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As primary carriers of epigenetic information and gatekeepers of genomic DNA, nucleosomes are essential for proper growth and development of all eukaryotic cells. Although they are intrinsically dynamic, nucleosomes are actively reorganized by ATP-dependent chromatin remodelers. Chromatin remodelers contain helicase-like ATPase motor domains that can translocate along DNA, and a long-standing question in the field is how this activity is used to reposition or slide nucleosomes. In addition to ratcheting along DNA like their helicase ancestors, remodeler ATPases appear to dictate specific alternating geometries of the DNA duplex, providing an unexpected means for moving DNA past the histone core. Emerging evidence supports twist-based mechanisms for ATP-driven repositioning of nucleosomes along DNA. In this review, we discuss core experimental findings and ideas that have shaped the view of how nucleosome sliding may be achieved.
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- Ilana M Nodelman
- T.C. Jenkins Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA;
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- T.C. Jenkins Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA;
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Chromatin Remodelers: From Function to Dysfunction. Genes (Basel) 2015; 6:299-324. [PMID: 26075616 PMCID: PMC4488666 DOI: 10.3390/genes6020299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2015] [Revised: 06/01/2015] [Accepted: 06/03/2015] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Chromatin remodelers are key players in the regulation of chromatin accessibility and nucleosome positioning on the eukaryotic DNA, thereby essential for all DNA dependent biological processes. Thus, it is not surprising that upon of deregulation of those molecular machines healthy cells can turn into cancerous cells. Even though the remodeling enzymes are very abundant and a multitude of different enzymes and chromatin remodeling complexes exist in the cell, the particular remodeling complex with its specific nucleosome positioning features must be at the right place at the right time in order to ensure the proper regulation of the DNA dependent processes. To achieve this, chromatin remodeling complexes harbor protein domains that specifically read chromatin targeting signals, such as histone modifications, DNA sequence/structure, non-coding RNAs, histone variants or DNA bound interacting proteins. Recent studies reveal the interaction between non-coding RNAs and chromatin remodeling complexes showing importance of RNA in remodeling enzyme targeting, scaffolding and regulation. In this review, we summarize current understanding of chromatin remodeling enzyme targeting to chromatin and their role in cancer development.
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López AJ, Wood MA. Role of nucleosome remodeling in neurodevelopmental and intellectual disability disorders. Front Behav Neurosci 2015; 9:100. [PMID: 25954173 PMCID: PMC4407585 DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2015] [Accepted: 04/06/2015] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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It is becoming increasingly important to understand how epigenetic mechanisms control gene expression during neurodevelopment. Two epigenetic mechanisms that have received considerable attention are DNA methylation and histone acetylation. Human exome sequencing and genome-wide association studies have linked several neurobiological disorders to genes whose products actively regulate DNA methylation and histone acetylation. More recently, a third major epigenetic mechanism, nucleosome remodeling, has been implicated in human developmental and intellectual disability (ID) disorders. Nucleosome remodeling is driven primarily through nucleosome remodeling complexes with specialized ATP-dependent enzymes. These enzymes directly interact with DNA or chromatin structure, as well as histone subunits, to restructure the shape and organization of nucleosome positioning to ultimately regulate gene expression. Of particular interest is the neuron-specific Brg1/hBrm Associated Factor (nBAF) complex. Mutations in nBAF subunit genes have so far been linked to Coffin-Siris syndrome (CSS), Nicolaides-Baraitser syndrome (NBS), schizophrenia, and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Together, these human developmental and ID disorders are powerful examples of the impact of epigenetic modulation on gene expression. This review focuses on the new and emerging role of nucleosome remodeling in neurodevelopmental and ID disorders and whether nucleosome remodeling affects gene expression required for cognition independently of its role in regulating gene expression required for development.
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- Alberto J López
- Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, University of California Irvine Irvine, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, University of California Irvine Irvine, CA, USA
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Mueller-Planitz F, Klinker H, Becker PB. Nucleosome sliding mechanisms: new twists in a looped history. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2013; 20:1026-32. [PMID: 24008565 DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.2648] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2013] [Accepted: 07/12/2013] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Nucleosomes, the basic organizational units of chromatin, package and regulate eukaryotic genomes. ATP-dependent nucleosome-remodeling factors endow chromatin with structural flexibility by promoting assembly or disruption of nucleosomes and the exchange of histone variants. Furthermore, most remodeling factors induce nucleosome movements through sliding of histone octamers on DNA. We summarize recent progress toward unraveling the basic nucleosome sliding mechanism and the interplay of the remodelers' DNA translocases with accessory domains. Such domains optimize and regulate the basic sliding reaction and exploit sliding to achieve diverse structural effects, such as nucleosome positioning or eviction, or the regular spacing of nucleosomes in chromatin.
