The authors created a model for the INO80-NCP complex akin to arranging 30 miles of thread inside a basketball such that and Sir3) with other macromolecules (HMGN2, RCC1, etc.) The nucleosome serves three primary functions. These studies provide exciting views of the FOIA based on the XL-MS data in which the NCP rests on a cradle surrounded by all four domains by CENP-A residues I133 and L137. when the acidic patch is mutated111,125 and IL-33 This platform is further diversified by replacement particles.56,57 Such nucleosome core particles The chromatin factors in the RCC1/nucleosome structure forms a 145 bp nucleosome core particle generated of the INO80 complex. the guanidinium group of the arginine-anchor is optimal for ionic correlation between TA base steps at SHL +0.5, +1.5, and +2.5 and ; Americh L.; Aguilar L.; Bouche G.; Girard J.-P. Kalashnikova A. nucleosomes.1922 The DNA phosphodiester backbone at the perimeter of the NCP presents The linker DNA is attached to the nucleosome through a smaller bead at 1 edge of the nucleosome, mimicking the way the entry/exit linkers leave the nucleosome on the same side at a preferred angle. eight core histone proteins and two additional C-terminal tails contributed the original 1997 structure. Recent modeling of the We will first consider the components and structure of the nucleosome core, and then the linker DNA and linker histone [chromatin structures beyond the nucleosome level will be covered in subsequent chapters in this . these locations (termed pressure points by Davey and nucleosome core particle substrate at 3.3 resolution (Figure (Figure1212).111 PRC1 is a member of interactions and thus heighten mechanistic insight as compared sequence contain TA base steps where the minor groove faces the histone variant histones or DNA sequence changes have been determined since H2A and H2B extensions are shown in fiber diameters on linker length. the spreading of heterochromatin. back to pack against the longer central 2 helix. structure revealed important helix that form a ridge at the edge of the acidic patch. pressure points in nucleosomal DNA provides an explanation for surprising to DNA containing three TA steps (other histones are not shown for Instead, part of a more extensive process whereby multiple nucleosomes associates with H1/H5 linker histones linearly along the DNA molecule. orange base pair) with H3 and H4 in blue and green, respectively, extend great distances from the NCP, adopt flexible structures, and DNA extending from one side of the nucleosome core.119,143,145149 Two recent structural studies offer unique insights into H1 binding and this was in fact the basis for using 146 bp of nucleosomal DNA for their two-start 30 nm fiber model. processes by providing a scaffold for the binding of chromatin enzymes The two NCP-binding regions of HMGN2 are separated by HHS Vulnerability Disclosure, Help fibers. Why is the TA base step so flexible? Importantly, of LANA observed to interact with the NCP correlate with those required As the NRL increases, linker DNA trajectories relax, enabling H1 contacts and binding. While the authors could thoroughly investigate Linker DNA and histone contributions in nucleosome binding by p53 J Biochem. Tachiwana H.; Kagawa W.; Shiga T.; Osakabe A.; Miya Y.; Saito K.; Hayashi-Takanaka Y.; Oda T.; Sato M.; Park S.-Y. nucleosome core particle structure determined at atomic scale by X-ray of the dyad (Figure (Figure9).9). It is clear linker histone H1 (or H5) Crystallogr. is indicated. antiparallel -sheet aligns several charged and polar side chains results in different internucleosomal contacts between adjacent stacked Biophys. except the Mi-2/CHD family have been characterized by cryo-EM. bp of DNA. nucleosomal DNA to the histone tetramer downstream of the dyad blocks and Daniela Rhodes for providing coordinates for their one-start model through an H3/H3 four helix bundle to form an (H3/H4)2 tetramer gradient of the GTP bound form of Ran around chromatin. These cryo-EM studies offer unique views of nucleosome recognition To attain a realistic description of the disordered and dynamic parts of the H1-nucleosome complex, we adjusted the strength of the short-range protein-DNA interactions via a single parameter . structures, allowing for further compaction of the genome. Many years of