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Chromatin-bound bacterial effector ankyrin A recruits histone deacetylase 1 and modifies host gene expression.


ABSTRACT: Control of host epigenetics is becoming evident as a mechanism by which symbionts and pathogens survive. Anaplasma phagocytophilum, an obligate intracellular bacterium, down-regulates multiple host defence genes where histone deacetylase 1 (HDAC1) binds and histone 3 is deacetylated at their promoters, including the NADPH oxidase component, CYBB. How HDAC1 is targeted to defence gene promoters is unknown. Ankyrin A (AnkA), an A.?phagocytophilum type IV secretion system effector, enters the granulocyte nucleus, binds stretches of AT-rich DNA and alters transcription of antimicrobial defence genes, including down-regulation of CYBB. Here we found AnkA binds to a predicted matrix attachment region in the proximal CYBB promoter. Using the CYBB promoter as a model of cis-gene silencing, we interrogated the mechanism of AnkA-mediated CYBB repression. The N-terminus of AnkA was critical for nuclear localization, the central ANK repeats and C-terminus were important for DNA binding, and most promoter activity localized to the central ANK repeats. Furthermore, a direct interaction between AnkA and HDAC1 was detected at the CYBB promoter, and was critical for AnkA-mediated CYBB repression. This novel microbial manipulation of host chromatin and gene expression provides important evidence of the direct effects that prokaryotic nuclear effectors can exert over host transcription and function.

SUBMITTER: Rennoll-Bankert KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5845759 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Chromatin-bound bacterial effector ankyrin A recruits histone deacetylase 1 and modifies host gene expression.

Rennoll-Bankert Kristen E KE   Garcia-Garcia Jose C JC   Sinclair Sara H SH   Dumler J Stephen JS  

Cellular microbiology 20150611 11


Control of host epigenetics is becoming evident as a mechanism by which symbionts and pathogens survive. Anaplasma phagocytophilum, an obligate intracellular bacterium, down-regulates multiple host defence genes where histone deacetylase 1 (HDAC1) binds and histone 3 is deacetylated at their promoters, including the NADPH oxidase component, CYBB. How HDAC1 is targeted to defence gene promoters is unknown. Ankyrin A (AnkA), an A. phagocytophilum type IV secretion system effector, enters the granu  ...[more]

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