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Preobrazhenskaya OV, Karpov VL, Kolchinsky AM. The legacy of A.D. Mirzabekov and his laboratory in studies of the chromatin structure via DNA-protein crosslinking. Mol Biol 2007. [DOI: 10.1134/s0026893307050032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Thoma F. Repair of UV lesions in nucleosomes--intrinsic properties and remodeling. DNA Repair (Amst) 2007; 4:855-69. [PMID: 15925550 DOI: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2005.04.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/18/2005] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Nucleotide excision repair and reversal of pyrimidine dimers by photolyase (photoreactivation) are two major pathways to remove UV-lesions from DNA. Here, it is discussed how lesions are recognized and removed when the DNA is condensed into nucleosomes. During the recent years it was shown that nucleosomes inhibit photolyase and excision repair in vitro and slow down repair in vivo. The correlation of DNA-repair rates with nucleosome positions in yeast suggests that intrinsic properties of nucleosomes such as mobility and transient unwrapping of nucleosomal DNA facilitate damage recognition. Moreover, it was shown that nucleosome remodeling activities can act on UV-damaged DNA in vitro and facilitate repair suggesting that random remodeling of chromatin might contribute to damage recognition in vivo. Recent work on nucleosome structure and mobility is included to evaluate how nucleosomes accommodate DNA lesions and how nucleosome mobility and remodeling can take place on damaged DNA.
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- Fritz Thoma
- Institut für Zellbiologie, ETH-Hönggerberg, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
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Wang X, Hayes JJ. Physical methods used to study core histone tail structures and interactions in solutionThis paper is one of a selection of papers published in this Special Issue, entitled 27th International West Coast Chromatin and Chromosome Conference, and has undergone the Journal's usual peer review process. Biochem Cell Biol 2006; 84:578-88. [PMID: 16936830 DOI: 10.1139/o06-076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The core histone tail domains are key regulatory elements in chromatin. The tails are essential for folding oligonucleosomal arrays into both secondary and tertiary structures, and post-translational modifications within these domains can directly alter DNA accessibility. Unfortunately, there is little understanding of the structures and interactions of the core histone tail domains or how post-translational modifications within the tails may alter these interactions. Here we review NMR, thermal denaturation, cross-linking, and other selected solution methods used to define the general structures and binding behavior of the tail domains in various chromatin environments. All of these methods indicate that the tail domains bind primarily electrostatically to sites within chromatin. The data also indicate that the tails adopt specific structures when bound to DNA and that tail structures and interactions are plastic, depending on the specific chromatin environment. In addition, post-translational modifications, such as acetylation, can directly alter histone tail structures and interactions.
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- Xiaodong Wang
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Box 712, University of Rochester Medical Center, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Rochester NY, USA
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Bash R, Lohr D. Yeast chromatin structure and regulation of GAL gene expression. PROGRESS IN NUCLEIC ACID RESEARCH AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2000; 65:197-259. [PMID: 11008489 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6603(00)65006-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Yeast genomic DNA is covered by nucleosome cores spaced by short, discrete length linkers. The short linkers, reinforced by novel histone properties, create a number of unique and dynamic nucleosome structural features in vivo: permanent unpeeling of DNA from the ends of the core, an inability to bind even full 147 bp core DNA lengths, and facility to undergo a conformational transition that resembles the changes found in active chromatin. These features probably explain how yeast can maintain most of its genome in a transcribable state and avoid large-scale packaging away of inactive genes. The GAL genes provide a closely regulated system in which to study gene-specific chromatin structure. GAL structural genes are inactive without galactose but are highly transcribed in its presence; the expression patterns of the regulatory genes can account for many of the features of GAL structural gene control. In the inactive state, GAL genes demonstrate a characteristic promoter chromosomal organization; the major upstream activation sequence (UASG) elements lie in open, hypersensitive regions, whereas the TATA and transcription start sites are in nucleosomes. This organization helps implement gene regulation in this state and may benefit the organism. Induction of GAL expression triggers Gal4p-dependent upstream nucleosome disruption. Disruption is transient and can readily be reversed by a Gal80p-dependent nucleosome deposition process. Both are sensitive to the metabolic state of the cell. Induction triggers different kinds of nucleosome changes on the coding sequences, perhaps reflecting the differing roles of nucleosomes on coding versus promoter regions. GAL gene activation is a complex process involving multiple Gal4p activities, numerous positive and negative cofactors, and the histone tails. DNA bending and chromosomal architecture of the promoter regions may also play a role in GAL regulation. Regulator-mediated competition between nucleosomes and the TATA binding protein complex for the TATA region is probably a central aspect of GAL regulation and a focal point for the numerous factors and processes that contribute to it.
