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Promoter recruitment of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae SAGA histone acetyltransferase complex is required for RNA polymerase II-dependent transcription of several genes. SAGA is targeted to promoters through interactions with sequence-specific DNA binding transcriptional activators and facilitates preinitiation-complex assembly and transcription. Here, we show that the 19S proteasome regulatory particle (19S RP) alters SAGA to stimulate its interaction with transcriptional activators. The ATPase components of the 19S RP are required for stimulation of SAGA/activator interactions and enhance SAGA recruitment to promoters. Proteasomal ATPases genetically interact with SAGA, and their inhibition reduces global histone H3 acetylation levels and SAGA recruitment to target promoters in vivo. These results indicate that the 19S RP modulates SAGA complex using its ATPase components, thereby facilitating subsequent transcription events at promoters.
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PMID:The proteasome regulatory particle alters the SAGA coactivator to enhance its interactions with transcriptional activators. 1626 25

Chromodomains are modules implicated in the recognition of lysine-methylated histone tails and nucleic acids. CHD (for chromo-ATPase/helicase-DNA-binding) proteins regulate ATP-dependent nucleosome assembly and mobilization through their conserved double chromodomains and SWI2/SNF2 helicase/ATPase domain. The Drosophila CHD1 localizes to the interbands and puffs of the polytene chromosomes, which are classic sites of transcriptional activity. Other CHD isoforms (CHD3/4 or Mi-2) are important for nucleosome remodelling in histone deacetylase complexes. Deletion of chromodomains impairs nucleosome binding and remodelling by CHD proteins. Here we describe the structure of the tandem arrangement of the human CHD1 chromodomains, and its interactions with histone tails. Unlike HP1 and Polycomb proteins that use single chromodomains to bind to their respective methylated histone H3 tails, the two chromodomains of CHD1 cooperate to interact with one methylated H3 tail. We show that the human CHD1 double chromodomains target the lysine 4-methylated histone H3 tail (H3K4me), a hallmark of active chromatin. Methylammonium recognition involves two aromatic residues, not the three-residue aromatic cage used by chromodomains of HP1 and Polycomb proteins. Furthermore, unique inserts within chromodomain 1 of CHD1 block the expected site of H3 tail binding seen in HP1 and Polycomb, instead directing H3 binding to a groove at the inter-chromodomain junction.
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PMID:Double chromodomains cooperate to recognize the methylated histone H3 tail. 1637 91

Lysine methylation of histones is recognized as an important component of an epigenetic indexing system demarcating transcriptionally active and inactive chromatin domains. Trimethylation of histone H3 lysine 4 (H3K4me3) marks transcription start sites of virtually all active genes. Recently, we reported that the WD40-repeat protein WDR5 is important for global levels of H3K4me3 and control of HOX gene expression. Here we show that a plant homeodomain (PHD) finger of nucleosome remodelling factor (NURF), an ISWI-containing ATP-dependent chromatin-remodelling complex, mediates a direct preferential association with H3K4me3 tails. Depletion of H3K4me3 causes partial release of the NURF subunit, BPTF (bromodomain and PHD finger transcription factor), from chromatin and defective recruitment of the associated ATPase, SNF2L (also known as ISWI and SMARCA1), to the HOXC8 promoter. Loss of BPTF in Xenopus embryos mimics WDR5 loss-of-function phenotypes, and compromises spatial control of Hox gene expression. These results strongly suggest that WDR5 and NURF function in a common biological pathway in vivo, and that NURF-mediated ATP-dependent chromatin remodelling is directly coupled to H3K4 trimethylation to maintain Hox gene expression patterns during development. We also identify a previously unknown function for the PHD finger as a highly specialized methyl-lysine-binding domain.
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PMID:A PHD finger of NURF couples histone H3 lysine 4 trimethylation with chromatin remodelling. 1682 38

