Nature Communications (May 2019)

Selective binding of the PHD6 finger of MLL4 to histone H4K16ac links MLL4 and MOF

  • Yi Zhang,
  • Younghoon Jang,
  • Ji-Eun Lee,
  • JaeWoo Ahn,
  • Longxia Xu,
  • Michael R. Holden,
  • Evan M. Cornett,
  • Krzysztof Krajewski,
  • Brianna J. Klein,
  • Shu-Ping Wang,
  • Yali Dou,
  • Robert G. Roeder,
  • Brian D. Strahl,
  • Scott B. Rothbart,
  • Xiaobing Shi,
  • Kai Ge,
  • Tatiana G. Kutateladze

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10324-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Histone methyltransferase MLL4 is a transcriptional regulator. Here the authors identify the PHD6 finger of MLL4 as a selective reader of the epigenetic modification H4K16ac and show that a subset of MLL4 chromatin binding sites overlap with H4K16ac-enriched regions, which depends on MOF activity.