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  3. ANP32E is a histone chaperone that removes H2A.Z from chromatin

ANP32E is a histone chaperone that removes H2A.Z from chromatin

  • Nature. 2014 Jan 30;505(7485):648-53. doi: 10.1038/nature12922.
Arnaud Obri 1,  Khalid Ouararhni 1,  Christophe Papin 1,  Marie-Laure Diebold 2,  Kiran Padmanabhan 3,  Martin Marek 2,  Isabelle Stoll 4,  Ludovic Roy 4,  Patrick T Reilly 5,  Tak W Mak 6,  Stefan Dimitrov 3,  Christophe Romier 2,  Ali Hamiche 4
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 1] Département de Génomique Fonctionnelle et Cancer, Institut de Génétique et Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC), Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, INSERM, 1 rue Laurent Fries, B.P. 10142, 67404 Illkirch Cedex, France [2].
  • 2 Département de Biologie Structurale Intégrative, Institut de Génétique et Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC), Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, INSERM, 1 rue Laurent Fries, B.P. 10142, 67404 Illkirch Cedex, France.
  • 3 Equipe labélisée Ligue contre le Cancer, INSERM/Université Joseph Fourier , Institut Albert Bonniot, U823, Site Santé-BP 170, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France.
  • 4 Département de Génomique Fonctionnelle et Cancer, Institut de Génétique et Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC), Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, INSERM, 1 rue Laurent Fries, B.P. 10142, 67404 Illkirch Cedex, France.
  • 5 Laboratory of Inflammation Biology, Division of Cellular and Molecular Research, National Cancer Centre, Singapore, Singapore.
  • 6 1] Laboratory of Inflammation Biology, Division of Cellular and Molecular Research, National Cancer Centre, Singapore, Singapore [2] The Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer Research, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
PMID: 24463511 DOI: 10.1038/nature12922
Abstract

H2A.Z is an essential histone variant implicated in the regulation of key nuclear events. However, the metazoan chaperones responsible for H2A.Z deposition and its removal from chromatin remain unknown. Here we report the identification and characterization of the human protein ANP32E as a specific H2A.Z chaperone. We show that ANP32E is a member of the presumed H2A.Z histone-exchange complex p400/TIP60. ANP32E interacts with a short region of the docking domain of H2A.Z through a new motif termed H2A.Z interacting domain (ZID). The 1.48 Å resolution crystal structure of the complex formed between the ANP32E-ZID and the H2A.Z/H2B dimer and biochemical data support an underlying molecular mechanism for H2A.Z/H2B eviction from the nucleosome and its stabilization by ANP32E through a specific extension of the H2A.Z carboxy-terminal α-helix. Finally, analysis of H2A.Z localization in ANP32E(-/-) cells by chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing shows genome-wide enrichment, redistribution and accumulation of H2A.Z at specific chromatin control regions, in particular at enhancers and insulators.

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