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Kfoury-Beaumont N, Prakasam R, Pondugula S, Lagas JS, Matkovich S, Gontarz P, Yang L, Yano H, Kim AH, Rubin JB, Kroll KL. The H3K27M mutation alters stem cell growth, epigenetic regulation, and differentiation potential. BMC Biol 2022; 20:124. [PMID: 35637482 PMCID: PMC9153095 DOI: 10.1186/s12915-022-01324-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2021] [Accepted: 05/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Neurodevelopmental disorders increase brain tumor risk, suggesting that normal brain development may have protective properties. Mutations in epigenetic regulators are common in pediatric brain tumors, highlighting a potentially central role for disrupted epigenetic regulation of normal brain development in tumorigenesis. For example, lysine 27 to methionine mutation (H3K27M) in the H3F3A gene occurs frequently in Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Gliomas (DIPGs), the most aggressive pediatric glioma. As H3K27M mutation is necessary but insufficient to cause DIPGs, it is accompanied by additional mutations in tumors. However, how H3K27M alone increases vulnerability to DIPG tumorigenesis remains unclear. RESULTS Here, we used human embryonic stem cell models with this mutation, in the absence of other DIPG contributory mutations, to investigate how H3K27M alters cellular proliferation and differentiation. We found that H3K27M increased stem cell proliferation and stem cell properties. It interfered with differentiation, promoting anomalous mesodermal and ectodermal gene expression during both multi-lineage and germ layer-specific cell specification, and blocking normal differentiation into neuroectoderm. H3K27M mutant clones exhibited transcriptomic diversity relative to the more homogeneous wildtype population, suggesting reduced fidelity of gene regulation, with aberrant expression of genes involved in stem cell regulation, differentiation, and tumorigenesis. These phenomena were associated with global loss of H3K27me3 and concordant loss of DNA methylation at specific genes in H3K27M-expressing cells. CONCLUSIONS Together, these data suggest that H3K27M mutation disrupts normal differentiation, maintaining a partially differentiated state with elevated clonogenicity during early development. This disrupted response to early developmental cues could promote tissue properties that enable acquisition of additional mutations that cooperate with H3K27M mutation in genesis of DMG/DIPG. Therefore, this work demonstrates for the first time that H3K27M mutation confers vulnerability to gliomagenesis through persistent clonogenicity and aberrant differentiation and defines associated alterations of histone and DNA methylation.
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- N. Kfoury-Beaumont
- Department of Neurosurgery, University of California in San Diego, La Jolla, CA USA
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- Department of Developmental Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO USA
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- Center for Cardiovascular Research, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO USA
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- Department of Developmental Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO USA
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO USA
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO USA
- The Brain Tumor Center, Washington University School of Medicine, Siteman Cancer Center, St. Louis, MO USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO USA
- The Brain Tumor Center, Washington University School of Medicine, Siteman Cancer Center, St. Louis, MO USA
- Department of Neuroscience, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO USA
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- Department of Developmental Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO USA
- The Brain Tumor Center, Washington University School of Medicine, Siteman Cancer Center, St. Louis, MO USA
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Burks KH, Xie Y, Pondugula S, Neufeld T, Alisio A, Davidson NO, Stitziel NO. Abstract 116: Angptl3 Regulates Hepatic Lipoprotein Production: A New Model For Lipid Lowering? Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 2022. [DOI: 10.1161/atvb.42.suppl_1.116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/05/2022]
Abstract
Background:
Angiopoietin-like protein 3 (ANGPTL3
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is a hepatically secreted protein and therapeutic target for reducing plasma triglyceride-rich lipoproteins and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL). Although ANGPTL3 modulates lipolytic pathways in lipoprotein metabolism, its potential intra-hepatocyte role in very low-density lipoprotein (VLDL) assembly and secretion remains unknown. Furthermore, although ANGPTL3 inhibition reduces low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL), humans with complete LDL receptor (LDLR) deficiency exhibit LDLR-independent LDL lowering.
Methods:
We established hepatocyte cell culture systems, including CRISPR/Cas9-edited HepG2 cells with
ANGPTL3
“knocked out” (KO). We also generated hepatocyte-like cells from patient-derived isogenic pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) with and without ANGPTL3 KO. Radiolabeling was used to quantify apolipoprotein and triglyceride synthesis. Negative stain electron microscopy (NS-EM) was used to quantify the size of secreted lipoproteins.
