NCoR/SMRT co-repressors cooperate with c-MYC to create an epigenetic barrier to somatic cell reprogramming

Autor: Christina Benda, David P. Ibañez, Zhongzhou Yang, Qiang Zhuang, Micky D. Tortorella, Mazid Md. Abdul, Jiayu Chen, Andrew P. Hutchins, Meng Zhang, Jianguo Zhou, Yan Xu, Xichen Bao, Hui Zhang, Shaorong Gao, Yinghua Huang, Baoming Qin, Zhijian Huang, Jiayin Yang, Xiuling Fu, Ping Liu, Yulin Liu, Xiangpeng Guo, Bushra Mirza, Wenjuan Li, Xiaofen Zhong, Carl Ward, Tanveer Ahmed, Zhiwei Luo, Shahzina Kanwal, Wenxia Fan, Xihua Zhu, Miguel A. Esteban, Muhammad Jadoon Khan, Hung-Fat Tse, Dehao Huang
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Nature Cell Biology. 20:400-412
ISSN: 1476-4679
1465-7392
Popis: Somatic cell reprogramming by exogenous factors requires cooperation with transcriptional co-activators and co-repressors to effectively remodel the epigenetic environment. How this interplay is regulated remains poorly understood. Here, we demonstrate that NCoR/SMRT co-repressors bind to pluripotency loci to create a barrier to reprogramming with the four Yamanaka factors (OCT4, SOX2, KLF4 and c-MYC), and consequently, suppressing NCoR/SMRT significantly enhances reprogramming efficiency and kinetics. The core epigenetic subunit of the NCoR/SMRT complex, histone deacetylase 3 (HDAC3), contributes to the effects of NCoR/SMRT by inducing histone deacetylation at pluripotency loci. Among the Yamanaka factors, recruitment of NCoR/SMRT–HDAC3 to genomic loci is mostly facilitated by c-MYC. Hence, we describe how c-MYC is beneficial for the early phase of reprogramming but deleterious later. Overall, we uncover a role for NCoR/SMRT co-repressors in reprogramming and propose a dual function for c-MYC in this process. Zhuang et al. demonstrate that suppression of NCoR/SMRT enhances OSKM reprogramming efficiency, and that the barrier mechanism depends on the recruitment of HDAC3 to pluripotency loci by c-MYC.
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