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NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2020452118
关键词
nucleosome; unwrapping; DNA; bendability; torsional stress
资金
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan [hp180191, hp190171, hp200135]
- High Performance Computing Infrastructure system by Kyoto University [hp180027, hp190007, hp200029]
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science KAKENHI [18K06173, JP18H05534]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [18K06173] Funding Source: KAKEN
Torsional stress significantly influences the stability of the nucleosome by impacting the unwrapping of DNA. Positive stress leads to large-scale asymmetric unwrapping, while negative stress increases DNA flexibility for stable binding. The torsional stress alters the affinity of DNA and the octamer, affecting the accessibility of regulatory proteins.
Torsional stress has a significant impact on the structure and stability of the nucleosome. RNA polymerase imposes torsional stress on the DNA in chromatin and unwraps the DNA from the nucleosome to access the genetic information encoded in the DNA. To understand how the torsional stress affects the stability of the nucleosome, we examined the unwrapping of two half superhelical turns of nucleosomal DNA from either end of the DNA under torsional stress with all-atom molecular dynamics simulations. The free energies for unwrapping the DNA indicate that positive stress that overtwists DNA facilitates a large-scale asymmetric unwrapping of the DNA without a large extension of the DNA. During the unwrapping, one end of the DNA was dissociated from H3 and H2A-H2B, while the other end of the DNA stably remained wrapped. The detailed analysis indicates that this asymmetric dissociation is facilitated by the geometry and bendability of the DNA under positive stress. The geometry stabilized the interaction between the major groove of the twisted DNA and the H3 alpha N-helix, and the straightened DNA destabilized the interaction with H2A-H2B. Under negative stress, the DNA became more bendable and flexible, which facilitated the binding of the unwrapped DNA to the octamer in a stable state. Consequently, we conclude that the torsional stress has a significant impact on the affinity of the DNA and the octamer through the inherent nature of the DNA and can change the accessibility of regulatory proteins.
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