Polycomb PHF19 binds H3K36me3 and recruits PRC2 and demethylase NO66 to embryonic stem cell genes during differentiation

How Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) is recruited to active chromatin to mediate transcriptional silencing during lineage specification in metazoans has been unclear. New findings now show that PRC2 component PHF19, which associates with the H3K36me3 demethylase NO66, binds the active chromatin...

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Published in:Nature structural & molecular biology Vol. 19; no. 12; pp. 1273 - 1281
Main Authors: Brien, Gerard L, Gambero, Guillermo, O'Connell, David J, Jerman, Emilia, Turner, Siobhán A, Egan, Chris M, Dunne, Eiseart J, Jurgens, Maike C, Wynne, Kieran, Piao, Lianhua, Lohan, Amanda J, Ferguson, Neil, Shi, Xiaobing, Sinha, Krishna M, Loftus, Brendan J, Cagney, Gerard, Bracken, Adrian P
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York Nature Publishing Group US 01.12.2012
Nature Publishing Group
Subjects:
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Animals
Biochemistry
Biological Microscopy
Cell Differentiation
Cellular biology
Chromatin
Embryology
Embryonic stem cells
Embryonic Stem Cells - cytology
Embryonic Stem Cells - metabolism
Gene loci
Gene targeting
Genetic aspects
Growth
Histones - metabolism
Life Sciences
Membrane Biology
Metazoa
Mice
Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 - metabolism
Protein binding
Protein Structure
Proteins
Stem cells
United States
ISSN:1545-9993, 1545-9985, 1545-9985
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Summary:How Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) is recruited to active chromatin to mediate transcriptional silencing during lineage specification in metazoans has been unclear. New findings now show that PRC2 component PHF19, which associates with the H3K36me3 demethylase NO66, binds the active chromatin mark H3K36me3 through its Tudor domain, leading to PRC2-mediated H3K27 trimethylation, loss of H3K36me3 and transcriptional silencing. Polycomb group proteins are repressive chromatin modifiers with essential roles in metazoan development, cellular differentiation and cell fate maintenance. How Polycomb proteins access active chromatin to confer transcriptional silencing during lineage transitions remains unclear. Here we show that the Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) component PHF19 binds trimethylated histone H3 Lys36 (H3K36me3), a mark of active chromatin, via its Tudor domain. PHF19 associates with the H3K36me3 demethylase NO66, and it is required to recruit the PRC2 complex and NO66 to stem cell genes during differentiation, leading to PRC2-mediated trimethylation of histone H3 Lys27 (H3K27), loss of H3K36me3 and transcriptional silencing. We propose a model whereby PHF19 functions during mouse embryonic stem cell differentiation to transiently bind the H3K36me3 mark via its Tudor domain, forming essential contact points that allow recruitment of PRC2 and H3K36me3 demethylase activity to active gene loci during their transition to a Polycomb-repressed state.
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ISSN:1545-9993
1545-9985
1545-9985
DOI:10.1038/nsmb.2449