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- Felix Mueller-Planitz
- 1] Adolf-Butenandt-Institute, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany. [2] Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany
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Liu N, Hayes JJ. Preparation of nucleosomes containing a specific H2A-H2A cross-link forming a DNA-constraining loop structure. Methods Mol Biol 2012; 833:351-71. [PMID: 22183604 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-477-3_21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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ATP-dependent chromatin-remodeling complexes use the energy of ATP hydrolysis to alter nucleosome structure, increase the accessibility of trans-acting factors, and induce nucleosome movement on the nucleosomal DNA. Recent studies suggest that bulge propagation is a major component of the mechanism for SWI/SNF remodeling. We describe in detail a method to prepare a mononucleosomal substrate in which the two H2A N-terminal tails are cross-linked in an intranucleosomal fashion, forming a closed loop around the two superhelical winds of DNA. This substrate is useful for researchers who wish to test processes in which the DNA is transiently or permanently lifted off the histone surface, such as in the bulge propagation model. Our method allows assessment of the extent of cross-linking within the population of nucleosomes used in small-scale experiments, such as assays to test SWI/SNF-remodeling activities.
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- Ning Liu
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA
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Yang Z, Hayes JJ. The divalent cations Ca2+ and Mg2+ play specific roles in stabilizing histone-DNA interactions within nucleosomes that are partially redundant with the core histone tail domains. Biochemistry 2011; 50:9973-81. [PMID: 22007636 DOI: 10.1021/bi201377x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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We previously reported that reconstituted nucleosomes undergo sequence-dependent translational repositioning upon removal of the core histone tail domains under physiological conditions, indicating that the tails influence the choice of position. We report here that removal of the core histone tail domains increases the exposure of the DNA backbone in nucleosomes to hydroxyl radicals, a nonbiased chemical cleavage reagent, indicative of an increase in the motility of the DNA on the histone surface. Moreover, we demonstrate that the divalent cations Mg(2+) and Ca(2+) can replace the role of the tail domains with regard to stabilization of histone-DNA interactions within the nucleosome core and restrict repositioning of nucleosomes upon tail removal. However, when nucleosomes were incubated with Mg(2+) after tail removal, the original distribution of translational positions was not re-established, indicating that divalent cations increase the energy barrier between translational positions rather than altering the free energy differences between positions. Interestingly, other divalent cations such as Zn(2+), Fe(2+), Co(2+), and Mn(2+) had little or no effect on the stability of histone-DNA interactions within tailless nucleosomes. These results support the idea that specific binding sites for Mg(2+) and Ca(2+) ions exist within the nucleosome and play a critical role in nucleosome stability that is partially redundant with the core histone tail domains.
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- Zungyoon Yang
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York 14642, USA
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SWI/SNF- and RSC-catalyzed nucleosome mobilization requires internal DNA loop translocation within nucleosomes. Mol Cell Biol 2011; 31:4165-75. [PMID: 21859889 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.05605-11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The multisubunit SWI/SNF and RSC complexes utilize energy derived from ATP hydrolysis to mobilize nucleosomes and render the DNA accessible for various nuclear processes. Here we test the idea that remodeling involves intermediates with mobile DNA bulges or loops within the nucleosome by cross-linking the H2A N- or C-terminal tails together to generate protein "loops" that constrict separation of the DNA from the histone surface. Analyses indicate that this intranucleosomal cross-linking causes little or no change in remodeling-dependent exposure of DNA sequences within the nucleosome to restriction enzymes. However, cross-linking inhibits nucleosome mobilization and blocks complete movement of nucleosomes to extreme end positions on the DNA fragments. These results are consistent with evidence that nucleosome remodeling involves intermediates with DNA loops on the nucleosome surface but indicate that such loops do not freely diffuse about the surface of the histone octamer. We propose a threading model for movement of DNA loops around the perimeter of the nucleosome core.
