A mammalian histone deacetylase related to the yeast transcriptional regulator Rpd3p
Taunton, J.; Hassig, C.A.; Schreiber, S.L.
Science 272(5260): 408-411
1996
ISSN/ISBN: 0036-8075 PMID: 8602529 Document Number: 469241
Trapoxin is a microbially derived cyclotetrapeptide that inhibits histone deacetylation in vivo and causes mammalian cells to arrest in the cell cycle. A trapoxin affinity matrix was used to isolate two nuclear proteins that copurified with histone deacetylase activity. Both proteins were identified by peptide microsequencing, and a complementary DNA encoding the histone deacetylase catalytic subunit (HD1) was cloned from a human Jurkat T cell library. As the predicted protein is very similar to the yeast transcriptional regulator Rpd3p, these results support a role for histone deacetylase as a key regulator of eukaryotic transcription.