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  1. Article ; Online: The effect of DNA CpG methylation on the dynamic conformation of a nucleosome.

    Jimenez-Useche, Isabel / Yuan, Chongli

    Biophysical journal

    2012  Volume 103, Issue 12, Page(s) 2502–2512

    Abstract: DNA methylation is an important epigenetic mark that is known to induce chromatin condensation and gene silencing. We used a time-domain fluorescence lifetime measurement to quantify the effects of DNA hypermethylation on the conformation and dynamics of ...

    Abstract DNA methylation is an important epigenetic mark that is known to induce chromatin condensation and gene silencing. We used a time-domain fluorescence lifetime measurement to quantify the effects of DNA hypermethylation on the conformation and dynamics of a nucleosome. Nucleosomes reconstituted on an unmethylated and a methylated DNA both exhibit dynamic conformations under physiological conditions. The DNA end breathing motion and the H2A-H2B dimer destabilization dominate the dynamic behavior of nucleosomes at low to medium ionic strength. Extensive DNA CpG methylation, surprisingly, does not help to restrain the DNA breathing motion, but facilitates the formation of a more open nucleosome conformation. The presence of the divalent cation, Mg(2+), essential for chromatin compaction, and the methyl donor molecule SAM, required for DNA methyltransferase reaction, facilitate the compaction of both types of nucleosomes. The difference between the unmethylated and the methylated nucleosome persists within a broad range of salt concentrations, but vanishes under high magnesium concentrations. Reduced DNA backbone rigidity due to the presence of methyl groups is believed to contribute to the observed structural and dynamic differences. The observation of this study suggests that DNA methylation alone does not compact chromatin at the nucleosomal level and provides molecular details to understand the regulatory role of DNA methylation in gene expression.
    MeSH term(s) Base Sequence ; CpG Islands/genetics ; DNA/genetics ; DNA Methylation/drug effects ; Magnesium/pharmacology ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Movement/drug effects ; Nucleosomes/chemistry ; Nucleosomes/drug effects ; Nucleosomes/metabolism ; Protein Conformation/drug effects ; S-Adenosylmethionine/pharmacology
    Chemical Substances Nucleosomes ; S-Adenosylmethionine (7LP2MPO46S) ; DNA (9007-49-2) ; Magnesium (I38ZP9992A)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2012-12-18
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 218078-9
    ISSN 1542-0086 ; 0006-3495
    ISSN (online) 1542-0086
    ISSN 0006-3495
    DOI 10.1016/j.bpj.2012.11.012
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  2. Article ; Online: Unmethylated and methylated CpG dinucleotides distinctively regulate the physical properties of DNA.

    Jimenez-Useche, Isabel / Shim, Daphne / Yu, Jianger / Yuan, Chongli

    Biopolymers

    2014  Volume 101, Issue 5, Page(s) 517–524

    Abstract: In eukaryotic cells, DNA has to bend significantly to pack inside the nucleus. Physical properties of DNA such as bending flexibility and curvature are expected to affect DNA packaging and partially determine the nucleosome positioning patterns inside a ... ...

    Abstract In eukaryotic cells, DNA has to bend significantly to pack inside the nucleus. Physical properties of DNA such as bending flexibility and curvature are expected to affect DNA packaging and partially determine the nucleosome positioning patterns inside a cell. DNA CpG methylation, the most common epigenetic modification found in DNA, is known to affect the physical properties of DNA. However, its detailed role in nucleosome formation is less well-established. In this study, we evaluated the effect of defined CpG patterns (unmethylated and methylated) on DNA structure and their respective nucleosome-forming ability. Our results suggest that the addition of CpG dinucleotides, either as a (CG)n stretch or (CGX8 )n repeats at 10 bp intervals, lead to reduced hydrodynamic radius and decreased nucleosome-forming ability of DNA. This effect is more predominant for a DNA stretch ((CG)5) located in the middle of a DNA fragment. Methylation of CpG sites, surprisingly, seems to reduce the difference in DNA structure and nucleosome-forming ability among DNA constructs with different CpG patterns. Our results suggest that unmethylated and methylated CpG patterns can play very different roles in regulating the physical properties of DNA. CpG methylation seems to reduce the DNA conformational variations affiliated with defined CpG patterns. Our results can have significant bearings in understanding the nucleosome positioning pattern in living organisms modulated by DNA sequences and epigenetic features.
    MeSH term(s) DNA/chemistry ; DNA Methylation ; Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel ; Models, Molecular ; Nucleosomes/metabolism ; Oligodeoxyribonucleotides/metabolism
    Chemical Substances CPG-oligonucleotide ; Nucleosomes ; Oligodeoxyribonucleotides ; DNA (9007-49-2)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2014-05
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 1123-x
    ISSN 1097-0282 ; 0006-3525
    ISSN (online) 1097-0282
    ISSN 0006-3525
    DOI 10.1002/bip.22411
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  3. Article: The Effect of DNA CpG Methylation on the Dynamic Conformation of a Nucleosome

