Bromodomain: an acetyl-lysine binding domain - PubMed (original) (raw)

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. 2002 Feb 20;513(1):124-8.

doi: 10.1016/s0014-5793(01)03309-9.

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Bromodomain: an acetyl-lysine binding domain

Lei Zeng et al. FEBS Lett. 2002.

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Bromodomains, an extensive family of evolutionarily conserved protein modules originally found in proteins associated with chromatin and in nearly all nuclear histone acetyltransferases, have been recently discovered to function as acetyl-lysine binding domains. More recent structural studies of bromodomain/peptide ligand complexes have enriched our understanding of differences in ligand selectivity of bromodomains. These new findings demonstrate that bromodomain/acetyl-lysine recognition can serve as a pivotal mechanism for regulating protein-protein interactions in numerous cellular processes including chromatin remodeling and transcriptional activation, and reinforce the concept that functional diversity of a conserved protein modular structure is achieved by evolutionary changes of amino acid sequences in the ligand binding site.

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