stephens, Telephone: 314-935-6837, Fax: 314-935-5125, E-mail:
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- Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, Building 37, Room 6068, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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- University of Heidelberg, Institute of Zoology, Im Neuenheimer Feld 230, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, Building 37, Room 6068, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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- Department of Biology, Washington University, CB-1229, St. Louis, MO 63130
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Eukaryotic genetic information is stored within the association of DNA and histone proteins resulting in a dynamic polymer called chromatin. The fundamental structural unit of chromatin is the nucleosome which consists of approximately 146 bp of DNA wrapped around an octamer of histones containing two copies each of four core histones, H2A, H2B, H3 and H4. It is this DNA/protein fiber that transcription factors and other agents of chromatin metabolism must access and regulate. We have developed model systems to study the mechanisms by which steroid receptors control physiological activities by regulating gene expression within a higher order chromatin organization. Our studies have focused on the glucocorticoid receptor and its ability to remodel chromatin which is mediated by the BRG1 complex. Using novel cell systems, we demonstrate that GR-mediated transactivation from chromatin templates requires BRG1 remodeling activity and that other ATP-dependent remodeling proteins cannot substitute for this activity.
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- Kevin W. Trotter
- Chromatin and Gene Expression Section, Laboratory of Molecular Carcinogenesis, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, 111 T.W. Alexander Drive, P.O. Box 12233 (MD C4-06), Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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- Chromatin and Gene Expression Section, Laboratory of Molecular Carcinogenesis, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, 111 T.W. Alexander Drive, P.O. Box 12233 (MD C4-06), Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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Gangaraju VK, Bartholomew B. Mechanisms of ATP dependent chromatin remodeling. Mutat Res 2007; 618:3-17. [PMID: 17306844 PMCID: PMC2584342 DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2006.08.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 118] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2006] [Accepted: 08/14/2006] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The inter-relationship between DNA repair and ATP dependent chromatin remodeling has begun to become very apparent with recent discoveries. ATP dependent remodeling complexes mobilize nucleosomes along DNA, promote the exchange of histones, or completely displace nucleosomes from DNA. These remodeling complexes are often categorized based on the domain organization of their catalytic subunit. The biochemical properties and structural information of several of these remodeling complexes are reviewed. The different models for how these complexes are able to mobilize nucleosomes and alter nucleosome structure are presented incorporating several recent findings. Finally the role of histone tails and their respective modifications in ATP-dependent remodeling are discussed.
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- Vamsi K Gangaraju
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Carbondale, IL. 62901-4413, USA
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Hogan C, Varga-Weisz P. The regulation of ATP-dependent nucleosome remodelling factors. Mutat Res 2007; 618:41-51. [PMID: 17306842 DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2006.07.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2006] [Accepted: 07/18/2006] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The plasticity of chromatin is governed by multi-subunit protein complexes that enzymatically regulate chromosomal structure and activity. Such complexes include ATP-dependent chromatin remodelling factors that are involved in many fundamental processes such as transcription, DNA repair, replication and chromosome structure maintenance. Because ATP-dependent chromatin remodelling factors play important roles, it is not surprising to find that their functions are regulated in a plethora of ways, including post-translational modifications of their subunits and subunit composition changes. The activity of these enzymes is modulated by many factors, including linker histones, histone variants, histone chaperones, non-histone chromatin constituents such as HMG-proteins and secondary messengers, such as inositolpolyphosphates. Additionally, specific histone modifications and interaction with site-specific transcriptional regulators direct the targeting of these activities. Understanding the network of mechanisms that control ATP-dependent chromatin remodelling will constitute an important challenge towards our understanding of chromatin dynamics.
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Eskeland R, Eberharter A, Imhof A. HP1 binding to chromatin methylated at H3K9 is enhanced by auxiliary factors. Mol Cell Biol 2006; 27:453-65. [PMID: 17101786 PMCID: PMC1800810 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.01576-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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A large portion of the eukaryotic genome is packaged into transcriptionally silent heterochromatin. Several factors that play important roles during the establishment and maintenance of this condensed form have been identified. Methylation of lysine 9 within histone H3 and the subsequent binding of the chromodomain protein heterochromatin protein 1 (HP1) are thought to initiate heterochromatin formation in vivo and to propagate a heterochromatic state lasting through several cell divisions. For the present study we analyzed the binding of HP1 to methylated chromatin in a fully reconstituted system. In contrast to its strong binding to methylated peptides, HP1 binds only weakly to methylated chromatin. However, the addition of recombinant SU(VAR) protein, such as ACF1 or SU(VAR)3-9, facilitates HP1 binding to chromatin methylated at lysine 9 within the H3 N terminus (H3K9). We propose that HP1 has multiple target sites that contribute to its recognition of chromatin, only one of them being methylated at H3K9. These findings have implications for the mechanisms of recognition of specific chromatin modifications in vivo.
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- Ragnhild Eskeland
- Histone Modifications Group, Adolf-Butenandt Institut, University of Munich, Schillerstrasse 44, 80336 Munich, Germany
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Yang JG, Madrid TS, Sevastopoulos E, Narlikar GJ. The chromatin-remodeling enzyme ACF is an ATP-dependent DNA length sensor that regulates nucleosome spacing. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2006; 13:1078-83. [PMID: 17099699 DOI: 10.1038/nsmb1170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 161] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2006] [Accepted: 10/24/2006] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Arrays of regularly spaced nucleosomes directly correlate with closed chromatin structures at silenced loci. The ATP-dependent chromatin-assembly factor (ACF) generates such arrays in vitro and is required for transcriptional silencing in vivo. A key unresolved question is how ACF 'measures' equal spacing between nucleosomes. We show that ACF senses flanking DNA length and transduces length information in an ATP-dependent manner to regulate the rate of nucleosome movement. Using fluorescence resonance energy transfer to follow nucleosome movement, we find that ACF can rapidly sample DNA on either side of a nucleosome and moves the longer flanking DNA across the nucleosome faster than the shorter flanking DNA. This generates a dynamic equilibrium in which nucleosomes having equal DNA on either side accumulate. Our results indicate that ACF generates the characteristic 50- to 60-base-pair internucleosomal spacing in silent chromatin by kinetically discriminating against shorter linker DNAs.