    Jimenez-Useche, Isabel / Yuan, Chongli

    Biophysical journal. 2012 Dec. 19, v. 103, no. 12

    2012  

    Abstract: DNA methylation is an important epigenetic mark that is known to induce chromatin condensation and gene silencing. We used a time-domain fluorescence lifetime measurement to quantify the effects of DNA hypermethylation on the conformation and dynamics of ...

    Abstract DNA methylation is an important epigenetic mark that is known to induce chromatin condensation and gene silencing. We used a time-domain fluorescence lifetime measurement to quantify the effects of DNA hypermethylation on the conformation and dynamics of a nucleosome. Nucleosomes reconstituted on an unmethylated and a methylated DNA both exhibit dynamic conformations under physiological conditions. The DNA end breathing motion and the H2A-H2B dimer destabilization dominate the dynamic behavior of nucleosomes at low to medium ionic strength. Extensive DNA CpG methylation, surprisingly, does not help to restrain the DNA breathing motion, but facilitates the formation of a more open nucleosome conformation. The presence of the divalent cation, Mg2+, essential for chromatin compaction, and the methyl donor molecule SAM, required for DNA methyltransferase reaction, facilitate the compaction of both types of nucleosomes. The difference between the unmethylated and the methylated nucleosome persists within a broad range of salt concentrations, but vanishes under high magnesium concentrations. Reduced DNA backbone rigidity due to the presence of methyl groups is believed to contribute to the observed structural and dynamic differences. The observation of this study suggests that DNA methylation alone does not compact chromatin at the nucleosomal level and provides molecular details to understand the regulatory role of DNA methylation in gene expression.
    Keywords DNA ; DNA methylation ; epigenetics ; fluorescence ; gene expression ; gene silencing ; ionic strength ; magnesium ; nucleosomes ; observational studies ; salt concentration
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2012-1219
    Size p. 2502-2512.
    Publishing place Elsevier Inc.
    Document type Article
    ZDB-ID 218078-9
    ISSN 1542-0086 ; 0006-3495
    ISSN (online) 1542-0086
    ISSN 0006-3495
    DOI 10.1016/j.bpj.2012.11.012
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  4. Article ; Online: Clipping of flexible tails of histones H3 and H4 affects the structure and dynamics of the nucleosome.

    Nurse, Nathan P / Jimenez-Useche, Isabel / Smith, Ian Tad / Yuan, Chongli

    Biophysical journal

    2013  Volume 104, Issue 5, Page(s) 1081–1088

    Abstract: Förster resonance energy transfer was used to monitor the dynamic conformations of mononucleosomes under different chromatin folding conditions to elucidate the role of the flexible N-terminal regions of H3 and H4 histones. The H3 tail was shown to ... ...

