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Oocyte-type linker histone B4 is required for transdifferentiation of somatic cells in vivo.


ABSTRACT: The ability to reprogram in vivo a somatic cell after differentiation is quite limited. One of the most impressive examples of such a process is transdifferentiation of pigmented epithelial cells (PECs) to lens cells during lens regeneration in newts. However, very little is known of the molecular events that allow newt cells to transdifferentiate. Histone B4 is an oocyte-type linker histone that replaces the somatic-type linker histone H1 during reprogramming mediated by somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT). We found that B4 is expressed and required during transdifferentiation of PECs. Knocking down of B4 decreased proliferation and increased apoptosis, which resulted in considerable smaller lens. Furthermore, B4 knockdown altered gene expression of key genes of lens differentiation and nearly abolished expression of gamma-crystallin. These data are the first to show expression of oocyte-type linker histone in somatic cells and its requirement in newt lens transdifferentiation and suggest that transdifferentiation in newts might share common strategies with reprogramming after SCNT.

SUBMITTER: Maki N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2923362 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Oocyte-type linker histone B4 is required for transdifferentiation of somatic cells in vivo.

Maki Nobuyasu N   Suetsugu-Maki Rinako R   Sano Shozo S   Nakamura Kenta K   Nishimura Osamu O   Tarui Hiroshi H   Del Rio-Tsonis Katia K   Ohsumi Keita K   Agata Kiyokazu K   Tsonis Panagiotis A PA  

FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 20100511 9


The ability to reprogram in vivo a somatic cell after differentiation is quite limited. One of the most impressive examples of such a process is transdifferentiation of pigmented epithelial cells (PECs) to lens cells during lens regeneration in newts. However, very little is known of the molecular events that allow newt cells to transdifferentiate. Histone B4 is an oocyte-type linker histone that replaces the somatic-type linker histone H1 during reprogramming mediated by somatic cell nuclear tr  ...[more]

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