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- Title
Evolved Readers of 5‐Carboxylcytosine CpG Dyads Reveal a High Versatility of the Methyl‐CpG‐Binding Domain for Recognition of Noncanonical Epigenetic Marks.
- Authors
Kosel, Brinja; Bigler, Katrin; Buchmuller, Benjamin C.; Acharyya, Suchandra R.; Linser, Rasmus; Summerer, Daniel
- Abstract
Mammalian genomes are regulated by epigenetic cytosine (C) modifications in palindromic CpG dyads. Including canonical cytosine 5‐methylation (mC), a total of four different 5‐modifications can theoretically co‐exist in the two strands of a CpG, giving rise to a complex array of combinatorial marks with unique regulatory potentials. While tailored readers for individual marks could serve as versatile tools to study their functions, it has been unclear whether a natural protein scaffold would allow selective recognition of marks that vastly differ from canonical, symmetrically methylated CpGs. We conduct directed evolution experiments to generate readers of 5‐carboxylcytosine (caC) dyads based on the methyl‐CpG‐binding domain (MBD), the widely conserved natural reader of mC. Despite the stark steric and chemical differences to mC, we discover highly selective, low nanomolar binders of symmetric and asymmetric caC‐dyads. Together with mutational and modelling studies, our findings reveal a striking evolutionary flexibility of the MBD scaffold, allowing it to completely abandon its conserved mC recognition mode in favour of noncanonical dyad recognition, highlighting its potential for epigenetic reader design.
- Subjects
DYADS; CYTOSINE; SCAFFOLD proteins; GENOMES
- Publication
Angewandte Chemie, 2024, Vol 136, Issue 17, p1
- ISSN
0044-8249
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ange.202318837