期刊
MOLECULAR CELL
卷 62, 期 2, 页码 181-193出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2016.03.028
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资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [91519304]
- Major State Basic Research Development Program in China [2015CB910503]
- Tsinghua University Initiative Scientific Research Program
- Rockefeller University
- National Institute of General Medicine [GM040922, GM105933, DK107868, GM115961, GM112365]
- Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas [RP160237, G1719]
- National Cancer Institute
- Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
Recognition of histone covalent modifications by chromatin-binding protein modules (readers) constitutes a major mechanism for epigenetic regulation, typified by bromodomains that bind acetyllysine. Non-acetyl histone lysine acylations (e.g., crotonylation, butyrylation, propionylation) have been recently identified, but readers that prefer these acylations have not been characterized. Here we report that the AF9 YEATS domain displays selectively higher binding affinity for crotonyllysine over acetyllysine. Structural studies revealed an extended aromatic sandwiching cage with crotonyl specificity arising from pi-aromatic and hydrophobic interactions between crotonyl and aromatic rings. These features are conserved among the YEATS, but not the bromodomains. Using a cell-based model, we showed that AF9 co-localizes with crotonylated histone H3 and positively regulates gene expression in a YEATS domain-dependent manner. Our studies define the evolutionarily conserved YEATS domain as a family of crotonyllysine readers and specifically demonstrate that the YEATS domain of AF9 directly links histone crotonylation to active transcription.
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