Results:
We observed reduction of both apolipoprotein B100 and triglyceride synthesis and secretion in ANGPTL3 KO HepG2 cells. NS-EM demonstrated ANGPTL3-deficient HepG2 cells secrete significantly smaller lipoprotein particles compared to WT control cells. Together, these three findings suggest ANGPTL3 deficiency in hepatocytes results in the production of fewer, smaller, underlipidated lipoprotein particles.
Conclusion:
Our results point to an important intracellular role for ANGPTL3 within hepatocytes, suggesting that ANGPTL3 modifies the assembly and remodeling, as well as clearance, of hepatically secreted lipoproteins. Further experiments are planned to identify and characterize mechanistic mediators of this process. These studies have potential to identify additional targets for reducing plasma lipids via LDLR-independent pathways.
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- Washington Univ in Saint Louis SOM, Saint Louis, MO
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Venugopal K, Feng Y, Nowialis P, Xu H, Shabashvili DE, Berntsen CM, Kaur P, Krajcik KI, Taragjini C, Zaroogian Z, Casellas Román HL, Posada LM, Gunaratne C, Li J, Dupéré-Richer D, Bennett RL, Pondugula S, Riva A, Cogle CR, Opavsky R, Law BK, Bhaduri-McIntosh S, Kubicek S, Staber PB, Licht JD, Bird JE, Guryanova OA. DNMT3A Harboring Leukemia-Associated Mutations Directs Sensitivity to DNA Damage at Replication Forks. Clin Cancer Res 2021; 28:756-769. [PMID: 34716195 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-21-2863] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2021] [Revised: 10/10/2021] [Accepted: 10/27/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
PURPOSE In acute myeloid leukemia (AML), recurrent DNA methyltransferase 3A (DNMT3A) mutations are associated with chemoresistance and poor prognosis, especially in advanced-age patients. Gene-expression studies in DNMT3A-mutated cells identified signatures implicated in deregulated DNA damage response and replication fork integrity, suggesting sensitivity to replication stress. Here, we tested whether pharmacologically induced replication fork stalling, such as with cytarabine, creates a therapeutic vulnerability in cells with DNMT3A(R882) mutations. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN Leukemia cell lines, genetic mouse models, and isogenic cells with and without DNMT3A(mut) were used to evaluate sensitivity to nucleoside analogues such as cytarabine in vitro and in vivo, followed by analysis of DNA damage and signaling, replication restart, and cell-cycle progression on treatment and after drug removal. Transcriptome profiling identified pathways deregulated by DNMT3A(mut) expression. RESULTS We found increased sensitivity to pharmacologically induced replication stress in cells expressing DNMT3A(R882)-mutant, with persistent intra-S-phase checkpoint activation, impaired PARP1 recruitment, and elevated DNA damage, which was incompletely resolved after drug removal and carried through mitosis. Pulse-chase double-labeling experiments with EdU and BrdU after cytarabine washout demonstrated a higher rate of fork collapse in DNMT3A(mut)-expressing cells. RNA-seq studies supported deregulated cell-cycle progression and p53 activation, along with splicing, ribosome biogenesis, and metabolism. CONCLUSIONS Together, our studies show that DNMT3A mutations underlie a defect in recovery from replication fork arrest with subsequent accumulation of unresolved DNA damage, which may have therapeutic tractability. These results demonstrate that, in addition to its role in epigenetic control, DNMT3A contributes to preserving genome integrity during replication stress.
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- Kartika Venugopal
- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/ Oncology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/ Oncology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/ Oncology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida.,University of Florida Health Cancer Center, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida
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- University of Florida Health Cancer Center, Gainesville, Florida.,Bioinformatics Core, Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/ Oncology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida.,University of Florida Health Cancer Center, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida.,University of Florida Health Cancer Center, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida.,University of Florida Health Cancer Center, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida.,University of Florida Health Cancer Center, Gainesville, Florida.,Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida
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- CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
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- Division of Hematology and Hemostaseology, Department of Medicine 1, Comprehensive Cancer Center Vienna, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/ Oncology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida.,University of Florida Health Cancer Center, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida. .,University of Florida Health Cancer Center, Gainesville, Florida
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Weinstein B, da Silva AR, Kouzoukas DE, Bose T, Kim GJ, Correa PA, Pondugula S, Lee Y, Kim J, Carpenter DO. Precision Mapping of COVID-19 Vulnerable Locales by Epidemiological and Socioeconomic Risk Factors, Developed Using South Korean Data. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2021; 18:ijerph18020604. [PMID: 33445701 PMCID: PMC7828122 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18020604] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2020] [Revised: 01/05/2021] [Accepted: 01/08/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
Abstract
COVID-19 has severely impacted socioeconomically disadvantaged populations. To support pandemic control strategies, geographically weighted negative binomial regression (GWNBR) mapped COVID-19 risk related to epidemiological and socioeconomic risk factors using South Korean incidence data (20 January 2020 to 1 July 2020). We constructed COVID-19-specific socioeconomic and epidemiological themes using established social theoretical frameworks and created composite indexes through principal component analysis. The risk of COVID-19 increased with higher area morbidity, risky health behaviours, crowding, and population mobility, and with lower social distancing, healthcare access, and education. Falling COVID-19 risks and spatial shifts over three consecutive time periods reflected effective public health interventions. This study provides a globally replicable methodological framework and precision mapping for COVID-19 and future pandemics.
