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The lysine demethylase KDM4A controls the cell-cycle expression of replicative canonical histone genes

ABSTRACT: Chromatin modulation provides a key checkpoint for controlling cell cycle regulated gene networks. The replicative canonical histone genes are one such gene family under tight regulation during cell division. These genes are most highly expressed during S phase when histones are needed to chromatinize the new DNA template. While this fact has been known for a while, limited knowledge exists about the specific chromatin regulators controlling their temporal expression during cell cycle. Since histones and their associated mutations are emerging as major players in diseases such as cancer, identifying the chromatin factors modulating their expression is critical. The histone lysine tri-demethylase KDM4A is regulated over cell cycle and plays a direct role in DNA replication timing, site-specific rereplication, and DNA amplifications during S phase. Here, we establish an unappreciated role for the catalytically active KDM4A in directly regulating canonical replicative histone gene networks during cell cycle. Of interest, we further demonstrate that KDM4A interacts with proteins controlling histone expression and RNA processing. Together, this study provides a new function for KDM4A in modulating canonical histone gene expression.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

PROVIDER: GSE154684 | GEO | 2021/10/27

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:This model is described in the article: Kinetics of histone gene expression during early development of Xenopus laevis. Koster JG, Destrée OH and Westerhoff HV. J Theor Biol. 1988 Nov 21;135(2):139-67. PMID: 3267765 Abstract: Using literature data for transcriptional and translational rate constants, gene copy numbers, DNA concentrations, and stability constants, we have calculated the expected concentrations of histones and histone mRNA during embryogenesis of Xenopus laevis. The results led us to conclude that: (i) for X. laevis the gene copy number of the histone genes is too low to ensure the synthesis of sufficient histones during very early development, inheritance from the oocyte of either histone protein or histone mRNA (but not necessarily both) is necessary; (ii) from the known storage of histones in the oocyte and the rates of histone synthesis determined by Adamson and Woodland (1977), there would be sufficient histones to structure the newly synthesized DNA up to gastrulation but not thereafter (these empirical rates of histone synthesis may be underestimates); (iii) on the other hand, the amount of H3 mRNA recently observed during early embryogenesis (Koster, 1987, Koster et al., 1988) could direct a higher and sufficient synthesis of H3 protein, also after gastrulation. We present a quantitative model that accounts both for the observed H3 mRNA concentration as a function of time during embryogenesis and for the synthesis of sufficient histones to structure the DNA throughout early embryogenesis. The model suggests that X. laevis exhibits a major (i.e. some 14-fold) reduction in transcription of histone genes approximately 11 hours after fertilization. This reduction could be due to a decrease in the number of transcribed histone genes, a decreased rate constant of transcription with continued transcription of all the histone genes, and/or a reduction in the time during the cell cycle in which histone mRNA synthesis takes place. Alternatively, the histone mRNA stability might decrease approximately 16-fold 11 hours after fertilization. This model originates from BioModels Database: A Database of Annotated Published Models. It is copyright (c) 2005-2011 The BioModels.net Team. To the extent possible under law, all copyright and related or neighbouring rights to this encoded model have been dedicated to the public domain worldwide. Please refer to CC0 Public Domain Dedication for more information. In summary, you are entitled to use this encoded model in absolutely any manner you deem suitable, verbatim, or with modification, alone or embedded it in a larger context, redistribute it, commercially or not, in a restricted way or not.. To cite BioModels Database, please use: Li C, Donizelli M, Rodriguez N, Dharuri H, Endler L, Chelliah V, Li L, He E, Henry A, Stefan MI, Snoep JL, Hucka M, Le Novère N, Laibe C (2010) BioModels Database: An enhanced, curated and annotated resource for published quantitative kinetic models. BMC Syst Biol., 4:92.

Project description:Histones are the protein components of the basic unit of chromatin, the core particle of the nucleosome. They play a central role in defining chromatin states associated with distinct cell fates and are classified into replicative and non-replicative/replacement histone variants. While the latter do not exhibit S phase regulation in their expression, the replicative histone variants show a major peak in expression early during S phase to support chromatin assembly during replication of the genome. Their expression is tightly regulated during the cell-cycle both transcriptionally and post-transcriptionally and involves a number of actors. During replication in human cells, two main chaperones ensure the deposition of H3-H4 onto DNA: Chromatin assembly factor 1 (CAF-1) and Anti-silencing factor 1 (ASF1). Interestingly, on the one hand, ASF1 binds the newly synthesized replicative histones H3.1/H3.2-H4 to hand them off to the downstream chaperone, CAF-1, for deposition onto the duplicated DNA strands in a DNA synthesis-coupled (DSC) manner. On the other hand, ASF1 also promotes the recycling of parental histones during replication. In addition, ASF1 binds the non-replicative variant H3.3 and hands it off to the downstream chaperone Histone regulator A (HIRA) for deposition of H3.3 in a DNA synthesis independent (DSI) manner. Finally, in human cells, ASF1 but not CAF-1, also provides a buffering system for histone excess generated in response to stalled replication, indicating yet another role for ASF1 in regulating the flow of replicative histones in higher eukaryotes. However, to date, roles of these chaperones in histone RNA metabolism in mammals had remained unexplored. This is particularly interesting to consider given that in budding yeast, where there are no distinct replicative and non-replicative H3 variants, the single ASF1 ortholog participates in activating transcription of histone genes in S phase and transcriptional repression outside S phase in combination with Hir1, the budding yeast counterpart of HIRA. We thus decided to explore how the key histone chaperones involved in DNA synthesis-coupled chromatin assembly could contribute to the critical regulation of expression of replicative histone genes in human cells during S phase. From total RNA extracted from asynchronous and synchronized human cells, we performed RNA-seq and found that most of the annotated replicative histone genes decreased in expression upon ASF1 depletion by siRNA during S phase compared to the control condition with siRNA againt GFP. However, by 4sU-labeled RNA-seq we detected an increase in newly synthesized replicative histone transcripts. These findings indicate that the decrease in expression of replicative histone genes in ASF1-depleted cells cannot be due to a decrease at the level of transcription. We then inspected closely the sequences at the 3’ end of the replicative histone transcripts in our RNA-seq data and detected a defect of their 3’ processing. Thus, we propose that in mammals ASF1 plays a role in the unique regulation of replicative histone RNA metabolism.

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