CBP/p300 Bromodomain Mediates Amyloid Formation
1Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, UF Health Cancer Center, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA.
Cell Chemical Biology
|January 31, 2017
Abstract:
Bromodomains are protein domains that serve as "readers" of acetylated lysine marks and mediate DNA-templated processes. In this issue of Cell Chemical Biology, Olzscha et al. (2017) report that the CBP/p300 bromodomains mediate the formation of amyloid-like aggregates and that inhibitors specific to these bromodomains reduce the degree of protein aggregation and mitigate HDAC inhibitor-induced cytotoxicity.


