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Williams JF, Surovtsev IV, Schreiner SM, Chen Z, Raiymbek G, Nguyen H, Hu Y, Biteen JS, Mochrie SGJ, Ragunathan K, King MC. The condensation of HP1α/Swi6 imparts nuclear stiffness. Cell Rep 2024; 43:114373. [PMID: 38900638 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2024.114373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2022] [Revised: 12/04/2023] [Accepted: 05/31/2024] [Indexed: 06/22/2024] Open
Abstract
Biomolecular condensates have emerged as major drivers of cellular organization. It remains largely unexplored, however, whether these condensates can impart mechanical function(s) to the cell. The heterochromatin protein HP1α (Swi6 in Schizosaccharomyces pombe) crosslinks histone H3K9 methylated nucleosomes and has been proposed to undergo condensation to drive the liquid-like clustering of heterochromatin domains. Here, we leverage the genetically tractable S. pombe model and a separation-of-function allele to elucidate a mechanical function imparted by Swi6 condensation. Using single-molecule imaging, force spectroscopy, and high-resolution live-cell imaging, we show that Swi6 is critical for nuclear resistance to external force. Strikingly, it is the condensed yet dynamic pool of Swi6, rather than the chromatin-bound molecules, that is essential to imparting mechanical stiffness. Our findings suggest that Swi6 condensates embedded in the chromatin meshwork establish the emergent mechanical behavior of the nucleus as a whole, revealing that biomolecular condensation can influence organelle and cell mechanics.
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- Jessica F Williams
- Department of Cell Biology, Yale School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Yale School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; Department of Physics, Yale University, 217 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Yale School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Department of Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Yale School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Yale School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Department of Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Physics, Yale University, 217 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Yale School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
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Larkin A, Kunze C, Seman M, Levashkevich A, Curran J, Morris-Evans D, Lemieux S, Khalil AS, Ragunathan K. Mapping the dynamics of epigenetic adaptation during heterochromatin misregulation. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2023.07.10.548368. [PMID: 37503217 PMCID: PMC10369875 DOI: 10.1101/2023.07.10.548368] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/29/2023]
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A classical and well-established mechanism that enables cells to adapt to new and adverse conditions is the acquisition of beneficial genetic mutations. Much less is known about epigenetic mechanisms that allow cells to develop novel and adaptive phenotypes without altering their genetic blueprint. It has been recently proposed that histone modifications, such as heterochromatin-defining H3K9 methylation (H3K9me), normally reserved to maintain genome integrity, can be redistributed across the genome to establish new and potentially adaptive phenotypes. To uncover the dynamics of this process, we developed a precision engineered genetic approach to trigger H3K9me redistribution on-demand in fission yeast. This enabled us to trace genome-scale RNA and chromatin changes over time prior to and during adaptation in long-term continuous cultures. Establishing adaptive H3K9me occurs over remarkably slow time-scales relative to the initiating stress. During this time, we captured dynamic H3K9me redistribution events ultimately leading to cells converging on an optimal adaptive solution. Upon removal of stress, cells relax to new transcriptional and chromatin states rather than revert to their initial (ground) state, establishing a tunable memory for a future adaptive epigenetic response. Collectively, our tools uncover the slow kinetics of epigenetic adaptation that allow cells to search for and heritably encode adaptive solutions, with implications for drug resistance and response to infection.
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Fang Y, Hua X, Shan CM, Toda T, Qiao F, Zhang Z, Jia S. Coordination of histone chaperones for parental histone segregation and epigenetic inheritance. Genes Dev 2024; 38:189-204. [PMID: 38479839 PMCID: PMC10982699 DOI: 10.1101/gad.351278.123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2023] [Accepted: 02/20/2024] [Indexed: 04/02/2024]
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Chromatin-based epigenetic memory relies on the accurate distribution of parental histone H3-H4 tetramers to newly replicated DNA strands. Mcm2, a subunit of the replicative helicase, and Dpb3/4, subunits of DNA polymerase ε, govern parental histone H3-H4 deposition to the lagging and leading strands, respectively. However, their contribution to epigenetic inheritance remains controversial. Here, using fission yeast heterochromatin inheritance systems that eliminate interference from initiation pathways, we show that a Mcm2 histone binding mutation severely disrupts heterochromatin inheritance, while mutations in Dpb3/4 cause only moderate defects. Surprisingly, simultaneous mutations of Mcm2 and Dpb3/4 stabilize heterochromatin inheritance. eSPAN (enrichment and sequencing of protein-associated nascent DNA) analyses confirmed the conservation of Mcm2 and Dpb3/4 functions in parental histone H3-H4 segregation, with their combined absence showing a more symmetric distribution of parental histone H3-H4 than either single mutation alone. Furthermore, the FACT histone chaperone regulates parental histone transfer to both strands and collaborates with Mcm2 and Dpb3/4 to maintain parental histone H3-H4 density and faithful heterochromatin inheritance. These results underscore the importance of both symmetric distribution of parental histones and their density at daughter strands for epigenetic inheritance and unveil distinctive properties of parental histone chaperones during DNA replication.
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- Yimeng Fang
- Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
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- Institute for Cancer Genetics, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
- Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York 10032, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
- State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697, USA
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- Institute for Cancer Genetics, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA;
- Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
- Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York 10032, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA;
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Sun L, Liu L, Song C, Wang Y, Jin QW. Heat stress-induced activation of MAPK pathway attenuates Atf1-dependent epigenetic inheritance of heterochromatin in fission yeast. eLife 2024; 13:e90525. [PMID: 38289024 PMCID: PMC10863984 DOI: 10.7554/elife.90525] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2023] [Accepted: 01/29/2024] [Indexed: 02/15/2024] Open
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Eukaryotic cells are constantly exposed to various environmental stimuli. It remains largely unexplored how environmental cues bring about epigenetic fluctuations and affect heterochromatin stability. In the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, heterochromatic silencing is quite stable at pericentromeres but unstable at the mating-type (mat) locus under chronic heat stress, although both loci are within the major constitutive heterochromatin regions. Here, we found that the compromised gene silencing at the mat locus at elevated temperature is linked to the phosphorylation status of Atf1, a member of the ATF/CREB superfamily. Constitutive activation of mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling disrupts epigenetic maintenance of heterochromatin at the mat locus even under normal temperature. Mechanistically, phosphorylation of Atf1 impairs its interaction with heterochromatin protein Swi6HP1, resulting in lower site-specific Swi6HP1 enrichment. Expression of non-phosphorylatable Atf1, tethering Swi6HP1 to the mat3M-flanking site or absence of the anti-silencing factor Epe1 can largely or partially rescue heat stress-induced defective heterochromatic maintenance at the mat locus.
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- Li Sun
- State Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology, School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, Xiamen UniversityXiamenChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology, School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, Xiamen UniversityXiamenChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology, School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, Xiamen UniversityXiamenChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology, School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, Xiamen UniversityXiamenChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology, School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, Xiamen UniversityXiamenChina
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Liu H, Marayati BF, de la Cerda D, Lemezis BM, Gao J, Song Q, Chen M, Reid KZ. The Cross-Regulation Between Set1, Clr4, and Lsd1/2 in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. PLoS Genet 2024; 20:e1011107. [PMID: 38181050 PMCID: PMC10795994 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1011107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2023] [Revised: 01/18/2024] [Accepted: 12/12/2023] [Indexed: 01/07/2024] Open
Abstract
Eukaryotic chromatin is organized into either silenced heterochromatin or relaxed euchromatin regions, which controls the accessibility of transcriptional machinery and thus regulates gene expression. In fission yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe, Set1 is the sole H3K4 methyltransferase and is mainly enriched at the promoters of actively transcribed genes. In contrast, Clr4 methyltransferase initiates H3K9 methylation, which has long been regarded as a hallmark of heterochromatic silencing. Lsd1 and Lsd2 are two highly conserved H3K4 and H3K9 demethylases. As these histone-modifying enzymes perform critical roles in maintaining histone methylation patterns and, consequently, gene expression profiles, cross-regulations among these enzymes are part of the complex regulatory networks. Thus, elucidating the mechanisms that govern their signaling and mutual regulations remains crucial. Here, we demonstrated that C-terminal truncation mutants, lsd1-ΔHMG and lsd2-ΔC, do not compromise the integrity of the Lsd1/2 complex but impair their chromatin-binding capacity at the promoter region of target genomic loci. We identified protein-protein interactions between Lsd1/2 and Raf2 or Swd2, which are the subunits of the Clr4 complex (CLRC) and Set1-associated complex (COMPASS), respectively. We showed that Clr4 and Set1 modulate the protein levels of Lsd1 and Lsd2 in opposite ways through the ubiquitin-proteasome-dependent pathway. During heat stress, the protein levels of Lsd1 and Lsd2 are upregulated in a Set1-dependent manner. The increase in protein levels is crucial for differential gene expression under stress conditions. Together, our results support a cross-regulatory model by which Set1 and Clr4 methyltransferases control the protein levels of Lsd1/2 demethylases to shape the dynamic chromatin landscape.
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- Haoran Liu
- Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
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- Department of Computer Science, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
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Seman M, Levashkevich A, Larkin A, Huang F, Ragunathan K. Uncoupling the distinct functions of HP1 proteins during heterochromatin establishment and maintenance. Cell Rep 2023; 42:113428. [PMID: 37952152 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2023.113428] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2023] [Revised: 09/28/2023] [Accepted: 10/26/2023] [Indexed: 11/14/2023] Open
Abstract
H3K9 methylation (H3K9me) marks transcriptionally silent genomic regions called heterochromatin. HP1 proteins are required to establish and maintain heterochromatin. HP1 proteins bind to H3K9me, recruit factors that promote heterochromatin formation, and oligomerize to form phase-separated condensates. We do not understand how these different HP1 properties are involved in establishing and maintaining transcriptional silencing. Here, we demonstrate that the S. pombe HP1 homolog, Swi6, can be completely bypassed to establish silencing at ectopic and endogenous loci when an H3K4 methyltransferase, Set1, and an H3K14 acetyltransferase, Mst2, are deleted. Deleting Set1 and Mst2 enhances Clr4 enzymatic activity, leading to higher H3K9me levels and spreading. In contrast, Swi6 and its capacity to oligomerize were indispensable during epigenetic maintenance. Our results demonstrate the role of HP1 proteins in regulating histone modification crosstalk during establishment and identify a genetically separable function in maintaining epigenetic memory.
