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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-8-20
pubmed:abstractText
Epigenetic gene silencing in eukaryotes is regulated in part by lysine methylation of the core histone proteins. While histone lysine methylation is known to control gene expression through the recruitment of modification-specific effector proteins, it remains unknown whether nonhistone chromatin proteins are targets for similar modification-recognition systems. Here we show that the histone H3 methyltransferase G9a contains a conserved methylation motif with marked sequence similarity to H3 itself. As with methylation of H3 lysine 9, autocatalytic G9a methylation is necessary and sufficient to mediate in vivo interaction with the epigenetic regulator heterochromatin protein 1 (HP1), and this methyl-dependent interaction can be reversed by adjacent G9a phosphorylation. NMR analysis indicates that the HP1 chromodomain recognizes methyl-G9a through a binding mode similar to that used in recognition of methyl-H3K9, demonstrating that the chromodomain functions as a generalized methyl-lysine binding module. These data reveal histone-like modification cassettes - or "histone mimics" - as a distinct class of nonhistone methylation targets and directly extend the principles of the histone code to the regulation of nonhistone proteins.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
1097-2765
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
17
pubmed:volume
27
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
596-608
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:17707231-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:17707231-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:17707231-Binding Sites, pubmed-meshheading:17707231-Cell Line, pubmed-meshheading:17707231-Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone, pubmed-meshheading:17707231-DNA Methylation, pubmed-meshheading:17707231-Gene Expression Regulation, pubmed-meshheading:17707231-Histone-Lysine N-Methyltransferase, pubmed-meshheading:17707231-Histones, pubmed-meshheading:17707231-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:17707231-Lysine, pubmed-meshheading:17707231-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:17707231-Models, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:17707231-Molecular Mimicry, pubmed-meshheading:17707231-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:17707231-Multiprotein Complexes, pubmed-meshheading:17707231-Phosphorylation, pubmed-meshheading:17707231-Protein Binding, pubmed-meshheading:17707231-Protein Methyltransferases
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Methylation of a histone mimic within the histone methyltransferase G9a regulates protein complex assembly.
pubmed:affiliation
Laboratory of Lymphocyte Signaling, New York, NY 10021, USA. sampasc@mail.rockefeller.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural