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CELL
Volume 154, Issue 6, Pages 1220-1231Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2013.08.018
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- National Science Foundation (NSF) [ECS-0335765]
- Harvard's FAS Science Division Research Computing Group
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) [GM007598]
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
- Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
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The ATP-dependent chromatin-remodeling complex SWR1 exchanges a variant histone H2A.Z/H2B dimer for a canonical H2A/H2B dimer at nucleosomes flanking histone-depleted regions, such as promoters. This localization of H2A.Z is conserved throughout eukaryotes. SWR1 is a 1 megadalton complex containing 14 different polypeptides, including the AAA+ ATPases Rvb1 and Rvb2. Using electron microscopy, we obtained the three-dimensional structure of SWR1 and mapped its major functional components. Our data show that SWR1 contains a single heterohexameric Rvb1/Rvb2 ring that, together with the catalytic subunit Swr1, brackets two independently assembled multisubunit modules. We also show that SWR1 undergoes a large conformational change upon engaging a limited region of the nucleosome core particle. Our work suggests an important structural role for the Rvbs and a distinct substrate-handling mode by SWR1, thereby providing a structural framework for understanding the complex dimer-exchange reaction.
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