| Structural highlights
4pzi is a 3 chain structure with sequence from Human. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance.
| | Ligands: | , |
| Gene: | KMT2B, HRX2, KIAA0304, MLL2, MLL4, TRX2, WBP7 (HUMAN) |
| Activity: | Histone-lysine N-methyltransferase, with EC number 2.1.1.43 |
| Resources: | FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT |
Function
[KMT2B_HUMAN] Histone methyltransferase. Methylates 'Lys-4' of histone H3. H3 'Lys-4' methylation represents a specific tag for epigenetic transcriptional activation. Plays a central role in beta-globin locus transcription regulation by being recruited by NFE2. Plays an important role in controlling bulk H3K4me during oocyte growth and preimplantation development. Required during the transcriptionally active period of oocyte growth for the establishment and/or maintenance of bulk H3K4 trimethylation (H3K4me3), global transcriptional silencing that preceeds resumption of meiosis, oocyte survival and normal zygotic genome activation.[1]
Publication Abstract from PubMed
The CXXC domain, first identified as the reader of unmodified CpG dinucleotide, plays important roles in epigenetic regulation by targeting various activities to CpG islands. Here we systematically measured and compared the DNA-binding selectivities of all known human CXXC domains by different binding assays, and complemented the existing function-based classification of human CXXC domains with a classification based on their DNA selectivities. Through a series of crystal structures of CXXC domains with DNA ligands, we unravel the molecular mechanisms of how these CXXC domains, including single CXXC domains and tandem CXXC-PHD domains, recognize distinct DNA ligands, which further supports our classification of human CXXC domains and also provides insights into selective recruitment of chromatin modifiers to their respective targets via CXXC domains recognizing different genomic DNA sequences. Our study facilitates the understanding of the relationship between the DNA-binding specificities of the CXXC proteins and their biological functions.
DNA Sequence Recognition of Human CXXC Domains and Their Structural Determinants.,Xu C, Liu K, Lei M, Yang A, Li Y, Hughes TR, Min J Structure. 2017 Dec 16. pii: S0969-2126(17)30396-9. doi:, 10.1016/j.str.2017.11.022. PMID:29276034[2]
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References
- ↑ Demers C, Chaturvedi CP, Ranish JA, Juban G, Lai P, Morle F, Aebersold R, Dilworth FJ, Groudine M, Brand M. Activator-mediated recruitment of the MLL2 methyltransferase complex to the beta-globin locus. Mol Cell. 2007 Aug 17;27(4):573-84. PMID:17707229 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.molcel.2007.06.022
- ↑ Xu C, Liu K, Lei M, Yang A, Li Y, Hughes TR, Min J. DNA Sequence Recognition of Human CXXC Domains and Their Structural Determinants. Structure. 2017 Dec 16. pii: S0969-2126(17)30396-9. doi:, 10.1016/j.str.2017.11.022. PMID:29276034 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.str.2017.11.022
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