The DOI matches its Crossref record; 3 of the 3 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
The cytoplasmic fraction of the histone lysine methyltransferase Setdb1 is essential for embryonic stem cells
Open accessPublished version of a preprint
Abstract
Abstract Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) fate is regulated both at transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels. Indeed, several studies showed that, in addition to gene transcription, mRNA stability and protein synthesis are finely tuned and strongly control the ESCs pluripotency and fate changes. An increasing number of RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) involved in post-transcriptional and translational regulation of gene expression has been identified as regulators of ESC identity. The major lysine methyltransferase Setdb1 is essential for the self-renewal and viability of ESCs. Setdb1 was primarily known to methylate the lysine 9 of histone 3 (H3K9) in the nucleus, where it regulates chromatin functions. However, Setdb1 is also massively localized in the cytoplasm, including in mouse ESCs, where its role remains unknown. Here we show that the cytoplasmic Setdb1 (cSetdb1) is essential for the survival of mESCs. Functional assays further demonstrate that cSetdb1 regulates gene expression post-transcriptionally, affecting the abundance of mRNAs and the rate of newly synthetized proteins. A yeast-two-hybrid assay shows that cSetdb1 interacts with several regulators of mRNA stability and protein translation machinery, such as the ESCs-specific E3 ubiquitin ligase and mRNA silencer Trim71/Lin41. Finally, proteomic analyses reveal that cSetdb1 is required for the integrity of Trim71 complexes involved in mRNA metabolism and translation. Altogether, our data uncover the essential cytoplasmic function of a firstly supposed nuclear “histone” lysine methyltransferase, Setdb1, and provide new insights into the cytoplasmic/post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression mediated by a key epigenetic regulator.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Figures





Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Global quantification of mammalian gene expression control
Schwanhäusser, B., Busse, D., Li, N., Dittmar, G., Schuchhardt, J., Wolf, J., Chen, W., & Selbach, M. (2011) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature10098 · Cited by 6,566
Schultz, D. C., Ayyanathan, K., Negorev, D., Maul, G. G., & Rauscher, F. J. (2002) · Genes & Development · doi:10.1101/gad.973302 · Cited by 1,313
Cunningham, F., Achuthan, P., Akanni, W., Allen, J., Amode, M. R., Armean, I. M., Bennett, R., Bhai, J., Billis, K., Boddu, S., et al. (2019) · Nucleic Acids Research · doi:10.1093/nar/gky1113 · Cited by 925
Research works printed but not linked: 50
- Gabut, 2020, Ribosome and Translational Control in Stem Cells, Cells, 9, 10.3390/cells9020497 · DOI
- Kwon, 2013, The RNA-binding protein repertoire of embryonic stem cells, Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol., 20, 1122, 10.1038/nsmb.2638 · DOI
- Ye, 2014, Regulation of pluripotency by RNA binding proteins, Cell Stem Cell, 15, 271, 10.1016/j.stem.2014.08.010 · DOI
- You, 2015, Role of the small subunit processome in the maintenance of pluripotent stem cells, Genes Dev., 29, 2004, 10.1101/gad.267112.115 · DOI
- Dodge, 2004, Histone H3-K9 methyltransferase ESET is essential for early development, Mol. Cell Biol., 24, 2478, 10.1128/MCB.24.6.2478-2486.2004 · DOI
- Bilodeau, 2009, SetDB1 contributes to repression of genes encoding developmental regulators and maintenance of ES cell state, Genes Dev., 23, 2484, 10.1101/gad.1837309 · DOI
- Lohmann, 2010, KMT1E mediated H3K9 methylation is required for the maintenance of embryonic stem cells by repressing trophectoderm differentiation, Stem Cell., 28, 201, 10.1002/stem.278 · DOI
- Yeap, 2009, ERG-associated protein with SET domain (ESET)-Oct4 interaction regulates pluripotency and represses the trophectoderm lineage, Epigenet. Chromatin, 2, 12, 10.1186/1756-8935-2-12 · DOI
- An, 2014, The histone methyltransferase ESET is required for the survival of spermatogonial stem/progenitor cells in mice, Cell Death Dis., 5, 10.1038/cddis.2014.171 · DOI