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- R Bash
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe 85287, USA
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Usachenko SI, Bradbury EM. Localization of specific histone regions on nucleosomal DNA by cross-linking. Methods Enzymol 1999; 304:264-78. [PMID: 10372365 DOI: 10.1016/s0076-6879(99)04016-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/12/2023]
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- S I Usachenko
- Department of Biological Chemistry, School of Medicine, University of California at Davis 95616, USA
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Gavin IM, Usachenko SI, Bavykin SG. Nucleosome structural transition during chromatin unfolding is caused by conformational changes in nucleosomal DNA. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:2429-34. [PMID: 9442093 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.4.2429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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We have recently reported that certain core histone-DNA contacts are altered in nucleosomes during chromatin unfolding (Usachenko, S. I., Gavin I. M., and Bavykin, S. G. (1996) J. Biol. Chem. 271, 3831-3836). In this work, we demonstrate that these alterations are caused by a conformational change in the nucleosomal DNA. Using zero-length protein-DNA cross-linking, we have mapped histone-DNA contacts in isolated core particles at ionic conditions affecting DNA stiffness, which may change the nucleosomal DNA conformation. We found that the alterations in histone-DNA contacts induced by an increase in DNA stiffness in isolated core particles are identical to those observed in nucleosomes during chromatin unfolding. The change in the pattern of micrococcal nuclease digestion of linker histone-depleted chromatin at ionic conditions affecting chromatin compaction also suggests that the stretching of the linker DNA may alter the nucleosomal DNA conformation, resulting in a structural transition in the nucleosome which may play a role in rendering the nucleosome competent for transcription and/or replication.
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- I M Gavin
- W. A. Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Academy of Sciences of Russia, Moscow, Russia
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Lee KM, Hayes JJ. The N-terminal tail of histone H2A binds to two distinct sites within the nucleosome core. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1997; 94:8959-64. [PMID: 9256417 PMCID: PMC22982 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.94.17.8959] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Each of the core histone proteins within the nucleosome has a central "structured" domain that comprises the spool onto which the DNA superhelix is wrapped and an N-terminal "tail" domain in which the structure and molecular interactions have not been rigorously defined. Recent studies have shown that the N-terminal domains of core histones probably contact both DNA and proteins within the nucleus and that these interactions play key roles in the regulation of nuclear processes (such as transcription and replication) and are critical in the formation of the chromatin fiber. An understanding of these complex mechanisms awaits identification of the DNA or protein sites within chromatin contacted by the tail domains. To this end, we have developed a site-specific histone protein-DNA photocross-linking method to identify the DNA binding sites of the N-terminal domains within chromatin complexes. With this approach, we demonstrate that the N-terminal tail of H2A binds DNA at two defined locations within isolated nucleosome cores centered around a position approximately 40 bp from the nucleosomal dyad and that this tail probably adopts a defined structure when bound to DNA.
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- K M Lee
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
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Our current level of understanding of chromatin structure was to a large extent achieved with the help of DNA-protein cross-linking. The versatile inventory of cross-linking techniques allows the identification of the contacts between DNA and proteins with a single nucleotide-single amino acid precision, to detect minor components of the complex nucleoprotein systems, to reveal the interactions of the flexible protein domains with DNA, and to assay for conformational changes in the nucleosomes.
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- D Pruss
- Laboratory of Molecular Embryology, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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Usachenko SI, Gavin IM, Bavykin SG. Alterations in nucleosome core structure in linker histone-depleted chromatin. J Biol Chem 1996; 271:3831-6. [PMID: 8632001 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.7.3831] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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We have previously shown that the sequential arrangement of histone-DNA contacts is essentially the same in the nucleosomal core of sea urchin sperm nuclei, where chromatin is highly condensed and repressed, and in nuclei from lily bud sepals or yeast, where chromatin is highly active in transcription and replication and is significantly or completely depleted of histone H1. However, the difference in the strength of some histone-DNA contacts has not been understood or discussed. In this work, we demonstrate that some of these differences are due to a conformational change in the nucleosomal core. We show that the nucleosomal core in linker histone-depleted chromatin is in a different conformational state compared with the nucleosomal core in folded chromatin or in isolated core nucleosomes. This conformational state is characterized by altered strengths in the histone H4 and H2A/H2B contacts with the regions of sharply bent nucleosomal DNA around sites +/-1 and +/-4 and site +/-5, respectively. We demonstrate that this conformation, which we call the "stretched nucleosome," is a general feature of unfolded linker histone-depleted chromatin and may occur during chromatin activation. Our results suggest that this nucleosome structural alteration does not depend on chromatin sources and histone variants studied in this work. In addition, we show that this alteration is reversible and is caused by the stretching of linker DNA during chromatin unfolding.
