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Urusov AE, Aulova KS, Dmitrenok PS, Buneva VN, Nevinsky GA. EAE of Mice: Enzymatic Cross Site-Specific Hydrolysis of H2A Histone by IgGs against H2A, H1, H2B, H3, and H4 Histones and Myelin Basic Protein. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:ijms24108636. [PMID: 37239982 DOI: 10.3390/ijms24108636] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2023] [Revised: 04/06/2023] [Accepted: 04/10/2023] [Indexed: 05/28/2023] Open
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Histones play vital roles in chromatin function and gene transcription; however, they are very harmful in the intercellular space because they stimulate systemic inflammatory and toxic responses. Myelin basic protein (MBP) is the major protein of the axon myelin-proteolipid sheath. Antibodies-abzymes with various catalytic activities are specific features of some autoimmune diseases. IgGs against individual histones (H2A, H1, H2B, H3, and H4) and MBP were isolated from the blood of experimental-autoimmune-encephalomyelitis-prone C57BL/6 mice by several affinity chromatographies. These Abs-abzymes corresponded to various stages of EAE development: spontaneous EAE, MOG, and DNA-histones accelerated the onset, acute, and remission stages. IgGs-abzymes against MBP and five individual histones showed unusual polyreactivity in the complex formation and enzymatic cross-reactivity in the specific hydrolysis of the H2A histone. All the IgGs of 3-month-old mice (zero time) against MBP and individual histones demonstrated from 4 to 35 different H2A hydrolysis sites. The spontaneous development of EAE over 60 days led to a significant change in the type and number of H2A histone hydrolysis sites by IgGs against five histones and MBP. Mice treatment with MOG and the DNA-histone complex changed the type and number of H2A hydrolysis sites compared to zero time. The minimum number (4) of different H2A hydrolysis sites was found for IgGs against H2A (zero time), while the maximum (35) for anti-H2B IgGs (60 days after mice treatment with DNA-histone complex). Overall, it was first demonstrated that at different stages of EAE evolution, IgGs-abzymes against individual histones and MBP could significantly differ in the number and type of specific sites of H2A hydrolysis. The possible reasons for the catalytic cross-reactivity and great differences in the number and type of histone H2A cleavage sites were analyzed.
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- Andrey E Urusov
- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine of the Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine of the Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- G. B. Elyakov Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Far East Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok 690022, Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine of the Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine of the Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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Urusov AE, Aulova KS, Dmitrenok PS, Buneva VN, Nevinsky GA. Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis of Mice: Enzymatic Cross Site-Specific Hydrolysis of H4 Histone by IgGs against Histones and Myelin Basic Protein. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms23169182. [PMID: 36012448 PMCID: PMC9409114 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23169182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2022] [Revised: 08/08/2022] [Accepted: 08/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Histones play vital roles in chromatin functioning and gene transcription, but in intercellular space, they are harmful due to stimulating systemic inflammatory and toxic responses. Myelin basic protein (MBP) is the most important protein of the axon myelin–proteolipid sheath. Antibodies-abzymes with different catalytic activities are critical and specific features of some autoimmune diseases. Five IgG preparations against histones (H4, H1, H2A, H2B, and H3) and against MBP corresponding to different spontaneous, MOG (myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein of mice), and DNA–histones that accelerated onset, acute, and remission stages of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE; model of human multiple sclerosis) development were obtained from EAE-prone C57BL/6 mice by several affinity chromatographies. IgG-abzymes against five histones and MBP possess unusual polyreactivity in complexation and catalytic cross-reactivity in the hydrolysis of histone H4. IgGs against five histones and MBP corresponding to 3 month-old mice (zero time) in comparison with Abs corresponding to spontaneous development of EAE during 60 days differ in type and number of H4 sites for hydrolysis. Immunization of mice with MOG and DNA–histones complex results in an acceleration of EAE development associated with an increase in the activity of antibodies in H4 hydrolysis. Twenty days after mouse immunization with MOG or DNA–histones complex, the IgGs hydrolyze H4 at other additional sites compared to zero time. The maximum number of different sites of H4 hydrolysis was revealed for IgGs against five histones and MBP at 60 days after immunization of mice with MOG and DNA–histones. Overall, it first showed that at different stages of EAE development, abzymes could significantly differ in specific sites of H4 hydrolysis.
