The Drosophila Df31 Protein Interacts with Histone H3 Tails and Promotes Chromatin Bridging In vitro

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 373, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 903-912

  Guillebault, Delphine ^a   Cotterill, Sue ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

chromatin structure; Df31; Drosophila; H3; histones

Indexed keywords

DF31 PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HISTONE H3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING ASSAY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; IN VITRO STUDY; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN IMMOBILIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 34848835441     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2007.07.049     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Woodcock C.L. Chromatin architecture. Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. 16 (2006) 213-220
2. Richmond T.J., and Davey C.A. The structure of DNA in the nucleosome core. Nature 423 (2003) 145-150
3. Saha A., Wittmeyer J., and Cairns B.R. Chromatin remodelling: the industrial revolution of DNA around histones. Nat. Rev. Mol. Cell Biol. 7 (2006) 437-447
4. Mersfelder E.L., and Parthun M.R. The tale beyond the tail: histone core domain modifications and the regulation of chromatin structure. Nucleic Acids Res. 34 (2006) 2653-2662
5. McGowan S., Buckle A.M., Irving J.A., Ong P.C., Bashtannyk-Puhalovich T.A., Kan W.T., et al. X-ray crystal structure of MENT: evidence for functional loop-sheet polymers in chromatin condensation. EMBO J. 25 (2006) 3144-3155
6. Waldmann T., Scholten I., Kappes F., Hu H.G., and Knippers R. The DEK protein-an abundant and ubiquitous constituent of mammalian chromatin. Gene 343 (2004) 1-9
7. Venditti S., Vega-Palas M.A., and Di Mauro E. Heterochromatin organization of a natural yeast telomere. Recruitment of Sir3p through interaction with histone H4 N terminus is required for the establishment of repressive structures. J. Biol. Chem. 274 (1999) 1928-1933
8. Ansari A., and Gartenberg M.R. Persistence of an alternate chromatin structure at silenced loci in vitro. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 96 (1999) 343-348
9. Bustin M. Chromatin unfolding and activation by HMGN(*) chromosomal proteins. Trends Biochem. Sci. 26 (2001) 431-437
10. Levine S.S., King I.F., and Kingston R.E. Division of labor in polycomb group repression. Trends Biochem. Sci. 29 (2004) 478-485
11. Ausio J. Histone variants-the structure behind the function. Brief Funct. Genomic Proteomic. 5 (2006) 228-243
12. Almeida R., and Allshire R.C. RNA silencing and genome regulation. Trends Cell Biol. 15 (2005) 251-258
13. Nasmyth K., and Haering C.H. The structure and function of SMC and kleisin complexes. Annu. Rev. Biochem. 74 (2005) 595-648
14. Crevel G., and Cotterill S. DF 31, a sperm decondensation factor from Drosophila melanogaster: purification and characterization. EMBO J. 14 (1995) 1711-1717
15. Crevel G., Huikeshoven H., and Cotterill S. Df31 is a novel nuclear protein involved in chromatin structure in Drosophila melanogaster. J. Cell Sci. 114 (2001) 37-47
16. Morse R.H., and Cantor C.R. Effect of trypsinization and histone H5 addition on DNA twist and topology in reconstituted minichromosomes. Nucleic Acids Res. 14 (1986) 3293-3310
17. Tsukiyama T., and Wu C. Purification and properties of an ATP-dependent nucleosome remodeling factor. Cell 83 (1995) 1011-1020
18. Sibbet G.J., and Carpenter B.G. Selective depletion and reconstitution of nucleosome core particles. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 740 (1983) 331-338
19. Trieschmann L., Postnikov Y.V., Rickers A., and Bustin M. Modular structure of chromosomal proteins HMG-14 and HMG-17: definition of a transcriptional enhancement domain distinct from the nucleosomal binding domain. Mol. Cell Biol. 15 (1995) 6663-6669
20. Paranjape S.M., Krumm A., and Kadonaga J.T. HMG17 is a chromatin-specific transcriptional coactivator that increases the efficiency of transcription initiation. Genes Dev. 9 (1995) 1978-1991
21. Nielsen A.L., Oulad-Abdelghani M., Ortiz J.A., Remboutsika E., Chambon P., and Losson R. Heterochromatin formation in mammalian cells: interaction between histones and HP1 proteins. Mol. Cell 7 (2001) 729-739
22. Arnan C., Saperas N., Prieto C., Chiva M., and Ausio J. Interaction of nucleoplasmin with core histones. J. Biol. Chem. 278 (2003) 31319-31324
23. Shintomi K., Iwabuchi M., Saeki H., Ura K., Kishimoto T., and Ohsumi K. Nucleosome assembly protein-1 is a linker histone chaperone in Xenopus eggs. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 102 (2005) 8210-8215
24. Hansen J.C. Conformational dynamics of the chromatin fiber in solution: determinants, mechanisms, and functions. Annu. Rev. Biophys. Biomol. Struct. 31 (2002) 361-392
25. Georgel P.T., Horowitz-Scherer R.A., Adkins N., Woodcock C.L., Wade P.A., and Hansen J.C. Chromatin compaction by human MeCP2. Assembly of novel secondary chromatin structures in the absence of DNA methylation. J. Biol. Chem. 278 (2003) 32181-32188
26. Springhetti E.M., Istomina N.E., Whisstock J.C., Nikitina T., Woodcock C.L., and Grigoryev S.A. Role of the M-loop and reactive center loop domains in the folding and bridging of nucleosome arrays by MENT. J. Biol. Chem. 278 (2003) 43384-43393
27. Lavigne M., Francis N.J., King I.F., and Kingston R.E. Propagation of silencing; recruitment and repression of naive chromatin in trans by polycomb repressed chromatin. Mol. Cell 13 (2004) 415-425
28. Kamakaka R.T., Bulger M., and Kadonaga J.T. Potentiation of RNA polymerase II transcription by Gal4-VP16 during but not after DNA replication and chromatin assembly. Genes Dev. 7 (1993) 1779-1795
29. Georgel P., Demeler B., Terpening C., Paule M.R., and van Holde K.E. Binding of the RNA polymerase I transcription complex to its promoter can modify positioning of downstream nucleosomes assembled in vitro. J. Biol. Chem. 268 (1993) 1947-1954
30. Becker P.B., and Wu C. Cell-free system for assembly of transcriptionally repressed chromatin from Drosophila embryos. Mol. Cell Biol. 12 (1992) 2241-2249