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- S I Usachenko
- W. A. Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Academy of Sciences of Russia, Vavilova, 32, 117984 Moscow B-334, Russia
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Usachenko SI, Bavykin SG, Gavin IM, Bradbury EM. Rearrangement of the histone H2A C-terminal domain in the nucleosome. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1994; 91:6845-9. [PMID: 8041707 PMCID: PMC44294 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.91.15.6845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Using zero-length covalent protein-DNA crosslinking, we have mapped the histone-DNA contacts in nucleosome core particles from which the C- and N-terminal domains of histone H2A were selectively trimmed by trypsin or clostripain. We found that the flexible trypsin-sensitive C-terminal domain of histone H2A contacts the dyad axis, whereas its globular domain contacts the end of DNA in the nucleosome core particle. The appearance of the histone H2A contact at the dyad axis occurs only in the absence of linker DNA and does not depend on the absence of linker histones. Our results show the ability of the histone H2A C-terminal domain to rearrange. This rearrangement might play a biological role in nucleosome disassembly and reassembly and the retention of the H2A-H2B dimer (or the whole octamer) during the passing of polymerases through the nucleosome.
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- S I Usachenko
- Department of Biological Chemistry, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis 95616
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Histone H1 expressed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae binds to chromatin and affects survival, growth, transcription, and plasmid stability but does not change nucleosomal spacing. Mol Cell Biol 1994. [PMID: 8139579 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.14.4.2822] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Histone H1 is proposed to serve a structural role in nucleosomes and chromatin fibers, to affect the spacing of nucleosomes, and to act as a general repressor of transcription. To test these hypotheses, a gene coding for a sea urchin histone H1 was expressed from the inducible GAL1 promoter in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by use of a YEp vector for high expression levels (strain YCL7) and a centromere vector for low expression levels (strain YCL1). The H1 protein was identified by its inducibility in galactose, its apparent molecular weight, and its solubility in 5% perchloric acid. When YCL7 was shifted from glucose to galactose for more than 40 h to achieve maximal levels of H1, H1 could be copurified in approximately stoichiometric amounts with core histones of Nonidet P-40-washed nuclei and with soluble chromatin fractionated on sucrose gradients. While S. cerevisiae tolerated the expression of low levels of H1 in YCL1 without an obvious phenotype, the expression of high levels of H1 correlated with greatly reduced survival, inhibition of growth, and increased plasmid loss but no obvious change in the nucleosomal repeat length. After an initial induction, RNA levels for GAL1 and H1 were drastically reduced, suggesting that H1 acts by the repression of galactose-induced genes. Similar effects, but to a lower extent, were observed when the C-terminal tail of H1 was expressed.
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Linder C, Thoma F. Histone H1 expressed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae binds to chromatin and affects survival, growth, transcription, and plasmid stability but does not change nucleosomal spacing. Mol Cell Biol 1994; 14:2822-35. [PMID: 8139579 PMCID: PMC358647 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.14.4.2822-2835.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Histone H1 is proposed to serve a structural role in nucleosomes and chromatin fibers, to affect the spacing of nucleosomes, and to act as a general repressor of transcription. To test these hypotheses, a gene coding for a sea urchin histone H1 was expressed from the inducible GAL1 promoter in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by use of a YEp vector for high expression levels (strain YCL7) and a centromere vector for low expression levels (strain YCL1). The H1 protein was identified by its inducibility in galactose, its apparent molecular weight, and its solubility in 5% perchloric acid. When YCL7 was shifted from glucose to galactose for more than 40 h to achieve maximal levels of H1, H1 could be copurified in approximately stoichiometric amounts with core histones of Nonidet P-40-washed nuclei and with soluble chromatin fractionated on sucrose gradients. While S. cerevisiae tolerated the expression of low levels of H1 in YCL1 without an obvious phenotype, the expression of high levels of H1 correlated with greatly reduced survival, inhibition of growth, and increased plasmid loss but no obvious change in the nucleosomal repeat length. After an initial induction, RNA levels for GAL1 and H1 were drastically reduced, suggesting that H1 acts by the repression of galactose-induced genes. Similar effects, but to a lower extent, were observed when the C-terminal tail of H1 was expressed.
