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Soluble chromatin of Trypanosoma brucei brucei procyclic culture forms was submitted to digestion with free or immobilized trypsin. Digestion with trypsin in salt solutions of low and high ionic strengths generated characteristic sets of limit histone peptides. After incubation of chromatin with immobilized trypsin in a solution of low ionic strength, histones were not degraded, whereas a selective proteolysis occurred at 50 mM NaCl. Histones a and d, which correspond to H3 and H4 of higher eukaryotes, were rapidly attacked. Histones b and c, the counterparts of H2A and H2B, were more resistant. The results indicated that probably the basic N-terminal tails of the proteins a and d are located on the surface of the core particle. The location of d on the surface differs from the internal one proposed for histone H4. The salt-induced increase of susceptibility of histones to proteolysis reflects structural changes of T.b. brucei chromatin, which may result in partial chromatin compaction.
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PMID:Structural differences between the chromatin of procyclic Trypanosoma brucei brucei and of higher eukaryotes as probed by immobilized trypsin. 135 62

The effect of human skin mast cell tryptase on human plasma proenzymes (prothrombin, coagulation factor XII, complement C1s, protein C and plasminogen) was investigated. Tryptase had no effect on these proenzymes, when incubated with them at 37 degrees C for up to 90 min, as judged by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and by the ability to hydrolyze specific peptide p-nitroanilide substrates. After prolonged treatment with tryptase, proenzymes could be fully activated with their specific activators. The results indicate that tryptase neither activates these plasma proenzymes nor inactivates the corresponding active enzymes. As a positive control, the tryptase preparation was also incubated with human fibrinogen and rat thymus histones. Prolonged treatment with tryptase increased the thrombin-induced clotting time of fibrinogen. Tryptase also efficiently hydrolyzed histone H1 from rat thymus. Histones H3/H2B and H2A were hydrolyzed less efficiently than H1, and no hydrolysis of histone H4 by tryptase was detected under the experimental conditions.
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PMID:Effect of human mast cell tryptase on human plasma proenzymes. 253 Jan 78

CNBr treatment of calf thymus [methyl-14C]histone H4, methylated in vitro with S-adenosyl-L-[methyl-14C]methionine by a highly histone-specific wheat germ protein methylase I (S-adenosyl-L-methionine:protein-L-arginine N-methyltransferase, EC 2.1.1.23), produced two peptide fragments corresponding to residues 1-83 and 84-102, with the former being radioactive. Two-dimensional peptide mapping of the chymotryptic and tryptic digest of [methyl-14C]histone H4 and analysis of the chymotryptic digest on HPLC have shown that only a single peptide is radiolabeled. In order to define the exact site of methylation (arginine residue), the radioactive peptide from the chymotryptic digest of [methyl-14C]histone H4 was further purified on HPLC by linear and then isocratic elution. The purified chymotryptic peptide was then digested with trypsin and purified on HPLC, and its amino acid composition was determined on HPLC. These results indicate that the peptide corresponding to residues 24-35 of histone H4 is radiolabeled. Since this peptide contains a single arginine residue at position 35, we have concluded that the enzyme is specific not only to the protein substrate but also to the methylation site.
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PMID:Site specificity of histone H4 methylation by wheat germ protein-arginine N-methyltransferase. 371 61

The trypsin-sensitive N-terminal domain of histone H4 (residues 1-19) contains four acetylation sites at residues 5, 8, 12 and 16 and may play a separate role in chromatin structure from the remainder of the H4 chain. High-resolution proton NMR has been used to probe the DNA-binding of this H4 domain using the peptides (4-17), (1-23) and (1-37). Binding strength is in the order (1-37) greater than (1-23) greater than (4-17) but is weak even for (1-37). The observed weak binding correlates with arginine rather than lysine content and marked changes in the glycine resonance indicate the involvement of the peptide backbone in binding. When peptides (1-23) and (4-17) are fully acetylated with acetic anhydride, this weak binding is totally abolished. Circular dichroism indicates that neither acetylated nor unacetylated peptides take up any secondary structure. The results are consistent with the view that acetylation of H4 in vivo lifts the N-terminal domain off the DNA and thereby promulgates a major structural change in the chromatin.
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PMID:Effect of acetylation on the binding of N-terminal peptides of histone H4 to DNA. 714 Jul 51

