Defining UHRF1 Domains That Support Maintenance of Human Colon Cancer DNA Methylation and Oncogenic Properties
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Project description:UHRF1 is essential for targeting DNA methyltransferases (DNMT’s) to replicating DNA to establish de novo DNA methylation and maintain it. While, UHRF1 domains are defined, including requirement for an E3 ligase region, for de novo methylation, those essential for maintenance have been difficult to outline. Herein, via a new assay, chromatin histone-binding and a hemimethylated DNA reader domains, but not the ligase domain are found essential for cancer-specific DNA methylation maintenance in human colorectal cancer (CRC) cells. Disrupting each essential domain phenocopies UHRF1 depletion for global DNA demethylation, reactivation of tumor suppressor genes (TSGs), and reduction in CRC invasion and metastatic properties. Moreover, there is strong negative correlation between high UHRF1 expression, low TSG expression, and abnormal methylation with CRC progression and overall survival. Our battery of findings suggest the value of targeting specific domains of UHRF1 for cancer therapy and adding a precision medicine approach through use of the biomarker associations we define.
2019-02-28 | GSE118970 | GEO
Project description:UHRF1 is essential for targeting DNA methyltransferases (DNMT’s) to replicating DNA to establish de novo DNA methylation and maintain it. While, UHRF1 domains are defined, including requirement for an E3 ligase region, for de novo methylation, those essential for maintenance have been difficult to outline. Herein, via a new assay, chromatin histone-binding and a hemimethylated DNA reader domains, but not the ligase domain are found essential for cancer-specific DNA methylation maintenance in human colorectal cancer (CRC) cells. Disrupting each essential domain phenocopies UHRF1 depletion for global DNA demethylation, reactivation of tumor suppressor genes (TSGs), and reduction in CRC invasion and metastatic properties. Moreover, there is strong negative correlation between high UHRF1 expression, low TSG expression, and abnormal methylation with CRC progression and overall survival. Our battery of findings suggest the value of targeting specific domains of UHRF1 for cancer therapy and adding a precision medicine approach through use of the biomarker associations we define.
2019-02-28 | GSE118971 | GEO
Project description:Defining UHRF1 Domains That Support Maintenance of Human Colon Cancer DNA Methylation and Oncogenic Properties [expression]
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Project description:Defining UHRF1 Domains That Support Maintenance of Human Colon Cancer DNA Methylation and Oncogenic Properties [methylation]
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Project description:UHRF1 facilitates the establishment and maintenance of DNA methylation patterns in mammalian cells. The establishment domains are defined, including E3 ligase function, but the maintenance domains are poorly characterized. Here, we demonstrate that UHRF1 histone- and hemimethylated DNA binding functions, but not E3 ligase activity, maintain cancer-specific DNA methylation in human colorectal cancer (CRC) cells. Disrupting either chromatin reader activity reverses DNA hypermethylation, reactivates epigenetically silenced tumor suppressor genes (TSGs), and reduces CRC oncogenic properties. Moreover, an inverse correlation between high UHRF1 and low TSG expression tracks with CRC progression and reduced patient survival. Defining critical UHRF1 domain functions and its relationship with CRC prognosis suggests directions for, and value of, targeting this protein to develop therapeutic DNA demethylating agents.
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Project description:The multi-domain protein UHRF1 (ubiquitin-like, containing PHD and RING finger domains, 1) recruits DNMT1 for DNA methylation maintenance during DNA replication. Here, we show that MOF (Males absent On the First) is an acetyltransferase of UHRF1 to acetylate UHRF1 at Lys670 in the pre-RING linker region whereas HDAC1 is a deacetylase of UHRF1 at the same site. The MOF/HDAC1-mediated acetylation in UHRF1 is cell-cycle regulated and peaks at G1/S phase, in line with the function of UHRF1 in recruiting DNMT1 to maintain DNA methylation. In addition, UHRF1 acetylation significantly enhances its E3 ligase activity and elimination of UHRF1 acetylation at these sites attenuates UHRF1-mediated H3 ubiquitination, which in turn impairs the DNMT1 recruitment and DNA methylation. Taken together, these findings not only identify MOF as a new acetyltransferase for UHRF1 but also reveal a novel mechanism underlying the regulation of DNA methylation maintenance through MOF-mediated UHRF1 acetylation.
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Project description:The E3 ubiquitin ligase UHRF1 is an established cofactor for replication-coupled DNA methylation inheritance. The current model posits a stepwise pathway in which UHRF1 engages nucleosomes through histone and DNA binding. This multivalent nucleosome readout directs UHRF1 ubiquitin ligase activity toward several lysines on N-terminal tails of histone H3, binding sites for DNMT1 through tandem ubiquitin interacting motifs (UIM1 and UIM2). While this elegant chromatin regulatory mechanism is now taking shape, the extent to which ubiquitin signaling through UHRF1 contributes to DNMT1-dependent DNA methylation maintenance genome-wide is not known. Here, we present comparative, genome-scale analysis of DNA methylation inheritance in human colon cancer cells with compromised UHRF1 ubiquitin ligase and DNMT1 ubiquitin reading activities. We reveal that DNA methylation maintenance in contexts of low CpG density is particularly vulnerable to disruption of UHRF1 ubiquitin ligase activity. This low CpG density hypomethylation signature, a common feature of partially methylated domains (PMDs) in human cancers, is also seen when DNMT1 ubiquitin reading activity through UIM1 is disrupted. Notably, disrupting UIM2 function affects DNA methylation inheritance to a similar extent as a catalytically dead form of the enzyme. Collectively, these studies demonstrate that DNMT1-dependent DNA methylation inheritance is a ubiquitin-regulated process and suggest that a disrupted UHRF1-DNMT1 ubiquitin signaling axis contributes to the development of PMDs in human cancers.
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