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Recruitment and allosteric stimulation of a histone-deubiquitinating enzyme during heterochromatin assembly.


ABSTRACT: Heterochromatin formation in budding yeast is regulated by the silent information regulator (SIR) complex. The SIR complex comprises the NAD-dependent deacetylase Sir2, the scaffolding protein Sir4, and the nucleosome-binding protein Sir3. Transcriptionally active regions present a challenge to SIR complex-mediated de novo heterochromatic silencing due to the presence of antagonistic histone post-translational modifications, including acetylation and methylation. Methylation of histone H3K4 and H3K79 is dependent on monoubiquitination of histone H2B (H2B-Ub). The SIR complex cannot erase H2B-Ub or histone methylation on its own. The deubiquitinase (DUB) Ubp10 is thought to promote heterochromatic silencing by maintaining low H2B-Ub at sub-telomeres. Here, we biochemically characterized the interactions between Ubp10 and the SIR complex machinery. We demonstrate that a direct interaction between Ubp10 and the Sir2/4 sub-complex facilitates Ubp10 recruitment to chromatin via a co-assembly mechanism. Using hydrolyzable H2B-Ub analogs, we show that Ubp10 activity is lower on nucleosomes compared with H2B-Ub in solution. We find that Sir2/4 stimulates Ubp10 DUB activity on nucleosomes, likely through a combination of targeting and allosteric regulation. This coupling mechanism between the silencing machinery and its DUB partner allows erasure of active PTMs and the de novo transition of a transcriptionally active DNA region to a silent chromatin state.

SUBMITTER: Zukowski A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5818202 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Recruitment and allosteric stimulation of a histone-deubiquitinating enzyme during heterochromatin assembly.

Zukowski Alexis A   Al-Afaleq Nouf Omar NO   Duncan Emily D ED   Yao Tingting T   Johnson Aaron M AM  

The Journal of biological chemistry 20171229 7


Heterochromatin formation in budding yeast is regulated by the silent information regulator (SIR) complex. The SIR complex comprises the NAD-dependent deacetylase Sir2, the scaffolding protein Sir4, and the nucleosome-binding protein Sir3. Transcriptionally active regions present a challenge to SIR complex-mediated <i>de novo</i> heterochromatic silencing due to the presence of antagonistic histone post-translational modifications, including acetylation and methylation. Methylation of histone H3  ...[more]

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