- Lawson, 2013, Mesenchyme-specific knockout of ESET histone methyltransferase causes ectopic hypertrophy and terminal differentiation of articular chondrocytes, J. Biol. Chem., 288, 32119, 10.1074/jbc.M113.473827 · DOI
- Tan, 2012, Essential roles of the histone methyltransferase ESET in the epigenetic control of neural progenitor cells during development, Development, 139, 3806, 10.1242/dev.082198 · DOI
- Lawson, 2013, ESET histone methyltransferase regulates osteoblastic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells during postnatal bone development, FEBS Lett., 587, 3961, 10.1016/j.febslet.2013.10.028 · DOI
- Beyer, 2016, Canonical Wnt signalling regulates nuclear export of Setdb1 during skeletal muscle terminal differentiation, Cell Discov., 2
- Yang, 2013, ESET histone methyltransferase is essential to hypertrophic differentiation of growth plate chondrocytes and formation of epiphyseal plates, Dev. Biol., 380, 99, 10.1016/j.ydbio.2013.04.031 · DOI
- Loyola, 2006, PTMs on H3 variants before chromatin assembly potentiate their final epigenetic state, Mol. Cell., 24, 309, 10.1016/j.molcel.2006.08.019 · DOI
- Lin, 2023, Binary Colloidal Crystals Promote Cardiac Differentiation of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells via Nuclear Accumulation of SETDB1, ACS Nano, 17, 3181, 10.1021/acsnano.3c00009 · DOI
- Cho, 2013, Regulated nuclear entry of over-expressed Setdb1, Gene Cell., 18, 694, 10.1111/gtc.12068 · DOI
- Matsui, 2010, Proviral silencing in embryonic stem cells requires the histone methyltransferase ESET, Nature, 464, 927, 10.1038/nature08858 · DOI
- Fisher, 2017, An efficient method for generation of bi-allelic null mutant mouse embryonic stem cells and its application for investigating epigenetic modifiers, Nucleic Acids Res., 45, e174, 10.1093/nar/gkx811 · DOI
- Thompson, 2015, hnRNP K coordinates transcriptional silencing by SETDB1 in embryonic stem cells, PLoS Genet., 11, 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004933 · DOI
- Chang, 2012, Trim71 cooperates with microRNAs to repress Cdkn1a expression and promote embryonic stem cell proliferation, Nat. Commun., 3, 923, 10.1038/ncomms1909 · DOI
- Loedige, 2013, The mammalian TRIM-NHL protein TRIM71/LIN-41 is a repressor of mRNA function, Nucleic Acids Res., 41, 518, 10.1093/nar/gks1032 · DOI
- Torres-Fernández, 2019, The mRNA repressor TRIM71 cooperates with Nonsense-Mediated Decay factors to destabilize the mRNA of CDKN1A/p21, Nucleic Acids Res., 47, 11861
- Wu, 2020, SETDB1-Mediated Cell Fate Transition between 2C-Like and Pluripotent States, Cell Rep., 30, 25, 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.12.010 · DOI
- Welte, 2019, The RNA hairpin binder TRIM71 modulates alternative splicing by repressing MBNL1, Genes Dev., 33, 1221, 10.1101/gad.328492.119 · DOI
- Van Nostrand, 2016, Robust transcriptome-wide discovery of RNA-binding protein binding sites with enhanced CLIP (eCLIP), Nat. Methods, 13, 508, 10.1038/nmeth.3810 · DOI · Paper page
- Kim, 2003, Heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein C modulates translation of c-myc mRNA in a cell cycle phase-dependent manner, Mol. Cell Biol., 23, 708, 10.1128/MCB.23.2.708-720.2003 · DOI
- Mitschka, 2015, Co-existence of intact stemness and priming of neural differentiation programs in mES cells lacking Trim71, Sci. Rep., 5, 10.1038/srep11126 · DOI
- Rivera, 2015, Methylation of histone H3 lysine 9 occurs during translation, Nucleic Acids Res., 43, 9097, 10.1093/nar/gkv929 · DOI
- Schmidt, 2009, SUnSET, a nonradioactive method to monitor protein synthesis, Nat. Methods, 6, 275, 10.1038/nmeth.1314 · DOI · Paper page
- Sampath, 2008, A hierarchical network controls protein translation during murine embryonic stem cell self-renewal and differentiation, Cell Stem Cell, 2, 448, 10.1016/j.stem.2008.03.013 · DOI · Paper page
- Takai, 2014, 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine plays a critical role in glioblastomagenesis by recruiting the CHTOP-methylosome complex, Cell Rep., 9, 48, 10.1016/j.celrep.2014.08.071 · DOI
- Chang, 2013, Chtop is a component of the dynamic TREX mRNA export complex, EMBO J., 32, 473, 10.1038/emboj.2012.342 · DOI
- Yang, 2017, 5-methylcytosine promotes mRNA export - NSUN2 as the methyltransferase and ALYREF as an m(5)C reader, Cell Res., 27, 606, 10.1038/cr.2017.55 · DOI
