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NATURE CHEMICAL BIOLOGY
Volume 10, Issue 5, Pages 365-U73Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NCHEMBIO.1497
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- Agence Nationale de la Recherche EpiSperm
- Institut National du Cancer funds
- French Ministry of Research
- Association pour la Recherche sur le Cancer fellowship
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We report the identification of a new type of histone mark, lysine 2-hydroxyisobutyrylation (K-hib), and identify the mark at 63 human and mouse histone Khib sites, including 27 unique lysine sites that are not known to be modified by lysine acetylation (K-ac) and lysine crotonylation (K-cr). This histone mark was initially identified by MS and then validated by chemical and biochemical methods. Histone Khib shows distinct genomic distributions from histone Kac or histone Kcr during male germ cell differentiation. Using chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing, gene expression analysis and immunodetection, we show that in male germ cells, H4K8(hib) is associated with active gene transcription in meiotic and post-meiotic cells. In addition, H4K8(ac)-associated genes are included in and constitute only a subfraction of H4K8hib-labeled genes. The histone Khib mark is conserved and widely distributed, has high stoichiometry and induces a large structural change. These findings suggest its critical role on the regulation of chromatin functions.
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