H3K56 Deacetylation and H2A.Z Deposition Are Required for Aberrant Heterochromatin Spreading

Overview

Journal Nucleic Acids Res

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Biochemistry

Date 2022 Mar 25

PMID 35333354

Authors

Chengcheng Zhang

Yuan Tian

Shuang Song

Lu Zhang

Yunkun Dang

Qun He

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Abstract

Crucial mechanisms are required to restrict self-propagating heterochromatin spreading within defined boundaries and prevent euchromatic gene silencing. In the filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa, the JmjC domain protein DNA METHYLATION MODULATOR-1 (DMM-1) prevents aberrant spreading of heterochromatin, but the molecular details remain unknown. Here, we revealed that DMM-1 is highly enriched in a well-defined 5-kb heterochromatin domain upstream of the cat-3 gene, hereby called 5H-cat-3 domain, to constrain aberrant heterochromatin spreading. Interestingly, aberrant spreading of the 5H-cat-3 domain observed in the dmm-1KO strain is accompanied by robust deposition of histone variant H2A.Z, and deletion of H2A.Z abolishes aberrant spreading of the 5H-cat-3 domain into adjacent euchromatin. Furthermore, lysine 56 of histone H3 is deacetylated at the expanded heterochromatin regions, and mimicking H3K56 acetylation with an H3K56Q mutation effectively blocks H2A.Z-mediated aberrant spreading of the 5H-cat-3 domain. Importantly, genome-wide analyses demonstrated the general roles of H3K56 deacetylation and H2A.Z deposition in aberrant spreading of heterochromatin. Together, our results illustrate a previously unappreciated regulatory process that mediates aberrant heterochromatin spreading.

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