Journal: Communications Chemistry
Article Title: Human O- GlcNAcase catalytic-stalk dimer anchors flexible histone binding domains
doi: 10.1038/s42004-025-01813-7
Figure Lengend Snippet: Potential binding sites of the pHAT domains to nucleosomes, highlighting proximity and spacing of the H3K36 residues ( a ) as well as the H3K36 and H4K 5,8,12, and 16 residues ( b ) in the nucleosome (PDBID:1kx5: gray). OGA is colored by domain: catalytic domain, dark blue; stalk, yellow; linker, and HAT-like domain: green. The distance between K36 residues (red) is 73.5 Å, and the total distance between pHAT densities is 107 Å (green). The distance between the K36 residue and the H4K 5,8,12,16 is 72.8 Å (pink). c OGA-L pHAT binding to histone modifications such as H3K36 Me and acetylated H4 tails would facilitate recruitment to sites of active transcription and DNA repair. The structural features identified for OGA-L are likely to increase the local concentration of tihe OGA-L and allow flexible movement of the catalytic domain to facilitate O- GlcNAc removal from proteins in proximity. The OGA model is shown with unstructured linkers added from the Alphafold2 colored by domain: catalytic domain, dark blue; stalk, yellow; linker, and pHAT domain, green.
Article Snippet: Additional data compared in this study from the protein databank: Alphafold2 Multimer, PDB ID: 5M7R, PDB ID: 5VVO, PDB ID:5UHK, PDB ID: 5M7S, PDBID:5UN9, PDB ID:5UHL, PDB ID: 5M7T, PDB ID: 5UHO, PDB ID: 8P0L, PDB ID: 9BA8, 9BA9, PDB ID: 1KX5 .
Techniques: Binding Assay, Residue, Concentration Assay