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- Janet G Yang
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, 600 16th Street, San Francisco, California 94158, USA
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The regulation of chromatin structure is of fundamental importance for many DNA-based processes in eukaryotes. Activation or repression of gene transcription or DNA replication depends on enzymes which can generate the appropriate chromatin environment. Several of these enzymes utilize the energy of ATP hydrolysis to alter nucleosome structure. In recent years our understanding of the multisubunit complexes within which they function, their mechanisms of action, their regulation and their in-vivo roles has increased. Much of what we have learned has been gleaned from studies in Drosophila melanogaster. Here we will review what we know about the main classes of ATP-dependent chromatin remodelers in Drosophila.
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- Karim Bouazoune
- Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Molecular Biology, Harvard Medical School, Department of Genetics, 185 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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He X, Fan HY, Narlikar GJ, Kingston RE. Human ACF1 alters the remodeling strategy of SNF2h. J Biol Chem 2006; 281:28636-47. [PMID: 16877760 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m603008200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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The human ACF chromatin-remodeling complex (hACF) contains the ATPase motor protein SNF2h and the non-catalytic hACF1 subunit. Here, we have compared the ability of SNF2h and a reconstituted hACF complex containing both SNF2h and hACF1 to remodel a series of nucleosomes containing different lengths of DNA overhang. Both SNF2h and hACF functioned in a manner consistent with sliding a canonical nucleosome. However, the non-catalytic subunit, hACF1, altered the remodeling properties of SNF2h by changing the nature of the requirement for a DNA overhang in the nucleosomal substrate and altering the DNA accessibility profile of the remodeled products. Surprisingly, addition of hACF1 to SNF2h increased the amount of DNA overhang needed to observe measurable amounts of DNA accessibility, but decreased the amount of overhang needed for a measurable binding interaction. We propose that these hACF1 functions might contribute to making the hACF complex more efficient at nucleosome spacing compared with SNF2h. In contrast, the SWI/SNF complex and its ATPase subunit BRG1 generated DNA accessibility profiles that were similar to each other, but different significantly from those of hACF and SNF2h. Thus, we observed divergent remodeling behaviors in these two remodeling families and found that the manner in which hACF1 alters the remodeling behavior of the ATPase is not shared by SWI/SNF subunits.
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- Xi He
- Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA
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The imitation switch (ISWI) family of chromatin remodelling ATPases is found in organisms ranging from yeast to mammals. ISWI ATPases assemble chromatin and slide and space nucleosomes, making the chromatin template fluid and allowing appropriate regulation of events such as transcription, DNA replication, recombination and repair. The site of action of the ATPases is determined, in part by the tissue type in which the enzyme is expressed and in part by the nature of the proteins associated with the enzyme. The ISWI complexes are generally conserved in composition and function across species. Roles in gene expression and DNA replication in heterochromatin, gene activation and repression in euchromatin, and functions related to maintaining chromosome architecture are associated with different complexes. Defects in ISWI-associated proteins may be associated with neurodegenerative disease, anencephaly, William's syndrome and melanotic tumours. Finally, the mechanism by which yeast Isw Ib influences gene transcription is discussed.
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- J Mellor
- Department of Biochemistry, Oxford, UK.
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Angelov D, Bondarenko VA, Almagro S, Menoni H, Mongélard F, Hans F, Mietton F, Studitsky VM, Hamiche A, Dimitrov S, Bouvet P. Nucleolin is a histone chaperone with FACT-like activity and assists remodeling of nucleosomes. EMBO J 2006; 25:1669-79. [PMID: 16601700 PMCID: PMC1440837 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7601046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 189] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2005] [Accepted: 02/21/2006] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Remodeling machines play an essential role in the control of gene expression, but how their activity is regulated is not known. Here we report that the nuclear protein nucleolin possesses a histone chaperone activity and that this factor greatly enhances the activity of the chromatin remodeling machineries SWI/SNF and ACF. Interestingly, nucleolin is able to induce the remodeling by SWI/SNF of macroH2A, but not of H2ABbd nucleosomes, which are otherwise resistant to remodeling. This new histone chaperone promotes the destabilization of the histone octamer, helping the dissociation of a H2A-H2B dimer, and stimulates the SWI/SNF-mediated transfer of H2A-H2B dimers. Furthermore, nucleolin facilitates transcription through the nucleosome, which is reminiscent of the activity of the FACT complex. This work defines new functions for histone chaperones in chromatin remodeling and regulation of transcription and explains how nucleolin could act on transcription.
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- Dimitar Angelov
- Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS-UMR 5161/INRA 1237/IFR128 Biosciences, Lyon-Gerland, France
- Laboratoire Joliot-Curie, Lyon, France
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA
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- Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS-UMR 5161/INRA 1237/IFR128 Biosciences, Lyon-Gerland, France
- Laboratoire Joliot-Curie, Lyon, France
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- Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS-UMR 5161/INRA 1237/IFR128 Biosciences, Lyon-Gerland, France
- Laboratoire Joliot-Curie, Lyon, France
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- Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS-UMR 5161/INRA 1237/IFR128 Biosciences, Lyon-Gerland, France
- Laboratoire Joliot-Curie, Lyon, France
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- Institut Albert Bonniot, INSERM U309, La Tronche Cedex, France
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- Institut Albert Bonniot, INSERM U309, La Tronche Cedex, France
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA
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- Institut André Lwoff, CNRS UPR 9079, Villejuif, France
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- Laboratoire Joliot-Curie, Lyon, France
- Institut Albert Bonniot, INSERM U309, La Tronche Cedex, France
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- Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS-UMR 5161/INRA 1237/IFR128 Biosciences, Lyon-Gerland, France
- Laboratoire Joliot-Curie, Lyon, France
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Stockdale C, Flaus A, Ferreira H, Owen-Hughes T. Analysis of nucleosome repositioning by yeast ISWI and Chd1 chromatin remodeling complexes. J Biol Chem 2006; 281:16279-88. [PMID: 16606615 PMCID: PMC1764501 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m600682200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 148] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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ISWI proteins form the catalytic core of a subset of ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling activities in eukaryotes from yeast to man. Many of these complexes have been found to reposition nucleosomes but with different directionalities. We find that the yeast Isw1a, Isw2, and Chd1 enzymes preferentially move nucleosomes toward more central locations on short DNA fragments whereas Isw1b does not. Importantly, the inherent positioning properties of the DNA play an important role in determining where nucleosomes are relocated to by all of these enzymes. However, a key difference is that the Isw1a, Isw2, and Chd1 enzymes are unable to move nucleosomes to positions closer than 15 bp from a DNA end, whereas Isw1b can. We also find that there is a correlation between the inability of enzymes to move nucleosomes close to DNA ends and the preferential binding to nucleosomes bearing linker DNA. These observations suggest that the accessibility of linker DNA together with the positioning properties of the underlying DNA play important roles in determining the outcome of remodeling by these enzymes.
