Biological Assembly 1  

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Global Symmetry: Asymmetric - C1 
Global Stoichiometry: Hetero 3-mer - ABC Pseudo Symmetry: Asymmetric - C1 
Pseudo Stoichiometry: Hetero 3-mer -A2B 

Biological assembly 1 assigned by authors and generated by PISA (software)

Macromolecule Content

• Total Structure Weight: 40400.03 
• Atom Count: 1865 
• Residue Count: 340 
• Unique protein chains: 3

3R45

Structure of a CENP-A-Histone H4 Heterodimer in complex with chaperone HJURP

• DOI: 10.2210/pdb3R45/pdb

• Classification: NUCLEAR PROTEIN
• Organism(s): Homo sapiens
• Expression System: Escherichia coli


• Deposited: 2011-03-17 Released: 2011-04-06 
• Deposition Author(s): Hu, H., Liu, Y., Wang, M., Fang, J., Huang, H., Yang, N., Li, Y., Wang, J., Yao, X., Shi, Y., Li, G., Xu, R.M.

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Experimental Data Snapshot

• Method: X-RAY DIFFRACTION
• Resolution: 2.6 Å
• R-Value Free: 0.245 
• R-Value Work: 0.185 

Literature

Structure of a CENP-A-histone H4 heterodimer in complex with chaperone HJURP

Hu, H., Liu, Y., Wang, M., Fang, J., Huang, H., Yang, N., Li, Y., Wang, J., Yao, X., Shi, Y., Li, G., Xu, R.M.

(2011) Genes Dev. 25: 901-906

• PubMed: 21478274 
• DOI: 10.1101/gad.2045111


• PubMed Abstract: 
  

In higher eukaryotes, the centromere is epigenetically specified by the histone H3 variant Centromere Protein-A (CENP-A). Deposition of CENP-A to the centromere requires histone chaperone HJURP (Holliday junction recognition protein). The crystal structure of an HJURP-CENP-A-histone H4 complex shows that HJURP binds a CENP-A-H4 heterodimer. The C-terminal β-sheet domain of HJURP caps the DNA-binding region of the histone heterodimer, preventing it from spontaneous association with DNA. Our analysis also revealed a novel site in CENP-A that distinguishes it from histone H3 in its ability to bind HJURP. These findings provide key information for specific recognition of CENP-A and mechanistic insights into the process of centromeric chromatin assembly.

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Organizational Affiliation: 

National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.

Macromolecules

Find similar proteins by: Sequence  |  Structure

Entity ID: 1
Molecule	Chains	Sequence Length	Organism	Details
Histone H3-like centromeric protein A	A	156	Homo sapiens	Mutation(s): 0  Gene Names: CENPA
Find proteins for P49450 (Homo sapiens) Go to Gene View: CENPA Go to UniProtKB:  P49450

Entity ID: 2
Molecule	Chains	Sequence Length	Organism	Details
Histone H4	B	103	Homo sapiens	Mutation(s): 0  Gene Names: HIST1H4A, HIST1H4B, HIST1H4C, HIST1H4D, HIST1H4E, HIST1H4F, HIST1H4H, HIST1H4I, HIST1H4J, HIST1H4K, HIST1H4L, HIST2H4A, HIST2H4B, HIST4H4 (H4/A, H4FA, H4/I, H4FI, H4/G, H4FG, H4/B, H4FB, H4/J, H4FJ, H4/C, H4FC, H4/H, H4FH, H4/M, H4FM, H4/E, H4FE, H4/D, H4FD, H4/K, H4FK, H4/N, H4F2, H4FN, HIST2H4, H4/O, H4FO)
Find proteins for P62805 (Homo sapiens) Go to Gene View: HIST1H4A HIST1H4B HIST1H4C HIST1H4D HIST1H4E HIST1H4F HIST1H4H HIST1H4I HIST1H4J HIST1H4K HIST1H4L HIST2H4A HIST2H4B HIST4H4 Go to UniProtKB:  P62805

Entity ID: 3
Molecule	Chains	Sequence Length	Organism	Details
Holliday junction recognition protein	C	81	Homo sapiens	Mutation(s): 0  Gene Names: HJURP (FAKTS, FLEG1, URLC9)
Find proteins for Q8NCD3 (Homo sapiens) Go to Gene View: HJURP Go to UniProtKB:  Q8NCD3

Small Molecules

Ligands 2 Unique
ID	Chains	Name / Formula / InChI Key	2D Diagram & Interactions
SO4	A, B, C	SULFATE ION O4 S QAOWNCQODCNURD-UHFFFAOYSA-L
GOL	A, B, C	GLYCEROL GLYCERIN; PROPANE-1,2,3-TRIOL C3 H8 O3 PEDCQBHIVMGVHV-UHFFFAOYSA-N

Experimental Data & Validation

Experimental Data

• Method: X-RAY DIFFRACTION
• Resolution: 2.6 Å
• R-Value Free: 0.245 
• R-Value Work: 0.185 
• Space Group: P 3 1 2

Unit Cell:

Length (Å)	Angle (°)
a = 83.941	α = 90.00
b = 83.941	β = 90.00
c = 86.773	γ = 120.00

Software Package:

Software Name	Purpose
HKL-2000	data reduction
MOLREP	phasing
PHENIX	refinement
ADSC	data collection
HKL-2000	data scaling

Structure Validation

Entry History 

Deposition Data

• Deposited Date: 2011-03-17 
• Released Date: 2011-04-06 
• Deposition Author(s): Hu, H., Liu, Y., Wang, M., Fang, J., Huang, H., Yang, N., Li, Y., Wang, J., Yao, X., Shi, Y., Li, G., Xu, R.M.

Revision History 

• Version 1.0: 2011-04-06
  Type: Initial release
• Version 1.1: 2011-07-13
  Type: Version format compliance
• Version 1.2: 2011-12-28
  Type: Database references