Deposition-related sites K5/K12 in histone H4 are not required for nucleosome deposition in yeast

AUTOR(ES)

Ma, Xiao-Jun

FONTE

The National Academy of Sciences

RESUMO

Histone H4 can be acetylated at N-terminal lysines K5, K8, K12, and K16, but newly synthesized H4 is diacetylated at K5/K12 in diverse organisms. This pattern is widely thought to be important for histone deposition onto replicating DNA. To investigate the importance of K5/K12 we have mutagenized these lysines in yeast and assayed for nucleosome assembly. Assaying was done in the absence of the histone H3 N terminus, which has functions redundant with those of H4 in histone deposition. Nucleosome assembly was assayed by three methods. Because nucleosome depletion may be lethal, we examined cell viability. We also analyzed nucleosome assembly in vivo and in vitro by examining plasmid superhelicity density in whole cells and supercoiling in yeast cell extracts. All three approaches demonstrate that mutagenizing K5 and K12 together does not prevent cell growth and histone deposition in vivo or in vitro. Therefore, K5/K12 cannot be required for nucleosome assembly in yeast. It is only when the first three sites of acetylation—K5, K8, and K12—are mutagenized simultaneously that lethality occurs and assembly is most strongly decreased both in vivo and in vitro. These data argue for the redundancy of sites K5, K8, and K12 in the deposition of yeast histone H4.

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