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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2025

Phosphorylation of HP1/Swi6 relieves competition with Suv39/Clr4 on nucleosomes and enables H3K9 trimethyl spreading.

Dana R Kennedy, Joël Lemière, Ahmed Aa Amine, Eric W Martin, Catherine Tan, Eric Simental, Julian Braxton, Robert A Maxwell, Bassem Al-Sady

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9 authors.

Dana R KennedyDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology and GW Hooper Foundation, UCSF.
Joël LemièreDepartment of Cell and Tissue Biology, UCSF.
Ahmed Aa AmineDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology and GW Hooper Foundation, UCSF.
Eric W MartinDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology and GW Hooper Foundation, UCSF.
Catherine TanDepartment of Cell and Tissue Biology, UCSF.
Eric SimentalDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology and GW Hooper Foundation, UCSF.
Julian BraxtonChemistry and Chemical Biology graduate program, UCSF.
Robert A MaxwellThe Vincent J. Coates Proteomics/Mass Spectrometry Core Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley.
Bassem Al-SadyDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology and GW Hooper Foundation, UCSF.ORCID 0000-0002-8996-7941

Funding

Research BaseP30DK063720 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI GERMAN, MICHAEL S · 2003 to 2019
$21.8M
UCSF IRACDA Scholars ProgramK12GM081266 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI Raymond M. Esquerra, HOLLY A. INGRAHAM · 2007 to 2026
$19.4M
MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BASIS OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASET32HL007731 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI Brian L Black · 1992 to 2026
$12.4M
Reconstructing dynamic epigenetic genome partitioning in single stem cellsDP2GM123484 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI AL-SADY, BASSEM · 2016 to 2020
$2.5M
Tracking how molecular machines propagate epigenetic information in time and spaceR35GM141888 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI AL-SADY, BASSEM · 2021 to 2025
$2.3M
NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL007731NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK063720NIGMS NIH HHS DP2 GM123484NIGMS NIH HHS K12 GM081266NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM141888
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Abstract

Heterochromatin formation in Schizosaccharomyces pombe requires the spreading of histone 3 (H3) Lysine 9 (K9) methylation (me) from nucleation centers by the H3K9 methylase, Suv39/Clr4, and the reader protein, HP1/Swi6. To accomplish this, Suv39/Clr4 and HP1/Swi6 have to associate with nucleosomes both nonspecifically, binding DNA and octamer surfaces and specifically, via recognition of methylated H3K9 by their respective chromodomains. However, how both proteins avoid competition for the same nucleosomes in this process is unclear. Here, we show that phosphorylation tunes oligomerization and the nucleosome affinity of HP1/Swi6 such that it preferentially partitions onto Suv39/Clr4's trimethyl product rather than its unmethylated substrates. Preferential partitioning enables efficient conversion from di-to trimethylation on nucleosomes

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H3K9 trimethylationheterochromatin spreadingHP1phosphorylation“reader” “writer” competition

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PMID39554105
PMCPMC11565791

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