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Intellectual disability-associated factor Zbtb11 cooperates with NRF-2/GABP to control mitochondrial function.

ABSTRACT: Zbtb11 is a conserved transcription factor mutated in families with hereditary intellectual disability. Its precise molecular and cellular functions are currently unknown, precluding our understanding of the aetiology of this disease. Using a combination of functional genomics, genetic and biochemical approaches, here we show that Zbtb11 plays essential roles in maintaining the homeostasis of mitochondrial function. Mechanistically, we find Zbtb11 facilitates the recruitment of nuclear respiratory factor 2 (NRF-2) to its target promoters, activating a subset of nuclear genes with roles in the biogenesis of respiratory complex I and the mitoribosome. Genetic inactivation of Zbtb11 resulted in a severe complex I assembly defect, impaired mitochondrial respiration, mitochondrial depolarisation, and ultimately proliferation arrest and cell death. Experimental modelling of the pathogenic human mutations showed these have a destabilising effect on the protein, resulting in reduced Zbtb11 dosage, downregulation of its target genes, and impaired complex I biogenesis. Our study establishes Zbtb11 as an essential mitochondrial regulator, improves our understanding of the transcriptional mechanisms of nuclear control over mitochondria, and may help to understand the aetiology of Zbtb11-associated intellectual disability.

SUBMITTER: Wilson BC

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7596099 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Intellectual disability-associated factor Zbtb11 cooperates with NRF-2/GABP to control mitochondrial function.

Wilson Brooke C BC Boehme Lena L Annibali Ambra A Hodgkinson Alan A Carroll Thomas S TS Oakey Rebecca J RJ Seitan Vlad C VC

Nature communications 20201029 1

Zbtb11 is a conserved transcription factor mutated in families with hereditary intellectual disability. Its precise molecular and cellular functions are currently unknown, precluding our understanding of the aetiology of this disease. Using a combination of functional genomics, genetic and biochemical approaches, here we show that Zbtb11 plays essential roles in maintaining the homeostasis of mitochondrial function. Mechanistically, we find Zbtb11 facilitates the recruitment of nuclear respirato ...[more]

PMID: 33122634

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Project description:Zbtb11 is an uncharacterised transcription factor that is conserved in vertebrates. Mutations in its human gene cause a form of inherited intellectual disablity, while in zebrafish Zbtb11 mutations lead to impaired hematopoesis and neruonal development. We used a combination of functional genomics approaches to determine its functions. To determine the genomic Zbtb11 binding locations, we carried out ChIP-seq using FLAG antibodies in a cell line with the endogenous Zbtb11 N-terminally tagged with FLAG (Zbtb11 FLAG/FLAG), as well as using an anti-Zbtb11 antibody in a wild type line. To determine the genes regulated by Zbtb11 we generated an inducible KO line (Zbtb11 lox/lox, Rosa26 ERt2-Cre) that allows the rapid depletion of Zbtb11 upon treatment with 4-hydroxytamoxyfen (4OHT). We treated Zbtb11 lox/lox, Rosa26 ERt2-Cre cells either with 4OHT (Zbtb11 KO) or ethanol (EtOH) as control, and subsequently performed directional RNA-seq from samples collected 48 hours post-treatment. As control for the effect of 4OHT on gene expression, we also compared Zbtb11 KO cells to wild type cells treated with 4OHT. The two ChIP-seq approaches showed very good overlap and allowed us to generate a set of high-confidence Zbtb11 binding sites common to both peak sets. We found Zbtb11 preferentially binds to a subset of house-keeping genes among which genes encoding proteins with mitochondrial functions are enriched. Upon Zbtb11 deletion, 154 genes changed expression 48 hours later, the vast majority of them down-regulated. Integration of ChIP-seq and RNA-seq data allowed us to identify the genes directly regulated by Zbtb11, and these were significantly enriched in genes with mitochondrial functions, with respiratory complex I and mitoribosome biogenesis being the overrepresented pathways. Subsequent biochemical experiments confirmed Zbtb11 is required for respiratory complex I assembly and for mitochondrial translation. In agreement with these findings Zbtb11 KO led to impaired respiration, proliferation arrest and cell death.

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Intellectual disability-associated factor Zbtb11 cooperates with NRF-2/GABP to control mitochondrial function.

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Intellectual disability-associated factor Zbtb11 cooperates with NRF-2/GABP to control mitochondrial function.

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