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ArticleFEBS open bio2016

Crystal structure of human nucleosome core particle containing enzymatically introduced CpG methylation.

Yoshifumi Fujii, Masatoshi Wakamori, Takashi Umehara, Shigeyuki Yokoyama

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Article in FEBS open bio, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. IMPACTS OF DNA METHYLATION ON H2A.Z DEPOSITION AND NUCLEOSOME STABILITY.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  5. A methyl-TROSY approach for NMR studies of high-molecular-weight DNA with application to the nucleosome core particle.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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4 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Yoshifumi FujiiRIKEN Systems and Structural Biology Center Tsurumi Yokohama Japan; RIKEN Structural Biology Laboratory Tsurumi Yokohama Japan.
Masatoshi WakamoriRIKEN Systems and Structural Biology Center Tsurumi Yokohama Japan; RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies Tsurumi Yokohama Japan.
Takashi UmeharaRIKEN Systems and Structural Biology CenterTsurumi Yokohama Japan; RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies Tsurumi Yokohama Japan; PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) Kawaguchi Saitama Japan.
Shigeyuki YokoyamaRIKEN Systems and Structural Biology Center Tsurumi Yokohama Japan; RIKEN Structural Biology Laboratory Tsurumi Yokohama Japan.
Japan Science and Technology Agency · JPRIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science · JPSystems Biology Institute · JPTsurumi University · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cytosine methylation, predominantly of the CpG sequence in vertebrates, is one of the major epigenetic modifications crucially involved in the control of gene expression. Due to the difficulty of reconstituting site-specifically methylated nucleosomal DNA at crystallization quality, most structural analyses of CpG methylation have been performed using chemically synthesized oligonucleotides, There has been just one recent study of nucleosome core particles (NCPs) reconstituted with nonpalindromic human satellite 2-derived DNAs. Through the preparation of a 146-bp palindromic α-satellite-based nucleosomal DNA containing four CpG dinucleotide sequences and its enzymatic methylation and restriction, we reconstituted a 'symmetric' human CpG-methylated nucleosome core particle (NCP). We solved the crystal structures of the CpG-methylated and unmodified NCPs at 2.6 and 3.0 Å resolution, respectively. We observed the electron densities of two methyl groups, among the eight 5-methylcytosines introduced in the CpG-fully methylated NCP. There were no obvious structural differences between the CpG-methylated 'symmetric NCP' and the unmodified NCP. The preparation of a crystallization-grade CpG-methylated NCP provides a platform for the analysis of CpG-methyl reader and eraser proteins.

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PMCPMC4865653
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