Project description:This SuperSeries is composed of the following subset Series: GSE14232: Transcriptome analysis of freshly sorted and expanded regulatory and conventional T cells GSE14233: Detection of differentially methylated regions in CD4+CD25+CD45RA+ regulatory T-cells and conventional CD4+CD25- T-cells GSE14234: Histone H3 Lysine 4 mono-, di- and trimethyl and CTCF in CD4+CD25+CD45RA+ regulatory and conventional CD4+CD25- T-cells Refer to individual Series
Project description:Chromatin structure and function is maintained by dynamic protein-protein and protein-nucleic acid interactions. Histones are a family of proteins that are abundant chromatin constituents and that carry numerous post-translational modifications (PTMs). Histone PTMs mediate a variety of biological activities, including recruitment of enzymatic readers, writers and erasers that modulate protein activities, DNA replication, transcription and repair. Individual histone molecules contain multiple co-existing PTMs some of which exhibit crosstalk, i.e. coordinated or mutually exclusive activities. We here present an integrated experimental and computational approach for systems level molecular characterization of PTMs and PTM crosstalk. Using wildtype and engineered mouse embryonic stem cells with perturbations in the Polycomb Repressive Complex 1 (PRC1, suz12-/-), PRC2 (Ring1A/b-/-) and DNA methyltransferases (Dnmt1/3a/3b-/-) we performed comprehensive PTM analysis of histone H3 tails. We identified unique histone H3 PTM features of each of the four cell lines and we detected common combinatorial PTM features across cell lines. Using quantitative middle-down proteomics combined with probabilistic and statistical data analysis we extracted histone H3 PTM profiles for all four mESC systems. PTM crosstalk emerged as mutually exclusive histone PTMs or coordinately regulated PTMs independent of histone peptide abundance in the four model systems. We detected positive crosstalk between adjacent mono-methylated marks but strong negative crosstalk among most of the seven characterized di- and tri-methylations on lysines. We report novel features of PTM interplay involving hitherto poorly characterized arginine methylation and lysine methylation sites in histone H3, including H3R2me, H3R8me and H3K37me, which exhibited specific PTM codes suggesting a particular role in chromatin. All histone H3 PTM data is available in our publicly available CrossTalkDB repository at http://crosstalkdb.bmb.sdu.dk
Project description:Specific alterations in protein post-translational modification (PTMs) are recognized hallmarks of diseases. These modifications potentially provide a unique disease-related source of Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) class I-presented peptide antigens that can elicit specific immune responses. Although, phosphorylated HLA peptides have received already some attention, the frequency and characteristics of arginine methylated HLA class I peptide presentation have not been explored in detail. In a model human B-cell line we detected by mass spectrometry (MS) 149 HLA class I peptides harboring mono- and/or di-methylated arginine residues. The source proteins of these antigens play important roles in signal transduction, gene transcription and DNA repair. A striking preference was observed in presentation of arginine (di)methylated peptides predicted to bind HLA-B*07 molecules, most likely because the binding motifs of this allele resemble the substrates for arginine methyl-transferases. The HLA-B*07 peptides were preferentially di-methylated at the P3 position in the sequence, thus consecutively to the proline anchor residue at position P2. Such a proline-arginine sequnce has been associated with the arginine methyl-transferases CARM1 and PRMT5. Making use of the specific neutral losses in the MS/MS spectra we could further assign most of the peptides to be asymmetrically di-methylated, most likely by CARM1. The here presented data expand our knowledge of processing and presentation of arginine (di)methylated HLA class I peptides, indicating that this type of modification is frequently presented for recognition by T-cells and might thus present a potential target for immunotherapy.