Formation of nucleoprotein filaments by mammalian DNA methyltransferase Dnmt3a in complex with regulator Dnmt3L

Jurkowska, Renata Z. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4507-2222, Anspach, Nils, Urbanke, Claus, Jia, Da, Reinhardt, Richard, Nellen, Wolfgang, Cheng, Xiaodong and Jeltsch, Albert 2008. Formation of nucleoprotein filaments by mammalian DNA methyltransferase Dnmt3a in complex with regulator Dnmt3L. Nucleic Acids Research 36 (21) , 6656–6663. 10.1093/nar/gkn747

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Abstract

The C-terminal domains of Dnmt3a and Dnmt3L form elongated heterotetramers (3L-3a-3a-3L). Analytical ultracentrifugation confirmed the Dnmt3a-C/3L-C complex exists as a 2:2 heterotetramer in solution. The 3a–3a interface is the DNA-binding site, while both interfaces are essential for AdoMet binding and catalytic activity. Hairpin bisulfite analysis shows correlated methylation of two CG sites in a distance of ∼8-10 bp in the opposite DNA strands, which corresponds to the geometry of the two active sites in one Dnmt3a-C/3L-C tetramer. Correlated methylation was also observed for two CG sites at similar distances in the same DNA strand, which can be attributed to the binding of two tetramers next to each other. DNA-binding experiments show that Dnmt3a-C/3L-C complexes multimerize on the DNA. Scanning force microscopy demonstrates filament formation rather than binding of single tetramers and shows that protein–DNA filament formation leads to a 1.5-fold shortening of the DNA length.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Biosciences
Additional Information:	This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/2.0/uk/)
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISSN:	0305-1048
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	29 March 2021
Date of Acceptance:	3 October 2008
Last Modified:	05 May 2023 08:27
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/139265

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