Controlling the supramolecular assembly of nucleosomes asymmetrically modified on H4.

Autor: Guidotti N; Laboratory of Biophysical Chemistry of Macromolecules, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. beat.fierz@epfl.ch., Lechner CC, Fierz B
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) [Chem Commun (Camb)] 2017 Sep 14; Vol. 53 (74), pp. 10267-10270.
DOI: 10.1039/c7cc06180c
Abstrakt: In stem cells, H4 proteins carrying different modifications coexist within single nucleosomes. For functional studies, we report the synthesis of such asymmetric nucleosomes. Asymmetry is achieved by transiently crosslinking H4 by a traceless, protease-removable tag introduced via an isopeptide linkage. These nucleosomes are used to study Set8 activity, a key methyltransferase.
Databáze: MEDLINE