1. Conserved crosstalk between histone deacetylation and H3K79 methylation generates DOT1L-dose dependency in HDAC1-deficient thymic lymphoma
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Tessy Korthout, A. F. Maarten Altelaar, Eliza Mari Kwesi-Maliepaard, Liesbeth Hoekman, Sjoerd Hendriks, Sander Palit, Thierry Schmidlin, Heinz Jacobs, Mir Farshid Alemdehy, Jan Hermen Dannenberg, Sjoerd Klarenbeek, Fred van Leeuwen, Cesare Lancini, Tibor van Welsem, Chelsea M. McLean, Hanneke Vlaming, Thom M Molenaar, Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, Afd Biomol.Mass Spect. and Proteomics, Graduate School, and ACS - Heart failure & arrhythmias
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Histone Deacetylase 2 ,Histone Deacetylase 1 ,Chromatin, Epigenetics, Genomics & Functional Genomics ,Biochemistry ,Histones ,Mice ,0302 clinical medicine ,hemic and lymphatic diseases ,histone ubiquitination ,Thymic Lymphoma ,Cancer ,0303 health sciences ,biology ,Histone ubiquitination ,General Neuroscience ,histone acetylation ,Acetylation ,Methylation ,Articles ,Chromatin ,3. Good health ,Cell biology ,Crosstalk (biology) ,Histone ,Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins ,Neuroscience(all) ,lymphoma ,Saccharomyces cerevisiae ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,Article ,Histone Deacetylases ,03 medical and health sciences ,Cell Line, Tumor ,Immunology and Microbiology(all) ,Animals ,Humans ,H3K79 methylation ,Molecular Biology ,030304 developmental biology ,General Immunology and Microbiology ,Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all) ,DOT1L ,Histone-Lysine N-Methyltransferase ,Thymus Neoplasms ,biology.protein ,Histone deacetylase ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Gene Deletion ,Genetics and Molecular Biology(all) - Abstract
DOT1L methylates histone H3K79 and is aberrantly regulated in MLL‐rearranged leukemia. Inhibitors have been developed to target DOT1L activity in leukemia, but cellular mechanisms that regulate DOT1L are still poorly understood. We have identified the histone deacetylase Rpd3 as a negative regulator of budding yeast Dot1. At its target genes, the transcriptional repressor Rpd3 restricts H3K79 methylation, explaining the absence of H3K79me3 at a subset of genes in the yeast genome. Similar to the crosstalk in yeast, inactivation of the murine Rpd3 homolog HDAC1 in thymocytes led to an increase in H3K79 methylation. Thymic lymphomas that arise upon genetic deletion of Hdac1 retained the increased H3K79 methylation and were sensitive to reduced DOT1L dosage. Furthermore, cell lines derived from Hdac1 Δ/Δ thymic lymphomas were sensitive to a DOT1L inhibitor, which induced apoptosis. In summary, we identified an evolutionarily conserved crosstalk between HDAC1 and DOT1L with impact in murine thymic lymphoma development.
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- 2019