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- C Linder
- Institut für Zellbiologie, ETH-Hönggerberg, Zürich, Switzerland
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The structure and structural dynamics of chromatin and nucleosomes in transcription and replication were studied by DNA-protein crosslinking. A general strategy has been designed and a number of methods have been developed to map proteins bound to the genomic DNA, to sequence the arrangement of such proteins along DNA in multi-protein complexes, and to identify interacting nucleotides and amino acid residues. Perspectives for large-scale mapping of proteins associated with genomic DNA are discussed.
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- A D Mirzabekov
- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Moscow, Russia
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Struck MM, Klug A, Richmond TJ. Comparison of X-ray structures of the nucleosome core particle in two different hydration states. J Mol Biol 1992; 224:253-64. [PMID: 1548703 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(92)90588-b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The X-ray structure of the nucleosome core particle was determined at 7 A resolution using crystals containing mixed-sequence DNA and 21% to 27% of 1,6-hexanediol (partially dehydrated crystals). The alcohol was added to the crystals after growth to overcome the non-isomorphism of the crystals and improve the quality of their X-ray diffraction. Here, we report the structure of the nucleosome core particle from these crystals in the absence of the alcohol 1,6-hexanediol at 9 A resolution. The structure, under conditions of nearly full hydration, has been solved by multiple isomorphous replacement methods employing multiple heavy-atom compounds identical to those used for the partially dehydrated structure. The electron density of particles in the two crystal structures is well-correlated throughout the maps and structural elements of the DNA superhelix and histone proteins are generally similar, e.g. the DNA bends sharply at positions +/- 1 and +/- 4 double-helical turns from the DNA center. These results rule out the occurrence of gross structural changes in the 7 A structure due to addition of alcohol. The parts of the nucleosome core particle structure, which are dissimilar between the two forms, can be attributed to differences in molecular packing induced by the addition of 1,6-hexanediol. In contrast to the structure seen in the partially dehydrated crystals, the fully hydrated crystals show a particle in which the H2A-H2B dimers are symmetrically related by the dyad axis found in the H3-H4 tetramer region. However, in the fully hydrated crystals, the first and last double-helical turns of DNA superhelix are not related by dyad symmetry, and one of these segments has reduced contact with the adjacent H2A-H2B dimer.
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- M M Struck
- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, U.K
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Brawley JV, Martinson HG. HMG proteins 14 and 17 become cross-linked to the globular domain of histone H3 near the nucleosome core particle dyad. Biochemistry 1992; 31:364-70. [PMID: 1731893 DOI: 10.1021/bi00117a008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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HMG proteins were derivatized with the photoactivatable cross-linker N-succinimidyl 3-((4-azidophenyl)dithio)propionate and then allowed to associate with nucleosome core particles. Following photolysis, peptide mapping of the principal dimeric adducts was carried out. Cross-linking occurred primarily from a central location in the HMGs to a central location in H3. The positions of these cross-links, considered along with other data from the literature, show that HMG proteins 14 and 17 make important contacts to H3 near the front face of the nucleosome. This raises the possibility that HMGs 14 and 17 participate in the reported conformational transition which exposes the H3 sulfhydryls of active nucleosomes.
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- J V Brawley
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles 90024
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Davies N, Lindsey GG. Histone-DNA contacts in the 167 bp 2-turn core particle. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1991; 1129:57-63. [PMID: 1756180 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4781(91)90212-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The histone-DNA contacts in the 167 bp 2-turn core particle have been compared with those in the 146 bp 1.75-turn core particle by the methodology developed by Mirzabekov and his colleagues. The contacts in the 167 bp 2-turn core particle retain the essential features of those in the 146 bp 1.75-turn core particle but contacts for histones H3 and H2A were found in the 10 bp extension that discriminates the two particles. In addition the contact for histone H2A near the dyad axis was far more pronounced in the case of the 146 bp core particle.
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- N Davies
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa
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The size of DNA involved in the interaction with a histone octamer in H1-depleted chromatin was re-examined. We compared the thermal untwisting of chromatin DNA and naked DNA using CD and electrophoretic topoisomer analysis, and found that DNA of 175 +/- 10 base pairs (bp) in length interacted with the histone core under physiological conditions. The decrease of ionic strength below 20 mM NaCl reduced this length down to 145 bp: apparently, an extra 30 bp DNA dissociated from the histone core to yield well-known 145-bp core particle. Histone cores partly dissociate within the temperature range of 25 to 40 degrees C. Quantitative analysis of histone thermal dissociation from DNA shows that the size of DNA protected against thermal untwisting would be significantly overestimated if this effect is neglected. The results presented in this paper also suggest that the dimers (H2A, H2B) act as a lock, which prevents transmission of conformational alterations from a linker to nucleosome core DNA. The histone core dissociation as well as (H2A, H2B) dimer displacement are discussed in the light of their possible participation in the eukaryotic genome activation.
