Core Histone Hyperacetylation Impacts Cooperative Behavior and High-Affinity Binding of Histone H1 to Chromatin
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Linker histones stabilize higher order chromatin structures and limit access to proteins involved in DNA-dependent processes. Core histone acetylation is thought to modulate H1 binding. In the current study, we employed kinetic modeling of H1 recovery curves obtained during fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) experiments to determine the impact of core histone acetylation on the different variants of H1. Following brief treatments with histone deacetylase inhibitor, most variants showed no change in H1 dynamics. A change in mobility was detected only when longer treatments were used to induce high levels of histone acetylation. This hyperacetylation imparted marked changes in the dynamics of low-affinity H1 population, while conferring variant-specific changes in the mobility of H1 molecules that were strongly bound. Both the C-terminal domain (CTD) and globular domain were responsible for this differential response to TSA. Furthermore, we found that neither the CTD nor the globular domain, by themselves, undergoes a change in kinetics following hyperacetylation. This led us to conclude that hyperacetylation of core histones affects the cooperative nature of low-affinity H1 binding, with some variants undergoing a predicted decrease of almost 2 orders of magnitude.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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