A giant virus genome is densely packaged by stable nucleosomes within virions

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The two doublet histones of Marseillevirus are distantly related to the four eukaryotic core histones and wrap 121 base pairs of DNA to form remarkably similar nucleosomes. By permeabilizing Marseillevirus virions and performing genome-wide nuclease digestion, chemical cleavage, and mass spectrometry assays, we find that the higher-order organization of Marseillevirus chromatin fundamentally differs from that of eukaryotes. Marseillevirus nucleosomes fully protect DNA within virions as closely abutted 121-bp DNA-wrapped cores without linker DNA or phasing along genes. Likewise, we observed that nucleosomes reconstituted onto multi-copy tandem repeats of a nucleosome-positioning sequence are tightly packed. Dense promiscuous packing of fully wrapped nucleosomes rather than "beads on a string" with genic punctuation represents a distinct mode of DNA packaging by histones. We suggest that doublet histones have evolved for viral genome protection and may resemble an early stage of histone differentiation leading to the eukaryotic octameric nucleosome.

Errataetall:

CommentIn: Mol Cell. 2022 Dec 1;82(23):4401-4402. - PMID 36459981

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:82

Enthalten in:

Molecular cell - 82(2022), 23 vom: 01. Dez., Seite 4458-4470.e5

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Bryson, Terri D [VerfasserIn]
De Ioannes, Pablo [VerfasserIn]
Valencia-Sánchez, Marco Igor [VerfasserIn]
Henikoff, Jorja G [VerfasserIn]
Talbert, Paul B [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Rachel [VerfasserIn]
La Scola, Bernard [VerfasserIn]
Armache, Karim-Jean [VerfasserIn]
Henikoff, Steven [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

9007-49-2
Chromatin
DNA
Doublet histones
Histones
Journal Article
MNase-seq
MPE-seq
Marseillevirus
Nucleosomes
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 06.12.2022

Date Revised 10.01.2023

published: Print-Electronic

CommentIn: Mol Cell. 2022 Dec 1;82(23):4401-4402. - PMID 36459981

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.molcel.2022.10.020

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM348842309