The human methyltransferase MLL4 plays a critical role in embryogenesis and development, and aberrant activity of MLL4 is linked to neurodegenerative and developmental disorders and cancer. MLL4 contains the catalytic SET domain that catalyzes mono methylation of lysine 4 of histone H3 (H3K4me1) and seven plant homeodomain (PHD) fingers, six of which have not been structurally and functionally characterized. Here, we demonstrate that the triple PHD finger cassette of MLL4, harboring its fourth, fifth and sixth PHD fingers (MLL4) forms an integrated module, maintains the binding selectivity of the PHD6 finger toward acetylated lysine 16 of histone H4 (H4K16ac), and is capable of binding to DNA. Our findings highlight functional correlation between H4K16ac and H3K4me1, two major histone modifications that are recognized and written, respectively, by MLL4.
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