Exchange of associated factors directs a switch in HBO1 acetyltransferase histone tail specificity. - Literature - Data resources

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Exchange of associated factors directs a switch in HBO1 acetyltransferase histone tail specificity.

Genes Dev, 2013/9/15;27(18):2009-24.

Lalonde ME^[1], Avvakumov N, Glass KC, Joncas FH, Saksouk N, Holliday M, Paquet E, Yan K, Tong Q, Klein BJ, Tan S, Yang XJ, Kutateladze TG, Côté J

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PMID: 24065767DOI: 10.1101/gad.223396.113

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Abstract

Histone acetyltransferases (HATs) assemble into multisubunit complexes in order to target distinct lysine residues on nucleosomal histones. Here, we characterize native HAT complexes assembled by the BRPF family of scaffold proteins. Their plant homeodomain (PHD)-Zn knuckle-PHD domain is essential for binding chromatin and is restricted to unmethylated H3K4, a specificity that is reversed by the associated ING subunit. Native BRPF1 complexes can contain either MOZ/MORF or HBO1 as catalytic acetyltransferase subunit. Interestingly, while the previously reported HBO1 complexes containing JADE scaffold proteins target histone H4, the HBO1-BRPF1 complex acetylates only H3 in chromatin. We mapped a small region to the N terminus of scaffold proteins responsible for histone tail selection on chromatin. Thus, alternate choice of subunits associated with HBO1 can switch its specificity between H4 and H3 tails. These results uncover a crucial new role for associated proteins within HAT complexes, previously thought to be intrinsic to the catalytic subunit.

Keywords: BRPF1; MYST family; PHD fingers; acetyltransferase complexes; chromatin acetylation; histone tails

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