A histone lysine methyltransferase activated by non-canonical Wnt signalling suppresses PPAR-γ transactivation

Autor: Yasuhiro Minami, Shinichiro Takezawa, Shinji Takada, Fumiaki Ohtake, Mamoru Igarashi, Ken-ichi Takeyama, Min Young Youn, Gen Yamada, Takashi Nakamura, Shigeaki Kato, Hirochika Kitagawa, Yoshiko Yogiashi, Yoshihiro Mezaki, Kobayashi Shinji, Miyuki Suzawa, Hiroshi Shibuya, Ichiro Takada, Masatomo Mihara, Kunihiro Matsumoto
Rok vydání: 2007
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Zdroj: Nature Cell Biology. 9:1273-1285
ISSN: 1476-4679
1465-7392
DOI: 10.1038/ncb1647
Popis: Histone modifications induced by activated signalling cascades are crucial to cell-lineage decisions. Osteoblast and adipocyte differentiation from common mesenchymal stem cells is under transcriptional control by numerous factors. Although PPAR-gamma (peroxisome proliferator activated receptor-gamma) has been established as a prime inducer of adipogenesis, cellular signalling factors that determine cell lineage in bone marrow remain generally unknown. Here, we show that the non-canonical Wnt pathway through CaMKII-TAK1-TAB2-NLK transcriptionally represses PPAR-gamma transactivation and induces Runx2 expression, promoting osteoblastogenesis in preference to adipogenesis in bone marrow mesenchymal progenitors. Wnt-5a activates NLK (Nemo-like kinase), which in turn phosphorylates a histone methyltransferase, SETDB1 (SET domain bifurcated 1), leading to the formation of a co-repressor complex that inactivates PPAR-gamma function through histone H3-K9 methylation. These findings suggest that the non-canonical Wnt signalling pathway suppresses PPAR-gamma function through chromatin inactivation triggered by recruitment of a repressing histone methyltransferase, thus leading to an osteoblastic cell lineage from mesenchymal stem cells.
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