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Jagannathan I, Pepenella S, Hayes JJ. Activity of FEN1 endonuclease on nucleosome substrates is dependent upon DNA sequence but not flap orientation. J Biol Chem 2011; 286:17521-9. [PMID: 21454907 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m111.229658] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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We demonstrated previously that human FEN1 endonuclease, an enzyme involved in excising single-stranded DNA flaps that arise during Okazaki fragment processing and base excision repair, cleaves model flap substrates assembled into nucleosomes. Here we explore the effect of flap orientation with respect to the surface of the histone octamer on nucleosome structure and FEN1 activity in vitro. We find that orienting the flap substrate toward the histone octamer does not significantly alter the rotational orientation of two different nucleosome positioning sequences on the surface of the histone octamer but does cause minor perturbation of nucleosome structure. Surprisingly, flaps oriented toward the nucleosome surface are accessible to FEN1 cleavage in nucleosomes containing the Xenopus 5S positioning sequence. In contrast, neither flaps oriented toward nor away from the nucleosome surface are cleaved by the enzyme in nucleosomes containing the high-affinity 601 nucleosome positioning sequence. The data are consistent with a model in which sequence-dependent motility of DNA on the nucleosome is a major determinant of FEN1 activity. The implications of these findings for the activity of FEN1 in vivo are discussed.
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- Indu Jagannathan
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14642, USA
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Liu N, Balliano A, Hayes JJ. Mechanism(s) of SWI/SNF-induced nucleosome mobilization. Chembiochem 2010; 12:196-204. [PMID: 21243709 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201000455] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2010] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Impediments to DNA access due to assembly of the eukaryotic genome into chromatin are in part overcome by the activity of ATP-dependent chromatin-remodeling complexes. These complexes employ energy derived from ATP hydrolysis to destabilize histone-DNA interactions and alter nucleosome positions, thereby increasing the accessibility of DNA-binding factors to their targets. However, the mechanism by which theses complexes accomplish this task remains unresolved. We review aspects of nucleosome alteration by the SWI/SNF complex, the archetypal remodeling enzyme. We focus on experiments that provide insights into how SWI/SNF induces nucleosome movement along DNA. Numerous biochemical activities have been characterized for this complex, all likely providing clues as to the molecular mechanism of translocation.
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- Ning Liu
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester, Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
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Golam Mostafa M, Sugimoto T, Hiyoshi M, Kawasaki H, Kubo H, Matsumoto K, Abe SI, Takamune K. Xtr, a plural tudor domain-containing protein, coexists with FRGY2 both in cytoplasmic mRNP particle and germ plasm in Xenopus embryo: Its possible role in translational regulation of maternal mRNAs. Dev Growth Differ 2009; 51:595-605. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169x.2009.01121.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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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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Montel F, Fontaine E, St-Jean P, Castelnovo M, Faivre-Moskalenko C. Atomic force microscopy imaging of SWI/SNF action: mapping the nucleosome remodeling and sliding. Biophys J 2007; 93:566-78. [PMID: 17468167 PMCID: PMC1896249 DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.107.105569] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2007] [Accepted: 03/23/2007] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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We propose a combined experimental (atomic force microscopy) and theoretical study of the structural and dynamical properties of nucleosomes. In contrast to biochemical approaches, this method allows us to determine simultaneously the DNA-complexed length distribution and nucleosome position in various contexts. First, we show that differences in the nucleoproteic structure observed between conventional H2A and H2A.Bbd variant nucleosomes induce quantitative changes in the length distribution of DNA-complexed with histones. Then, the sliding action of remodeling complex SWI/SNF is characterized through the evolution of the nucleosome position and wrapped DNA length mapping. Using a linear energetic model for the distribution of DNA-complexed length, we extract the net-wrapping energy of DNA onto the histone octamer and compare it to previous studies.
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- Fabien Montel
- Laboratoire Joliot-Curie (CNRS USR 3010) et Laboratoire de Physique (CNRS UMR 5672), Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 69007 Lyon, France
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Yang Z, Zheng C, Hayes JJ. The Core Histone Tail Domains Contribute to Sequence-dependent Nucleosome Positioning. J Biol Chem 2007; 282:7930-8. [PMID: 17234628 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m610584200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The precise positioning of nucleosomes plays a critical role in the regulation of gene expression by modulating the DNA binding activity of trans-acting factors. However, molecular determinants responsible for positioning are not well understood. We examined whether the removal of the core histone tail domains from nucleosomes reconstituted with specific DNA fragments led to alteration of translational positions. Remarkably, we find that removal of tail domains from a nucleosome assembled on a DNA fragment containing a Xenopus borealis somatic-type 5S RNA gene results in repositioning of nucleosomes along the DNA, including two related major translational positions that move about 20 bp further upstream with respect to the 5S gene. In a nucleosome reconstituted with a DNA fragment containing the promoter of a Drosophila alcohol dehydrogenase gene, several translational positions shifted by about 10 bp along the DNA upon tail removal. However, the positions of nucleosomes assembled with a DNA fragment known to have one of the highest binding affinities for core histone proteins in the mouse genome were not altered by removal of core histone tail domains. Our data support the notion that the basic tail domains bind to nucleosomal DNA and influence the selection of the translational position of nucleosomes and that once tails are removed movement between translational positions occurs in a facile manner on some sequences. However, the effect of the N-terminal tails on the positioning and movement of a nucleosome appears to be dependent on the DNA sequence such that the contribution of the tails can be masked by very high affinity DNA sequences. Our results suggest a mechanism whereby sequence-dependent nucleosome positioning can be specifically altered by regulated changes in histone tail-DNA interactions in chromatin.
