Nature Communications (Mar 2020)

Two distinct modes of DNMT1 recruitment ensure stable maintenance DNA methylation

  • Atsuya Nishiyama,
  • Christopher B. Mulholland,
  • Sebastian Bultmann,
  • Satomi Kori,
  • Akinori Endo,
  • Yasushi Saeki,
  • Weihua Qin,
  • Carina Trummer,
  • Yoshie Chiba,
  • Haruka Yokoyama,
  • Soichiro Kumamoto,
  • Toru Kawakami,
  • Hironobu Hojo,
  • Genta Nagae,
  • Hiroyuki Aburatani,
  • Keiji Tanaka,
  • Kyohei Arita,
  • Heinrich Leonhardt,
  • Makoto Nakanishi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15006-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Ubiquitylation of histone H3 (H3Ub2) by UHRF1 recruits DNMT1 to chromatin, which is essential for DNA methylation inheritance. Here, the authors provide evidence that there are two distinct mechanisms underlying replication timing-dependent recruitment of DNMT1 through PAF15Ub2 and H3Ub2, both of which are required for high fidelity DNA methylation inheritance.