分子生物學(xué)雙語(yǔ)10 Chroatin

1、chapter 10chromatinindividual nucleosomes are released by digestion of chromatin with micrococcal nuclease. the bar is 100 nmreprinted from cell, vol. 4, p. oudet, m. gross-bellard, and p. chambon, electron microscopic and biochemical evidence., pp. 281-300. copyright 1975, with permission from else

2、vier http:/ photo courtesy of pierre chambon, college of france. basic structures nucleosome the basic structural subunit of chromatin, consisting of 200 bp of dna and an octamer of histone proteins. histone tails flexible amino- or carboxy-terminal regions of the core histones that extend beyond th

3、e surface of the nucleosome. histone tails are sites of extensive posttranslational modification. 10 nm fiber a linear array of nucleosomes generated by unfolding from the natural condition of chromatin. linker histones a family of histones (such as histone h1) that are not components of the nucleos

4、ome core. linker histones bind nucleosomes and/or linker dna and promote 30 nm fiber formation. basic structures the 10 nm fiber in partially unwound state can be seen to consist of a string of nucleosomesphoto courtesy of barbara hamkalo, university of california, irvine.the 10 nm fiber is a contin

5、uous string of nucleosomes 30 nm fiber a coil of nucleosomes. it is the basic level of organization of nucleosomes in chromatin. nonhistone any structural protein found in a chromosome except one of the histones. basic structures the 30 nm fiber has a coiled structurephoto courtesy of barbara hamkal

6、o, university of california, irvine.the 30 nm fiber is a two start helix consisting of two rows of nucleosomes coiled into a solenoidreprinted from cell, vol. 128, d. j. tremethick, higher-order structure of chromatin., pp. 651-654. copyright 2007, with permission from elsevier http:/ dna is organiz

7、ed in arrays of nucleosomes mnase (micrococcal nuclease) cleaves linker dna and releases individual nucleosomes from chromatin.95% of the dna is recovered in nucleosomes or multimers when mnase cleaves dna in chromatin.the length of dna per nucleosome varies for individual tissues or species in a ra

8、nge from 154 to 260 bp.nucleosomal dna is divided into the core dna and linker dna depending on its susceptibility to mnase.micrococcal nuclease digests chromatin in nuclei into a multimeric series of dna bands that can be separated by gel electrophoresis. each multimer of nucleosomes contains the a

9、ppropriate number of unit lengths of dnaphoto courtesy of markus noll, universitt zrich.footprinting: characterizing rna polymerasepromoter and dnaprotein interactions footprinting a technique for identifying the site on dna bound by some protein by virtue of the protection of bonds in this region a

10、gainst attack by nucleases. a protein protects a series of bonds against nuclease attackfigure 05: micrococcal nuclease initially cleaves between nucleosomesthe nucleosome is a cylinder with dna organized into 1 2/3 turns around the surfacedna occupies most of the outer surface of the nucleosomesequ

11、ences on the dna that lie on different turns around the nucleosome may be close togetherthe nucleosome consists of approximately equal masses of dna and histones (including h1)possible model for the interaction of histone h1 with the nucleosome202122 the nucleosome is the subunit of all chromatineac

12、h histone is extensively interdigitated with its partner.all core histones have the structural motif of the histone fold. n- and c-terminal histone tails extend out of the nucleosome.h1 is associated with linker dna and may lie at the point where dna enters or exits the nucleosome.photos courtesy of

13、 e. n. moudrianakis, johns hopkins university.figure 10ab: the crystal structure of the histone core octamer is represented in a space-filling modelthe crystal structure of the histone core octamer is represented in a space-filling modelphotos courtesy of e. n. moudrianakis, johns hopkins university

14、.25 linker dna is the region of 8 to 114 bp, and this is the region that is susceptible to early cleavage by the enzyme. changes in the length of linker dna account for the variation in total length of nucleosomal dna. h1 is associated with linker dna and may lie at the point where dna enters and le