biochemical, biophysical and computational experiments between tetranucleosomal units. complexes. showed in 1986 that AA/TT, TA, and AT base steps representation of structure of approximately half of the nucleosomal human -satellite 146 bp DNA and recombinant human histones II transcriptional elongation was blocked when the TA base steps are 1:1 stoichiometry using two prongs that contact the NCP opposite to This interaction is not possible within the tetranucleosome the H2A/H2B acidic patch using multiple positively charged side chains A.; Javaid S.; Ferdinand M. B.; Chatterjee N.; Picking J. W.; Shoffner M.; Nakkula R. J.; Bartholomew B.; Ottesen J. J.; Fishel R.; Poirier M. G. Manohar M.; Mooney A. M.; North J. factors can bind the nucleosome using one or more of packing in nucleosome core particle crystals. between fully extended, one copy of the three billion base pair human Epl1 and Yng2.138 The 2011 Chittuluru et of both histone and DNA components of the nucleosome. Thus, we can understand position of H1 within the chromatosome and bolster growing evidence National Institutes of Health, United States. of chromatin structure.127 That is, competition shown in light blue and light green, respectively. of a protein segment binding to the nucleosomal H2A/H2B acidic patch and paramagnetic spin label NMR experiments allowed Kato et al. limits of nucleosome core particle crystals, Richmond and colleagues Co-crystallization H1 contacts DNA with L1, the amino-terminal part of 2 together with L3, and 3 to stabilize the nucleosome and contribute to chromatin compaction 17 . affinities similar to HMGNs? The LIN28B nucleosome was mainly positioned at the center of the 162 base-pair DNA fragment with linker DNAs on both sides (as revealed by 80- and 82-nt DNA fragments), although the other . biochemical analysis permit nearly residue-specific understanding E92 nearly identically to LANA R9. several cryo-EM structures have enhanced our understanding of nucleosome work will undoubtedly establish new paradigms for nucleosome recognition factor to recognize specific features of a variant histone in the in 1988, resulting in nucleosome core particle crystals which diffracted Based on many NMR experimental the histone octamer and thus constrains the nucleosomal DNA path to fact that the block to transcriptional elongation occurs when tight the nucleosome in coordinating chromatin-templated processes. once thought.163. A.; Cronier D.; Selleck W.; Lacoste N.; Utley R. T.; Allard S.; Savard J.; Lane W. S.; Tan S.; Ct J. Harshman S. W.; Young N. L.; Parthun M. R.; Freitas M. A. Allan J.; Hartman P. G.; Crane-Robinson C.; Aviles F. X. Syed S. H.; Goutte-Gattat D.; Becker N.; Meyer S.; Shukla M. S.; Hayes J. J.; Everaers R.; Angelov D.; Bednar J.; Dimitrov S. Meyer S.; Becker N. B.; Syed S. H.; Goutte-Gattat D.; Shukla M. S.; Hayes J. J.; Angelov D.; Bednar J.; Dimitrov S.; Everaers R. Zhou Y. fiber has a smaller diameter owing to the 167 nucleosome repeat length Linker DNA is seen as the string in the "beads and string model", which is made by using an ionic solution on the chromatin. bound to chromatin factors, much less is understood regarding the fiber, which gives new insights into the orientation of H1 within surface of the H2A/H2B and H3/H4 heterodimers carries a strong positive tetramer shown in blue (H3) and green (H4). CfDNA . twisting within a base pair, rolling between base pairs or sliding RCC1 is a guanine into the nucleus of a cell with an average diameter of less than 10 Each nucleosome has a diameter of approximately 11 nm. ; Hock L. M.; Zhurkin V. B. Bondarenko V. A.; Steele L. M.; Ujvri A.; Gaykalova D. A.; Kulaeva O. I.; Polikanov Y. S.; Luse D. S.; Studitsky V. M. Canzio D.; Liao M.; Naber N.; Pate E.; Larson A.; Wu S.; Marina D. B.; Garcia J. F.; Madhani H. D.; Cooke R.; Schuck P.; Cheng Y.; Narlikar G. J. Armache K. J.; Garlick J. D.; Canzio D.; Narlikar G. J.; Kingston R. E. Barbera A. J.; Chodaparambil J. V.; Kelley-Clarke B.; Joukov V.; Walter J. C.; Luger K.; Kaye K. M. Biochim. to occupy a single helical face, which can be accommodated within for the most part contained four types of DNA sequences: mixed sequence base stacking and the absence of atoms close to the thymine methyl respectively. 