York Biomedical Research Institute, Department of Biology, University of York, York, UK.
GSK Global Health, Tres Cantos, 28760, Madrid, Spain.
Nat Commun. 2022 Jul 13;13(1):4071. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-31742-1.
Leishmania are unicellular parasites that cause human and animal diseases. Like other kinetoplastids, they possess large transcriptional start regions (TSRs) which are defined by histone variants and histone lysine acetylation. Cellular interpretation of these chromatin marks is not well understood. Eight bromodomain factors, the reader modules for acetyl-lysine, are found across Leishmania genomes. Using L. mexicana, Cas9-driven gene deletions indicate that BDF1-5 are essential for promastigotes. Dimerisable, split Cre recombinase (DiCre)-inducible gene deletion of BDF5 show it is essential for both promastigotes and murine infection. ChIP-seq identifies BDF5 as enriched at TSRs. XL-BioID proximity proteomics shows the BDF5 landscape is enriched for BDFs, HAT2, proteins involved in transcriptional activity, and RNA processing; revealing a Conserved Regulators of Kinetoplastid Transcription (CRKT) Complex. Inducible deletion of BDF5 causes global reduction in RNA polymerase II transcription. Our results indicate the requirement of Leishmania to interpret histone acetylation marks through the bromodomain-enriched CRKT complex for normal gene expression and cellular viability.
利什曼原虫是一种单细胞寄生虫,可引起人类和动物疾病。与其他动基体目生物一样,它们具有由组蛋白变体和组蛋白赖氨酸乙酰化定义的大型转录起始区(TSR)。这些染色质标记的细胞解释尚不清楚。在利什曼原虫基因组中发现了八个溴结构域因子,即乙酰化赖氨酸的读取模块。使用 L. mexicana,Cas9 驱动的基因缺失表明 BDF1-5 对前鞭毛体是必需的。可二聚化、分裂 Cre 重组酶(DiCre)诱导的 BDF5 基因缺失表明它对前鞭毛体和小鼠感染都是必需的。ChIP-seq 鉴定出 BDF5 在 TSR 处富集。XL-BioID 邻近蛋白质组学显示 BDF5 景观富含 BDFs、HAT2、参与转录活性和 RNA 处理的蛋白质;揭示了一个保守的动基体转录调控因子(CRKT)复合物。BDF5 的诱导缺失导致 RNA 聚合酶 II 转录的全局减少。我们的结果表明,利什曼原虫需要通过富含溴结构域的 CRKT 复合物来解释组蛋白乙酰化标记,以维持正常的基因表达和细胞活力。
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