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- Andrey E. Urusov
- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine of the Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences, Lavrentiev Ave. 8, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine of the Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences, Lavrentiev Ave. 8, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- G. B. Elyakov Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Far East Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, 690022 Vladivostok, Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine of the Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences, Lavrentiev Ave. 8, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine of the Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences, Lavrentiev Ave. 8, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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Baranova SV, Dmitrenok PS, Buneva VN, Sedykh SE, Nevinsky GA. HIV-Infected Patients: Cross Site-Specific Hydrolysis of H3 and H4 Histones and Myelin Basic Protein with Antibodies against These Three Proteins. Molecules 2021; 26:E316. [PMID: 33435385 PMCID: PMC7826842 DOI: 10.3390/molecules26020316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2020] [Revised: 01/03/2021] [Accepted: 01/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Histones play important roles in chromatin functioning and gene transcription, but in the intercellular space, they are harmful since they stimulate systemic inflammatory and toxic responses. Electrophoretically homogeneous IgGs against myelin basic protein (MBP), as well as H3 and H4 histones, were isolated from sera of HIV-infected patients. In contrast to known classical proteases, these IgGs split exclusively only histones and MBP but no other control proteins. Among 13 sites of hydrolysis of H3 by IgGs against H3 and 14 sites for anti-MBP IgGs, only two sites of the hydrolysis were the same. Between seven cleavage sites of H4 with IgGs against H4 and 9 sites of this histone hydrolysis by antibodies against MBP, only three sites were the same. The sites of hydrolysis of H3 (and H4) with abzymes against these histones and against MBP were different, but several expended protein clusters containing hydrolysis sites are partially overlapped. The existence of enzymatic cross-reactivity of abzymes against H3 and H4 and MBP represents a great menace to humans since due to cell apoptosis, histones constantly occur in human blood. They can hydrolyze MBP of the myelin sheath of axons and play a negative role in the pathogenesis of HIV-infected patients.
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- Svetlana V. Baranova
- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences, Lavrentiev Ave. 8, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia; (S.V.B.); (V.N.B.); (S.E.S.)
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- G. B. Elyakov Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Far Eastern Brunch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 159 Pr. 100 let Vladivostoku, 690022 Vladivostok, Russia;
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences, Lavrentiev Ave. 8, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia; (S.V.B.); (V.N.B.); (S.E.S.)
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences, Lavrentiev Ave. 8, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia; (S.V.B.); (V.N.B.); (S.E.S.)
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences, Lavrentiev Ave. 8, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia; (S.V.B.); (V.N.B.); (S.E.S.)
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Baranova SV, Dmitrenok PS, Zubkova AD, Ivanisenko NV, Odintsova ES, Buneva VN, Nevinsky GA. Antibodies against H3 and H4 histones from the sera of HIV-infected patients catalyze site-specific degradation of these histones. J Mol Recognit 2018; 31:e2703. [PMID: 29457292 DOI: 10.1002/jmr.2703] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2017] [Revised: 11/23/2017] [Accepted: 01/11/2018] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Histones and their posttranslational modified forms play pivotal roles in chromatin functioning and gene transcription. Also, histones are harmful when they enter the intercellular space; their administration to animals results in systemic inflammatory and toxic responses. Autoantibodies having enzymatic activities (abzymes) are the specific feature of several autoimmune and viral diseases. Electrophoretically homogeneous IgGs containing no canonical proteases were purified from sera of HIV-infected patients by using several affinity chromatographies. In contrast to known canonical proteases, Abs from HIV-infected patients hydrolyzed exclusively only histones but no other control globular proteins. The H3 and H4 histone cleavage sites by antihistone IgGs were determined by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry for the first time. Two clusters of H3 hydrolysis contain major (↕) and minor (*) cleavage sites: 18-K*Q*LA↕TK*A↕AR*KS↕A*P-30 and 34-G*VK*KPHR*YRPGTVA*L*R-50. H4 histone has only 1 cluster of cleavage sites containing additionally moderate (↓) cleavage sites: 15-A↕KR↕HR↕KVLR↓D*NIQ↓GIT*K-31. Sites of these histones cleavage correspond mainly to their known epitopes. It was surprising that most of the cleavage sites of histones are involved in the interaction with DNA of nucleosome core. Because histones act as damage-associated molecules, abzymes against H3 and H4 can play important role in pathogenesis of AIDs and probably other viral and immune diseases.