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- I V Smirnov
- Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow
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Lindsey GG, Orgeig S, Thompson P, Davies N, Maeder DL. Extended C-terminal tail of wheat histone H2A interacts with DNA of the "linker" region. J Mol Biol 1991; 218:805-13. [PMID: 2023250 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(91)90268-b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The preparation of hybrid histone octamers with wheat histone H2A variants replacing chicken H2A in the chicken octamer is described. The fidelity of the reconstituted hybrid octamers was confirmed by dimethyl suberimidate cross-linking. Polyglutamic-acid-mediated assembly of these octamers on long DNA and subsequent micrococcal nuclease (MNase) digestion demonstrated that, whereas chicken octamers protected 167 base-pairs (representing 2 full turns of DNA), hybrid histone octamers containing wheat histone H2A(1) with its 19 amino acid residue C-terminal extension protected an additional 16 base pairs of DNA against nuclease digestion. The protection observed by hybrid histone octamers containing wheat histone H2A(3) with both a 15 residue N-terminal and a 19 residue C-terminal extension was identical with that observed with H2A(1)-containing hybrid histone octamers with only the 19 residue C-terminal extension. These results suggest that the role of the C-terminal extension is to bind to DNA of the "linker" region. The thermal denaturation of chicken and hybrid core particles was identical in 10 mM-Tris.HCl.20 mM-NaCl, 0.1 mM-EDTA, confirming that there was no interaction between the basic C-terminal extension and DNA of the core particle. Denaturation in EDTA, however, showed that hybrid core particles had enhanced stability, suggesting that the known conformational change of core particles at very low ionic strength allows the C-terminal extension to bind to core particle DNA under these conditions. A model accounting for the observed MNase protection is presented.
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- G G Lindsey
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cape Town, Republic of South Africa
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Pfaffle P, Gerlach V, Bunzel L, Jackson V. In vitro evidence that transcription-induced stress causes nucleosome dissolution and regeneration. J Biol Chem 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)44836-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Pérez JJ, Portugal J. Molecular modelling study of changes induced by netropsin binding to nucleosome core particles. Nucleic Acids Res 1990; 18:3731-7. [PMID: 2165249 PMCID: PMC331071 DOI: 10.1093/nar/18.13.3731] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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It is well known that certain sequence-dependent modulators in structure appear to determine the rotational positioning of DNA on the nucleosome core particle. That preference is rather weak and could be modified by some ligands as netropsin, a minor-groove binding antibiotic. We have undertaken a molecular modelling approach to calculate the relative energy of interaction between a DNA molecule and the protein core particle. The histones particle is considered as a distribution of positive charges on the protein surface that interacts with the DNA molecule. The molecular electrostatic potentials for the DNA, simulated as a discontinuous cylinder, were calculated using the values for all the base pairs. Computing these parameters, we calculated the relative energy of interaction and the more stable rotational setting of DNA. The binding of four molecules of netropsin to this model showed that a new minimum of energy is obtained when the DNA turns toward the protein surface by about 180 degrees, so a new energetically favoured structure appears where netropsin binding sites are located facing toward the histones surface. The effect of netropsin could be explained in terms of an induced change in the phasing of DNA on the core particle. The induced rotation is considered to optimize non-bonded contacts between the netropsin molecules and the DNA backbone.
