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Science 2017 Jan 20;3556322:. doi: 10.1126/science.aaa3761.
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Distortion of histone octamer core promotes nucleosome mobilization by a chromatin remodeler.

Sinha KK , Gross JD , Narlikar GJ .


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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.

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Species referenced: Xenopus
Genes referenced: smarca5
GO keywords: nucleosome [+]

References [+] :
Aalfs, Functional differences between the human ATP-dependent nucleosome remodeling proteins BRG1 and SNF2H. 2001, Pubmed