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- Melissa Seman
- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02451, USA
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- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02451, USA
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- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02451, USA
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Seman M, Levashkevich A, Larkin A, Huang F, Ragunathan K. Uncoupling the distinct functions of HP1 proteins during heterochromatin establishment and maintenance. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.04.30.538869. [PMID: 37961629 PMCID: PMC10634687 DOI: 10.1101/2023.04.30.538869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2023]
Abstract
H3K9 methylation (H3K9me) marks transcriptionally silent genomic regions called heterochromatin. HP1 proteins are required to establish and maintain heterochromatin. HP1 proteins bind to H3K9me, recruit factors that promote heterochromatin formation, and oligomerize to form phase-separated condensates. We do not understand how HP1 protein binding to heterochromatin establishes and maintains transcriptional silencing. Here, we demonstrate that the S.pombe HP1 homolog, Swi6, can be completely bypassed to establish silencing at ectopic and endogenous loci when an H3K4 methyltransferase, Set1 and an H3K14 acetyltransferase, Mst2 are deleted. Deleting Set1 and Mst2 enhances Clr4 enzymatic activity, leading to higher H3K9me levels and spreading. In contrast, Swi6 and its capacity to oligomerize were indispensable during epigenetic maintenance. Our results demonstrate the role of HP1 proteins in regulating histone modification crosstalk during establishment and identifies a genetically separable function in maintaining epigenetic memory.
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- Melissa Seman
- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02451 USA
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- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02451 USA
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- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02451 USA
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- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02451 USA
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Challal D, Menant A, Goksal C, Leroy E, Al-Sady B, Rougemaille M. A dual, catalytic role for the fission yeast Ccr4-Not complex in gene silencing and heterochromatin spreading. Genetics 2023; 224:iyad108. [PMID: 37279920 PMCID: PMC10411572 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/iyad108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2023] [Revised: 04/11/2023] [Accepted: 05/31/2023] [Indexed: 06/08/2023] Open
Abstract
Heterochromatic gene silencing relies on combinatorial control by specific histone modifications, the occurrence of transcription, and/or RNA degradation. Once nucleated, heterochromatin propagates within defined chromosomal regions and is maintained throughout cell divisions to warrant proper genome expression and integrity. In the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, the Ccr4-Not complex partakes in gene silencing, but its relative contribution to distinct heterochromatin domains and its role in nucleation versus spreading have remained elusive. Here, we unveil major functions for Ccr4-Not in silencing and heterochromatin spreading at the mating type locus and subtelomeres. Mutations of the catalytic subunits Caf1 or Mot2, involved in RNA deadenylation and protein ubiquitinylation, respectively, result in impaired propagation of H3K9me3 and massive accumulation of nucleation-distal heterochromatic transcripts. Both silencing and spreading defects are suppressed upon disruption of the heterochromatin antagonizing factor Epe1. Overall, our results position the Ccr4-Not complex as a critical, dual regulator of heterochromatic gene silencing and spreading.
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- Drice Challal
- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Gif-sur-Yvette 91198, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Gif-sur-Yvette 91198, France
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- Department of Microbiology & Immunology, George Williams Hooper Foundation, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Gif-sur-Yvette 91198, France
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- Department of Microbiology & Immunology, George Williams Hooper Foundation, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Gif-sur-Yvette 91198, France
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Grewal SIS. The molecular basis of heterochromatin assembly and epigenetic inheritance. Mol Cell 2023; 83:1767-1785. [PMID: 37207657 PMCID: PMC10309086 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2023.04.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 36.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2022] [Revised: 04/10/2023] [Accepted: 04/20/2023] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
Abstract
Heterochromatin plays a fundamental role in gene regulation, genome integrity, and silencing of repetitive DNA elements. Histone modifications are essential for the establishment of heterochromatin domains, which is initiated by the recruitment of histone-modifying enzymes to nucleation sites. This leads to the deposition of histone H3 lysine-9 methylation (H3K9me), which provides the foundation for building high-concentration territories of heterochromatin proteins and the spread of heterochromatin across extended domains. Moreover, heterochromatin can be epigenetically inherited during cell division in a self-templating manner. This involves a "read-write" mechanism where pre-existing modified histones, such as tri-methylated H3K9 (H3K9me3), support chromatin association of the histone methyltransferase to promote further deposition of H3K9me. Recent studies suggest that a critical density of H3K9me3 and its associated factors is necessary for the propagation of heterochromatin domains across multiple generations. In this review, I discuss the key experiments that have highlighted the importance of modified histones for epigenetic inheritance.
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- Shiv I S Grewal
- Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
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Shan CM, Fang Y, Jia S. Leaving histone unturned for epigenetic inheritance. FEBS J 2023; 290:310-320. [PMID: 34726351 PMCID: PMC9058036 DOI: 10.1111/febs.16260] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2021] [Revised: 10/09/2021] [Accepted: 11/01/2021] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Post-translational modifications in histones play important roles in regulating chromatin structure and gene expression programs, and the modified histones can be passed on to subsequent generations as an epigenetic memory. The fission yeast has been a great model organism for studying histone modifications in heterochromatin assembly and epigenetic inheritance. Here, we review findings in this organism that cemented the idea of chromatin-based inheritance and highlight recent studies that reveal the role of histone turnover in regulating this process.
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- Chun-Min Shan
- Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
- Present address: State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
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Levinsky AJ, McEdwards G, Sethna N, Currie MA. Targets of histone H3 lysine 9 methyltransferases. Front Cell Dev Biol 2022; 10:1026406. [PMID: 36568972 PMCID: PMC9768651 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2022.1026406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2022] [Accepted: 10/05/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Histone H3 lysine 9 di- and trimethylation are well-established marks of constitutively silenced heterochromatin domains found at repetitive DNA elements including pericentromeres, telomeres, and transposons. Loss of heterochromatin at these sites causes genomic instability in the form of aberrant DNA repair, chromosome segregation defects, replication stress, and transposition. H3K9 di- and trimethylation also regulate cell type-specific gene expression during development and form a barrier to cellular reprogramming. However, the role of H3K9 methyltransferases extends beyond histone methylation. There is a growing list of non-histone targets of H3K9 methyltransferases including transcription factors, steroid hormone receptors, histone modifying enzymes, and other chromatin regulatory proteins. Additionally, two classes of H3K9 methyltransferases modulate their own function through automethylation. Here we summarize the structure and function of mammalian H3K9 methyltransferases, their roles in genome regulation and constitutive heterochromatin, as well as the current repertoire of non-histone methylation targets including cases of automethylation.
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- Aidan J. Levinsky
- Department of Biology, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, ON, Canada,Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Biology, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, ON, Canada,Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Biology, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, ON, Canada,Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Biology, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, ON, Canada,Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada,*Correspondence: Mark A. Currie,
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Du W, Shi G, Shan CM, Li Z, Zhu B, Jia S, Li Q, Zhang Z. Mechanisms of chromatin-based epigenetic inheritance. SCIENCE CHINA. LIFE SCIENCES 2022; 65:2162-2190. [PMID: 35792957 DOI: 10.1007/s11427-022-2120-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2022] [Accepted: 04/27/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
Abstract
Multi-cellular organisms such as humans contain hundreds of cell types that share the same genetic information (DNA sequences), and yet have different cellular traits and functions. While how genetic information is passed through generations has been extensively characterized, it remains largely obscure how epigenetic information encoded by chromatin regulates the passage of certain traits, gene expression states and cell identity during mitotic cell divisions, and even through meiosis. In this review, we will summarize the recent advances on molecular mechanisms of epigenetic inheritance, discuss the potential impacts of epigenetic inheritance during normal development and in some disease conditions, and outline future research directions for this challenging, but exciting field.
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- Wenlong Du
- National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, CAS Center for Excellence in Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, School of Life Sciences and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
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- Institutes of Cancer Genetics, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, 10032, USA
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- National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, CAS Center for Excellence in Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China.
- College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10027, USA.
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- State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, School of Life Sciences and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China.
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- Institutes of Cancer Genetics, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, 10032, USA.
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Yaseen I, White SA, Torres-Garcia S, Spanos C, Lafos M, Gaberdiel E, Yeboah R, El Karoui M, Rappsilber J, Pidoux AL, Allshire RC. Proteasome-dependent truncation of the negative heterochromatin regulator Epe1 mediates antifungal resistance. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2022; 29:745-758. [PMID: 35879419 PMCID: PMC7613290 DOI: 10.1038/s41594-022-00801-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2021] [Accepted: 06/06/2022] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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Epe1 histone demethylase restricts H3K9-methylation-dependent heterochromatin, preventing it from spreading over, and silencing, gene-containing regions in fission yeast. External stress induces an adaptive response allowing heterochromatin island formation that confers resistance on surviving wild-type lineages. Here we investigate the mechanism by which Epe1 is regulated in response to stress. Exposure to caffeine or antifungals results in Epe1 ubiquitylation and proteasome-dependent removal of the N-terminal 150 residues from Epe1, generating truncated Epe1 (tEpe1) which accumulates in the cytoplasm. Constitutive tEpe1 expression increases H3K9 methylation over several chromosomal regions, reducing expression of underlying genes and enhancing resistance. Reciprocally, constitutive non-cleavable Epe1 expression decreases resistance. tEpe1-mediated resistance requires a functional JmjC demethylase domain. Moreover, caffeine-induced Epe1-to-tEpe1 cleavage is dependent on an intact cell integrity MAP kinase stress signaling pathway, mutations in which alter resistance. Thus, environmental changes elicit a mechanism that curtails the function of this key epigenetic modifier, allowing heterochromatin to reprogram gene expression, thereby bestowing resistance to some cells within a population. H3K9me-heterochromatin components are conserved in human and crop-plant fungal pathogens for which a limited number of antifungals exist. Our findings reveal how transient heterochromatin-dependent antifungal resistant epimutations develop and thus inform on how they might be countered.
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- Imtiyaz Yaseen
- Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Institute of Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- CSIR Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Jammu, India
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- Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Institute of Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Institute of Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Institute of Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Institute of Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Institute of Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Institute of Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Institute of Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- SynthSys, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Institute of Biotechnology, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Institute of Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
- Institute of Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
- SynthSys, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
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Biswas S, Chen Z, Karslake JD, Farhat A, Ames A, Raiymbek G, Freddolino PL, Biteen JS, Ragunathan K. HP1 oligomerization compensates for low-affinity H3K9me recognition and provides a tunable mechanism for heterochromatin-specific localization. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2022; 8:eabk0793. [PMID: 35857444 PMCID: PMC9269880 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abk0793] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2021] [Accepted: 05/24/2022] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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HP1 proteins traverse a complex and crowded chromatin landscape to bind with low affinity but high specificity to histone H3K9 methylation (H3K9me) and form transcriptionally inactive genomic compartments called heterochromatin. Here, we visualize single-molecule dynamics of an HP1 homolog, the fission yeast Swi6, in its native chromatin environment. By tracking single Swi6 molecules, we identify mobility states that map to discrete biochemical intermediates. Using Swi6 mutants that perturb H3K9me recognition, oligomerization, or nucleic acid binding, we determine how each biochemical property affects protein dynamics. We estimate that Swi6 recognizes H3K9me3 with ~94-fold specificity relative to unmodified nucleosomes in living cells. While nucleic acid binding competes with Swi6 oligomerization, as few as four tandem chromodomains can overcome these inhibitory effects to facilitate Swi6 localization at heterochromatin formation sites. Our studies indicate that HP1 oligomerization is essential to form dynamic, higher-order complexes that outcompete nucleic acid binding to enable specific H3K9me recognition.
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- Saikat Biswas
- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA
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- Department of Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA
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- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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Lensch S, Herschl MH, Ludwig CH, Sinha J, Hinks MM, Mukund A, Fujimori T, Bintu L. Dynamic spreading of chromatin-mediated gene silencing and reactivation between neighboring genes in single cells. eLife 2022; 11:e75115. [PMID: 35678392 PMCID: PMC9183234 DOI: 10.7554/elife.75115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2021] [Accepted: 03/23/2022] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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In mammalian cells genes that are in close proximity can be transcriptionally coupled: silencing or activating one gene can affect its neighbors. Understanding these dynamics is important for natural processes, such as heterochromatin spreading during development and aging, and when designing synthetic gene regulation circuits. Here, we systematically dissect this process in single cells by recruiting and releasing repressive chromatin regulators at dual-gene synthetic reporters, and measuring how fast gene silencing and reactivation spread as a function of intergenic distance and configuration of insulator elements. We find that silencing by KRAB, associated with histone methylation, spreads between two genes within hours, with a time delay that increases with distance. This fast KRAB-mediated spreading is not blocked by the classical cHS4 insulators. Silencing by histone deacetylase HDAC4 of the upstream gene can also facilitate background silencing of the downstream gene by PRC2, but with a days-long delay that does not change with distance. This slower silencing can sometimes be stopped by insulators. Gene reactivation of neighboring genes is also coupled, with strong promoters and insulators determining the order of reactivation. Our data can be described by a model of multi-gene regulation that builds upon previous knowledge of heterochromatin spreading, where both gene silencing and gene reactivation can act at a distance, allowing for coordinated dynamics via chromatin regulator recruitment.
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- Sarah Lensch
- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford UniversityStanfordUnited States
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- University of California, Berkeley—University of California, San Francisco Graduate Program in BioengineeringBerkeleyUnited States
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford UniversityStanfordUnited States
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- Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford UniversityStanfordUnited States
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford UniversityStanfordUnited States
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- Biophysics Program, Stanford UniversityStanfordUnited States
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford UniversityStanfordUnited States
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford UniversityStanfordUnited States
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Greenstein RA, Ng H, Barrales RR, Tan C, Braun S, Al-Sady B. Local chromatin context regulates the genetic requirements of the heterochromatin spreading reaction. PLoS Genet 2022; 18:e1010201. [PMID: 35584134 PMCID: PMC9154106 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1010201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2021] [Revised: 05/31/2022] [Accepted: 04/13/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Heterochromatin spreading, the expansion of repressive chromatin structure from sequence-specific nucleation sites, is critical for stable gene silencing. Spreading re-establishes gene-poor constitutive heterochromatin across cell cycles but can also invade gene-rich euchromatin de novo to steer cell fate decisions. How chromatin context (i.e. euchromatic, heterochromatic) or different nucleation pathways influence heterochromatin spreading remains poorly understood. Previously, we developed a single-cell sensor in fission yeast that can separately record heterochromatic gene silencing at nucleation sequences and distal sites. Here we couple our quantitative assay to a genetic screen to identify genes encoding nuclear factors linked to the regulation of heterochromatin nucleation and the distal spreading of gene silencing. We find that mechanisms underlying gene silencing distal to a nucleation site differ by chromatin context. For example, Clr6 histone deacetylase complexes containing the Fkh2 transcription factor are specifically required for heterochromatin spreading at constitutive sites. Fkh2 recruits Clr6 to nucleation-distal chromatin sites in such contexts. In addition, we find that a number of chromatin remodeling complexes antagonize nucleation-distal gene silencing. Our results separate the regulation of heterochromatic gene silencing at nucleation versus distal sites and show that it is controlled by context-dependent mechanisms. The results of our genetic analysis constitute a broad community resource that will support further analysis of the mechanisms underlying the spread of epigenetic silencing along chromatin. Repressive structures, or heterochromatin, are seeded at specific genome sequences and then “spread” to silence nearby chromosomal regions. While much is known about the factors that seed heterochromatin, the genetic requirements for spreading are less clear. We devised a fission yeast single-cell method to examine how gene silencing is propagated by the heterochromatin spreading process specifically. Here we use this platform to ask if specific genes are required for the spreading process and whether the same or different genes direct spreading from different chromosomal seeding sites. We find a significant number of genes that specifically promote or antagonize the heterochromatin spreading process. However, different genes are required to enact spreading from different seeding sites. These results have potential implications for cell fate specification, where genes are newly silenced by heterochromatin spreading from diverse chromosomal sites. In a central finding, we show that the Clr6 protein complex, which removes chromatin marks linked to active genes, associates with the Forkhead 2 transcription factor to promote spreading of silencing structures from seeding sites at numerous chromosomal loci. In contrast, we show that proteins that remodel chromatin antagonize the spreading of gene silencing.
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- R. A. Greenstein
- Department of Microbiology &Immunology, George Williams Hooper Foundation, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- TETRAD graduate program, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Department of Microbiology &Immunology, George Williams Hooper Foundation, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- TETRAD graduate program, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Biomedical Center, Department of Physiological Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität of Munich, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
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- Department of Cell and Tissue Biology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Biomedical Sciences graduate program, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Biomedical Center, Department of Physiological Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität of Munich, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
- Institute for Genetics, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Microbiology &Immunology, George Williams Hooper Foundation, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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Bao K, Shan CM, Chen X, Raiymbek G, Monroe JG, Fang Y, Toda T, Koutmou KS, Ragunathan K, Lu C, Berchowitz LE, Jia S. The cAMP signaling pathway regulates Epe1 protein levels and heterochromatin assembly. PLoS Genet 2022; 18:e1010049. [PMID: 35171902 PMCID: PMC8887748 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1010049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2021] [Revised: 03/01/2022] [Accepted: 01/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The epigenetic landscape of a cell frequently changes in response to fluctuations in nutrient levels, but the mechanistic link is not well understood. In fission yeast, the JmjC domain protein Epe1 is critical for maintaining the heterochromatin landscape. While loss of Epe1 results in heterochromatin expansion, overexpression of Epe1 leads to defective heterochromatin. Through a genetic screen, we found that mutations in genes of the cAMP signaling pathway suppress the heterochromatin defects associated with Epe1 overexpression. We further demonstrated that the activation of Pka1, the downstream effector of cAMP signaling, is required for the efficient translation of epe1+ mRNA to maintain Epe1 overexpression. Moreover, inactivation of the cAMP-signaling pathway, either through genetic mutations or glucose deprivation, leads to the reduction of endogenous Epe1 and corresponding heterochromatin changes. These results reveal the mechanism by which the cAMP signaling pathway regulates heterochromatin landscape in fission yeast. Genomic DNA is folded with histones into chromatin and posttranslational modifications on histones separate chromatin into active euchromatin and repressive heterochromatin. These chromatin domains often change in response to environmental cues, such as nutrient levels. How environmental changes affect histone modifications is not well understood. Here, we found that in fission yeast, the cAMP signaling pathway is required for the function of Epe1, an enzyme that removes histone modifications associated with heterochromatin. Moreover, we found that active cAMP signaling ensures the efficient translation of epe1+ mRNA and therefore maintains high Epe1 protein levels. Finally, we show that changing glucose levels, which modulate cAMP signaling, also affect heterochromatin in a way consistent with cAMP signaling-mediated Epe1 protein level changes. As histone-modifying enzymes often require cofactors that are metabolic intermediates, previous studies on the impact of nutrient levels on chromatin states have mainly focused on metabolites. Our results suggest that nutrient-sensing signaling pathways also regulate histone-modifying enzymes in response to nutritional conditions.
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- Kehan Bao
- Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
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- Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
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The histone chaperone FACT facilitates heterochromatin spreading by regulating histone turnover and H3K9 methylation states. Cell Rep 2021; 37:109944. [PMID: 34731638 PMCID: PMC8608617 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109944] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2021] [Revised: 09/14/2021] [Accepted: 10/13/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Heterochromatin formation requires three distinct steps: nucleation, self-propagation (spreading) along the chromosome, and faithful maintenance after each replication cycle. Impeding any of those steps induces heterochromatin defects and improper gene expression. The essential histone chaperone FACT (facilitates chromatin transcription) has been implicated in heterochromatin silencing, but the mechanisms by which FACT engages in this process remain opaque. Here, we pinpoint its function to the heterochromatin spreading process in fission yeast. FACT impairment reduces nucleation-distal H3K9me3 and HP1/Swi6 accumulation at subtelomeres and derepresses genes in the vicinity of heterochromatin boundaries. FACT promotes spreading by repressing heterochromatic histone turnover, which is crucial for the H3K9me2 to me3 transition that enables spreading. FACT mutant spreading defects are suppressed by removal of the H3K9 methylation antagonist Epe1. Together, our study identifies FACT as a histone chaperone that promotes heterochromatin spreading and lends support to the model that regulated histone turnover controls the propagation of repressive methylation marks. Heterochromatin establishment requires distinct nucleation and spreading steps. Murawska et al. show that the conserved and essential histone chaperone FACT facilitates the heterochromatin spreading process by maintaining low heterochromatic histone turnover, which enables a productive H3K9 trimethylation step by the methyltransferase Clr4 in fission yeast.
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Inagaki S. Silencing and anti-silencing mechanisms that shape the epigenome in plants. Genes Genet Syst 2021; 96:217-228. [PMID: 34719532 DOI: 10.1266/ggs.21-00041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Epigenome information mediates genome function and maintenance by regulating gene expression and chromatin organization. Because the epigenome pattern can change in response to internal and external environments, it may underlie an adaptive genome response that modulates phenotypes during development and in changing environments. Here I summarize recent progress in our understanding of how epigenome patterns are shaped and modulated by concerted actions of silencing and anti-silencing factors mainly in Arabidopsis thaliana. I discuss the dynamic nature of epigenome regulation, which is realized by cooperation and counteraction among silencing and anti-silencing factors, and how the dynamic epigenome mediates robust and plastic responses of plants to fluctuating environments.
