Cloning, expression pattern and mapping to Xq of NAP1 L3, a gene encoding a peptide homologous to human and yeast nucleosome assembly proteins

1996 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 281-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.K. Watanabe ◽  
T. Fujiwara ◽  
Y. Nakamura ◽  
Y. Hirai ◽  
H. Maekawa ◽  
...  
2000 ◽  
Vol 20 (23) ◽  
pp. 8933-8943 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noriko Shikama ◽  
Ho Man Chan ◽  
Marija Krstic-Demonacos ◽  
Linda Smith ◽  
Chang-Woo Lee ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT The p300/CREB-binding protein (CBP) family of proteins consists of coactivators that influence the activity of a wide variety of transcription factors. Although the mechanisms that allow p300/CBP proteins to achieve transcriptional control are not clear, it is believed that the regulation of chromatin is an important aspect of the process. Here, we describe a new level of p300-dependent control mediated through the functional interaction between p300/CBP and members of the family of nucleosome assembly proteins (NAP), which includes NAP1, NAP2, and TAF1. We find that NAP proteins, which have previously been implicated in the regulation of transcription factor binding to chromatin, augment the activity of different p300 targets, including p53 and E2F, through a process that is likely to involve the physical interaction between p300 and NAP. NAP proteins can form oligomers, and the results show that NAP proteins can bind to both core histones and p300 coactivator proteins, perhaps in a multicomponent ternary complex. We also provide data in support of the idea that histones can influence the interaction between p300 and NAP protein. These results argue that NAP is a functionally important component of the p300 coactivator complex and suggest that NAP may serve as a point of integration between transcriptional coactivators and chromatin.


Blood ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 106 (2) ◽  
pp. 514-520 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Abu-Daya ◽  
Wendy M. Steer ◽  
Alexandra F. Trollope ◽  
Christine E. Friedeberg ◽  
Roger K. Patient ◽  
...  

Abstract Nucleosome assembly proteins (NAPs) bind core histones, facilitate chromatin remodeling, and can act as transcriptional coactivators. We previously described the isolation of a Xenopus NAP1-like (xNAP1L) cDNA, which encodes a member of this protein family. Its zygotic expression is restricted to neural cells, the outer cells of the ventral blood island (VBIs), and the ectoderm overlying the blood precursors. Here, we report that depletion of zygotic xNAP1L in embryos produces no obvious morphologic phenotype, but ablates α-globin mRNA expression in the VBIs. Transcript levels of the hematopoietic precursor genes SCL and Xaml (Runx-1) are also reduced in the VBIs. SCL expression can be rescued by injection of xNAP1L mRNA into the ectoderm, showing that the effect of xNAP1L can be non–cell autonomous. Fli1 and Hex, genes expressed in hemangioblasts but subsequently endothelial markers, were unaffected, suggesting that xNAP1L is required for the hematopoietic lineage specifically. Our data are consistent with a requirement for xNAP1L upstream of SCL, and injection of SCL mRNA into xNAP1L-depleted embryos rescues α-globin expression. Thus, xNAP1L, which belongs to a family of proteins previously believed to have general roles, has a specific function in hematopoiesis.


Gene ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 280 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 107-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norihito Nishiyama ◽  
Shun Sawatsubashi ◽  
Masaki Ishida ◽  
Kiyoshi Yamauchi

2007 ◽  
Vol 27 (17) ◽  
pp. 6093-6102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikaël Attia ◽  
Christophe Rachez ◽  
Antoine De Pauw ◽  
Philip Avner ◽  
Ute Christine Rogner

ABSTRACT The deletion of the neuronal Nap1l2 (nucleosome assembly protein 1-like 2) gene in mice causes neural tube defects. We demonstrate here that this phenotype correlates with deficiencies in differentiation and increased maintenance of the neural stem cell stage. Nap1l2 associates with chromatin and interacts with histones H3 and H4. Loss of Nap1l2 results in decreased histone acetylation activity, leading to transcriptional changes in differentiating neurons, which include the marked downregulation of the Cdkn1c (cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 1c) gene. Cdkn1c expression normally increases during neuronal differentiation, and this correlates with the specific recruitment of the Nap1l2 protein and an increase in acetylated histone H3K9/14 at the site of Cdkn1c transcription. These results lead us to suggest that the Nap1l2 protein plays an important role in regulating transcription in developing neurons via the control of histone acetylation. Our data support the idea that neuronal nucleosome assembly proteins mediate cell-type-specific mechanisms of establishment/modification of a chromatin-permissive state that can affect neurogenesis and neuronal survival.


2001 ◽  
Vol 126 (2) ◽  
pp. 910-920 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Sampedro ◽  
Carmen Sieiro ◽  
Gloria Revilla ◽  
Tomás González-Villa ◽  
Ignacio Zarra

1996 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 214-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.K. Watanabe ◽  
F. Shimizu ◽  
M. Nagata ◽  
A. Takaichi ◽  
T. Fujiwara ◽  
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