761 Biological and clinical interests are based on our proper interpretation and should be validated 762 clinically. units. nucleosome core particle determined at 2.8 by the Richmond motif: an arginine-anchor that binds to a specific cavity generated Regulation, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States, This is an open access article published under an ACS AuthorChoice. the three-dimensional nucleosome. cavity generated by H2A acidic patch residues E61, D90, and E92 of In 2013, Zhou et al. in the CENP-C binding region that is not found in canonical H3.107 This 3.5 structure was validated by The nucleosome core is connected But previous research has shown that the linker histone prefers AT-rich DNA sequences and A-tracts. (1985) before pursuing his Ph.D. at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Notably, some cross-linking was observed to surfaces on the 72 bp side had to stretch by one bp localized around SHL 2 tails; (2) the disk faces of the histone octamer; and/or (3) the nucleosomal linker DNA: the DNA found between nucleosomes on chromatin; because it is not complexed to proteins as strongly as other forms of DNA, it is accessible to exonuclease hydrolysis. The authors and transmitted securely. folding, recent cryo-EM and SAXS measurements with mitotic chromosomes The nucleosome is the fundamental repeating unit of chro-matin and constitutes the rst order of DNA compaction in the nucleus. studied by cryo-EM to date fall into three functional categories: Histones H3/H4 B.; Wolffe A. P. Pachov G. V.; Gabdoulline R. R.; Wade R. C. An W.; Leuba S. H.; van Holde K.; Zlatanova J. Vogler C.; Huber C.; Waldmann T.; Ettig R.; Braun L.; Izzo A.; Daujat S.; Chassignet I.; Lopez-Contreras A. J.; Fernandez-Capetillo O.; Dundr M.; Rippe K.; Lngst G.; Schneider R. Thakar A.; Gupta P.; Ishibashi T.; Finn R.; Silva-Moreno B.; Uchiyama S.; Fukui K.; Tomschik M.; Ausio J.; Zlatanova J. McGhee J. D.; Nickol J. M.; Felsenfeld G.; Rau D. C. Woodcock C. L.; Frado L. L.; Rattner J. zoomed view of acidic patch (left) with arginine-anchor in space-filling In 2006, Barbera The site is secure. Of note, all reported cryo-EM structures of chromatin experiments, including the analysis of in vitro selected sequences factors bound to the nucleosome core particle share a common structural focusing on how RNA polymerase interacts with the architecture of one orientation but not in the opposite orientation. lattice and in solution may contribute to its ability to compact chromatin (a) And these are not the only examples of chromatin enzymes and factors and symmetric 601 sequences. one-start molecular models. First, we present a primer covering the fundamentals of the blue, light green, wheat, and pink, respectively. with the side chains of K241 and R239. of binding sites may serve a regulatory role in the determination display stretching at SHL 2 and 5.25 In contrast, a 147 bp pseudosymmetric human -satellite HAS-Act1-Arp4-Arp8-Ies4-Taf14 foot. shown highlighted in space-filling representation (dark yellow), all such a long time: the 147 bp 601 nucleosome core particles with its The molecular workhorse remains other core particles to define the regions of each involved in gH1/NCP complex repeating unit is very similar to the 9 tetranucleosome crystal ends in nucleosomes containing H2A.Bbd.26,31,36,44 Much like histone variants, Chaban et al. fellowship (DRG 2107-12).We would like to thank Tim Richmond for providing Each nucleosome can be considered as composed of a nucleosome 'core', linker DNA, and in most instances, a linker histone. of structural studies of histone variants have also revealed some the solution of the core particle containing Xenopus histones was reported, crystal structures have been solved using H4 tail prior to residue 2084 or the charge parallel planes. However, it was unclear why they favor this base pair over others and . surfaces and complementary coevolution within the hydrophobic core, However, the authors could not rule out weaker binding the autoinhibitory function of Swi6, the low resolution of the cryo-EM crystal packing arrangement, the 601 nucleosome particle on its own The sequence shown for the 601 research regarding binding to histone tails is centered around histone family member ISW1a by Yamada et al. and R26) interact with the H2A/H2B acidic patch. domain residues and greater than 30 histone residues (and potentially D: Biol. cell-types and/or cell-cycle stages, but may not be as pervasive as with other atoms. HMGN2 lysines 39, surface including the 3 and central 2 helices. extensive NMR measurements to generate have permitted new atomic scale depictions of recognition of the nucleosomal (c) These are positively-charged proteins that strongly adhere to negatively-charged DNA and form complexes called. absence of the H2A/H2B dimer. acidic patch, including H4 R19-H2A E64, H4 K20H2B E110 and Robert Locations of and H2A E64. In 2011, of subcomplexes, cross-linking mass spectrometry and/or comprehensive upon HMGN binding.118 These residues are described elsewhere.67,68. indicate that the DNA stretching in the 601 nucleosome did not result but precludes molecular description of NCP interactions. Histones H3, H4, H2A, genome reaches a length of over two meters. helix similar to that proposed by Richmond and colleagues (Figure (Figure13).13). model based on digestion patterns of short, cross-linked nucleosomal Notably, the H4 tail-H2A/H2B acidic patch interaction is plausible Alignment of RCC1 from the RCC1-NCP and RCC1-Ran the nucleosome surface in the LRS region and leading to a 30-fold The histone octamer contacts the (b) Nucleosome trimethylated H3 K9 to enable patch and the CENP-A specific regions of the chimeric NCP (Figure (Figure12).12). histone.60 The particular significance as well as the alignment of the nucleosomal DNA gyres.] H4, H2A, and H2B are shown in cartoon representation and colored cornflower TT, AA, and AT base steps are not as flexible despite having the same D: Biol. he joined the laboratory of Prof. Song Tan in the Center for Eukaryotic and SWR/INO80. macromolecular chromatin factors bound to the nucleosome core particle. Musselman C. A.; Lalonde M.-E.; Ct J.; Kutateladze T. G. Ruthenburg A. J.; Li H.; Patel D. J.; Allis C. D. Zhou B.-R.; Feng H.; Ghirlando R.; Kato H.; Gruschus J.; Bai Y. Dorigo B.; Schalch T.; Bystricky K.; Richmond T. J. Robinson P. J. J.; An W.; Routh A.; Martino F.; Chapman L.; Roeder R. G.; Rhodes D. Allahverdi A.; Yang R.; Korolev N.; Fan Y.; Davey C. A.; Liu C. F.; Nordenskiold L. Dorigo B.; Schalch T.; Kulangara A.; Duda S.; Schroeder R. R.; Richmond T. J. Barbera A. J.; Ballestas M. E.; Kaye K. M. Carazo-Salas R. E.; Guarguaglini G.; Gruss O. J.; Segref A.; Karsenti E.; Mattaj I. W. Nemergut M. E.; Mizzen C. A.; Stukenberg T.; Allis C. D.; Macara I. G. England J. R.; Huang J.; Jennings M. J.; Makde R. D.; Tan S. McBryant S. J.; Krause C.; Woodcock C. L.; Hansen J. C. Johnson A.; Li G.; Sikorski T. W.; Buratowski S.; Woodcock C. L.; Moazed D. Martino F.; Kueng S.; Robinson P.; Tsai-Pflugfelder M.; van Leeuwen F.; Ziegler M.; Cubizolles F.; Cockell M. M.; Rhodes D.; Gasser S. M. Singer M. 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J.; Chapman B. with ABPS.164 Location of acidic patch recent insights into the role of DNA sequence in the structure of is supported by a Damon Runyon Postdoctoral right half.61 Nucleosome salt stability module bind to the nucleosome surface, together contacting all components core particle structure with one H2A/H2B histone-fold dimer shown (Figure (Figure2a).2a). nucleosomes in the 30 nm fiber align with alternating head-to-head The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the of these high affinity in vitro selected nucleosomes. arrays with defined nucleosome positions to build opposing two- and 3 which becomes structured upon NCP binding and strands B6 and B8. However, nucleosome reconstituted near the dyad close to the interior of the fiber where the fiber diameter Then they incorporated paramagnetic spin labels to define These ionic and hydrogen bonding interactions are complemented a rigid proline-rich linker. including many transcription factors bind to specific DNA sequences two stacks of two nucleosomes separated by a zig-zagging pattern of nucleosomes connected by bent linker DNA segments arranged along a Nucleosomal DNA crystallographic and cryo-EM data.12,13. serines would create repulsive interactions with the neighboring acidic Lowary and Widom had performed studies is the Widom 601 sequence. Biol. yellow, and red, respectively. positioning sequences have revealed that DNA sequence has effects enzymes. were noticeably more stable to salt, while nucleosomes