The amino acid sequence of human spleen histone H4 was investigated as part of a study on histone evolution, following previous investigations of human spleen histones H2B (J. Biochem. 85, 615-624), H2A (J. Biochem. 88, 27-34), and H3 (J. Biochem. 90, 1205-1211). The H4 fraction was obtained as described previously and further purified by Bio-Gel P-60 chromatography. The purified H4 was digested with trypsin and the peptides were fractionated by repeated column chromatographies with reasonable recoveries. Certain peptides were sequenced, and three modified residues (alpha-N-Ac-Ser-1, epsilon-N-Ac-Lys-16, and epsilon-N-Me-Lys-20) and one heterogeneous residue (Asn/Asp-25), which is probably a result of postsynthetic deamidation, were found. Thus, the human H4 was deduced to have a sequence of 102 amino acid residues completely identical with that of calf thymus H4, including the presence of three modified residues and the absence of any variant sequence. It is concluded that the animal H4 sequences and their postsynthetic modifications have been strongly conserved during the evolutionary process leading to man, as strongly as or more strongly than the H3 sequence, and much more strongly than the H2A and H2B sequences.
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PMID:Human spleen histone H4. Isolation and amino acid sequence. 716 Dec 71

The S6/H4 kinase purified from human placenta catalyzes phosphorylation of the S6 ribosomal protein, histone H4, and myelin basic protein. In vitro activation of the p60 S6/H4 kinase requires removal of an autoinhibitory domain by mild trypsin digestion and autophosphorylation of the catalytic domain (p40 S6/H4 kinase). The two autophosphorylation/autoactivation sites contain the sequences SSMVGTPY (site 1) and SVIDPVPAPVGDSHVDGAAK (site 2). These sequences identify S6H4 kinase as the rac-activated PAK65 (Martin, G. A., Bollag, G., McCormick, F. and Abo, A. (1995) EMBO J. 14, 1971-1978). Site 1 phosphorylation is most rapid, but activation does not occur until site 2 is autophosphorylated. The site 1 phosphorylation occurs by an intramolecular mechanism whereas site 2 autophosphorylation occurs by an intermolecular mechanism. A model is proposed in which phosphorylation of sites 1 and 2 occurs sequentially. The model proposes that trypsin treatment of the inactive holoenzyme removes an inhibitory rac-binding domain which blocks MgATP access to the catalytic site. The pseudosubstrate domain at site 1 is autophosphorylated and subsequent bimolecular autophosphorylation at site 2 fully opens the catalytic site. Phosphorylation by a regulatory protein kinase may occur at site 2 in vivo.
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PMID:Activation of an S6/H4 kinase (PAK 65) from human placenta by intramolecular and intermolecular autophosphorylation. 767 44

A number of protein kinases have been shown to undergo autophosphorylation, but few have demonstrated a coordinate increase or decrease in enzymatic activity as a result. Described here is a novel S6 kinase isolated from human placenta which autoactivates through autophosphorylation in vitro. This S6/H4 kinase, purified in an inactive state, exhibited a molecular mass of 60 kDa as estimated by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The 60-kDa protein underwent autophosphorylation, was labeled by 8-azido-[alpha-32P]ATP, and reacted with an antibody to the conserved APE domain of the cAMP-dependent protein kinase. The protein did not cochromatograph with p70 S6 kinase and did not cross-react with an anti-p70 kinase antibody. The synthetic peptide S6-21, histone H4, and myelin basic protein were phosphorylated by the purified S6/H4 kinase. Mild digestion of the inactive S6/H4 kinase with trypsin generated a 40-kDa fragment, as determined by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The trypsin treatment was necessary, but not sufficient, to fully activate the kinase. Subsequent incubation of the trypsin-treated S6 kinase with MgATP resulted in the rapid autophosphorylation of the 40-kDa fragment along with a coordinate increase in kinase activity. The autophosphorylation of the 40-kDa protein was positively correlated with MgATP incubation time and an increase in activity toward the S6-21 peptide, histone H4, and myelin basic protein. Taken together, these data support the hypothesis that this previously uncharacterized S6 kinase belongs to a unique family of protein kinases which utilize autophosphorylation as part of their in vivo activation mechanism.
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PMID:Activation of an S6 kinase from human placenta by autophosphorylation. 836 21