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- J J Pérez
- Departamento de Ingenieria Química, Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya, Spain
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Bavykin SG, Usachenko SI, Zalensky AO, Mirzabekov AD. Structure of nucleosomes and organization of internucleosomal DNA in chromatin. J Mol Biol 1990; 212:495-511. [PMID: 2325131 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(90)90328-j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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We have compared the mononucleosomal pattern produced by micrococcal nuclease digestion of condensed and unfolded chromatin and chromatin in nuclei from various sources with the repeat length varying from 165 to 240 base-pairs (bp). Upon digestion of isolated H1-containing chromatin of every tested type in a low ionic strength solution (unfolded chromatin), a standard series of mononucleosomes (MN) was formed: the core particle, MN145, and H1-containing, MN165, MN175, MN185, MN195, MN205 and MN215 (the indexes give an approximate length of the nucleosomal DNA that differs in these particles by an integral number of 10 bp). In addition to the pattern of unfolded chromatin, digestion of whole nuclei or condensed chromatin (high ionic strength of Ca2+) gave rise to nuclei-specific, H1-lacking MN155. Digestion of H1-lacking chromatin produced only MN145, MN155 and MN165 particles, indicating that the histone octamer can organize up to 165 bp of nucleosomal DNA. Although digestion of isolated sea urchin sperm chromatin (repeat length of about 240 bp) at a low ionic strength gave a typical "unfolded chromatin pattern", digests of spermal nuclei contained primarily MN145, MN155, MN235 and MN245 particles. A linear arrangement of histones along DNA (primary organization) of the core particle was found to be preserved in the mononucleosomes, with the spacer DNA length from 10 to 90 bp on one (in MN155) or both sides of core DNA being a multiple of about 10 bp. In MN235, the core particle occupies preferentially a central position with the length of the spacer DNA on both sides of the core DNA being usually about 30 + 60 or 40 + 50 bp. Histone H1 is localized at the ends of these particles, i.e. close to the centre of the spacer DNA. The finding that globular part of histones H3 and sea urchin sperm H2B can covalently bind to spacer DNA suggests their involvement in the organization of chromatin superstructure. Our data indicate that decondensation of chromatin is accompanied by rearrangement of histone H1 on the spacer DNA sites adjacent to the core particle and thus support a solenoid model for the chromatin superstructure in nuclei in which the core DNA together with the spacer DNA form a continuous superhelix.
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- S G Bavykin
- Institute of Molecular Biology, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow
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An overview of the chemical and photochemical probes which over the past ten years have been used in studies of DNA/ligand complexes and of non-B-form DNA conformations is presented with emphasis on the chemical reactions of the probes with DNA and on their present 'use-profile'. The chemical probes include: dimethyl sulfate, ethyl nitroso urea, diethyl pyrocarbonate, osmium tetroxide, permanganate, aldehydes, methidiumpropyl-EDTA-Fell (MPE), phenanthroline metal complexes and EDTA/FeII. The photochemical probes that have been used include: psoralens, UVB, acridines and uranyl salts. The biological systems analysed by use of these probes are reviewed by tabulation.
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- P E Nielsen
- Department of Biochemistry B, Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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Stefanovsky VYu, Dimitrov SI, Russanova VR, Angelov D, Pashev IG. Laser-induced crosslinking of histones to DNA in chromatin and core particles: implications in studying histone-DNA interactions. Nucleic Acids Res 1989; 17:10069-81. [PMID: 2602113 PMCID: PMC335231 DOI: 10.1093/nar/17.23.10069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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UV laser irradiation has been used to covalently crosslink histones to DNA in nuclei, chromatin and core particles and the presence of the different histone species in the covalently linked material was detected immunochemically. When nuclei were irradiated and then trypsinized to cleave the N- and C- terminal histone tails, no histones have been found covalently linked to DNA. This finding shows that UV laser-induced crosslinking of histones to DNA is accomplished via the non-structured domains only. This unexpected way of crosslinking operated in chromatin, H1-depleted chromatin and core particles, i.e. independently of the chromatin structure. The efficiency of crosslinking, however, showed such a dependence: whilst the yield of crosslinks was similar in total and H1-depleted chromatin, in core particles the efficiency was 3-4 times lower for H2A, H2B and H4 and 10-12 times lower for H3. The decreased crosslinking efficiency, especially dramatic in the case of H3, is attributed to a reduced number of binding sites, and, respectively, is considered as a direct evidence for interaction of nonstructured tails of core histones with linker DNA.