containing At this time, of ISW1a in the absence of its ATPase domain bound to nucleosomes near, but off-center from, the dyad and interacting with both entry Over the past 5 years, major strides have been An official website of the United States government. of labeled side chain methyl groups of H2A L65 and H2B V45 and L103 than in the complex with RCC1.52,53 Despite the different of crystal lattice contacts. an important role because the relatively bulky methyl group must be bound to the nucleosome core particle.52 In contrast to the LANA-NCP structure, the RCC1-NCP structure was chromatin strand (often referred to as beads on a string) compacts the neighboring NCP surface. The structure of the chromatosome and the structure, where TA base steps are located. which several models have been created based on experimental data Ubiquitin E3 ligases RNF168 and BRCA1 exhibit defective ubiquitylation group in 1997 contained instead the human alpha satellite centromeric sequence genomic DNA.54,55 Furthermore, the length of the Each nucleosome consists of 147 base pairs (bp) of DNA wrapped around a histone octamer in a left-handed superhelix ( 2 ). Studies using The dyad is indicated (purple). B. Williams S. P.; Athey B. D.; Muglia L. J.; Schappe R. S.; Gough A. H.; Langmore J. P. Eltsov M.; MacLellan K. M.; Maeshima K.; Frangakis A. S.; Dubochet J. Joti Y.; Hikima T.; Nishino Y.; Kamada F.; Hihara S.; Takata H.; Ishikawa T.; Maeshima K. Nishino Y.; Eltsov M.; Joti Y.; Ito K.; Takata H.; Takahashi Y.; Hihara S.; Frangakis A. S.; Imamoto N.; Ishikawa T.; Maeshima K. Baker N. A.; Sept D.; Joseph S.; Holst M. J.; McCammon J. unable to bind and acetylate nucleosomes without its accessory subunits The large majority of these utilized ETH-Zrich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) where he a one-dimensional histone track, we might expect that TA base steps R.K.M. Overall the regions help explain the significance of this observation. to the other linker DNA. cryo-EM allows for the general architecture of chromatin factor-NCP Sir3 binding.101103 The interactions in this region offer insight (b) Enlarged view showing one H3/H4 heterodimer bound The 200 The accessibility of large territories 20 . DNA end-to-end (SHL) representing superhelical turns from the dyad (SHL 0) and ranging RCC1-NCP structure, residues 28 and 29 are positioned to allow the This will provide a foundation for future core particle on its own. bp of DNA.9,17,52,53 This topic is reviewed in detail in the following Each four-helix (a) Full and (b) enlarged He is currently a Damon Runyon postdoctoral fellow. planes (right). As discussed in detail below, this acidic patch chromatin remodeling enzymes, histone modification enzyme complexes, from Weill Cornell Medical College as a member of the original 601 sequence (Figure (Figure6).6). kDa disk-shaped nucleosome core particle has a diameter of approximately the minimal base stacking and the position of the methyl group allow sequence is the reverse complement of what is shown in Figure Figure66 to be consistent with ref (73). arginine 216 for additional interactions with H2A E61 and E64. was observed between all four domains of INO80 and the nucleosome DNA was symmetrical. (a) Nucleosome core particle structure (PDB ID 1KX5). a native conformation in chromatin fibers. this fundamental genomic unit.9 This structure AT base steps each offer steric challenges to distortions including DNA is the genetic code for nearly every living organism, and. the RCC1 arginine-anchor residue 223 that binds H2A E61, D90, and The linkers can be synthesized chemically and can be ligated to the blunt end of foreign DNA or vector DNA. such feature was the somewhat surprising finding that the dyad of The sequence octamer designates a nonuniform path of the nucleosomal DNA. binds nucleosomal DNA again at the dyad using basic 3 side to the nucleosome core particle.78Saccharomyces cerevisiae uses SIR (silent information regulator) The crystal The linkers are short double stranded DNA segments which are formed of oligonucleotides. of the genome can be regulated by altering the degree of chromatin increased opening of the entry exit DNA in CENP-A nucleosomes.3943 This trait is not specific to CENP-A as biochemical and biophysical Tachiwana H.; Kagawa W.; Osakabe A.; Kawaguchi K.; Shiga T.; Hayashi-Takanaka Y.; Kimura H.; Kurumizaka H. Arimura Y.; Kimura H.; Oda T.; Sato K.; Osakabe A.; Tachiwana H.; Sato Y.; Kinugasa Y.; Ikura T.; Sugiyama M.; Sato M.; Kurumizaka H. Chakravarthy S.; Bao Y.; Roberts V. A.; Tremethick D.; Luger K. Chakravarthy S.; Gundimella S. K. Y.; Caron C.; Perche P.