    Abstract Förster resonance energy transfer was used to monitor the dynamic conformations of mononucleosomes under different chromatin folding conditions to elucidate the role of the flexible N-terminal regions of H3 and H4 histones. The H3 tail was shown to partake in intranucleosomal interactions by restricting the DNA breathing motion and compacting the nucleosome. The H3 tail effects were mostly independent of the ionic strength and valency of the ions. The H4 tail was shown to not greatly affect the nucleosome conformation, but did slightly influence the relative population of the preferred conformation. The role of the H4 tail varied depending on the valency and ionic strength, suggesting that electrostatic forces play a primary role in H4 tail interactions. Interestingly, despite the H4 tail's lack of influence, when H3 and H4 tails were simultaneously clipped, a more dramatic effect was seen than when only H3 or H4 tails were clipped. The combinatorial effect of H3 and H4 tail truncation suggests a potential mechanism by which various combinations of histone tail modifications can be used to control accessibility of DNA-binding proteins to nucleosomal DNA.
    MeSH term(s) Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; DNA/chemistry ; Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer ; Histones/chemistry ; Nucleosomes/chemistry ; Osmolar Concentration ; Protein Binding ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Recombinant Proteins/chemistry ; Sequence Deletion ; Static Electricity ; Xenopus laevis
    Chemical Substances Histones ; Nucleosomes ; Recombinant Proteins ; DNA (9007-49-2)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2013-03-06
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 218078-9
    ISSN 1542-0086 ; 0006-3495
    ISSN (online) 1542-0086
    ISSN 0006-3495
    DOI 10.1016/j.bpj.2013.01.019
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  5. Article ; Online: DNA methylation effects on tetra-nucleosome compaction and aggregation.

    Jimenez-Useche, Isabel / Nurse, Nathan P / Tian, Yuqing / Kansara, Bhargav S / Shim, Daphne / Yuan, Chongli

    Biophysical journal

    2014  Volume 107, Issue 7, Page(s) 1629–1636

    Abstract: DNA CpG methylation has been associated with chromatin compaction and gene silencing. Whether DNA methylation directly contributes to chromatin compaction remains an open question. In this study, we used fluorescence fluctuation spectroscopy (FFS) to ... ...

    Abstract DNA CpG methylation has been associated with chromatin compaction and gene silencing. Whether DNA methylation directly contributes to chromatin compaction remains an open question. In this study, we used fluorescence fluctuation spectroscopy (FFS) to evaluate the compaction and aggregation of tetra-nucleosomes containing specific CpG patterns and methylation levels. The compactness of both unmethylated and methylated tetra-nucleosomes is dependent on DNA sequences. Specifically, methylation of the CpG sites located in the central dyad and the major grooves of DNA seem to have opposite effects on modulating the compactness of tetra-nucleosomes. The interactions among tetra-nucleosomes, however, seem to be enhanced because of DNA methylation independent of sequence contexts. Our finding can shed light on understanding the role of DNA methylation in determining nucleosome positioning pattern and chromatin compactness.
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Base Sequence ; CpG Islands/genetics ; DNA Methylation/drug effects ; Gene Expression Regulation ; Magnesium/pharmacology ; Models, Molecular ; Nucleic Acid Conformation ; Nucleosomes/chemistry ; Nucleosomes/drug effects ; Nucleosomes/genetics ; Protein Aggregates/drug effects ; Protein Conformation ; Spectrometry, Fluorescence
    Chemical Substances Nucleosomes ; Protein Aggregates ; Magnesium (I38ZP9992A)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2014-10-08
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 218078-9
    ISSN 1542-0086 ; 0006-3495
    ISSN (online) 1542-0086
    ISSN 0006-3495
    DOI 10.1016/j.bpj.2014.05.055
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  6. Article ; Online: Elucidating internucleosome interactions and the roles of histone tails.

    Howell, Steven C / Andresen, Kurt / Jimenez-Useche, Isabel / Yuan, Chongli / Qiu, Xiangyun

    Biophysical journal

    2013  Volume 105, Issue 1, Page(s) 194–199

    Abstract: The nucleosome is the first level of genome organization and regulation in eukaryotes where negatively charged DNA is wrapped around largely positively charged histone proteins. Interaction between nucleosomes is dominated by electrostatics at long range ...

