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Kelly RDW, Stengel KR, Chandru A, Johnson LC, Hiebert SW, Cowley SM. Histone deacetylases maintain expression of the pluripotent gene network via recruitment of RNA polymerase II to coding and noncoding loci. Genome Res 2024; 34:34-46. [PMID: 38290976 PMCID: PMC10903948 DOI: 10.1101/gr.278050.123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2023] [Accepted: 12/20/2023] [Indexed: 02/01/2024]
Abstract
Histone acetylation is a dynamic modification regulated by the opposing actions of histone acetyltransferases (HATs) and histone deacetylases (HDACs). Deacetylation of histone tails results in chromatin tightening, and therefore, HDACs are generally regarded as transcriptional repressors. Counterintuitively, simultaneous deletion of Hdac1 and Hdac2 in embryonic stem cells (ESCs) reduces expression of the pluripotency-associated transcription factors Pou5f1, Sox2, and Nanog (PSN). By shaping global histone acetylation patterns, HDACs indirectly regulate the activity of acetyl-lysine readers, such as the transcriptional activator BRD4. Here, we use inhibitors of HDACs and BRD4 (LBH589 and JQ1, respectively) in combination with precision nuclear run-on and sequencing (PRO-seq) to examine their roles in defining the ESC transcriptome. Both LBH589 and JQ1 cause a marked reduction in the pluripotent gene network. However, although JQ1 treatment induces widespread transcriptional pausing, HDAC inhibition causes a reduction in both paused and elongating polymerase, suggesting an overall reduction in polymerase recruitment. Using enhancer RNA (eRNA) expression to measure enhancer activity, we find that LBH589-sensitive eRNAs are preferentially associated with superenhancers and PSN binding sites. These findings suggest that HDAC activity is required to maintain pluripotency by regulating the PSN enhancer network via the recruitment of RNA polymerase II.
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- Richard D W Kelly
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Henry Wellcome Building, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 9HN, United Kingdom
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- Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Jack and Pearl Resnick Campus, Bronx, New York 10461, USA
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- Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute, Bearsden, Glasgow G61 1BD, United Kingdom
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- Locate Bio Limited, MediCity, Beeston, Nottingham NG90 6BH, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 37232, USA
- Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee 37232, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Henry Wellcome Building, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 9HN, United Kingdom;
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Arede L, Foerner E, Wind S, Kulkarni R, Domingues AF, Giotopoulos G, Kleinwaechter S, Mollenhauer-Starkl M, Davison H, Chandru A, Asby R, Samarista R, Gupta S, Forte D, Curti A, Scheer E, Huntly BJP, Tora L, Pina C. KAT2A complexes ATAC and SAGA play unique roles in cell maintenance and identity in hematopoiesis and leukemia. Blood Adv 2022; 6:165-180. [PMID: 34654054 PMCID: PMC8753207 DOI: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2020002842] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2020] [Accepted: 09/20/2021] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
Abstract
Epigenetic histone modifiers are key regulators of cell fate decisions in normal and malignant hematopoiesis. Their enzymatic activities are of particular significance as putative therapeutic targets in leukemia. In contrast, less is known about the contextual role in which those enzymatic activities are exercised and specifically how different macromolecular complexes configure the same enzymatic activity with distinct molecular and cellular consequences. We focus on KAT2A, a lysine acetyltransferase responsible for histone H3 lysine 9 acetylation, which we recently identified as a dependence in acute myeloid leukemia stem cells and that participates in 2 distinct macromolecular complexes: Ada two-A-containing (ATAC) and Spt-Ada-Gcn5-Acetyltransferase (SAGA). Through analysis of human cord blood hematopoietic stem cells and progenitors, and of myeloid leukemia cells, we identify unique respective contributions of the ATAC complex to regulation of biosynthetic activity in undifferentiated self-renewing cells and of the SAGA complex to stabilization or correct progression of cell type-specific programs with putative preservation of cell identity. Cell type and stage-specific dependencies on ATAC and SAGA-regulated programs explain multilevel KAT2A requirements in leukemia and in erythroid lineage specification and development. Importantly, they set a paradigm against which lineage specification and identity can be explored across developmental stem cell systems.
