Structural Basis for the Recognition of Histone H4 by the Histone-Chaperone RbAp46

作者：Natalia V. Murzina, Xue-Yuan Pei, Wei Zhang, Mike Sparkes, Jose Vicente-Garcia, J. Venkatesh Pratap, Stephen H. McLaughlin, Tom Rolef Ben-Shahar, Alain Verreault, Ben F. Luisi, Ernest D. Laue · 发表于：Structure · 年份：2008 · DOI：10.1016/j.str.2008.05.006 · 被引用次数：217 · 研究领域：Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics、Enzyme Structure and Function、RNA Research and Splicing

RbAp46 and RbAp48 (pRB-associated proteins p46 and p48, also known as RBBP7 and RBBP4, respectively) are highly homologous histone chaperones that play key roles in establishing and maintaining chromatin structure. We report here the crystal structure of human RbAp46 bound to histone H4. RbAp46 folds into a seven-bladed beta propeller structure and binds histone H4 in a groove formed between an N-terminal alpha helix and an extended loop inserted into blade six. Surprisingly, histone H4 adopts a different conformation when interacting with RbAp46 than it does in either the nucleosome or in the complex with ASF1, another histone chaperone. Our structural and biochemical results suggest that when a histone H3/H4 dimer (or tetramer) binds to RbAp46 or RbAp48, helix 1 of histone H4 unfolds to interact with the histone chaperone. We discuss the implications of our findings for the assembly and function of RbAp46 and RbAp48 complexes.