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Identification of family determining residues in J umonji‐C lysine demethylases: A sequence‐based, family wide classification
Author(s) -
Slama Patrick
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
proteins: structure, function, and bioinformatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.699
H-Index - 191
eISSN - 1097-0134
pISSN - 0887-3585
DOI - 10.1002/prot.24986
Subject(s) - demethylation , histone , lysine , protein family , biology , methylation , biochemistry , genetics , epigenetics , gene family , sequence (biology) , gene , computational biology , amino acid , gene expression , dna methylation
Histone post‐translational modifications play a critical role in the regulation of gene expression. Methylation of lysines at N‐terminal tails of histones has been shown to be involved in such regulation. While this modification was long considered to be irreversible, two different classes of enzymes capable of carrying out the demethylation of histone lysines were recently identified: the oxidases, such as LSD1, and the oxygenases (JmjC‐containing). Here, a family‐wide analysis of the second of these classes is proposed, with over 300 proteins studied at the sequence level. We show that a correlated evolution analysis yields some position/residue pairs which are critical at comparing JmjC sequences and enables the classification of JmjC domains into five families. A few positions appear more frequently among conditions, such as positions 23 (directly C‐terminal to the second iron ligand), 24, 252 and 253 (directly N‐terminal to a conserved Asn). Implications of family conditions are studied in detail on PHF2, revealing the meaningfulness of the sequence‐derived conditions at the structural level. These results should help obtain insights on the diversity of JmjC‐containing proteins solely by considering some of the amino acids present in their JmjC domain. Proteins 2016; 84:397–407. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.