Global and specific responses of the histone acetylene to systematic perturbation

Becker, Peter B. ; Feller, Christian; Forné, Ignasi und Imhof, Axel (8. Januar 2015): Global and specific responses of the histone acetylene to systematic perturbation. In: Molecular Cell, Bd. 57: S. 1-13

Abstract

Regulation of histone acetylation is fundamental to the utilization of eukaryotic genomes in chromatin. Aberrant acetylation contributes to disease and can be clinically combated by inhibiting the responsible enzymes. Our knowledge of the histone acetylation system is patchy because we so far lacked themethodology to describe acetylation patterns and their genesis by integrated enzyme activities. We devised a generally applicable, mass spectrometry-based strategy to precisely and accurately quantify combinatorial modification motifs. This was applied to generate a comprehensive inventory of acetylation motifs on histones H3 and H4 in Drosophila cells. Systematic depletion of known or suspected acetyltransferases and deacetylases revealed specific alterations of histone acetylation signatures, established enzyme-substrate relationships, and unveiled an extensive crosstalk between neighboring modifications. Unexpectedly, overall histone acetylation levels remained remarkably constant upon depletion of individual acetyltransferases. Conceivably, the acetylation level is adjusted to maintain the global charge neutralization of chromatin and the stability of nuclei.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• EU Funded Grant Agreement Number: 293948
• EU-Projekte: 7. Forschungsrahmenprogramm (FP7)
• Publikationsform: Submitted Version
• Keywords: chromatin, histone, acetylation, mass spectrometry, modification
• Fakultät: Medizin > Adolf-Butenandt-Institut
• Themengebiete: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie
• Sprache: Englisch