- Jeffery, 2004, Components of the DNA methylation system of chromatin control are RNA-binding proteins, J. Biol. Chem., 279, 49479, 10.1074/jbc.M409070200 · DOI
- Aeschimann, 2017, LIN41 Post-transcriptionally Silences mRNAs by Two Distinct and Position-Dependent Mechanisms, Mol. Cell., 65, 476, 10.1016/j.molcel.2016.12.010 · DOI
- Rybak, 2009, The let-7 target gene mouse lin-41 is a stem cell specific E3 ubiquitin ligase for the miRNA pathway protein Ago2, Nat. Cell Biol., 11, 1411, 10.1038/ncb1987 · DOI
- Worringer, 2014, The let-7/LIN-41 pathway regulates reprogramming to human induced pluripotent stem cells by controlling expression of prodifferentiation genes, Cell Stem Cell, 14, 40, 10.1016/j.stem.2013.11.001 · DOI
- Castello, 2012, Insights into RNA biology from an atlas of mammalian mRNA-binding proteins, Cell, 149, 1393, 10.1016/j.cell.2012.04.031 · DOI · Paper page
- Christian, 2008, Interaction of heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein C1/C2 with a novel cis-regulatory element within p53 mRNA as a response to cytostatic drug treatment, Mol. Pharmacol., 73, 1558, 10.1124/mol.107.042507 · DOI
- Prendergast, 1999, Mechanisms of apoptosis by c-Myc, Oncogene, 18, 2967, 10.1038/sj.onc.1202727 · DOI
- McMahon, 2014, MYC and the control of apoptosis, Cold Spring Harb. Perspect. Med., 4, a014407, 10.1101/cshperspect.a014407 · DOI
- Zakharova, 2022, SETDB1 fuels the lung cancer phenotype by modulating epigenome, 3D genome organization and chromatin mechanical properties, Nucleic Acids Res., 50, 4389, 10.1093/nar/gkac234 · DOI
- Fritsch, 2010, A subset of the histone H3 lysine 9 methyltransferases Suv39h1, G9a, GLP, and SETDB1 participate in a multimeric complex, Mol. Cell., 37, 46, 10.1016/j.molcel.2009.12.017 · DOI · Paper page
- Vojtek, 1993, Mammalian Ras interacts directly with the serine/threonine kinase Raf, Cell, 74, 205, 10.1016/0092-8674(93)90307-C · DOI
- Dobin, 2013, STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner, Bioinformatics, 29, 15, 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts635 · DOI · Paper page
- Liao, 2019, The R package Rsubread is easier, faster, cheaper and better for alignment and quantification of RNA sequencing reads, Nucleic Acids Res., 47, e47, 10.1093/nar/gkz114 · DOI
- Yu, 2012, clusterProfiler: an R package for comparing biological themes among gene clusters, OMICS, 16, 284, 10.1089/omi.2011.0118 · DOI · Paper page
- Yates, 2020, Ensembl 2020, Nucleic Acids Res., 48, D682
- Paz, 2014, RBPmap: a web server for mapping binding sites of RNA-binding proteins, Nucleic Acids Res., 42, W361, 10.1093/nar/gku406 · DOI
Metadata
- Authors
- Rapone, R., Del Maestro, L., Bouyioukos, C., Albini, S., Cruz-Tapias, P., Joliot, V., Cosson, B., & Ait-Si-Ali, S.
- Affiliations
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Corresponding author
- Cosson, Bertrand
- Venue
- iScience
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2023-08
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 107386
- ISSN
- 2589-0042 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC10407132
- OpenAlex
- W4384157160
- Cited by
- 14
- References
- 3
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 2
- FWCI
- 1.25
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- iScience (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Research Square (acceptedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- HAL (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- Association française contre les myopathies
- Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale (DEQ20160334922)
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-17-CE12-0010-01)
- Université Paris Diderot (ANR-11-LABX-0071)
- Universidad del Rosario
- Fondation ARC pour la Recherche sur le Cancer
- Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación
- Labex
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Pluripotent Stem Cells Research
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation
- Keywords
- SETDB1, embryonic stem cells, lysine methyltransferase, H3K9 methylation, mRNA stability, post-transcriptional regulation, E3 ubiquitin ligase, mRNA translation, self-renewal, epigenetic regulation, mRNA metabolism
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review