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ArticleArchives of biochemistry and biophysics2013

Biotinylation of lysine 16 in histone H4 contributes toward nucleosome condensation.

Mahendra P Singh, Subhashinee S K Wijeratne, Janos Zempleni

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Article in Archives of biochemistry and biophysics, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mahendra P SinghDepartment of Nutrition and Health Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, NE 68583-0806, USA.
Subhashinee S K Wijeratne
Janos Zempleni
University of Nebraska–Lincoln · US

Funding

Vitamin-dependent modifications of histonesR01DK063945 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN · PI ZEMPLENI, JANOS · 2004 to 2011
$2.3M
Biotin sensing and chromatin remodeling by holocarboxylase synthetaseR01DK077816 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN · PI ZEMPLENI, JANOS · 2009 to 2011
$861k
Epigenetic effects of biotin on activation of endogenous viral sequencesR21ES015206 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN · PI ZEMPLENI, JANOS · 2006 to 2007
$396k
NIDDK NIH HHS DK063945NIDDK NIH HHS DK077816NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK063945NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK077816NIEHS NIH HHS ES015206NIEHS NIH HHS R21 ES015206
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Holocarboxylase synthetase (HLCS) is part of a multiprotein gene repression complex and catalyzes the covalent binding of biotin to lysines (K) in histones H3 and H4, thereby creating rare gene repression marks such as K16-biotinylated histone H4 (H4K16bio). We tested the hypothesis that H4K16bio contributes toward nucleosome condensation and gene repression by HLCS. We used recombinant histone H4 in which K16 was mutated to a cysteine (H4K16C) for subsequent chemical biotinylation of the sulfhydryl group to create H4K16Cbio. Nucleosomes were assembled by using H4K16Cbio and the 'Widom 601' nucleosomal DNA position sequence; biotin-free histone H4 and H4K16C were used as controls. Nucleosomal compaction was analyzed using atomic force microscopy (AFM). The length of DNA per nucleosome was ∼30% greater in H4K16Cbio-containing histone octamers (61.14±10.92nm) compared with native H4 (46.89±12.6nm) and H4K16C (47.26±10.32nm), suggesting biotin-dependent chromatin condensation (P<0.001). Likewise, the number of DNA turns around histone core octamers was ∼17.2% greater in in H4K16Cbio-containing octamers (1.78±0.16) compared with native H4 (1.52±0.21) and H4K16C (1.52±0.17), judged by the rotation angle (P<0.001; N=150). We conclude that biotinylation of K16 in histone H4 contributes toward chromatin condensation.

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BiotinylationHistonesLysineNucleosomesProtein EngineeringHistonesLysineNucleosomes

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PMID23219734
PMCPMC3563257
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