Bile acids are the major determinant and driving force for the generation of bile flow. Bile acid transport across the canalicular membrane is primarily an ATP-dependent process. The predominant transporter is the bile salt excretory pump (BSEP, ABCB11), a member of the adenosine triphosphate-binding cassette (ABC) family of transporters. Regulatory mechanisms that can coordinate the genes encoding bile acid transport proteins are critically important to avoid hepatocyte damage from intracellar accumulation of bile acids. Bile salts are natural ligands for several nuclear hormone receptors expressed in liver and intestine. Nuclear receptors are transcription factors that bind specific ligands such as bile acids and regulate gene expression according to the metabolic requirements of the cell. In cloning of the BSEP gene, we found a binding site in the promoter for the farnesoid X receptor (FXR), a nuclear receptor for bile acids. FXR activity requires heterodimerization with the 9-cis retinoid receptor (RXR alpha), and when bound by bile acids and retinoic acid, the complex effectively activates the transcription of BSEP. There is a growing body of evidence for the activation of nuclear hormone receptors through the remodeling of chromatin by histone modification involving acetylation, in concert with methylation of H3 and H4 histones. We have recently demonstrated a role for the coactivator-associated arginine methyltransferase 1 (CARM1), as a coactivator of the FXR/RXR receptor and regulator of FXR responsive genes such as BSEP. Chromatin immunoprecipitation showed that the bile acid-dependent activation of the human BSEP is associated with a simultaneous increase of FXR and CARM1 occupation of the BSEP promoter. The increased occupation of the BSEP locus by CARM1 also corresponds with the increased deposition of Arg-17 methylation and Lys-9 acetylation of histone H3 within the FXR DNA-binding element of BSEP. Our work on the role of nuclear receptors in regulation of bile acid homeostasis has led to an increased understanding of the pathogenesis of the disorder, progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis, type 1 (PFIC1) or Byler disease. The gene mutated in PFIC1 is called FIC1 and codes for a type IV P-type ATPase whose function is unknown. Increased ileal apical sodium-dependent bile acid transporter messenger RNA (mRNA) expression was detected in 3 patients with PFIC1. Ileal FXR and short heterodimer partner (an inhibitory nuclear receptor) messenger RNA levels were reduced in the same 3 patients. In studies of cells after antisense-mediated knock-down of endogenous FIC1, the activity of the ileal apical bile acid transporter promoter was enhanced, whereas the activities of the human FXR and BSEP promoters were reduced. Nuclear but not cytoplasmic localization of FXR is markedly decreased in FIC1-negative cells, indicating that FIC1 is necessary for posttranslational modifications necessary for the nuclear translocation of FXR. This defect leads to enhanced ileal bile salt uptake and impaired canalicular bile salt secretion by BSEP. In PFIC1, an increased load of bile acids is retained in the liver leading to cholestasis and progressive liver injury.
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PMID:Bile salt excretory pump: biology and pathobiology. 1681 95

Smads are intracellular transducers for TGF-beta superfamily ligands, but little is known about the mechanism by which complexes of receptor-phosphorylated Smad2 and Smad4 regulate transcription. Using an in vitro transcription system, we have discovered that, unlike most transcription factors that are sufficient to recruit the basal transcription machinery and therefore activate transcription on both naked DNA and chromatin templates, the Smads only activate transcription from chromatin templates. We demonstrate that Smad2-mediated transcription requires the histone acetyltransferase, p300. Smad2-recruited p300 exhibits an altered substrate specificity, specifically acetylating nucleosomal histone H3 at lysines 9 and 18, and these modifications are also detected on an endogenous Smad2-dependent promoter in a ligand-induced manner. Furthermore, we show that endogenous Smad2 interacts with the SWI/SNF ATPase, Brg1, in a TGF-beta-dependent manner, and demonstrate that Brg1 is recruited to Smad2-dependent promoters and is specifically required for TGF-beta-induced expression of endogenous Smad2 target genes. Our data indicate that the Smads define a new class of transcription factors that absolutely require chromatin to assemble the basal transcription machinery and activate transcription.
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PMID:Smads orchestrate specific histone modifications and chromatin remodeling to activate transcription. 1699 Aug 1