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- Soichi Inagaki
- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo.,PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency
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Wang X, Paulo JA, Li X, Zhou H, Yu J, Gygi SP, Moazed D. A composite DNA element that functions as a maintainer required for epigenetic inheritance of heterochromatin. Mol Cell 2021; 81:3979-3991.e4. [PMID: 34375584 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2021.07.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2020] [Revised: 04/27/2021] [Accepted: 07/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Epigenetic inheritance of heterochromatin requires DNA-sequence-independent propagation mechanisms, coupling to RNAi, or input from DNA sequence, but how DNA contributes to inheritance is not understood. Here, we identify a DNA element (termed "maintainer") that is sufficient for epigenetic inheritance of pre-existing histone H3 lysine 9 methylation (H3K9me) and heterochromatin in Schizosaccharomyces pombe but cannot establish de novo gene silencing in wild-type cells. This maintainer is a composite DNA element with binding sites for the Atf1/Pcr1 and Deb1 transcription factors and the origin recognition complex (ORC), located within a 130-bp region, and can be converted to a silencer in cells with lower rates of H3K9me turnover, suggesting that it participates in recruiting the H3K9 methyltransferase Clr4/Suv39h. These results suggest that, in the absence of RNAi, histone H3K9me is only heritable when it can collaborate with maintainer-associated DNA-binding proteins that help recruit the enzyme responsible for its epigenetic deposition.
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- Xiaoyi Wang
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology Program, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
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Spreading and epigenetic inheritance of heterochromatin require a critical density of histone H3 lysine 9 tri-methylation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2021; 118:2100699118. [PMID: 34035174 PMCID: PMC8179192 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2100699118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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In multicellular organisms, a single genome gives rise to a multitude of cell types by enforcing appropriate gene expression patterns. Epigenetic mechanisms involving modification of histones, including tri-methylation of histone H3 lysine 9 (H3K9me3), assemble and propagate repressive heterochromatin to prevent untimely gene expression. Dysregulation of epigenetic gene-silencing mechanisms is a hallmark of a variety of diseases including cancer. However, the requirements for epigenetic transmission of heterochromatin are not well understood. This study reveals the mechanism by which methylated histones provide an epigenetic template for heterochromatin propagation. We discover that a critical threshold of H3K9me3 is required for effective chromatin-association of the histone methyltransferase, which binds to and catalyzes additional H3K9me to propagate heterochromatin and enforce stable gene silencing. Heterochromatin assembly requires methylation of histone H3 lysine 9 (H3K9me) and serves as a paradigm for understanding the importance of histone modifications in epigenetic genome control. Heterochromatin is nucleated at specific genomic sites and spreads across extended chromosomal domains to promote gene silencing. Moreover, heterochromatic structures can be epigenetically inherited in a self-templating manner, which is critical for stable gene repression. The spreading and inheritance of heterochromatin are believed to be dependent on preexisting H3K9 tri-methylation (H3K9me3), which is recognized by the histone methyltransferase Clr4/Suv39h via its chromodomain, to promote further deposition of H3K9me. However, the process involving the coupling of the “read” and “write” capabilities of histone methyltransferases is poorly understood. From an unbiased genetic screen, we characterize a dominant-negative mutation in histone H3 (H3G13D) that impairs the propagation of endogenous and ectopic heterochromatin domains in the fission yeast genome. H3G13D blocks methylation of H3K9 by the Clr4/Suv39h methyltransferase and acts in a dosage-dependent manner to interfere with the spreading and maintenance of heterochromatin. Our analyses show that the incorporation of unmethylatable histone H3G13D into chromatin decreases H3K9me3 density and thereby compromises the read-write capability of Clr4/Suv39h. Consistently, enhancing the affinity of Clr4/Suv39h for methylated H3K9 is sufficient to overcome the defects in heterochromatin assembly caused by H3G13D. Our work directly implicates methylated histones in the transmission of epigenetic memory and shows that a critical density threshold of H3K9me3 is required to promote epigenetic inheritance of heterochromatin through the read-write mechanism.
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Shan CM, Bao K, Diedrich J, Chen X, Lu C, Yates JR, Jia S. The INO80 Complex Regulates Epigenetic Inheritance of Heterochromatin. Cell Rep 2020; 33:108561. [PMID: 33378674 PMCID: PMC7896557 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.108561] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2020] [Revised: 10/31/2020] [Accepted: 12/03/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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One key aspect of epigenetic inheritance is that chromatin structures can be stably inherited through generations after the removal of the signals that establish such structures. In fission yeast, the RNA interference (RNAi) pathway is critical for the targeting of histone methyltransferase Clr4 to pericentric repeats to establish heterochromatin. However, pericentric heterochromatin cannot be properly inherited in the absence of RNAi, suggesting the existence of mechanisms that counteract chromatin structure inheritance. Here, we show that mutations of components of the INO80 chromatin-remodeling complex allow pericentric heterochromatin inheritance in RNAi mutants. The ability of INO80 to counter heterochromatin inheritance is attributed to one subunit, Iec5, which promotes histone turnover at heterochromatin but has little effects on nucleosome positioning at heterochromatin, gene expression, or the DNA damage response. These analyses demonstrate the importance of the INO80 chromatin-remodeling complex in controlling heterochromatin inheritance and maintaining the proper heterochromatin landscape of the genome.
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- Chun-Min Shan
- Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
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- Department of Chemical Physiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA; Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Department of Chemical Physiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.
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Torres-Garcia S, Di Pompeo L, Eivers L, Gaborieau B, White SA, Pidoux AL, Kanigowska P, Yaseen I, Cai Y, Allshire RC. SpEDIT: A fast and efficient CRISPR/Cas9 method for fission yeast. Wellcome Open Res 2020; 5:274. [PMID: 33313420 PMCID: PMC7721064 DOI: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16405.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/10/2020] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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The CRISPR/Cas9 system allows scarless, marker-free genome editing. Current CRISPR/Cas9 systems for the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe rely on tedious and time-consuming cloning procedures to introduce a specific sgRNA target sequence into a Cas9-expressing plasmid. In addition, Cas9 endonuclease has been reported to be toxic to fission yeast when constitutively overexpressed from the strong adh1 promoter. To overcome these problems we have developed an improved system, SpEDIT, that uses a synthesised Cas9 sequence codon-optimised for S. pombe expressed from the medium strength adh15 promoter. The SpEDIT system exhibits a flexible modular design where the sgRNA is fused to the 3' end of the self-cleaving hepatitis delta virus (HDV) ribozyme, allowing expression of the sgRNA cassette to be driven by RNA polymerase III from a tRNA gene sequence. Lastly, the inclusion of sites for the BsaI type IIS restriction enzyme flanking a GFP placeholder enables one-step Golden Gate mediated replacement of GFP with synthesized sgRNAs for expression. The SpEDIT system allowed a 100% mutagenesis efficiency to be achieved when generating targeted point mutants in the ade6 + or ura4 + genes by transformation of cells from asynchronous cultures. SpEDIT also permitted insertion, tagging and deletion events to be obtained with minimal effort. Simultaneous editing of two independent non-homologous loci was also readily achieved. Importantly the SpEDIT system displayed reduced toxicity compared to currently available S. pombe editing systems. Thus, SpEDIT provides an effective and user-friendly CRISPR/Cas9 procedure that significantly improves the genome editing toolbox for fission yeast.
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- Sito Torres-Garcia
- Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology and Institute of Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3BF, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology and Institute of Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3BF, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology and Institute of Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3BF, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology and Institute of Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3BF, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology and Institute of Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3BF, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology and Institute of Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3BF, UK
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3BF, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology and Institute of Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3BF, UK
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3BF, UK,Present address: Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of Manchester, Manchester, M1 7DN, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology and Institute of Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3BF, UK,
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Rogers AK, Phillips CM. A Small-RNA-Mediated Feedback Loop Maintains Proper Levels of 22G-RNAs in C. elegans. Cell Rep 2020; 33:108279. [PMID: 33086057 PMCID: PMC7603289 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.108279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2020] [Revised: 08/27/2020] [Accepted: 09/24/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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RNA interference (RNAi) is an essential regulatory mechanism in all animals. In Caenorhabditis elegans, several classes of small RNAs act to silence or license expression of mRNA targets. ERI-6/7 is required for the production of some endogenous small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) and acts as a negative regulator of the exogenous RNAi pathway. We find that the genomic locus encoding eri-6/7 contains two distinct regions that are targeted by endogenous siRNAs. Loss of these siRNAs disrupts eri-6/7 mRNA expression, resulting in increased production of siRNAs from other small RNA pathways because these pathways compete with eri-6/7-dependent transcripts for access to the downstream siRNA amplification machinery. Thus, the pathway acts like a small-RNA-mediated feedback loop to ensure homeostasis of gene expression by small RNA pathways. Similar feedback loops that maintain chromatin homeostasis have been identified in yeast and Drosophila melanogaster, suggesting an evolutionary conservation of feedback mechanisms in gene regulatory pathways.
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- Alicia K Rogers
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.
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Epigenetic gene silencing by heterochromatin primes fungal resistance. Nature 2020; 585:453-458. [PMID: 32908306 PMCID: PMC7116710 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2706-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2019] [Accepted: 06/12/2020] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Heterochromatin that depends on histone H3 lysine 9 methylation (H3K9me) renders embedded genes transcriptionally silent1-3. In the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, H3K9me heterochromatin can be transmitted through cell division provided the counteracting demethylase Epe1 is absent4,5. Heterochromatin heritability might allow wild-type cells under certain conditions to acquire epimutations, which could influence phenotype through unstable gene silencing rather than DNA change6,7. Here we show that heterochromatin-dependent epimutants resistant to caffeine arise in fission yeast grown with threshold levels of caffeine. Isolates with unstable resistance have distinct heterochromatin islands with reduced expression of embedded genes, including some whose mutation confers caffeine resistance. Forced heterochromatin formation at implicated loci confirms that resistance results from heterochromatin-mediated silencing. Our analyses reveal that epigenetic processes promote phenotypic plasticity, letting wild-type cells adapt to unfavourable environments without genetic alteration. In some isolates, subsequent or coincident gene-amplification events augment resistance. Caffeine affects two anti-silencing factors: Epe1 is downregulated, reducing its chromatin association, and a shortened isoform of Mst2 histone acetyltransferase is expressed. Thus, heterochromatin-dependent epimutation provides a bet-hedging strategy allowing cells to adapt transiently to insults while remaining genetically wild type. Isolates with unstable caffeine resistance show cross-resistance to antifungal agents, suggesting that related heterochromatin-dependent processes may contribute to resistance of plant and human fungal pathogens to such agents.