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- Address correspondence to Tom Owen-Hughes, Division of Gene Regulation and Expression, The Wellcome Trust Biocentre, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 5EH, UK; Tel. (44) 1382-345796; Fax. (44) 1382-348072; E-Mail:
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Bienz M. The PHD finger, a nuclear protein-interaction domain. Trends Biochem Sci 2006; 31:35-40. [PMID: 16297627 DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2005.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 299] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2005] [Revised: 10/14/2005] [Accepted: 11/07/2005] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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The PHD finger is a common structural motif found in all eukaryotic genomes. It is a Zn(2+)-binding domain and its closest structural relative is the RING domain. Many RING fingers bind to E2 ligases to mediate the ubiquitination of proteins. Whether PHD fingers share a common function is unclear. Notably, many if not all PHD fingers are found in nuclear proteins whose substrate tends to be chromatin. Some PHD fingers bind to specific nuclear protein partners, apparently through the same surface that is used by RING domains to bind their cognate E2 ligases. New evidence also suggests that some PHD fingers bind to nucleosomes, raising the possibility that chromatin might be a common nuclear ligand of PHD fingers.
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- Mariann Bienz
- LMB Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2QH, UK.
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Hartlepp KF, Fernández-Tornero C, Eberharter A, Grüne T, Müller CW, Becker PB. The histone fold subunits of Drosophila CHRAC facilitate nucleosome sliding through dynamic DNA interactions. Mol Cell Biol 2005; 25:9886-96. [PMID: 16260604 PMCID: PMC1280263 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.25.22.9886-9896.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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The chromatin accessibility complex (CHRAC) is an abundant, evolutionarily conserved nucleosome remodeling machinery able to catalyze histone octamer sliding on DNA. CHRAC differs from the related ACF complex by the presence of two subunits with molecular masses of 14 and 16 kDa, whose structure and function were not known. We determined the structure of Drosophila melanogaster CHRAC14-CHRAC16 by X-ray crystallography at 2.4-angstroms resolution and found that they dimerize via a variant histone fold in a typical handshake structure. In further analogy to histones, CHRAC14-16 contain unstructured N- and C-terminal tail domains that protrude from the handshake structure. A dimer of CHRAC14-16 can associate with the N terminus of ACF1, thereby completing CHRAC. Low-affinity interactions of CHRAC14-16 with DNA significantly improve the efficiency of nucleosome mobilization by limiting amounts of ACF. Deletion of the negatively charged C terminus of CHRAC16 enhances DNA binding 25-fold but leads to inhibition of nucleosome sliding, in striking analogy to the effect of the DNA chaperone HMGB1 on nucleosome sliding. The presence of a surface compatible with DNA interaction and the geometry of an H2A-H2B heterodimer may provide a transient acceptor site for DNA dislocated from the histone surface and therefore facilitate the nucleosome remodeling process.
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- Klaus F Hartlepp
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Grenoble Outstation, France
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Becker PB. The chromatin accessibility complex: chromatin dynamics through nucleosome sliding. COLD SPRING HARBOR SYMPOSIA ON QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY 2005; 69:281-7. [PMID: 16117660 DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2004.69.281] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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- P B Becker
- Adolf-Butenandt-Institut, Molekularbiologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 80336 München, Germany
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Bouazoune K, Brehm A. dMi-2 chromatin binding and remodeling activities are regulated by dCK2 phosphorylation. J Biol Chem 2005; 280:41912-20. [PMID: 16223721 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m507084200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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A plethora of ATP-dependent chromatin-remodeling enzymes have been identified during the last decade. Many have been shown to play pivotal roles in the organization and expression of eukaryotic genomes. It is clear that their activities need to be tightly regulated to ensure their coordinated action. However, little is known about how ATP-dependent remodelers are regulated at the molecular level. Here, we have investigated the ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling enzyme Mi-2 of Drosophila melanogaster. Radioactive labeling of S2 cells reveals that dMi-2 is a phosphoprotein in vivo. dMi-2 phosphorylation is constitutive, and we identify dCK2 as a major dMi-2 kinase in cell extracts. dCK2 binds to and phosphorylates a dMi-2 N-terminal region. Dephosphorylation of recombinant dMi-2 increases its affinity for the nucleosome substrate, nucleosome-stimulated ATPase, and ATP-dependent nucleosome mobilization activities. Our results reveal a potential mechanism for regulation of the dMi-2 enzyme and point toward CK2 phosphorylation as a common feature of CHD family ATPases.
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- Karim Bouazoune
- Adolf-Butenandt-Institut, Lehrstuhl für Molekularbiologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Schillerstrasse 44, 80336 München, Germany
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Varga-Weisz P. Chromatin remodeling factors and DNA replication. PROGRESS IN MOLECULAR AND SUBCELLULAR BIOLOGY 2005; 38:1-30. [PMID: 15881889 DOI: 10.1007/3-540-27310-7_1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Chromatin structures have to be precisely duplicated during DNA replication to maintain tissue-specific gene expression patterns and specialized domains, such as the centromeres. Chromatin remodeling factors are key components involved in this process and include histone chaperones, histone modifying enzymes and ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling complexes. Several of these factors interact directly with components of the replication machinery. Histone variants are also important to mark specific chromatin domains. Because chromatin remodeling factors render chromatin dynamic, they may also be involved in facilitating the DNA replication process through condensed chromatin domains.
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Strohner R, Wachsmuth M, Dachauer K, Mazurkiewicz J, Hochstatter J, Rippe K, Längst G. A 'loop recapture' mechanism for ACF-dependent nucleosome remodeling. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2005; 12:683-90. [PMID: 16025127 DOI: 10.1038/nsmb966] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2005] [Accepted: 06/23/2005] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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The ATPase ISWI is the molecular motor of several nucleosome remodeling complexes including ACF. We analyzed the ACF-nucleosome interactions and determined the characteristics of ACF-dependent nucleosome remodeling. In contrast to ISWI, ACF interacts symmetrically with DNA entry sites of the nucleosome. Two-color fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy measurements show that ACF can bind four DNA duplexes simultaneously in a complex that contains two Acf1 and ISWI molecules. Using bead-bound nucleosomal substrates, nucleosome movement by mechanisms involving DNA twisting was excluded. Furthermore, an ACF-dependent local detachment of DNA from the nucleosome was demonstrated in a novel assay based on the preferred intercalation of ethidium bromide to free DNA. The findings suggest a loop recapture mechanism in which ACF introduces a DNA loop at the nucleosomal entry site that propagates over the histone octamer surface and leads to nucleosome repositioning.
