Recognition of shorter and longer trimethyllysine analogues by epigenetic reader proteins

Abbas H.K. Al Temimi, Roman Belle, Kiran Kumar, Jordi Poater, Peter Betlem, Bas J.G.E. Pieters, Robert S. Paton, F. Matthias Bickelhaupt, Jasmin Mecinović*

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Abstract

Histone Nϵ-lysine methylation is a widespread posttranslational modification that is specifically recognised by a diverse class of Nϵ-methyllysine binding reader proteins. Combined thermodynamic data, molecular dynamics simulations, and quantum chemical studies reveal that reader proteins efficiently bind trimethylornithine and trimethylhomolysine, the simplest Nϵ-trimethyllysine analogues that differ in the length of the side chain.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2409-2412
Number of pages4
JournalChemical Communications
Volume54
Issue number19
Early online date9 Feb 2018
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 7 Mar 2018

Funding

This work was supported by the ERC Starting Grant to J. M. (ChemEpigen-715691) and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NCI-TA 731.015.202). K. K. is supported by a World Bank Education Grant. J. P. thanks the Spanish MINECO (CTQ2016-77558-R).

FundersFunder number
ERC StartingChemEpigen-715691
Netherlands Organization for Scientific ResearchNCI-TA 731.015.202
World Bank Education
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme715691

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