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Torres DE, Oggenfuss U, Croll D, Seidl MF. Genome evolution in fungal plant pathogens: looking beyond the two-speed genome model. FUNGAL BIOL REV 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.fbr.2020.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Liu J, Ali M, Zhou Q. Establishment and evolution of heterochromatin. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2020; 1476:59-77. [PMID: 32017156 PMCID: PMC7586837 DOI: 10.1111/nyas.14303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2019] [Revised: 10/31/2019] [Accepted: 01/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The eukaryotic genome is packaged into transcriptionally active euchromatin and silent heterochromatin, with most studies focused on the former encompassing the majority of protein-coding genes. The recent development of various sequencing techniques has refined this classic dichromatic partition and has better illuminated the composition, establishment, and evolution of this genomic and epigenomic "dark matter" in the context of topologically associated domains and phase-separated droplets. Heterochromatin includes genomic regions that can be densely stained by chemical dyes, which have been shown to be enriched for repetitive elements and epigenetic marks, including H3K9me2/3 and H3K27me3. Heterochromatin is usually replicated late, concentrated at the nuclear periphery or around nucleoli, and usually lacks highly expressed genes; and now it is considered to be as neither genetically inert nor developmentally static. Heterochromatin guards genome integrity against transposon activities and exerts important regulatory functions by targeting beyond its contained genes. Both its nucleotide sequences and regulatory proteins exhibit rapid coevolution between species. In addition, there are dynamic transitions between euchromatin and heterochromatin during developmental and evolutionary processes. We summarize here the ever-changing characteristics of heterochromatin and propose models and principles for the evolutionary transitions of heterochromatin that have been mainly learned from studies of Drosophila and yeast. Finally, we highlight the role of sex chromosomes in studying heterochromatin evolution.
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- Jing Liu
- MOE Laboratory of Biosystems Homeostasis & Protection, Life Sciences InstituteZhejiang UniversityHangzhouChina
- Department of Molecular Evolution and DevelopmentUniversity of ViennaViennaAustria
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- Department of Molecular Evolution and DevelopmentUniversity of ViennaViennaAustria
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- MOE Laboratory of Biosystems Homeostasis & Protection, Life Sciences InstituteZhejiang UniversityHangzhouChina
- Department of Molecular Evolution and DevelopmentUniversity of ViennaViennaAustria
- Center for Reproductive Medicine, The 2nd Affiliated Hospital, School of MedicineZhejiang UniversityHangzhouChina
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Sun L, Liu XM, Li WZ, Yi YY, He X, Wang Y, Jin QW. The molecular chaperone Hsp90 regulates heterochromatin assembly through stabilizing multiple complexes in fission yeast. J Cell Sci 2020; 133:jcs244863. [PMID: 32499408 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.244863] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2020] [Accepted: 05/18/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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In the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, both RNAi machinery and RNAi-independent factors mediate transcriptional and posttranscriptional silencing and heterochromatin formation. Here, we show that the silencing of reporter genes at major native heterochromatic loci (centromeres, telomeres, mating-type locus and rDNA regions) and an artificially induced heterochromatin locus is alleviated in a fission yeast hsp90 mutant, hsp90-G84C Also, H3K9me2 enrichment at heterochromatin regions, especially at the mating-type locus and subtelomeres, is compromised, suggesting heterochromatin assembly defects. We further discovered that Hsp90 is required for stabilization or assembly of the RNA-induced transcriptional silencing (RITS) and Argonaute siRNA chaperone (ARC) RNAi effector complexes, the RNAi-independent factor Fft3, the shelterin complex subunit Poz1 and the Snf2/HDAC-containing repressor complex (SHREC). Our ChIP data suggest that Hsp90 regulates the efficient recruitment of the methyltransferase/ubiquitin ligase complex CLRC by shelterin to chromosome ends and targeting of the SHREC and Fft3 to mating type locus and/or rDNA region. Finally, our genetic analyses demonstrated that increased heterochromatin spreading restores silencing at subtelomeres in the hsp90-G84C mutant. Thus, this work uncovers a conserved factor critical for promoting RNAi-dependent and -independent heterochromatin assembly and gene silencing through stabilizing multiple effectors and effector complexes.
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- Li Sun
- State Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, Fujian, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, Fujian, China
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- Life Sciences Institute and Innovation Center for Cell Signaling Network, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, Zhejiang, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, Fujian, China
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- Life Sciences Institute and Innovation Center for Cell Signaling Network, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, Zhejiang, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, Fujian, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, Fujian, China
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Raiymbek G, An S, Khurana N, Gopinath S, Larkin A, Biswas S, Trievel RC, Cho US, Ragunathan K. An H3K9 methylation-dependent protein interaction regulates the non-enzymatic functions of a putative histone demethylase. eLife 2020; 9:53155. [PMID: 32195666 PMCID: PMC7192584 DOI: 10.7554/elife.53155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2019] [Accepted: 03/19/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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H3K9 methylation (H3K9me) specifies the establishment and maintenance of transcriptionally silent epigenetic states or heterochromatin. The enzymatic erasure of histone modifications is widely assumed to be the primary mechanism that reverses epigenetic silencing. Here, we reveal an inversion of this paradigm where a putative histone demethylase Epe1 in fission yeast, has a non-enzymatic function that opposes heterochromatin assembly. Mutations within the putative catalytic JmjC domain of Epe1 disrupt its interaction with Swi6HP1 suggesting that this domain might have other functions besides enzymatic activity. The C-terminus of Epe1 directly interacts with Swi6HP1, and H3K9 methylation stimulates this protein-protein interaction in vitro and in vivo. Expressing the Epe1 C-terminus is sufficient to disrupt heterochromatin by outcompeting the histone deacetylase, Clr3 from sites of heterochromatin formation. Our results underscore how histone modifying proteins that resemble enzymes have non-catalytic functions that regulate the assembly of epigenetic complexes in cells. A cell’s identity depends on which of its genes are active. One way for cells to control this process is to change how accessible their genes are to the molecular machinery that switches them on and off. Special proteins called histones determine how accessible genes are by altering how loosely or tightly DNA is packed together. Histones can be modified by enzymes, which are proteins that add or remove specific chemical ‘tags’. These tags regulate how accessible genes are and provide cells with a memory of gene activity. For example, a protein found in yeast called Epe1 helps reactivate large groups of genes after cell division, effectively ‘re-setting’ the yeast’s genome and eliminating past memories of the genes being inactive. For a long time, Epe1 was thought to do this by removing methyl groups, a ‘tag’ that indicates a gene is inactive, from histones – that is, by acting like an enzyme. However, no direct evidence to support this hypothesis has been found. Raiymbek et al. therefore set out to determine exactly how Epe1 worked, and whether or not it did indeed behave like an enzyme. Initial experiments testing mutant versions of Epe1 in yeast cells showed that the changes expected to stop Epe1 from removing methyl groups instead prevented the protein from ‘homing’ to the sections of DNA it normally activates. Detailed microscope imaging, using live yeast cells engineered to produce proteins with fluorescent markers, revealed that this inability to ‘home’ was due to a loss of interaction with Epe1’s main partner, a protein called Swi6. This protein recognizes and binds histones that have methyl tags. Swi6 also acts as a docking site for proteins involved in deactivating genes in close proximity to these histones. Further biochemical studies revealed how the interaction between Epe1 and Swi6 can help in gene reactivation. The methyl tag on histones in inactive regions of the genome inadvertently helps Epe1 interact more efficiently with Swi6. Then, Epe1 can simply block every other protein that binds to Swi6 from participating in gene deactivation. This observation contrasts with the prevailing view where the active removal of methyl tags by proteins such as Epe1 switches genes from an inactive to an active state. This work shows for the first time that Epe1 influences the state of the genome through a process that does not involve enzyme activity. In other words, although the protein may ‘moonlight’ as an enzyme, its main job uses a completely different mechanism. More broadly, these results increase the understanding of the many different ways that gene activity, and ultimately cell identity, can be controlled.
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- Gulzhan Raiymbek
- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States.,Department of Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States.,Department of Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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Small RNAs in the Transgenerational Inheritance of Epigenetic Information. Trends Genet 2020; 36:203-214. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2019.12.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2019] [Revised: 11/19/2019] [Accepted: 12/06/2019] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Georgescu PR, Capella M, Fischer-Burkart S, Braun S. The euchromatic histone mark H3K36me3 preserves heterochromatin through sequestration of an acetyltransferase complex in fission yeast. MICROBIAL CELL 2020; 7:80-92. [PMID: 32161768 PMCID: PMC7052950 DOI: 10.15698/mic2020.03.711] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Maintaining the identity of chromatin states requires mechanisms that ensure their structural integrity through the concerted actions of histone modifiers, readers, and erasers. Histone H3K9me and H3K27me are hallmarks of repressed heterochromatin, whereas H3K4me and H3K36me are associated with actively transcribed euchromatin. Paradoxically, several studies have reported that loss of Set2, the methyltransferase responsible for H3K36me, causes de-repression of heterochromatin. Here we show that unconstrained activity of the acetyltransferase complex Mst2C, which antagonizes heterochromatin, is the main cause of the silencing defects observed in Set2-deficient cells. As previously shown, Mst2C is sequestered to actively transcribed chromatin via binding to H3K36me3 that is recognized by the PWWP domain protein Pdp3. We demonstrate that combining deletions of set2+ and pdp3+ results in an epistatic silencing phenotype. In contrast, deleting mst2+, or other members of Mst2C, fully restores silencing in Set2-deficient cells. Suppression of the silencing defect in set2Δ cells is specific for pericentromeres and subtelomeres, which are marked by H3K9me, but is not seen for loci that lack genuine heterochromatin. Mst2 is known to acetylate histone H3K14 redundantly with the HAT Gnc5. Further, it is involved in the acetylation of the non-histone substrate and E3 ubiquitin ligase Brl1, resulting in increased H2B-K119 ubiquitylation at euchromatin. However, we reveal that none of these mechanisms are responsible for the Set2-dependent silencing pathway, implying that Mst2 targets another, unknown substrate critical for heterochromatin silencing. Our findings demonstrate that maintenance of chromatin states requires spatial constraint of opposing chromatin activities.
