Journal
BIOMOLECULES
Volume 10, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/biom10020234
Keywords
macromolecular crowding; PHD; ING4; histone H3; NMR; protein-protein interaction
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- [CTQ2017-83810-R]
- [Sev-2016-0644]
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The five members of the family of tumor suppressors ING contain a Plant Homeodomain (PHD) that specifically recognizes histone H3 trimethylated at lysine 4 (H3K4me3) with an affinity in the low micromolar range. Here, we use NMR to show that in the presence of 15% Ficoll 70, an inert macromolecular crowding agent, the mode of binding does not change but the affinity increases by one order of magnitude. The affinity increases also for unmethylated histone H3 tail, but the difference with H3K4me3 is larger in the presence of Ficoll. These results indicate that in the cellular milieu, the affinity of the ING proteins for their chromatin target is larger than previously thought.
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