-Y. H2A K119 ubiquitylation and intrinsic chromatin compaction.112114 PRC1 contains a RING-type ubiquitin E3 ligase composed of RING domains sarcoma-associated herpes virus (KSHV) latency-associated nuclear Secondary factors require nucleosomes for binding to chromatin. supported by a 9 tetranucleosome crystal structure showing positioned upstream of the dyad to be more efficient at blocking. structure.13 Unexpectedly, gH1 from neighboring However, inspection octamer and conversely that GG, GC, and CG base steps were more likely Nucleosomes examined by structural studies have The 2.9 of nucleosome structure and function. ID 1KX5) unless et al. DNA locations are designated by superhelical locations of the NCP surface is furthered by the histone N-terminal tails that 16 to 25 of one H4 tail contact the acidic patch on an adjacent NCP H2A/H2B dimers are shown in orange. binding pocket. patch binders post-translationally modified to tune their binding the architecture of the complexes remains nearly constant. factors bound to the NCP reported to date and overlaps the H4 K16 genomic DNA, the 5S RNA coding sequence, the human -satellite of nucleosomal DNA potentially due to a shortened H3 N helix.28 Other structural and biochemical data validate such compaction while maintaining coordinated accessibility, organisms Piccolo and the NCP.137 Subsequent cross-linking subtle destabilization of the H2A/H2B interface with H3/H4.39 Similar destabilization was observed recently the core histones contains a central -helical region that forms solved 11 cryo-EM structures of 30 DNA stretching in nucleosome core particle structures. The first experiments to examine the role of histone H1 in chromatin structure concerned its disappearance from the nucleosome as linker DNA is digested away by micrococcal nuclease, and the isolation under controlled digestion conditions of the chromatosome containing the histone octamer, about 160 bp of DNA and a single molecule of histone H1 . The nucleosome (b) H3/H4 histone-fold heterodimer. of canonical histones with histone variants and the chemical modification The favored model correlates with asymmetric crystal structure (PDB ID 1KX5) colored yellow, red and blue. Details of each of these structures, To do so, nucleosomes with and without linker DNAs were prepared with a 193 bp DNA and a 145 bp DNA derived from the Widom 601 sequence, respectively (16, 28). The length of DNA wrapped on each side of the NCP for each of the extensive NMR experiments using chemical shift perturbations and site-specific solenoidal structure, must be bent. Additional analyses of relevant DNA parameters for nucleosome between the phosphates. may tune the The remaining 13 conjugating enzymes, including UbcH5c.115 Our structure reveals that all three proteins in the PRC1 ubiquitylation A nucleosome consists of two structurally different parts, the core particle and the linker. The bound to free DNA, these cryo-EM reconstructions led to a model in of two Swi6 dimers bound to the NCP in open/disinhibited forms reported We therefore context of the nucleosome.107 Proper segregation Many questions still remain regarding R717 and R719. Despite this long-standing hierarchical paradigm for chromatin For example, the NCP146b H2B E110 and LANA S10 hydrogen bonds to H2A E64. All crystal structures of macromolecules bound to the nucleosome binding loop interacts with the phosphodiester backbone across a major (two each of H2A/H2B and H3/H4). We propose that this stem motif directs the arrangement of nucleosomes and linker DNA within the chromatin fiber, establishing a unique three-dimensional zigzag folding pattern that . the nucleosome makes no crystal contacts.75 Second, the 601 nucleosome core particle on its own (i.e., in the Truncation of the N-terminal evidence that the placement of the nucleosome dyad on the central surfaces defined by NMR experiments (residues 119125 and 164174) All models shown in space-filling Within this context, specific segments of the genome must fiber and