Nature Communications (Dec 2022)

Structural insights into p300 regulation and acetylation-dependent genome organisation

  • Ziad Ibrahim,
  • Tao Wang,
  • Olivier Destaing,
  • Nicola Salvi,
  • Naghmeh Hoghoughi,
  • Clovis Chabert,
  • Alexandra Rusu,
  • Jinjun Gao,
  • Leonardo Feletto,
  • Nicolas Reynoird,
  • Thomas Schalch,
  • Yingming Zhao,
  • Martin Blackledge,
  • Saadi Khochbin,
  • Daniel Panne

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35375-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 23

Abstract

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Here the authors use structural analyses to show that an intrinsically disordered transcription activation domain in the oncogene BRD4-NUT binds to and activates p300. This in-turn drives formation of higher-order, acetylation-dependent chromatin condensates.