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- Ralf Strohner
- Adolf-Butenandt-Institut, Molekularbiologie, Schillerstrasse 44, 80336 München, Germany
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Rodriguez P, Bonte E, Krijgsveld J, Kolodziej KE, Guyot B, Heck AJR, Vyas P, de Boer E, Grosveld F, Strouboulis J. GATA-1 forms distinct activating and repressive complexes in erythroid cells. EMBO J 2005; 24:2354-66. [PMID: 15920471 PMCID: PMC1173143 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7600702] [Citation(s) in RCA: 222] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2004] [Accepted: 05/03/2005] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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GATA-1 is essential for the generation of the erythroid, megakaryocytic, eosinophilic and mast cell lineages. It acts as an activator and repressor of different target genes, for example, in erythroid cells it represses cell proliferation and early hematopoietic genes while activating erythroid genes, yet it is not clear how both of these functions are mediated. Using a biotinylation tagging/proteomics approach in erythroid cells, we describe distinct GATA-1 interactions with the essential hematopoietic factor Gfi-1b, the repressive MeCP1 complex and the chromatin remodeling ACF/WCRF complex, in addition to the known GATA-1/FOG-1 and GATA-1/TAL-1 complexes. Importantly, we show that FOG-1 mediates GATA-1 interactions with the MeCP1 complex, thus providing an explanation for the overlapping functions of these two factors in erythropoiesis. We also show that subsets of GATA-1 gene targets are bound in vivo by distinct complexes, thus linking specific GATA-1 partners to distinct aspects of its functions. Based on these findings, we suggest a model for the different roles of GATA-1 in erythroid differentiation.
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- Patrick Rodriguez
- Department of Cell Biology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cell Biology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research and Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cell Biology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Haematology, The Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research and Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Haematology, The Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Cell Biology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cell Biology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cell Biology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Cell Biology, Erasmus University Medical Center, PO Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Tel.: + 31 10 408 7352; Fax: + 31 10 408 9768; E-mail:
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Fan HY, Trotter KW, Archer TK, Kingston RE. Swapping Function of Two Chromatin Remodeling Complexes. Mol Cell 2005; 17:805-15. [PMID: 15780937 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2005.02.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2004] [Revised: 12/21/2004] [Accepted: 02/18/2005] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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SWI/SNF- and ISWI-based complexes have distinct yet overlapping chromatin-remodeling activities in vitro and perform different roles in vivo. This leads to the hypothesis that the distinct remodeling functions of these complexes are specifically required for distinct biological tasks. By creating and characterizing chimeric proteins of BRG1 and SNF2h, the motor proteins of human SWI/SNF- and ISWI-based complexes, respectively, we found that a region that includes the ATPase domain specifies the outcome of the remodeling reaction in vitro. A chimeric protein based on BRG1 but containing the SNF2h ATPase domain formed an intact SWI/SNF complex that remodeled like SNF2h. This altered-function complex was active for remodeling and could stimulate expression from some, but not all, SWI/SNF responsive promoters in vivo. Thus, we were able to separate domains of BRG1 responsible for function from those responsible for SWI/SNF complex formation and demonstrate that remodeling functions are not interchangeable in vivo.
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- Hua-Ying Fan
- Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
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Eberharter A, Vetter I, Ferreira R, Becker PB. ACF1 improves the effectiveness of nucleosome mobilization by ISWI through PHD-histone contacts. EMBO J 2004; 23:4029-39. [PMID: 15457208 PMCID: PMC524333 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7600382] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2004] [Accepted: 08/04/2004] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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The nucleosome remodelling ATPase ISWI resides in several distinct protein complexes whose subunit composition reflects their functional specialization. Association of ISWI with ACF1, the largest subunit of CHRAC and ACF complexes, improves the efficiency of ISWI-induced nucleosome mobilization by an order of magnitude and also modulates the reaction qualitatively. In order to understand the principle by which ACF1 improves the efficiency of ISWI, we mapped their mutual interaction requirements and generated a series of ACF complexes lacking conserved ACF1 domains. Deletion of the C-terminal PHD finger modules of ACF1 or their disruption by zinc chelation profoundly affected the nucleosome mobilization capability of associated ISWI in trans. Interactions of the PHD fingers with the central domains of core histones contribute significantly to the binding of ACF to the nucleosome substrate, suggesting a novel role for PHD modules as nucleosome interaction determinants. Connecting ACF to histones may be prerequisite for efficient conversion of ATP-dependent conformational changes of ISWI into translocation of DNA relative to the histones during nucleosome mobilization.
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- Adolf-Butenandt-Institut, Molekularbiologie, München, Germany
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- Adolf-Butenandt-Institut, Molekularbiologie, München, Germany
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- Adolf-Butenandt-Institut, Molekularbiologie, München, Germany
- Adolf-Butenandt-Institut, Molekularbiologie, Schillerstr. 44, 80336 München, Germany. Tel.: +49 89 2180 75428; Fax: +49 89 2180 75425; E-mail:
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Angelov D, Verdel A, An W, Bondarenko V, Hans F, Doyen CM, Studitsky VM, Hamiche A, Roeder RG, Bouvet P, Dimitrov S. SWI/SNF remodeling and p300-dependent transcription of histone variant H2ABbd nucleosomal arrays. EMBO J 2004; 23:3815-24. [PMID: 15372075 PMCID: PMC522799 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7600400] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2004] [Accepted: 08/16/2004] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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A histone variant H2ABbd was recently identified, but its function is totally unknown. Here we have studied the structural and functional properties of nucleosome and nucleosomal arrays reconstituted with this histone variant. We show that H2ABbd can replace the conventional H2A in the nucleosome, but this replacement results in alterations of the nucleosomal structure. The remodeling complexes SWI/SNF and ACF are unable to mobilize the variant H2ABbd nucleosome. However, SWI/SNF was able to increase restriction enzyme access to the variant nucleosome and assist the transfer of variant H2ABbd-H2B dimer to a tetrameric histone H3-H4 particle. In addition, the p300- and Gal4-VP16-activated transcription appeared to be more efficient for H2ABbd nucleosomal arrays than for conventional H2A arrays. The intriguing mechanisms by which H2ABbd affects both nucleosome remodeling and transcription are discussed.