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- Svetlana V Baranova
- Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Lavrentiev Ave. 8, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
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- G. B. Elyakov Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry FEB RAS, 159 Pr. 100 let Vladivostoku, Vladivostok, 690022, Russia
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- Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Lavrentiev Ave. 8, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
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- Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Cytology and Genetics, 10 Lavrentiev Ave., 630090, Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Lavrentiev Ave. 8, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
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- Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Lavrentiev Ave. 8, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
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- Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Lavrentiev Ave. 8, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
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Muller S, Van Regenmortel M. Specificity of Anti-Histone Autoantibodies in Systemic Rheumatic Disease. Int J Immunopathol Pharmacol 2016. [DOI: 10.1177/039463208800100207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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- S. Muller
- Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire du CNRS, Strasbourg, France
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Hasegawa M, Sato S, Kikuchi K, Takehara K. Antigen specificity of antihistone antibodies in systemic sclerosis. Ann Rheum Dis 1998; 57:470-5. [PMID: 9797552 PMCID: PMC1752726 DOI: 10.1136/ard.57.8.470] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to determine the prevalence and clinical significance of antibodies to individual histone components in systemic sclerosis (SSc). METHODS Serum samples from patients with limited cutaneous SSc (lSSc; n = 42) and diffuse cutaneous SSc (dSSc; n = 28) were examined for IgG and/or IgM antibodies to individual histone components and complexes by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). RESULTS The level of IgG antibody to total histones was significantly higher in lSSc and dSSc than in normal controls. The level of IgM antibody to total histones was significantly higher in lSSc, but not in dSSc, than in normal controls. IgG antibody to total histones tended to be increased in dSSc when compared with that in lSSc. On the other hand, IgM antibody to total histones tended to be increased in lSSc when compared with that in dSSc. Although SSc showed various antihistone specificities, H2B, H2A-H2B, (H2A-H2B)-dsDNA were main antigens recognised by IgG antibodies in both lSSc and dSSc. Although IgM antibodies to H2B and H2A-H2B were also detected in both lSSc and dSSc, serum samples from lSSc patients exhibited highest IgM reactivity with H1. CONCLUSION SSc may be included among conditions in which heterogeneous antihistone antibodies are produced. IgM antibodies to the most accessible histone H1 may be related to mild clinical features (lSSc) and IgG antibodies to the inner core molecules of native histone such as H2B or complexes including H2B may be associated with severe clinical features (dSSc) in Ssc.
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- M Hasegawa
- Department of Dermatology, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, Japan
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Stemmer C, Briand JP, Muller S. Mapping of linear histone regions exposed at the surface of the nucleosome in solution. J Mol Biol 1997; 273:52-60. [PMID: 9367745 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.1270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Antibodies directed against defined regions of histone molecules represent one of the most specific probes for studying the topography and conformational changes of nucleosomes and chromatin. We have developed an assay involving a series of monoclonal and polyclonal antibody probes specifically reacting with a complete set of 40 overlapping synthetic peptides (6 to 28 residues long) covering the whole sequence of the four core histones H2A, H2B, H3 and H4. In this assay, mono-, di- and trinucleosomes, as well as a long chain of chromatin containing 20 to 35 nucleosomes, were used in solution as competitors of the antibody reaction. At least 11 surface-oriented linear regions were characterized on the mononucleosome; namely, the N-terminal domains of H2A (residues 1 to 20), H2B (residues 1 to 25) and H3 (residues 1 to 30), the C-terminal domains of H2A (residues 116 to 129) and H4 (residues 85 to 102), and six domains located in internal segments in the primary structures of core histones (33 to 49 H2A, 65 to 85 H2A, 60 to 78 H2B, 50 to 70 H3, 111 to 130 H3 and 42 to 59 H4). Only a few changes in the nucleosome topography were observed when free oligo- and polynucleosome structure were comparatively studied.
