Structural highlights
Function
H32_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.
Publication Abstract from PubMed
Human cytomegalovirus (hCMV) immediate early 1 (IE1) protein associates with condensed chromatin of the host cell during mitosis. We have determined the structure of the chromatin-tethering domain (CTD) of IE1 bound to the nucleosome core particle, and discovered that IE1-CTD specifically interacts with the H2A-H2B acidic patch and impairs the compaction of higher-order chromatin structure. Our results suggest that IE1 loosens up the folding of host chromatin during hCMV infections.
Human cytomegalovirus IE1 protein alters the higher-order chromatin structure by targeting the acidic patch of the nucleosome.,Fang Q, Chen P, Wang M, Fang J, Yang N, Li G, Xu RM Elife. 2016 Jan 26;5. pii: e11911. doi: 10.7554/eLife.11911. PMID:26812545[1]
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References
- ↑ Fang Q, Chen P, Wang M, Fang J, Yang N, Li G, Xu RM. Human cytomegalovirus IE1 protein alters the higher-order chromatin structure by targeting the acidic patch of the nucleosome. Elife. 2016 Jan 26;5. pii: e11911. doi: 10.7554/eLife.11911. PMID:26812545 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.11911