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- Dimitar Angelov
- Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS-UMR 5161, Lyon, France
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- Institut Albert Bonniot, INSERM U309, La Tronche, France
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- Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA
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- Institut Albert Bonniot, INSERM U309, La Tronche, France
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- Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS-UMR 5161, Lyon, France
- Institut Albert Bonniot, INSERM U309, La Tronche, France
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA
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- Institut Andre Lwoff, CNRS UPR 9079, Villejuif, France
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- Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
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- Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS-UMR 5161, Lyon, France
- Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS-UMR 5161, 46 Allée d'Italie, 69007 Lyon, France. Tel.: +33 472 72 80 16; Fax: +33 472 72 80 80; E-mail:
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- Institut Albert Bonniot, INSERM U309, La Tronche, France
- Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire, et Cellulaire de la Différenciation, Institut Albert Bonniot INSERM U309, Domaine de la Merci, 38706 La Tronche Cedex, France. Tel.: +33 476 54 94 73; Fax: +33 476 54 95 95; E-mail:
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Schwanbeck R, Xiao H, Wu C. Spatial contacts and nucleosome step movements induced by the NURF chromatin remodeling complex. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:39933-41. [PMID: 15262970 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m406060200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 118] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The nucleosome remodeling factor NURF is a four-subunit, ISWI-containing chromatin remodeling complex that catalyzes nucleosome sliding in an ATP-dependent fashion, thereby modulating the accessibility of the DNA. To elucidate the mechanism of nucleosome sliding, we have investigated by hydroxyl radical footprinting how NURF makes initial contact with a nucleosome positioned at one end of a DNA fragment. NURF binds to two separate locations on the nucleosome: a continuous stretch of linker DNA up to the nucleosome entry site and a region asymmetrically surrounding the nucleosome dyad within the minor grooves, close to residues of the histone H4 tail that have been implicated in the activation of ISWI activity. Kinetic analysis reveals that nucleosome sliding occurs in apparent increments or steps of 10 bp. Furthermore, single nucleoside gaps as well as nicks about two helical turns before the dyad interfere with sliding, indicating that structural stress at this region assists the relative movement of DNA. These findings support a sliding model in which the position-specific tethering of NURF forces a translocating ISWI ATPase to pump a DNA distortion over the histone octamer, thereby changing the translational position of the nucleosome.
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- Ralf Schwanbeck
- Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, Center for Cancer Research, NCI, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-4255, USA
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Borkovich KA, Alex LA, Yarden O, Freitag M, Turner GE, Read ND, Seiler S, Bell-Pedersen D, Paietta J, Plesofsky N, Plamann M, Goodrich-Tanrikulu M, Schulte U, Mannhaupt G, Nargang FE, Radford A, Selitrennikoff C, Galagan JE, Dunlap JC, Loros JJ, Catcheside D, Inoue H, Aramayo R, Polymenis M, Selker EU, Sachs MS, Marzluf GA, Paulsen I, Davis R, Ebbole DJ, Zelter A, Kalkman ER, O'Rourke R, Bowring F, Yeadon J, Ishii C, Suzuki K, Sakai W, Pratt R. Lessons from the genome sequence of Neurospora crassa: tracing the path from genomic blueprint to multicellular organism. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 2004; 68:1-108. [PMID: 15007097 PMCID: PMC362109 DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.68.1.1-108.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 434] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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We present an analysis of over 1,100 of the approximately 10,000 predicted proteins encoded by the genome sequence of the filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa. Seven major areas of Neurospora genomics and biology are covered. First, the basic features of the genome, including the automated assembly, gene calls, and global gene analyses are summarized. The second section covers components of the centromere and kinetochore complexes, chromatin assembly and modification, and transcription and translation initiation factors. The third area discusses genome defense mechanisms, including repeat induced point mutation, quelling and meiotic silencing, and DNA repair and recombination. In the fourth section, topics relevant to metabolism and transport include extracellular digestion; membrane transporters; aspects of carbon, sulfur, nitrogen, and lipid metabolism; the mitochondrion and energy metabolism; the proteasome; and protein glycosylation, secretion, and endocytosis. Environmental sensing is the focus of the fifth section with a treatment of two-component systems; GTP-binding proteins; mitogen-activated protein, p21-activated, and germinal center kinases; calcium signaling; protein phosphatases; photobiology; circadian rhythms; and heat shock and stress responses. The sixth area of analysis is growth and development; it encompasses cell wall synthesis, proteins important for hyphal polarity, cytoskeletal components, the cyclin/cyclin-dependent kinase machinery, macroconidiation, meiosis, and the sexual cycle. The seventh section covers topics relevant to animal and plant pathogenesis and human disease. The results demonstrate that a large proportion of Neurospora genes do not have homologues in the yeasts Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Schizosaccharomyces pombe. The group of unshared genes includes potential new targets for antifungals as well as loci implicated in human and plant physiology and disease.
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- Katherine A Borkovich
- Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, USA. Katherine/
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Ragvin A, Valvatne H, Erdal S, Arskog V, Tufteland KR, Breen K, ØYan AM, Eberharter A, Gibson TJ, Becker PB, Aasland R. Nucleosome Binding by the Bromodomain and PHD Finger of the Transcriptional Cofactor p300. J Mol Biol 2004; 337:773-88. [PMID: 15033350 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2004.01.051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2003] [Revised: 12/23/2003] [Accepted: 01/26/2004] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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The PHD finger and the bromodomain are small protein domains that occur in many proteins associated with phenomena related to chromatin. The bromodomain has been shown to bind acetylated lysine residues on histone tails. Lysine acetylation is one of several histone modifications that have been proposed to form the basis for a mechanism for recording epigenetically stable marks in chromatin, known as the histone code. The bromodomain is therefore thought to read a part of the histone code. Since PHD fingers often occur in proteins next to bromodomains, we have tested the hypothesis that the PHD finger can also interact with nucleosomes. Using two different in vitro assays, we found that the bromodomain/PHD finger region of the transcriptional cofactor p300 can bind to nucleosomes that have a high degree of histone acetylation. In a nucleosome retention assay, both domains were required for binding. Replacement of the p300 PHD finger with other PHD fingers resulted in loss of nucleosome binding. In an electrophoretic mobility shift assay, each domain alone showed, however, nucleosome-binding activity. The binding of the isolated PHD finger to nucleosomes was independent of the histone acetylation levels. Our data are consistent with a model where the two domains cooperate in nucleosome binding. In this model, both the bromodomain and the PHD finger contact the nucleosome while simultaneously interacting with each other.
