Nucleosome-CHD4 chromatin remodeller structure maps human disease mutations

  1. Lucas Farnung  Is a corresponding author
  2. Moritz Ochmann
  3. Patrick Cramer  Is a corresponding author
  1. Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany

Abstract

Chromatin remodelling plays important roles in gene regulation during development, differentiation and in disease. The chromatin remodelling enzyme CHD4 is a component of the NuRD and ChAHP complexes that are involved in gene repression. Here we report the cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) structure of Homo sapiens CHD4 engaged with a nucleosome core particle in the presence of the non-hydrolysable ATP analogue AMP-PNP at an overall resolution of 3.1 Å. The ATPase motor of CHD4 binds and distorts nucleosomal DNA at superhelical location (SHL) +2, supporting the 'twist defect' model of chromatin remodelling. CHD4 does not induce unwrapping of terminal DNA, in contrast to its homologue Chd1, which functions in gene activation. Our structure also maps CHD4 mutations that are associated with human cancer or the intellectual disability disorder Sifrim-Hitz-Weiss syndrome.

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The cryo-EM reconstructions and final models were deposited with the Electron Microscopy Data Base (accession codes EMD-10058 and EMD-10059) and with the Protein Data Bank (accession code 6RYR and 6RYU). The raw image data and corresponding WARP sessions have been deposited to EMPIAR (EMPIAR-10411).

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  1. Lucas Farnung

    Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
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  2. Moritz Ochmann

    Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
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  3. Patrick Cramer

    Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
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    patrick.cramer@mpibpc.mpg.de
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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SFB1064)

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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SFB860)

  • Patrick Cramer

European Research Council (693023)

  • Patrick Cramer

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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© 2020, Farnung et al.

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  1. Lucas Farnung
  2. Moritz Ochmann
  3. Patrick Cramer
(2020)
Nucleosome-CHD4 chromatin remodeller structure maps human disease mutations
eLife 9:e56178.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.56178

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