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      Structural basis for the histone chaperone activity of Asf1.

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      Amino Acid Substitution, Cell Cycle Proteins, chemistry, genetics, metabolism, Chromatin, Crystallography, X-Ray, Dimerization, Gene Silencing, Histones, Models, Molecular, Molecular Chaperones, Nucleosomes, Protein Conformation, Protein Structure, Secondary, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins

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          Anti-silencing function 1 (Asf1) is a highly conserved chaperone of histones H3/H4 that assembles or disassembles chromatin during transcription, replication, and repair. The structure of the globular domain of Asf1 bound to H3/H4 determined by X-ray crystallography to a resolution of 1.7 Angstroms shows how Asf1 binds the H3/H4 heterodimer, enveloping the C terminus of histone H3 and physically blocking formation of the H3/H4 heterotetramer. Unexpectedly, the C terminus of histone H4 that forms a mini-beta sheet with histone H2A in the nucleosome undergoes a major conformational change upon binding to Asf1 and adds a beta strand to the Asf1 beta sheet sandwich. Interactions with both H3 and H4 were required for Asf1 histone chaperone function in vivo and in vitro. The Asf1-H3/H4 structure suggests a "strand-capture" mechanism whereby the H4 tail acts as a lever to facilitate chromatin disassembly/assembly that may be used ubiquitously by histone chaperones.

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