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- Anja Ragvin
- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Bergen, HIB, Thormöhlensgt 55, N-5020 Bergen, Norway
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Strohner R, Németh A, Nightingale KP, Grummt I, Becker PB, Längst G. Recruitment of the nucleolar remodeling complex NoRC establishes ribosomal DNA silencing in chromatin. Mol Cell Biol 2004; 24:1791-8. [PMID: 14749393 PMCID: PMC344174 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.24.4.1791-1798.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The rRNA gene cluster consists of multiple transcription units. Half of these are active, while the other half are transcriptionally inactive. Previously, in vivo studies have demonstrated that silencing of ribosomal DNA (rDNA) is mediated by the chromatin remodeling NoRC (nucleolar remodeling complex). To explore the mechanisms underlying NoRC-directed silencing of rDNA transcription, we investigated the effect of recombinant NoRC on RNA polymerase I transcription on reconstituted chromatin templates. We show that NoRC interacts with the transcription terminator factor (TTF-I), and this interaction is required both for the binding of TTF-I to its promoter-proximal target site and for the recruitment of NoRC to the promoter. After association with the rDNA promoter, NoRC alters the position of the promoter-bound nucleosome, thereby repressing RNA polymerase I transcription. This NoRC-directed rDNA repression requires the N terminus of histone H4. Repression is effective before preinitiation complex formation and as such is unable to exert an effect upon activated rDNA genes. Furthermore, the early steps of rDNA repression do not depend on DNA and histone modifications. These results reveal an important role for TTF-I in recruiting NoRC to rDNA and an active role for NoRC in the establishment of rDNA silencing.
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MESH Headings
- Acetylation
- Adenosine Triphosphatases/genetics
- Adenosine Triphosphatases/metabolism
- Animals
- Cell Line
- Chromatin/genetics
- Chromatin/metabolism
- Chromatin Assembly and Disassembly
- Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone/genetics
- Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone/metabolism
- DNA Methylation
- DNA, Ribosomal/chemistry
- DNA, Ribosomal/genetics
- DNA, Ribosomal/metabolism
- DNA, Superhelical/chemistry
- DNA, Superhelical/genetics
- DNA, Superhelical/metabolism
- DNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism
- Gene Silencing
- Histones/chemistry
- Histones/metabolism
- Kinetics
- Macromolecular Substances
- Promoter Regions, Genetic/genetics
- Protein Binding
- RNA Polymerase I/metabolism
- Repressor Proteins/genetics
- Repressor Proteins/metabolism
- Templates, Genetic
- Transcription Factors
- Transcription, Genetic/genetics
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- Ralf Strohner
- Adolf-Butenandt-Institut, Molekularbiologie, Ludwig Maximilians Universität, 80336 Munich. German
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Bonaldi T, Längst G, Strohner R, Becker PB, Bianchi ME. The DNA chaperone HMGB1 facilitates ACF/CHRAC-dependent nucleosome sliding. EMBO J 2004. [PMID: 12486007 DOI: 10.1093/embo/cdf692] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Nucleosome remodelling complexes CHRAC and ACF contribute to chromatin dynamics by converting chemical energy into sliding of histone octamers on DNA. Their shared ATPase subunit ISWI binds DNA at the sites of entry into the nucleosome. A prevalent model assumes that DNA distortions catalysed by ISWI are converted into relocation of DNA relative to a histone octamer. HMGB1, one of the most abundant nuclear non-histone proteins, binds with preference to distorted DNA. We have now found that transient interaction of HMGB1 with nucleosomal linker DNA overlapping ISWI-binding sites enhances the ability of ACF to bind nucleosomal DNA and accelerates the sliding activity of limiting concentrations of remodelling factor. By contrast, an HMGB1 mutant with increased binding affinity was inhibitory. These observations are consistent with a role for HMGB1 as a DNA chaperone facilitating the rate-limiting DNA distortion during nucleosome remodelling.
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- Tiziana Bonaldi
- Adolf-Butenandt Institut, Molekularbiologie, Schillerstrasse 44, D-80336 München, Germany
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Xu W, Cho H, Kadam S, Banayo EM, Anderson S, Yates JR, Emerson BM, Evans RM. A methylation-mediator complex in hormone signaling. Genes Dev 2004; 18:144-56. [PMID: 14729568 PMCID: PMC324421 DOI: 10.1101/gad.1141704] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The recruitment of coactivators by nuclear hormone receptors (NRs) promotes transcription by subverting chromatin-mediated repression. Although the histone methylation enzyme CARM1 and an ATP-remodeling complex have been individually implicated in nuclear receptor-dependent transcription, neither a functional nor mechanistic linkage between these systems has been identified. In the process of purifying endogenous CARM1-interacting proteins, we identified an associated complex, nucleosomal methylation activator complex (NUMAC), which includes at least eight components of SWI/SNF, including the ATPase BRG1. In the NUMAC complex, the methylase, CARM1, acquires the ability to covalently modify nucleosomal histones, and the directed nucleosome versus free core histone methylation-specificity change is increased dramatically. Reciprocally, CARM1 stimulates the ATPase activity of BRG1, a key component in nucleosome remodeling. In vivo, CARM1 and BRG1 coassemble on an estrogen receptor (ER)-target gene to cooperatively activate ER-dependent transcription. This association of ATP-remodeling factors with HMT CARM1 defines a new component of regulation in the nuclear hormone-signaling pathway.
