%0 Journal Article
%T Molecular Recognition of H3/H4 Histone Tails by the Tudor Domains of JMJD2A: A Comparative Molecular Dynamics Simulations Study
%A Musa Ozboyaci
%A Attila Gursoy
%A Burak Erman
%A Ozlem Keskin
%J PLOS ONE
%D 2012
%I Public Library of Science (PLoS)
%R 10.1371/journal.pone.0014765
%X Histone demethylase, JMJD2A, specifically recognizes and binds to methylated lysine residues at histone H3 and H4 tails (especially trimethylated H3K4 (H3K4me3), trimethylated H3K9 (H3K9me3) and di,trimethylated H4K20 (H4K20me2, H4K20me3)) via its tandem tudor domains. Crystal structures of JMJD2A-tudor binding to H3K4me3 and H4K20me3 peptides are available whereas the others are not. Complete picture of the recognition of the four histone peptides by the tandem tudor domains yet remains to be clarified.
%U http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0014765