2l2l
From Proteopedia
Solution structure of the coiled-coil complex between MBD2 and p66alpha
Structural highlights
Function[P66A_HUMAN] Transcriptional repressor. Enhances MBD2-mediated repression. Efficient repression requires the presence of GATAD2B.[1] [2] [MBD2_HUMAN] Binds CpG islands in promoters where the DNA is methylated at position 5 of cytosine within CpG dinucleotides. Binds hemimethylated DNA as well. Recruits histone deacetylases and DNA methyltransferases. Acts as transcriptional repressor and plays a role in gene silencing. Functions as a scaffold protein, targeting GATAD2A and GATAD2B to chromatin to promote repression. May enhance the activation of some unmethylated cAMP-responsive promoters.[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] Publication Abstract from PubMedNucleosome remodeling complexes comprise several large families of chromatin modifiers that integrate multiple epigenetic control signals to play key roles in cell type-specific transcription regulation. We previously isolated a methyl-binding domain protein 2 (MBD2)-containing nucleosome remodeling and deacetylation (NuRD) complex from primary erythroid cells and showed that MBD2 contributes to DNA methylation-dependent embryonic and fetal beta-type globin gene silencing during development in vivo. Here we present structural and biophysical details of the coiled-coil interaction between MBD2 and p66alpha, a critical component of the MBD2-NuRD complex. We show that enforced expression of the isolated p66alpha coiled-coil domain relieves MBD2-mediated globin gene silencing and that the expressed peptide interacts only with a subset of components of the MBD2-NuRD complex that does not include native p66alpha or Mi-2. These results demonstrate the central importance of the coiled-coil interaction and suggest that MBD2-dependent DNA methylation-driven gene silencing can be disrupted by selectively targeting this coiled-coil complex. p66{alpha}-MBD2 coiled-coil interaction and recruitment of Mi-2 are critical for globin gene silencing by the MBD2-NuRD complex.,Gnanapragasam MN, Scarsdale JN, Amaya ML, Webb HD, Desai MA, Walavalkar NM, Wang SZ, Zhu SZ, Ginder GD, Williams DC Jr Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Apr 13. PMID:21490301[9] From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See AlsoReferences
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Categories: Human | Scarsdale, N | Williams, D C | Coiled-coil | Dna methylation | Mbd2 | Nurd | P66alpha | Transferase