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- Liliana Arede
- Department of Haematology
- Department of Genetics, and
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- Department of Haematology
- Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- College of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Division of Biosciences, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UK
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- Department of Haematology
- Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- College of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Division of Biosciences, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UK
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- Department of Haematology
- Department of Genetics, and
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- Department of Haematology
- Department of Experimental, Diagnostic, and Specialty Medicine (DIMES), Institute of Hematology “Seràgnoli”, Bologna, Italy
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- IRCCS Azienda ospedaliero-universitaria di Bologna, Istituto di Ematologia “Seràgnoli”, Bologna, Italy
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- Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Illkirch, France
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), UMR7104, Illkirch, France
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), U1258, Illkirch, France; and
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- Department of Haematology
- Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Illkirch, France
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), UMR7104, Illkirch, France
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), U1258, Illkirch, France; and
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- College of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Division of Biosciences, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UK
- Centre for Genome Engineering and Maintenance (CenGEM), Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UK
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Turnbull RE, Fairall L, Saleh A, Kelsall E, Morris KL, Ragan TJ, Savva CG, Chandru A, Millard CJ, Makarova OV, Smith CJ, Roseman AM, Fry AM, Cowley SM, Schwabe JWR. The MiDAC histone deacetylase complex is essential for embryonic development and has a unique multivalent structure. Nat Commun 2020; 11:3252. [PMID: 32591534 PMCID: PMC7319964 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17078-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [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: 01/21/2020] [Accepted: 06/05/2020] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
Abstract
MiDAC is one of seven distinct, large multi-protein complexes that recruit class I histone deacetylases to the genome to regulate gene expression. Despite implications of involvement in cell cycle regulation and in several cancers, surprisingly little is known about the function or structure of MiDAC. Here we show that MiDAC is important for chromosome alignment during mitosis in cancer cell lines. Mice lacking the MiDAC proteins, DNTTIP1 or MIDEAS, die with identical phenotypes during late embryogenesis due to perturbations in gene expression that result in heart malformation and haematopoietic failure. This suggests that MiDAC has an essential and unique function that cannot be compensated by other HDAC complexes. Consistent with this, the cryoEM structure of MiDAC reveals a unique and distinctive mode of assembly. Four copies of HDAC1 are positioned at the periphery with outward-facing active sites suggesting that the complex may target multiple nucleosomes implying a processive deacetylase function.
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- Robert E Turnbull
- Leicester Institute of Structural and Chemical Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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- Leicester Institute of Structural and Chemical Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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- Leicester Institute of Structural and Chemical Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
- Institute of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, Hammersmith Hospital Campus, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0HS, UK
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
- AstraZeneca, Milstein Building, Granta Park, Cambridge, CB21 6GH, UK
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK
- MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Hammersmith Hospital Campus, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0NN, UK
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- Leicester Institute of Structural and Chemical Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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- Leicester Institute of Structural and Chemical Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
- Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EH, UK
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- Leicester Institute of Structural and Chemical Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK
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- Division of Molecular and Cellular Function, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK.
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- Leicester Institute of Structural and Chemical Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK.
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK.
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Kelly RDW, Chandru A, Watson PJ, Song Y, Blades M, Robertson NS, Jamieson AG, Schwabe JWR, Cowley SM. Histone deacetylase (HDAC) 1 and 2 complexes regulate both histone acetylation and crotonylation in vivo. Sci Rep 2018; 8:14690. [PMID: 30279482 PMCID: PMC6168483 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-32927-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2018] [Accepted: 09/14/2018] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
Abstract
Proteomic analysis of histones has shown that they are subject to a superabundance of acylations, which extend far beyond acetylation, to include: crotonylation, propionylation, butyrylation, malonylation, succinylation, β-hydroxybutyrylation and 2-hydroxyisobutyrylation. To date, much of the functional data has focussed on histone crotonylation which, similar to acetylation, has been associated with positive gene regulation and is added by the acyltransferase, p300. Although Sirtuins 1–3, along with HDAC3, have been shown to possess decrotonylase activity in vitro, there is relatively little known about the regulation of histone crotonylation in vivo. Here we show that Histone Deacetylase 1 and 2 (HDAC1/2), the catalytic core of numerous co-repressor complexes, are important histone decrotonylase enzymes. A ternary complex of HDAC1/CoREST1/LSD1 is able to hydrolyse both histone H3 Lys18-acetyl (H3K18ac) and H3 Lys18-crotonyl (H3K18cr) peptide substrates. Genetic deletion of HDAC1/2 in ES cells increases global levels of histone crotonylation and causes an 85% reduction in total decrotonylase activity. Furthermore, we mapped H3K18cr in cells using ChIP-seq, with and without HDAC1/2, and observed increased levels of crotonylation, which largely overlaps with H3K18ac in the vicinity of transcriptional start sites. Collectively, our data indicate that HDAC1/2 containing complexes are critical regulators of histone crotonylation in vivo.
