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Structure of SWI/SNF chromatin remodeller RSC bound to a nucleosome

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Dienemann,  C.
Department of Molecular Biology, MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Max Planck Society;

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Wang,  H.
Department of Molecular Biology, MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Max Planck Society;

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Stützer,  A.
Research Group of Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry, MPI for biophysical chemistry, Max Planck Society;

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Tegunov,  D.
Department of Molecular Biology, MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Max Planck Society;

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Urlaub,  H.
Research Group of Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry, MPI for biophysical chemistry, Max Planck Society;

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Cramer,  P.
Department of Molecular Biology, MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Max Planck Society;

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Wagner, F. R, Dienemann, C., Wang, H., Stützer, A., Tegunov, D., Urlaub, H., et al. (2020). Structure of SWI/SNF chromatin remodeller RSC bound to a nucleosome. Nature, 579(7799), 448-451. doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2088-0.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0006-8EDD-2
Abstract
Chromatin-remodelling complexes of the SWI/SNF family function in the formation of nucleosome-depleted, transcriptionally active promoter regions (NDRs)1,2. In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the essential SWI/SNF complex RSC3 contains 16 subunits, including the ATP-dependent DNA translocase Sth14,5. RSC removes nucleosomes from promoter regions6,7 and positions the specialized +1 and −1 nucleosomes that flank NDRs8,9. Here we present the cryo-electron microscopy structure of RSC in complex with a nucleosome substrate. The structure reveals that RSC forms five protein modules and suggests key features of the remodelling mechanism. The body module serves as a scaffold for the four flexible modules that we call DNA-interacting, ATPase, arm and actin-related protein (ARP) modules. The DNA-interacting module binds extra-nucleosomal DNA and is involved in the recognition of promoter DNA elements8,10,11 that influence RSC functionality12. The ATPase and arm modules sandwich the nucleosome disc with the Snf2 ATP-coupling (SnAC) domain and the finger helix, respectively. The translocase motor of the ATPase module engages with the edge of the nucleosome at superhelical location +2. The mobile ARP module may modulate translocase–nucleosome interactions to regulate RSC activity5. The RSC–nucleosome structure provides a basis for understanding NDR formation and the structure and function of human SWI/SNF complexes that are frequently mutated in cancer13.