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- Paula R Georgescu
- Department of Physiological Chemistry, BioMedical Center (BMC), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Martinsried, Germany
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- Department of Physiological Chemistry, BioMedical Center (BMC), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Martinsried, Germany
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- Department of Physiological Chemistry, BioMedical Center (BMC), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Martinsried, Germany
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- Department of Physiological Chemistry, BioMedical Center (BMC), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Martinsried, Germany
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The SUMO Ligase Su(var)2-10 Controls Hetero- and Euchromatic Gene Expression via Establishing H3K9 Trimethylation and Negative Feedback Regulation. Mol Cell 2019; 77:571-585.e4. [PMID: 31901448 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2019.09.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2019] [Revised: 06/11/2019] [Accepted: 09/26/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Сhromatin is critical for genome compaction and gene expression. On a coarse scale, the genome is divided into euchromatin, which harbors the majority of genes and is enriched in active chromatin marks, and heterochromatin, which is gene-poor but repeat-rich. The conserved molecular hallmark of heterochromatin is the H3K9me3 modification, which is associated with gene silencing. We found that in Drosophila, deposition of most of the H3K9me3 mark depends on SUMO and the SUMO ligase Su(var)2-10, which recruits the histone methyltransferase complex SetDB1/Wde. In addition to repressing repeats, H3K9me3 influences expression of both hetero- and euchromatic host genes. High H3K9me3 levels in heterochromatin are required to suppress spurious transcription and ensure proper gene expression. In euchromatin, a set of conserved genes is repressed by Su(var)2-10/SetDB1-induced H3K9 trimethylation, ensuring tissue-specific gene expression. Several components of heterochromatin are themselves repressed by this pathway, providing a negative feedback mechanism to ensure chromatin homeostasis.
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Greenstein RA, Barrales RR, Sanchez NA, Bisanz JE, Braun S, Al-Sady B. Set1/COMPASS repels heterochromatin invasion at euchromatic sites by disrupting Suv39/Clr4 activity and nucleosome stability. Genes Dev 2019; 34:99-117. [PMID: 31805521 PMCID: PMC6938669 DOI: 10.1101/gad.328468.119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2019] [Accepted: 10/30/2019] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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In this study, Greenstein et al. set out to define the spatial encoding signals within euchromatin that act to limit heterochromatin spreading. Using molecular and cell-based assays in fission yeast, the authors report that heterochromatin repulsion is locally encoded by Set1/COMPASS on certain actively transcribed genes and that this protective role is most prominent at heterochromatin islands, small domains interspersed in euchromatin that regulate cell fate specifiers. Protection of euchromatin from invasion by gene-repressive heterochromatin is critical for cellular health and viability. In addition to constitutive loci such as pericentromeres and subtelomeres, heterochromatin can be found interspersed in gene-rich euchromatin, where it regulates gene expression pertinent to cell fate. While heterochromatin and euchromatin are globally poised for mutual antagonism, the mechanisms underlying precise spatial encoding of heterochromatin containment within euchromatic sites remain opaque. We investigated ectopic heterochromatin invasion by manipulating the fission yeast mating type locus boundary using a single-cell spreading reporter system. We found that heterochromatin repulsion is locally encoded by Set1/COMPASS on certain actively transcribed genes and that this protective role is most prominent at heterochromatin islands, small domains interspersed in euchromatin that regulate cell fate specifiers. Sensitivity to invasion by heterochromatin, surprisingly, is not dependent on Set1 altering overall gene expression levels. Rather, the gene-protective effect is strictly dependent on Set1's catalytic activity. H3K4 methylation, the Set1 product, antagonizes spreading in two ways: directly inhibiting catalysis by Suv39/Clr4 and locally disrupting nucleosome stability. Taken together, these results describe a mechanism for spatial encoding of euchromatic signals that repel heterochromatin invasion.
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- R A Greenstein
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, George Williams Hooper Foundation, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, USA.,TETRAD Graduate Program, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
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- Department of Physiological Chemistry, Biomedical Center (BMC), Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, 82152 Martinsried, Germany.,International Max Planck Research School for Molecular and Cellular Life Sciences, 82152 Martinsried, Germany
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, George Williams Hooper Foundation, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, USA.,TETRAD Graduate Program, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, George Williams Hooper Foundation, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
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- Department of Physiological Chemistry, Biomedical Center (BMC), Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, 82152 Martinsried, Germany.,International Max Planck Research School for Molecular and Cellular Life Sciences, 82152 Martinsried, Germany
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, George Williams Hooper Foundation, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
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Sorida M, Murakami Y. Unprogrammed epigenetic variation mediated by stochastic formation of ectopic heterochromatin. Curr Genet 2019; 66:319-325. [PMID: 31598751 DOI: 10.1007/s00294-019-01031-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2019] [Revised: 08/20/2019] [Accepted: 08/21/2019] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Changes in gene expression via chromatin-mediated mechanisms are important for reprogramming and differentiation, but uncontrolled changes can potentially lead to harmful or adaptive phenotypic alteration. Thus, diversification of the genome-wide chromatin state must be strictly limited, but the underlying mechanism of this regulation is largely unknown. In this review, we focused on distribution of heterochromatin, a tight chromatin structure that negatively regulates gene expression. Heterochromatin is characterized by methylation of histone H3 at lysine 9, and its formation and spreading are controlled by H3K9-specific methyltransferases and reversal factors such as histone demethylases. We summarize recent findings and discuss how variability in the heterochromatin distribution is controlled in the unicellular eukaryote fission yeast. In this context, we recently found that the anti-silencing factor Epe1 plays a key role in the formation of the individual-specific heterochromatin distribution. In conclusion, recent studies revealed that there are many potential heterochromatin formation sites in the fission yeast genome, and several proteins contribute to suppression of spreading and genome-wide dispersal of heterochromatin; knowledge from fission yeast studies may provide insights into the mechanisms regulating epigenetic diversification in multicellular eukaryotes.
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- Masato Sorida
- Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0810, Japan
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- Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0810, Japan. .,Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0810, Japan.
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Ninova M, Fejes Tóth K, Aravin AA. The control of gene expression and cell identity by H3K9 trimethylation. Development 2019; 146:dev181180. [PMID: 31540910 PMCID: PMC6803365 DOI: 10.1242/dev.181180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Histone 3 lysine 9 trimethylation (H3K9me3) is a conserved histone modification that is best known for its role in constitutive heterochromatin formation and the repression of repetitive DNA elements. More recently, it has become evident that H3K9me3 is also deposited at certain loci in a tissue-specific manner and plays important roles in regulating cell identity. Notably, H3K9me3 can repress genes encoding silencing factors, pointing to a fundamental principle of repressive chromatin auto-regulation. Interestingly, recent studies have shown that H3K9me3 deposition requires protein SUMOylation in different contexts, suggesting that the SUMO pathway functions as an important module in gene silencing and heterochromatin formation. In this Review, we discuss the role of H3K9me3 in gene regulation in various systems and the molecular mechanisms that guide the silencing machinery to target loci.
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- Maria Ninova
- California Institute of Technology, Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, 147-75, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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- California Institute of Technology, Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, 147-75, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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- California Institute of Technology, Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, 147-75, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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Bao K, Jia S. Noncatalytic Function of a JmjC Domain Protein Disrupts Heterochromatin. Epigenet Insights 2019; 12:2516865719862249. [PMID: 31321383 PMCID: PMC6624913 DOI: 10.1177/2516865719862249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2019] [Accepted: 06/13/2019] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Chromatin-modifying enzymes are frequently overexpressed in cancer cells, and
their enzymatic activities play important roles in changing the epigenetic
landscape responsible for tumorigenesis. However, many of these proteins also
execute noncatalytic functions, which are poorly understood. In fission yeast,
overexpression of Epe1, a histone demethylase homolog, causes heterochromatin
defects. Interestingly, in our recent work, we discovered that overexpressed
Epe1 recruits SAGA, a histone acetyltransferase complex important for
transcriptional regulation, to disrupt heterochromatin, independent of its
demethylase activity. Our findings suggest that overexpressed
chromatin-modifying enzymes can alter the epigenetic landscape through changing
their proteomic environments, an area that needs to be further explored in
dissecting disease etiology associated with overexpression of chromatin
regulators.
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- Kehan Bao
- Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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Regulation of ectopic heterochromatin-mediated epigenetic diversification by the JmjC family protein Epe1. PLoS Genet 2019; 15:e1008129. [PMID: 31206516 PMCID: PMC6576747 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2018] [Accepted: 04/09/2019] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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H3K9 methylation (H3K9me) is a conserved marker of heterochromatin, a transcriptionally silent chromatin structure. Knowledge of the mechanisms for regulating heterochromatin distribution is limited. The fission yeast JmjC domain-containing protein Epe1 localizes to heterochromatin mainly through its interaction with Swi6, a homologue of heterochromatin protein 1 (HP1), and directs JmjC-mediated H3K9me demethylation in vivo. Here, we found that loss of epe1 (epe1Δ) induced a red-white variegated phenotype in a red-pigment accumulation background that generated uniform red colonies. Analysis of isolated red and white colonies revealed that silencing of genes involved in pigment accumulation by stochastic ectopic heterochromatin formation led to white colony formation. In addition, genome-wide analysis of red- and white-isolated clones revealed that epe1Δ resulted in a heterogeneous heterochromatin distribution among clones. We found that Epe1 had an N-terminal domain distinct from its JmjC domain, which activated transcription in both fission and budding yeasts. The N-terminal transcriptional activation (NTA) domain was involved in suppression of ectopic heterochromatin-mediated red-white variegation. We introduced a single copy of Epe1 into epe1Δ clones harboring ectopic heterochromatin, and found that Epe1 could reduce H3K9me from ectopic heterochromatin but some of the heterochromatin persisted. This persistence was due to a latent H3K9me source embedded in ectopic heterochromatin. Epe1H297A, a canonical JmjC mutant, suppressed red-white variegation, but entirely failed to remove already-established ectopic heterochromatin, suggesting that Epe1 prevented stochastic de novo deposition of ectopic H3K9me in an NTA-dependent but JmjC-independent manner, while its JmjC domain mediated removal of H3K9me from established ectopic heterochromatin. Our results suggest that Epe1 not only limits the distribution of heterochromatin but also controls the balance between suppression and retention of heterochromatin-mediated epigenetic diversification. Suppression of unscheduled epigenetic alterations is important for maintenance of homogeneity among clones, while emergence of epigenetic differences is also important for adaptation or differentiation. The mechanisms that balance both processes warrant further investigation. Epe1, a fission yeast JmjC domain-containing protein, is thought to be an H3K9me demethylase that targets ectopic heterochromatin via its JmjC-dependent demethylation function. Here we found that loss of epe1 induced stochastic ectopic heterochromatin formation genome-wide, suggesting that the fission yeast genome had multiple potential heterochromatin formation sites, which were protected by Epe1. We found that Epe1 prevented deposition of ectopic H3K9me independently of its JmjC-mediated demethylation before heterochromatin establishment. By contrast, Epe1 could attack already-established ectopic heterochromatin via its JmjC domain, but demethylation was not 100% effective, which provided a basis for epigenetic variation. Together, our findings indicate that Epe1 is involved in both maintenance and alteration of heterochromatin distribution, and shed light on the mechanisms controlling individual-specific epigenome profiles.
