Multivalent Interactions by the Set8 Histone Methyltransferase With Its Nucleosome Substrate.

Publication Type:

Journal Article

Source:

J Mol Biol, Volume 428, Issue 8, p.1531-43 (2016)

Keywords:

Amino Acid Sequence, Animals, Arginine, Catalytic Domain, Cell Cycle, Cell Cycle Proteins, Gene Deletion, Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors, Histone-Lysine N-Methyltransferase, Humans, Molecular Sequence Data, Nuclear Proteins, Nucleosomes, Protein Binding, Proteolysis, Recombinant Proteins, Xenopus

Abstract:

<p>Set8 is the only mammalian monomethyltransferase responsible for H4K20me1, a methyl mark critical for genomic integrity of eukaryotic cells. We present here a structural model for how Set8 uses multivalent interactions to bind and methylate the nucleosome based on crystallographic and solution studies of the Set8/nucleosome complex. Our studies indicate that Set8 employs its i-SET and c-SET domains to engage nucleosomal DNA 1 to 1.5 turns from the nucleosomal dyad and in doing so, it positions the SET domain for catalysis with H4 Lys20. Surprisingly, we find that a basic N-terminal extension to the SET domain plays an even more prominent role in nucleosome binding, possibly by making an arginine anchor interaction with the nucleosome H2A/H2B acidic patch. We further show that proliferating cell nuclear antigen and the nucleosome compete for binding to Set8 through this basic extension, suggesting a mechanism for how nucleosome binding protects Set8 from proliferating cell nuclear antigen-dependent degradation during the cell cycle.</p>

PDB: 
5HQ2
Detector: 
Q315
Beamline: 
24-ID-C
24-ID-E