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PDBsum entry 5av5

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DNA binding protein/DNA PDB id
5av5
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Protein chains
99 a.a.
82 a.a.
106 a.a.
97 a.a.
87 a.a.
DNA/RNA
Metals
_MN ×14
Waters ×307

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Title Intra- And inter-Nucleosomal interactions of the histone h4 tail revealed with a human nucleosome core particle with genetically-Incorporated h4 tetra-Acetylation.
Authors M.Wakamori, Y.Fujii, N.Suka, M.Shirouzu, K.Sakamoto, T.Umehara, S.Yokoyama.
Ref. Sci Rep, 2015, 5, 17204. [DOI no: 10.1038/srep17204]
PubMed id 26607036
Abstract
Post-translational modifications (PTMs) of histones, such as lysine acetylation of the N-terminal tails, play crucial roles in controlling gene expression. Due to the difficulty in reconstituting site-specifically acetylated nucleosomes with crystallization quality, structural analyses of histone acetylation are currently performed using synthesized tail peptides. Through engineering of the genetic code, translation termination, and cell-free protein synthesis, we reconstituted human H4-mono- to tetra-acetylated nucleosome core particles (NCPs), and solved the crystal structures of the H4-K5/K8/K12/K16-tetra-acetylated NCP and unmodified NCP at 2.4 Å and 2.2 Å resolutions, respectively. The structure of the H4-tetra-acetylated NCP resembled that of the unmodified NCP, and the DNA wrapped the histone octamer as precisely as in the unmodified NCP. However, the B-factors were significantly increased for the peripheral DNAs near the N-terminal tail of the intra- or inter-nucleosomal H4. In contrast, the B-factors were negligibly affected by the H4 tetra-acetylation in histone core residues, including those composing the acidic patch, and at H4-R23, which interacts with the acidic patch of the neighboring NCP. The present study revealed that the H4 tetra-acetylation impairs NCP self-association by changing the interactions of the H4 tail with DNA, and is the first demonstration of crystallization quality NCPs reconstituted with genuine PTMs.
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