Neutrophils stimulated with the chemotactic peptide fMet-Leu-Phe (fMLP) are known to exhibit a rapid and transient activation of a histone H4 kinase that may function in a stimulatory pathway downstream of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase. The activity of this histone kinase in unstimulated neutrophils and cells treated with 1.0 microM fMLP for 10 sec was 8.8 +/- 5 and 43 +/- 2 pmol P/min per 10(7) cells, respectively. In this paper, we report that unstimulated neutrophils contain a latent H4 kinase in the 100,000 x g soluble fraction that can be markedly activated by treatment with trypsin. The values for the untreated and trypsin treated enzyme were 5.5 +/- 1.0 and 63.6 +/- 18 pmol P/min per 10(7) cell-equivalents, respectively. This kinase was insensitive to a selective antagonist of protein kinase C (i.e., 50 microM 1-(5-isoquinolinylsulfonyl)-2-methylpiperazine (H-7)) but completely blocked by 100 nM staurosporine. Only a single peak of activity was observed for this enzyme when the 100,000 x g supernatant fraction was fractionated on either an exclusion (KW-803) or an anion exchange column (DEAE), or during isoelectric focusing. The molecular weight of the latent kinase was 64 +/- 6 kDa and the isoelectric point was 7.6 +/- 0.1. During all fractionation procedures, the H4 kinase co-chromatographed with a trypsin-activated kinase that catalyzed the phosphorylation of a peptide which corresponds to residues 297-331 of the 47 kDa subunit of the NADPH-oxidase complex (p47-phox). The properties of the trypsin-activated H4 kinase from unstimulated neutrophils are very similar to those reported for this enzyme from fMLP-stimulated cells.
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PMID:In vitro activation of a 60-70 kDa histone H4 protein kinase from neutrophils by limited proteolysis. 867 78

Histone H4 stimulates the uptake of glucose in rat adipocytes and muscle cells. However, the mechanism of this unusual activity is not known. Therefore, we have begun to investigate the mechanism by which histone H4 stimulates the glucose uptake in rat adipocytes. We report that histone H4 requires 15-20 min to achieve its maximum effect and its time course is virtually indistinguishable from the time course of insulin itself. Reduction of the concentration of insulin receptors on the surface of adipocytes, either by trypsin digestion of the receptor, or by insulin-induced down regulation of the receptor, reduced the histone H4 effect as well as the insulin effects. Also, quercetin, a bioflavenoid that inhibits the insulin receptor tyrosine kinase activity, inhibits the actions of both histone H4 and insulin. However, histone H4 activity is somewhat more resistant to these interventions than insulin activity. In contrast to the activity of insulin, histone H4 does not appear to be able to down regulate the insulin receptor, since the pretreatment of adipocytes with histone H4 did not affect the subsequent actions of either insulin or histone H4. Finally, Scatchard analysis of the binding of 125I-insulin in the presence and absence of histone H4 increases the specific binding of insulin in a concentration dependent fashion. Histone H2b, a histone that does not have insulin-like activity, does not affect insulin binding. Taken together, these data suggest that the greatest portion of the insulin-like activity of histone H4 is initiated at the insulin receptor. However, the interaction of histone H4 and the insulin receptor is more complex than a simple binding of H4 to the insulin binding site. These studies may provide additional insight into alternate mechanisms for activation of the insulin receptor.
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PMID:Histone H4 stimulates glucose uptake through the insulin receptor. 872 9

Chromatin condensation and DNA cleavage at internucleosomal sites have been recognized early as hallmarks of apoptosis, and it has been suggested that extensive DNA chain scission could directly result in the formation of dense chromatin bodies. Here we have shown that no causal relationship exists between DNA degradation and chromatin condensation in glucocorticoid-induced thymocyte apoptosis. The chromatin rearrangement occurred independent of as well as prior to DNA cleavage and involved a specific conformational change at the nucleosome level. In the early stages of the process, the core particles appeared to be tightly packed face-to-face in smooth 11-nm filaments that progressively folded to generate a closely woven network. The network finally collapsed, producing dense apoptotic bodies. Since trypsin digestion relaxed condensed chromatin and histone H4 underwent appreciable deacetylation in the apoptotic cell, we suggest that changes in the DNA-histone interactions represented a major modulating factor of condensation.
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PMID:The condensation of chromatin in apoptotic thymocytes shows a specific structural change. 909 36


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