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==Crystal structure of nucleosome core particle consisting of human testis-specific histone variants, Th2A and Th2B==
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== Structural highlights ==
<table><tr><td colspan='2'>[[5gsu]] is a 10 chain structure with sequence from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_sapiens Homo sapiens]. Full crystallographic information is available from [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocashort?id=5GSU OCA]. For a <b>guided tour on the structure components</b> use [https://proteopedia.org/fgij/fg.htm?mol=5GSU FirstGlance]. <br>
</td></tr><tr id='method'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>[[Empirical_models|Method:]]</b></td><td class="sblockDat" id="methodDat">X-ray diffraction, [[Resolution|Resolution]] 3.1&#8491;</td></tr>
<tr id='ligand'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>[[Ligand|Ligands:]]</b></td><td class="sblockDat" id="ligandDat"><scene name='pdbligand=CL:CHLORIDE+ION'>CL</scene>, <scene name='pdbligand=MN:MANGANESE+(II)+ION'>MN</scene></td></tr>
<tr id='resources'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>Resources:</b></td><td class="sblockDat"><span class='plainlinks'>[https://proteopedia.org/fgij/fg.htm?mol=5gsu FirstGlance], [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocaids?id=5gsu OCA], [https://pdbe.org/5gsu PDBe], [https://www.rcsb.org/pdb/explore.do?structureId=5gsu RCSB], [https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbsum/5gsu PDBsum], [https://prosat.h-its.org/prosat/prosatexe?pdbcode=5gsu ProSAT]</span></td></tr>
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== Function ==
[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/H31_HUMAN H31_HUMAN] 
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== Publication Abstract from PubMed ==
Th2a and Th2b are the testis-specific histone variants highly expressed during spermatogenesis. Approximately 4% of the genome is retained in nucleosomes in mature human sperm, which is enriched at loci of developmental importance. Our recent studies revealed that the mouse histone variant homologs TH2a and TH2b are involved in reprogramming. In the present work, we report three nucleosome structures (NCPs) with human testis-specific histone variants hTh2a and hTh2b, [hGcH (hTh2a-hTh2b-H3-H4), hGcHV1 (hTh2a-H2b-H3-H4) and hGcHV2 (H2a-hTh2b-H3-H4)] and a 146-base pair (bp) duplex DNA fragment at ~3.0A resolutions. These crystal structures revealed two major changes within the nucleosomes, either with hTh2a, hTh2b or both variants, as compared to the canonical counterpart. First, the H-bonding interactions between the L1-L1' interfaces mediated by the hTh2a/hTh2a' L1-loops are lost. Second, the histone dimer-DNA contacts are considerably reduced, and these changes are localized around +/-31 to 35-bp from the nucleosome entry/exit sites. Thus, the modified functional residues at the N- and C-terminal ends of histone variants are responsible for the observed structural changes and regulate the gene expression through specific structural alterations in the chromatin by modulating the chromatin-associated binding proteins.

Structural analyses of the nucleosome complexes with human testis-specific histone variants, hTh2a and hTh2b.,Padavattan S, Thiruselvam V, Shinagawa T, Hasegawa K, Kumasaka T, Ishii S, Kumarevel T Biophys Chem. 2017 Feb;221:41-48. doi: 10.1016/j.bpc.2016.11.013. Epub 2016 Dec, 5. PMID:27992841<ref>PMID:27992841</ref>

From MEDLINE&reg;/PubMed&reg;, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.<br>
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==See Also==
*[[Histone 3D structures|Histone 3D structures]]
== References ==
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[[Category: Homo sapiens]]
[[Category: Large Structures]]
[[Category: Kumarevel T]]
[[Category: Sivaraman P]]