8jld

Cryo-EM structure of the 145 bp human nucleosome containing acetylated H3 tail

spinqualitylabelsall models 8jld, resolution 2.48Å Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 8jld is a 10 chain structure with sequence from Homo sapiens and Synthetic construct. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Method: Electron Microscopy, Resolution 2.48Å Ligands: ALY Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT Function H32_HUMAN Publication Abstract from PubMed The N-terminal tails of histones protrude from the nucleosome core and are target sites for histone modifications, such as acetylation and methylation. Histone acetylation is considered to enhance transcription in chromatin. However, the contribution of the histone N-terminal tail to the nucleosome transcription by RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) has not been clarified. In the present study, we reconstituted nucleosomes lacking the N-terminal tail of each histone, H2A, H2B, H3 or H4, and performed RNAPII transcription assays. We found that the N-terminal tail of H3, but not H2A, H2B and H4, functions in RNAPII pausing at the SHL(-5) position of the nucleosome. Consistently, the RNAPII transcription assay also revealed that the nucleosome containing N-terminally acetylated H3 drastically alleviates RNAPII pausing at the SHL(-5) position. In addition, the H3 acetylated nucleosome produced increased amounts of the run-off transcript. These results provide important evidence that the H3 N-terminal tail plays a role in RNAPII pausing at the SHL(-5) position of the nucleosome, and its acetylation directly alleviates this nucleosome barrier. Contributions of histone tail clipping and acetylation in nucleosome transcription by RNA polymerase II.,Oishi T, Hatazawa S, Kujirai T, Kato J, Kobayashi Y, Ogasawara M, Akatsu M, Ehara H, Sekine SI, Hayashi G, Takizawa Y, Kurumizaka H Nucleic Acids Res. 2023 Oct 27;51(19):10364-10374. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkad754. PMID:37718728 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

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