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- C Stemmer
- Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, UPR 9021, Strasbourg, France
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Hacques MF, Muller S, De Murcia G, Van Regenmortel MH, Marion C. Accessibility and structural role of histone domains in chromatin. biophysical and immunochemical studies of progressive digestion with immobilized proteases. J Biomol Struct Dyn 1990; 8:619-41. [PMID: 2100522 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.1990.10507832] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The accessibility and role of histone regions in chromatin fibres were investigated using limited proteolysis with enzymes covalently bound to collagen membranes. The changes in chromatin conformation and condensation monitored by various biophysical methods, were correlated to the degradation of the histone proteins revealed by antibodies specific for histones and histone peptides. Upon digestion with trypsin and subtilisin, chromatin undergoes successive structural transitions. The cleavage of the C-terminal domains of H1, H2A and H2B, and of the N-terminal tail of H3 led to a decondensation of chromatin fibres, indicated by increases in electric birefringence and orientational relaxation times. It corresponds to a 15% increase in linear dimensions. The degradation of the other terminal regions of histones H3, H2A and H2B resulted in the appearance of hinge points between nucleosomes without alteration of the overall orientation of polynucleosome chains. Despite the loss of all the basic domains of H1, H3, H2A and H2B, no significant change in DNA-protein interactions occurred, suggesting that most of these protease-accessible regions interact weakly, if at all, with DNA in chromatin. Further proteolysis led to H4 degradation and other additional cleavages of H1, H2B and H3. This caused the relaxation of no more than 8% of the total DNA but resulted in changes in the ability of chromatin to condense at high ionic strength. More extensive digestion resulted in a total unravelling of nucleosomal chains which acquired properties similar to those of H1-depleted chromatin, although the globular part of H1 was still present. The data suggest that histone-histone interactions between H1 and core histone domains play a central role in stabilizing the chromatin fibres, and cuts in H3, H2A and H2B as well as H1, seem necessary for chromatin expansion. On the contrary, H4 might be involved in the stabilization of nucleosomes only.
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- M F Hacques
- Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Biologique, LBTM-CNRS UMR 24, Université Lyon-1, Villeurbanne, France
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Hacques MF, Muller S, De Murcia G, Van Regenmortel MH, Marion C. Use of an immobilized enzyme and specific antibodies to analyse the accessibility and role of histone tails in chromatin structure. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1990; 168:637-43. [PMID: 2185754 DOI: 10.1016/0006-291x(90)92368-a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Using limited proteolysis with subtilisin bound to collagen membranes, the degradation of the histone proteins revealed by specific antibodies was correlated to changes in chromatin conformation and condensation monitored by circular dichroism and electric birefringence. This new approach allows us to detect for the first time a hierarchy of histone tails cleavages. The terminal domains of H1, the NH2-terminal tail of H3 and the carboxy-terminal ends of histones H2A and H2B were found to be cleaved already at the early stages of proteolysis and this led to a decondensation of polynucleosomal chains. Thereafter the C-terminal part of H3 and both NH2-terminal regions of H2A and H2B became rapidly cleaved, resulting in relative reorientation of swinging nucleosomes or partially unfolded segments. Unexpectedly, this removal of tails of H1, H2B, H2A and H3 is not accompanied by significant changes in DNA-protein interactions resulting in free-oriented DNA. This might suggest that histone-histone interactions play a central role in stabilizing the solenoid.
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- M F Hacques
- Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Biologique, LBTM-CNRS UM 24, Université Lyon-1, France
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Nigg EA. Nuclear function and organization: the potential of immunochemical approaches. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CYTOLOGY 1988; 110:27-92. [PMID: 3053500 DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7696(08)61847-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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- E A Nigg
- Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research, Chemin des Boveresses, Epalinges s/Lausanne
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Russanova VR, Dimitrov SI, Makarov VL, Pashev IG. Accessibility of the globular domain of histones H1 and H5 to antibodies upon folding of chromatin. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1987; 167:321-6. [PMID: 3622517 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1987.tb13339.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Antibodies to the globular domain of histones H1 and H5 were purified by affinity chromatography and used to study the accessibility of this region of H1 and H5 in folded and unfolded rat liver and hen erythrocyte chromatin respectively. The different conformations of the chromatin filament were induced by varying the ionic strength from 1 mM to 80 mM NaCl and maintained by fixation with glutaraldehyde. Treatment with glutaraldehyde at a given salt concentration affected neither the orientation of nucleosomes relative to the fiber axis nor the compactness of chromatin. Solid-phase immunoassay and inhibition experiments showed no binding of the antibody against the globular domain of H1 to chromatin at the entire range of salt concentrations, while the antibody to the whole H1 molecule reacted with chromatin at low salt. On the other hand, the antibody to the globular region of H5 reacted with hen erythrocyte chromatin independently of the extent of chromatin condensation. These results indicate that the antigenic determinants of the globular domain of H5 are accessible to the antibody both in folded and unfolded chromatin, while those of the same region of H1 are masked, probably by interaction with DNA or proteins.
