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Roles of the CSE1L-mediated nuclear import pathway in epigenetic silencing.


ABSTRACT: Epigenetic silencing can be mediated by various mechanisms, and many regulators remain to be identified. Here, we report a genome-wide siRNA screening to identify regulators essential for maintaining gene repression of a CMV promoter silenced by DNA methylation. We identified CSE1L (chromosome segregation 1 like) as an essential factor for the silencing of the reporter gene and many endogenous methylated genes. CSE1L depletion did not cause DNA demethylation. On the other hand, the methylated genes derepressed by CSE1L depletion largely overlapped with methylated genes that were also reactivated by treatment with histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDACi). Gene silencing defects observed upon CSE1L depletion were linked to its nuclear import function for certain protein cargos because depletion of other factors involved in the same nuclear import pathway, including KPNAs and KPNB1 proteins, displayed similar derepression profiles at the genome-wide level. Therefore, CSE1L appears to be critical for the nuclear import of certain key repressive proteins. Indeed, NOVA1, HDAC1, HDAC2, and HDAC8, genes known as silencing factors, became delocalized into cytosol upon CSE1L depletion. This study suggests that the cargo specificity of the protein nuclear import system may impact the selectivity of gene silencing.

SUBMITTER: Dong Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5924926 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Roles of the CSE1L-mediated nuclear import pathway in epigenetic silencing.

Dong Qiang Q   Li Xiang X   Wang Cheng-Zhi CZ   Xu Shaohua S   Yuan Gang G   Shao Wei W   Liu Baodong B   Zheng Yong Y   Wang Hailin H   Lei Xiaoguang X   Zhang Zhuqiang Z   Zhu Bing B  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20180410 17


Epigenetic silencing can be mediated by various mechanisms, and many regulators remain to be identified. Here, we report a genome-wide siRNA screening to identify regulators essential for maintaining gene repression of a CMV promoter silenced by DNA methylation. We identified CSE1L (chromosome segregation 1 like) as an essential factor for the silencing of the reporter gene and many endogenous methylated genes. CSE1L depletion did not cause DNA demethylation. On the other hand, the methylated ge  ...[more]

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