1. Npac Is A Co-factor of Histone H3K36me3 and Regulates Transcriptional Elongation in Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells
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Sue Yu, Jia Li, Guanxu Ji, Zhen Long Ng, Jiamin Siew, Wan Ning Lo, Ying Ye, Yuan Yuan Chew, Yun Chau Long, Wensheng Zhang, Ernesto Guccione, Yuin Han Loh, Zhi-Hong Jiang, Henry Yang, and Qiang Wu
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Npac ,Pluripotency ,Reprogramming ,Histone H3K36me3 ,Transcriptional elongation ,Biology (General) ,QH301-705.5 ,Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics ,R858-859.7 - Abstract
Chromatin modification contributes to pluripotency maintenance in embryonic stem cells (ESCs). However, the related mechanisms remain obscure. Here, we show that Npac, a “reader” of histone H3 lysine 36 trimethylation (H3K36me3), is required to maintain mouse ESC (mESC) pluripotency since knockdown of Npac causes mESC differentiation. Depletion of Npac in mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) inhibits reprogramming efficiency. Furthermore, our chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing (ChIP-seq) results of Npac reveal that Npac co-localizes with histone H3K36me3 in gene bodies of actively transcribed genes in mESCs. Interestingly, we find that Npac interacts with positive transcription elongation factor b (p-TEFb), Ser2-phosphorylated RNA Pol II (RNA Pol II Ser2P), and Ser5-phosphorylated RNA Pol II (RNA Pol II Ser5P). Furthermore, depletion of Npac disrupts transcriptional elongation of the pluripotency genes Nanog and Rif1. Taken together, we propose that Npac is essential for the transcriptional elongation of pluripotency genes by recruiting p-TEFb and interacting with RNA Pol II Ser2P and Ser5P.
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- 2022
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