Dustin C Becht, Sk Abdul Mohid, Ji-Eun Lee, Mohamad Zandian, Caroline Benz, Soumi Biswas, Vikrant Kumar Sinha, Ylva Ivarsson, Kai Ge, Yi Zhang, Tatiana G Kutateladze
Human mixed lineage leukemia 4 (MLL4), also known as KMT2D, regulates cell type specific transcriptional programs through enhancer activation. Along with the catalytic methyltransferase domain, MLL4 contains seven less characterized plant homeodomain (PHD) fingers. Here, we report that the sixth PHD finger of MLL4 (MLL4PHD6 ) binds to the hydrophobic motif of ten-eleven translocation 3 (TET3), a dioxygenase that converts methylated cytosine into oxidized derivatives. The solution NMR structure of the TET3-MLL4PHD6 complex and binding assays show that, like histone H4 tail, TET3 occupies the hydrophobic site of MLL4PHD6 , and that this interaction is conserved in the seventh PHD finger of homologous MLL3 (MLL3PHD7 )...
March 27, 2024: Structure