Macromolecular Crowding Increases the Affinity of the PHD of ING4 for the Histone H3K4me3 Mark.
The five members of the family of tumor suppressors ING contain a Plant Homeodomain (PHD) that specifically recognizes histone H3 trimethylated at lysine 4 (H3K4me3) with an affinity in the low micromolar range. Here, we use NMR to show that in the presence of 15% Ficoll 70, an inert macromolecular ... crowding agent, the mode of binding does not change but the affinity increases by one order of magnitude. The affinity increases also for unmethylated histone H3 tail, but the difference with H3K4me3 is larger in the presence of Ficoll. These results indicate that in the cellular milieu, the affinity of the ING proteins for their chromatin target is larger than previously thought.
Mesh Terms:
Binding Sites, Cell Cycle Proteins, Ficoll, Histones, Homeodomain Proteins, Humans, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular, Protein Binding, Protein Domains, Protein Interaction Maps, Tumor Suppressor Proteins
Binding Sites, Cell Cycle Proteins, Ficoll, Histones, Homeodomain Proteins, Humans, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular, Protein Binding, Protein Domains, Protein Interaction Maps, Tumor Suppressor Proteins
Biomolecules
Date: Dec. 04, 2019
PubMed ID: 32033221
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