Genomic context-dependent histone H3K36 methylation by Drosophila methyltransferases
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Project description:How different histone methyltransferases (HMT) cooperate to progressively catalyze different methylation states of the same residue as well the functional consequences of the different methylation states are not well known. Here, we address in the context of Drosophila H3K36 methylation by using single and combinatorial RNAi of HMTs along with genome-wide MNase-ChIPseq analyses. Our study reveals that K36me1/2/3 each mark distinct chromatin compartments. Each HMT predominantly contributes to only one modification state, however our approach also identifies context-dependent cooperative and compensative patterns. Further, correlating changes in K36me1/2/3 to reader binding reveals that K36me2/3 can redundantly contribute to faithful reader binding ensuring robustness.
2024-05-07 | GSE253391 | GEO
Project description:Germ cells have evolved unique mechanisms to ensure an everlasting transmission of their genetic and epigenetic information to future generations, whose alteration compromises germ cell immortality. In many instances, epigenetic factors play fundamental roles in these mechanisms. Despite H3K36 and H3K27 methyltransferases shape and propagate over generations a pattern of histone methylation essential for C. elegans germ cell maintenance, the role of respective histone demethylases in this context remains mainly unexplored. Here, we show that jmjd-5 regulates the level of H3K36me2 and H3K27me3, preserves germ cell immortality at high temperature and protects germ cell identity by controlling somatic and germline gene expression. Strikingly, the biological and transcriptional effects of jmjd-5 loss can be hindered by the removal of demethylases for H3K27, indicating that H3K36/K27 demethylases act in a transcriptional framework and promote the accurate balance between H3K36 and H3K27 methylation required for the maintenance of germ cell immortality. Furthermore, we found that in wild-type, but not in jmjd-5 mutant animals, alterations of H3K27 and H3K36 methylation and transcription occur at high temperature, suggesting a role for jmjd-5 in adaptation to environmental changes.
2021-11-23 | GSE174652 | GEO
Project description:Histone tails are post-translationally modified at multiple sites, including Lys36 on histone H3 (H3K36). The H3K36 methylation has been shown to associate with the transcription of active euchromatin, alternative splicing, DNA repair and recombination. However, the role of H3K36 methylation during cell differentiation is still obscure.Previous investigations found that a site specific Lys-to-Met mutation on histones can serve as an inhibitor of this site specific methyltransferases to repress global methylation on that lysine of histones. In this study we usedH3K36 Lys-to-Met mutant (H3K36M) as a tool to investigaterole of H3K36 methylation in our cell differentiation system. Expression of H3K36M repressed global H3K36 methylation but increased H3K27me3 as previously reported. On our cell differentiation system, H3K36M suppressed adipogenesis and myogenesis. Our pioneer RNA-seqstudy further showed that H3K36M repressed the expression of master regulator genes. Here, we did ChIP-seq of several histone modifications to further explore the changes on the epigenome by expression of H3K36M. Interestingly, on some important master regulator genes loci, the repressive marker H3K27me3 increased significantly, correlated with the repression on their expression. The H3K36M decreases global H3K36 di- and tri-methylation. To clarify which H3K36 methyltransferase is important for cell differentiation, we knocked down H3K36 di-methyltransferases Nsd1 and Nsd2, H3K36 tri-methyltransferase Setd2 separately. Nsd2 knockdown, but not Nsd1 or Setd2,can phenocopythe adipogenesis defect in H3K36M expressed cells.Comparing in RNA-seq results, Nsd2 knockdown cells showed similar gene expression profile with H3K36M expressed cells in adipogenesis. These suggest that Nsd2-mediated H3K36me2 plays an important role in adipogenesis.To study the role of H3K36 methylation in vivo, we generated an aP2 promoter driven H3K36M expressed transgenic mouse (Tg), to express H3K36M specifically in adipose tissue. The Tg mice showedsignificant dysfunction in both white and brown adipose tissues. Their fat tissues gene expression profile changed significantly. All of these indicate that H3K36 methylation is important for adipose tissue developmentin vivo.Together, our comprehensive studies provide novel insights into dynamics of H3K36 methylation and its important role in transcriptional regulation of cell differentiation and mouse fat tissue development.
2018-03-19 | GSE83793 | GEO
Project description:In Drosophila, two chromosomes require special mechanisms to balance their transcriptional output to the rest of the genome. These are the male-specific lethal complex targeting the male X chromosome and Painting of fourth targeting chromosome 4. Here, we explore the role of histone H3 methylated at lysine-36 (H3K36) and the associated methyltransferases—Set2, NSD, and Ash1—in these two chromosome-specific systems. We show that the loss of Set2 impairs the MSL complex–mediated dosage compensation; however, the effect is not recapitulated by H3K36 replacement and indicates an alternative target of Set2. Unexpectedly, balanced transcriptional output from the fourth chromosome requires intact H3K36 and depends on the additive functions of NSD and Ash1. We conclude that H3K36 methylation and the associated methyltransferases are important factors to balance transcriptional output of the male X chromosome and the fourth chromosome. Furthermore, our study highlights the pleiotropic effects of these enzymes.