    Abstract The nucleosome is the first level of genome organization and regulation in eukaryotes where negatively charged DNA is wrapped around largely positively charged histone proteins. Interaction between nucleosomes is dominated by electrostatics at long range and guided by specific contacts at short range, particularly involving their flexible histone tails. We have thus quantified how internucleosome interactions are modulated by salts (KCl, MgCl2) and histone tail deletions (H3, H4 N-terminal), using small-angle x-ray scattering and theoretical modeling. We found that measured effective charges at low salts are ∼1/5th of the theoretically predicted renormalized charges and that H4 tail deletion suppresses the attraction at high salts to a larger extent than H3 tail deletion.
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Chickens ; Histones/chemistry ; Histones/metabolism ; Magnesium Chloride/pharmacology ; Nucleosomes/metabolism ; Potassium Chloride/pharmacology ; Protein Binding/drug effects ; Scattering, Small Angle ; Static Electricity ; X-Ray Diffraction
    Chemical Substances Histones ; Nucleosomes ; Magnesium Chloride (02F3473H9O) ; Potassium Chloride (660YQ98I10)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2013-07-04
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 218078-9
    ISSN 1542-0086 ; 0006-3495
    ISSN (online) 1542-0086
    ISSN 0006-3495
    DOI 10.1016/j.bpj.2013.05.021
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  7. Article ; Online: Solution scattering and FRET studies on nucleosomes reveal DNA unwrapping effects of H3 and H4 tail removal.

    Andresen, Kurt / Jimenez-Useche, Isabel / Howell, Steven C / Yuan, Chongli / Qiu, Xiangyun

    PloS one

    2013  Volume 8, Issue 11, Page(s) e78587

    Abstract: Using a combination of small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) measurements we have determined the role of the H3 and H4 histone tails, independently, in stabilizing the nucleosome DNA terminal ends from ... ...

    Abstract Using a combination of small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) measurements we have determined the role of the H3 and H4 histone tails, independently, in stabilizing the nucleosome DNA terminal ends from unwrapping from the nucleosome core. We have performed solution scattering experiments on recombinant wild-type, H3 and H4 tail-removed mutants and fit all scattering data with predictions from PDB models and compared these experiments to complementary DNA-end FRET experiments. Based on these combined SAXS and FRET studies, we find that while all nucleosomes exhibited DNA unwrapping, the extent of this unwrapping is increased for nucleosomes with the H3 tails removed but, surprisingly, decreased in nucleosomes with the H4 tails removed. Studies of salt concentration effects show a minimum amount of DNA unwrapping for all complexes around 50-100mM of monovalent ions. These data exhibit opposite roles for the positively-charged nucleosome tails, with the ability to decrease access (in the case of the H3 histone) or increase access (in the case of the H4 histone) to the DNA surrounding the nucleosome. In the range of salt concentrations studied (0-200mM KCl), the data point to the H4 tail-removed mutant at physiological (50-100mM) monovalent salt concentration as the mononucleosome with the least amount of DNA unwrapping.
    MeSH term(s) DNA/chemistry ; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug ; Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer ; Histones/chemistry ; Models, Molecular ; Nucleosomes/chemistry ; Nucleosomes/drug effects ; Potassium Chloride/pharmacology ; Protein Conformation/drug effects ; Scattering, Small Angle ; Solutions ; X-Ray Diffraction
    Chemical Substances Histones ; Nucleosomes ; Solutions ; Potassium Chloride (660YQ98I10) ; DNA (9007-49-2)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2013-11-12
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ISSN 1932-6203
    ISSN (online) 1932-6203
    DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0078587
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  8. Article ; Online: DNA methylation regulated nucleosome dynamics.

    Jimenez-Useche, Isabel / Ke, Jiaying / Tian, Yuqing / Shim, Daphne / Howell, Steven C / Qiu, Xiangyun / Yuan, Chongli

    Scientific reports

    2013  Volume 3, Page(s) 2121

    Abstract: A strong correlation between nucleosome positioning and DNA methylation patterns has been reported in literature. However, the mechanistic model accounting for the correlation remains elusive. In this study, we evaluated the effects of specific DNA ... ...