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- Wei Xu
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Gene Expression Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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Zheng P, Patel B, McMenamin M, Paprocki AM, Schramm RD, Nagl NG, Wilsker D, Wang X, Moran E, Latham KE. Expression of genes encoding chromatin regulatory factors in developing rhesus monkey oocytes and preimplantation stage embryos: possible roles in genome activation. Biol Reprod 2004; 70:1419-27. [PMID: 14724134 DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.103.023796] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/01/2022] Open
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One of the most critical events of preimplantation development is the successful activation of gene transcription. Both the timing and the array of genes activated must be controlled. The ability to regulate gene transcription appears to be reduced just prior to the time of the major genome activation event, and changes in chromatin structure appear essential for establishing this ability. Major molecules that modulate chromatin structure are the linker and core histones, enzymes that modify histones, and a wide variety of other factors that associate with DNA and mediate either repressive or activating changes. Among the latter are chromatin accessibility complexes, SWI/SNF complexes, and the YY1 protein and its associated factors. Detailed information about the expression and regulation of these factors in preimplantation stage embryos has not been published for any species. In order to ascertain which of these factors may participate in chromatin remodeling, genome activation, and DNA replication during early primate embryogenesis, we determined the temporal expression patterns of mRNA encoding these factors. Our data identify the predominant members of these different functional classes of factors expressed in oocytes and embryos, and reveal patterns of expression distinct from those patterns seen in somatic cells. Among each of four classes of mRNAs examined, some mRNAs were expressed predominantly in the oocyte, with these largely giving way to others expressed stage specifically in the embryo. This transition may be part of a global mechanism underlying the transition from maternal to embryonic control of development, wherein the oocyte program is silenced and an embryonic pattern of gene expression becomes established. Possible roles for these mRNAs in chromatin remodeling, genome activation, DNA replication, cell lineage determination, and nuclear reprogramming are discussed.
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- Ping Zheng
- The Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19140, USA
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The eukaryotic genome is packaged into a periodic nucleoprotein structure termed chromatin. The repeating unit of chromatin, the nucleosome, consists of DNA that is wound nearly two times around an octamer of histone proteins. To facilitate DNA-directed processes in chromatin, it is often necessary to rearrange or to mobilize the nucleosomes. This remodeling of the nucleosomes is achieved by the action of chromatin-remodeling complexes, which are a family of ATP-dependent molecular machines. Chromatin-remodeling factors share a related ATPase subunit and participate in transcriptional regulation, DNA repair, homologous recombination and chromatin assembly. In this review, we provide an overview of chromatin-remodeling enzymes and discuss two possible mechanisms by which these factors might act to reorganize nucleosome structure.
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- Alexandra Lusser
- Section of Molecular Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0347, USA
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Kukimoto I, Elderkin S, Grimaldi M, Oelgeschläger T, Varga-Weisz PD. The Histone-Fold Protein Complex CHRAC-15/17 Enhances Nucleosome Sliding and Assembly Mediated by ACF. Mol Cell 2004; 13:265-77. [PMID: 14759371 DOI: 10.1016/s1097-2765(03)00523-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2003] [Revised: 12/01/2003] [Accepted: 12/09/2003] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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The histone fold is a structural motif with which two related proteins interact and is found in complexes involved in wrapping DNA, the nucleosome, and transcriptional regulation, as in NC2. We reveal a novel function for histone-fold proteins: facilitation of nucleosome remodeling. ACF1-ISWI complex (ATP-dependent chromatin assembly and remodeling factor [ACF]) associates with histone-fold proteins (CHRAC-15 and CHRAC-17 in the human chromatin accessibility complex [CHRAC]) whose functional relevance has been unclear. We show that these histone-fold proteins facilitate ATP-dependent nucleosome sliding by ACF. Direct interaction of the CHRAC-15/17 complex with the ACF1 subunit is essential for this process. CHRAC-17 interacts with another histone-fold protein, p12, in DNA polymerase epsilon, but CHRAC-15 is essential for interaction with ACF and enhancement of nucleosome sliding. Surprisingly, CHRAC-15/17, p12/CHRAC-17, and NC2 complexes facilitate ACF-mediated chromatin assembly by a mechanism different from nucleosome sliding enhancement, suggesting a general activity of H2A/H2B type histone-fold complexes in chromatin assembly.
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- Iwao Kukimoto
- Marie Curie Research Institute, The Chart, Oxted, Surrey RH8 0TL, United Kingdom
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The study of chromatin and how this dynamic structure modulates events in the eukaryotic nucleus has become an increasingly important topic in biomedical research. A large number of enzymes have been discovered that are responsible for modifying and altering chromatin structure, either globally or specifically at particular gene promoters or regions of the chromosome. This chapter provides an introduction to the structure of chromatin and then describes how special classes of enzymes modulate chromatin structure to allow access to DNA.
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- Corey L Smith
- Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01605, USA
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Gilbert N, Gilchrist S, Bickmore WA. Chromatin organization in the mammalian nucleus. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CYTOLOGY 2004; 242:283-336. [PMID: 15598472 DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7696(04)42007-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 121] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Mammalian cells package their DNA into chromatin and arrange it in the nucleus as chromosomes. In interphase cells chromosomes are organized in a radial distribution with the most gene-dense chromosomes toward the center of the nucleus. Gene transcription, replication, and repair are influenced by the underlying chromatin architecture, which in turn is affected by the formation of chromosome territories. This arrangement in the nucleus presumably facilitates cellular functions to occur in an efficient and ordered fashion and exploring the link between transcription and nuclear organization will be an exciting area of further research.
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- Nick Gilbert
- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK
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Flaus A, Owen-Hughes T. Dynamic properties of nucleosomes during thermal and ATP-driven mobilization. Mol Cell Biol 2003; 23:7767-79. [PMID: 14560021 PMCID: PMC207611 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.23.21.7767-7779.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The fundamental subunit of chromatin, the nucleosome, is not a static entity but can move along DNA via either thermal or enzyme-driven movements. Here we have monitored the movements of nucleosomes following deposition at well-defined locations on mouse mammary tumor virus promoter DNA. We found that the sites to which nucleosomes are deposited during chromatin assembly differ from those favored during thermal equilibration. Taking advantage of this, we were able to track the movement of nucleosomes over 156 bp and found that this proceeds via intermediate positions spaced between 46 and 62 bp. The remodeling enzyme ISWI was found to direct the movement of nucleosomes to sites related to those observed during thermal mobilization. In contrast, nucleosome mobilization driven by the SWI/SNF and RSC complexes were found to drive nucleosomes towards sites up to 51 bp beyond DNA ends, with little respect for the sites favored during thermal repositioning. The dynamic properties of nucleosomes we describe are likely to influence their role in gene regulation.