15、aves the nucleosome.the histone fold consists of two short a-helices flanking a longer a-helixstructures from protein data bank 1hio. g. arents, et al., proc. natl. acad. sci. usa 88 (1991): 10145-10152.histone pairs (h3 + h4 and h2a + h2b) interact to form histone dimersstructures from protein data

16、 bank 1hio. g. arents, et al., proc. natl. acad. sci. usa 88 (1991): 10145-10152.the crystal structure of the histone core octamer is represented in a ribbon modelstructures from protein data bank 1aoi. k. luger, et al., nature 389 (1997): 251-260.the crystal structure of the histone core octamer is

17、 represented in a ribbon modelstructures from protein data bank 1aoi. luger, k., et al., nature 389 (1997): 251-260.figure co: chromatinstructure from protein data base 1zbb. t. schalch, et al., nature 436 (2005): 138-141. photo courtesy of chris nelson, university of victoria.the 30 nm fiber is a t

18、wo start helix consisting of two rows of nucleosomes coiled into a solenoidreprinted from cell, vol. 128, d. j. tremethick, higher-order structure of chromatin., pp. 651-654. copyright 2007, with permission from elsevier http:/ histone tails are disordered and exit from both faces of the nucleosome

19、and between turns of the dnastructure from protein data bank 1aoi. k. luger, et al., nature 389 (1997): 251-260.figure 13: the histone fold domains of the histones are located in the core of the nucleosome37figure 29.20: the structures of histone tails are not defined.figure 29.21: histone tails eme

20、rge between dna turns.38histone tails have many sites of modificationadapted from the scientist 17 (2003): p. 27.the positive charge on lysine is neutralized upon acetylation, while methylated lysine and arginine retain their positive charges41figure 20: most modified sites in histones have a single

21、, specific type of modification, but some sites can have more than one type of modification43figure 18: acetylation during replication occurs on specific sites on histones before they are incorporated into nucleosomesfigure 19: acetylation associated with gene activation occurs by directly modifying

22、 specific sites on histones that are already incorporated into nucleosomes46figure 2. proposed mechanism by which dna methylation leads to transcriptional repression. (a) transcriptionally active chromatin is predominantly unmethylated and has high levels of acetylated histone tails (short black squ

23、iggles). (b) methylation at cpg dinucleotides can be carried out by one of the three known human dna methyltransferases (dnmt1, 3a and 3b), resulting in dna with high levels of cpg methylation (purple circles), but still containing predominantly acetylated histone tails. dna in this form would still

24、 be expected to be transcriptionally competent. (c) methylated dna is targeted by methyl-binding domain (mbd) proteins such as mbd2 and mecp2, which are found associated with large protein complexes such as the nurd complex (mbd2) and the sin3a complex (mecp2). histone deacetylase (hdac1 and 2) and

25、chromatin-remodelling activities (mi-2 and sin3a) within these complexes result in alterations in chromatin structure, producing chromatin that is refractory to transcriptional activation (pink streaks represent deacetylated histone tails). the functional roles of other components in these complexes

26、 are not yet known. abbreviations: mta2, metastasis-associated protein 2; rbap46/48, retinoblastoma-associated protein 46/48; rna pol ii, rna polymerase ii; sap18/30, sin3-associated polypeptides 18/30 (fig002gsb).proposed mechanism by which dna methylation leads to transcriptional repressiong. stra

27、thdee and r. brown47 covalent modification of histonesphoto courtesy of sean d. taverna, johns hopkins university school of medicine, and haitao li, memorial sloan-kettering cancer center. additional information at s. d. taverna, et al., nat. struct. mol. biol. 14 (2007): 1025-1040.numerous protein

28、motifs recognize methylated lysinesbromodomains are protein motifs that bind acetyl lysinesstructure from protein data bank 1e6i. d. j. owen, et al., embo j. 19 (2000): 6141-6149.numerous protein motifs recognize methylated lysinesstructure from protein data bank 1kne. s. a. jacobs and s. khorasaniz

29、adeh, science 295 (2002): 2080-2083.numerous protein motifs recognize methylated lysinesstructure from protein data bank 2gfa. y. huang, et al., science 12 (2006): 748-751. histone variants produce alternative nucleosomes, and potentially alternative nucleosomal organizationall core histones except

30、h4 are members of families of related variants.histone variants can be closely related or highly divergent from canonical histones.different variants serve different functions in the cell. the major core histones contain a conserved histone-fold domainadapted from k. sarma and d. reinberg, nat. rev.

