| Structural highlights
2com is a 1 chain structure with sequence from Homo sapiens. Full experimental information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance.
| | Gene: | LSD1 (Homo sapiens) |
| Resources: | FirstGlance, OCA, RCSB, PDBsum, TOPSAN |
Evolutionary Conservation
Check, as determined by ConSurfDB. You may read the explanation of the method and the full data available from ConSurf.
Publication Abstract from PubMed
SWIRM is an evolutionarily conserved domain involved in several chromatin-modifying complexes. Recently, the LSD1 protein, which bears a SWIRM domain, was found to be a demethylase for Lys4-methylated histone H3. Here, we report a solution structure of the SWIRM domain of human LSD1. It forms a compact fold composed of 6 alpha helices, in which a 20 amino acid long helix (alpha4) is surrounded by 5 other short helices. The SWIRM domain structure could be divided into the N-terminal part (alpha1-alpha3) and the C-terminal part (alpha4-alpha6), which are connected to each other by a salt bridge. While the N-terminal part forms a SWIRM-specific structure, the C-terminal part adopts a helix-turn-helix (HTH)-related fold. We discuss a model in which the SWIRM domain acts as an anchor site for a histone tail.
Solution structure of the SWIRM domain of human histone demethylase LSD1.,Tochio N, Umehara T, Koshiba S, Inoue M, Yabuki T, Aoki M, Seki E, Watanabe S, Tomo Y, Hanada M, Ikari M, Sato M, Terada T, Nagase T, Ohara O, Shirouzu M, Tanaka A, Kigawa T, Yokoyama S Structure. 2006 Mar;14(3):457-68. PMID:16531230[1]
From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
See Also
References
- ↑ Tochio N, Umehara T, Koshiba S, Inoue M, Yabuki T, Aoki M, Seki E, Watanabe S, Tomo Y, Hanada M, Ikari M, Sato M, Terada T, Nagase T, Ohara O, Shirouzu M, Tanaka A, Kigawa T, Yokoyama S. Solution structure of the SWIRM domain of human histone demethylase LSD1. Structure. 2006 Mar;14(3):457-68. PMID:16531230 doi:10.1016/j.str.2005.12.004
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