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Muller S, Isabey A, Couppez M, Plaue S, Sommermeyer G, Van Regenmortel MH. Specificity of antibodies raised against triacetylated histone H4. Mol Immunol 1987; 24:779-89. [PMID: 2443844 DOI: 10.1016/0161-5890(87)90062-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Ten monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) were obtained by immunizing animals with triacetylated histone H4 from cuttle-fish. The fine specificity of these antibodies was studied using various populations of acetylated H4, (H3H4)2 tetramers and histone octamers as well as with acetylated and nonacetylated peptides of H4. None of these mAbs were found to recognize triacetylated H4. Only five of them bound to diacetylated, monoacetylated and nonacetylated H4. One antibody was specific for H4 associated in the form of histone octamers and did not bind to any nonacetylated or acetylated form of H4 monomers. Eight of the antibodies were specific for residues situated in the region 9-23 of H4. None of the mAbs was completely specific for acetylated forms of H4. In contrast, antisera raised in rabbits against triacetylated H4 reacted strongly with tri and diacetylated H4, weakly with monoacetylated H4 and barely or not at all with nonacetylated H4.
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- S Muller
- Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire du CNRS, Strasbourg, France
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Shay CE, Foster PG, Neelin JM. Predictability of sequence homologies among lysine-rich histones by immunological distance. COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY. B, COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY 1987; 86:193-9. [PMID: 3103977 DOI: 10.1016/0305-0491(87)90197-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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The relationship between immunological distance (I.D.) measured by microcomplement fixation and amino acid sequence difference for lysine-rich histones was tested using antisera to lysine-rich histones of known sequence, chicken H1 and H5, goose H5, and trout H1 as well as to trout H5. The best relationship between I.D. (y) and percent sequence difference (x) for lysine-rich histones, y = 2x, applies as well to other histones of known sequence but it differs from y = 5x, reported for other proteins and often used for histones. Although deviations indicate that I.D. is a poor predictor of primary sequence differences among histones, it suggests that trout H5 is more closely related to H1 than to chicken H5.
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Whitfield WG, Fellows G, Turner BM. Characterization of monoclonal antibodies to histone 2B. Localization of epitopes and analysis of binding to chromatin. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1986; 157:513-21. [PMID: 2424756 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1986.tb09697.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Two mouse monoclonal IgM antibodies have been isolated which bind to histone 2B (H2B), as shown by protein blotting and immunostaining and by solid-phase radioimmunoassay (RIA). One of these (HBC-7) was specific for H2B by both techniques whereas the other (2F8) cross-reacted with histone H1 by RIA. Both antibodies failed to recognize H2B limit peptides from trypsin-digested chromatin and did not bind to Drosophila H2B, which differs extensively from vertebrate H2B only in the N-terminal region. These findings indicate that both antibodies recognize epitopes within the trypsin-sensitive, N-terminal region comprising residues 1-20. Binding of antibody HBC-7 was inhibited by in vitro ADP-ribosylation of H2B at glutamic acid residue 2. This strongly suggests that the epitope recognized by HBC-7 is located at the N-terminus of H2B, probably between residues 1 and 8. We have used solid-phase radioimmunoassay to investigate factors which influence the accessibility of this epitope in chromatin. Removal of H1 ('stripping') from high-molecular-mass chromatin had no effect on HBC-7 binding, nor was any difference observed between binding to stripped chromatin and to 146-base-pair (bp) core particles derived from it by nuclease digestion. These results suggest that accessibility of the N-terminal region of H2B is not influenced by H1 itself or by the size or conformation of linker DNA. In contrast, binding of antibody HBC-7 to 146-bp core particles derived from unstripped chromatin was reduced by up to 70%. Binding was restored by exposure of these core particles to the conditions used for stripping. Analysis of the protein content of core particle preparations from stripped and unstripped chromatin suggests that these findings may be attributable to redistribution of non-histone proteins during nuclease digestion. Pre-treatment of high-molecular-mass chromatin or 146-bp core particles with the intercalating dye ethidium bromide resulted in a severalfold increase in binding of HBC-7. The major changes in nucleosome morphology induced by ethidium are therefore accompanied by an increase in accessibility of the N-terminal region of H2B, possibly as a direct result of changes in the spatial relationship between H2B and core DNA.
