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Mance L, Bigot N, Zhamungui Sánchez E, Coste F, Martín-González N, Zentout S, Biliškov M, Pukało Z, Mishra A, Chapuis C, Arteni AA, Lateur A, Goffinont S, Gaudon V, Talhaoui I, Casuso I, Beaufour M, Garnier N, Artzner F, Cadene M, Huet S, Castaing B, Suskiewicz MJ. Dynamic BTB-domain filaments promote clustering of ZBTB proteins. Mol Cell 2024; 84:2490-2510.e9. [PMID: 38996459 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2024.05.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2023] [Revised: 04/11/2024] [Accepted: 05/31/2024] [Indexed: 07/14/2024]
Abstract
The formation of dynamic protein filaments contributes to various biological functions by clustering individual molecules together and enhancing their binding to ligands. We report such a propensity for the BTB domains of certain proteins from the ZBTB family, a large eukaryotic transcription factor family implicated in differentiation and cancer. Working with Xenopus laevis and human proteins, we solved the crystal structures of filaments formed by dimers of the BTB domains of ZBTB8A and ZBTB18 and demonstrated concentration-dependent higher-order assemblies of these dimers in solution. In cells, the BTB-domain filamentation supports clustering of full-length human ZBTB8A and ZBTB18 into dynamic nuclear foci and contributes to the ZBTB18-mediated repression of a reporter gene. The BTB domains of up to 21 human ZBTB family members and two related proteins, NACC1 and NACC2, are predicted to behave in a similar manner. Our results suggest that filamentation is a more common feature of transcription factors than is currently appreciated.
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- Lucija Mance
- Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire (CBM), UPR 4301, CNRS, affiliated with Université d'Orléans, 45071 Orléans Cedex 2, France
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- Université Rennes, CNRS, IGDR (Institut de Génétique et Développement de Rennes) - UMR 6290, BIOSIT - UAR3480, 35000 Rennes, France
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- Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire (CBM), UPR 4301, CNRS, affiliated with Université d'Orléans, 45071 Orléans Cedex 2, France
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- Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire (CBM), UPR 4301, CNRS, affiliated with Université d'Orléans, 45071 Orléans Cedex 2, France.
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- Aix-Marseille Université, INSERM, DyNaMo, Turing Centre for Living Systems (CENTURI), 13288 Marseille Cedex 09, France; Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, AFMB UMR 7257, 13288 Marseille Cedex 09, France
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- Université Rennes, CNRS, IGDR (Institut de Génétique et Développement de Rennes) - UMR 6290, BIOSIT - UAR3480, 35000 Rennes, France
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- Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire (CBM), UPR 4301, CNRS, affiliated with Université d'Orléans, 45071 Orléans Cedex 2, France
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- Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire (CBM), UPR 4301, CNRS, affiliated with Université d'Orléans, 45071 Orléans Cedex 2, France
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- Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire (CBM), UPR 4301, CNRS, affiliated with Université d'Orléans, 45071 Orléans Cedex 2, France
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- Université Rennes, CNRS, IGDR (Institut de Génétique et Développement de Rennes) - UMR 6290, BIOSIT - UAR3480, 35000 Rennes, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Cryo-Electron Microscopy Facility, CRYOEM-Gif, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire (CBM), UPR 4301, CNRS, affiliated with Université d'Orléans, 45071 Orléans Cedex 2, France
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- Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire (CBM), UPR 4301, CNRS, affiliated with Université d'Orléans, 45071 Orléans Cedex 2, France
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- Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire (CBM), UPR 4301, CNRS, affiliated with Université d'Orléans, 45071 Orléans Cedex 2, France
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- Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire (CBM), UPR 4301, CNRS, affiliated with Université d'Orléans, 45071 Orléans Cedex 2, France
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- Aix-Marseille Université, INSERM, DyNaMo, Turing Centre for Living Systems (CENTURI), 13288 Marseille Cedex 09, France
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- Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire (CBM), UPR 4301, CNRS, affiliated with Université d'Orléans, 45071 Orléans Cedex 2, France
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- Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire (CBM), UPR 4301, CNRS, affiliated with Université d'Orléans, 45071 Orléans Cedex 2, France
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- Université Rennes, CNRS, IPR (Institut de Physique de Rennes) - UMR 6251, 35000 Rennes, France
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- Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire (CBM), UPR 4301, CNRS, affiliated with Université d'Orléans, 45071 Orléans Cedex 2, France
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- Université Rennes, CNRS, IGDR (Institut de Génétique et Développement de Rennes) - UMR 6290, BIOSIT - UAR3480, 35000 Rennes, France; Institut Universitaire de France, 75005 Paris, France
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- Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire (CBM), UPR 4301, CNRS, affiliated with Université d'Orléans, 45071 Orléans Cedex 2, France
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- Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire (CBM), UPR 4301, CNRS, affiliated with Université d'Orléans, 45071 Orléans Cedex 2, France.
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Shin J, Kolomeisky AB. Target search on DNA by interacting molecules: First-passage approach. J Chem Phys 2019; 151:125101. [PMID: 31575173 DOI: 10.1063/1.5123988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
Abstract
Gene regulation is one of the most important fundamental biological processes in living cells. It involves multiple protein molecules that locate specific sites on DNA and assemble gene initiation or gene repression multimolecular complexes. While the protein search dynamics for DNA targets has been intensively investigated, the role of intermolecular interactions during the genetic activation or repression remains not well quantified. Here, we present a simple one-dimensional model of target search for two interacting molecules that can reversibly form a dimer molecular complex, which also participates in the search process. In addition, the proteins have finite residence times on specific target sites, and the gene is activated or repressed when both proteins are simultaneously present at the target. The model is analyzed using first-passage analytical calculations and Monte Carlo computer simulations. It is shown that the search dynamics exhibit a complex behavior depending on the strength of intermolecular interactions and on the target residence times. We also found that the search time shows a nonmonotonic behavior as a function of the dissociation rate for the molecular complex. Physical-chemical arguments to explain these observations are presented. Our theoretical approach highlights the importance of molecular interactions in the complex process of gene activation/repression by multiple transcription factor proteins.
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- Jaeoh Shin
- Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA
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Dobson AJ, Boulton-McDonald R, Houchou L, Svermova T, Ren Z, Subrini J, Vazquez-Prada M, Hoti M, Rodriguez-Lopez M, Ibrahim R, Gregoriou A, Gkantiragas A, Bähler J, Ezcurra M, Alic N. Longevity is determined by ETS transcription factors in multiple tissues and diverse species. PLoS Genet 2019; 15:e1008212. [PMID: 31356597 PMCID: PMC6662994 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2018] [Accepted: 05/27/2019] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
Abstract
Ageing populations pose one of the main public health crises of our time. Reprogramming gene expression by altering the activities of sequence-specific transcription factors (TFs) can ameliorate deleterious effects of age. Here we explore how a circuit of TFs coordinates pro-longevity transcriptional outcomes, which reveals a multi-tissue and multi-species role for an entire protein family: the E-twenty-six (ETS) TFs. In Drosophila, reduced insulin/IGF signalling (IIS) extends lifespan by coordinating activation of Aop, an ETS transcriptional repressor, and Foxo, a Forkhead transcriptional activator. Aop and Foxo bind the same genomic loci, and we show that, individually, they effect similar transcriptional programmes in vivo. In combination, Aop can both moderate or synergise with Foxo, dependent on promoter context. Moreover, Foxo and Aop oppose the gene-regulatory activity of Pnt, an ETS transcriptional activator. Directly knocking down Pnt recapitulates aspects of the Aop/Foxo transcriptional programme and is sufficient to extend lifespan. The lifespan-limiting role of Pnt appears to be balanced by a requirement for metabolic regulation in young flies, in which the Aop-Pnt-Foxo circuit determines expression of metabolic genes, and Pnt regulates lipolysis and responses to nutrient stress. Molecular functions are often conserved amongst ETS TFs, prompting us to examine whether other Drosophila ETS-coding genes may also affect ageing. We show that five out of eight Drosophila ETS TFs play a role in fly ageing, acting from a range of organs and cells including the intestine, adipose and neurons. We expand the repertoire of lifespan-limiting ETS TFs in C. elegans, confirming their conserved function in ageing and revealing that the roles of ETS TFs in physiology and lifespan are conserved throughout the family, both within and between species. Understanding the basic biology of ageing may help us to reduce the burden of ill-health that old age brings. Ageing is modulated by changes to gene expression, which are orchestrated by the coordinate activity of proteins called transcription factors (TFs). E-twenty six (ETS) TFs are a large family with cellular functions that are conserved across animal taxa. In this study, we examine a longevity-promoting transcriptional circuit composed of two ETS TFs, Pnt and Aop, and Foxo, a forkhead TF with evolutionarily-conserved pro-longevity functions. This leads us to demonstrate that the activity of the majority of ETS TFs in multiple tissues and even different animal taxa regulates lifespan, indicating that roles in ageing are a general feature of this family of transcriptional regulators.
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- Adam J. Dobson
- Institute of Healthy Ageing, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Healthy Ageing, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Healthy Ageing, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Healthy Ageing, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Healthy Ageing, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Healthy Ageing, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Healthy Ageing, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Healthy Ageing, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Healthy Ageing, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Healthy Ageing, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Healthy Ageing, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Healthy Ageing, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Healthy Ageing, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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