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- Bayarmagnai Weinstein
- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University at Albany, Rensselaer, New York, NY 12144, USA;
- Principles and Practice of Clinical Research Program, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Statistics, University of Brasília, Brasília 70910-900, Brazil;
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- Research Service, Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital, Hines, IL 60141, USA;
- Department of Molecular Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL 60153, USA
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- Institute for Clinical Neuroimmunology, Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich, Planegg-Martinsried, 82152 Munich, Germany;
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- Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany;
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- Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA;
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Amarillo, TX 79106, USA;
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- Department of Computer Science, Hanyang University, Seongdong-gu, Seoul 04763, Korea;
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University at Albany, Rensselaer, New York, NY 12144, USA;
- Institute for Health and the Environment, University at Albany, Rensselaer, NY 12144, USA
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +1-518-252-2660
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Venugopal K, Shabashvili D, Li J, Feng Y, Riva A, Pondugula S, Bennett R, Dupéré-Richer D, Bird J, Licht J, Guryanova O. 3141 – LEUKEMIA-ASSOCIATED MUTATIONS IN DNMT3A MEDIATE SENSITIVITY TO REPLICATION STRESS INDUCED BY NUCLEOSIDE ANALOGS. Exp Hematol 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.exphem.2020.09.148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Pan Y, Daito T, Sasaki Y, Chung YH, Xing X, Pondugula S, Swamidass SJ, Wang T, Kim AH, Yano H. Erratum: Inhibition of DNA Methyltransferases Blocks Mutant Huntingtin-Induced Neurotoxicity. Sci Rep 2016; 6:33766. [PMID: 27649847 PMCID: PMC5030520 DOI: 10.1038/srep33766] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Cannistraro VJ, Pondugula S, Song Q, Taylor JS. Rapid deamination of cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer photoproducts at TCG sites in a translationally and rotationally positioned nucleosome in vivo. J Biol Chem 2015; 290:26597-609. [PMID: 26354431 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m115.673301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2015] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
Abstract
Sunlight-induced C to T mutation hot spots in skin cancers occur primarily at methylated CpG sites that coincide with sites of UV-induced cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer (CPD) formation. The C and 5-methyl-C in CPDs are not stable and deaminate to U and T, respectively, which leads to the insertion of A by the DNA damage bypass polymerase η, thereby defining a probable mechanism for the origin of UV-induced C to T mutations. Deamination rates for T(m)CG CPDs have been found to vary 12-fold with rotational position in a nucleosome in vitro. To determine the influence of nucleosome structure on deamination rates in vivo, we determined the deamination rates of CPDs at TCG sites in a stably positioned nucleosome within the FOS promoter in HeLa cells. A procedure for in vivo hydroxyl radical footprinting with Fe-EDTA was developed, and, together with results from a cytosine methylation protection assay, we determined the translational and rotational positions of the TCG sites. Consistent with the in vitro observations, deamination was slower for one CPD located at an intermediate rotational position compared with two other sites located at outside positions, and all were much faster than for CPDs at non-TCG sites. Photoproduct formation was also highly suppressed at one site, possibly due to its interaction with a histone tail. Thus, it was shown that CPDs of TCG sites deaminate the fastest in vivo and that nucleosomes can modulate both their formation and deamination, which could contribute to the UV mutation hot spots and cold spots.