Chromodomain from heterochromatin protein 1 and polycomb protein is known to be a lysine-methylated histone H3 tail-binding module. Chromo-helicase/ATPase DNA-binding protein 1 (CHD1) is an ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling factor, containing two tandem chromodomains. In human CHD1, both chromodomains are essential for specific binding to a K4 methylated histone H3 (H3 MeK4) peptide and are found to bind cooperatively in the crystal structure. For the budding yeast homologue, Chd1, the second but not the first chromodomain was once reported to bind to an H3 MeK4 peptide. Here, we reveal that neither the second chromodomain nor a region containing tandem chromodomains from yeast Chd1 bind to any lysine-methylated or arginine-methylated histone peptides that we examined. In addition, we examined the structures of the chromodomains from Chd1 by NMR. Although the tertiary structure of the region containing tandem chromodomains could not be obtained, the secondary structure deduced from NMR is well conserved in the tertiary structures of the corresponding first and second chromodomains determined individually by NMR. Both chromodomains of Chd1 demonstrate a structure similar to that of the corresponding part of CHD1, consisting of a three-stranded beta-sheet followed by a C-terminal alpha-helix. However, an additional helix between the first and second beta-strands, which is found in both of the first chromodomains of Chd1 and CHD1, is positioned in an entirely different manner in Chd1 and CHD1. In human CHD1 this helix forms the peptide-binding site. The amino acid sequences of the chromodomains could be well aligned on the basis of these structures. The alignment showed that yeast Chd1 lacks several key functional residues, which are responsible for specific binding to a methylated lysine residue in other chromodomains. Chd1 is likely to have no binding affinity for any H3 MeK peptide, as found in other chromodomain proteins.
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PMID:Structural polymorphism of chromodomains in Chd1. 1709 52

CCAAT/enhancer binding proteindelta (C/EBPdelta) gene transcription is highly induced in G(0) growth arrested mammary epithelial cells and "loss of function" alterations in C/EBPdelta have been reported in human breast cancer. To gain a better understanding of the positive and negative factors that control C/EBPdelta gene expression we investigated the role of transcriptional activators, coactivators, repressors, histone modifications, chromatin remodeling and basal transcriptional machinery components in growing and growth arrested HC11 mouse mammary epithelial cells. Growth arrest treatments result in increased STAT3 activation (pSTAT3) and increased C/EBPdelta expression. Co-immunoprecipitation and chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) assays demonstrated that pSTAT3 and Sp1 interact and bind to the transcriptionally active C/EBPdelta promoter. ChIP assays performed under exponentially growing (C/EBPdelta non-expressing) conditions demonstrated that the C/EBPdelta promoter is preloaded with transcriptional activators (Sp1 and CREB) and transcriptional machinery components (TBP and RNA Pol II). In contrast, under G(0) growth arrest (C/EBPdelta expressing) conditions ChIP analysis detected pSTAT3, Sp1, NCoA/SRC1, CBP/p300, pCREB, TBP, and serine 2 phosphorylated Pol II (pPol II) in association with the C/EBPdelta proximal promoter. C/EBPdelta promoter-associated histone post-translational modification analysis revealed histone H3 and H4 acetylation and methylation patterns consistent with a constitutively "open" chromatin conformation. Chromatin remodeling experiments demonstrated that BRG1, the ATPase component of the SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complex, is required for C/EBPdelta transcription. Finally, C/EBPdelta expression is repressed in proliferating mammary epithelial cells by c-Myc via a mechanism that involves the binding of c-Myc:Max dimers to C/EBPdelta promoter-bound Miz-1. These results provide a molecular model of C/EBPdelta transcriptional regulation under G(0) growth arrest conditions.
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PMID:The mouse C/EBPdelta gene promoter is regulated by STAT3 and Sp1 transcriptional activators, chromatin remodeling and c-Myc repression. 1747 7

