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ArticleProtein science : a publication of the Protein Society2022

Structure, dynamics, and stability of the globular domain of human linker histone H1.0 and the role of positive charges.

Jacob H Martinsen, Daniel Saar, Catarina B Fernandes, Benjamin Schuler, Katrine Bugge, Birthe B Kragelund

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Article in Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Jacob H MartinsenREPIN and the Structural Biology and NMR Laboratory, The Linderstrøm-Lang Centre for Protein Science, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0001-9874-1138
Daniel SaarREPIN and the Structural Biology and NMR Laboratory, The Linderstrøm-Lang Centre for Protein Science, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0001-5197-4591
Catarina B FernandesREPIN and the Structural Biology and NMR Laboratory, The Linderstrøm-Lang Centre for Protein Science, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-6198-3173
Benjamin SchulerDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-5970-4251
Katrine BuggeREPIN and the Structural Biology and NMR Laboratory, The Linderstrøm-Lang Centre for Protein Science, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-6286-6243
Birthe B KragelundREPIN and the Structural Biology and NMR Laboratory, The Linderstrøm-Lang Centre for Protein Science, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-7454-1761
University of Copenhagen · DKUniversity of Zurich · CH

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Linker histone H1 (H1) is an abundant chromatin-binding protein that acts as an epigenetic regulator binding to nucleosomes and altering chromatin structures and dynamics. Nonetheless, the mechanistic details of its function remain poorly understood. Recent work suggest that the number and position of charged side chains on the globular domain (GD) of H1 influence chromatin structure and hence gene repression. Here, we solved the solution structure of the unbound GD of human H1.0, revealing that the structure is almost completely unperturbed by complex formation, except for a loop connecting two antiparallel β-strands. We further quantified the role of the many positive charges of the GD for its structure and conformational stability through the analysis of 11 charge variants. We find that modulating the number of charges has little effect on the structure, but the stability is affected, resulting in a difference in melting temperature of 26 K between GD of net charge +5 versus +13. This result suggests that the large number of positive charges on H1-GDs have evolved for function rather than structure and high stability. The stabilization of the GD upon binding to DNA can thus be expected to have a pronounced electrostatic component, a contribution that is amenable to modulation by posttranslational modifications, especially acetylation and phosphorylation.

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HistonesNucleosomesChromatinChromatin Assembly and DisassemblyDNAHumansProtein StabilityChromatinDNAHistonesNucleosomesCDhistoneNMRnucleosomeprotein electrostaticsprotein stabilityprotein structure

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