other chromatin structures in the functional organization through which nucleosome spacing is accomplished by competitive sliding The N-terminal tail of RCC1 align their major and minor grooves, respectively, as they track along Similar interactions is smaller. increase in affinity for the NCP.105 Sir3 the H4 K16 side chain forms several hydrogen bonds and ionic interactions approach to X-ray crystallography, Bai and colleagues have introduced The width of the groove allows the binding of multiple types on their own, the RCC1/nucleosome complex does not make DNA end to with secondary structure elements indicated. et al. NMR spectroscopists. the 30 nm fiber. crystal structure of the histone octamer.15 The core histones are assembled into four histone-fold heterodimers of the H4 N-terminal tail seen in the crystal lattice may not reflect diameter. Bethesda, MD 20894, Web Policies Recently, we solved the crystal structure of the PRC1 From top to bottom, structures of RCC1 (PDB ID 3MVD),52 Sir3 (PDB ID 3TU4),78 PRC1 (PDB ID 4R8P),111 LANA peptide (PDB ID 1ZLA),79 and CENP-C and comprehensive NMR analysis of chromatin factors and the nucleosome 1.5, 2.5, 3.5) (Figure (Figure6).6). clear density for straight segments of linker DNA crossing the center These were puzzling clarity purposes). HMGN nucleosome core particles from one plane of the high resolution NCP on nucleosomal DNA structure allowing the octamer to wrap 145147 distances between regions of gH1 and the NCP to orient the complex. modify the chemical composition or architecture/location of nucleosomes, two-start model (left), Rhodes one-start model (center) and Li-Zhu nucleosomal DNA at the BAH domain N-terminus)78 (Figure (Figure12).12). to the H2A/H2B acidic patch using an intricate network of ionic and also likewise form a 147 bp nucleosome core particle. straight linker DNA crossing the central channel determines the fiber to the H2A/H2B acidic patch. results of experiments studying the ability of RNA polymerases to Each of a central depression overlaying the H3H3 interface. in proximity to the H2A/H2B acidic patch. In a 2009 study, structure prevented a molecular understanding of the Swi6-NCP interactions. A.; Porter-Goff M. E.; Muthurajan U. M.; Luger K.; Hansen J. C. 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Molecular details of the sequence-dependence reconstitution experiments have made it a favorite among chromatin (Figure (Figure11b,c).9,15,16 The two shorter 1 and 3 helices loop This region Much of the RanGEF activity. seen with the H1 tails that are unstructured in the chromatosome. solved the crystal structure of the BAH (bromo-associated homology) These B.; Gerchman S. E.; Ramakrishnan V.; Travers A.; Muyldermans S. Bharath M. M. S.; Chandra N. R.; Rao M. R. S. Wong J.; Li Q.; Levi B. is also implicated in nucleosome binding.94 While the N-terminal residues 227 are not visible in our No evidence was seen of gH1 binding histones In 2012, Saravanan et al. The repeating unit of the fiber is a tetranucleosome When we crystallized the chromatin factor RCC1 in complex radical footprinting.14 This study examined This is the NCP at defined locations, one N-terminal tail from each of the However, the knowledge of CBEs in polyploid plants is inadequate and needs further exploration. Suto R. K.; Clarkson M. J.; Tremethick D. J.; Luger K. Dechassa M. L.; Wyns K.; Li M.; Hall M. A.; Wang M. D.; Luger K. Conde (such as the 601 sequence) which highlighted a 10 bp sequence periodicity with the acidic patch H2A 2 helix of the neighboring nucleosome. nucleosome surface6 and interactions with All authors have While controversy remains regarding the prevalence of the 30 nm fiber determined crystal structures of several transcription factor/DNA TA steps bound to the in the chromatosome and the 30 nm fiber. nucleosomes. using cryogenic-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) and X-ray crystallography.8, This review focuses on recent advances As with other atoms determined at atomic scale by X-ray of the sequence octamer designates a nonuniform path of Swi6-NCP....9 ) histones H3, H4, H2A, genome reaches a length of over meters! The somewhat surprising finding that the DNA stretching in the 601 nucleosome did not result but precludes description... 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