Dataset Information

Functional roles of enhancer RNAs for oestrogen-dependent transcriptional activation.

ABSTRACT: The functional importance of gene enhancers in regulated gene expression is well established. In addition to widespread transcription of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in mammalian cells, bidirectional ncRNAs are transcribed on enhancers, and are thus referred to as enhancer RNAs (eRNAs). However, it has remained unclear whether these eRNAs are functional or merely a reflection of enhancer activation. Here we report that in human breast cancer cells 17?-oestradiol (E2)-bound oestrogen receptor ? (ER-?) causes a global increase in eRNA transcription on enhancers adjacent to E2-upregulated coding genes. These induced eRNAs, as functional transcripts, seem to exert important roles for the observed ligand-dependent induction of target coding genes, increasing the strength of specific enhancer-promoter looping initiated by ER-? binding. Cohesin, present on many ER-?-regulated enhancers even before ligand treatment, apparently contributes to E2-dependent gene activation, at least in part by stabilizing E2/ER-?/eRNA-induced enhancer-promoter looping. Our data indicate that eRNAs are likely to have important functions in many regulated programs of gene transcription.

SUBMITTER: Li W

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3718886 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

ACCESS DATA

Publications

Functional roles of enhancer RNAs for oestrogen-dependent transcriptional activation.

Li Wenbo W Notani Dimple D Ma Qi Q Tanasa Bogdan B Nunez Esperanza E Chen Aaron Yun AY Merkurjev Daria D Zhang Jie J Ohgi Kenneth K Song Xiaoyuan X Oh Soohwan S Kim Hong-Sook HS Glass Christopher K CK Rosenfeld Michael G MG

Nature 20130602 7455

The functional importance of gene enhancers in regulated gene expression is well established. In addition to widespread transcription of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in mammalian cells, bidirectional ncRNAs are transcribed on enhancers, and are thus referred to as enhancer RNAs (eRNAs). However, it has remained unclear whether these eRNAs are functional or merely a reflection of enhancer activation. Here we report that in human breast cancer cells 17β-oestradiol (E2)-bound oestrogen receptor α ...[more]

PMID: 23728302

Similar Datasets

Project description:While protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs) and PRMT-catalyzed protein methylation have been well-known to be involved in a myriad of biological processes, their functions and the underlying molecular mechanisms in cancers, particularly in estrogen receptor alpha (ER?)-positive breast cancers, remain incompletely understood. Here we focused on investigating PRMT4 (also called coactivator associated arginine methyltransferase 1, CARM1) in ER?-positive breast cancers due to its high expression and the associated poor prognosis. Methods: ChIP-seq and RNA-seq were employed to identify the chromatin-binding landscape and transcriptional targets of CARM1, respectively, in the presence of estrogen in ER?-positive MCF7 breast cancer cells. High-resolution mass spectrometry analysis of enriched peptides from anti-monomethyl- and anti-asymmetric dimethyl-arginine antibodies in SILAC labeled wild-type and CARM1 knockout cells were performed to globally map CARM1 methylation substrates. Cell viability was measured by MTS and colony formation assay, and cell cycle was measured by FACS analysis. Cell migration and invasion capacities were examined by wound-healing and trans-well assay, respectively. Xenograft assay was used to analyze tumor growth in vivo. Results: CARM1 was found to be predominantly and specifically recruited to ER?-bound active enhancers and essential for the transcriptional activation of cognate estrogen-induced genes in response to estrogen treatment. Global mapping of CARM1 substrates revealed that CARM1 methylated a large cohort of proteins with diverse biological functions, including regulation of intracellular estrogen receptor-mediated signaling, chromatin organization and chromatin remodeling. A large number of CARM1 substrates were found to be exclusively hypermethylated by CARM1 on a cluster of arginine residues. Exemplified by MED12, hypermethylation of these proteins by CARM1 served as a molecular beacon for recruiting coactivator protein, tudor-domain-containing protein 3 (TDRD3), to CARM1-bound active enhancers to activate estrogen/ER?-target genes. In consistent with its critical role in estrogen/ER?-induced gene transcriptional activation, CARM1 was found to promote cell proliferation of ER?-positive breast cancer cells in vitro and tumor growth in mice. Conclusions: our study uncovered a "hypermethylation" strategy utilized by enhancer-bound CARM1 in gene transcriptional regulation, and suggested that CARM1 can server as a therapeutic target for breast cancer treatment.

Dataset Information

Functional roles of enhancer RNAs for oestrogen-dependent transcriptional activation.

Publications

Functional roles of enhancer RNAs for oestrogen-dependent transcriptional activation.

Similar Datasets

OmicsDI is part of the ELIXIR infrastructure