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- R D W Kelly
- Department of Molecular and Cell biology, Henry Wellcome Building, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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- Department of Molecular and Cell biology, Henry Wellcome Building, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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- Institute of Structural and Chemical biology, Henry Wellcome Building, Department of Molecular and Cell biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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- Institute of Structural and Chemical biology, Henry Wellcome Building, Department of Molecular and Cell biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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- Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Analysis Support Hub (B/BASH), University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1GA, UK
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- School of Chemistry, Joseph Black Building, University Avenue, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Scotland
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- Institute of Structural and Chemical biology, Henry Wellcome Building, Department of Molecular and Cell biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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- Department of Molecular and Cell biology, Henry Wellcome Building, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK.
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Chandru A, Bate N, Vuister GW, Cowley SM. Sin3A recruits Tet1 to the PAH1 domain via a highly conserved Sin3-Interaction Domain. Sci Rep 2018; 8:14689. [PMID: 30279502 PMCID: PMC6168491 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-32942-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2018] [Accepted: 09/17/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
Abstract
The Sin3A complex acts as a transcriptional hub, integrating the function of diverse transcription factors with histone modifying enzymes, notably, histone deacetylases (HDAC) 1 and 2. The Sin3A protein sits at the centre of the complex, mediating multiple simultaneous protein-protein interactions via its four paired-amphipathic helix (PAH) domains (PAH1-4). The PAH domains contain a conserved four helical bundle, generating a hydrophobic cleft into which the single-helix of a Sin3-interaction domain (SID) is able to insert and bind with high affinity. Although they share a similar mode of interaction, the SIDs of different repressor proteins bind to only one of four potential PAH domains, due to the specific combination of hydrophobic residues at the interface. Here we report the identification of a highly conserved SID in the 5-methylcytosine dioxygenase, Tet1 (Tet1-SID), which interacts directly with the PAH1 domain of Sin3A. Using a combination of NMR spectroscopy and homology modelling we present a model of the PAH1/Tet1-SID complex, which binds in a Type-II orientation similar to Sap25. Mutagenesis of key residues show that the 11-amino acid Tet1-SID is necessary and sufficient for the interaction with Sin3A and is absolutely required for Tet1 to repress transcription in cells.
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- Aditya Chandru
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Leicester, Lancaster Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, United Kingdom
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Leicester, Lancaster Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, United Kingdom.,Leicester Institute of Structural and Chemical Biology, Leicester, United Kingdom
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Leicester, Lancaster Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, United Kingdom.,Leicester Institute of Structural and Chemical Biology, Leicester, United Kingdom
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Leicester, Lancaster Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, United Kingdom.
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Ummul Haninah A, Vasan SS, Ravindran T, Chandru A, Lee HL, Shamala Devi S. Development and evaluation of a one-step SYBR-Green I-based real-time RT-PCR assay for the detection and quantification of Chikungunya virus in human, monkey and mosquito samples. Trop Biomed 2010; 27:611-623. [PMID: 21399603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
Abstract
This paper reports the development of a one-step SYBR-Green I-based realtime RT-PCR assay for the detection and quantification of Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) in human, monkey and mosquito samples by targeting the E1 structural gene. A preliminary evaluation of this assay has been successfully completed using 71 samples, consisting of a panel of negative control sera, sera from healthy individuals, sera from patients with acute disease from which CHIKV had been isolated, as well as monkey sera and adult mosquito samples obtained during the chikungunya fever outbreak in Malaysia in 2008. The assay was found to be 100-fold more sensitive than the conventional RT-PCR with a detection limit of 4.12x10(0) RNA copies/μl. The specificity of the assay was tested against other related viruses such as Dengue (serotypes 1-4), Japanese encephalitis, Herpes Simplex, Parainfluenza, Sindbis, Ross River, Yellow fever and West Nile viruses. The sensitivity, specificity and efficiency of this assay were 100%, 100% and 96.8% respectively. This study on early diagnostics is of importance to all endemic countries, especially Malaysia, which has been facing increasingly frequent and bigger outbreaks due to this virus since 1999.
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- A Ummul Haninah
- Institute for Medical Research, Medical Entomology Unit, Infectious Diseases Research Centre, Jalan Pahang, Kuala Lumpur 50588, Malaysia
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