title: The histone chaperone sNASP binds a conserved peptide motif within the globular core of histone H3 through its TPR repeats.
abstract: Eukaryotic chromatin is a complex yet dynamic structure, which is regulated in part by the assembly and disassembly of nucleosomes. Key to this process is a group of proteins termed histone chaperones that guide the thermodynamic assembly of nucleosomes by interacting with soluble histones. Here we investigate the interaction between the histone chaperone sNASP and its histone H3 substrate. We find that sNASP binds with nanomolar affinity to a conserved heptapeptide motif in the globular domain of H3, close to the C-terminus. Through functional analysis of sNASP homologues we identified point mutations in surface residues within the TPR domain of sNASP that disrupt H3 peptide interaction, but do not completely disrupt binding to full length H3 in cells, suggesting that sNASP interacts with H3 through additional contacts. Furthermore, chemical shift perturbations from(1)H-(15)N HSQC experiments show that H3 peptide binding maps to the helical groove formed by the stacked TPR motifs of sNASP. Our findings reveal a new mode of interaction between a TPR repeat domain and an evolutionarily conserved peptide motif found in canonical H3 and in all histone H3 variants, including CenpA and have implications for the mechanism of histone chaperoning within the cell.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiological Chemistry, Biomedical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Großhaderner Strasse 9, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany.
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bowman
authors.affiliation: Leibniz University Hannover, BMWZ-Institute of Organic Chemistry, Schneiderberg 38, 30167 Hannover, Germany.
authors.forename: Lukas
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lercher
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiological Chemistry, Biomedical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Großhaderner Strasse 9, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany.
authors.forename: Hari R
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiological Chemistry, Biomedical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Großhaderner Strasse 9, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany.
authors.forename: Daria
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zinne
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiological Chemistry, Biomedical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Großhaderner Strasse 9, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany.
authors.forename: Gyula
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Timinszky
authors.affiliation: Leibniz University Hannover, BMWZ-Institute of Organic Chemistry, Schneiderberg 38, 30167 Hannover, Germany Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Group of Structural Chemistry, Inhoffenstrasse 7, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany European Molecular Biology Laboratory, SCB Unit, Meyerhofstrasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Teresa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Carlomagno
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiological Chemistry, Biomedical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Großhaderner Strasse 9, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich (CIPSM), Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Butenandt Strasse 5-13, 81377 Munich, Germany Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Feodor Lynen Strasse 17, 81377 Munich, Germany andreas.ladurner@med.uni-muenchen.de.
authors.forename: Andreas G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Ladurner
mesh_terms: D020816:Amino Acid Motifs; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001324:Autoantigens / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*; D001665:Binding Sites; D017124:Conserved Sequence; D056488:Histone Chaperones / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*; D006657:Histones / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*; D009687:Nuclear Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*; D010455:Peptides / Q000737:chemistry; D011485:Protein Binding; D017433:Protein Structure, Secondary; D020449:Repetitive Sequences, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D001324:Autoantigens; D056488:Histone Chaperones; D006657:Histones; C489390:NASP protein, human; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; D010455:Peptides