title: Persistent site-specific remodeling of a nucleosome array by transient action of the SWI/SNF complex.
abstract: The SWI/SNF complex participates in the restructuring of chromatin for transcription. The function of the yeast SWI/SNF complex in the remodeling of a nucleosome array has now been analyzed in vitro. Binding of the purified SWI/SNF complex to a nucleosome array disrupted multiple nucleosomes in an adenosine triphosphate-dependent reaction. However, removal of SWI/SNF left a deoxyribonuclease I-hypersensitive site specifically at a nucleosome that was bound by derivatives of the transcription factor Gal4p. Analysis of individual nucleosomes revealed that the SWI/SNF complex catalyzed eviction of histones from the Gal4-bound nucleosomes. Thus, the transient action of the SWI/SNF complex facilitated irreversible disruption of transcription factor-bound nucleosomes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Center for Gene Regulation, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802-4500, USA.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Owen-Hughes
authors.forename: R T
authors.initials: RT
authors.lastname: Utley
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Côté
authors.forename: C L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Peterson
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Workman
mesh_terms: D000251:Adenosine Triphosphatases; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate / Q000378:metabolism; D001483:Base Sequence; D001665:Binding Sites; D004271:DNA, Fungal / Q000378:metabolism; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D003850:Deoxyribonuclease I / Q000378:metabolism; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D006657:Histones / Q000378:metabolism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; D009707:Nucleosomes / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D004271:DNA, Fungal; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D005656:Fungal Proteins; C052130:GAL4 protein, S cerevisiae; D006657:Histones; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; D009707:Nucleosomes; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D014157:Transcription Factors; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate; D003850:Deoxyribonuclease I; D000251:Adenosine Triphosphatases; C499333:SNF2 protein, S cerevisiae