CENP-T is a family of vertebral kinetochore proteins that associates directly with CENP-W. The N-terminus of CENP-T proteins interacts directly with the Ndc80 complex in the outer kinetochore. Importantly, the CENP-T-W complex does not directly asso ...
CENP-T is a family of vertebral kinetochore proteins that associates directly with CENP-W. The N-terminus of CENP-T proteins interacts directly with the Ndc80 complex in the outer kinetochore. Importantly, the CENP-T-W complex does not directly associate with CENP-A, but with histone H3 in the centromere region. CENP-T and -W form a hetero-tetramer with CENP-S and -X and bind to a ~100 bp region of nucleosome-free DNA forming a nucleosome-like structure. The DNA-CENP-T-W-S-X complex is likely to be associated with histone H3-containing nucleosomes rather than with CENP-nucleosomes. This domain is the C-terminal histone fold domain of CENP-T, which associates with chromatin [2-3].
Death domain-associated protein 6, histone binding domain
This domain is found in the mammalian Death domain-associated protein 6 (DAXX) and in similar proteins from animals. DAXX is a transcription corepressor and a histone chaperone that shows specificity for the conserved histone H3.3. This entry represe ...
This domain is found in the mammalian Death domain-associated protein 6 (DAXX) and in similar proteins from animals. DAXX is a transcription corepressor and a histone chaperone that shows specificity for the conserved histone H3.3. This entry represents the histone binding domain, which adopts an all alpha-helical fold where the first two alpha-helices form a coiled coil [1,2].