Structural highlights
1zla is a 11 chain structure with sequence from [1], African clawed frog and Expression vector pet3-h2a. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance.
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| Related: | 1aoi, 1f66, 1kx3, 1kx4, 1kx5 |
| Gene: | Histone H3 (African clawed frog), Histone H4 (African clawed frog), Histone H2A (Expression vector pET3-H2A), Histone H2B (African clawed frog) |
| Resources: | FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT |
Function
[H4_XENLA] 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.
Evolutionary Conservation
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Publication Abstract from PubMed
Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) latency-associated nuclear antigen (LANA) mediates viral genome attachment to mitotic chromosomes. We find that N-terminal LANA docks onto chromosomes by binding nucleosomes through the folded region of histones H2A-H2B. The same LANA residues were required for both H2A-H2B binding and chromosome association. Further, LANA did not bind Xenopus sperm chromatin, which is deficient in H2A-H2B; chromatin binding was rescued after assembly of nucleosomes containing H2A-H2B. We also describe the 2.9-angstrom crystal structure of a nucleosome complexed with the first 23 LANA amino acids. The LANA peptide forms a hairpin that interacts exclusively with an acidic H2A-H2B region that is implicated in the formation of higher order chromatin structure. Our findings present a paradigm for how nucleosomes may serve as binding platforms for viral and cellular proteins and reveal a previously unknown mechanism for KSHV latency.
The nucleosomal surface as a docking station for Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus LANA.,Barbera AJ, Chodaparambil JV, Kelley-Clarke B, Joukov V, Walter JC, Luger K, Kaye KM Science. 2006 Feb 10;311(5762):856-61. PMID:16469929[1]
From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
References
- ↑ Barbera AJ, Chodaparambil JV, Kelley-Clarke B, Joukov V, Walter JC, Luger K, Kaye KM. The nucleosomal surface as a docking station for Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus LANA. Science. 2006 Feb 10;311(5762):856-61. PMID:16469929 doi:311/5762/856
