Archaeal chromatin proteins histone HMtB and Alba have lost DNA-binding ability in laboratory strains of Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus.

Extremophiles : Life Under Extreme Conditions
K SandmanJ N Reeve

Abstract

Alignments of the sequences of the all members of the archaeal histone and Alba1 families of chromatin proteins identified isoleucine residues, I19 in HMtB and I39 in MtAlba, in Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus, at locations predicted to be directly involved in DNA binding. In all other HMfB family members, residue 19 is an arginine (R19), and either arginine or lysine is present in almost all other Alba1 family members at the structural site equivalent to I39 in MtAlba. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays revealed that recombinant HMtB and MtAlba do not bind DNA, but variants constructed with R19 and R39, respectively, bound DNA; and whereas MtAlba(I19) did not bind RNA, MtAlba(R19) bound both single stranded RNA and tRNA. Amplification and sequencing of MT0254 (encodes HMtB) and MT1483 (encodes MtAlba) from several Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus lineages has revealed that HMtB and MtAlba had arginine residues at positions 19 and 39, respectively, in the original isolate and that spontaneous mutations must have occurred, and been fixed, in some laboratory lineages that now have HMtB(I19) and MtAlba(I39). The retention of these variants suggests some continuing functions and fusion of the HMtB(I19) sequence to H...Continue Reading

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