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CELL REPORTS
Volume 5, Issue 1, Pages 13-20Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2013.08.035
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- EU
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche [09-BLAN-0269-01]
- Fondation pour la Recherche Medicale
- AbbVie
- Boehringer Ingelheim
- Canada Foundation for Innovation
- Canadian Institutes for Health Research
- Genome Canada through the Ontario Genomics Institute [OGI-055]
- GlaxoSmithKline
- GlaxoSmithKline, Janssen
- Lilly Canada
- Novartis Research Foundation
- Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation
- Pfizer
- Takeda
- Wellcome Trust [092809/Z/10/Z]
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PRDM9, a histone lysine methyltransferase, is a key determinant of the localization of meiotic recombination hot spots in humans and mice and the only vertebrate protein known to be involved in hybrid sterility. Here, we report the crystal structure of the PRDM9 methyltransferase domain in complex with a histone H3 peptide dimethylated on lysine 4 (H3K4me2) and S-adenosylhomocysteine (AdoHcy), which provides insights into the methyltransferase activity of PRDM proteins. We show that the genuine substrate of PRDM9 is histone H3 lysine 4 (H3K4) and that the enzyme possesses mono-, di-, and trimethylation activities. We also determined the crystal structure of PRDM9 in its autoinhibited state, which revealed a rearrangement of the substrate and cofactor binding sites by a concerted action of the pre-SET and post-SET domains, providing important insights into the regulatory mechanisms of histone lysine methyltransferase activity.
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