A dynamic structural unit of phase-separated heterochromatin protein 1α as revealed by integrative structural analyses

Furukawa A, Yonezawa K, Negami T, Yoshimura Y, Hayashi A, Nakayama J, Adachi N, Senda T, Shimizu K Terada T, Shimizu N, Nishimura Y, Nucleic Acids Research 53(6) (2025) DOI

SASDU33 – Phosphorylated heterochromatin protein HP1α, S97A mutant, full-length (pHP1α_S97A) in 50 mM NaCl

phosphorylated Heterochromatin protein HP1α, S97A mutant, full-length
MWI(0) 50 kDa
MWexpected 41 kDa
VPorod 129 nm3
log I(s) 7.02×10-2 7.02×10-3 7.02×10-4 7.02×10-5
phosphorylated Heterochromatin protein HP1α, S97A mutant, full-length small angle scattering data  s, nm-1
ln I(s)
phosphorylated Heterochromatin protein HP1α, S97A mutant, full-length Guinier plot ln 7.02×10-2 Rg: 3.8 nm 0 (3.8 nm)-2 s2
(sRg)2I(s)/I(0)
phosphorylated Heterochromatin protein HP1α, S97A mutant, full-length Kratky plot 1.104 0 3 sRg
p(r)
phosphorylated Heterochromatin protein HP1α, S97A mutant, full-length pair distance distribution function Rg: 4.2 nm 0 Dmax: 19.5 nm

Data validation


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Synchrotron SAXS data from solutions of phosphorylated heterochromatin protein HP1α (S97A mutant, full-length) in 50 mM NaCl in 20 mM sodium phosphate, 50 mM NaCl, 1 mM DTT, pH 7 were collected on the BL-10C beam line at the Photon Factory (PF), High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK; Tsukuba, Japan) using a Pilatus3 2M detector at a sample-detector distance of 2.0 m and at a wavelength of λ = 0.1213 nm (I(s) vs s, where s = 4πsinθ/λ, and 2θ is the scattering angle). In-line size-exclusion chromatography (SEC) SAS was employed. The SEC parameters were as follows: A 200.00 μl sample at 14 mg/ml was injected onto a Cytiva Superdex 200 Increase 10/300 column at 20°C. The flow rate was set to 0.05 mL/min around the peak region. 328 successive 20 second frames were collected. The data were normalized to the intensity of the transmitted beam and radially averaged; the scattering of the solvent-blank was subtracted.

SEC-SAXS experiment was performed using an HPLC system, Prominence-i (SHIMADZU). SEC-MALS experiments were performed before the SEC-SAXS experiments and the molecular weight was estimated to be 48.3 kDa.

phosphorylated Heterochromatin protein HP1α, S97A mutant, full-length (pHP1α)
Mol. type   Protein
Organism   Homo sapiens
Olig. state   Dimer
Mon. MW   20.5 kDa
Sequence   FASTA