期刊
MOLECULAR CELL
卷 73, 期 1, 页码 73-+出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2018.10.006
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资金
- NSF [1517081, 1144247]
- NSF-CAREER grant [MCB-1552455]
- NIH-MIRA grant [R35GM124806]
- NIH [GM60398, S10OD020054, R01GM098672, R01GM082893, GM103310]
- Simons Foundation [349247]
- Div Of Molecular and Cellular Bioscience
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1517081] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
DNA methylation and H3K9me are hallmarks of heterochromatin in plants and mammals, and are successfully maintained across generations. The biochemical and structural basis for this maintenance is poorly understood. The maintenance DNA methyltransferase from Zea mays, ZMET2, recognizes dimethylation of H3K9 via a chromodomain (CD) and a bromo adjacent homology (BAH) domain, which flank the catalytic domain. Here, we show that dinucleosomes are the preferred ZMET2 substrate, with DNA methylation preferentially targeted to linker DNA. Electron microscopy shows one ZMET2 molecule bridging two nucleosomes within a dinucleosome. We find that the CD stabilizes binding, whereas the BAH domain enables allosteric activation by the H3K9me mark. ZMET2 further couples recognition of H3K9me to an increase in the specificity for hemimethylated versus unmethylated DNA. We propose a model in which synergistic coupling between recognition of nucleosome spacing, H3K9 methylation, and DNA modification allows ZMET2 to maintain DNA methylation in heterochromatin with high fidelity.
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