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- Stefanovsky VYu
- Institute of Molecular Biology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia
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- J E Pérez-Ortin
- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultades de Ciencias, Universitat de València, Burjassot, Spain
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Mirzabekov AD, Bavykin SG, Belyavsky AV, Karpov VL, Preobrazhenskaya OV, Shick VV, Ebralidse KK. Mapping DNA-protein interactions by cross-linking. Methods Enzymol 1989; 170:386-408. [PMID: 2770546 DOI: 10.1016/0076-6879(89)70058-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Gale JM, Smerdon MJ. Photofootprint of nucleosome core DNA in intact chromatin having different structural states. J Mol Biol 1988; 204:949-58. [PMID: 3221402 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(88)90054-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Recently, we reported that the distribution of ultraviolet light (u.v.) induced pyrimidine dimers in nucleosome core DNA has a striking 10.3(+/- 0.1) base periodicity and the regions of enhanced quantum yield map to positions where DNA strands are farthest from the core histone surface. Improvement of the mapping procedure has allowed us to analyze this distribution in more detail, and compare the distribution pattern for nucleosome cores from intact chromatin having different higher-order structures (from the 10 nm filament to the 30 nm fiber). At all levels of chromatin compaction, we observed the following. (1) The average periodicity in pyrimidine dimer yield is 10.3 bases. (2) The peak-to-peak spacing in this distribution is significantly different from 10.3 bases in the region covering three helix turns immediately 5' of the dyad axis. (3) There is a suppression of photoproduct formation in the region of the dyad axis, especially at position 84 from the 5' end. (4) The approximately 10 base ensembles have alternating peak intensities throughout core DNA. Furthermore, peak deconvolution analysis of the pyrimidine dimer pattern yielded a striking similarity in photoproduct yield for the different levels of chromatin compaction. Irradiation of isolated core DNA yields a much more random distribution of photoproducts, although a weak modulation pattern is observed (indicating that there is a non-random alignment of adjacent pyrimidines in our core DNA preparations). This pattern includes a depression in photoproduct yield near position 95, suggesting that the sequence in this region plays a role in nucleosome positioning. These results show that the u.v. photofootprint is a sensitive, diagnostic probe of core histone-DNA interactions in intact chromatin, and these interactions are not significantly altered by changes in the structural state of the chromatin fiber.
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- J M Gale
- Biochemistry/Biophysics Program, Washington State University, Pullman 99164-4660
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Landsman D, Sewell BT, von Holt C. Aberrant DNase I digestion kinetics of nucleosomal core particles from sea urchin sperm. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1988; 155:66-73. [PMID: 3415706 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-291x(88)81050-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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The pancreatic deoxyribonuclease (DNase I) digestion rates at the susceptible sites on nucleosomal core particles from blastula, gastrula and sperm cells of the sea urchin, Parechinus angulosus, have been determined. Although there are differences in their isohistone composition, the rates of digestion are similar for both embryonic stages. The rates of digestion for sperm core particles are 3-5 times lower than for embryo core particles at the more, and up to 2.5 times lower at the less susceptible sites. An explanation for these differences could be sought in the sperm isohistones H2B which are characterized by N-terminal extensions of 20-25 amino acid residues.
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- D Landsman
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Republic of South Africa
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Ebralidse KK, Grachev SA, Mirzabekov AD. A highly basic histone H4 domain bound to the sharply bent region of nucleosomal DNA. Nature 1988; 331:365-7. [PMID: 3340182 DOI: 10.1038/331365a0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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A nucleosomal core particle is composed of two each of histones H2A, H2B, H3 and H4 located inside the particle with approximately 47 base pairs (bp) of DNA wrapped around the octamer in about 1.8 turns of a left-handed superhelix. The path of the superhelix is not smooth; the DNA is sharply bent, or kinked, at positions symmetrically disposed at a distance of about one and four double-helical turns in both directions from the nucleosomal dyad axis (designated as sites +/- 1 and +/- 4 respectively). This non-uniform bending is considered archetypal to other DNA-protein complexes, but its mechanism is not clear (reviewed in ref. 4). DNA-histone chemical cross-linking within the core particle has revealed strong binding of each of the two histone H4 molecules to DNA at a distance of 1.5 helical turns either side of the nucleosomal dyad axis (sites +/- 1.5). In each of these sites, a single flexible domain of H4 was previously shown to contact three points, at about nucleotides 55 and 65 on one strand and nucleotide 88 on the complementary strand, numbering from the 5' terminus of each 147-base strand; these three locations are closely juxtaposed across the highly compressed minor and major grooves (Fig. 1). Here we report that the amino-acid residue of histone H4 cross-linked at the 1.5 site is histidine-18, embedded in a highly basic cluster Lys-Arg-His-Arg-Lys-Val-Leu-Arg which is probably involved in the sharp bending of the DNA double helix at the +/- 1 sites.