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Muller S, Plaue S, Couppez M, Van Regenmortel MH. Comparison of different methods for localizing antigenic regions in histone H2A. Mol Immunol 1986; 23:593-601. [PMID: 2427937 DOI: 10.1016/0161-5890(86)90095-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Four different variations of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) were used to analyze the antigenic structure of histone H2A. Eleven natural and 10 synthetic peptides of H2A were tested for their capacity to bind antibodies raised against the complete molecule in a direct binding assay. Results were compared to those obtained in a direct test using several peptide-BSA conjugates. The capacity of peptides to inhibit the reaction between H2A antibodies and the complete H2A molecule or large fragments of it was also measured. Inhibition assays detected antigenic activity in a large number of peptides than did direct binding assays. Antisera raised against eight synthetic, unconjugated peptides all reacted with histone H2A in ELISA. Using as probes peptides of 14-21 residues, at least 11 antigenic regions could be recognized, indicating that virtually the entire H2A polypeptide chain possessed antigenic activity.
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Briand JP, Muller S, Van Regenmortel MH. Synthetic peptides as antigens: pitfalls of conjugation methods. J Immunol Methods 1985; 78:59-69. [PMID: 2580027 DOI: 10.1016/0022-1759(85)90329-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 240] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Peptide-carrier conjugates were prepared using 9 different synthetic peptides, 3 carrier proteins and 4 coupling reagents. Residues of the carrier protein that were modified by different coupling reagents (e.g., glutaraldehyde, carbodiimides, bis-diazotized benzidine) were found to elicit specific antibodies that reacted with unrelated carrier proteins treated with the same coupling agent. To demonstrate the presence of peptide antibodies in an antiserum raised against a peptide-carrier conjugate, it was necessary to use a antigen the peptide coupled to another carrier by means of a different coupling agent. Some of the commonly used conjugation methods were found to lead to conjugates of insufficient stability and sometimes also altered the antigenic properties of the peptide moiety. These difficulties can be overcome by additional control experiments designed to test the quality and the peptide-carrier conjugates.
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Muller S, Bertrand E, Erard M, van Regenmortel MH. pH-induced conformational changes in chromatin subunits measured by circular dichroism and immunochemical reactivity. Int J Biol Macromol 1985. [DOI: 10.1016/0141-8130(85)90041-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Muller S, Jockers-Wretou E, Sekeris CE, Van Regenmortel MH, Bautz FA. Characterization of a monoclonal antibody reacting with histone H3. FEBS Lett 1985; 182:459-64. [PMID: 3884376 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(85)80354-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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A hybridoma cell line, 1GB3, has been obtained from a fusion between SP/O-Ag 14 myeloma cells and lymphocytes from BALB/c mice immunized with rat liver nuclear proteins. This hybridoma secreted a monoclonal antibody of the IgG2b class which reacted specifically with histone H3 in enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) as well as in immunoblotting and immunodot assays. Stringent test conditions were necessary to eliminate the presence of nonspecific or contaminating reactions with other histones than H3. The monoclonal antibody appears to recognize an epitope situated in the N-terminal residues 20-50 of histone H3; it recognizes this epitope in the octamer aggregate of core histones but not in the core particle.
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Muller S, Couppez M, Briand JP, Gordon J, Sautière P, van Regenmortel MH. Antigenic structure of histone H2B. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1985; 827:235-46. [PMID: 2578822 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4838(85)90208-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Antigenic determinants of histone H2B were localized using a series of 23 overlapping fragments of H2B obtained either by chemical and enzymatic cleavage of the histone or by solid-phase peptide synthesis. The ability of peptides to bind H2B antibodies was measured in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, using antisera directed against calf thymus and chicken erythrocyte H2B as well as four anti H2B monoclonal antibodies obtained from autoimmune mice. Seven antigenic determinants were localized in the H2B molecule in the vicinity of residues 1-11, 6-18, 15-25, 26-35, 50-65, 94-113 and 114-125. Two of these determinants (residues 6-18 and 26-35) were revealed only through the binding properties of antibodies isolated from autoimmune mice. The usual correlation between hydrophilicity and antigenicity was found to hold for four of the epitopes, and the N- and C-termini of H2B were both antigenically active.
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