In this episode of the Epigenetics Podcast, we caught up with Karim-Jean Armache from New York University - Grossman School of Medicine to talk about his work on the structural analysis of Polycomb Complex Proteins and molecular mechanisms of chromatin modifying enzymes.
Karim-Jean Armache started his research career with the structural characterization of the 12-subunit RNA Polymerase II. After starting his own lab he used this knowledge in x-ray crystallography and electron microscopy to study how gene silencing complexes like the PRC complex act on chromatin and influence transcription. Further work in the Armache Lab focused on Dot, a histone H3K79 methyltransferase, and how it acts on chromatin, as well as how it is regulated by Histone-Histone crosstalk.
ReferencesArmache, K. J., Garlick, J. D., Canzio, D., Narlikar, G. J., & Kingston, R. E. (2011). Structural basis of silencing: Sir3 BAH domain in complex with a nucleosome at 3.0 Å resolution. Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6058), 977–982. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1210915
Lee, C. H., Holder, M., Grau, D., Saldaña-Meyer, R., Yu, J. R., Ganai, R. A., Zhang, J., Wang, M., LeRoy, G., Dobenecker, M. W., Reinberg, D., & Armache, K. J. (2018). Distinct Stimulatory Mechanisms Regulate the Catalytic Activity of Polycomb Repressive Complex 2. Molecular cell, 70(3), 435–448.e5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molcel.2018.03.019
De Ioannes, P., Leon, V. A., Kuang, Z., Wang, M., Boeke, J. D., Hochwagen, A., & Armache, K. J. (2019). Structure and function of the Orc1 BAH-nucleosome complex. Nature communications, 10(1), 2894. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10609-y
Valencia-Sánchez, M. I., De Ioannes, P., Wang, M., Truong, D. M., Lee, R., Armache, J. P., Boeke, J. D., & Armache, K. J. (2021). Regulation of the Dot1 histone H3K79 methyltransferase by histone H4K16 acetylation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 371(6527), eabc6663. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abc6663
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