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Epigenetic targeting of activation-induced cytidine deaminase

ABSTRACT: Precisely how AID is recruited to these off-target sites is not entirely understood. To gain further insight into how AID selects its targets we compared AID-mediated translocations in two different cell types, B cells and mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs). AID targets a distinct set of hotspots in the two cell types. In both cases, hotspots are concentrated in highly transcribed but stalled genes. However, transcription alone is insufficient to recruit AID activity. Comparison of genes similarly transcribed in B cells and MEFs but targeted in only one of the two cell types reveals a common set of epigenetic features associated with AID recruitment in both cell types. AID target genes are enriched in chromatin modifications associated with active enhancers (such as H3K27Ac) and marks of active transcription (such as H3K36me3) in both fibroblasts and B cells, indicating that these features are universal mediators of AID recruitmen Analysis of total mRNA and PolII loading in activated B lymphocytes and Mouse Embryonic Fibroblasts (MEFs)

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

SUBMITTER: Thiago Oliveira

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-61523 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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B cell super-enhancers and regulatory clusters recruit AID tumorigenic activity.

Qian Jason J Wang Qiao Q Dose Marei M Pruett Nathanael N Kieffer-Kwon Kyong-Rim KR Resch Wolfgang W Liang Genqing G Tang Zhonghui Z Mathé Ewy E Benner Christopher C Dubois Wendy W Nelson Steevenson S Vian Laura L Oliveira Thiago Y TY Jankovic Mila M Hakim Ofir O Gazumyan Anna A Pavri Rushad R Awasthi Parirokh P Song Bin B Liu Geng G Chen Longyun L Zhu Shida S Feigenbaum Lionel L Staudt Louis L Murre Cornelis C Ruan Yijun Y Robbiani Davide F DF Pan-Hammarström Qiang Q Nussenzweig Michel C MC Casellas Rafael R

Cell 20141204 7

The antibody gene mutator activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) promiscuously damages oncogenes, leading to chromosomal translocations and tumorigenesis. Why nonimmunoglobulin loci are susceptible to AID activity is unknown. Here, we study AID-mediated lesions in the context of nuclear architecture and the B cell regulome. We show that AID targets are not randomly distributed across the genome but are predominantly grouped within super-enhancers and regulatory clusters. Unexpectedly, in th ...[more]

PMID: 25483777

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Project description:The activation-induced cytidine deaminase enzyme (AID) is required in germinal center (GC) B cells for somatic hyper-mutation and class switch recombination at the immunoglobulin locus. In GC-B cells, AID is highly expressed, with inherent mutator activity that helps generate antibody diversity. However, AID may also regulate gene expression epigenetically, irrespective of mutator activity, by directly deaminating 5-methylcytosine (5mC) in concert with base excision repair glycosylases to exchange unmethylated cytosine. This pathway promotes gene demethylation, thereby removing epigenetic memory. For example, AID promotes active demethylation of the genome in primordial germ cells. However, the range and mechanism by which AID promotes pluripotency is not known. Different studies have suggested either a requirement or a lack of function for promoting pluripotency in somatic nuclei following fusion with embryonic stem cells (ESC). Here we tested directly whether AID regulates epigenetic memory, by comparing the relative ability of cells lacking AID to reprogram from a differentiated cell type to an induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC). We show that loss of AID impacts two distinct steps of reprogramming: First, AID-null cells are transiently hyper-responsive to the reprogramming process. Second, although they initiate expression of pluripotency genes, they fail to stabilize the pluripotent state. The genome of AID-null cells remains hypermethylated in reprogramming cells, and hypermethylated genes associated with pluripotency fail to be stably up-regulated. MYC target genes are highly enriched in the set of genes hypermethylated and under-expressed in reprogramming cells lacking AID. Recent studies identified a distinctive late step of reprogramming associated with methylation status. AID appears to regulate this step to stabilize the pluripotent state, removing epigenetic memory to promote expression of secondary pluripotency network genes. Transcriptome sequencing of AID-null tail fibroblasts, wildtype tail fibroblasts, AID-null and wildtype tail fibroblasts reprogrammed for three weeks by ectopic expression of transcription factors Oct4, Sox2, KLf4 and cMyc. Methylation profiling by reduced representation bisulphite seuencing of AID-null tail fibroblasts, wildtype tail fibroblasts, AID-null and wildtype tail fibroblasts reprogrammed for three weeks and AID-null and wildtype clones after three weeks of reprogramming (Picked at two weeks)

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Epigenetic targeting of activation-induced cytidine deaminase

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B cell super-enhancers and regulatory clusters recruit AID tumorigenic activity.

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