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H3K27 Demethylases, at Long Last

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Swigut, Tomek, Wysocka, Joanna·2007·Cell

Abstract

Methylation of lysine 27 on histone H3 (H3K27me) by the Polycomb complex (PRC2) proteins is associated with gene silencing in many developmental processes. A cluster of recent papers (Agger et al., 2007; De Santa et al., 2007; Lan et al., 2007; Lee et al., 2007) identify the JmjC-domain proteins UTX and JMJD3 as H3K27-specific demethylases that remove this methyl mark, enabling the activation of genes involved in animal body patterning and the inflammatory response.

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  • KDM6A/B mediate removal of the suppressive chromatin modification H3K27me3, which is associated with silenced genes.

    “KDM6A/B mediate the removal of the suppressive chromatin modification H3K27me3, which is associated with silenced genes26.”
  • Enrichment of mRNAs encoding KDM6A/B in cerebellar microglia and up-regulation of Kdm6a/b upon exposure to dying cells in vitro point to a possible role of PRC2/H3K27me3 in suppressing clearance-promoting genes in striatal microglia.

    “Enrichment of mRNAs encoding the H3K27me3-specific demethylases, KDM6A/B26 in cbMg (Supplementary Fig. 5b, Supplementary Table 3) as well as the up-regulation of Kdm6a/b in microglia upon exposure to dying cells in vitro (Fig. 3c, Supplementary Fig. 10g) point to the possible role of PRC2/H3K27me3 in suppressing clearance-promoting genes in stMg.”
  • Among genes rapidly induced in microglia upon exposure to apoptotic cells were the cerebellar microglia-enriched Kdm6a/b, which encode histone demethylases.

    “Among the genes that become rapidly induced in microglia upon exposure to apoptotic cells were the cbMg-enriched Kdm6a/b, which encode histone demethylases26 (Fig. 3c, Supplementary Fig. 10g).”

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Authors
Swigut, T., & Wysocka, J.
Affiliations
Stanford Medicine (US)
Corresponding author
Wysocka, Joanna
Venue
Cell
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2007-10
Volume
131
Issue
1
Pages
29-32
ISSN
0092-8674 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W1971180847
Cited by
327
References
18
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FWCI
8.21
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Cell (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Cancer-related gene regulation
Keywords
H3K27 demethylase, H3K27 methylation, polycomb repressive complex 2, JmjC domain proteins, KDM6A, JMJD3, histone demethylation, gene silencing, gene activation, body patterning, inflammation
MeSH terms
Animals, Gene Expression Regulation, Immune System, Methylation, Oxidoreductases, N-Demethylating, Repressor Proteins, Homeodomain Proteins, Body Patterning, Gene Silencing, Epigenesis, Genetic, Jumonji Domain-Containing Histone Demethylases, Polycomb-Group Proteins

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