Histone acetylation is required in many cellular processes including transcription, DNA repair, and chromatin assembly. This family contains the fungal KAT11 protein (previously known as RTT109) which is required for H3K56 acetylation. Loss of KAT11 ...
Histone acetylation is required in many cellular processes including transcription, DNA repair, and chromatin assembly. This family contains the fungal KAT11 protein (previously known as RTT109) which is required for H3K56 acetylation. Loss of KAT11 results in the loss of H3K56 acetylation, both on bulk histone and on chromatin [1]. KAT11 and H3K56 acetylation appear to correlate with actively transcribed genes and associate with the elongating form of Pol II in yeast [1]. This family also incorporates the p300/CBP histone acetyltransferase domain which has different catalytic properties and cofactor regulation to KAT11 [3].
CENP-T is a family of vertebral kinetochore proteins that associates directly with CENP-W. The N-terminus of CENP-T proteins interacts directly with the Ndc80 complex in the outer kinetochore. Importantly, the CENP-T-W complex does not directly asso ...
CENP-T is a family of vertebral kinetochore proteins that associates directly with CENP-W. The N-terminus of CENP-T proteins interacts directly with the Ndc80 complex in the outer kinetochore. Importantly, the CENP-T-W complex does not directly associate with CENP-A, but with histone H3 in the centromere region. CENP-T and -W form a hetero-tetramer with CENP-S and -X and bind to a ~100 bp region of nucleosome-free DNA forming a nucleosome-like structure. The DNA-CENP-T-W-S-X complex is likely to be associated with histone H3-containing nucleosomes rather than with CENP-nucleosomes. This domain is the C-terminal histone fold domain of CENP-T, which associates with chromatin [2-3].
