5vbc

Crystal structure of ATXR5 in complex with histone H3.1

spinqualitylabelsall models 5vbc, resolution 2.10Å Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 5vbc is a 4 chain structure with sequence from Arabidopsis thaliana and Ricinus communis. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Method: X-ray diffraction, Resolution 2.1Å Ligands: DMS, SAH Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT Function ATXR5_RICCO Histone methyltransferase that specifically monomethylates 'Lys-37' of histone H3 (H3K27me1). Has much higher activity on nucleosomes containing H3.1 than H3.3. Involved in the formation of constitutive heterochromatin and the silencing of heterochromatic elements (By similarity). Publication Abstract from PubMed In plants, the histone H3.1 lysine 27 (H3K27) mono-methyltransferases ARABIDOPSIS TRITHORAX RELATED PROTEIN 5 and 6 (ATXR5/6) regulate heterochromatic DNA replication and genome stability. Our initial studies showed that ATXR5/6 discriminate between histone H3 variants and preferentially methylate K27 on H3.1. In this study, we report three regulatory mechanisms contributing to the specificity of ATXR5/6. First, we show that ATXR5 preferentially methylates the R/F-K*-S/C-G/A-P/C motif with striking preference for hydrophobic and aromatic residues in positions flanking this core of five amino acids. Second, we demonstrate that post-transcriptional modifications of residues neighboring K27 that are typically associated with actively transcribed chromatin are detrimental to ATXR5 activity. Third, we show that ATXR5 PHD domain employs a narrow binding pocket to selectively recognize unmethylated K4 of histone H3. Finally, we demonstrate that deletion or mutation of the PHD domain reduces the catalytic efficiency (kcat/Km of AdoMet) of ATXR5 up to 58-fold, highlighting the multifunctional nature of ATXR5 PHD domain. Overall, our results suggest that several molecular determinants regulate ATXR5/6 methyltransferase activity and epigenetic inheritance of H3.1 K27me1 mark in plants. Molecular basis for the methylation specificity of ATXR5 for histone H3.,Bergamin E, Sarvan S, Malette J, Eram MS, Yeung S, Mongeon V, Joshi M, Brunzelle JS, Michaels SD, Blais A, Vedadi M, Couture JF Nucleic Acids Res. 2017 Apr 5. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkx224. PMID:28383693 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

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