Distortion of histone octamer core promotes nucleosome mobilization by a chromatin remodeler.

Adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP)-dependent chromatin remodeling enzymes play essential biological roles by mobilizing nucleosomal DNA. Yet, how DNA is mobilized despite the steric constraints placed by the histone octamer remains unknown. Using methyl transverse relaxation-optimized nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy on a 450-kilodalton complex, we show that the chromatin remodeler, SNF2h, distorts ...
the histone octamer. Binding of SNF2h in an activated ATP state changes the dynamics of buried histone residues. Preventing octamer distortion by site-specific disulfide linkages inhibits nucleosome sliding by SNF2h while promoting octamer eviction by the SWI-SNF complex, RSC. Our findings indicate that the histone core of a nucleosome is more plastic than previously imagined and that octamer deformation plays different roles based on the type of chromatin remodeler. Octamer plasticity may contribute to chromatin regulation beyond ATP-dependent remodeling.
Mesh Terms:
Adenosine Diphosphate, Adenosine Triphosphatases, Adenosine Triphosphate, Animals, Chromatin, Chromatin Assembly and Disassembly, Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone, DNA, DNA-Binding Proteins, Drosophila melanogaster, Histones, Hydrolysis, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular, Nucleosomes, Protein Conformation, Protein Multimerization, Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins, Transcription Factors, Xenopus
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Date: Jan. 20, 2017
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