    Abstract A strong correlation between nucleosome positioning and DNA methylation patterns has been reported in literature. However, the mechanistic model accounting for the correlation remains elusive. In this study, we evaluated the effects of specific DNA methylation patterns on modulating nucleosome conformation and stability using FRET and SAXS. CpG dinucleotide repeats at 10 bp intervals were found to play different roles in nucleosome stability dependent on their methylation states and their relative nucleosomal locations. An additional (CpG)5 stretch located in the nucleosomal central dyad does not alter the nucleosome conformation, but significant conformational differences were observed between the unmethylated and methylated nucleosomes. These findings suggest that the correlation between nucleosome positioning and DNA methylation patterns can arise from the variations in nucleosome stability dependent on their sequence and epigenetic content. This knowledge will help to reveal the detailed role of DNA methylation in regulating chromatin packaging and gene transcription.
    MeSH term(s) CpG Islands ; DNA Methylation ; Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer ; Nucleosomes/metabolism ; Scattering, Small Angle
    Chemical Substances Nucleosomes
    Language English
    Publishing date 2013-07-02
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2615211-3
    ISSN 2045-2322 ; 2045-2322
    ISSN (online) 2045-2322
    ISSN 2045-2322
    DOI 10.1038/srep02121
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  9. Article ; Online: Solution scattering and FRET studies on nucleosomes reveal DNA unwrapping effects of H3 and H4 tail removal.

    Kurt Andresen / Isabel Jimenez-Useche / Steven C Howell / Chongli Yuan / Xiangyun Qiu

    PLoS ONE, Vol 8, Iss 11, p e

    2013  Volume 78587

    Abstract: Using a combination of small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) measurements we have determined the role of the H3 and H4 histone tails, independently, in stabilizing the nucleosome DNA terminal ends from ... ...

    Abstract Using a combination of small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) measurements we have determined the role of the H3 and H4 histone tails, independently, in stabilizing the nucleosome DNA terminal ends from unwrapping from the nucleosome core. We have performed solution scattering experiments on recombinant wild-type, H3 and H4 tail-removed mutants and fit all scattering data with predictions from PDB models and compared these experiments to complementary DNA-end FRET experiments. Based on these combined SAXS and FRET studies, we find that while all nucleosomes exhibited DNA unwrapping, the extent of this unwrapping is increased for nucleosomes with the H3 tails removed but, surprisingly, decreased in nucleosomes with the H4 tails removed. Studies of salt concentration effects show a minimum amount of DNA unwrapping for all complexes around 50-100mM of monovalent ions. These data exhibit opposite roles for the positively-charged nucleosome tails, with the ability to decrease access (in the case of the H3 histone) or increase access (in the case of the H4 histone) to the DNA surrounding the nucleosome. In the range of salt concentrations studied (0-200mM KCl), the data point to the H4 tail-removed mutant at physiological (50-100mM) monovalent salt concentration as the mononucleosome with the least amount of DNA unwrapping.
    Keywords Medicine ; R ; Science ; Q
    Subject code 612
    Language English
    Publishing date 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
    Document type Article ; Online
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  10. Article: Elucidating Internucleosome Interactions and the Roles of Histone Tails

    Howell, Steven C / Andresen, Kurt / Jimenez-Useche, Isabel / Yuan, Chongli / Qiu, Xiangyun

    Biophysical journal. 2013 July 2, v. 105, no. 1

    2013  

    Abstract: The nucleosome is the first level of genome organization and regulation in eukaryotes where negatively charged DNA is wrapped around largely positively charged histone proteins. Interaction between nucleosomes is dominated by electrostatics at long range ...

    Abstract The nucleosome is the first level of genome organization and regulation in eukaryotes where negatively charged DNA is wrapped around largely positively charged histone proteins. Interaction between nucleosomes is dominated by electrostatics at long range and guided by specific contacts at short range, particularly involving their flexible histone tails. We have thus quantified how internucleosome interactions are modulated by salts (KCl, MgCl2) and histone tail deletions (H3, H4 N-terminal), using small-angle x-ray scattering and theoretical modeling. We found that measured effective charges at low salts are ∼1/5th of the theoretically predicted renormalized charges and that H4 tail deletion suppresses the attraction at high salts to a larger extent than H3 tail deletion.
    Keywords DNA ; X-radiation ; eukaryotic cells ; genome ; histones ; magnesium chloride ; models ; nucleosomes ; potassium chloride
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2013-0702
    Size p. 194-199.
    Publishing place Elsevier Inc.
    Document type Article
    ZDB-ID 218078-9
    ISSN 1542-0086 ; 0006-3495
    ISSN (online) 1542-0086
    ISSN 0006-3495
    DOI 10.1016/j.bpj.2013.05.021
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