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Capella M, Braun S. Neutral epigenetic inheritance: being prepared for future generations. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2019; 26:391-392. [DOI: 10.1038/s41594-019-0239-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Bao K, Shan CM, Moresco J, Yates J, Jia S. Anti-silencing factor Epe1 associates with SAGA to regulate transcription within heterochromatin. Genes Dev 2018; 33:116-126. [PMID: 30573453 PMCID: PMC6317313 DOI: 10.1101/gad.318030.118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2018] [Accepted: 10/19/2018] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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In this study, Bao et al. investigated how transcription is regulated within heterochromatin in fission yeast. They show that overexpressed Epe1 associates with SAGA and recruits SAGA to heterochromatin regions (which leads to an increase in histone acetylation, transcription of repeats, and the disruption of heterochromatin) and that Epe1 recruits SAGA to regulate transcription within heterochromatin when expressed at normal levels. Heterochromatin is a highly condensed form of chromatin that silences gene transcription. Although high levels of transcriptional activities disrupt heterochromatin, transcription of repetitive DNA elements and subsequent processing of the transcripts by the RNAi machinery are required for heterochromatin assembly. In fission yeast, a JmjC domain protein, Epe1, promotes transcription of DNA repeats to facilitate heterochromatin formation, but overexpression of Epe1 leads to heterochromatin defects. However, the molecular function of Epe1 is not well understood. By screening the fission yeast deletion library, we found that heterochromatin defects associated with Epe1 overexpression are alleviated by mutations of the SAGA histone acetyltransferase complex. Overexpressed Epe1 associates with SAGA and recruits SAGA to heterochromatin regions, which leads to increased histone acetylation, transcription of repeats, and the disruption of heterochromatin. At its normal expression levels, Epe1 also associates with SAGA, albeit weakly. Such interaction regulates histone acetylation levels at heterochromatin and promotes transcription of repeats for heterochromatin assembly. Our results also suggest that increases of certain chromatin protein levels, which frequently occur in cancer cells, might strengthen relatively weak interactions to affect the epigenetic landscape.
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- Kehan Bao
- Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
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- Department of Molecular Medicine and Neurobiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
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- Department of Molecular Medicine and Neurobiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
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Lu M, He X. Intricate regulation on epigenetic stability of the subtelomeric heterochromatin and the centromeric chromatin in fission yeast. Curr Genet 2018; 65:381-386. [PMID: 30244281 DOI: 10.1007/s00294-018-0886-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2018] [Revised: 09/12/2018] [Accepted: 09/14/2018] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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In eukaryotes, the integrity of chromatin structure and organization is crucial to diverse key cellular processes from development to disease avoidance. To maintain the cell identity through mitotic cell generations, the genome (the genomic DNA sequence) as well as the epigenome (pertaining various forms of epigenetic information carriers, such as histone modifications, nucleosome positioning and the chromatin organization) is inherited with high fidelity. In comparison to the wealth of knowledge on genetic stability, we know much less on what may control the accuracy of epigenetic inheritance. In our recent work in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, by quantifying the epigenetic fidelity of CENP-A/Cnp1 or H3K9me2 nucleosome inheritance through cell divisions, we demonstrated that Ccp1, a homolog of histone chaperone Vps75 in budding yeast, participates in the modulation of centromeric nucleosomal epigenetic stability as well as proper heterochromatin organization. In this essay, we focus on discussing the uniquely high dynamicity of the subtelomeric heterochromatin regions and the complex mechanisms regulating epigenetic stability of centromeric chromatin.
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- Min Lu
- Life Sciences Institute and Innovation Center for Cell Signaling Network, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310058, China
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- Life Sciences Institute and Innovation Center for Cell Signaling Network, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310058, China.
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Parsa JY, Boudoukha S, Burke J, Homer C, Madhani HD. Polymerase pausing induced by sequence-specific RNA-binding protein drives heterochromatin assembly. Genes Dev 2018; 32:953-964. [PMID: 29967291 PMCID: PMC6075038 DOI: 10.1101/gad.310136.117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2017] [Accepted: 05/18/2018] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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In this study, Parsa et al. investigated the mechanisms underlying RNAi-independent heterochromatin assembly by the CTD–RRM protein Seb1 in S. pombe. They show that Seb1 promotes long-lived RNAPII pauses at pericentromeric repeat regions and that their presence correlates with the heterochromatin-triggering activities of the corresponding dg and dh DNA fragments, providing new insight into Seb1-mediated polymerase stalling as a signal necessary for heterochromatin nucleation. In Schizosaccharomyces pombe, transcripts derived from the pericentromeric dg and dh repeats promote heterochromatin formation via RNAi as well as an RNAi-independent mechanism involving the RNA polymerase II (RNAPII)-associated RNA-binding protein Seb1 and RNA processing activities. We show that Seb1 promotes long-lived RNAPII pauses at pericentromeric repeat regions and that their presence correlates with the heterochromatin-triggering activities of the corresponding dg and dh DNA fragments. Globally increasing RNAPII stalling by other means induces the formation of novel large ectopic heterochromatin domains. Such ectopic heterochromatin occurs even in cells lacking RNAi. These results uncover Seb1-mediated polymerase stalling as a signal necessary for heterochromatin nucleation.
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- Jahan-Yar Parsa
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, USA.,Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub, San Francisco, California 94158, USA
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Iglesias N, Currie MA, Jih G, Paulo JA, Siuti N, Kalocsay M, Gygi SP, Moazed D. Automethylation-induced conformational switch in Clr4 (Suv39h) maintains epigenetic stability. Nature 2018; 560:504-508. [PMID: 30051891 PMCID: PMC6287498 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0398-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2017] [Accepted: 07/13/2018] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Histone H3 lysine 9 methylation (H3K9me) mediates heterochromatic gene silencing and is important for genome stability and the regulation of gene expression1-4. The establishment and epigenetic maintenance of heterochromatin involve the recruitment of H3K9 methyltransferases to specific sites on DNA, followed by the recognition of pre-existing H3K9me by the methyltransferase and methylation of proximal histone H35-11. This positive feedback loop must be tightly regulated to prevent deleterious epigenetic gene silencing. Extrinsic anti-silencing mechanisms involving histone demethylation or boundary elements help to limit the spread of inappropriate H3K9me12-15. However, how H3K9 methyltransferase activity is locally restricted or prevented from initiating random H3K9me-which would lead to aberrant gene silencing and epigenetic instability-is not fully understood. Here we reveal an autoinhibited conformation in the conserved H3K9 methyltransferase Clr4 (also known as Suv39h) of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe that has a critical role in preventing aberrant heterochromatin formation. Biochemical and X-ray crystallographic data show that an internal loop in Clr4 inhibits the catalytic activity of this enzyme by blocking the histone H3K9 substrate-binding pocket, and that automethylation of specific lysines in this loop promotes a conformational switch that enhances the H3K9me activity of Clr4. Mutations that are predicted to disrupt this regulation lead to aberrant H3K9me, loss of heterochromatin domains and inhibition of growth, demonstrating the importance of the intrinsic inhibition and auto-activation of Clr4 in regulating the deposition of H3K9me and in preventing epigenetic instability. Conservation of the Clr4 autoregulatory loop in other H3K9 methyltransferases and the automethylation of a corresponding lysine in the human SUV39H2 homologue16 suggest that the mechanism described here is broadly conserved.
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- Nahid Iglesias
- Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, MA, USA.
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Heterochromatin is a key architectural feature of eukaryotic chromosomes, which endows particular genomic domains with specific functional properties. The capacity of heterochromatin to restrain the activity of mobile elements, isolate DNA repair in repetitive regions and ensure accurate chromosome segregation is crucial for maintaining genomic stability. Nucleosomes at heterochromatin regions display histone post-translational modifications that contribute to developmental regulation by restricting lineage-specific gene expression. The mechanisms of heterochromatin establishment and of heterochromatin maintenance are separable and involve the ability of sequence-specific factors bound to nascent transcripts to recruit chromatin-modifying enzymes. Heterochromatin can spread along the chromatin from nucleation sites. The propensity of heterochromatin to promote its own spreading and inheritance is counteracted by inhibitory factors. Because of its importance for chromosome function, heterochromatin has key roles in the pathogenesis of various human diseases. In this Review, we discuss conserved principles of heterochromatin formation and function using selected examples from studies of a range of eukaryotes, from yeast to human, with an emphasis on insights obtained from unicellular model organisms.
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Erdel F. How Communication Between Nucleosomes Enables Spreading and Epigenetic Memory of Histone Modifications. Bioessays 2017; 39. [PMID: 29034500 DOI: 10.1002/bies.201700053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2017] [Revised: 09/04/2017] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Nucleosomes "talk" to each other about their modification state to form extended domains of modified histones independently of the underlying DNA sequence. At the same time, DNA elements promote modification of nucleosomes in their vicinity. How do these site-specific and histone-based activities act together to regulate spreading of histone modifications along the genome? How do they enable epigenetic memory to preserve cell identity? Many models for the dynamics of repressive histone modifications emphasize the role of strong positive feedback loops, which reinforce histone modifications by recruiting histone modifiers to preexisting modifications. Recent experiments question that repressive histone modifications are self-sustained independently of their genomic context, thereby indicating that histone-based feedback is relatively weak. In the present review, current models for the dynamics of histone modifications are compared and it is suggested that limitation of histone-based feedback is key to intrinsic confinement of spreading and coexistence of short- and long-term memory at different genomic loci. See also the video abstract here: https://youtu.be/3bxr_xDEZfQ.
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- Fabian Erdel
- Division of Chromatin Networks, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and BioQuant, Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, Heidelberg, 69120, Germany
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Bartholomew B. Proteasomes beyond proteolysis: Roles in heterochromatin maintenance. J Biol Chem 2017; 292:17156-17157. [PMID: 29030538 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.h117.790824] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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In addition to its proteolytic roles, the 26S proteasome is involved in regulating transcription and in promoting sites of active chromatin. In this report, Seo et al. provide evidence that the non-proteolytic 19S subunit of the 26S proteasome also regulates the spreading of inactive chromatin referred to as heterochromatin, suggesting further non-canonical roles of the proteasome in gene expression.