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- K K Ebralidse
- Institute of Molecular Biology, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, USSR
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Allegra P, Sterner R, Clayton DF, Allfrey VG. Affinity chromatographic purification of nucleosomes containing transcriptionally active DNA sequences. J Mol Biol 1987; 196:379-88. [PMID: 3656449 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(87)90698-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 140] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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The unfolding of nucleosome cores in transcriptionally active chromatin uncovers the sulfhydryl groups of histone H3, making them accessible to SH-reagents. This has suggested that nucleosomes from active genes could be retained selectively on organomercurial/agarose columns. When nucleosomes released from rat liver nuclei by limited digestion with micrococcal nuclease were passed through an Hg affinity column, a run-off fraction of compact, beaded nucleosomes was separated from a retained nucleosome fraction. Although both contained monomer-length DNA and a full complement of core histones, histones in the retained fraction were hyperacetylated. Dot blot hybridizations showed the Hg-bound nucleosome fraction to be enriched in DNA sequences transcribed by hepatocytes (serum albumin and transferrin genes), while a brain-specific gene (preproenkephalin) was not retained, but appeared in the nucleosomes of the run-off fraction. The results are discussed in light of other evidence linking hyperacetylation of histones H3 and H4 to conformational changes at the middle of the nucleosome core.
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- P Allegra
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Rockefeller University, New York, N.Y. 10021
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Sterner R, Boffa LC, Chen TA, Allfrey VG. Cell cycle-dependent changes in conformation and composition of nucleosomes containing human histone gene sequences. Nucleic Acids Res 1987; 15:4375-91. [PMID: 3588300 PMCID: PMC340868 DOI: 10.1093/nar/15.11.4375] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Unfolding of the nucleosomes in transcriptionally active chromatin uncovers the sulfhydryl groups of histone H3 and permits the selective recovery of the unfolded nucleosomes by mercury-affinity chromatography. This new technique has been used to compare the nucleosomal proteins and their postsynthetic modifications in the unfolded and the compactly beaded nucleosomes of HeLa cells in logarithmic growth, and at different stages of the growth cycle. The Hg-bound nucleosomes are shown to be deficient in replicating DNA sequences, but to remain associated with fragments of nascent RNA chains (or RNP particles) during gradient centrifugations. Both nucleosome fractions contain a full complement of "core" histones but differ with respect to postsynthetic modifications. The Hg-bound nucleosomes contain high levels of the tri- and tetra-acetylated forms of histones H3 and H4. The unbound nucleosomes are deficient in acetylated histones but enriched in phosphorylated H2A. In synchronized HeLa cells, histone H2A and H4 gene sequences occur in the Hg-bound nucleosomes during the S-phase when their transcription takes place, but not in the G2-phase when the genes are repressed.
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High mobility group protein 17 cross-links primarily to histone H2A in the reconstituted HMG 17-nucleosome core particle complex. J Biol Chem 1986. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)66696-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Lambert SF, Thomas JO. Lysine-containing DNA-binding regions on the surface of the histone octamer in the nucleosome core particle. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1986; 160:191-201. [PMID: 3095113 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1986.tb09957.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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The DNA bound on the surface of the histone octamer in the nucleosome core particle partially protects the epsilon-amino side-chains of a subset of the lysine residues from reductive methylation. Most of the strongly protected lysines, which probably define the path of the DNA on the octamer surface, are in the globular ('structured') regions of the core histones rather than in the N-terminal or C-terminal 'tails'. Analysis of the protected peptides shows that the three strongest lysine-containing DNA-binding sites in the core histones contain the sequence-Lys/Arg-Lys-Thr/Ser-. On the assumption that the lysine-containing regions protected from chemical modification are also those found in lysine-DNA cross-links in another study [Mirzabekov et al. (1978) Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 75, 4184-4188], particular DNA-protected peptides may be tentatively assigned to particular DNA contact points. This leads to a more detailed description of the DNA-binding regions on the octamer surface in the nucleosome core particle. Strong contacts, reflected in strongly protected lysines, may well contribute to the distortion of the DNA from smooth bending [Richmond et al. (1984) Nature (Lond.) 311, 532-537].
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Ebralidse KK, Mirzabekov AD. One-domain interaction of histone H4 with nucleosomal core DNA is restricted to a narrow DNA segment. FEBS Lett 1986; 194:69-72. [PMID: 3940891 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(86)80053-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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The interaction of histone H4 with DNA in the nucleosomal core particle has been studied by crosslinking DNA to proteins through their lysine residues. We have compared the crosslinked peptides of H4 at the detected DNA-binding sites: H4(55), H4(65), H4(88), located, respectively, at about 55, 65 and 88 nucleotides from the core DNA termini. For all these binding sites, the patterns of crosslinked peptides were shown to be very similar. This suggests the presence of a single DNA-binding domain in the H4 molecule. The H4-binding sites are located within a narrow DNA segment close to one another on the complementary strands across the DNA grooves, overlap with sites +/- 1 of the DNA sharp bending [(1984) Nature 311, 532-537] and with the strong binding sites for histone H3: H3(75) and H3(85).
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