8g6s

H2AK119ub-modified nucleosome ubiquitin position 2

spinqualitylabelsall models 8g6s, resolution 3.47Å Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 8g6s is a 11 chain structure with sequence from Homo sapiens, Xenopus laevis and Synthetic construct. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Method: Electron Microscopy, Resolution 3.47Å Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT 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 Monoubiquitination of histones H2B-K120 (H2BK120ub) and H2A-K119 (H2AK119ub) play opposing roles in regulating transcription and chromatin compaction. H2BK120ub is a hallmark of actively transcribed euchromatin, while H2AK119ub is highly enriched in transcriptionally repressed heterochromatin. Whereas H2BK120ub is known to stimulate the binding or activity of various chromatin-modifying enzymes, this post-translational modification (PTM) also interferes with the binding of several proteins to the nucleosome H2A/H2B acidic patch via an unknown mechanism. Here, we report cryoEM structures of an H2BK120ub nucleosome showing that ubiquitin adopts discrete positions that occlude the acidic patch. Molecular dynamics simulations show that ubiquitin remains stably positioned over this nucleosome region. By contrast, our cryoEM structures of H2AK119ub nucleosomes show ubiquitin adopting discrete positions that minimally occlude the acidic patch. Consistent with these observations, H2BK120ub, but not H2AK119ub, abrogates nucleosome interactions with acidic patch-binding proteins RCC1 and LANA, and single-domain antibodies specific to this region. Our results suggest a mechanism by which H2BK120ub serves as a gatekeeper to the acidic patch and point to distinct roles for histone H2AK119 and H2BK120 ubiquitination in regulating protein binding to nucleosomes. Ubiquitinated histone H2B as gatekeeper of the nucleosome acidic patch.,Hicks CW, Rahman S, Gloor SL, Fields JK, Husby NL, Vaidya A, Maier KE, Morgan M, Wolberger C Nucleic Acids Res. 2024 Aug 16:gkae698. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkae698. PMID:39149911 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

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