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- Blaine Bartholomew
- From the Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030
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Salas-Pino S, Gallardo P, Barrales RR, Braun S, Daga RR. The fission yeast nucleoporin Alm1 is required for proteasomal degradation of kinetochore components. J Cell Biol 2017; 216:3591-3608. [PMID: 28974540 PMCID: PMC5674884 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201612194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2016] [Revised: 05/28/2017] [Accepted: 08/16/2017] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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TPR nucleoporins form the nuclear pore complex basket. The fission yeast TPR Alm1 is required for localization of the proteasome to the nuclear envelope, which is in turn required for kinetochore homeostasis and proper chromosome segregation. Kinetochores (KTs) are large multiprotein complexes that constitute the interface between centromeric chromatin and the mitotic spindle during chromosome segregation. In spite of their essential role, little is known about how centromeres and KTs are assembled and how their precise stoichiometry is regulated. In this study, we show that the nuclear pore basket component Alm1 is required to maintain both the proteasome and its anchor, Cut8, at the nuclear envelope, which in turn regulates proteostasis of certain inner KT components. Consistently, alm1-deleted cells show increased levels of KT proteins, including CENP-CCnp3, spindle assembly checkpoint activation, and chromosome segregation defects. Our data demonstrate a novel function of the nucleoporin Alm1 in proteasome localization required for KT homeostasis.
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- Silvia Salas-Pino
- Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo, Universidad Pablo de Olavide-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Junta de Andalucia, Seville, Spain
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- Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo, Universidad Pablo de Olavide-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Junta de Andalucia, Seville, Spain
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- Department of Physiological Chemistry, Biomedical Center Munich, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Planegg-Martiensried, Germany
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- Department of Physiological Chemistry, Biomedical Center Munich, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Planegg-Martiensried, Germany.,International Max Planck Research School for Molecular and Cellular Life Sciences, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
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- Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo, Universidad Pablo de Olavide-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Junta de Andalucia, Seville, Spain
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Seo HD, Choi Y, Kim M, Kang K, Urano T, Lee D. The 19S proteasome is directly involved in the regulation of heterochromatin spreading in fission yeast. J Biol Chem 2017; 292:17144-17155. [PMID: 28784663 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m117.790824] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2017] [Revised: 07/17/2017] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Cumulative evidence suggests that non-proteolytic functions of the proteasome are involved in transcriptional regulation, mRNA export, and ubiquitin-dependent histone modification and thereby modulate the intracellular levels of regulatory proteins implicated in controlling key cellular functions. To date, the non-proteolytic roles of the proteasome have been mainly investigated in euchromatin; their effects on heterochromatin are largely unknown. Here, using fission yeast as a model, we randomly mutagenized the subunits of the 19S proteasome subcomplex and sought to uncover a direct role of the proteasome in heterochromatin regulation. We identified a mutant allele, rpt4-1, that disrupts a non-proteolytic function of the proteasome, also known as a non-proteolytic allele. Experiments performed using rpt4-1 cells revealed that the proteasome is involved in the regulation of heterochromatin spreading to prevent its uncontrolled invasion into neighboring euchromatin regions. Intriguingly, the phenotype of the non-proteolytic rpt4-1 mutant resembled that of epe1Δ cells, which lack the Epe1 protein that counteracts heterochromatin spreading. Both mutants exhibited variegated gene-silencing phenotypes across yeast colonies, spreading of heterochromatin, bypassing of the requirement for RNAi in heterochromatin formation at the outer repeat region (otr), and up-regulation of RNA polymerase II. Further analysis revealed Mst2, another factor that antagonizes heterochromatin spreading, may function redundantly with Rpt4. These observations suggest that the 19S proteasome may be involved in modulating the activities of Epe1 and Mst2. In conclusion, our findings indicate that the proteasome appears to have a heterochromatin-regulating function that is independent of its canonical function in proteolysis.
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- Hogyu David Seo
- From the Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 34141, South Korea
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- From the Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 34141, South Korea
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- From the Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 34141, South Korea
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- Department of Microbiology, Dankook University, Cheonan, Chungnam 31116, South Korea, and
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Shimane University, Shimane 690-8504, Izumo, Japan
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- From the Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 34141, South Korea,
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In this introduction we discuss some basic genetic tools and techniques that are used with the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe Genes commonly used for selection or as reporters are discussed, with an emphasis on genes that permit counterselection, intragenic complementation, or colony-color assays. S. pombe is most stable as a haploid organism. We describe its mating-type system, how to perform genetic crosses and methods for selecting and propagating diploids. We discuss the relative merits of tetrad dissection and random spore preparation in strain construction and genetic analyses. Finally, we present several types of mutant screens, with an evaluation of their respective strengths and limitations in the light of emerging technologies such as next-generation sequencing.
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- Karl Ekwall
- Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm SE-141 83, Sweden;
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- Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen DK-2200, Denmark
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Flury V, Georgescu PR, Iesmantavicius V, Shimada Y, Kuzdere T, Braun S, Bühler M. The Histone Acetyltransferase Mst2 Protects Active Chromatin from Epigenetic Silencing by Acetylating the Ubiquitin Ligase Brl1. Mol Cell 2017. [PMID: 28648780 PMCID: PMC5526834 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2017.05.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Faithful propagation of functionally distinct chromatin states is crucial for maintaining cellular identity, and its breakdown can lead to diseases such as cancer. Whereas mechanisms that sustain repressed states have been intensely studied, regulatory circuits that protect active chromatin from inactivating signals are not well understood. Here we report a positive feedback loop that preserves the transcription-competent state of RNA polymerase II-transcribed genes. We found that Pdp3 recruits the histone acetyltransferase Mst2 to H3K36me3-marked chromatin. Thereby, Mst2 binds to all transcriptionally active regions genome-wide. Besides acetylating histone H3K14, Mst2 also acetylates Brl1, a component of the histone H2B ubiquitin ligase complex. Brl1 acetylation increases histone H2B ubiquitination, which positively feeds back on transcription and prevents ectopic heterochromatin assembly. Our work uncovers a molecular pathway that secures epigenome integrity and highlights the importance of opposing feedback loops for the partitioning of chromatin into transcriptionally active and inactive states.
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- Valentin Flury
- Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Maulbeerstrasse 66, 4058 Basel, Switzerland; University of Basel, Petersplatz 10, 4003 Basel, Switzerland
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- Biomedical Center Munich, Physiological Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Großhaderner Str. 9, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany
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- Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Maulbeerstrasse 66, 4058 Basel, Switzerland; University of Basel, Petersplatz 10, 4003 Basel, Switzerland
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- Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Maulbeerstrasse 66, 4058 Basel, Switzerland; University of Basel, Petersplatz 10, 4003 Basel, Switzerland
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- Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Maulbeerstrasse 66, 4058 Basel, Switzerland
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- Biomedical Center Munich, Physiological Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Großhaderner Str. 9, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany.
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- Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Maulbeerstrasse 66, 4058 Basel, Switzerland; University of Basel, Petersplatz 10, 4003 Basel, Switzerland.
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Ohzeki JI, Shono N, Otake K, Martins NMC, Kugou K, Kimura H, Nagase T, Larionov V, Earnshaw WC, Masumoto H. KAT7/HBO1/MYST2 Regulates CENP-A Chromatin Assembly by Antagonizing Suv39h1-Mediated Centromere Inactivation. Dev Cell 2017; 37:413-27. [PMID: 27270040 PMCID: PMC4906249 DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2016.05.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2015] [Revised: 04/08/2016] [Accepted: 05/09/2016] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
Abstract
Centromere chromatin containing histone H3 variant CENP-A is required for accurate chromosome segregation as a foundation for kinetochore assembly. Human centromere chromatin assembles on a part of the long α-satellite (alphoid) DNA array, where it is flanked by pericentric heterochromatin. Heterochromatin spreads into adjacent chromatin and represses gene expression, and it can antagonize centromere function or CENP-A assembly. Here, we demonstrate an interaction between CENP-A assembly factor M18BP1 and acetyltransferase KAT7/HBO1/MYST2. Knocking out KAT7 in HeLa cells reduced centromeric CENP-A assembly. Mitotic chromosome misalignment and micronuclei formation increased in the knockout cells and were enhanced when the histone H3-K9 trimethylase Suv39h1 was overproduced. Tethering KAT7 to an ectopic alphoid DNA integration site removed heterochromatic H3K9me3 modification and was sufficient to stimulate new CENP-A or histone H3.3 assembly. Thus, KAT7-containing acetyltransferases associating with the Mis18 complex provides competence for histone turnover/exchange activity on alphoid DNA and prevents Suv39h1-mediated heterochromatin invasion into centromeres. The histone acetyltransferase KAT7 positively regulates centromeric CENP-A assembly Human Mis18 complex is a scaffold for assembly of KAT7 and HJURP, a CENP-A chaperone KAT7 or RSF1 stimulates histone turnover/exchange on alphoid DNA KAT7 antagonizes H3K9-trimethylase Suv39h1-mediated centromere inactivation
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Affiliation(s)
- Jun-Ichirou Ohzeki
- Laboratory of Cell Engineering, Department of Frontier Research, Kazusa DNA Research Institute, 2-6-7 Kazusa-Kamatari, Kisarazu 292-0818, Japan
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- Laboratory of Cell Engineering, Department of Frontier Research, Kazusa DNA Research Institute, 2-6-7 Kazusa-Kamatari, Kisarazu 292-0818, Japan
| | - Koichiro Otake
- Laboratory of Cell Engineering, Department of Frontier Research, Kazusa DNA Research Institute, 2-6-7 Kazusa-Kamatari, Kisarazu 292-0818, Japan
| | - Nuno M C Martins
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3BF, UK
| | - Kazuto Kugou
- Laboratory of Cell Engineering, Department of Frontier Research, Kazusa DNA Research Institute, 2-6-7 Kazusa-Kamatari, Kisarazu 292-0818, Japan
| | - Hiroshi Kimura
- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama 226-8501, Japan
| | - Takahiro Nagase
- Public Relations Team, Kazusa DNA Research Institute, Kisarazu 292-0818, Japan
| | - Vladimir Larionov
- Genome Structure and Function Group, Developmental Therapeutics Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
| | - William C Earnshaw
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3BF, UK
| | - Hiroshi Masumoto
- Laboratory of Cell Engineering, Department of Frontier Research, Kazusa DNA Research Institute, 2-6-7 Kazusa-Kamatari, Kisarazu 292-0818, Japan.
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