Prezioso, Carolina
(2010)
Dynamics and epigenetic control of PcG proteins during skeletal muscle cell differentiation.
[Tesi di dottorato]
(Unpublished)
| Item Type: |
Tesi di dottorato
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| Resource language: |
English |
| Title: |
Dynamics and epigenetic control of PcG proteins during skeletal muscle cell differentiation |
| Creators: |
| Creators | Email |
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| Prezioso, Carolina | cprezioso@dti.telethon.it |
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| Date: |
26 November 2010 |
| Number of Pages: |
150 |
| Institution: |
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II |
| Department: |
Biologia e patologia cellullare e molecolare "L. Califano" |
| Scuola di dottorato: |
Medicina molecolare |
| Dottorato: |
Genetica e medicina molecolare |
| Ciclo di dottorato: |
23 |
| Coordinatore del Corso di dottorato: |
| nome | email |
|---|
| Nitsch, Lucio | nitsch@unina.it |
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| Tutor: |
| nome | email |
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| Orlando, Valerio | vorlando@dti.telethon.it | | Minchiotti, Gabriella | minchiot@igb.cnr.it |
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| Date: |
26 November 2010 |
| Number of Pages: |
150 |
| Keywords: |
Epigenetics, PcG proteins, PRC1, PRC2, EZH1, H3Ser28ph, muscle differentiation |
| Settori scientifico-disciplinari del MIUR: |
Area 06 - Scienze mediche > MED/03 - Genetica medica
Area 05 - Scienze biologiche > BIO/18 - Genetica |
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| Date Deposited: |
13 Dec 2010 22:28 |
| Last Modified: |
30 Apr 2014 19:43 |
| URI: |
http://www.fedoa.unina.it/id/eprint/7975 |
| DOI: |
10.6092/UNINA/FEDOA/7975 |
Collection description
During skeletal muscle differentiation, signal dependent switches in cell differentiation programs require global rearrangements in repression and activation of lineage specific genes, hence the importance of unravelling
epigenetic mechanisms that control these dynamics and their integration with signaling pathways. Polycomb Group (PcG) proteins are transcriptional repressors that modify chromatin through epigenetic modifications that prevent
changes in cell identity by maintaining transcription patterns, throughout development and in adulthood. PcG proteins form two major multiprotein complexes, Polycomb repressive complex 1 and 2 (PRC1 and PRC2, respectively),
the latter containing the catalytic subunit, EZH2 that modifies histone H3 by trimethylation of lysine 27 (H3K27me3). While EZH2 promotes transcriptional
repression of muscle specific genes, transcriptional activation that accompanies skeletal muscle differentiation is characterized by loss of EZH2 and recruitment
of transcriptional activators, such as MyoD and SRF, at muscle regulatory regions(Caretti et al. 2004). Although much is known about the processes regulated by PcG proteins, little is known about signaling dependent pathway mechanisms that regulate PcG dynamics onto the chromatin. We used C2C12 mouse cell line as a skeletal muscle differentiation model to gain insight into the role of different PRC2 components during this process and into the the signaling pathways that
regulates PRC2 dynamics at muscle target loci. We report that two different PRC2 complexes are present during skeletal muscle differentiation: PRC2-EZH2, that is
predominant in proliferating myoblasts and PRC2-EZH1 that is specific for postmitotic myotubes. We show that these two complexes are differentially involved in the regulation of skeletal muscle differentiation. We demonstrate that the
opposite dynamics of PRC2-EZH2 and PRC2-EZH1 at muscle regulatory regions is differentially regulated at the chromatin level by MAPK- (MSK1) dependent phospho/methyl switch mechanism involving phosphorylation of the lysine 28 of the histone H3 (H3Ser28ph), enabling to counteract the function of the PRC2 complex docking site H3K27me3. We report that, while MSK1/H3Ser28ph is crucial for the displacement of the PRC2-EZH2 from muscle regulatory regions,allowing gene activation and muscle differentiation, this pathway does not influence PRC2-EZH1 binding to chromatin, anticipating a novel PcG function
in post-mitotic cells. Taken together, our results suggest that the phosphorylation of H3Ser28 by MSK1 plays a key role in epigenetic gene regulation and this modification is necessary for skeletal muscle differentiation.
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