CBP is required for establishing adaptive gene programs in the adult brain [ChIP-seq]
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ABSTRACT: We investigated the impact in transcription, chromatin acetylation and behavior of eliminating either CBP or p300 in excitatory neurons of the adult forebrain. The elimination of CBP reduced the expression of plasticity genes. The importance of CBP became more prominent in paradigms that involved a chronic or recurrent change in transcription, including kindling and neuroadaptation to environmental enrichment, in which CBP loss interfered with the establishment of activity-induced transcriptional and epigenetic adaptive changes in response to stimulus or experience. Comparative analyses in mice lacking CBP’s paralog p300 underscored the specificity of CBP function.
Project description:We investigated the impact in transcription, chromatin acetylation and behavior of eliminating either CBP or p300 in excitatory neurons of the adult forebrain. The elimination of CBP reduced the expression of plasticity genes. The importance of CBP became more prominent in paradigms that involved a chronic or recurrent change in transcription, including kindling and neuroadaptation to environmental enrichment, in which CBP loss interfered with the establishment of activity-induced transcriptional and epigenetic adaptive changes in response to stimulus or experience. Comparative analyses in mice lacking CBP’s paralog p300 underscored the specificity of CBP function.
Project description:We investigated the impact in transcription, chromatin acetylation and behavior of eliminating either CBP or p300 in excitatory neurons of the adult forebrain. The elimination of CBP reduced the expression of plasticity genes. The importance of CBP became more prominent in paradigms that involved a chronic or recurrent change in transcription, including kindling and neuroadaptation to environmental enrichment, in which CBP loss interfered with the establishment of activity-induced transcriptional and epigenetic adaptive changes in response to stimulus or experience. Comparative analyses in mice lacking CBP’s paralog p300 underscored the specificity of CBP function.
Project description:We investigated the impact in transcription, chromatin acetylation and behavior of eliminating either CBP or p300 in excitatory neurons of the adult forebrain. The elimination of CBP reduced the expression of plasticity genes. The importance of CBP became more prominent in paradigms that involved a chronic or recurrent change in transcription, including kindling and neuroadaptation to environmental enrichment, in which CBP loss interfered with the establishment of activity-induced transcriptional and epigenetic adaptive changes in response to stimulus or experience. Comparative analyses in mice lacking CBP’s paralog p300 underscored the specificity of CBP function.
Project description:We investigated the impact in transcription, chromatin acetylation and behavior of eliminating either CBP or p300 in excitatory neurons of the adult forebrain. The elimination of CBP reduced the expression of plasticity genes. The importance of CBP became more prominent in paradigms that involved a chronic or recurrent change in transcription, including kindling and neuroadaptation to environmental enrichment, in which CBP loss interfered with the establishment of activity-induced transcriptional and epigenetic adaptive changes in response to stimulus or experience. Comparative analyses in mice lacking CBP’s paralog p300 underscored the specificity of CBP function.
Project description:CBP/p300 are transcription co-activators whose binding is a signature of enhancers, cis-regulatory elements that control patterns of gene expression in multicellular organisms. Active enhancers produce bi-directional enhancer RNAs (eRNAs) and display CBP/p300 dependent histone acetylation. Here, we demonstrate that CBP binds directly to RNAs in vivo and in vitro. RNAs bound to CBP in vivo include a large number of eRNAs. Using steady-state histone acetyltransferase (HAT) assays we show that an RNA binding region in the HAT domain of CBP—a regulatory motif unique to CBP/p300—allows RNA to stimulate CBP’s HAT activity. At enhancers where CBP interacts with eRNAs, stimulation manifests in RNA-dependent changes in the histone acetylation mediated by CBP, such as H3K27ac, and by corresponding changes in gene expression. By interacting directly with CBP, eRNAs contribute to the unique chromatin structure at active enhancers, which in turn is required for regulation of target genes.
