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Such remodeling is principally carried out by 1) covalent histone modifications by specific enzymes, e.g., histone acetyltransferases (HATs), deacetylases, methyltransferases, and kinases, and 2) ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling complexes which either move, eject or restructure nucleosomes. [1]
In molecular biology, SWI/SNF (SWItch/Sucrose Non-Fermentable), [1] [2] is a subfamily of ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling complexes, which is found in eukaryotes.In other words, it is a group of proteins that associate to remodel the way DNA is packaged.
There are four subfamilies of chromatin remodelers: SWI/SNF, INO80, ISW1, and CHD. [2] The RSC complex is a 15-subunit chromatin remodeling complex initially found in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and is homologous to the SWI/SNF complex found in humans. [1] The RSC complex has ATPase activity in the presence of DNA. [1]
The NuRD complex contains seven subunits: the histone deacetylase core proteins HDAC1 and HDAC2, the histone-binding proteins RbAp46 and RbAp48, the metastasis-associated proteins MTA1 (or MTA2 / MTA3), the methyl-CpG-binding domain protein MBD3 (or MBD2) and the chromodomain-helicase-DNA-binding protein CHD3 (aka Mi-2alpha) or CHD4 (aka Mi-2beta).
Nucleosome Remodeling Factor (NURF) is an ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling complex first discovered in Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) that catalyzes nucleosome sliding in order to regulate gene transcription. It contains an ISWI ATPase, making it part of the ISWI family of chromatin remodeling complexes. NURF is highly conserved among ...
Chromatin remodelers in the INO80 subfamily are made of multiple subunit complexes with split ATPase domains. [3] The INO80 subfamily's protein domains are an N-terminus, two RuvB-like proteins (Rvb1 and Rvb2), and a C-terminus. [1] The ATPase domain of the N-terminus functions in the identification of DNA damage and aids in the stability of ...
ISWI remodeling complexes place nucleosomes along segments of DNA at regular intervals. The placement of nucleosomes by ISWI protein complexes typically results in the silencing of the DNA because the nucleosome placement prevents transcription of the DNA. [2] ISWI, like the closely related SWI/SNF subfamily, is an ATP-dependent chromatin ...
Specific CHD complexes, such as the nucleosome remodeling deacetylase complex in C. elegans, can expose binding sites for transcriptional repressors along the chromatin by interacting with highly-modular histone tails; deacetylation of the histone residue H3K9ac is an example of how the NuRD complex can downregulate gene expression and affect ...