Docking data of selected human linker histone variants to the nucleosome.
Description
Different human linker histone (H1) variants are expected to have distinct binding modes to the nucleosome. The position and orientation of a number of different H1 globular domains on the nucleosome were investigated through molecular docking using MGLTools and HADDOCK. The nucleosome core and linker DNA in the GH5-chromatosome structure (PDB: 4QLC) were used as a docking template. GH5 (in PDB: 4QLC) was re-docked to this template to test the docking algorithm. Docked and re-docked GH5 compared well. The docking algorithm was further tested by docking the NMR solution structure of the globular domain of chicken H1 (GH1, PDB: 1GHC) to the nucleosome template. The position of docked GH1 on the nucleosome agreed with literature. The N-terminal - and globular domain H1x hybrid (NGH1x) was studied using solution NMR in both low (20 mM sodium phosphate, pH 7.0) and high (20 mM sodium phosphate, 1 M sodium perchlorate, pH 7.0) ionic strength conditions (de Wit, H., Vallet, A., Brutscher, B. et al. Biomol NMR Assign (2019) 13: 249. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12104-019-09886-x). These low and high ionic strength structures were docked to the nucleosome template. Homology (MODELLER) and ab initio modeling (CS-ROSETTA) were employed to model structures for other human H1 globular domains: GH1.0, GH1.4, GH1oo, and GH1t. The modeled structures were also docked to the nucleosome template. All the docking procedures listed above produced 100 models of different energies. In each case, the lowest energy docked model was chosen. The structures of all the H1 globular domains that were docked to the template are given as PDB files (1GHC_lowest_energy.pdb; 2LSO_lowest_energy.pdb; GH5_re-docked_position.pdb; NGH1x_high_salt_NTD.pdb; NGH1x_low_salt_NTD.pdb; modeled_GH1_0_lowest_energy.pdb; modeled_GH1_4_lowest_energy.pdb; modeled_GH1oo_lowest_energy.pdb; modelled_GH1t_lowest_energy.pdb) in the data file. The nucleosome template structure is also given in PDB file format (4QLC_nucleosome_without_GH5.pdb). Finally, the docked models are also given (GH5-chromatosome.pdb; 1GHC-chromatosome.pdb; 2LSO-chromatosome.pdb; GH1_0-chromatosome.pdb; GH1_4-chromatosome.pdb; GH1oo-chromatosome.pdb; GH1t-chromatosome.pdb; NGH1x_no_salt-chromatosome.pdb; NGH1x_salt-chromatosome.pdb). The files are compatible with most molecular graphics software. The file Dockings_modelling_test_and_results.pdf provides the modeling and docking results in figures and tables. A short description of each figure and table is given within the PDF file.