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- From the Department of Chemistry, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130
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- From the Department of Chemistry, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130
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- From the Department of Chemistry, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130
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Darst RP, Pardo CE, Pondugula S, Gangaraju VK, Nabilsi NH, Bartholomew B, Kladde MP. Simultaneous single-molecule detection of endogenous C-5 DNA methylation and chromatin accessibility using MAPit. Methods Mol Biol 2012; 833:125-41. [PMID: 22183592 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-477-3_9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
Abstract
Bisulfite genomic sequencing provides a single-molecule view of cytosine methylation states. After deamination, each cloned molecule contains a record of methylation within its sequence. The full power of this technique is harnessed by treating nuclei with an exogenous DNMT prior to DNA extraction. This exogenous methylation marks regions of accessibility and footprints nucleosomes, as well as other DNA-binding proteins. Thus, each cloned molecule records not only the endogenous methylation present (at CG sites, in mammals), but also the exogenous (GC, when using the Chlorella virus protein M.CviPI). We term this technique MAPit, methylation accessibility protocol for individual templates.
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- Russell P Darst
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida and Shands Cancer Center, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA
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Dechassa ML, Sabri A, Pondugula S, Kassabov SR, Chatterjee N, Kladde MP, Bartholomew B. SWI/SNF has intrinsic nucleosome disassembly activity that is dependent on adjacent nucleosomes. Mol Cell 2010; 38:590-602. [PMID: 20513433 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2010.02.040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2009] [Revised: 12/26/2009] [Accepted: 02/22/2010] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
Abstract
The ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling complex SWI/SNF regulates transcription and has been implicated in promoter nucleosome eviction. Efficient nucleosome disassembly by SWI/SNF alone in biochemical assays, however, has not been directly observed. Employing a model system of dinucleosomes rather than mononucleosomes, we demonstrate that remodeling leads to ordered and efficient disassembly of one of the two nucleosomes. An H2A/H2B dimer is first rapidly displaced, and then, in a slower reaction, an entire histone octamer is lost. Nucleosome disassembly by SWI/SNF did not require additional factors such as chaperones or acceptors of histones. Observations in single molecules as well as bulk measurement suggest that a key intermediate in this process is one in which a nucleosome is moved toward the adjacent nucleosome. SWI/SNF recruited by the transcriptional activator Gal4-VP16 preferentially mobilizes the proximal nucleosome and destabilizes the adjacent nucleosome.
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- Mekonnen Lemma Dechassa
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Carbondale, IL 62901-4413, USA
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Bartholomew B, Dechassa ML, Hota SK, Prasad P, Sen P, Gosh S, Hemeryck CS, Pugh F, Pondugula S, Kladde MP. The structure and function of ATP‐dependent chromatin remodeling complexes. FASEB J 2010. [DOI: 10.1096/fasebj.24.1_supplement.310.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Blaine Bartholomew
- Biochemistry and Molecular BiologySouthern Illinois UniversityCarbondaleIL
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- Biochemistry and Molecular BiologySouthern Illinois UniversityCarbondaleIL
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyColorado State UniversityFort CollinsCO
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- Biochemistry and Molecular BiologySouthern Illinois UniversityCarbondaleIL
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- Biochemistry and Molecular BiologySouthern Illinois UniversityCarbondaleIL
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- Biochemistry and Molecular BiologySouthern Illinois UniversityCarbondaleIL
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- Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyPennsylvania State UniversityUniversity ParkPA
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- Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyPennsylvania State UniversityUniversity ParkPA
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- Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyUniversity of FloridaGainesvilleFL
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- Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyUniversity of FloridaGainesvilleFL
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Abstract
Wrapping DNA into chromatin provides a wealth of regulatory mechanisms that ensure normal growth and development in eukaryotes. Our understanding of chromatin structure, including nucleosomes and non-histone protein-DNA interactions, has benefited immensely from nuclease and chemical digestion techniques. DNA-bound proteins, such as histones or site-specific factors, protect DNA against nuclease cleavage and generate large nucleosomal or small regulatory factor footprints. Chromatin subject to distinct modes of regulation often coincides with sites of nuclease hypersensitivity or nucleosome positioning. An inherent limitation of cleavage-based analyses has been the inability to reliably analyze regions of interest when levels of digestion depart from single-hit kinetics. Moreover, cleavage-based techniques provide views that are averaged over all the molecules in a sample population. Therefore, in cases of occupancy of multiple regulatory elements by factors, one cannot define whether the factors are bound to the same or different molecules in the population. The recent development of DNA methyltransferase-based, single-molecule MAP-IT technology overcomes limitations of ensemble approaches and has opened numerous new avenues in chromatin research. Here, we review the strengths, limitations, applications and future prospects of MAP-IT ranging from structural issues to mechanistic questions in eukaryotic chromatin regulation.
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- Santhi Pondugula
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida 32610-3633, USA
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