Direct Physical and Functional Interaction of the NuA4 Complex Components Yaf9p and Swc4p
AUTOR(ES)
Bittner, Claudia B.
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
Saccharomyces cerevisiae Yaf9p and the mammalian leukemia-associated protein ENL share a high degree of similarity. To investigate the biological function of Yaf9p, this protein was used to search for interacting proteins in a two-hybrid system. Here, we demonstrate that Yaf9p binds directly to Swc4p, the yeast homolog of the mammalian DNA-methyltransferase-associated protein 1. Yaf9p and Swc4p associate through C-terminal domains, and both proteins coprecipitate in vitro in pull-down experiments and in vivo by immunoprecipitation. In living cells, Swc4p is present in a megadalton protein complex that shows a fractionation behavior in gel filtration similar to that of Esa1p, the histone acetyltransferase of the NuA4 complex. Recruitment of Yaf9p to DNA leads to promoter-specific transcriptional activation that can be inhibited by dominant negative Swc4p lacking the Yaf9p binding domain. Interference with Swc4p function also increases sensitivity to the microtubule toxin benomyl, a trait that corresponds to the known phenotype of a yaf9− knockout strain. In summary, the results suggest that Yaf9p and Swc4p form a protein pair that has a role in chromatin modification with possible implications also for the function of their mammalian counterparts.
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