Project description:The acetyltransferases CBP and p300 are multifunctional transcriptional co-activators; however, their acetylation targets, site-specific acetylation kinetics, and function in proteome regulation are incompletely understood. We combined quantitative proteomics with novel CBP/p300-specific catalytic inhibitors, bromodomain inhibitor, and gene knockout to show that CBP/p300 acetylates thousands of sites, including signature histone sites, as well as a multitude of sites on signaling effectors and enhancer-associated transcriptional regulators. Kinetic analysis identified a subset of CBP/p300-regulated sites with very rapid (<30min) acetylation turnover, revealing a dynamic balance between acetylation and deacetylation. Quantification of acetylation, mRNA, and protein abundance after CBP/p300 inhibition reveals a kinetically competent network of gene expression that strictly depends on CBP/p300-catalyzed rapid acetylation. Collectively, our in-depth acetylome analyses reveal systems attributes of CBP/p300 targets, and the resource dataset provides a framework for investigating CBP/p300 functions, as well as for understanding the impact of small molecule inhibitors targeting its catalytic and bromodomain activities.
Project description:Genome-wide distribution of histone H3K18 and H3K27 acetyltransferases, Crebbp (CBP) and Ep300 (p300), is used to map enhancers and promoters, but whether these elements functionally require CBP/p300 remains largely uncertain. We investigated this relationship by comparing genomic CBP recruitment with gene expression in wild type and CBP/p300 double-knockout fibroblasts. ChIP-seq revealed nearby CBP recruitment for 20 percent of constitutively expressed genes, but surprisingly, three-quarters of these were unaffected or slightly activated by CBP/p300 deletion. Computationally defined enhancer-promoter-units (EPUs) having a CBP peak within two kilobases of the enhancer-like element provided better predictive value, with CBP/p300 deletion attenuating expression of 40 percent of such EPU assigned constitutively expressed genes. We next examined signaling-responsive (Hypoxia Inducible Factor) gene expression and CBP recruitment, and found that 97 percent of inducible genes were within 50 kilobases of an inducible CBP peak, and 70 percent of these required CBP/p300 for full inducible expression. Unexpectedly however, most inducible CBP peaks occurred near signal-nonresponsive genes. eight samples total; Two wild type and two CBP null primary mouse embryonic fibroblast (MEF) lines, each treated with 100uM 2,2-dipyridyl or ethanol vehicle for 2 hours
Project description:Histone acetylation is important for the activation of gene transcription but little is known about its direct ‘read/write’ mechanisms. Here, we report cryo-electron microscopy structures in which a p300/CBP multidomain monomer recognizes histone H4 N-terminal tail (NT) acetylation (ac) in a nucleosome and acetylates non-H4 histone NTs within the same nucleosome. p300/CBP not only recognized H4NTac via the bromodomain pocket responsible for ‘reading’, but also interacted with the DNA minor grooves via the outside of that pocket. This directed the catalytic center of p300/CBP to one of the non-H4 histone NTs. The primary target that p300 ‘writes’ by ‘reading’ H4NTac was H2BNT, and H2BNTac promoted H2A-H2B dissociation from the nucleosome. We propose a model in which p300/CBP ‘replicates’ histone NT acetylation within the H3-H4 tetramer to inherit epigenetic storage, and ‘transcribes’ it from the H3-H4 tetramer to the H2B-H2A dimers to activate context-dependent gene transcription through local nucleosome destabilization.
Project description:Genome-wide distribution of histone H3K18 and H3K27 acetyltransferases, Crebbp (CBP) and Ep300 (p300), is used to map enhancers and promoters, but whether these elements functionally require CBP/p300 remains largely uncertain. We investigated this relationship by comparing genomic CBP recruitment with gene expression in wild type and CBP/p300 double-knockout fibroblasts. ChIP-seq revealed nearby CBP recruitment for 20 percent of constitutively expressed genes, but surprisingly, three-quarters of these were unaffected or slightly activated by CBP/p300 deletion. Computationally defined enhancer-promoter-units (EPUs) having a CBP peak within two kilobases of the enhancer-like element provided better predictive value, with CBP/p300 deletion attenuating expression of 40 percent of such EPU assigned constitutively expressed genes. We next examined signaling-responsive (Hypoxia Inducible Factor) gene expression and CBP recruitment, and found that 97 percent of inducible genes were within 50 kilobases of an inducible CBP peak, and 70 percent of these required CBP/p300 for full inducible expression. Unexpectedly however, most inducible CBP peaks occurred near signal-nonresponsive genes.