2021-08-10 | GSE166934 | GEO
Project description:In budding yeast, Set2 catalyzes di- and trimethylation of H3K36 (H3K36me2 and H3K36me3) via an interaction between its SRI domain and C-terminal repeats of RNA polymerase II (Pol2) phosphorylated at Ser2 and Ser5 (CTD-S2,5-P). H3K36me2 recruits the Rpd3S histone deacetylase complex to repress cryptic transcription from transcribed regions. In fission yeast, Set2 is also responsible for H3K36 methylation, which represses a subset of RNAs including heterochromatic and subtelomeric RNAs, at least in part via recruitment of Clr6 complex II, a homolog of Rpd3S. Here, we show that CTD-S2Pâdependent interaction of fission yeast Set2 with Pol2 via the SRI domain is required for formation of H3K36me3, but not H3K36me2. H3K36me3 silenced heterochromatic and subtelomeric transcripts through post-transcriptional and transcriptional mechanisms, respectively, whereas H3K36me2 did not. Clr6 complex II appeared not to be responsible for heterochromatic silencing. Our results demonstrate that H3K36 methylation has multiple outputs in fission yeast; these findings provide insight into the multiple roles of H3K36 methylation in metazoans, which have different enzymes for synthesis of H3K36me1/2 and H3K36me3. Gene expression profile at exponentially-growing phase.in the fission yeast deletion mutants of set2.
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Project description:ASH-1 orthologs are H3K36-specific methyltransferases that are conserved from fungi to humans but are poorly understood, in part because they are typically essential for viability. Here we examine the H3K36 methylation pathway of Neurospora crassa, which we find has just two H3K36 methyltransferases, ASH-1 and RNA polymerase II-associated SET-2. Our investigation of the interplay between SET-2 and ASH-1 uncovered a regulatory mechanism connecting ASH-1-catalyzed H3K36 methylation to repression of poorly transcribed genes. Our findings provide new insight into ASH-1 function, H3K27me2/3 establishment, and repression at facultative heterochromatin.
2018-08-14 | GSE118495 | GEO
Project description:Histone lysine methylation is a key epigenetic modification that regulates eukaryotic transcription. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, it is controlled by a reduced but evolutionarily conserved suite of methyltransferase (Set1p, Set2p, Dot1p, and Set5p) and demethylase (Jhd1p, Jhd2p, Rph1p, and Gis1p) enzymes. Many of these enzymes are extensively phosphorylated in vivo; however, the functions of specific phosphosites are poorly understood. Here, we comprehensively investigate the phosphoregulation of the yeast histone methylation network by analysing 40 phosphosites on six enzymes through mutagenesis. A total of 82 genomically-edited S. cerevisiae strains were generated and screened for changes in native H3K4, H3K36, and H3K79 methylation levels, and for sensitivity to environmental stress conditions. This demonstrated the functional relevance of phosphosites on methyltransferase Set2p (S6, S8, S10, and T127) and demethylase Jhd1p (S44) in the regulation of H3K36 methylation in vivo, and in the coordination of specific stress response pathways in budding yeast. Proteomic analysis of SET2 mutants revealed that phosphorylation site mutations lead to significant downregulation of membrane-associated proteins and processes, consistent with changes brought about by SET2 deletion. This study represents the first systematic investigation into the phosphoregulation of an entire epigenetic network in any eukaryote, and our findings establish phosphorylation as an important regulator of histone lysine methylation in S. cerevisiae.
2022-03-07 | PXD029088 | Pride
Project description:Histone H3.3 G34 mutations alter histone H3K36 and H3K27 methylation in cis
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Project description:High-throughput sequencing of numerous patient samples has identified a myriad of frequent mutations of epigenetic regulators in human cancers, including recently discovered mutations in histone-encoding genes. Lysine-to-methionine mutations such as H3K27M and H3K36M share a common mechanism of inhibiting methylation pathways at the genome-wide level to promote tumorigenesis. However, the mechanism underlying the molecular and cellular changes due to H3G34 alterations is yet to be determined. H3G34 itself is not post-translationally modified; however, G34 lies in close proximity to K36, which undergoes methylation during transcriptional elongation. In Hela cells, H3.3G34L/W mutations have no effect on global levels of methylation on H3K36, H3K27, or other major methylation sites on endogenous histone H3, which include both H3.3 and the canonical H3.1/H3.2 proteins. However, long exposures of the blots revealed that methylation on the ectopic Flag-H3.3 proteins are affected by G34 mutations: with di- and trimethylation on H3K36 and H3K27ac reduced whereas H3K27me3 increased in the G34L and G34W mutated H3.3 compared to the WT H3.3. ChIP-seq results showed that mutations of H3.3G34 affect methylation on H3K36 and H3K27 in cis. G34L/W mutants abolish SETD2 methylation of H3K36. In contrast, the enzymatic activities of both EZH2 and p300 on H3K27 are not affected by G34 mutations. Consistent with changes in H3K27me3 and H3K36m3 levels, we found increased binding of PRC2 (EZH2, SUZ12 and EED) and PRC1 complex components (CBX8 and RING2) and reduced binding of H3.3K36me3 reader such as ZMYND11 to the G34 mutants. In summary, our study revealed that histone H3.3 G34 mutations alter histone K36 and K27 methylation in cis, and affect the binding of readers specific to K36 or K27 methylation.
2018-04-26 | GSE110389 | GEO
Project description:Set2 co-transcriptionally methylates lysine 36 of histone H3 (H3K36), producing mono-, di-, and trimethylation (H3K36me1/2/3). These modifications recruit or repel chromatin effector proteins important for transcriptional fidelity, mRNA splicing, and DNA repair. However, it was not known whether the different methylation states of H3K36 have distinct biological functions. Here, we use engineered forms of Set2 that produce different lysine methylation states to identify unique and shared functions for H3K36 modifications. Although H3K36me1/2 and H3K36me3 are functionally redundant in many SET2 deletion phenotypes, we found that H3K36me3 has a unique function related to Bur1 kinase activity and FACT (facilitates chromatin transcription) complex function. Further, during nutrient stress, either H3K36me1/2 or H3K36me3 represses high levels of histone acetylation and cryptic transcription that arises from within genes. Our findings uncover the potential for the regulation of diverse chromatin functions by different H3K36 methylation states.
2020-04-29 | GSE125684 | GEO