Characterization of Caenorhabditis elegans Nucleosome Assembly Protein 1 Uncovers the Role of Acidic Tails in Histone Binding

Nucleosome assembly proteins (Naps) influence chromatin dynamics by directly binding to histones. Here we provide a comprehensive structural and biochemical analysis of a Nap protein from Caenorhabditis elegans (CeNap1). CeNap1 naturally lacks the acidic N-terminal tail and has a short C-terminal tail compared to many other Nap proteins. Comparison of CeNap1 with full length and tail-less constructs of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Nap1 uncovers the role of these tails in self-association, histone binding, and Nap competition with DNA for H2A-H2B. We find that the presence of tails influences the stoichiometry of H2A-H2B binding and is required to complete the interactions between H2A-H2B and DNA. The absolute stoichiometry of the Nap protein and H2A-H2B complex is 2:1 or 2:2, with only a very small population of higher-order oligomers occurring at 150 mM NaCl. We also show that H3-H4 binds differently than H2A-H2B and that an (H3-H4)2 tetramer can simultaneously bind two Nap2 protein homodimers.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:58

Enthalten in:

Biochemistry - 58(2019), 2 vom: 15. Jan., Seite 108-113

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sarkar, Prithwijit [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Naifu [VerfasserIn]
Bhattacharyya, Sudipta [VerfasserIn]
Salvador, Karlah [VerfasserIn]
D'Arcy, Sheena [VerfasserIn]

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Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins
Histones
Journal Article
NAP1 protein, S cerevisiae
Nap-1 protein, C elegans
Nucleosome Assembly Protein 1
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins

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Date Completed 16.09.2019

Date Revised 20.11.2019

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1021/acs.biochem.8b01033

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM29151684X