Inhibition of Histone Deacetylase Activity by Butyrate
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This article reviews the effects of the short-chain fatty acid butyrate on histone deacetylase (HDAC) activity. Sodium butyrate has multiple effects on cultured mammalian cells that include inhibition of proliferation, induction of differentiation and induction or repression of gene expression. The observation that butyrate treatment of cells results in histone hyperacetylation initiated a flurry of activity that led to the discovery that butyrate inhibits HDAC activity. Butyrate has been an essential agent for determining the role of histone acetylation in chromatin structure and function. Interestingly, inhibition of HDAC activity affects the expression of only 2% of mammalian genes. Promoters of butyrate-responsive genes have butyrate response elements, and the action of butyrate is often mediated through Sp1/Sp3 binding sites (e.g., p21(Waf1/Cip1)). We demonstrated that Sp1 and Sp3 recruit HDAC1 and HDAC2, with the latter being phosphorylated by protein kinase CK2. A model is proposed in which inhibition of Sp1/Sp3-associated HDAC activity leads to histone hyperacetylation and transcriptional activation of the p21(Waf1/Cip1) gene; p21(Waf1/Cip1) inhibits cyclin-dependent kinase 2 activity and thereby arrests cell cycling. Pending the cell background, the nonproliferating cells may enter differentiation or apoptotic pathways. The potential of butyrate and HDAC inhibitors in the prevention and treatment of cancer is presented.
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All SCFAs induce histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitory effects, with butyrate being the most potent inhibitor of class I and IIa HDACs.
“All SCFAs induce histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitory effects, with butyrate being the most potent inhibitor of class I and IIa HDACs”
From The Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis (2019) · cites this paper as Davie, 2003
Butyrate is the most potent HDAC inhibitor among SCFAs and generally inhibits class I HDACs (HDAC1, -2, -3, and -8) and class IIa HDACs (HDAC4, -5, -7, and -9), but not class IIb HDACs (HDAC6 and HDAC10) and class III HDACs (sirtuins).
“Among the SCFAs, butyrate is the most potent HDAC inhibitor that is generally thought to inhibit the activity of class I HDACs (HDAC1, −2, −3, and −8) and class IIa HDACs (HDAC4, −5, −7, and −9), but not class IIb HDACs (HDAC6 and HDAC10) and class III HDACs (sirtuins).288”
From Microbiota–gut–brain axis and its therapeutic applications in neurodegenerative diseases (2024) · cites this paper as [288]
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- Authors
- Davie, J. R.
- Affiliations
- University of Manitoba (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Davie, James R.
- ORCID
- Davie, James R.
- Venue
- The Journal of Nutrition
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2003-07
- Volume
- 133
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 2485S-2493S
- ISSN
- 0022-3166 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2140937256
- Cited by
- 1,515
- References
- 91
- Citations by year
- 2026: 132 · 2025: 124 · 2024: 89 · 2023: 92 · 2022: 104 · 2021: 96 · 2020: 74 · 2019: 76 · 2018: 79 · 2017: 73 · 2016: 79 · 2015: 65 · 2014: 69 · 2013: 63 · 2012: 53
- FWCI
- 1.85
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Nutrition (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors Research
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
- Keywords
- butyrate, histone deacetylase inhibition, histone hyperacetylation, Sp1, Sp3, HDAC1, HDAC2, CK2 phosphorylation, p21, CDK2, cell cycle arrest, cell differentiation, gene expression regulation, chromatin structure, histone deacetylase inhibitors, cancer prevention
- MeSH terms
- Acetyltransferases, Breast Neoplasms, Butyrates, Enzyme Inhibitors, Female, Gene Expression Regulation, Histone Deacetylases, Humans, Tumor Cells, Cultured, Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins, Histone Acetyltransferases, Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors
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