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Solution NMR structure and histone binding of the PHD domain of human MLL5.

PloS one | 2013

Mixed Lineage Leukemia 5 (MLL5) is a histone methyltransferase that plays a key role in hematopoiesis, spermatogenesis and cell cycle progression. In addition to its catalytic domain, MLL5 contains a PHD finger domain, a protein module that is often involved in binding to the N-terminus of histone H3. Here we report the NMR solution structure of the MLL5 PHD domain showing a variant of the canonical PHD fold that combines conserved H3 binding features from several classes of other PHD domains (including an aromatic cage) along with a novel C-terminal α-helix, not previously seen. We further demonstrate that the PHD domain binds with similar affinity to histone H3 tail peptides di- and tri-methylated at lysine 4 (H3K4me2 and H3K4me3), the former being the putative product of the MLL5 catalytic reaction. This work establishes the PHD domain of MLL5 as a bone fide 'reader' domain of H3K4 methyl marks suggesting that it may guide the spreading or further methylation of this site on chromatin.

Pubmed ID: 24130829 RIS Download

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Associated grants

  • Agency: Wellcome Trust, United Kingdom
  • Agency: NIGMS NIH HHS, United States
    Id: U54 GM094597
  • Agency: Wellcome Trust, United Kingdom
    Id: 092809/Z/10/Z
  • Agency: CIHR, Canada

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