7pfw | pdb_00007pfw

Nucleosome 2 of the 4x207 nucleosome array containing H1

spinqualitylabelsall models 7pfw, resolution 5.20Å Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 7pfw is a 11 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. Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT Function [H2A1B_HUMAN] Publication Abstract from PubMed Throughout the genome, nucleosomes often form regular arrays that differ in nucleosome repeat length (NRL), occupancy of linker histone H1 and transcriptional activity. Here, we report cryo-EM structures of human H1-containing tetranucleosome arrays with four physiologically relevant NRLs. The structures show a zig-zag arrangement of nucleosomes, with nucleosomes 1 and 3 forming a stack. H1 binding to stacked nucleosomes depends on the NRL, whereas H1 always binds to the non-stacked nucleosomes 2 and 4. Short NRLs lead to altered trajectories of linker DNA, and these altered trajectories sterically impair H1 binding to the stacked nucleosomes in our structures. As the NRL increases, linker DNA trajectories relax, enabling H1 contacts and binding. Our results provide an explanation for why arrays with short NRLs are depleted of H1 and suited for transcription, whereas arrays with long NRLs show full H1 occupancy and can form transcriptionally silent heterochromatin regions. Histone H1 binding to nucleosome arrays depends on linker DNA length and trajectory.,Dombrowski M, Engeholm M, Dienemann C, Dodonova S, Cramer P Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2022 May;29(5):493-501. doi: 10.1038/s41594-022-00768-w., Epub 2022 May 17. PMID:35581345 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

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