Eukaryotic chromodomains

The chromatin organization modifier (chromodomain) is a protein domain of 40-50 amino acids involved in chromatin remodeling and regulation of gene expression in eukaryotes (Koonin, Zhou and Lucchesi 1995; Cavalli and Paro 1998). Examples of chromodomains are for instance, the Drosophila melanogaster Heterochromatin Protein 1 (HP1), the Histone acetyltransferase MOF, the protein Polycomb (PC), and the Suppressor of variegation (Suvar).

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Chromodomains have been identified in a variety of proteins that play a role in chromatin modification, including factors that activate and repress transcription. Several studies have demonstrated that chromodomains are responsible for chromatin targeting and for interactions between different proteins as a stand-alone protein interaction module (Cowell and Austin 1997; Strutt and Paro 1997; Lachner et al. 2001, as a RNA-binding module (Akhtar et al. 2000), and most recently, as a DNA-binding module (Bouazoune et al. 2002). Accounting that the chromodomain confers binding specificity to chromatin, these functions may in fact be interdependent (Kelley et al. 1999). Also, a second chromodomain motif termed chromoshadow domain has been described at the C-terminal end of several chromodomain-containing proteins such as HP1 (Aasland and Stewart 1995).

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Llorens, C., Futami, R., Covelli, L., Dominguez-Escriba, L., Viu, J.M., Tamarit, D., Aguilar-Rodriguez, J. Vicente-Ripolles, M., Fuster, G., Bernet, G.P., Maumus, F., Munoz-Pomer, A., Sempere, J.M., LaTorre, A., Moya, A. (2011) The Gypsy Database (GyDB) of Mobile Genetic Elements: Release 2.0 Nucleic Acids Research (NARESE) 39 (suppl 1): D70-D74 doi: 10.1093/nar/gkq1061

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