31、 mol. cell biol. 6 (2005): 139-149.5455-h2ax is detected by an antibody (yellow) and appears along the path traced by a laser that produces double-strand breaks.h2ax has seql/y in c-term which can be phosphorylated. rogakou et al., 1999. originally published in the journal of cell biology, 146: 905-

32、915. photo courtesy of william m. bonner, national cancer institute, nih.the nucleosome is a cylinder with dna organized into 1 2/3 turns around the surface58 organized bending of chains around a spherical or circular object. nucleosomes and bicycle chains.nicks in double-stranded dna are revealed b

33、y fragments when the dna is denatured to give single strandssites for nicking lie at regular intervals along core dna, as seen in a dnase i digest of nuclei the most exposed positions on dna recur with a periodicity that reflects the structure of the double helix rotational positioning describes the

34、 exposure of dna on the surface of the nucleosome62dna structure varies on the nucleosomal surface dna is wrapped 1.65 times around the histone octamer. the structure of the dna is altered so that it has: an increased number of base pairs/turn in the middle a decreased number at the ends63the period

35、icity of dna changes on the nucleosome 0.6 negative turns of dna are absorbed by the change in bp/turn: from 10.5 in solution to an average of 10.2 on the nucleosomal surface this explains the linking-number paradox.dna is wrapped 1.67 times around the histone octamer.dna on the nucleosome shows reg

36、ions of smooth curvature and regions of abrupt kinks.the structure of the dna is altered so that it has an increased number of base pairs/turn in the middle, but a decreased number at the ends.dna structure in nucleosomal dnastructures from protein data bank: 1p34. u. m. muthurajan, et al., embo j.

37、23 (2004): 260-271.0.6 negative turns of dna are absorbed by the change in bp/turn from 10.5 in solution to an average of 10.2 on the nucleosomal surface, which explains the linking-number paradox. dna structure in nucleosomal dnaadapted from t. j. richmond and c. a. davey, nature 423 (2003): 145-15

38、0.the supercoils of the sv40 minichromosome can be relaxed to generate a circular structure, whose loss of histones then generates supercoils in the free dnachromatin is fundamentally divided into euchromatin and heterochromatinindividual chromosomes can be seen only during mitosis.during interphase

39、, the general mass of chromatin is in the form of euchromatin, which is slightly less tightly packed than mitotic chromosomes.regions of compact heterochromatin are clustered near the nucleolus and nuclear membranephoto courtesy of edmund puvion, centre national de la recherche scientifiquenucleosom

40、e positioning places restriction sites at unique positions relative to the linker sites cleaved by micrococcal nucleasenucleosomes may form at specific positions as the result of either: the local structure of dna proteins that interact with specific sequencesthe most common cause of nucleosome posi

41、tioning is when proteins binding to dna establish a boundary.in the absence of nucleosome positioning, a restriction site can lies at any possible location in different copies of the genometranslational positioning describes the linear position of dna relative to the histone octamer71figure 29.33: p

42、hasing controls exposure of linker dna.72if nucleosomes are not randomly deposited on the dna(a) are they are located by site specific interaction between specific dna sequences and nucleosome proteins (intrinsic).(b) is the location of certain histones preferentially assembled giving rise to clear

43、boundary patterns (e.g. at a promoter) at the 5 end of the gene and subsequent nucleosomes are s p a c e d o u t e v e n l y f r o m t h a t p o i n t(extrinsic).7374are transcribed genes organized in nucleosomes? nucleosomes are found at the same frequency when one digests with micrococcal nuclease

44、: transcribed genes nontranscribed genes some heavily transcribed genes appear to be exceptional cases that are devoid of nucleosomes.figure 29.36individual rdna transcription units alternate with nontranscribed dna segmentsreproduced from o. l. miller and b. r. beatty, science 164 (1969): 955-957.

