論文

査読有り
2017年

H4 Tails Potentially Produce the Diversity in the Orientation of Two Nucleosomes

Biophysical Journal
  • Ishida, H.
  • ,
  • Kono, H.

113
5
開始ページ
978
終了ページ
990
記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1016/j.bpj.2017.07.015
出版者・発行元
CELL PRESS

Histone tails play an important role in internucleosomal interaction and chromatin compaction. To understand how the H4 tails are involved in the internucleosomal interaction, an adaptively biased molecular dynamics simulation of 63 models of two stacked nucleosomes, each with the H4 tails in different locations, was carried out. This simulation generated a variety of orientations of the separated nucleosomes depending on the formation of the H4 tail bridge between the H4 tails and the DNA of the neighboring nucleosomes. For the models that showed distinctive orientations of the two nucleosomes, the free energies of the separation of the nucleosomes were further investigated using umbrella sampling simulations. The attractive force between the nucleosomes was estimated from the free energies; the force when two H4 tail bridges formed varied from 36 to 63 pN, depending on the formation of the H4 tail-bridge and the interfacial interaction, whereas the force reduced to 1518 pN after either one of the H4 tail bridges had broken, regardless of the conformation of the H4 tail. Additional simulations of the nucleosomes show that when the H4 tail was truncated, the force between the nucleosomes became repulsive (from-3 to 7 pN). We concluded that the H4 tails potentially produce the diversity in the orientation of the two nucleosomes, which would contribute to the polymorphism of the chromatin structure.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2017.07.015
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000410462300003&DestApp=WOS_CPL
Scopus Url
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85028692336&partnerID=MN8TOARS
URL
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5729-8707
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1016/j.bpj.2017.07.015
  • ISSN : 0006-3495
  • eISSN : 1542-0086
  • ORCIDのPut Code : 49820184
  • SCOPUS ID : 85028692336
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000410462300003

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