Snf2SR, a suppressor of rna1(ts), which is a temperature-sensitive mutation in Schizosaccharomyces pombe RanGAP (GTPase activating protein), possesses both the SNF2 and the helicase domains conserved in the chromatin remodeling SNF2 ATPase/helicase protein family. We have now clarified a function of Snf2SR. Snf2SR indeed showed DNA-stimulated ATPase activity, proving that it is a member of the SNF2 ATPase/helicase family. Consistent with this role, Snf2SR was localized in the nucleus and cell fractionation analysis revealed that Snf2SR was tightly associated with the nuclear matrix. The disruption of snf2SR(+) was detrimental for a cell proliferation of S. pombe. Snf2SR that did not enhance RanGAP activity by itself, but abolished histone-H3-mediated RanGAP inhibition, as previously reported for the histone H3 methyltransferase, Clr4, another rna1(ts) suppressor. In contrast to Clr4, Snf2SR directly bound to the GDP-bound form of the S. pombe Ran homologue Spi1 and enhanced the nucleotide exchange activity of Pim1, the S. pombe RanGEF (guanine nucleotide exchange factor). Over-expression of Spi1-G18V, a Ran GTPase mutant fixed in the GTP-bound form, was lethal to S. pombe Deltasnf2SR. Together, our results indicate that Snf2SR is involved in the Ran GTPase cycle in vivo.
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PMID:Schizosaccharomyces pombe Snf2SR, a novel SNF2 family protein, interacts with Ran GTPase and modulates both RanGEF and RanGAP activities. 1842 2

Recent studies have made evident the fact that the 19S regulatory component of the proteasome has functions that extend beyond degradation, particularly in the regulation of transcription. Although 19S ATPases facilitate chromatin remodeling and acetylation events in yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), it is unclear if they play similar roles in mammalian cells. We have recently shown that the 19S ATPase Sug1 positively regulates the transcription of the critical inflammatory gene for major histocompatibility complex class II (MHC-II) by stabilizing enhanceosome assembly at the proximal promoter. We now show that Sug1 is crucial for regulating histone H3 acetylation at the MHC-II proximal promoter. Sug1 binds to acetylated histone H3 and, in the absence of Sug1, histone H3 acetylation is dramatically decreased at the proximal promoter, with a preferential loss of acetylation at H3 lysine 18. Sug1 also binds to the MHC-II histone acetyltransferase CREB-binding protein (CBP) and is critical for the recruitment of CBP to the MHC-II proximal promoter. Our current study strongly implicates the 19S ATPase Sug1 in modifying histones to initiate MHC-II transcription and provides novel insights into the role of the proteasome in the regulation of mammalian transcription.
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PMID:Regulation of acetylation at the major histocompatibility complex class II proximal promoter by the 19S proteasomal ATPase Sug1. 1866 94

We have developed a technique for immunocytochemistry of fish gill cells that we used to quantify tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus) mitochondria-rich cells (MRC) and other gill cells (non-MRC) within different cell cycle phases by laser scanning cytometry. Gill cells fixed on coverslips were triple stained with propidium iodide to distinguish G1 vs. G2 phases, Ser10-phosphorylated histone H3 antibody to label mitotic cells, and Na(+)/K(+) ATPase antibody to label MRC. These parameters were measured at 0 (control), 4, 8, 16, 24, 48, 72, and 168 hr (1 week) following exposure of freshwater (FW) acclimated fish to 2/3 seawater (SW). MRC increased mitotic activity very rapidly peaking at 8 hr following SW exposure. This change in mitotic MRC is indicative of epithelial reorganization during SW acclimation. In contrast to MRC, the proportion of non-MRC (likely pavement cells (PVC)) in mitosis did not change significantly in response to SW exposure. Moreover, twice as many MRC were in mitosis compared with non-MRC, suggesting that MRC turn over faster than other cell types during SW acclimation. Following the mitosis peak, MRC accumulated in G2 phase over a period of 16-72 hr post-SW exposure. We also observed G2 arrest with similar kinetics following SW exposure in tilapia non-MRC (likely PVC). We interpret the G2 arrest that occurs after an initial wave of transient increase in MRC mitosis as a means for conserving energy for dealing with the osmotic stress imposed during the exposure of FW fish to SW.
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PMID:Salinity stress results in rapid cell cycle changes of tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus) gill epithelial cells. 1878 93


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