SHP2 as a Primordial Epigenetic Enzyme Expunges Histone H3 pTyr-54 to Amend Androgen Receptor Homeostasis
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ABSTRACT: Mutations that decrease activity of the tyrosine phosphatase, SHP2 (encoded by PTPN11), causes Noonan syndrome with multiple lentigines or NSML (also called LEOPARD syndrome), while the gain-of-function mutations promotes several malignancies. Precisely how a spectrum of maladies ranging from developmental disorders to cancer are regulated by varying a solitary phosphatase activity is not clearly understood. We uncovered that SHP2 is a distinct class of an epigenetic enzyme; upon phosphorylation by the kinase ACK1/TNK2, pSHP2 was escorted by androgen receptor (AR) to chromatin, erasing hitherto unidentified pY54-H3 (phosphorylation of histones H3 at Tyr54) epigenetic marks to trigger a transcriptional program of AR and its target genes. The SANT domain of NCOR was identified as the epigenetic reader for pY54-H3 marks. NSML patients, SHP2 knock-in mice (which develops NSML), as well as ACK1 knockout mice presented dramatic increase in pY54-H3, leading to loss of AR transcriptome. In contrast, prostate tumors with high pSHP2 and pACK1 activity exhibited progressive downregulation of pY54-H3 levels and higher AR expression that correlated with disease severity. Overall, pSHP2/pY54-H3 signaling acts as a sentinel of AR homeostasis, explaining not only growth retardation, genital abnormalities and infertility among NSML patients, but also significant AR upregulation promoting tumor growth in prostate cancer patients.
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus Homo sapiens
PROVIDER: GSE214870 | GEO | 2023/09/28
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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