Table 1

Acetylated proteins and the corresponding acetyltransferases that act either cotranslationally (Co) or post-translationally (Post)

Acetylated proteins
Residues
Process
Acetyltransferases
References

Majority of eukaryotic proteins
α-Ser, α-Ala, and so on
Co
NatA, NatB, and NatC
Reviewed in [3]
E. coli ribosomal proteins (S18, S5, and L12)
α-Ser, α-Ala
Post
RimI, RimJ, and RimL
[4,5]
Regulatory peptides (β-endorphin, α-MSH, enkephalin, GHRF)
α-Tyr, α-Ser, and α-Ala
Post
Unknown
[6,17]
Histones (H2A, H2B, H3, H4)
ε-Lys
Co and Post
GNAT group: Gcn5, PCAF, Hat1, Elp3, and Hpa2
Reviewed in [7,21,25]



MYST group: Esa1, MOF, Sas2, Sas3, Tip60, and MORF




p300/CBP group




Transcription factor group: TAFII250 and TFIIIC




Nuclear receptors cofactors group: ACTR and SRC1

Transcription factors (p53, E2F1-3, EKLF, TFIIEβ, TFIIF, c-Jun, TCF, GATA1, MyoD, HMGI(Y), pRb, NF-E2(MafG) and ACTR)
ε-Lys
Post?
PCAF/GCN5, p300/CBP, TAFII250, SRC1?, MOZ, Tip60? and BRCA2?
Reviewed in [8,24]
HMG proteins (HMG1 and HMG2)
ε-Lys2 and ε-Lys11
Unknown
p300/CBP and PCAF
[27,28]
Nuclear receptor HNF-4
ε-Lys
Unknown
p300/CBP
[32]
Nuclear import factors (importin-α7 and Rch1)
ε-Lys22
Post
p300/CBP
[9]
α-tubulin
ε-Lys40
Post
62-67 kDa protein
[10,41]

Abbreviations not mentioned in the text: BRCA2, breast cancer protein; Elp3, elongator protein, a subunit of the RNA polymerase II holoenzyme complex; Esa1, essential SAS2-related acetyltransferase; Gcn5, general control nonrepressible protein, a nucleosomal histone acetyltransferase; GHRF, growth-hormone-releasing factor; GNAT, Gcn5p-related amino-acetyltransferase superfamily; Hpa2, histone and other protein acetyltransferase; MOF, males absent on the first, an X-linked dosage-compensation protein in Drosophila; MORF, monocytic leukemia zinc-finger protein related factor; MOZ, monocytic leukemia zinc-finger protein; MYST group, named for the founding members MOZ, YBF2/SAS3 and Tip60; p53, a tumor-suppressor protein; pRb, retinoblastoma protein; Rch1, Rag1 cohort, human importin-α ; Sas2, something about silencing protein, involved in silencing at telomeres and mating-type loci; SRC1, steroid nuclear receptor coactivator; Tip60, HIV Tat-interactive protein. A question mark indicates uncertainty.

Polevoda and Sherman Genome Biology 2002 3:reviews0006.1   doi:10.1186/gb-2002-3-5-reviews0006