Structure and binding of the H4 histone tail and the effects of lysine 16 acetylation

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Publication Date 2010-12-15
DOI 10.1039/C0CP01487G
Impact Factor 3.676
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Darren Yang, Gaurav Arya


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Abstract

The H4 histone tail plays a critical role in chromatin folding and regulation—it mediates strong interactions with the acidic patch of proximal nucleosomes and its acetylation at lysine 16 (K16) leads to partial unfolding of chromatin. The molecular mechanism associated with the H4 tail/acidic patch interactions and its modulation viaK16 acetylation remains unknown. Here we employ a combination of molecular dynamics simulations, molecular docking calculations, and free energy computations to investigate the structure of the H4 tail in solution, the binding of the H4 tail with the acidic patch, and the effects of K16 acetylation. The H4 tail exhibits a disordered configuration except in the region Ala15–Lys20, where it exhibits a strong propensity for an α-helical structure. This α-helical region is found to dock very favorably into the acidic patch groove of a nucleosome with a binding free energy of approximately −7 kcal mol−1. We have identified the specific interactions that stabilize this binding as well as the associated energetics. The acetylation of K16 is found to reduce the α-helix forming propensity of the H4 tail and K16's accessibility for mediating external interactions. More importantly, K16 acetylation destabilizes the binding of the H4 tail at the acidic patch by mitigating specific salt bridges and longer-ranged electrostatic interactions mediated by K16. Our study thus provides new microscopic insights into the compaction of chromatin and its regulation viaposttranslational modifications of histone tails, which could be of interest to chromatin biology, cancer, epigenetics, and drug design.

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