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- Zungyoon Yang
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14642, USA
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Yang Z, Zheng C, Thiriet C, Hayes JJ. The core histone N-terminal tail domains negatively regulate binding of transcription factor IIIA to a nucleosome containing a 5S RNA gene via a novel mechanism. Mol Cell Biol 2005; 25:241-9. [PMID: 15601846 PMCID: PMC538782 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.25.1.241-249.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Reconstitution of a DNA fragment containing a 5S RNA gene from Xenopus borealis into a nucleosome greatly restricts binding of the primary 5S transcription factor, TFIIIA. Consistent with transcription experiments using reconstituted templates, removal of the histone tail domains stimulates TFIIIA binding to the 5S nucleosome greater than 100-fold. However, we show that tail removal increases the probability of 5S DNA unwrapping from the core histone surface by only approximately fivefold. Moreover, using site-specific histone-to-DNA cross-linking, we show that TFIIIA binding neither induces nor requires nucleosome movement. Binding studies with COOH-terminal deletion mutants of TFIIIA and 5S nucleosomes reconstituted with native and tailless core histones indicate that the core histone tail domains play a direct role in restricting the binding of TFIIIA. Deletion of only the COOH-terminal transcription activation domain dramatically stimulates TFIIIA binding to the native nucleosome, while further C-terminal deletions or removal of the tail domains does not lead to further increases in TFIIIA binding. We conclude that the unmodified core histone tail domains directly negatively influence TFIIIA binding to the nucleosome in a manner that requires the C-terminal transcription activation domain of TFIIIA. Our data suggest an additional mechanism by which the core histone tail domains regulate the binding of trans-acting factors in chromatin.
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- Zungyoon Yang
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Box 712, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
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Flaus A, Owen-Hughes T. Mechanisms for ATP-dependent chromatin remodelling: farewell to the tuna-can octamer? Curr Opin Genet Dev 2004; 14:165-73. [PMID: 15196463 DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2004.01.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 127] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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ATP-dependent chromatin remodelling enzymes act to alter chromatin structure during gene regulation. Studies of the ATPase motors that drive these enzymes support the notion that they function as ATP-dependent DNA translocases with limited processivity. The action of these enzymes on nucleosomes results in the alteration of nucleosome positioning and structure. Recent studies have shown that ATP-dependent chromatin remodelling can also either remove or exchange histone dimers between nucleosomes. This provides a new means by which the incorporation of histone variants can be directed. Additional observations support roles for ATP-dependent remodelling enzymes throughout the transcription cycle.
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- Andrew Flaus
- Division of Gene Regulation and Expression, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 5EH, UK
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Längst G, Becker PB. Nucleosome remodeling: one mechanism, many phenomena? ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 1677:58-63. [PMID: 15020046 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbaexp.2003.10.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2003] [Accepted: 10/14/2003] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The term 'nucleosome remodeling' subsumes a large number of energy-dependent alterations of canonical nucleosome structure, catalyzed by dedicated ATPases in large multiprotein complexes. The importance of these factors for gene regulation and other processes with chromatin substrate have emerged from genetic studies. Mechanistic analyses of nucleosome remodeling by different enzymes provided a diverse, almost confusing phenomenology of ATP-dependent derangement of nucleosomes in vitro, suggesting that different remodeling machines follow different strategies to disrupt histone-DNA interactions. This review explores the alternative possibility that the rich phenomenology of nucleosome remodeling may be brought about by variations of one basic remodeling reaction.
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- Gernot Längst
- Adolf-Butenandt-Institut, Molekularbiologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munchen, Schillerstrasse 44, D-80336 Munich, Germany
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