| Structural highlights
4jjn is a 12 chain structure with sequence from Saccharomyces cerevisiae s288c. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance.
| Gene: | HHT1, HHT2, Histone H3, N2749, SIN2, YBR010W, YBR0201, YNL031C (Saccharomyces cerevisiae S288c), HHF1, HHF2, Histone H4, N2752, YBR009C, YBR0122, YNL030W (Saccharomyces cerevisiae S288c), H2A2, Histone H2A.2, HTA2, YBL003C, YBL0103 (Saccharomyces cerevisiae S288c), H2B2, Histone H2B.2, HTB2, YBL002W, YBL0104 (Saccharomyces cerevisiae S288c), CMT1, L9753.10, MAR2, SIR3, STE8, YLR442C (Saccharomyces cerevisiae S288c) |
Resources: | FirstGlance, OCA, RCSB, PDBsum |
Function
[H2B2_YEAST] Core component of nucleosome. Nucleosomes wrap and compact DNA into chromatin, limiting DNA accessibility to the cellular machineries which require DNA as a template. Histones thereby play a central role in transcription regulation, DNA repair, DNA replication and chromosomal stability. DNA accessibility is regulated via a complex set of post-translational modifications of histones, also called histone code, and nucleosome remodeling.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [H2A2_YEAST] Core component of nucleosome which plays a central role in DNA double strand break (DSB) repair. Nucleosomes wrap and compact DNA into chromatin, limiting DNA accessibility to the cellular machineries which require DNA as a template. Histones thereby play a central role in transcription regulation, DNA repair, DNA replication and chromosomal stability. DNA accessibility is regulated via a complex set of post-translational modifications of histones, also called histone code, and nucleosome remodeling.[8] [9] [10] [11] [SIR3_YEAST] The proteins SIR1 through SIR4 are required for transcriptional repression of the silent mating type loci, HML and HMR. The proteins SIR2 through SIR4 repress mulitple loci by modulating chromatin structure. Involves the compaction of chromatin fiber into a more condensed form.
Publication Abstract from PubMed
The regulated binding of effector proteins to the nucleosome plays a central role in the activation and silencing of eukaryotic genes. How this binding changes the properties of chromatin to mediate gene activation or silencing is not fully understood. Here we provide evidence that association of the budding yeast silent information regulator 3 (Sir3) silencing protein with the nucleosome induces a conformational change in the amino terminus of histone H4 that promotes interactions between the conserved H4 arginines 17 and 19 (R17 and R19) and nucleosomal DNA. Substitutions of H4R17 and R19 with alanine abolish silencing in vivo, but have little or no effect on binding of Sir3 to nucleosomes or histone H4 peptides in vitro. Furthermore, in both the previously reported crystal structure of the Sir3-bromo adjacent homology (BAH) domain bound to the Xenopus laevis nucleosome core particle and the crystal structure of the Sir3-BAH domain bound to the yeast nucleosome core particle described here, H4R17 and R19 make contacts with nucleosomal DNA rather than with Sir3. These results suggest that Sir3 binding generates a more stable nucleosome by clamping H4R17 and R19 to nucleosomal DNA, and raise the possibility that such induced changes in histone-DNA contacts play major roles in the regulation of chromatin structure.
Heterochromatin protein Sir3 induces contacts between the amino terminus of histone H4 and nucleosomal DNA.,Wang F, Li G, Altaf M, Lu C, Currie MA, Johnson A, Moazed D Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 May 6. PMID:23650358[12]
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See Also
References
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- ↑ Wang F, Li G, Altaf M, Lu C, Currie MA, Johnson A, Moazed D. Heterochromatin protein Sir3 induces contacts between the amino terminus of histone H4 and nucleosomal DNA. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 May 6. PMID:23650358 doi:10.1073/pnas.1300126110
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