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Rtt109 slows replication speed by histone N-terminal acetylation

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GENOME RESEARCH
Volume 31, Issue 3, Pages 426-435

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COLD SPRING HARBOR LAB PRESS, PUBLICATIONS DEPT
DOI: 10.1101/gr.266510.120

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  1. U.S. National Science Foundation-U.S. Israel Binational Science Foundation-Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (NSFBSF-MCB) [2019625]
  2. Israel Science Foundation (ISF) [1738/15]
  3. Minerva Center [AZ 57 469407 65]
  4. Directorate For Geosciences
  5. Div Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences [2019625] Funding Source: National Science Foundation

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Deletion of the gene encoding the enzyme required for pre-replication H3 acetylation wave, Rtt109, leads to an increase in replication fork velocity. The study shows that Rtt109-dependent N-terminal acetylation regulates fork velocity, while K56 acetylation affects replication dynamics only when N-terminal acetylation is compromised. Acetylation of newly synthesized histones may slow replication by promoting replacement of nucleosomes evicted by the incoming fork, thus protecting genome integrity.
The wrapping of DNA around histone octamers challenges processes that use DNA as their template. In vitro, DNA replication through chromatin depends on histone modifiers, raising the possibility that cells modify histones to optimize fork progression. Rtt109 is an acetyl transferase that acetylates histone H3 before its DNA incorporation on the K56 and N-terminal residues. We previously reported that, in budding yeast, a wave of histone H3 K9 acetylation progresses -3-5 kb ahead of the replication fork. Whether this wave contributes to replication dynamics remained unknown. Here, we show that the replication fork velocity increases following deletion of RTT109, the gene encoding the enzyme required for the prereplication H3 acetylation wave. By using histone H3 mutants, we find that Rtt109-dependent N-terminal acetylation regulates fork velocity, whereas K56 acetylation contributes to replication dynamics only when N-terminal acetylation is compromised. We propose that acetylation of newly synthesized histones slows replication by promoting replacement of nucleosomes evicted by the incoming fork, thereby protecting genome integrity.

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