title: WD repeats of the p48 subunit of chicken chromatin assembly factor-1 required for in vitro interaction with chicken histone deacetylase-2.
abstract: Chromatin assembly factor-1 (CAF-1) is essential for chromatin assembly in eukaryotes, and comprises three subunits of 150 kDa (p150), 60 kDa (p60), and 48 kDa (p48). We cloned and sequenced cDNA encoding the small subunit of the chicken CAF-1, chCAF-1p48. It consists of 425 amino acid residues including a putative initiation Met, possesses seven WD repeat motifs, and contains only one amino acid change relative to the human and mouse CAF-1p48s. The immunoprecipitation experiment followed by Western blotting revealed that chCAF-1p48 interacts with chicken histone deacetylases (chHDAC-1 and -2) in vivo. The glutathione S-transferase pulldown affinity assay revealed the in vitro interaction of chCAF-1p48 with chHDAC-1, -2, and -3. We showed that the p48 subunit tightly binds to two regions of chHDAC-2, located between amino acid residues 82-180 and 245-314, respectively. We also established that two N-terminal, two C-terminal, or one N-terminal and one C-terminal WD repeat motif of chCAF-1p48 are required for this interaction, using deletion mutants of the respective regions. These results suggest that chCAF-1p48 is involved in many aspects of DNA-utilizing processes, through alterations in the chromatin structure based on both the acetylation and deacetylation of core histones.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Miyazaki Medical College, Kihara, Kiyotake, Miyazaki 889-1692, Japan.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ahmad
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Takami
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nakayama
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002645:Chickens; D056504:Chromatin Assembly Factor-1; D002868:Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D004926:Escherichia coli; D056284:Histone Deacetylase 1; D056464:Histone Deacetylase 2; D006655:Histone Deacetylases / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D012097:Repressor Proteins; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship; D014157:Transcription Factors
chemical_list: C533593:CHAF1B protein, human; C489780:CNOT8 protein, human; C533592:Chaf1a protein, mouse; C533594:Chaf1b protein, mouse; D056504:Chromatin Assembly Factor-1; D002868:Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D010446:Peptide Fragments; D012097:Repressor Proteins; D014157:Transcription Factors; C110550:HDAC1 protein, human; C533424:Hdac2 protein, mouse; D056284:Histone Deacetylase 1; D056464:Histone Deacetylase 2; D006655:Histone Deacetylases