Nature Communications (Dec 2017)

H3K14ac is linked to methylation of H3K9 by the triple Tudor domain of SETDB1

  • Renata Z. Jurkowska,
  • Su Qin,
  • Goran Kungulovski,
  • Wolfram Tempel,
  • Yanli Liu,
  • Pavel Bashtrykov,
  • Judith Stiefelmaier,
  • Tomasz P. Jurkowski,
  • Srikanth Kudithipudi,
  • Sara Weirich,
  • Raluca Tamas,
  • Hong Wu,
  • Ludmila Dombrovski,
  • Peter Loppnau,
  • Richard Reinhardt,
  • Jinrong Min,
  • Albert Jeltsch

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02259-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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SETDB1 is a histone methyltransferase that generates H3K9me3 marks in euchromatic regions. Here the authors show that the triple Tudor domain (3TD) of SETDB1 binds histone H3 tails containing K14 acetylation combined with K9 methylation, and that the K9me–K14ac modification defines a novel chromatin state enriched at SETDB1 binding sites.