45、photo courtesy of oscar miller.rna polymerase is comparable in size to the nucleosome and might encounter difficulties in following the dna around the histone octamertop photo courtesy of e. n. moudrianakis, johns hopkins university. bottom photo courtesy of roger kornberg, stanford university schoo

46、l of medicine.77an experiment to test the effect of transcription on nucleosomes shows that the histone octamer is displaced from dna and rebinds at a new positionhistone octamers are disassembled ahead of transcription to remove nucleosomes ancillary factors are required both: for rna polymerase to

47、 displace octamers during transcription for the histones to reassemble into nucleosomes after transcriptionindirect end-labeling identifies the distance of a dnase hypersensitive site from a restriction cleavage sitebasal/unactivated his3 chromatin is static and shows a single dominant nucleosomal a

48、rray with little remodeling activity (top panel) basal/unactivated his3 chromatin is static and shows a single dominant nucleosomal array with little remodeling activity (top panel)reproduced from mol. cell biol., 2006, vol. 26, pp. 8252-8266, doi and reproduced with permission from the american soc

49、iety of microbiology. photo courtesy of david j. clark, national institutes of health.heat-shock-induced puffing at major heat shock loci 87a and cphoto courtesy of victor g. corces, emory university.the 87a and 87c loci, containing heat shock genes, expand upon heat shock in drosophila polytene chr

50、omosomes84dnaase hypersensitive sites reflect changes in chromatin structurehypersensitive sites are found at the promoters of expressed genes.they are generated by the binding of transcription factors that displace histone octamers.sensitivity to dnase i can be measured by determining the rate of d

51、isappearance of the material hybridizing with a particular probein adult erythroid cells, the adult b-globin gene is highly sensitive to dnase i digestionphoto courtesy of harold weintraub, fred hutchinson cancer research center. used with permission of mark groudinenucleosome assembly in vivoan enh

52、ancer activates a promoter in its vicinity, but can be blocked from doing so by an insulator located between theman insulator may block heterochromatina protein that binds to the insulator scs is localized at interbands in drosophila polytene chromosomesreprinted from cell, vol. 81, k. zhao, c. m. h

53、art, and u. k. laemmli, visualization of chromosomal domains., pp. 879-889. copyright 1995, with permission from elsevier http:/ photo courtesy of ulrich k.the insulator of the gypsy transposon blocks the action of an enhancer when it is placed between the enhancer and the promotersu(hw)/mod(mdg4) c

54、omplexes are found in clusters at the nuclear peripheryfab-7 is a boundary element that is necessary for the independence of regulatory elements iab-6 and iab-7 an lcr may control a domainlocus control regions (lcrs) are located at the 5 end of a chromosomal domain and typically consist of multiple

55、dnase hypersensitive sites.lcrs regulate gene clusters.lcrs usually regulate loci that show complex developmental or cell-type specific patterns of gene expression.figure 59: the beta-globin locus is marked by hypersensitive sites at either endchromosome conformation capture (3c) is one method to de

56、tect physical interactions between regions of chromatin in vivoadapted from a. miele and j. dekker, mol. biosyst. 4 (2008): 1046-1057chromosome conformation capture (3c) is one method to detect physical interactions between regions of chromatin in vivoadapted from a. miele and j. dekker, mol. biosys

57、t. 4 (2008): 1046-1058chromosome conformation capture (3c) is one method to detect physical interactions between regions of chromatin in vivoadapted from a. miele and j. dekker, mol. biosyst. 4 (2008): 1046-1059chromatin is fundamentally divided into euchromatin and heterochromatinindividual chromosomes can be seen only during mitosis.during interphase, the general mass of chromatin