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- Andrew Flaus
- Division of Gene Regulation and Expression, The Wellcome Trust Biocentre, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 5EH, United Kingdom
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Loyola A, Huang JY, LeRoy G, Hu S, Wang YH, Donnelly RJ, Lane WS, Lee SC, Reinberg D. Functional analysis of the subunits of the chromatin assembly factor RSF. Mol Cell Biol 2003; 23:6759-68. [PMID: 12972596 PMCID: PMC193931 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.23.19.6759-6768.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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The human ISWI-containing factor RSF (for remodeling and spacing factor) is composed of two subunits: the ATPase hSNF2H and p325 (Rsf-1), a protein encoded by a novel human gene. We previously showed that RSF mediates nucleosome deposition and generates regularly spaced nucleosome arrays. Here we report the characterization of the largest subunit of RSF, Rsf-1. We found that Rsf-1 is a highly acidic protein containing a plant homology domain. The present study includes the cloning of Rsf-1, the preparation of recombinant RSF, and the dissection of the role of each subunit in the chromatin assembly reaction. The sequence of the gene for Rsf-1 includes a recently characterized cDNA, HBXAP; postulated to be involved in the transcriptional regulation of the hepatitis B virus. HBXAP actually contains a 252-amino-acid truncation of the amino terminus of Rsf-1. Finally, comparison of HBXAP and Rsf-1 properties shows that they are functionally different.
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- Alejandra Loyola
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New JerseyRobert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA
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Chromatin assembly is required for the duplication of eukaryotic chromosomes and functions at the interface between cell-cycle progression and gene expression. The central machinery that mediates chromatin assembly consists of histone chaperones, which deliver histones to the DNA, and ATP-utilizing motor proteins, which are DNA-translocating factors that act in conjunction with the histone chaperones to mediate the deposition of histones into periodic nucleosome arrays. Here, we describe these factors and propose possible mechanisms by which DNA-translocating motors might catalyse chromatin assembly.
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- Karl A Haushalter
- Section of Molecular Biology, University of California, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, San Diego, California 92093-0347, USA
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Gaillard H, Fitzgerald DJ, Smith CL, Peterson CL, Richmond TJ, Thoma F. Chromatin remodeling activities act on UV-damaged nucleosomes and modulate DNA damage accessibility to photolyase. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:17655-63. [PMID: 12637512 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m300770200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Nucleosomes inhibit DNA repair in vitro, suggesting that chromatin remodeling activities might be required for efficient repair in vivo. To investigate how structural and dynamic properties of nucleosomes affect damage recognition and processing, we investigated repair of UV lesions by photolyase on a nucleosome positioned at one end of a 226-bp-long DNA fragment. Repair was slow in the nucleosome but efficient outside. No disruption or movement of the nucleosome was observed after UV irradiation and during repair. However, incubation with the nucleosome remodeling complex SWI/SNF and ATP altered the conformation of nucleosomal DNA as judged by UV photo-footprinting and promoted more homogeneous repair. Incubation with yISW2 and ATP moved the nucleosome to a more central position, thereby altering the repair pattern. This is the first demonstration that two different chromatin remodeling complexes can act on UV-damaged nucleosomes and modulate repair. Similar activities might relieve the inhibitory effect of nucleosomes on DNA repair processes in living cells.
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- Hélène Gaillard
- Institut für Zellbiologie and Institut für Molekularbiologie, Departement Biologie, ETH-Hönggerberg, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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Packaging of the eukaryotic genome into chromatin functions not only to constrain the genome within the boundaries of the cell nucleus but also to permit dynamic and broad-ranging changes related to many important biological phenomena. Therefore, chromatin assembly is a process that affects DNA replication, repair, and gene expression. Chromatin structure is linked to transcriptional regulation, and recent studies show how chromatin is altered so as to facilitate transcription. In addition, modification of chromatin structure is an important regulatory mechanism. Here I review the mechanism of chromatin assembly in vitro and the changes of chromatin structure related to transcriptional activation.
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- T Ito
- Department of Biochemistry, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, 1-12-4 Sakamoto, Nagasaki 852-8523, Japan.
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Whitehouse I, Stockdale C, Flaus A, Szczelkun MD, Owen-Hughes T. Evidence for DNA translocation by the ISWI chromatin-remodeling enzyme. Mol Cell Biol 2003; 23:1935-45. [PMID: 12612068 PMCID: PMC149479 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.23.6.1935-1945.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2002] [Revised: 10/31/2002] [Accepted: 12/19/2002] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The ISWI proteins form the catalytic core of a subset of ATP-dependent chromatin-remodeling activities. Here, we studied the interaction of the ISWI protein with nucleosomal substrates. We found that the ability of nucleic acids to bind and stimulate the ATPase activity of ISWI depends on length. We also found that ISWI is able to displace triplex-forming oligonucleotides efficiently when they are introduced at sites close to a nucleosome but successively less efficiently 30 to 60 bp from its edge. The ability of ISWI to direct triplex displacement was specifically impeded by the introduction of 5- or 10-bp gaps in the 3'-5' strand between the triplex and the nucleosome. In combination, these observations suggest that ISWI is a 3'-5'-strand-specific, ATP-dependent DNA translocase that may be capable of forcing DNA over the surface of nucleosomes.
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- Iestyn Whitehouse
- Division of Gene Regulation and Expression, The Wellcome Trust Biocentre, Department of Biochemistry, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 5EH, Scotland, UK
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Brzeski J, Jerzmanowski A. Deficient in DNA methylation 1 (DDM1) defines a novel family of chromatin-remodeling factors. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:823-8. [PMID: 12403775 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m209260200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Deficient in DNA Methylation 1 (DDM1) protein is required to maintain the DNA methylation status of Arabidopsis thaliana. DDM1 is a member of the broad SWI2/SNF2 protein family. Because of its phylogenetic position, DDM1 has been speculated to act as a chromatin-remodeling factor. Here we used a purified recombinant DDM1 protein to investigate whether it can remodel chromatin in vitro. We show that DDM1 is an ATPase stimulated by both naked and nucleosomal DNA. DDM1 binds to the nucleosome and promotes chromatin remodeling in an ATP-dependent manner. Specifically, it induces nucleosome repositioning on a short DNA fragment. The enzymatic activity of DDM1 is not affected by DNA methylation. The relevance of these findings to the in vivo role of DDM1 is discussed.
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- Jan Brzeski
- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Pawinskiego 5A, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland.
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Eberharter A, Längst G, Becker PB. A nucleosome sliding assay for chromatin remodeling factors. Methods Enzymol 2003; 377:344-53. [PMID: 14979036 DOI: 10.1016/s0076-6879(03)77021-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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- Anton Eberharter
- Adolf-Butenandt-Institut, Molekularbiologie, München D-80336, Germany
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