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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5774
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-5-5
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
Biological responses to histone methylation critically depend on the faithful readout and transduction of the methyl-lysine signal by "effector" proteins, yet our understanding of methyl-lysine recognition has so far been limited to the study of histone binding by chromodomain and WD40-repeat proteins. The double tudor domain of JMJD2A, a Jmjc domain-containing histone demethylase, binds methylated histone H3-K4 and H4-K20. We found that the double tudor domain has an interdigitated structure, and the unusual fold is required for its ability to bind methylated histone tails. The cocrystal structure of the JMJD2A double tudor domain with a trimethylated H3-K4 peptide reveals that the trimethyl-K4 is bound in a cage of three aromatic residues, two of which are from the tudor-2 motif, whereas the binding specificity is determined by side-chain interactions involving amino acids from the tudor-1 motif. Our study provides mechanistic insights into recognition of methylated histone tails by tudor domains and reveals the structural intricacy of methyl-lysine recognition by two closely spaced effector domains.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
1095-9203
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
5
pubmed:volume
312
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
748-51
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:16601153-Amino Acid Motifs, pubmed-meshheading:16601153-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:16601153-Binding Sites, pubmed-meshheading:16601153-Crystallography, X-Ray, pubmed-meshheading:16601153-DNA-Binding Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:16601153-Histones, pubmed-meshheading:16601153-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:16601153-Hydrogen Bonding, pubmed-meshheading:16601153-Jumonji Domain-Containing Histone Demethylases, pubmed-meshheading:16601153-Lysine, pubmed-meshheading:16601153-Methylation, pubmed-meshheading:16601153-Models, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:16601153-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:16601153-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:16601153-Oxidoreductases, N-Demethylating, pubmed-meshheading:16601153-Protein Binding, pubmed-meshheading:16601153-Protein Conformation, pubmed-meshheading:16601153-Protein Folding, pubmed-meshheading:16601153-Protein Structure, Tertiary, pubmed-meshheading:16601153-Static Electricity, pubmed-meshheading:16601153-Transcription Factors
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Recognition of histone H3 lysine-4 methylation by the double tudor domain of JMJD2A.
pubmed:affiliation
W. M. Keck Structural Biology Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural