Light-induced nuclear export reveals rapid dynamics of epigenetic modifications
April 18th, 2016 by Hayretin Yumerefendi
Nature Chemical Biology 12, 399 (2016). doi:10.1038/nchembio.2068
Authors: Hayretin Yumerefendi, Andrew Michael Lerner, Seth Parker Zimmerman, Klaus Hahn, James E Bear, Brian D Strahl & Brian Kuhlman
We engineered a photoactivatable system for rapidly and reversibly exporting proteins from the nucleus by embedding a nuclear export signal in the LOV2 domain from phototropin 1. Fusing the chromatin modifier Bre1 to the photoswitch, we achieved light-dependent control of histone H2B monoubiquitylation in yeast, revealing fast turnover of the ubiquitin mark. Moreover, this inducible system allowed us to dynamically monitor the status of epigenetic modifications dependent on H2B ubiquitylation.