Structural highlights
Function
H4_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
Exploitation of drug-drug synergism and allostery could yield superior therapies by capitalizing on the immensely diverse, but highly specific, potential associated with the biological macromolecular landscape. Here we describe a drug-drug synergy mediated by allosteric cross-talk in chromatin, whereby the binding of one drug alters the activity of the second. We found two unrelated drugs, RAPTA-T and auranofin, that yield a synergistic activity in killing cancer cells, which coincides with a substantially greater number of chromatin adducts formed by one of the compounds when adducts from the other agent are also present. We show that this occurs through an allosteric mechanism within the nucleosome, whereby defined histone adducts of one drug promote reaction of the other drug at a distant, specific histone site. This opens up possibilities for epigenetic targeting and suggests that allosteric modulation in nucleosomes may have biological relevance and potential for therapeutic interventions.
Allosteric cross-talk in chromatin can mediate drug-drug synergy.,Adhireksan Z, Palermo G, Riedel T, Ma Z, Muhammad R, Rothlisberger U, Dyson PJ, Davey CA Nat Commun. 2017 Mar 30;8:14860. doi: 10.1038/ncomms14860. PMID:28358030[1]
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References
- ↑ Adhireksan Z, Palermo G, Riedel T, Ma Z, Muhammad R, Rothlisberger U, Dyson PJ, Davey CA. Allosteric cross-talk in chromatin can mediate drug-drug synergy. Nat Commun. 2017 Mar 30;8:14860. doi: 10.1038/ncomms14860. PMID:28358030 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14860
