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Physical interactions within the SIR heterochromatin complex potentiate inter-subunit communication and gene repression.
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The Saccharomyces cerevisiae silent information regulator (SIR) complex performs all core heterochromatin functions. It first drives histone deacetylation in an iterative, spreading manner, then stably incorporates with nucleosomes to compact and epigenetically repress the chromatin. How this switch between dynamic spreading and stable compaction occurs has remained poorly understood, partly due to limited structural data on the intact complex. Using crosslinking mass spectrometry, we identified an uncharacterized inter-subunit interaction connecting these two states: the Sir2 deacetylase interacts with the scaffolding subunit Sir4 through its coiled-coil domain, which also contacts the Sir3 compaction subunit. This interaction hub contains conserved Sir2 residues that can adopt multiple conformations, including orientation toward the active site, alongside co-evolved residues that enable species-specific Sir4 interactions. Mutations disrupting this hub disrupt heterochromatic repression in vivo and affect the deacetylation activity, directly linking catalysis to compaction. Our findings reveal how a multifunctional complex stages a stepwise transition to achieve epigenetic gene repression.
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