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ArticleNature communications2025

CODANIN-1 sequesters ASF1 by using a histone H3 mimic helix to regulate the histone supply.

Tae-Kyeong Jeong, R Ciaran MacKenzie Frater, Jongha Yoon, Anja Groth, Ji-Joon Song

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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  5. Mechanism of ASF1 engagement by CDAN1.Nature communications · 2025
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  6. Mechanism of ASF1 Inhibition by CDAN1.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
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Tae-Kyeong Jeong *Department of Biological Sciences, KI for the BioCentury, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea.
R Ciaran MacKenzie Frater *The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research (CPR), University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0002-4701-6598
Jongha YoonDepartment of Biological Sciences, KI for the BioCentury, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea.
Anja GrothThe Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research (CPR), University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. anja.groth@cpr.ku.dk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0577-1771
Ji-Joon SongDepartment of Biological Sciences, KI for the BioCentury, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea. songj@kaist.ac.kr.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7120-6311

Funding

National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) RS-2023-00266300National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) RS-2024-00440614Novo Nordisk Fonden (Novo Nordisk Foundation) NNF14CC0001Novo Nordisk Fonden (Novo Nordisk Foundation) NNF21OC0067425
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

ASF1 is a major histone chaperone that regulates the supply of histone H3-H4 and facilitates nucleosome assembly to maintain chromatin structure during DNA replication and transcription. CODANIN-1 negatively regulates the function of ASF1. However, the molecular mechanism by which CODANIN-1 inhibits the ASF1-mediated histone supply remains elusive. Here, we present the cryo-EM structure of a human CODANIN-1_ASF1A complex at 3.75 Å resolution. The structure reveals that CODANIN-1 forms a dimer where each monomer holds two ASF1 molecules, utilizing two B-domains and two histone H3 mimic helices (HMHs). The interaction of CODANIN-1 with ASF1 via the HMH and B-domains inhibits the formation of an ASF1/H3-H4 complex and sequesters ASF1 in the cytoplasm. Our study provides a structural and molecular basis for the function of CODANIN-1 as negative regulator that highjacks ASF1 interaction sites with histones and downstream chaperones to inhibit nucleosome assembly.

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Cell Cycle ProteinsHistonesMolecular ChaperonesCryoelectron MicroscopyHistone ChaperonesHumansModels, MolecularNucleosomesProtein BindingASF1A protein, humanCell Cycle ProteinsHistone ChaperonesHistonesMolecular ChaperonesNucleosomes

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PMID40038274
PMCPMC11880193

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