5bnx | pdb_00005bnx

Crystal structure of Human MCM2 HBD and ASF1b chaperoning a histone H3.3-H4 dimer

spinqualitylabelsall models 5bnx, resolution 2.31Å Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 5bnx is a 4 chain structure with sequence from Homo sapiens. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Ligands: GOL Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT Function H33_HUMAN Publication Abstract from PubMed During DNA replication, chromatin is reassembled by recycling of modified old histones and deposition of new ones. How histone dynamics integrates with DNA replication to maintain genome and epigenome information remains unclear. Here, we reveal how human MCM2, part of the replicative helicase, chaperones histones H3-H4. Our first structure shows an H3-H4 tetramer bound by two MCM2 histone-binding domains (HBDs), which hijack interaction sites used by nucleosomal DNA. Our second structure reveals MCM2 and ASF1 cochaperoning an H3-H4 dimer. Mutational analyses show that the MCM2 HBD is required for MCM2-7 histone-chaperone function and normal cell proliferation. Further, we show that MCM2 can chaperone both new and old canonical histones H3-H4 as well as H3.3 and CENPA variants. The unique histone-binding mode of MCM2 thus endows the replicative helicase with ideal properties for recycling histones genome wide during DNA replication. A unique binding mode enables MCM2 to chaperone histones H3-H4 at replication forks.,Huang H, Stromme CB, Saredi G, Hodl M, Strandsby A, Gonzalez-Aguilera C, Chen S, Groth A, Patel DJ Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2015 Jul 13. doi: 10.1038/nsmb.3055. PMID:26167883 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See Also Anti-silencing factor 3D structures Histone 3D structures

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